Who is your country's George Washington? Your GW should have the following characteristics.
>Be of historical importance in the establishment of your country, either at it's inception or in it's current form >Be near universally respected (only the edgiest of fucks have negative things to say about this person) >Almost any/every citizen of your country knows who this person is, knows basic facts about them.
BONUS: >Is featured on your currency somewhere >Has achieved near mythical status regarding legends or commonly repeated stories
>Be near universally respected (only the edgiest of fucks have negative things to say about this person) >Has achieved near mythical status regarding legends or commonly repeated stories
Well, these things don't really apply. He is mystified in the sense that he is regarded as the pure embodiment of Realpolitik, Machiavellianism and power politics.
He is considered to be an opportunist cunt and controversial figure by most.
Zachary Cruz
Wtf I hate g*rmans now.
Joshua Bell
Holy shit this poor guy. I just skimmed his Bio. He's a reluctant servant monarch and emperor, doesn't want to rule but understands that he must, uses everything he has to make Brazil a bastion of freedom, independence, security, and what not AND THEN his reward is a couple edgy military faggots oust him cause they feel like it, with little to no support, and he dies in exile.
What a tragedy.
Levi Martinez
Lost more battles than won. Incompetent bumbling dilettante set up as the fall guy should things go south but became a figurehead after the French came to the rescue.
Andrew Parker
How dare you compare these people to George Washington? I've never heard if any of them.
Thomas Taylor
>never heard of Otto von Bismarck
You are a fucking imbecile.
Christian Moore
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Eli Nguyen
How about you post his fucking name next time then, faggot?
Jace Young
I don't need to because everyone who doesn't border historical illiteracy can recognize this image.
Samuel Morgan
Gamal Abd El Nasser Although I hate that faggot , he's GW of MENA
Alexander Miller
>thinking German history is relevant anywhere in the world I bet most Germans wouldn't even recognize that image, being as unpatriotic as they are.
Camden Collins
Stop
Lincoln Wilson
He was fine with being exiled. He didn't want to rule but was too prideful to just drop it. The coup gave him the the opportunity to leave honorably.
Gavin Parker
This one, by far, except that this point >Has achieved near mythical status regarding legends or commonly repeated stories Goes to Manuel Rodriguez
Carson Walker
We don't have demigods but he comes close
Aiden Wright
There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
Alexander King
this
David Foster
Europe today is a powder keg and the leaders are like men smoking in an arsenal … A single spark will set off an explosion that will consume us all … I cannot tell you when that explosion will occur, but I can tell you where … Some damned foolish thing in the Balkans will set it off.
"The greatest political fact of modern times is the inherited and permanent fact that North America speaks English."
Angel Flores
John A. Macdonald is the closest thing Canada has to a George Washington
Leo Thomas
Did he burn down the White House?
Andrew Anderson
He was the one that caused the Suez Canal Crisis and basically stunted on the UK?
Brayden Rivera
>Be of historical importance in the establishment of your country, either at it's inception or in it's current form He was the son of a nobleman executed in the stockholm bloodbath, he lead the final rebellion against the kalmar union and was elected king, carried out the protestant reformation, his reforms practically rebuilt the country from scratch, and made us rich and strong again after having picked up a country ravaged by war and in massive debt. >Be near universally respected (only the edgiest of fucks have negative things to say about this person) He was very ruthless in his methods (murdering aristocrats he suspected of plotting against him or in order to gain their lands, seizing church property, raising tax, brutally stomping out rebellions) but the country was better off in the end for it. From the 1800s forward to pretty recently he has been idolized as a kind hearted uncle type, but as the romanticism wears off we can see he wasn't quite that. Still the things he did was for good in the end and pretty much everyone has good things to say about him. >Almost any/every citizen of your country knows who this person is, knows basic facts about them. Yep. He is called the father of the nation. >BONUS: >Is featured on your currency somewhere He used to be featured on the 1000 kronor bills. >Has achieved near mythical status regarding legends or commonly repeated stories Yep. A heapload of tales about his adventures fleeing from pursuing danes prior to the rebellions beginning and skiing about the countryside trying to raise the national spirit of the peasants exist. There is one famous one where he is hiding from the danes disguised as a peasant in a farmers house. Some danish soldiers come and knock on the door looking for him and in order to keep his disguise seeming realistic the farmers wife beats him and treats him like shit.
Camden Rodriguez
>Not posting pic related
Jonathan Martin
>skiing about the countryside trying to raise the national spirit of the peasants
Beautiful image.
>disguised as a peasant in a farmers house. Some danish soldiers come and knock on the door looking for him and in order to keep his disguise seeming realistic the farmers wife beats him and treats him like shit.
