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TIL: According to British historian Niall Ferguson, out of all recorded conflicts which occurred since the year 387 BC, France has fought in 168 of them, won 109, lost 49 and drawn 10; this makes France the most successful military power in European history in terms of number of fought and won.




What if people told European history like they told Native American history? [x-post from /r/nativeamerican]
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In the USA it’s common for Americans to romanticize the medieval period in European history. Mostly cause well we don’t have that history and it’s Exciting. Is there a period in USA that Europeans tend to romanticize?
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In the USA it’s common for Americans to romanticize the medieval period in European history. Mostly cause well we don’t have that history and it’s Exciting. Is there a period in USA that Europeans tend to romanticize?

The period in question I’m thinking off is the Wild West era cause I’ve seen a lot Europeans especially Youtubers and Twitch streamers look at the American Wild West the same way we look at the Middle Ages.

Shooters like “Billy the Kid” and “Annie Oakley” are spoken about in the same way we’d speak about legends like Ragnar, Leaf Erikson, Emperor Barbarossa, Richard the lionheart. Etc etc (you get the idea)



How is the American Revolution viewed and written about in British history books (or any European history books)? Are the colonies looked upon as selfish and ungrateful?
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How is the American Revolution viewed and written about in British history books (or any European history books)? Are the colonies looked upon as selfish and ungrateful?

This has always been a question I have thought about. I know they say history is written by the winners and our history is written by us. Yet, I am sure there is two sides to every story, what is the historical side from the British that they teach in their schools?



Why is there so little news about the largest temperature anomaly in European history?
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Why is there so little news about the largest temperature anomaly in European history?

This month and the latter half of November haven't just been unseasonably warm and record breaking in many parts of Europe, but records are being broken by a record amount as well.

I just checked the Dutch meteorology website and the date is just stunning. For the Netherlands, this is the annual graph: Graph

The red and blue lines are the daily records, the black the daily average this year. Virtually no cooldown since September, with the onset of an end to this "heat wave" only starting now and multiple records broken.

The month of December is even crazier:
Average temperature De Bilt (NL) : 3.7 °C
Record average temperature De Bilt (NL) : 7.3 °C (1974)
2015 average temperature De Bilt (NL) : 9.9 °C

It shatters the previous monthly record by over 2°C and the average by 6°C. If this would have happened in summer, it would be front page news until the day it was over.

What makes this even weirder, is that the Wikipedia of El Niño states a strong El Niño is usually correlated with a colder than normal winter in Western Europe. This year there's been a very strong El Niño and the inverse has happened.

Does anyone have more information? Even metereogical sites are sparse with info explaining this anomaly.



On this day in European history, A.D. 1492, Sultan Muhammad XII surrendered Granada to the Catholic Monarchs—King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella of Castile—marking the end of Islamic rule on the Iberian peninsula.
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On this day in European history, A.D. 1492, Sultan Muhammad XII surrendered Granada to the Catholic Monarchs—King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella of Castile—marking the end of Islamic rule on the Iberian peninsula.
r/europe - On this day in European history, A.D. 1492, Sultan Muhammad XII surrendered Granada to the Catholic Monarchs—King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella of Castile—marking the end of Islamic rule on the Iberian peninsula.



TIL despite it’s defeat during the World War 2, France is the most successful military power in European history. Out of 168 battles fought since 387BC, they have won 109.



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