Humans just love a good tale of revenge. There is so much inherent drama, wrongs being righted, betrayal and catharsis. So it stands to reason that throughouthuman history, there have been many cases of people taking matters into their own hands to resolve their differences.
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Olga of Kiev. Some jerks called the Drevlians killed her husband and tried to have her marry their Prince. She fooled them into sending their most important men to prepare for the wedding and trapped them in a building and burned them alive. When they tried to apologize she requested pigeons from the citizens and rigged the birds with sulfur bags. The birds flew back to their original homes and when they roosted it burned down all of their houses. The official bad b***h of the year 890. She’s also a saint.
Ferruccio Lamborghini was a rich man owning his company that built tractors, he talked to Ferrari about the imperfections of his car and how to improve them and they basically laughed at a young tractor mechanic trying to tell them about sport cars, so he decided to start making luxury sport cars to compete with Ferrari and thus, the rivalry was born. So i’d say the middle finger of this guy to Ferrari was pretty noticeable.
George Bernard Shaw: I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend—if you have one.Winston Churchill: Cannot possibly attend first night; will attend second—if there is one.
Queen Gorgo of Sparta when asked why only Spartan women were equal to their men:“Because only Spartan women give birth to Spartan men.”.
The invasion of Belgium during WW1 comes to mind.Basically, the Germans were on a strict timeline and needed to move their massive army through Belgium in order to flank the French defenses along their own border. In order for this to be successful, they were counting on the Belgians kind of just stepping aside and letting them use their roads and rails and bridges and such. After all, the Germans could destroy Belgium in a war with relative ease, but they didn’t have time for that. The Germans asked the Belgians not to sabotage any of the infrastructure so they could pass through and leave them alone.In response, the Belgians gave a resounding “fk you”. They blew up the bridges and the tunnels and the rails, and they gave a fantastic resistance against the Germans at a series of forts along their border with Germany. They really f****d st up.
Not the biggest, but:Molotov said he wasn’t bombing Finland, he was bringing them food. In actuality, he was bombing them. Finns got cheeky and called the bombs “Molotov Bread Baskets.” Finns made the Molotov Cocktail as “a drink to go with the bread.“A Molotov Cocktail is p much flammable “poor man’s grenade” meant to set someone on fire rather than just flat out kl them.It might not be a huge fk you, but it’s one of my favorite historical facts.
Republicans refusing to hold a hearing for President Obama’s supreme court nominee with nearly a year left in his term.
Henry VIII created his own church when the Catholics told him no for divorce.
The Greeks saying a huge resounding “No” to Mussolini’s ultimatum to allow the axis forces to enter the Greek territory in 1940.It forces admiration,it takes a special kind of badass to say the equivalent of “f**k you " to Hitler’s minions at that time of history.
Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck. Famous German general from World War I.From his Wikipedia article:Later, when Hitler offered him the ambassadorship to the Court of St James’s in 1935, he “declined with frigid hauteur."; the suggestion for the nomination as ambassador to the Court of St James had come from retired Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen during a visit to Berlin. During the 1960s, Charles Miller asked the nephew of a Schutztruppe officer, “I understand that von Lettow told Hitler to go f**k himself.” The nephew responded, “That’s right, except that I don’t think he put it that politely.“Very few people lived through telling Hitler that. But he was a decorated, historic officer. He survived, taking no part in the 2nd World War.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_von_Lettow-Vorbeck.
Arlington National Cemetery sits on what used to be Robert E Lee’s estate.
Anthony McAuliffe was the United States Army general who was the acting division commander of the 101st Airborne Division troops defending Bastogne, Belgium, during World War II’s Battle of the Bulge, famous for his single-word reply of “Nuts!” in response to a German surrender ultimatum.
Hannibal crossing the Alps. Rome was not expecting a Carthaginian army to come from that direction especially with elephants. So I guess it’s also the biggest “SURPRISE M**********R” of history as well. Bringing elephants didn’t help much in terms of military might, but it did show Rome that Carthage could deploy it’s most intimidating weapons wherever they damn well pleased.
America taking over a huge chunk of Mexico and then naming one of that states New Mexico.
The Mongols were essentially the Borg of the middle ages. They would show up at your city gates with a massive, stinking army of hardened killers and demand that you surrender, be integrated into the Mongol empire and pay tribute. If you didn’t do this immediately, they would simply k**l every person in the city, relentlessly and brutally. The Mongols actually had quotas for how many people each member of the army was responsible for killing. It’s believed that the Mongol Conquests were responsible for the death of over 5% of the world’s population. If you did join the Mongol empire, they were actually pretty tolerant as far as the Middle Ages go.
Roman Emperor Caligula, reportedly had a favorite saying (Oderint dum metuant), which roughly translates to:“Let them hate me, so long as they fear me.”.
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After 100 years of fighting the Carthaginians for dominance of the Mediterranean, the Romans finally conquered Carthage and then evacuated and enslaved the entire population, burned the city to the ground, and plowed over the fields with salt to ensure that no civilization would ever arise there ever again.
