Comments by "" (@neutronalchemist3241) on "Extra History" channel.

  1. Yeah, but Scipio was much more. Like when, after having burned the Cartagineans's camp at Utica, he allowed Hannibal's spies to visit his camp and take notice of all that they wanted. The message was clear. "What you have done, I can redone, but what I have done you can't".
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  2. The City of Massena (today's Messina) was not really Carthaginean. The Carthaginians helped the Mamertines against Syracuse to put a foothold on a strategic place (that controlled the Messina's Strait), and the Romans intervened to avoid it.
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  3. You mean the Sicilians that flocked to become his army? It didn't remain of 1000 people till the end, you know?
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  4. Moral of the story, give Mamertines plenty to do in Sicily.
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  5. Since the bones of newborns' skull are not fused yet, those deformations are quite common, and usually fix themselves in few days. Menotti Garibaldi became a brilliant military commander himself, then a politician, until he died, at 63, of malaria.
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  6. Yeah. Those. One of them, captured, confessed under torture they had been paid by Richard.
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  7.  @OniGarro  Potevi dirlo di non avere risposte. Facevi prima.
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  8. 1) Conrad was not married. 2) No law prevented Conrad to marry the sister of the the wife of his brother in 12th century Crusader kingdoms. It was a 9th century Frankish thing. Middle age is not all the same. 3) To "kidnap Isabella from her husband" had not been "Conrad supporters" but HER MOTHER that, with the death of Raynald of Châtillon, could finally reunite with her daughter. 4) Isabella's previous marriage had been annulled on the basis of the fact that she had been kidnapped by Raynald of Châtillon when she was 8, locked up in the fortress of Kerak for three years, forcefully married to Humphrey of Toron, godson of Raynald, when she was 11 (too young for the ecclesiastic law) and she never expressed consent during the ceremony. 5) Isabella had not been "forcefully married" to Conrad. She had been persuaded by HER MOTHER to marry him.  6) No bribe was needed since, of three archbishops presents, two supported the marriage and the third, the Archbishop of Canterbury, was a supporter of Richard, and so simply ignored. 7) Since Richard could make agreements with Saladin, Why Conrad and Guy shouldn't have? It was pretty normal infact.  8) Richard became the first suspect of hiring the assassins due to the fact that one of them, captured, confessed under torture they had been paid by him.
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  9. He didn't. He was absolutely against slavery, and didn't serve the Union as a general only because Lincoln was not yet ready to declare the war was fought to ban slavery.
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  10. Lost in a tournment. He had then his nose bridge surgicaly cut (no anesthesia at that time) to not loose peripheral vision in battle.
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  11. Actually no law prevented that, and Isabella had been persuaded to the marriage by her own mother.
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  12. The father of Conrad, William, veteran of the 2nd Crusade, arrived in Jerusalem after the death of his eldest son, William Longsword, to protect his newborn grandson Baldwin V (unfortunately, he had not been able to prevent his death). He had been captured at Hattin and, during the siege of Tyre, Saladin presented him to Conrad, threatening to kill him, had not Conrad surrended the city. Conrad famously replied "my father had lived long enough".
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  13. "an Achean warrior”? Really dudes... The Iliad is the story of Diomedes carrying on the war, against all the odds, against the gods themselves, with the occasional help of Ajax, Odysseus and Nestor, while Achilles and Agamennon are having a temper tantrum.
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