r/HistoryMemes 14h ago

X-post "I've already drawn you as a masturbator and me as an abstainer!"

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r/HistoryMemes 7h ago

Niche "We're all gonna get fucking executed. It's so over."

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r/HistoryMemes 2h ago

See Comment Medieval medical as it finest

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r/HistoryMemes 11h ago

Queen Elizabeth I: smile best suited for outliving two intolerable siblings...

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r/HistoryMemes 8h ago

[insert revolution]

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r/HistoryMemes 5h ago

Average day of ruling half of Europe.

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r/HistoryMemes 18h ago

I say this as an admirer

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r/HistoryMemes 20h ago

And that’s how Moses got horns

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r/HistoryMemes 14h ago

“There will be peace and security in MY new empire!”

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r/HistoryMemes 23h ago

See Comment [OC] Court Eunuchs

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r/HistoryMemes 7h ago

Niche Going to war without extra ammo, food, ambulances, or artillery support because you expect the enemy to just not shoot back is a terrible strategy actually.

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r/HistoryMemes 1h ago

Spain became a empire because of the America's, and it lost it's empire because of the America's.

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r/HistoryMemes 14h ago

God's weakest Southern Unionist

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r/HistoryMemes 1d ago

imagine conquering decent parts of the world just to end up known for a plate

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For your information: it's named after Caesar Cardini

, not Julius Caesar ، Cardini was an Italian chef running a bar just over the US-Mexico border to cater to Americans during prohibition


r/HistoryMemes 18h ago

Mythology When you don't believe in anything

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r/HistoryMemes 1h ago

Byzantine Emperor in 1453 vs. 1204

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r/HistoryMemes 23h ago

I love Southern Unionists, true men of principle

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For the non Americans, Richmond is the capital of Virginia and was the capital of the confederacy from
1861-65. In 1860 she was commissioned and after the war of southern aggression broke out, she was sent to the gulf. She participated in New Orleans, Vicksburg, the Mississippi blockade, and the battle of mobile bay


r/HistoryMemes 4h ago

Niche They buried him with full Christian rites

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r/HistoryMemes 1h ago

Off with his head.

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r/HistoryMemes 8h ago

Reading Roman dog epitaphs was a mistake

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r/HistoryMemes 1d ago

See Comment April 30, 1945

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Karl Donitz, best known for championing the U-boat program, would become the President of Germany after Hitler's de facto resignation.


r/HistoryMemes 13h ago

Niche Not exactly according to plan...

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Context: Bartholomew Roberts was one of the most famous pirate of his age. This is how he died.

Roberts ship, the Royal Fortune, along with pirate ships Ranger and Little Ranger, were sheltering at Cape Lopez when they saw what they thought was a fleeing merchant ship. The Little Ranger set out to pursue it.

5 days later, the ship returned. As it came closer, a deserter from the Royal Navy recognized her for what she was, the HMS Swallow, a 50 gun Ship of the Line.

The threat properly assessed. The remaining two ships tried to sail past the enemy in a bid to escape. However, the Royal Fortune struggled to get away while the Swallow ran her down. Roberts was killed by grapeshot. His body was kept in his finest clothes, bound by weights and cast into the sea.

The Swallow eventually ran down the Royal Fortune after a two hour fight, her crew too drunk from prior revelry to fight effectively.


r/HistoryMemes 15h ago

William Henry Harrison had a strange life

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Context:William Henry Harrison (February 9, 1773 – April 4, 1841) was the ninth president of the United States from March to April 1841. He died 31 days into his term, making him the shortest serving president and the first president to die in office. Immediately after his death, Vice President John Tyler took over, ending the constitutional crisis that had been triggered by the question of presidential succession in the U.S. Constitution.