When Australians declared war on rampaging emus and slaughtered thousands of them in trench warfare style.
When Arminius led Varus into the trap at Teutoberg forest in 9 A.D. and defeated three roman legions.
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During the French Revolution, Camille Desmoulins was a journalist who would write news about the revolution. He was also a political activist. He was best friends with Maximilien Robespierre during their. childhood and they continued to be friends in the revolution.Until! Robespierre and the CPS were orchestrating the terror, killing anyone who opposed the revolution, even if it was a minor doubt in it. Desmoulins, a journalist does, wrote a humorous news comic series criticising the terror. Robespierre didn’t like this. He let the first two issues slide, but upon the third issue he was tired of the series and tried to censor it. He told Desmoulins to burn the issue before it was published. Desmoulins refused and quoted a line back at Robespierre about anti-censorship, a line which came from Robespierre’s idol. Robespierre immediately sent his former best friend to the guillotine.That’s not all, though. He also sent Desmoulins' wife Lucille to the guillotine too for absolutely no reason. Upon discovering this, Camille had a mental and physical breakdown just before being put into the cart to the guillotine. He fought his hardest to escape his fate and save his wife and also probably slaughter Robespierre. Regardless, he failed and was executed. Eight days later, his wife followed him.Lucille’s mother even wrote a letter to Robespierre pleading him to save his daughter. It went unanswered.Thankfully for the people of France, Robespierre was overthrown and killed a little less than four months later.
Sultan of the Khwarezmia empire was sent a letter from Genghis Khan . The sultan said s***w that, killed all of the members of the envoy crew, around 400.Genghis Khan flew off the handle. Rallied the troops, stormed the mid-east with 100,000 troops, and raped the Sultan’s entire empire.
Andrew JacksonHe spent his presidency (1829-1837) getting rid of the previous private central bank, The Second Bank of the United States, which he deemed “A den of vipers”, only to have another reappear in 1913 and put his face on its $20 Federal Reserve Note as a poetic “f**k you”.I read this yesterday. Courtesy of /u/leeseer.
By 1853 Japan had been extremely isolated for almost 200 years. US President Millard Fillmore wants to trade with Japan, so he tell’s his favorite seaman, Commodore Matthew C. Perry, to sail to Japan and act like a giant dbag in the harbor until Japan wants to establish relations. (The diplomatic equivalent of a 1 am “Heyyy r u up?” text)Japan opens up and starts getting involved on the world stage, blah blah blah, WWII happens.Almost 100 years later, at the signing of the peace treaty between the US and Japan, guess what particular American flag we decided to have on the USS Missouri? The one Commodore Matthew Perry flew on his ship when he sailed into Japan’s harbors.
I recently listened to a podcast about the Franco Prussian War. The French declared war on Prussia and lost. The Prussians then made their way to Paris and occupied the city for however long. They were underestimated and in victory, took Alsace-Lorraine.
At some point in history during the rivalry of France and Britain, the French wanted a faster route to Asia through water so they agreed to make a canal with Egypt. Egypt owning 51% and they 49%. Well the British caught wind of this and sent their navy over to Egypt and poked fun at how the king was living. That his clothes were commoners wear and that his palace was a dump. So the king then bought all sorts of luxurious things in order to live like a king. That then caused Egypt to go bankrupt. Then the British said “You know, we can give you some money if you just sell us that canal of yours.” The king agreed.TLDR: French build canal w/ Egypt. British want canal. British put Egypt in debt. British buy canal.
President Reagan firing every air traffic controller in the country when they went on strike.
I am too young to see this live, but when Reagan was inaugurated, they did a split screen with the hostages in Iran being freed almost immediately after. It was the biggest f**k you to Carter ever. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_Surprise_conspiracy_theory"One of the leading national issues during that year was the release of 52 Americans being held hostage in Iran since November 4, 1979.[1] Reagan won the election. On the day of his inauguration—in fact, 20 minutes after he concluded his inaugural address—the Islamic Republic of Iran announced the release of the hostages”.
The 2016 U.S Presidental election.
The USSR exploding the Tsar Bomba, which had a blast yield of 57 Megatons. It sent the message of “Screw you” to the West, during some of the most heated years of the Cold War.
During the American Revolution, the French came to the aid of the Americans against the British. If that’s not the biggest European “f**k you” after almost a thousand years of war, I don’t know what else is. “Hey, we’re losing a colony and we have to fight back. Wait, whose that sailing after us?”.
The Germans signing an armistice with France during World War Two. Not only did they single handily beat the French AND British armies, they forced the French to surrender in the same train car that the Germans surrendered World War One in.
Growing up in America being told to go get a college degree to get a good job only to find out that most companies won’t hire someone with just a college degree in there field, instead they hire foreign people with “advanced degrees” (you know, the guys with 3+ master degrees or the guys who just skipped their master and just went for a phd) for cheaper who have the same or less knowledge due to stronger coursework, higher price and more stringent entry requirements in the US.
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