Comments by "Britta Kriep" (@brittakriep2938) on "The Spanish Navy in 1898 - Armada Options" video.

  1. In 1866 there was the battle of Lissa in the Mediteranian. The Austrian fleet with mostly wooden ships won against the larger Italian fleet , which had a number oft modern armored ships.
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  2.  Big Wheel  : Sie Volltrottel! At first planes are brain- and soulless machines, so they can not have a political belief. Second, in 1936, fascist Italy, not Germany attacked Ethiopia/Abesynia. In 1936 there had been the ethiopian imperial guard, which was seen as being the best africana led troops, the imperial main army (mahel Safari) and the levies of the princes (Ras) and their vassals. The princes had been vassals of the emperor, the noblemen had been vassals oft the princes, and the ordinary warrior was a vassal of a nobleman. So the ethiopian army had been basicly a medieval feudal army with all the problems, for example loyality, medieval armies had. But third, this doesn't mean, that the ordinary warriors (not the imperial soldiers) had been armed only with spear, leather shield and ,shotel' sword! Even in 1896, when ethiopian troops won the battle of Adowa against (royal) italian troops, only 20% of their troops had no firearms! 20% had muzzleloaders ( mostly flint- and matchlocks) , but 60% had breechloaders of different models. Mostly singleshot, fewer in number repeating rifles, also hunting rifles and shotguns. So in 1936 there had been some poor warriors with spears and muzzleloadets, but the large majority was armed with all Kind of breechloaders. Some of the leviemen had their own weapons in 1936, some got their rifle from their feudal lord, because the emperor, and with bis allowness also the Ras, imported rifles for their vassals. Where i know this from? From two books of the Osprey Military Brooks company.
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  3.  Big Wheel : After your last comment, i looked into german and english language Wikipedia. Like the book of the Osprey company, both german and english Wikipedia say, that no german troops had been involved into the second italo- abessinian war. So you are telling lies, it is impossible that Nazi pilots have killed people in ethiopia. Either you are a stupid fool, or you are confused and mean the spanish civil war, there german and italian troops suppoted Franco.
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  4.  @JustRememberWhoYoureWorkingFor  : The austrian Admiral Tegethoff knew that italian fleet was better. So he decided, to order his Fleet into three V formations behind each other, and used not the usual battle line of ships. He basicly attacked in old style of rowed warships with old ramming tactic. He succeded, by a mistake of italian Admiral Persano. Without correct flag signal communication he went away from his flagship to a newer ship , also he forgot taking the Admirals flag to other ship. After the unusual austrian attack, the italians had been surprised, and not knowing, that the italian Admiral was now in another ship caused confusion/ chaos among italian fleet, so the italians lost the battle. But austrian Admiral knew, even after winning the battle, the italians still had more and better armed ships, he sailed away as fast as possible. He feared, after their surprise, the italian Fleet could follow him for a second battle.
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