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Sep 8

- Hitler’s Nephew in the US Navy 🧵 -

William Patrick Hitler was born and raised in the Toxteth area of Liverpool to Adolf's half-brother Alois Hitler Jr. and his Irish wife Bridget Dowling (1/8) #svagaiature #WWII #WW2 #History #Historia #Trivia

In 1933, William returned to what had become Nazi Germany in an attempt to benefit from his half-uncle's growing power. Adolf, who was now chancellor, found him a job at the Reichskreditbank in Berlin, a job that he held for most of the 1930s (2/8)

In 1938, Adolf asked William to relinquish his British citizenship in exchange for a high-ranking job. Suspecting a trap, William fled Nazi Germany and tried to blackmail his uncle with threats (3/8)

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Sep 2

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- Legionaries VS Iron-men 🧵 -

In 21 AC under the reign of Tiberius the Roman had to fight an enemy they had never seen, an enemy seemingly invulnerable to their attacks (1/8) #svagaiature #SPQR #Roma #Rome @SNicotinus #History #Historia #Trivia

In Gallia Belgica e Gallia Lugdunenese, due to the heavy taxation, a
rebellion was burst, lead by Julius Floro and Sacroviro two Gaul noblemen that served in the Roman auxiliary army as officers (2/8)

While legions moved to the area, the rebels had time to pillage some cities and villages while freeing some new allies. Between them, from a gladiators’ school, they freed a great number of “crupellari” (3/8)

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Sep 1

-Battle of Adrianople (part 2)- 🧵
It’s 378, emperor Valens has managed to track and follow a large group of Goths in the vicinity of the city of Adrianople. Gratian, the western roman emperor, send troops to help the uncle facing the barbarians,(1/6)
#svagaiature #Battlegrounds

... but Valens was too impatient and decided to move the troops.
Before the beginning of the battle an embassy was sent to Valens to find a way to avert the battle. The Goths proposed the same condition of 376: to be given land in the empire and to serve for the Roman army. (2/6)

The talks were useless as the roman light cavalry decided on its own to charge the enemy, thus beginning the battle. The cavalry attack caused the counter attack of the Goths' light cavalry, which overwhelmed the romans. (3/6)

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Aug 31

- The Shortest War in History 🧵-

The record for the shortest conflict in history is detained by the UK and the Zanzibar Protectorate (1/6) #svagaiature #History #UK #Historia #Trivia

The 25th of August 1896 the casus belli was the succession between a pro-British sultan and a new one, Khalid, who hadn't as favourable views on the British as his predecessor (2/6)

By British order the protectorate’s sultan had to obtain the permission of the British to rule, so the Crown sent an ultimatum to the new sultan ordering him to leave the royal palace or else his actions would have had consequences (3/6)

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Aug 30

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-Battle of Adrianople- (part 1) 🧵

376, from several different stations along the Danube river came worry about the arrival, on the other bank, of an increasing number of Goths. As it turned out later, it wasn’t an invasion force, (1/8)
#svgaiature #invasion @SNicotinus

... but the result of a humanitarian disaster.
In the previous years we know that the Huns began the conquest of the Goth’s territory, pushing them towards the Danube river. Goth’s leggend tell about the birth of Huns, (2/8)

...considering them to be created by witches and evil spirits, that they had encountered during their migration from Scandinavia.
The Goth’s leaders decide to go to Antioch, to the court of the roman emperor Valens to plea for hospitality. In exchange, (3/8)

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Aug 29

- The history of the Ferrari logo 🧵-

The story of the Ferrari prancing horse logo is tied to military history and especially the history of military aviation (1/7) #svagaiature #Ferrari #History #Historia #WWI #WW1 #Aviation #AeronauticaMilitare

The prancing horse was in-fact the insignia of the Italian WWI aviation ace Francesco Baracca, one of the greatest pilots of Italian history, who was shot down during a mission in 1918 (2/7)

That insignia was a symbol of speed and audacity, a black horse on a white back, renown in all of Italy. Baracca became a legend especially in his home region, Emilia Romagna, the same of Enzo Ferrari (3/7)

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