Even more beautiful image
Jace Mitchell
Not posting pic related?
Isaac Hernandez
Either De Gaulle or Napoleon, although I don't know/care if foreigners like them, they're great period.
Parker Thompson
He's making a joke. Your flag looks like the Texas State Flag. Sam Houston is an important historical figure in texas.
Elijah Rivera
We have a few.
Logan Edwards
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John Morgan
Niklas Teslaström, inventor of the electrical meatball and fermented herring induced electrolysis
Jackson Long
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David Hill
Arguably, her too. She was more of a symbol, but what a symbol.
Oliver Johnson
I'd fuck Joan of Arc, desu. Her pussy must smell like glory.
Charles Anderson
We have Lenin.
Nolan Jones
Im curious, who is it really? Since the Soviets all got the in damnatio memoraie treatment, who's the Russian national hero. Historically Alexander? Who's the father of the federation, even with as new as it is?
James Harris
I'm not even willing to blame this the education system. You are just retarded
Jason Murphy
>Rebelled against his mother to win the country's independence >Removed some Castillians who were mad about that >After that, removed Moors until his death >His line continued his work
Pretty much everyone knows this guy, since he's regarded as the nation's founder. I've never heard anyone talk shit about him. He also has a bunch of stories about him, like being able to hold a longsword that took many men to lift, or constantly challenging other monarchs to single combat, which they always refused in fear of him.
Jack Cruz
All that national hero theme is really controversial, so there is a lot of different opinions. Lenin, Stalin, Peter the Great etc
Lucas Williams
Don't lewd the saint, you monster.
Jacob Moore
>constantly challenging other monarchs to single combat Fucking based.
Logan Nguyen
Literally "fite me irl" the Monarch
Anthony Foster
>Be of historical importance in the establishment of your country, either at it's inception or in it's current form >Be near universally respected (only the edgiest of fucks have negative things to say about this person) >Almost any/every citizen of your country knows who this person is, knows basic facts about them. >Is featured on your currency somewhere >Has achieved near mythical status regarding legends or commonly repeated stories
San Martin
>Crossed the Andes with an army >Myth: It is said to be half indian but to was adopted by a patrician family. It is to be seen though
Blake Myers
Napoléon I
Matthew Flores
Jesus christ End your life
Tyler Hall
I get to claim this too :^^^^^)
Nathan Nguyen
never.
Zachary Carter
>Since the Soviets all got the in damnatio memoraie treatment Government flip flops on this, considering that they are successor of USSR if they condemn it too much it would hurt their legitimacy too. There is noticeable divide though.
This guy, he was the first president in America to legalize women vote and one of the first in secularize the gov, he also made economic reforms that made uruguay a first world country at the time, under his rule, the PIB per cápita increased 84% and alfabetization rates became 98%, he also made a good relationship with Europe
Liam Martinez
He isn't wrong though, Washington is only "universally respected" because the Continental Congress built a quasi cult of personality around him. He was a great politician, but a terrible general.
Jacob Moore
That'd be Guadalupe Victoria.
>War of Independence General and first president of Mexico >Served through his whole 6 years tenure (extremely rare in post-Independent Latin America as a whole) >Not power hungry, left when his tenure was over
Bonus myth >His actual name was José Miguel Ramón Adaucto Fernández y Félix, but he took on / was called "Guadalupe Victoria" (Our Lady of Guadalupe's Victory) to revere the triumph of Mexican independence helped by God though Mother Mary in her mexican variant (Guadalupe).
Samuel Brown
not him but seriously, don't do that
Ryder Nguyen
>Be of historical importance in the establishment of your country, either at it's inception or in it's current form harald fairhair is considered to be the first king of norway. his father, halfdan the black, also tried to unify the country but he died before that happened. harald then went on to subjugate all of the norwegian petty kings >Be near universally respected (only the edgiest of fucks have negative things to say about this person) just about anyone have heard of him and ive never heard anyone talk shit about him >Almost any/every citizen of your country knows who this person is, knows basic facts about them. most know he was our first king, and some know the romantic tale of how he became known as "fairhair" >Is featured on your currency somewhere we don't really know what he looked like so no >Has achieved near mythical status regarding legends or commonly repeated stories the story of him falling in love with a woman who refused to marry him unless he became king of all norway. he then vowed to never touch his hair until he had reached this goal. at this point, he was known as harald tangledhair. he at last married this woman and his friend, the jarl of more, cut his hair and declared him to be harald fairhair. it's also said this jarl was the father of rollo and therefore a direct ancestor of william the conqueror. it's also said that harald was raised in the mountains by odin himself