Post a Hero of your Country.

[Peyrol]

I start with this two.

Giuseppe Garibaldi, "l'eroe dei Due Mondi" (the hero of Two Worlds")

He fought for the independence of Santa Catarina and Paranà from Brazil, for the secession of Uruguay from the Rioplatense Confederation, and finally for the Unification of Italy and in the USA Civil War.








Generale Armando Diaz, he led to victory the Italian armies in the Battle of Vittorio Veneto against the Austro-Hungarians in 1918.

[Lábaru]

Don Pelayo (Pelagius)



Pelagius (Spanish: Pelayo; c. 685 – 737) was a nobleman who founded the Kingdom of Asturias, ruling it from 718 until his death. Through his victory at the Battle of Covadonga, he is credited with beginning the Reconquista, the Christian reconquest of the Iberian peninsula from the Moors, insofar as he established an independent Christian state in opposition to Moorish hegemony, but there is no strong evidence that he either intended to resuscitate the old Visigothic Kingdom or was motivated by any religious desire.

"And he [Pelagius], going to his mountainous lands, gathered all those who were going to council and ascended a big mountain named Assevva. He spread his orders between all the Astures, who gathered in council and elected Pelagius as their princeps.
Chronica Rotensis"



His kingdom, firstly centred on the eastern Asturias, soon grew. He married his daughter Ermesinda to his eastern neighbour, Peter of Cantabria. Pelagius reigned for eighteen or nineteen years until his death in 737.

Later I'll post a few more Spanish heroes.

[alzo zero]

I know that if I post this guy Tribuno and Veleda will call me a leghista...

[Peyrol]

I know that if I post this guy Tribuno and Veleda will call me a leghista...

My favourite "padanian hero" is the "Venture Capitain" Bartolomeo Colleoni, a bergamask soldier who fought for the republic of Venezia.

[Wanderlust]

Ioannis Kapodistrias
Greek diplomat of the Russian Empire,first head of state of independent Greece.

[alzo zero]

My favourite "padanian hero" is the "Venture Capitain" Bartolomeo Colleoni, a bergamask soldier who fought for the republic of Venezia.

That's precisely the issue I have with him: he was a bergamasco.

[Groenewolf]

Jan van Speyk

Rather then letting his ship fall into enemy hands he blew it up, along with himself. Because of this it was decided by Royal degree that there would always be a ship in the navy carrying his name.

[Oreka Bailoak]

George Washington- farmer, soldier, general, politician, president.

[Ushtari]

George Kastrioti Skanderbeg (6 May 1405 – 17 January 1468), widely known as Skanderbeg (Albanian: Gjergj Kastrioti Skënderbeu, Latin: Georgius Castriotus Scanderbegh, Turkish: İskender Bey, meaning "Lord Alexander", or "Leader Alexander") was a 15th-century Albanian lord[D], who as leader of the federation of the League of Lezhë defended the region of Albania against the Ottoman Empire for more than two decades. Skanderbeg's military skills presented a major obstacle to Ottoman expansion, and he was considered by many in western Europe to be a model of Christian resistance against the Ottoman Muslims. Skanderbeg is Albania's most important national hero and a core figure of the Albanian National Awakening.

[Svanhild]

Hermann. Defeater of the Roman legions in Teutoburg Forest.



Friedrich I. Barbarossa



Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg, co-leader of the troops defending Vienna against the Ottomans 1663.



Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher. Victoriuous with his Prussian army against Napoleon near Waterloo.




Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow, leader of the famous Lützowisches Freikorps.



Otto von Bismark




General von Ludendorff



Erwin Rommel