ChadExtra
TIL that Titanic crewman Herbert Pitman made an attempt to row his lifeboat over to rescue people in the water, but was overruled by the other occupants of the boat, who were worried about people swarming them and duly complied. Pitman said that this haunted him throughout his life.
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ChadExtra OP t1_j6othd0 wrote
Reply to comment by Unhappy-Valuable-596 in TIL of St Clair’s defeat in 1791, when Native Americans supplied with British made firearms, demolished a US military force and killed 656 soldiers, in what has been regarded as one of the worst ever defeats of the US military. by ChadExtra
The Native Americans defeated a US military force. They had been given guns by the British (as part of a strategy of encouraging insurrection against the American government).