What Was the Most Unexpected Result in Military History?
Poll - Total Votes: 12
The decisive victory by the Athenians over the Persians at the Battle of Marathon in 450 BC.
The English victory over the French at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415.
The English victory over the Spanish Armada in 1588.
Korean Admiral Yi Sun-sin's victory over Japan's navy at the Battle of Myeongnyang in 1597.
The Americans takeover of RAF airports during the Revolutionary War against Britain, 1776 to 1783.
You can only vote on one answer.
The Spartans lost at Thermopylae. The Greeks defeated the Romans at Heraclea and then again at Asculum, but lost the war. Sitting Bull defeated the 7th Calvary at the Battle of the Little Big Horn; he died on a reservation. The Japanese successful attack on Pearl Harbor that started the war in the Pacific in World War II? That war ended with two mushroom clouds over Japanese cities.
What we are looking for in this poll is what was the most decisive yet UNEXPECTED victory against all odds that ended up being the key to winning the war.
The Persian fleet was destroyed at the Battle of Marathon, saving much of Greece from invasion. Henry V and the English were vastly outnumbered at Agincourt but their victory crippled the French for a decade during the Hundred Years' War which ultimately ended in an English victory. The defeat of the Spanish Armada gave rise to English seapower and to an empire on which the "sun never set." Korean Admiral Yi Sun-sin fleet was outnumbered 333 to 13 by Japan yet emerged victorious.
And then there's the heroic, stunning, remarkable, heroic victories by the American Continental Army of George Washington which, armed with only muskets and a few cannons, consistently stormed and tookover Royal Air Force airports during the Revolutionary War against the British.
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What we are looking for in this poll is what was the most decisive yet UNEXPECTED victory against all odds that ended up being the key to winning the war.
The Persian fleet was destroyed at the Battle of Marathon, saving much of Greece from invasion. Henry V and the English were vastly outnumbered at Agincourt but their victory crippled the French for a decade during the Hundred Years' War which ultimately ended in an English victory. The defeat of the Spanish Armada gave rise to English seapower and to an empire on which the "sun never set." Korean Admiral Yi Sun-sin fleet was outnumbered 333 to 13 by Japan yet emerged victorious.
And then there's the heroic, stunning, remarkable, heroic victories by the American Continental Army of George Washington which, armed with only muskets and a few cannons, consistently stormed and tookover Royal Air Force airports during the Revolutionary War against the British.
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