No other Confederate sailor was as famous as “Old Beeswax” Captain Raphael Semmes. A devout Catholic native of Maryland, Semmes saw service afloat & ashore in the Mexican War before following his adopted state of Alabama into the Confederacy in 1861. He was first assigned… 👉🏻 ..captain of the commerce raider CSS Sumter. He broke out of the blockade at New Orleans & for six months prowled the Caribbean Sea & Atlantic Ocean sinking or taking 18 Union merchant vessels. Bottled up in Gibraltar, he paid off his crew & sold the ship.
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Caesars of the American Empire AD1930’s-
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Most are unaware of Italy’s history as a pioneer in the development of nuclear weapons. The Kingdom of Italy led the world in nuclear research during the Fascist Era, producing the first patented nuclear reactor. The ‘Via Panisperna boys’ led by Enrico Fermi and …(cont)👉🏻 ..including Edoardo Amaldi, Oscar D'Agostino, Ettore Majorana, Bruno Pontecorvo, Franco Rasetti & Emilio Segrè. They discovered slow neutrons & Fermi would become known as the architect of the nuclear age. However, Fermi was married to a Jew & left Italy in 1938 after the …👉🏻

Heinrich Luitpold Himmler was one of the most prominent & powerful men in NS Germany. He was not initially very important but over time rose to become the leader of the SS, the police & all internal security forces. He was regarded as one of the two people AH trusted most. 👇🏻 Himmler grew up in a very conservative, Catholic family. Prince Heinrich of Bavaria was his godfather. In 1918 he joined the army but the war ended before he ever saw action. He studied agriculture at university & joined the right-wing Imperial War Flag Society. 👇🏻

Having looked at the second man at the top, next is the third. As he was out of sight and out of mind for most of the war, he doesn’t always get much attention. Here is a look (in brief bits) at the life of Deputy Führer Rudolf Heß: 👇🏻 Rudolf Walter Richard Heß was born in Alexandria, Egypt in 1894, the son of a wealthy businessman. His youth in North Africa left him with a lasting admiration for the British Empire. Highly educated & athletic, he joined the Imperial German Army in 1914 at the outbreak of war.👇🏻

Argentina & Brazil have a long history of not getting along.
However, they have rarely actually gone to war with each other. But, it has happened & one such occasion was the Cisplatine War of the 1820's. It saw the two countries square off over where the border was between them.> The area in question is known as Cisplatina, meaning the area of the River Plate or Rio de la Plata. Spain 🇪🇸 & Portugal 🇵🇹 had been rather unclear on where the border was between Brazil & Argentina but Portugal solved it by marching in & occupying the territory in 1811. 👉🏻

🇷🇺 Dmitry Lavrinenko, a son of the Kuban Cossacks, commanded a T-34/76 and is generally considered the most successful tank commander of the war on the Allied side with 52 confirmed kills. Some sources say he destroyed as many as 58 enemy tanks before being KIA in December 1941. 🇩🇪 Kurt Knispel is considered by most the top German tank commander or from any country with his astounding record of 168 kills with some believing his total could’ve been as high as 195. He drove a Königstiger and was most famous for destroying a T-34 at almost 2 miles away.

Favorite “what if”: the Duke of Aosta recognizes that AOI will inevitably fall, goes for broke and advances up the Sudanese coast with everything he’s got to invade Egypt from the south while Graziani invaded from the west. Brits could’ve been overwhelmed & forced out. 🤷🏻‍♂️🇮🇹 After that? How defensible was the Levant for the Allies? The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem 🇵🇸 was pro-Axis, French forces in Syria 🇫🇷 under General Henri Dentz were cooperating with Germany & Italy to back Iraq 🇮🇶 in the Anglo-Iraq War of May 1941. Seems like the Axis had a shot.

In 1899 King Umberto I of Italy 🇮🇹 sent an expeditious to China 🐲 to establish an Italian coaling station in the Bay of San Mun, near Ningpo south of the Chusan islands. Britain & Germany didn’t want the competition & when China said “No”, Italy had to back down. Cont..👉🏻 Italy 🇮🇹 did have a legation in Peking but when Rome backed down this encouraged the anti-foreign element in China to defy all the foreigners in the country. The result was the horrific Boxer Rebellion & the 55-day siege of the foreign legation in Peking. Cont..👉🏻

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There is no need for the current antagonism toward Russia. We have never fought a war against Russia, have no shared border or territorial disputes with Russia & no vital interests in conflict. Here is a brief rundown on Russian-American relations: 🇷🇺🤝🇺🇸 During the American War for Independence, Empress Catherine the Great of Russia played an important part. She organized the League of Armed Neutrality which prevented sympathetic European powers from assisting the British against the Americans. 🇷🇺🤝🇺🇸

The British🇬🇧 Crusader tank had relatively thin army & not much hitting power (early units were outgunned by the Italian M13/40) but it’s Christie suspension & up to 42kmh top speed still made it quite a handful for the Axis forces in North Africa to deal with. The British🇬🇧 Cromwell tank likewise wasn’t the most armored vehicle around but it had the Christie suspension & a fantastic engine that made it nimble, maneuverable & astoundingly fast. It had a 75mm gun that was more than a match for all but the heaviest German panzers.

Joseph E. Johnston P.G.T. Beauregard

Christopher Plummer 1929-2021 RIP☠️ Above pics are Chris Plummer as:
Georg Ritter von Trapp in “The Sound of Music”
General Chang in “Star Trek VI the Undiscovered Country”
The Duke of Wellington in “Waterloo”
Kaiser Wilhelm II in “The Exception”

The original Fascist League of North America was established by Dino Bigongiari, Professor of Italian at Columbia University. It was not a very professional operation but was initiated by Italian-Americans, not the fascist government in Rome. 🇮🇹🇺🇸 In 1924 Count Ignazio Thaon di Revel came to reorganize the FLNA. The count took central control as President of the Fascist Council for the FLNA which stood for opposition to radicalism, chiefly instigated by the Bolsheviks and their supporters in America. 🇺🇸🇮🇹

Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, “El Gran Capitán” 🇪🇸 Louis de Bourbon, Prince of Condé, “Le Grand Condé” 🇫🇷

Today in 192 the Emperor Commodus was assassinated, strangled in his bath by a wrestler, bringing the Nerva-Antonine dynasty to an end. Three years later the Senate under Septimius Severus deified this Roman Hercules. 161-192 AD

Jonkheer Alidius Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer was the last Governor-General of the Dutch East Indes. He ruled by martial law after the German invasion of the Netherlands and presided over the desperate defense against Japan in 1942. 🇳🇱 Lt. Admiral Conrad Helfrich was overall military commander in the Dutch East Indies at the start of WW2. His aggressive tactics earned him the nickname “Ship-a-day Helfrich” as his Dutch O-Boats drew first blood against the Japanese (outperforming the US). 🇳🇱

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The 7 French soldiers said a hundred more were coming and the Spanish fled east Texas to San Antonio. However, the Spanish governor gathered a large force and expelled the French from Texas without loss of life. A new, stronger, fortified base was established in the region. With no French threat, the Spanish presence in Texas was reduced to 144 soldiers & most missions relocated to the San Antonio area where they were attacked by the Lipan Apaches and, after securing an uneasy peace with them, with their more aggressive enemies such as the Comanche

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