If you could act in any historical event...

[Skull]

...which one would you chose?

I would like to take part in Caesar's conquest of Gaul,and in the final siege of Constantinople.

[Jubal]

Siege of Constantinople would be high on my list (as a defender). Just because the Theodosian wall is so freaking epic.

Also the East Anglian Risings of 1549 and the Tyrolean Rising of 1525/6/7 would be in there as possibilities (with the peasants). And Cannae with Hannibal Barca, just to witness probably the most impressive set-piece mauling in the history of warfare.

Outside the world of war, I'd like to have been there when Da Vinci died, so I could make sure his discoveries were not lost for a few centuries (some of his medical advancements weren't re-found until the 1950s, so it's fair to say we could have accelerated technologically a bit faster that way.

[Skull]

Siege of Constantinople would be high on my list (as a defender). Just because the Theodosian wall is so freaking epic.

I would choose to be the defender too. Not because of the walls,but because I really want to stop the greatest tragedy in world history.

Cannae with Hannibal Barca, just to witness probably the most impressive set-piece mauling in the history of warfare.

Outside the world of war, I'd like to have been there when Da Vinci died, so I could make sure his discoveries were not lost for a few centuries (some of his medical advancements weren't re-found until the 1950s, so it's fair to say we could have accelerated technologically a bit faster that way.

LOL,if you did that,Tanks would be used in the middle ages... 

[comrade_general]

I'd like to go back to when the aliens visited.

[Jubal]

Cannae with Hannibal Barca, just to witness probably the most impressive set-piece mauling in the history of warfare.

What's so wrong with Hannibal?

[Silver Wolf]

The gates of Kisle... Oh, wait.

Possibly some of the Crusades. Third or sixth, I guess.
Or the discovery of Americas. But those events were probably full of pillage and rape, and I wouldn't want to be a part of that.

I used to be a lot more enthusiastic about historical events and life in the middle ages.
Now I've learned to appreciate this modern society and judge things from other people's shoes (even though they sometimes stink). But hey, that's why they're called the OTHER PEOPLE'S shoes. They're more or less expected to stink.
Meh, I guess I grew up.

[comrade_general]

pillage and rape, and I would want t be a part of that.

Meh, I guess I grew up.

Sorry, I notice things like that.

[Silver Wolf]

Hahaha.
Edited. What can I say.

Laptop touchpads are misleading and letter eating spawns of satan.

[Jubal]

Since this is really an interesting historical natter thread, moved to the Great Library.

[Phoenixguard09]

Hmmmm, Constantinople would be a good one...

Now a follow-on question... Historical events that you would be present for that you would try to change the outcome.

And how would you do it?

[Lady Grey]

Possibly the Suffrage Movement.

Back to the days when it took fair talent to be a musician/actor/actress. *sigh*

If also love to see late Georgian/Early Victorian Britain.

[Jubal]

Hm, that period would be interesting. I'd probably skip either of the wars though, getting shot in a trench is not on my priority list somehow.

[Lady Grey]

Yeah, wartime years are probably one to avoid... I suppose it's not so bad for women though. It'd actually be interesting during that time (WWII) to be one of the women who spied on planes in Britain.

[Gen_Glory]

Be an observer in the enola gay.... Just to see it, I mean it was horrific and all but its still an important point in (fairly) recent history

Be one of the guys with a sledgehammer in at the fall of the Berlin wall

One of the 300 spartans

Defender in the Great sieges of Malta and Gibraltar

Nuremburg rally would be cool to see

EDIT: I forgot to specify the wall...

[Jubal]

Manzikert probably a good addition to my list, and Gniezno in 1000 AD because the Poles and Germans have been arguing about what happened there ever since and I'd like to know who was right.