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[Kortoso]

Nobody said "groovy!"?

[Landsknecht]

Nobody said "groovy!"?

[deuce]

gents, i think the first two that cross my mind are sir francis richard burton and hugh glass [lord grizzly] -----any others ?---ralph g

John Nicholson (whom REH knew of and admired) would certainly fit the bill:

http://www.azkhan.de...lsonObelisk.htm

[Ironhand]

Goetz Ironhand. You can look him up at Wikipedia at

http://en.wikipedia....on_Berlichingen

[Konorg]

Well in the world of Strength Feats i'd have to say the late Herman Goerner was the strongman version of the Iron Hand from Almuric.

You can check out info on him and his feats of strength at the website Eugen Sandow and the Golden age of Iron Men.



http://www.sandowplu...oernerintro.htm

[keny from prague]

What about this guy?

http://en.wikipedia....no%C5%A1%C3%ADk

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071689/

http://i7.tinypic.com/49j086u.jpg

Slovak highwayman who fought for people's rights, went away in forests and caves, thrashed some wealth asses around. There was a story about him that after they finally captured him and killed him, they also killed all the kids that seems to be extraordinarry strong because they feared of Janosik being reincarnated in strong kids, because this ****er probably was some beast.
The pic below is from some Polish tv series and the guy who played him is Marek Perepeczko. He has some fine Conanish looks, but he died in 2005.

Janosik was a great figure who more should be known about in the western world. However he was probably way more selfless than Conan. he really stuck up for the little guy more than conan did.

[Fierro]

What about this guy?

http://en.wikipedia....no%C5%A1%C3%ADk

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071689/

http://i7.tinypic.com/49j086u.jpg

Slovak highwayman who fought for people's rights, went away in forests and caves, thrashed some wealth asses around. There was a story about him that after they finally captured him and killed him, they also killed all the kids that seems to be extraordinarry strong because they feared of Janosik being reincarnated in strong kids, because this ****er probably was some beast.
The pic below is from some Polish tv series and the guy who played him is Marek Perepeczko. He has some fine Conanish looks, but he died in 2005.

Janosik was a great figure who more should be known about in the western world. However he was probably way more selfless than Conan. he really stuck up for the little guy more than conan did.

Got hung from a butcher's hook, didn't he? Rough stuff.

[Kortoso]

Come on you guys, I can't believe you forgot...


After an attack by a company of Mexican soldiers killed his mother, wife and three children in 1858, Geronimo joined revenge attacks on the Mexicans. During his career as a war chief, he was notorious for consistently urging raids upon Mexican Provinces and their towns, and later against American locations across Arizona, New Mexico and western Texas.

[bubbamakmorn]

Bland Ballard....In 1788, a party of Delaware Indians killed Ballard’s

Portrait of Bland Ballard by Chester Harding, ca. 1820-1830
father, stepmother, two brothers and half-sister, while Ballard was at a nearby fort. Hearing the gunfire, Ballard rushed back to his family’s cabin and reportedly killed six of the attacking Delawares before they retreated. Ballard told historian Lyman C. Draper in 1844 that he had killed thirty or forty Indians during his life, in part to retaliate for the massacre of his family. He certainly gave himself every opportunity. From 1779 when he immigrated to Kentucky through the War of 1812, Ballard served as a scout on no fewer than seven campaigns against the Indians north of the Ohio River, and he fought in numerous skirmishes with Indians raiding in Kentucky. Even when he was in his fifties, Ballard continued his private war against the American Indian, fighting in the Northwest during the War of 1812. Although wounded and captured at the Battle of River Raisin in 1813, Ballard survived the war and returned to Shelbyville, where he died in 1853.
Ballard was a large man for the eighteenth century. Draper described the frontiersman as “six feet, strong, raw boney man weighing upwards of 200

[deuce]

Come on you guys, I can't believe you forgot...


After an attack by a company of Mexican soldiers killed his mother, wife and three children in 1858, Geronimo joined revenge attacks on the Mexicans. During his career as a war chief, he was notorious for consistently urging raids upon Mexican Provinces and their towns, and later against American locations across Arizona, New Mexico and western Texas.

