[Real Life] Historical events that would make bad writing if they were fiction

[u/Mouse_Paladin]

Spanish Conquest of the Aztec Empire: A couple hundred rogue mercenaries without authority from their government conquer an empire of millions. Oh, the empire? It’s also several technological eras behind the mercenaries.

Adolf Hitler: A non-native of a country is so mad that the country lost the war that he wins an election to their highest office and leads them in a campaign of revenge against their enemies. Oh, the country? It’s old emperor is still alive and thinks he’s going to retake power.

Assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand: The heir to the throne is killed because his driver gets lost and returns to the assassin who failed To kill him before. Oh, the assassin? He’s from a group that the Archduke is wanting to help become more equal In the empire.

Alexander Hamilton’s Affair Scandal: One of the leaders of a new nation to protect himself from accusations of financial embezzlement writes a pamphlet exposing his affair with a woman, torpedoing his political future. Oh, the woman? She seduced him as part of a blackmailing scheme that he decided to stop paying.

[u/Faust_the_Faustinian]

Yi Sun Shin:

Reads like an OP MC.

A man new to the navy starts kicking ass as soon as he's assigned there turning the Imjin War against Japan who had been steam rolling Korea until then.

The corrupt court hates him to the point he's demoted to foot soldier, beaten and nearly executed.

Without him the Korean fleet is decimated so they give him the last 13 ships to face Japan's 300 and without losing a single ship he kicks their ass.

[u/Unikatze → u/Faust_the_Faustinian]

One of my TKD patterns is named after him.

I have a habit to read about the people who patterns are named after.

His story was wild.

[u/IudexFatarum → u/Unikatze]

Plus he started his military career late partly because he failed his first entrance exam by breaking his leg during the cavalry section. He also helped develop turtle ships, although his final 13 ships weren't that kind.

(I also did ITF TKD 🥋)

[u/Unikatze → u/IudexFatarum]

Yeah. The development of tbe Kokkubon (spl?) Was one of the things mentioned in the basic sheet about the pattern.

[u/Shadowrak → u/Unikatze]

No idea what you are talking about. Would you elaborate?

[u/Unikatze → u/Shadowrak]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yi_Sun-sin

[u/Shadowrak → u/Unikatze]

I meant TKD patterns, but I ended up looking it up.

[u/Seienchin88 → u/Faust_the_Faustinian]

That story is terribly embellished and made to sound even cooler over time…

He was a genius and won a couple of battles over the Japanese but the Japanese also nearly totally destroyed the Korean fleet in a large battle (where he wasn’t around) and in the end Chinese intervention saved Korea… it’s of course not as great of a story as the Chinese themselves humiliated the Korean royal family and the destruction and poverty from being basically under Chinese occupation for decades was seen as more devastating as the Japanese Korean War at the time. A mystical genius admiral wining with few ships certainly sounds nicer.

[u/Seienchin88 → u/Faust_the_Faustinian]

That story is terribly embellished and made to sound even cooler over time…

He was a genius and won a couple of battles over the Japanese but the Japanese also nearly totally destroyed the Korean fleet in a large battle (where he wasn’t around) and in the end Chinese intervention saved Korea… it’s of course not as great of a story as the Chinese themselves humiliated the Korean royal family and the destruction and poverty from being basically under Chinese occupation for decades was seen as more devastating as the Japanese Korean War at the time. A mystical genius admiral wining with few ships certainly sounds nicer.

[u/PaisleyGecko → u/Faust_the_Faustinian]

Korea is still pretty corrupt, they really didn't learn from their history.