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True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)
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« on: September 21, 2013, 08:44:54 AM »

I wouldn't call the Battle of Yorktown (1781) the most influential battle in US history.  It wasn't even the most influential battle in that campaign, which was the Battle of the Chesapeake, or of that war, which was the Battle of Saratoga.

Saratoga does have a claim to be the most influential battle in US history, but if one considers only the events that happened during the battle and not the circumstances that preceded it and led to its being fought, then it is hard to argue that the most influential battle in US history was not Seven Pines.
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« Reply #1 on: October 26, 2013, 11:04:58 PM »

Although I can't think of a specific battle name (I think it was a siege of Pavia?) but Pepin the Short's defeat of Aistulph is more influential than given credit for. Without the mutually beneficial alliance between the Papacy and the Carolingians which started there I don't see how Christian Europe emerges in anything like the same way it did after the papacy became safe and a temporal power.

The Battle of Vouillé in 507 under Clovis I was more significant.  Had Clovis either lost, or had not converted to Catholicism from Arianism. it is quite likely that a decentralized Arian church would have become the standard in Western Europe

Not that it matters too much to me, as my Christology tends towards an Adoptionist viewpoint, not that Christology is a major concern of mine.

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« Reply #2 on: June 01, 2021, 12:39:44 AM »

As long as you have something new to contribute, I have no objections to bumps on this board.
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