Never forgot. I've got Chiricahua blood on my mom's side. On my dad's side, a cousin of my great-great-grandfather held the bridle of Geronimo's horse for a photo after the grizzled warrior wandered out of Indian Territory. Not 10mi. from where I sit now.

The Benders slaughtered their guests just 5mi north of me.

[Libaax]

Maybe my choice is predictable since he is famous european figure. But i have to be patriotically swede in this with you guys boasting about Indiana Jones, warriors from your areas



Gustavus Adolphus Magnus has been widely known in English by his Latinized name. He was King of Sweden (1611–1632) and founder of the Swedish Empire (or Stormaktstiden – "the era of great power") at the beginning of the Golden Age of Sweden. He led his nation to military supremacy during the Thirty Years War, helping to determine the political as well as the religious balance of power in Europe. He is thereby regarded as one of the greatest military commanders of all time.

Edited by Libaax, 28 January 2012 - 07:55 PM.

[deuce]

Maybe my choice is predictable since he is famous european figure. But i have be patrioticly swede in this with you guys boasting about Indiana Jones, warriors from your areas



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Gustav II Adolf (born 9 December 1594, died 6 November 1632, O.S.) has been widely known in English by his Latinized name He was King of Sweden (1611–1632) and founder of the Swedish Empire (or Stormaktstiden – "the era of great power") at the beginning of the Golden Age of Sweden. He led his nation to military supremacy during the Thirty Years War, helping to determine the political as well as the religious balance of power in Europe. He is thereby regarded as one of the greatest military commanders of all time.

Definite badass. Don't think REH ever mentioned him (never mentioned historical Scandinavians in general). As I like to point out, GA's usual name in Anglophone circles is "Gustavus Aldolphus". A Renaissance monarch ("Late Medieval", by Howardian standards). Sounds close enough to "Amalrus" (or several other ethnically Hyborian names) for me .

[Libaax]

Maybe my choice is predictable since he is famous european figure. But i have be patrioticly swede in this with you guys boasting about Indiana Jones, warriors from your areas



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Gustav II Adolf (born 9 December 1594, died 6 November 1632, O.S.) has been widely known in English by his Latinized name He was King of Sweden (1611–1632) and founder of the Swedish Empire (or Stormaktstiden – "the era of great power") at the beginning of the Golden Age of Sweden. He led his nation to military supremacy during the Thirty Years War, helping to determine the political as well as the religious balance of power in Europe. He is thereby regarded as one of the greatest military commanders of all time.

Definite badass. Don't think REH ever mentioned him (never mentioned historical Scandinavians in general). As I like to point out, GA's usual name in Anglophone circles is "Gustavus Aldolphus". A Renaissance monarch ("Late Medieval", by Howardian standards). Sounds close enough to "Amalrus" (or several other ethnically Hyborian names for me ).

You are too fast for me i edited to Gustavus name few minutes ago

He is the reason little Sweden was powerful enough to own parts Germany,Poland,other parts of northern mainland Europe. I think REH respected those figures like he mentioned Gengis Khan type figure that conquered on military prowess. He was just understandably interested in Nordics when they came up against his gaelic ancestors. His love for barbarian europe, crusade eras made him not focus on later historical periods.

[Landsknecht]

Gustavus Adolfus is a main character in an ongoing fantasy series: http://en.wikipedia....iki/1632_series

My interest in renaissance Holy Roman Empire (Germany) does not make Gustavus Adolfus one of my absolute favorite historical personages.

[PaulMc]

I don't know if he is pure "Howardian", but I stumbled on Charles Martel a few years ago and have been fascinated ever since. (maybe Europeans, and certainly the French or others would have more common knowledge of him but I knew nothing.)

What fascinates me more than anything about his life is the fact that he survived through so many battles, wars and politics and still lived to the ripe old age of 55 in the Dark Ages. That age must have been a rarity in those times.

