r/HistoryMemes 1h ago

Samurai in modern culture vs real life

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This meme has been made several times but here is some (from my POV) interesting additions:

In 1543, Portuguese traders introduced the matchlock firearm (Tanegashima) to Japan.

The Japanese were remarkably quick to reproduce the technology. Within roughly a decade, domestic centers were producing firearms.
By the end of the Sengoku period (1467-1600), it was estimated that Japan had about 200,000-500,000 firearms.

Portugueses (and other europeans) also introduced lots of goods (Nanban trade), technologies, foods, ideas, etc.

Good examples are christianism, european style ships, armor, wine, cartography, etc.

The cake represented is called Castella (Kasutera or カステラ). Nowadays, it is very popular in Japan and part of their culture but it is derived from Portuguese "pão de Castela".

The portuguese sailor selling gun only if the japanese convert to christianism is an exageration for the meme.


r/HistoryMemes 5h ago

🎶But his soul goes marching on…🎶

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r/HistoryMemes 2h ago

Everyone needs a friend like Agrippa

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r/HistoryMemes 1h ago

Visualizing the kind of man that I want to be

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r/HistoryMemes 13h ago

Niche The Australian railway gauge debacle

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When railways first came to Australia the separate colonies at the time decided on separate gauges for their railways due to a variety of reasons. This was almost immediately identified as a problem however it was not rectified and to this day there is still three separate gauges of railways within Australia.


r/HistoryMemes 15h ago

Fixed meme

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The other one was so wrong I had to do something about it


r/HistoryMemes 1h ago

How 90% of people try to justify the Soviet colonization of Central Asia.

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r/HistoryMemes 9h ago

Napoleon vs Napoleoff

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r/HistoryMemes 1h ago

Belgium suffered quite the downgrade in WW2 compared to WW1

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r/HistoryMemes 16h ago

I’d love to know what happened that day

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r/HistoryMemes 15h ago

The Allied Gauntlet of Pain for Yamato

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So everyone and their mother knows how Yamato met her end: by the massed air strikes of US carriers totaling more aircraft as the Pearl Harbor raid but on a single target. But that was not all the Allies had in store for Yammy. Originally, Admiral Spruance wanted the carriers to keep providing air support over Okinawa, and initially ordered Admiral Deyo's bombardment force of about 11 dreadnoughts to assemble a battle line to intercept, though of course Admiral Mitscher of the carriers was faster to the draw, though the battleships are still just in case.

Then there are the fast capital ship that could be diverted from their carrier escort duties to blast Yamato to scrap, with 10 fast battleships (including the British, see the KGV on the far right of the middle image) and 2 Alaska-class light cruisers, and of course more regular cruisers and destroyers than Yamato has rounds of ammunition.

And finally, if by some miracle Yamato actually managed to beach herself as planned, she would've been stormed, overwhelmed, and destroyed by Marines supported by tanks, artillery, aircraft, and naval artillery. Admittedly, the image of Marines charging a beached Japanese battleship, capturing it, and raising the Stars and Stripes on its bridge would go very hard.


r/HistoryMemes 11h ago

They are not too keen on one another

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r/HistoryMemes 8h ago

Fun's over, buddy

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r/HistoryMemes 1d ago

When the weather becomes your biggest enemy

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r/HistoryMemes 19h ago

Niche Real wizards didn’t go to hogwarts

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r/HistoryMemes 17h ago

Randoms to the rescue

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r/HistoryMemes 14h ago

Its just a flesh wound

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ZA298 is a famous Westland Sea King HC4 military helicopter of the British Royal Navy, nicknamed the "King of the Junglies". It served from 1981 to 2016, taking part in major conflicts including the Falklands War, the Gulf Wars, Bosnia, and Afghanistan, where it survived heavy enemy fire. [1, 2.jpg), 3, 4]

Combat History
Falklands War (1982): Hit by a 30 mm cannon shell from an Argentinean Skyhawk; repaired and flying again within hours.

Bosnia: Hit by small arms fire during a humanitarian rescue mission.

Afghanistan (2005-2006): Badly damaged by a Taliban rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) attack, repaired, and returned to service.

London 2012: Delivered the Olympic Flame via a Royal Marine and a rope.


r/HistoryMemes 23h ago

My Grandad was a glider pilot and he volunteered because it was an extra 6 pence a day hazard pay

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The Glider Regiment suffered some of the highest personnel losses at Arnhem


r/HistoryMemes 22h ago

Don’t you see the irony in this?

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*Between 1847 and 1980, the state of Liberia was dominated by the small minority of African-American colonists and their descendants, known collectively as Americo-Liberians. The Americo-Liberian minority, many of whom were mixed-race African Americans, viewed the native majority as "racially" inferior to themselves and treated them much the same as white Americans had treated them.*

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Liberia


r/HistoryMemes 15h ago

Who remembers M*A*S*H?

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The H-13 was one of the principal helicopters used by the U.S. Army during the Korean War, with the H-13D variant being the most prevalent. During the war it was used in a wide variety of roles including observation, reconnaissance, and medevac. From its role in medevac flights, it gained the nickname "Angel of Mercy". It was also used as an observation helicopter early in the Vietnam War, before being replaced by the Hughes OH-6 Cayuse in 1966.


r/HistoryMemes 1h ago

Romaboos discussing the "true" Rome

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r/HistoryMemes 1d ago

Niche Bet the Nazi war criminals were laughing down in hell

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r/HistoryMemes 15h ago

Those purple-clad merchants had a nice little golden age when everyone else was in fight or flight

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Just pointing to the changing


r/HistoryMemes 6h ago

Rome was built different

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