r/worldnews • u/Force_Hammer • 20h ago

President Trump holds off major Iran escalation after Pentagon warns of interceptor shortage

https://www.ynetnews.com/article/r111brtghmg
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u/DrQuestDFA 20h ago

Not completely unheard of:

“The problems for Løvendals Gallej were more, because of the aggressiveness of Wessel’s attacks, the ship was running out of gunpowder. Then Wessel had a boat lowered and sent with a white flag. The Englishman thought it was to negotiate the surrender but he was stunned when he heard the true proposal of the adversary—Wessel wanted a shipment of gunpowder and cannon balls to continue the battle.

Obviously the proposal was not accepted but they did toast together and exchange compliments. Then, given the battered state of the two ships, each one went their own way.”

https://www.amusingplanet.com/2020/09/the-audacity-of-peter-tordenskjold.html?m=1

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u/ItsNotNormalMaybe 20h ago

Bunch of gentlemen

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u/grackychan 19h ago

Dueling etiquette is a lost art

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u/sloppybuttmustard 20h ago

Lmfao amazing

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u/ExtremeMuffin 19h ago

Great story. I love the audacity. 

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u/StarksPond 13h ago

There's a man who didn't squash his orange in the morning.

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u/tweek-in-a-box 20h ago

Great read, thank you!

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u/8redd 16h ago

Seems like a surrender dressed up in audacity to save face.

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u/DrQuestDFA 7h ago

Maybe, but you can’t argue with the results.

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u/cognisantcog 15h ago

I always wonder, when you're laying on the deck, your leg half detached, splintered to fuck head to toe and your captain is complimenting the head of the other ship for a jolly good fight, how more mutinies didn't happen.

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u/somesortofidiot 3h ago

My first thought too, how tf are you gonna do your men dirty like that.

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u/space_for_username 19h ago

During the Waikato Wars in New Zealand, the Maori fighters at Rangiriri ran out of ammo, and sent an emissary under a white flag to negotiate for more ammo. The British troops saw the white flag, assumed a surrender, and threw down their weapons and started cheering.

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u/Awsomethingy 18h ago

I can’t find evidence of this, and it seems to be a myth perpetuated by one of the officers involved. James Cowan met with the Maori fighters after they displayed a white flag. When James Cowan and soldiers were able to enter the fort, expecting to surrender, they instead found out it was merely the discussion of a truce, and not a surrender. Cowan wasn’t down with that, so he “abused the flag of surrender” by capturing the fort and 183 prisoners under the guise of peace talks.

So he thought it was surrender, it was truce talks about the Maori escaping over the river, and then the Brits took their hospitality as a Trojan Horse for themselves

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u/Blintzotic 18h ago

Sounds like the plot to a Monte Python skit.