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* Captain du Petit-Thouars gets both his arms and one leg blown off. Yet he remains conscious and, seated in a bucket of grain, continues to command his ship. [[MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail The Black Knight]] would be proud.

--> ''We can inform, and educate, and entertain, but failing all that we can at least BE HONEST.''

** Belisarius, when faced with the task off defending Rome from a much larger force, laughs at them and then shoots down three riders to raise his men's hopes.

** Love him or hate him, [[ChronicBackStabbingDisorder Bohemond]]'s stratagem to take Antioch for himself is very clever: He plays the Byzantines like a fiddle (claiming there's a plot to assasinate their leader, and when they retreat to confirm that information, accusing them of cowardice), then delivering a crushing blow to the Turkish reinforcements and finally bribing the guards to take hold of Antioch. His crusader allies are impotent to do anything against him due his popularity with the common people, meaning he does all this without even damaging his reputation.

* During the Cuban Missile Crisis, a U-Boat ran into the american blockade. Since they hadn't been in contact with Moscow, they assumed it was an attack. Both the captain and the political officer voted for using the U-boat's nukes, but there was a third man aboard who had a vote: The floatilla commander [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Arkhipov_%28vice_admiral%29 Vasily Arkhipov]], who said no. His decision may have prevented nuclear war and the destruction of human civilization.

** Let's take a moment to reiterate this: The Navy HQ is despondent over the devasting loss of the ''Hood'' and the damage to the ''Prince of Wales''. They don't know what to do now and they are at a loss. Then a phone call comes. It's Prime Minister Winston Churchill. While the HQ is having an HBSOD, Churchill is [[TranquilFury angry]] and he has one order to give them and [[ItsPersonal he insists that they follow it]]. Just by saying the three words, Churchill managed to whip the Navy into the frenzy that spurred them on and they transmit this order to ''every'' ship in the North Atlantic.

*** How the Swordfish biplanes avoided getting shot down despite being so outdated is ironically enough because'''' they were outdated. Modern anti-aircraft guns are designed to target faster aircraft. The Swordfish's low speed also makes it easier to manoeuvere (slow and steady wins the race indeed!). Also, because it's made out of canvas, the shells that hit don't even detonate, going right on through!
*** But even before the Swordfish descend on the Bismarck, they initally prepare to bomb a US Coast Guard ship ten miles away. They do realize their error before causing an international incident at the worst possible time, but lose they element of surprise, the (supposedly) only advantage they had!

* Sun-Yat-Sen, a revolutionary who failed multiple times in his attempts, arrested by local authorities, friends getting assassinated left and right, and banned from multiple countries, sucessfully overthrown the Qing dynasty and become the first president of Republic of China. Both Communists and Nationalists respected him as "Father of the Nation" even to the present day.

** The Utah landing party accidentally landed on the wrong beach, something that could have been disastrous and might have caused the entire landing force to be left behind during the invasion. Thankfully, they had General Teddy Roosevelt Jr. (son of President Teddy Roosevelt) with them, the [[BadassGrandpa oldest man]] in the invasion and the [[FrontlineGeneral only general]] to land in the first wave. He realised the beach was actually better than the one they were supposed to land on[[note]]It's not mentioned, but there was only a single German strongpoint, which had been badly damaged by bombers, as opposed to the two covering the intended area, and the strong tide that had caused them to land off target had also washed up many of the underwater obstacles in that area[[/note]]. and managed to redirect the entire effort of the failed landing into a rousing success. He did all this despite his age and health issues that would claim his life only a little over a month after the landings.[[note]]It isn't mentioned, but he was also the only man in the first wave whose ''son'' also landed in the first wave: his son, Captain Quentin Roosevelt II, landed with the first wave on Omaha[[/note]]

** Extra Credits' apt summary of Ben "Pitchfork" Tillman, who was so profoundly racist the EC could not say one of his infamous remarks.[[note]] "the action of President Roosevelt in entertaining that n----- (Booker T. Washington) will necessitate our killing a thousand n-----s in the South before they learn their place again."[[/note]] "Ben Tillman was a piece of s***".