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Animal_Courier t1_iy5oia8 wrote

Reply to comment by 1714alpha in TIL that after the battle between the USS Constitution and HMS Guerriere, the captain of the Constitution, Isaac Hull, refused the sword of surrender from the captain of the Guerriere, James Richard Dacre, saying he could not accept it from a man who fought so gallantly by alcapwnage0007

Yeah every other time I’ve read something like this in history it’s led to some kind of atrocity or catastrophe.

My favorite is probably when the Romans refused the Carthaginian surrender. They wanted to take Carthage. They got their butts whooped by Xanthipus and then as they sailed home they got caught in a storm and their entire fleet sank, drowning the entire army. Tens of thousands of Romans killed within a few weeks of triumphing over the Carthaginians.

Fucking idiots 😂

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Real_Jackraps t1_iy6cbsr wrote

Then they made the new fleet even bigger. Which suffered the same fate, again. So they made another!

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1CEninja t1_iy76a4f wrote

And that fleet stayed up!

And that's what you're gonna get lad, the strongest fleet in all the land.

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