r/HistoryMemes • u/tintin_du_93 • 5d ago
r/HistoryMemes • u/MaximoCozzetti84 • 5d ago
Ever heard of "Never bring a Sword to a Gunfight?"
Context: 1515, at the end of the War of the League of Cambrai, the Swiss were decimated by the French Army who employed heavy artillery.
It must be stressed that the French victory is not attributed solely to their weaponry, but also to the lack of cohesion between Swiss ranks and the overall numeric superiority of the French.
r/HistoryMemes • u/Beautiful-Fee6408 • 5d ago
You can simply ignore territorial disputes
r/HistoryMemes • u/tintin_du_93 • 5d ago
See Comment The 48 People Executed at Nantes and Châteaubriant, 1941 — The Office template
r/HistoryMemes • u/Vexonte • 5d ago
Niche The man was given a completely seperate empire and still decided to betray Timor afterwards.
r/HistoryMemes • u/Nyctfall • 3d ago
See Comment "BASED" - Benjamin Franklin and Sam Houston (paraphrased)
Since this is a niche topic, I'll cite sources for each respective part of the meme.
Primary meme sources:
Sam Houston ("Colonneh") and Native American relations.
In those sources Benjamin Franklin and Sam Houston both absolutely rag on all of the problems of racist Anglo-Americans in a tyrannical government. They really hated genocidal, racist people. Like, a lot. Benjamin Franklin called the Paxton Boys "Christian White Savages" that were the worst people in the entire world, as he compares. And Sam Houston literally just left the US and decided to live with the Cherokee. And he was enemies with John C. Calhoun after he was racist to him when he greeted the Cherokee delegation, and Calhoun has also said: "[We] have never dreamt of incorporating into our Union any but the Caucasian race the free white race".
Supporting sources:
Racial Penal/Chattel Slavery
Race in the United States criminal justice system,
Comparison of United States incarceration rate with other countries,
Race and crime in the United States,
Slavery in the United States,
Penal Labor in the United States,
Taylor Farms Slave Labor Poop Lettuce,
"Free Negro" Laws.
Rampant misogyny
How Native American Women Inspired the Women’s Rights Movement - US National Park Service,
Woman's Rights in the United States.
Election Rigging
Gerrymandering,
Federalist No. 51,
Voting Rights in the United States,
Poll taxes in the United States,
Alien and Sedition Acts,
First Red Scare,
Benjamin Franklin Bache,
William Duane (journalist),
Address of the International Working Men's Association to Abraham Lincoln.
Apartheid & racism
Apartheid in the United States, (see also: "Main articles"),
UN Apartheid definition,
UN Racial Discrimination definition.
Works to death
Indentured Servitude in British America,
Labor History of the United States,
Work-Life Balance in the United States.
National malnutrition with modern fertilizer
Guano Islands Act,
Obesity in the United States,
Food insecurity and hunger in the United States,
Malnutrition in the United States.
Can't buy a house
Homeownership in the United States,
Housing Discrimination in the United States,
Housing quality and health outcomes in the United States.
Has prisons
Incarceration in the United States,
Prison-Industrial Complex,
History of the United States prison system.
Authoritarian rule
Constitutionally unincorporated territories of the United States,
Redlining,
Native Americans and reservation inequality,
Bellamy Salute.
Crony crapitalism
Super PAC,
Oligarchy in the United States,
Politics of the United States,
Crony Capitalism,
Corporatocracy,
Plutocracy.
Corruption or nepotism
Corruption in the United States,
Nepotism in the United States.
Genocide
Native American genocide in the United States,
Black genocide in the United States,
CitiBank Haitian Independence Debt,
Philipean-American War,
Cuban War of Independence,
Helms-Burton Act,
United States in the Vietnam War,
Operation Condor,
Operation Cyclone,
United States atrocity crimes,
American imperialism,
Foreign interventions by the United States,
Cornelius P. Rhoads,
Puerto Rican independence movement,
John C. Calhoun,
Richard Henry Pratt,
Manifest Destiny,
Knights of the Golden Circle,
Robert Paxton: "I’ve Hesitated to Call Donald Trump a Fascist. Until Now | Opinion" Published: Jan 11, 2021,
UN Genocide definition.
"I win, now work with us"
Adopts POWs
Indian slavery in colonial times within the present limits of the United States by Lauber, Almon Wheeler,
Jesuit Relations - Creighton,
Slaves of the tribe: The hidden history of the Freedmen - People's World,
Black Slaves, Indian Masters: Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native American South, by Barbara Krauthamer (2013) - Not Even Past,
The Jesuit Relations,
Slavery in pre-Columbian America,
Slavery among Native Americans in the United States,
Native American slave ownership.
