Whether they're a king, emperor, warlord, or the female equivalents, or someone who had a completely different profession, who is your favourite person from any era of history, or any place in the world?
I honestly can not pick one, but a few of my favorites would have to be... ~Emperor Aurelian ~Field Marshall Erwin Rommel ~Field Marshall Albert Kesselring ~Colonel Frost (Arnhem bridge defender) And a bunch of others I can not remember right now
Micheal Collins and Brian Bóruma mac Cennétig. Both were valiant fighters and stellar soldiers. The more I read about Somerled, the more I like him as well. For the non-Gaels? Sir John Hawkwood (yeah he was an Englishman but he was also an incredibly interesting mercenary in Italy too, so I guess he is cool ) and Hannibal Barca.
I'd also choose him, or Domhnall II of Harlaw, a very similar personality of the same family who ruled three hundred years later (the first Lord of the Isles to rule an empire larger than that of Somerled and Dal Riada combined). Somerled was a legend. He literally started out with nothing, in the 'Wild West' of Morvern, subjected to constant Norse raids, inhabited only by escaped slaves and individual guerrilla soldiers attempting to defend what they could of their homeland. What he did with no more than three hundred soldiers, over a long campaign of twenty years, was to force out the entrenched armies and people of a transatlantic trading empire, in a series of spectacularly innovative battles and tricks. He invented the weapons that he needed to take on the Norse, finally defeating them in a sea battle in the middle of winter, at night, off the coast of Islay, only to be assassinated years later by his nephew (if the Scottish story is true, and he was killed on the battlefield with many of his soldiers, why was the kingdom not invaded?). The Norse would not be expelled from Britain for another hundred years, of course, but without Somerled and his invasion of the Isle of Man, that simply would not have been possible. If Scotland had been conquered, there'd be no United Kingdom, and without the United Kingdom, there'd be no Britain, no British Empire. And he founded Clan Donald. The next time you sit down to eat your Happy Meal, just remember...if it wasn't for Somerled...
Well, there could've been a British Empire. It would just be speaking a Scandinavian language and have leaders with names like Knut and Snorri. I think it would be an improvement, personally
Do Presidents count??? My favorite presidents: Washington Jefferson Lincoln Teddy Roosevelt FDR Eisenhower Kennedy Reagan I love 'em.
Michael Collins of course. What a hero. and then we have... -Atilla the Hun -Che guevara -Bohemond 1 of Antioch And a few others who I cannot think of at this time.
William of Orange and Louis XIV... Okay, they're probably not my favorite favorite, but they have cool stories.
Too many to choose from, but basically: 1) The USA Founding Fathers 2) Lewis and Clark 3) Elizabeth I 4) Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee 5) Napoleon Bonaparte 6) William Shakespeare 7) The Czar Nicholas II (He and his family are in my avvie.) 8) Genghis Khan 9) Louis Braille 10) Helen Keller 11) Gen. Braddock, British General in the French and Indian War.
Ashoka Maurya William Tecumseh Sherman William of Orange Admiral Farragut Samuel Adams Peter the Great (Especially the drunken wheel-barrowing!) William Scurry William Wallace (I guess I like Williams...) Franklin D. Roosevelt Hannibal Joan D'arc Genghis Khan Many many others that I can't seem to think of at the moment
History has always fascinated me, and its participants who I like the most are those who are enshrouded in mystery, and who sometimes can't have their lives separated fact from fiction. Here's a few of them: Sir Francis Drake (1540-1596) John Dee (1526-1608?) Jacques de Molay (1250-1315) Saladin (1138-1193)
I find all the Romanov's fascinating, but Anastasia and her sister Maria were by far the most interesting of the family.
Some of my favorites from the Ancient times: 1) Most Egyptian pharohs like Tutankhamen, Ramses, Cleopatra, and Hashepsut. The last two are more recent than that. XD 2) Saladin and Richard the Lionhearted. 3) Martin Luther King, Jr.