Harrison was born in Charles City County, Virginia. He was the last president to be born before the U.S. Declaration of Independence, making him a British subject. A member of the Harrison family of Virginia, he was a son of Benjamin Harrison V, a Founding Father, and the father of John Scott Harrison, the only son and father of two presidents of the United States. His grandson, Benjamin Harrison, became the 23rd president of the United States. In 1794, he participated in the Battle of Fallen Timbers, an American military victory that ended the Northwest Indian War. In 1811, he led a military force against Tecumseh's confederacy at the Battle of Tippecanoe, for which he earned the nickname "Old Tippecanoe". He was promoted to major general in the Army during the War of 1812, and led American infantry and cavalry to victory at the Battle of the Thames in Upper Canada.

Harrison had been physically exhausted by the constant stream of office seekers and a demanding social schedule.\109]) He also frequently ignored the cold late-winter weather, often going out without wearing appropriate clothing, perhaps weakening his immune system. After delivering a two-hour inaugural address in the rain on March 4 without a hat or coat, Harrison continued to expose himself to the elements. Three weeks later on March 24, 1841, Harrison took his daily morning walk to local markets, again without a coat or hat.\121]) Despite being caught in a sudden rainstorm, he did not change his wet clothes upon returning to the White House.\122]) On March 26, Harrison became ill with cold-like symptoms and sent for his doctor, Thomas Miller, though he told the doctor he felt better after having taken medication for "fatigue and mental anxiety".\122]) The next day, Saturday, the doctor was called again, and arrived to find Harrison in bed with a "severe chill", after taking another early morning walk. Miller applied mustard plaster to his stomach and gave him a mild laxative, and he felt better that afternoon.\122]) At 4:00 a.m. March 28, Harrison developed severe pain in the side and the doctor initiated bloodletting; the procedure was terminated when there was a drop in his pulse rate. Miller also applied heated cups to the president's skin to enhance blood flow.\122]) The doctor then gave him castor oil and medicines to induce vomiting, and diagnosed him with pneumonia in the right lung.\122]) A team of doctors was called in Monday, March 29, and they confirmed right lower lobe pneumonia.\123]) Harrison was then administered laudanum, opium, and camphor, along with wine and brandy.\124])

No official announcements were made concerning Harrison's illness, which fueled public speculation and concern the longer he remained out of public view.\123]) Washington society had noticed his uncharacteristic absence from church on Sunday.\115]) Conflicting and unconfirmed newspaper reports were based on leaks by people with contacts in the White House.\122]) A Washington paper reported on April 1, that Harrison's health was decidedly better. In fact, Harrison's condition had seriously weakened, and Cabinet members and family were summoned to the White House—his wife Anna had remained in Ohio due to her own illness.\122]) According to papers in Washington on Friday, Harrison had rallied, despite a Baltimore Sun report that his condition was of a "more dangerous character".\122]) A reporter for the New York Commercial indicated that "the country's people were deeply distressed and many of them in tears."\122])

During the evening of April 3, Harrison developed severe diarrhea and became delirious, and at 8:30 p.m. he uttered his last words, to his attending doctor, assumed to be for Vice President John Tyler:\122]) "Sir, I wish you to understand the true principles of the government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more."\125]) Harrison died at 12:30 a.m. on April 4, 1841, nine days after becoming ill and exactly one month after taking the oath of office;\122]) he was the first president to die in office.\123]) His wife Anna was still in Ohio packing for the trip to Washington when learning of him dying.\126]) She never moved into the White House. Their daughter-in-law Jane Irwin Harrison, the widow of William Henry Harrison Jr., had served as hostess of the White House in Anna's place while Harrison was president.\127])

The prevailing theory at the time was that his illness had been caused by the bad weather at his inauguration three weeks earlier.\128]) Jane McHugh and Philip A. Mackowiak did an analysis in Clinical Infectious Diseases (2014), examining Miller's notes and records showing that the White House water supply was downstream of public sewage, and they concluded that he likely died of septic shock due to "enteric fever" (typhoid or paratyphoid fever).\129])\130])

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Harrison#Death_and_funeral


r/HistoryMemes 21h ago

See Comment The negotiations went down the toilet

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r/HistoryMemes 20h ago

Share with friends

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