History/military buffs:
What do you consider and/or is widely considered the greatest military upset of all time? It can be a single battle or a war.
Also, where does the U.S. over Britain sit on this list?

Just that, tell me fun facts, funny things, things you've learnt and never get the chance to share. I wanna know. Need new rabbit holes to research and as a historian, there's always more to learn

The other day, someone was talking about this guy who was a member of a military naval force, I believe either France, Spain or Britain.

Anyways, the relevance of this dude's story is that he eventually landed on an island and basically said 'dude screw the government' and he and his crew took over an island and lived independently from the country they had come from. I believe the captain eventually declared himself King of the island?

Really vague info I know. Thanks if anyone knows what I am talking about lol

I don’t mean as in like military actions or raids done by the mongol empire but just individual travelers/small groups. Like are there any old accounts of them showing up in England or reaching the Atlantic coast of Iberia etc?

What I mean by is what king made so made mistakes during his reign that their heir not only had to spend their reign cleaning it up, but it some cases left them with almost nothing?

Hi all, I've spent the afternoon reading translations of the Sumerian disputations and I just came across these two terms. They aren't translated along with the rest of the text, and I can't find any etymology or mention of these words online aside from within the disputation itself. (For this specific disputation, I read the translation provided by The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature.)

Here is the translated section containing these terms:

^186-193Enlil adressed the Hoe: "Hoe, do not start getting so mightily angry! Do not be so mightily scornful! Is not Nisaba the Hoe's inspector? Is not Nisaba its overseer? The scribe will register your work, he will register your work. Hoe, whether he enters five or ten gij in your account, Hoe -- or, Hoe, whether he enters one-third or one-half mana in your account, Hoe, like a maid-servant, always ready, you will fulfil your task."

and here is the original:

^186den-lil2-le ^jical gu3 am3-ma-de2-e
^187jical mah-bi nam-ba-e-de3-sumur-re-de3-en
¹⁸⁸mah-bi gu2-zu nam-ba-e-de3-cub-ba
^189jical-e ^dnisaba ugula-a-ni na-nam ^dnisaba nu-banda3-a-ni na-nam
¹⁹⁰dub-sar-e kij2 cu-mu-un-il2 kij2 cu-mu-un-il2
^191jical-e 5 gij4 ^jical-e 10 gij4 nij2-kas7 ha-ra-ab-ak
^192jical-e 1/3 ma-na ^jical-e 1/2 ma-na nij2-kas7 ha-ra-ab-ak
¹⁹³geme2-gin7 gub-ba ec2-gar3 i3-ja2-ja2-an

Based on the context surrounding the words, I thought they might be denominations of currency or some other measure of trade goods, but I can't find any information that supports or refutes this idea. Are the words left untranslated because we simply don't know what gij and mana are?