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* The violent Indian Freedom Fighters who fought the British were very much this. Although their role in securing Independence was fairly minor, Britain simply didn't have the resources to maintain its empire after [[World War II]], not to mention it had very much lost the High Moral ground to Gandhi. |
* The violent Indian Freedom Fighters who fought the British were very much this. Although their role in securing Independence was fairly minor, Britain simply didn't have the resources to maintain its empire after [[World War II]], not to mention it had very much lost the High Moral ground to Gandhi. |
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* The Calcutta Light Horse were less a ragtag bunch of misfits and more a bunch of expatriate English barflies, but they did manage to infiltrate Portuguese Goa during World War II and destroy an interned German merchant ship passing radio intelligence out of neutral territory. |
* The Calcutta Light Horse were less a ragtag bunch of misfits and more a bunch of expatriate English barflies, but they did manage to infiltrate Portuguese Goa during World War II and destroy an interned German merchant ship passing radio intelligence out of neutral territory. |
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* The Battle of New Orleans shortly after the end of (but still part of) the war of 1812 was basically won by one very good leader ([[Andrew Jackson]]) with a |
* The Battle of New Orleans shortly after the end of (but still part of) the war of 1812 was basically won by one very good leader ([[Andrew Jackson]]) with a force consisting of Regular US Army, Navy and Marines, frontier Militia from Tennessee, Mississippi Light Dragoons, New Orleans Militia including free men of color, Creole pirates of Barataria, and a party of Choctaw Indians |
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* [[Real Life]] sports victory example, [[British Footy Teams|Wimbeldon FC's]] "Crazy Gang," with a reputation for pulling an assortment of practical jokes on each other and their manager as well as for playing [[The Beautiful Game]] with a very unsophisticated and amateurish style, were able to beat the much more skilled Liverpool squad in the 1988 FA Cup Final against all expectations. |
* [[Real Life]] sports victory example, [[British Footy Teams|Wimbeldon FC's]] "Crazy Gang," with a reputation for pulling an assortment of practical jokes on each other and their manager as well as for playing [[The Beautiful Game]] with a very unsophisticated and amateurish style, were able to beat the much more skilled Liverpool squad in the 1988 FA Cup Final against all expectations. |
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* [[Jesus]] and his disciples. They include an anarchist, a tax collector, a traitor, someone who denied even being with him, and two "sons of thunder," i.e. revolutionaries.(Although Jesus is admittedly not your traditional [[The A-Team|Hannibal Smith-type]] to say the least.) |
* [[Jesus]] and his disciples. They include an anarchist, a tax collector, a traitor, someone who denied even being with him, and two "sons of thunder," i.e. revolutionaries.(Although Jesus is admittedly not your traditional [[The A-Team|Hannibal Smith-type]] to say the least.) |
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