History Awesome / SixteenThirtyTwo

-->LT CANTRELL SERIAL NUMBER [[JamesBond 007]].

* In ''The Devil's Opera'' "hard" Hans, a pugilist who has incurred the wrath of his day-job employer by refusing to take a dive sets himself out as bait to draw attention away from his sister and winds up in a running battle through the streets of Magdeburg. In all three encounters he is outnumbered, in the last one by 6-1, not to mention being badly hurt from the bout that started the mess in the first place. he manages to kill or cripple everyone who comes after him [[spoiler: although he does die in the final battle he takers all six attackers down with him]]

* The Battle of Dresden. [[spoiler:Mike Stearns launches an attack on Baner's siege lines in the middle of a snowstorm, delivering an utterly devastating victory, and ending any hope for Oxenstierna's counterrevolution to succeed.]]

** Put it this way: at the opening of one fight, he proclaims, "My name is Ruy Sanchez de Casador y Ortiz. Prepare to die." One uptimer (Sharon) thinks this is because he somehow found a copy of ''Film/ThePrincessBride'' and is quoting Inigo Montoya. The other knows that the truth is the opposite -- ''Ruy Sanchez is the kind of Spaniard Inigo Montoya was based on.''

*** Admiral Simpson nearly falls over laughing when he reads that text. Then he has the message sent.

* The Battle of Dresden. [[spoiler:Mike Stearns launches an attack on Baner's siege lines in the middle of a snowstorm, delivering an utterly devastating victory, and ending any hope for Oxenstierna's counterrevolution to succeed.]]

* James Nichols in ''1633'' shutting up Quentin Underwood's argument against giving out the town's antibiotics, then nauseating the whole council with a {{Nightmare Fuel}} description of just what Bubonic Plague does to the human body, before switching effortlessly to how much giving out their antibiotics can help the town both in the short and long term.

* Anders Jönsson, Gustavus Adolphus's personal bodyguard [[spoiler: defending Gustavus from the Polish Hussars who try to kill him while he is incapacitated during battle at the end of 1635: The Eastern Front. He places his body over Gustavus's, and empties four magazines of his up-time pistol at charging Hussars. He continues doing this for a minute even after his femoral artery is severed by a lance. In the end, a hussar he didn't see drives his lance straight down through Anders trying to kill Gustavus, but even after piercing Anders' heart, killing him, there is still too much muscle mass in the way for the lance to even touch Gustavus.]] Even in death, he protected his King.

* John Simpson gets his own in ''1634: The Baltic War'' when [[NotAScratchOnIt his ironclads]] go toe-to-toe with the Hamburg defenses.

* James Nichols in ''1633'' shutting up Quentin Underwood's argument against giving out the town's antibiotics, then nauseating the whole council with a {{High Octane Nightmare Fuel}} description of just what Bubonic Plague does to the human body, before switching effortlessly to how much giving out their antibiotics can help the town both in the short and long term.

* Not so long afterwards, Gustavus Adolphus orders Stearns to lead an expedition to recover and repair a timberclad boat which had suffered an engineering casualty. He explains to his aide that this is in part as a test of Stearns' skills before appointing the man a general. Stearns accepts the challenge readily -- and proceeds to demonstrate his ''unique'' approach to military matters by bringing along not only the requisite parts and requisite troops ... but a ''printing press'' (plus printers) and ''marching band''. Which he then uses to blanket the town and environs with leaflets and to lead a parade, respectively, all the while spreading money around hiring locals to aid in the repairs of the ship and provision of the troops.

** Put it this way: at the opening of one fight, he proclaims, "My name is Ruy Sanchez de Casador y Ortiz. Prepare to die." One uptimer (Sharon) thinks this is because he somehow found a copy of ''Film/ThePrincessBride'' and is quoting Inigo Montoya. The other knows that the truth is the opposite -- ''Ruy Sanchez is the kind of Spaniard Inigo Montoya was based on.''

* James Nichols in ''1633'' shutting up Quentin Underwood's argument against giving out the town's antibiotics, then nauseating the whole council with a {{High Octane Nightmare Fuel}} description of just what Bubonic Plague does to the human body, before switching effortlessly to how much giving out their antibiotics can help the town both in the short and long term.

** Not to mention that Admiral Simpson gives Eddie the highest compliment possible, under the circumstances. Eddie insists on only giving the Danes his "name, rank, and serial number". However, he claims that he has 'forgotten' his serial number due to having had his left leg blown off. As Admiral Simpson has, in a rare case of missing an important detail while assembling his Navy, forgotten to put together a serial number system, passes along the following "reprimand" by telegraph:

* Mike Stearns's speech to Grantville at the emergency meeting.

* The attack on Grantville by the Croatian cavalry, especially the defense of the high school.
* Admiral Simpson's unstoppable ironclad attack on Hamburg in ''The Baltic War''. Later, the Danish Prince Ulrik and his Norwegian sidekick Baldur manage [[spoiler: to mission-kill an ironclad using a small boat and a spar torpedo]].
* After Lieutenant Eddie Cantrell is taken prisoner by the surviving members of the Danish fleet headed for Wismar in ''1633'', he claims that he's not required to tell his captors anything besides his name, rank, and serial number. The basis for his claim? The Geneva Convention, ''which hasn't even been written yet!''

* The Battle of the Craphouse. The 17th Century learns right off what shotguns can do to a cavalry charge.

* Admiral Simpson's unstoppable ironclad attack on Hamburg in ''The Baltic War''. Later, the Danish Prince Ulrik and his Norwegian sidekick Baldur manage [[spoiler: to mission-kill an ironclad using a small boat and a spar torpedo]].

* Admiral Simpson's unstoppable ironclad attack on Hamburg in ''The Blatic War''. Later, the Danish Prince Ulrik and his Norwegian sidekick Baldur manage [[spoiler: to mission-kill an ironclad using a small boat and a spar torpedo]].

* The attack on Grantville by the Croatian cavalry, especially the defense of the high school.

* The Battle of the Craphouse. The 17th Century learns right off what shotguns can do to a cavalry charge.