History's greatest flops

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  1. Pharaoh Roman New Member

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    We all know everything in history didn't always work perfectly, and we are here to find out which one's didn't work the most.

    There are two categories to a failure:
    1) Something in history (be it a military campaign, an invention, ect.) was working very well, but something went wrong, or someone made a mistake to mess it up. I refer to this as the "Agh! So Close" failure

    2) The second, and perhaps most entertaining to watch would be a failure from the start. A complete and utter goof up that leaves heads spinning and historians wondering why they thought it would ever work. I call this the "Oh God what have I done" failure.
    Pharaoh Roman, Mar 6, 2011
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  2. pedro3131 Running the Show While the Big Guy's Gone

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    SBInet... google it... Your (US citizens that is) tax dollars at work
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    Every invasion of Russia ever, Vuan Dynasty attempt to invade Japan, The Maginot Line (Good job getting outflanked from the same direction in both world wars, France :roll:), Thermopalae for the Persians, All the American invasions of Canada.
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    Austrian army men were drinking in this town then there was a "bar fight" witch spread out trough entire town and other half of austrian army though the were in village and atacked, ofcorse there was no enemy. When night turned to morning there was 10 000 dead austrian men in town.

    FAIL
    D3adtrap, Mar 6, 2011
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  5. 0bserver92 Grand King of Moderation

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    I already said that. ;)
    EDIT- You fixed it, and now I look like an idiot.
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    Bay of Pigs.
    JosefVStalin, Mar 6, 2011
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    Gallipoli. The Dieppe Raid.
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    Starting the USA nah I kindin it has to be the Revolutionary War on Great Britains side I mean they were a world super power and they couldn't stop a rag tag team of rebels(No offense British pplz U guys still cool)
    PantherFan15, Mar 6, 2011
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    The war in Iraq. Now that's a fail.

    Edit: Also, George W. Bush.
    KingofdaHipHop, Mar 6, 2011
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    Liberia.
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    Explain this one please, I've heard bits and pieces of the creation of Liberia and I'm too lazy to look it up
    Pharaoh Roman, Mar 7, 2011
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    And every attempted US assassination of Fidel. I think we tried somewhere around a dozen different times and screwed it up every time. The US claims "credit" for at least six attempts, Castro claimed it was more like two dozen attempts, I imagine the truth lies somewhere between. Regardless, it was total fail on the CIA's part. I'm glad they failed though. Assassinating foreign rulers due to differences in ideology is very not cool.
    CyberViking27, Mar 8, 2011
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    The German invasion of the Soviet Union starting in 1941.

    New Coke.
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    Colonial rebellion was supported by French
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    Napoleon taking a nap during the battle of Waterloo...

    A thousand paratroopers dropping in Drvar during WWII to assassinate Tito, the leader of the Yugoslav Partisans. Though Im quite happy his assassination never occured :D (officially...)
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  17. Byzantium's Revenge Well-Known Member

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    Poland-Lithuania's implementation of a national constitution in 1791, thus becoming the second country after the USA to do so.

    It ingnited a mass invasion by Prussia, Russia and Austria-Hungary, leading to the complete partition of the country between the three.
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  18. pedro3131 Running the Show While the Big Guy's Gone

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    That depends on how you look at things. A few Italian city states had constitutions and all of the colonies had their own constitutions before they formed the us. There were also a bunch of countries throughout the middle ages to draft legal documents governing their nations (which, while not using the word constitution, is kind of the same thing) so I wouldn't even call the US constitution the first of its kind. Interesting fact about Poland though, I had no idea.
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  19. Byzantium's Revenge Well-Known Member

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    Sorry, I should have said the world's second codified constitution; i.e. one contained within a single document.
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  20. theprinceofwales Well-Known Member

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    the Japanese Empire. Yes they were awesome while they lasted but there was no way.
    theprinceofwales, Mar 8, 2011
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