Your favorite(s) Badass from History.

[Korten12]

Basicaly, what person(s) did you think was the most badass from the past?

[HEADING=1]The person has to be real[/HEADING]

Myn are Jack Churchill - as some have introduced to me in another topic:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Churchill

Seriously, anyone who goes into a war, using a longbow and a claymore, is instantly awesome.

And Teddy Roosevelt.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teddy_Roosevelt

Fought in the Cuban War, was a shrief in Dakota who actually got outlaws, president, South American Expidention, attempted assassination and lived...

 

[Garrsus]

i think like you said jack churchill but... wait so do they have to be real or can they be imaginary past people?

 

[massaffect123]

Peter the Great- midget collecting
Yakov Pavlov- for holding off the Nazis at Stalingrad
Simo Häyhä- for being the Goddamned White Death
Oh, and Girabaldi- he led his band of Red Shirt partisans around Southern Italy beating the shit out of everyone, helping to unify the country.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

Teddy Roosevelt.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teddy_Roosevelt

Death took Roosevelt in his sleep. If it had tried to take him at any other time, there would have been a fight (one which Death would have likely lost, Dante's Inferno style)

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Ramses II
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramses_II
An early troll, Ramses II would go to temples constructed by earlier Pharaohs, scratch out their names and carve in his own. He also commissioned hundreds of busts and statues of himself. He built large walls around the borders of his empire, many of which went unscaled for centuries as well. There were also rumors about Ramses cutting off the right hands and penises of the people warriors whom he defeated in combat, massing them in town centers and setting them ablaze.

Andrew Jackson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Jackson
Andrew Jackson was the first President to have been targeted by an Assassin. The attempt went poorly for Richard Lawrence who had the jump on Jackson. Both of his pistols misfired (after being inspected, the pistols were shown to be in perfect working order). Jackson beat Lawrence with his cane nearly to death.

 

[Zaik]

http://encyclopediadramatica.com/William_Tecumseh_Sherman

He pretty much invented the concept of slapping the entire chess board off the table if you can't win fair, on a military strategy level.

 

[Jazzyjazz2323]

Andrew Jackson extreme racism aside
Napoleon
Niccolo Machiavelli
Niccolo Paganini(The greatest musician to ever live)
Joachim Murat the epitome of dashing french men
Patton
Rommel
Tchaikovsky another musical badass
Saladin"Oh you want to take Jerusalem,well fuck you Europe I'll take you all on."
Pope Urban the second-A man who single handedly caused almost 400 years of war over one fucking city.

 

[Samwise137]

Fridtjof Nansen. Who can deny a mustache like that:

 

[countrysteaksauce]

Timur (Tamerlame)
Not only was he related to Genghis Khan but he also carved out a respectable empire that managed to subjugate the Indians, Turks, Arabs, and Persians. He even made the Indian elephants bow to him. Upon reaching Baghdad, the orders were for every soldier to bring back two heads. He managed to inflict about 17 million casualties in total.

 

[GundamSentinel]

Bruce Lee. He actually beat Chuck Norris. What? He's from the past, right?

 

[Jonluw]

I do love the story of Simo Hayha. [http://www.cracked.com/article_17019_5-real-life-soldiers-who-make-rambo-look-like-pussy.html]
That's pretty fucking badass.

 

[ScipioAmericanus]

Simo Häyhä- for being the Goddamned White Death

I do love the story of Simo Hayha. [http://www.cracked.com/article_17019_5-real-life-soldiers-who-make-rambo-look-like-pussy.html]
That's pretty fucking badass.

This, times a million. Only 5'3", never used a scope, offed 505 Russians, and had his jaw shot off on basically the last day of the war. The whole Winter War affair is very inspiring for the whole root for the underdog.

A vote for Erich Hartmann, don't think anyone will ever come anywhere close to his tally of 352 aerial kills. (Honourable mention to Hans Joachim Marseille for having the best kills-to-sorties ratio.)

EDIT:

Joachim Murat the epitome of dashing french men

I don't know, but for some reason, whenever I think of Joachim Murat, he annoys the living daylights out of me (maybe it was his time as King of Naples). If you want dashing: Antoine Charles Louis de Lasalle, epitome of what a hussar was like (captured 10000 defenders at the Siege of Stettin without firing a shot while only commanding something like 500 light cavalry, sneaky bastard!) Anyways, I prefer Ney every time over Murat (but weird name for a Frenchman 'Joachim'?!)

 

[Duffeknol]

Fridtjof Nansen. Who can deny a mustache like that:

And he won the Nobel Peace Prize. I have to wonder: did he glare at a group on indigenous people and make them stop quarreling?[/QUOTE]

Haha, someone's been on badassoftheweek.

 

[GuitarSlingingManiac]

Samuel L Jackson. Argument over.

 

[Kenko]

Simo Häyhä and every Finnish person who kept the russian hordes out of Scandinavia with little help from a country that for some stupid reason didnt help them out openly, namley Sweden who appearantly thought that the russians would stop in Finland for some reason.

And my great grandfather Helge for participating in the Finnish Winter War as a volunteer soldier.

And the Swedish SS dudes who with only a handfull of guys held away 10k+ russian communists.

 

[DuctTapeJedi]

Harriet Tubman was always my hero as a kid. She saved three hundred people, guiding huge groups (many of which were children) at a time over hundreds of miles while being chased by dogs, slave hunters, and all sorts of other scary things, and never lost a single person.

Also, she did all of this while suffering brain damage. She'd been hit in the head with an iron pan as a kid, and suffered narcolepsy her entire adult life.

...She was a wanted 'criminal' who would pass out at random intervals... And they still never found her...

 

[Korten12]

I do love the story of Simo Hayha. [http://www.cracked.com/article_17019_5-real-life-soldiers-who-make-rambo-look-like-pussy.html]
That's pretty fucking badass.

Yeah, he was awesome aswell.

 

[wolfy098]

Harriet Tubman was always my hero as a kid. She saved three hundred people, guiding huge groups (many of which were children) at a time over hundreds of miles while being chased by dogs, slave hunters, and all sorts of other scary things, and never lost a single person.

Also, she did all of this while suffering brain damage. She'd been hit in the head with an iron pan as a kid, and suffered narcolepsy her entire adult life.

...She was a wanted 'criminal' who would pass out at random intervals... And they still never found her...

what... Excluding the last line that is totally awesome.

PS. It's not hard to escape the authorities when that many people owe you their lives.