[Fierro]

Bland Ballard....In 1788, a party of Delaware Indians killed Ballard’s

Portrait of Bland Ballard by Chester Harding, ca. 1820-1830
father, stepmother, two brothers and half-sister, while Ballard was at a nearby fort. Hearing the gunfire, Ballard rushed back to his family’s cabin and reportedly killed six of the attacking Delawares before they retreated. Ballard told historian Lyman C. Draper in 1844 that he had killed thirty or forty Indians during his life, in part to retaliate for the massacre of his family. He certainly gave himself every opportunity. From 1779 when he immigrated to Kentucky through the War of 1812, Ballard served as a scout on no fewer than seven campaigns against the Indians north of the Ohio River, and he fought in numerous skirmishes with Indians raiding in Kentucky. Even when he was in his fifties, Ballard continued his private war against the American Indian, fighting in the Northwest during the War of 1812. Although wounded and captured at the Battle of River Raisin in 1813, Ballard survived the war and returned to Shelbyville, where he died in 1853.
Ballard was a large man for the eighteenth century. Draper described the frontiersman as “six feet, strong, raw boney man weighing upwards of 200

Thanks for dusting off Ballard's name. I'd forgotten him till you mentioned him. Just put up a post at www.frontierpartisans.com. Nothing new — there's not much out there on him other than a couple of references in old, florid books. Good to remember some of the more obscure frontiersmen.

[Morrigan]

My choice would be Arminius, but then I never liked the Romans.

http://bessel.org/armihist.htm

[constantine]

Arminius seems a good choice. I would add Ragnar Lodbrok, Stenka Razin the cossack, Blackbeard, Boudicca and of course, Alexander the Great (no chauvinist suggestion here). He campaigned in many lands, crushed every opponent he faced (and there were far too many), stood as a very capable warrior (and almost always in the thick of the fray), had about two dozen battlescars, rode a formidable black steed, turned Tyre while besieging her from an island fortress to a coastal town, crossed the Jaxartes river despite unfavorable omens and beat the Scythians in the steppes, drank hard, married one of the hottest babes in the (vanquished) Persian empire and became a legend in every sense. Above all, however, he had a roving foot...

[keny from prague]

Maybe my choice is predictable since he is famous european figure. But i have be patrioticly swede in this with you guys boasting about Indiana Jones, warriors from your areas



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Gustav II Adolf (born 9 December 1594, died 6 November 1632, O.S.) has been widely known in English by his Latinized name He was King of Sweden (1611–1632) and founder of the Swedish Empire (or Stormaktstiden – "the era of great power") at the beginning of the Golden Age of Sweden. He led his nation to military supremacy during the Thirty Years War, helping to determine the political as well as the religious balance of power in Europe. He is thereby regarded as one of the greatest military commanders of all time.

Definite badass. Don't think REH ever mentioned him (never mentioned historical Scandinavians in general). As I like to point out, GA's usual name in Anglophone circles is "Gustavus Aldolphus". A Renaissance monarch ("Late Medieval", by Howardian standards). Sounds close enough to "Amalrus" (or several other ethnically Hyborian names for me ).

You are too fast for me i edited to Gustavus name few minutes ago

He is the reason little Sweden was powerful enough to own parts Germany,Poland,other parts of northern mainland Europe. I think REH respected those figures like he mentioned Gengis Khan type figure that conquered on military prowess. He was just understandably interested in Nordics when they came up against his gaelic ancestors. His love for barbarian europe, crusade eras made him not focus on later historical periods.

yeah, Gustavus was a real general. I'd rank him with Charles the 12th as the top Swedish general. Of course down here in Prague he's not too popular. When he ransacked Prague he stole a ton of Czech art treasures. We are still waiting for sweden to give them back. We've asked.

While we are being chavanistic, ill toss in Jan Zizka, the one eyed Hussite general who defeated the cream of "civilized" European chivalry with his "barbarian" peasant army. He also rocked a kick-arse moustache ala Gottfried von Kalambach.

Zizka's dying wish was to have his skin used to make war drums so he could continue to help his troops.

http://en.wikipedia....iki/Jan_Žižka

[deuce]

While we are being chavanistic, ill toss in Jan Zizka, the one eyed Hussite general who defeated the cream of "civilized" European chivalry with his "barbarian" peasant army. He also rocked a kick-arse moustache ala Gottfried von Kalambach.

Zizka's dying wish was to have his skin used to make war drums so he could continue to help his troops.

http://en.wikipedia....%C5%BDi%C5%BEka

Hell yeah! Zizka was a total bad-ass. Here's where I first learnt about him:

http://www.google.co...ved=0CE4QrQMwAg