check out this gem from our history - now don't get offended if you are polish unless your name is golaszewski
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Poland 1930s watches their neighbor building up weapons in violationof
treaty.
So what do they do?
They what polish people do.
Sit back and watch!
It took germany 3 weeks to overrun poland.
Now poland at the time was about as large as germany itself.
You know how long 3 weeks is?
It is the length of time it takes to drive tanks coordinated from one
side of poland to the other.
Another example of great polish foresight and engineering.
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Now here is a guy who tried to take over and they jailed him, but he
got
out and tried to do it again. That guy was incorrigible:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_I_of_France#Hundred_Days
Separated from his wife and son, who had come under Austrian control,
cut off from the allowance guaranteed to him by the Treaty of
Fontainebleau, and aware of rumours he was about to be banished to a
remote island in the Atlantic Ocean, Napoleon escaped from Elba on 26
February 1815. He landed at Golfe-Juan on the French mainland, two
days later.[116] The 5th Regiment was sent to intercept him and made
contact just south of Grenoble on 7 March 1815. Napoleon approached
the regiment alone, dismounted his horse and, when he was within
gunshot range, shouted, "Here I am. Kill your Emperor, if you
wish."[117] The soldiers responded with, "Vive L'Empereur!" and
marched with Napoleon to Paris; Louis XVIII fled. On 13 March, the
powers at the Congress of Vienna declared Napoleon an outlaw and four
days later Great Britain, the Netherlands, Russia, Austria and Prussia
bound themselves to put 150,000 men into the field to end his rule.
[118]
Napoleon arrived in Paris on 20 March and governed for a period now
called the Hundred Days. By the start of June the armed forces
available to him had reached 200,000 and he decided to go on the
offensive to attempt to drive a wedge between the oncoming British and
Prussian armies. The French Army of the North crossed the frontier
into the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, in modern-day Belgium.
[119]
Napoleon's forces fought the allies, led by Wellington and Gebhard
Leberecht von Blücher, at the Battle of Waterloo on 18 June 1815.
Wellington's army withstood repeated attacks by the French and drove
them from the field while the Prussians arrived in force and broke
through Napoleon's right flank. The French army left the battlefield
in disorder, which allowed Coalition forces to enter France and
restore Louis XVIII to the French throne. Off the port of Rochefort,
Charente-Maritime, after consideration of an escape to the United
States, Napoleon formally demanded political asylum from the British
Captain Frederick Maitland on HMS Bellerophon on 15 July 1815