Is the Spanish Civil War the best Civil War of all time?

English civil War

was pretty interesting

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Spanish Civil War

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Nazi Germany kicked arse

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I'd think the Hundred Years War had that one beat. You had multiple nations claiming legitimacy over a whole country.

The American Civil War beats the shite out of all other civil wars... unless you want to talk about Zanzibar.

Yes. Because Hemingway.

Speaking of Civil wars. I remember reading about the Argentine Civil War which was around the time of the American one if I remember right, Buy the last few battles they lost so many men they start placint dummy's in fake uniforms out in the stupid arse marching rank lines. They also used kids as young as 5-6years old and putting them in uniforms and giving them sticks that looked like rifles to make it look like their army had more soldiers. Crazy

The population in the 1800 wasn't near what is was in the US but the percentage of men that died was crazy. they literally lost a few consecutive generations completely, I'm making this number up but it was something like only 25% of the males lived. That's infusing infants and old old men. So there was almost no breeding population when it was over.

ive always held the opinion that the russian civil war is one of the most interesting developments in human history. it straight up pops up in the middle of fricking ww1 and its result is one of the most important conflict resolutions in human history

but this question is open for interpretation. the american revolutionary war was basically a civil war and that was essentially a world war at its end which is pretty nuts

Taiping Rebellion in China 1850-64

20 million motherfrickers killed!!!



top that bitches

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American pilots have always had a reputation as being something of adventurers. It is hard to find a single war or conflict that American flyers of fortune did not participate in. Volunteer US pilots flew for Pancho Villa. Enough volunteer Americans of all backgrounds flew for the French Air Force in the early stages of World War 1 to form their own squadron, the Lafayette Escadrille. Later, Americans formed the Flying Tigers under the Nationalist Chinese Flag and the Eagle Squadron under the British Jack to fight Japan and Nazi Germany before the US entry into World War 2. A tale often overlooked in history is that of the handful of US pilots who flew for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War. One of these men, Frank Tinker, became an ace.

Frank Tinker

Frank Glasgow Tinker was born July 14, 1909 in the tiny Cajun town of Kaplan, deep in the swamps of Louisiana. At age 25, he joined the US Navy and after a few years won an appointment to the Naval Academy at Annapolis. He graduated from that school as an ensign in 1933 during the height of the Great Depression. Tinker became a floatplane pilot and flew scout missions from cruisers for a few years before being cashiered from the service in 1935. The next year the unemployed pilot presented himself to the Republican forces in Spain and was soon flying bombers for $1500 per month.

Going after a Messerschmidt in a biplane made in the Worker’s Paradise and serviced by questionably trained mechanics…..can you say balls?

Fighter pilot

Tinker, who had only ever flown scout planes and bombers, was reassigned to the 1st Escadrille de Chatos and given a Soviet built Polikarpov I-15 biplane. Alternating between No. 56 and No. 58 planes in the squadron, he shot down four German and Italian aircraft in a three-month period. This brought about his transfer to the Mosca Squadron and reassignment to an I-16 monoplane fighter. In the next three months flying over the lines, he downed another four aircraft. Remarkably these included the first ever victory over a German Condor Legion Messerschmidt BF109. When compared to Tinker’s dumpy I-16 (which Soviet pilots nicknamed “Ishak” –donkey), which had a top speed of 326mph, the Messerschmidt was more than 20% faster.


Death in exile

Tinker soon returned to America after hanging out with Hemingway and published a book, “Some Still Live,” about his flying in Spain in 1938. This brought him some notoriety but also blacklisted him from being able to rejoin the US military. Even though he had shot down eight planes in 6 months of combat (he claimed 11) in Spain, both the Army and Navy refused to allow him to reenlist. While waiting for a position with the Flying Tigers, he died of a self-inflected gunshot wound in a hotel room in Arkansas a month before his 30th birthday.


The inscription on his grave simply says, “Who knows?” in Spanish.

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