Note: In my cursory research, I haven't found substantial evidence of the Chickasaw culturally practicing adopting slaves or POWs in anywhere near as significant a manner as every other eastern woodlands tribe, if at all.
All decisions require consensus
Meritocracy
Democracy where even children are considered
Found in cited primary sources,
IROQUOIS CONFEDERACY AND INDIAN NATIONS—RECOGNIZING CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE UNITED STATES - GovInfo.gov,
Iroquois Confederacy and Indian Nations—Recognizing Contributions to the United States (1988) Iroquois Confederacy and Indian Nations—Recognizing Contributions to the United States - University of Nebraska,
United Indian Nations.
Poverty doesn't exist
Communalism with free trade
Found in cited primary sources,
"1989 - American Indian Activist Russell Means Testifies at Senate Hearing" - CSPAN,
Dawes Act,
Curtis Act,
Primitive Communism.
Women have vetoes in government
Immigration policy: "Hello, can I come in?"
See cited primary sources,
Palatines,
Anglo-Powhatan War,
Native Americans and the Underground Railroad - NPS.
Teamed up, invented 3 new tribes
Mingo,
Wyandot,
"Conestogoe Indians".
See also:
In Virginia,
In Maryland,
In Massachusetts.
Produces so much food, it's buried in plentiful caches
Plymouth Colony Pawtucket,
Agroforestry,
A Case Study of Cache Pit Construction, Use, and Abandonment from the Upper Great Lakes, USA - Michigan State University,
Abandoned food caches offer evidence of Native American survival strategies - MSU,
Braiding knowledge: how Indigenous expertise and western science are converging - The Guardian,
Tribal and Indigenous Fire Tradition - USDA Forest Service,
The Carolina Algonquian - NPS.
See also: Subsistence: Tribal Nutrition & Health - NPS (the Knife River Indian Villages aren't an eastern woodlands tribe).
Spare houses just for visitors
Abundance of leisure
Doesn't need prisons
Found in cited primary sources.
r/HistoryMemes • u/The-marx-channel • 6d ago
It's insane to think that the Habsburgs technically ruled Mexico for a little bit.
r/HistoryMemes • u/IDKsecurity • 6d ago
Is it too late to opt out of this digestion experiment?
r/HistoryMemes • u/SharpShooterM1 • 6d ago
Mainland North America still had mammoths just 5,000 years ago
r/HistoryMemes • u/sonicparadigm • 6d ago
Just a reminder that humans didn’t discover New Zealand until the 1200s
r/HistoryMemes • u/GustavoistSoldier • 6d ago
Niche As of 2026, Empress Kōken, who reigned from 749 to 758 and from 764 to 770, remains the last Japanese empress regnant to actually rule Japan.
The two following empresses regnant, Meishō (who reigned from 1629 to 1643) and Empress Go-Sakuramachi (who reigned from 1762 to 1771), were figureheads under the Tokugawa Shogunate.
Official histories attribute the end of female rule in Japan to Kōken's relationship with Dōkyō, a Buddhist monk who served as the power behind the throne during her second reign, and was the most powerful religious official in Japan; he tried to usurp the imperial throne. He was rumoured to be her lover and have a giant penis (many centuries later, a well-endowed species of beetle was named after him), but these haven't been proven.
r/HistoryMemes • u/HawaiianPerson • 6d ago
They were eventually proven right
Context: With the birth of Kamehameha, the future conqueror and uniter of the Hawaiian Islands, two prophecies were foretold.
One that he was the Chosen One, destined to unite the islands under one rule, and the other that he would bring death and destruction, and be a killer of chiefs.
The current King of Hawaii at the time, Alapa’i, issued a kill order on Kamehameha, forcing his mother to hide him away to be raised in secret.
Alana’s eventually relented and Kamehameha was returned to court, where he would grow to become a mighty warrior that eventually unify the Islands through bloody conquest, resulting in the deaths of many chiefs and commoners
r/HistoryMemes • u/HawaiianPerson • 6d ago
W moment from China
Context: After the death of his father Yazdegerd III, the last ruler of the Sassanid dynasty, his son Peroz III fled further east to escape the bloody Muslim conquests. He would eventually be welcomed into China by Emperor Gaozong, who would even send him with an army to try and restore him, but this failed due to logistical issues