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Sparta was a lot like North Korea, complete with a secret police. They relied on reputation, used treaty attitude to avoid battle and may have lost more than they won. Xenophon was big into them because he thought Athens could learn from them.

They had leeway for mechanical problems and lost targets but they did ask questions if one pilot from a group came back. There is a record of a pilot executed because he came back NINE times.

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The Romans didn't have much use for cavalry because stirrups hadn't reached Europe yet. They mostly depended instead on mounted non-Roman auxiliaries. In "The Gallic War" (I:42-43), Caesar describes a peace parley with the Germanic king Ariovistus, who insisted both leaders must arrive only with cavalry. (Ariovistus feared an ambush by Roman infantry.) Not fully trusting his Gallic cavalry, Caesar mounted heavily armored legionaries from his favorite infantry unit on horses instead.

Nope. The famine was most definitely caused by the potato blight. It was much worse in Ireland for many reasons, mainly that they had become quite dependent on the potato as their main crop and source of food. It was made a lot worse by government policy, true, but the underlying cause was definitely the blight.

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Does it say Non Je Ne Regrette Rien?

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I think that's rip off his arm and hit him with his own arm.