Great Deceptions in Military History

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Beowulf is an epic poem in the Norse tradition of heroic mythology, where the protagonist defeats a swamp monster Grendel before reigning as king.

The Knights Templar was a protective order in France that established a dominant network of banks, allowing Christian pilgrims to access their money. The order spread throughout Europe, but was eventually dissolved by King Philip.

The Tiananmen Square Massacre of June 4th, 1989, saw some 300,000 Chinese troops descend on Beijing, murdering protestors, bystanders and students sleeping in their tents.

Rising temperatures after the last Ice Age led a once barren landscape to flourish with life. The great plains people followed an estimated 30 million buffalo into the region, practiced ceremonial dance and created languages for cross-tribe communication.

In response to his objections to the Catholic Church’s practice of selling indulgences, Martin Luther wrote his 95 theses which led Pope Leo to condemn Luther as a heretic and ultimately the Protestant Reformation.

The Iran-Contra Affair was a 1980s military-industrial complex scandal where Reagan gave tacit approval to his security council to finance the Contras of Nicaragua by over-charing Iran for weapons.

As Ukraine regained its nationalistic identity in the wake of the Bolshevik Revolution, Stalin’s Holodomor Genocide, a forced famine, was intended to break their spirit of independence from Russia.