Greatest last stands in history for a worthy cause

[kenski1]

The questions is in the title, in your view which one do you think is the greatest last stand in history (for a good cause doesnt have to be but would be better if it was)  .
heres mine:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBAvVBVGkSE

This is the greatest last stand in my view, although not all died like many other last stands, i dont think that in any last stand all the combantants have laid down their lives, but i think the last stand at imijin river has to be the greatest show of courage, bravery and sacrifice for a good cause i have ever seen (makes you proud to be British and shows the why the British armed forces are known as the best in the world), what they feel they fought for is at the end of the video. 

shame the first battalion the Gloucesters are melded now  no one to carry on the name of this most reveared of regiments

although i must say i dont know why we got involved in this war but atleast it gave freedom to the south of korea

[Doom Bunny]

If it doesnt have to end badly, then Rorkes Drift is always a good one.

The Fallschirmjager at Cassino fought pretty much to the end. Very few survivors out of that mob.

[Sir Hitson Winsler]

Battle of Mirbat

[Fooshie]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Camar%C3%B3n

I'm sorry, Britain, did you say something about last stands?

[Sir Hitson Winsler]

Mexicans

[Fooshie]

A well trained, well disciplined army of professionals as opposed to Omanese untrained peasants or spear wielding Africans.

[Rahn]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_for_Hill_3234

Not exactly a last stand, but oh well.

[ancalimon]

for me that's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallipoli_Campaign

Knowing the condition of the Ottoman army.


Tsarist Russia collapsed after this war.

Also Ottoman Empire and  English Empire ended after this war.

There are also weird things that happened during the war.

1-) Seyit Ali carried a 257 kilogram shell and loaded it into the artillery which he fired. The bullet entered from the chimney of the ship Ocean and the ship was torn in two and sank. He also shot the ship Queen Elizabeth.

2-) A group of pinned down Turkish soldiers disappeared in a "fast cloud"

3-) A group of Anzacs disappeared in a "fast cloud".

[Mr. Chubbikins]

Battle of Karbala and Fall of Constantinople

[Gumpy]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_for_Hill_3234

Not exactly a last stand, but oh well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_for_Height_776

[Sir Hitson Winsler]

words

The British Empire didn't end after WW1...

[Dogukan]

for me that's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallipoli_Campaign

Knowing the condition of the Ottoman army.


Tsarist Russia collapsed after this war.

Also Ottoman Empire and  English Empire ended after this war.

There are also weird things that happened during the war.

1-) Seyit Ali carried a 257 kilogram shell and loaded it into the artillery which he fired. The bullet entered from the chimney of the ship Ocean and the ship was torn in two and sank. He also shot the ship Queen Elizabeth.

2-) A group of pinned down Turkish soldiers disappeared in a "fast cloud"

3-) A group of Anzacs disappeared in a "fast cloud".

what part of last stand did you not understand?
How is a year long campaign a last stand?

Also, no one dissapeared in clouds, nor did old wiseguys with long beards appeared.

[Tiberius Decimus Maximus]

Both battles of Sevastopol. Epic stuff on both counts, hella fine artillery on the second one though. Schwerer Gustav luv. <3

[Captured Joe]

The Romanian "Gen. Lascar" group at the battle of Stalingrad

[Lord Tim]

Yay for Stalingrad as well:

More specifically the 14th of September 1942 --> Part of the struggle for Mamaev Kurgan.

The 13th Guards Rifle Division stormed the hill with all the ten thousand men they had.
Only between 280 and 320 of them survived. By the end of the day, they had taken the hill top from multiple German divisions.

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 I suppose that the battle of Isengard wouldn't count?