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Must Read: 15 small armies that crushed far more bigger armies

Post by Thomas H » 17 Jul 2021, 14:19

1.400,000 Finnish Troops Fought Off A Million Soviets And Their Tanks
2.Greek Forces Defended The Country Against Twice As Many Italians (The Mountains Helped)
3.60 Local Soldiers And Some Peasants Drove Away 4,000 Knights At Vitkov Hill
4.Imperial Germany Destroyed An Entire Army Thanks To A Russian Tactical Error
5.An Numerically Inferior Korean Force Repelled Japan With Innovation On Land And At Sea
6.Fresh From Feudalism, A Newly Modernized Japan Destroyed Russia, Shocking The World
7.Dutch Settlers In Independent African Republics Thrashed The British Empire On Black Week
8.Chu Rebels In Northern China Struck The Blow That Toppled The Qin Dynasty
9.Zulu Warriors Armed With Shields And Spears Defeated British Automatic Guns
10.Michinikwa Little Turtle Clobbered The US Military In The Dense Ohio Forest
11.Josip Broz Tito And His Partisans Liberated Yugoslavia From Axis Occupation
12.Sir Francis Drake And Tiny Old England Sank The World's Greatest Naval Fleet
13.Mexico Drove The French Out While Playing Diplomatic Chess With Superpowers
14.The British Learned The Hard Way You Don't Mess With Afghanistan
15.Tigray Defence Forces

Ethiopians,Eritreans and their allied forces believed the war would be over in a few weeks,but the Tigrayans retreated to reorganize and they attacked all their enemies on multiple fronts and successfully destroyed the entire enemy armies.

The decisive Tigrayans victory demonstrated how a small army could adapt and outsmart a much larger invading force with a flexible order of battle. The Tigrayans victory was so thorough some distraught Ethiopian and Eritrean Generals walked into the forest and shot themselves.












Source: https://www.ranker.com/list/small-count ... /daveesons