/u/EnclavedMicrostate's posts

Title	Upvotes	Subreddit
Gilbert and Sullivan operettas see a whole lot of people engaged to their wards (that is, people they are the legal guardians of). Was this a common practice in Victorian Britain, or would a typical operagoer of the time have found it weird as well?	92	AskHistorians
During the Thirty Years’ War, a number of Scots fought under Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, yet there doesn’t appear to have been much of an English commitment. Why?	91	AskHistorians
'There died that day...the finest flower of French chivalry.' So wrote Froissart of the Battle of Poitiers in 1356. But what impact did this loss have on French society? Did the 5000 or so knights killed or captured constitute a big enough chunk of the French elite to lead to radical effects?	90	AskHistorians
The Tale of Genji is sometimes said to be the world's first novel, but how much of a splash did it make at the time? How did it influence Japanese literature, and how did it, or its derivatives, impact literature in other parts of Asia?	90	AskHistorians
For all intents and purposes, William of Orange conquered England in 1689 by sailing from the Netherlands with an army. When, how, and why did this become euphemised as the 'Glorious Revolution' by English and British historians?	90	AskHistorians
I saw three rules come sailing in, on Christmas Eve, on Christmas Eve in the morning... Rule changes to question submissions and subreddit recommendations	86	AskHistorians
In West German service, the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter was so accident-prone, with 116 pilots killed and 292 out of 916 aircraft lost, that it became the subject of a British concept album, 'Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters', in 1978. What went so wrong for the Starfighter in Germany?	86	AskHistorians
In 1916, Life Magazine published a map depicting North America if the Central Powers won the Great War, with the US partitioned between Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, and... Japan. Except Japan was an Allied power. What might have led to the map's creators including it among the victors?	83	AskHistorians
AskHistorians Podcast Episode 183: 19th Century Great Power Politics with /u/starwarsnerd222	81	AskHistorians
In the TV episode 'Sharpe's Siege', French Brigadier Calvet, who survived the Russian campaign, speaks disparagingly of Major Ducos, who was in Spain in 1812. Was there actually an internal enmity in the French army from those who had fought in Russia, directed at those who hadn't?	79	AskHistorians

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