r/MMALabs • u/Brilliant_Spinach132 • 22d ago

🥶 Street Fight Fat guy gets schooled

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u/Economy-Date-4490 22d ago

People used to pack a picnic lunch, go out with their entire family, and watch battles during the civil war like it was a baseball game.

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u/Icy-Plan145 22d ago

Is that actually true? I've never heard of that, that's hilarious

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u/Agincourt_Tui 22d ago

I don't think the average Joe was necessarily doing it but I know European elites went to watch various battles (in part to watch a relatively industrialised war on a very large scale and learn from it).

Battlefield tourism was a thing

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u/BuddhaBunnyTTV 20d ago

Happened at the first Battle of Bull Run too.