Illustration of Roman officers observing their legion (lemmy.world)
Illustration of the Battle of Sphacteria between Athens and Sparta (lemmy.world)
The Sacred Band of Thebes, a unit of all male-male lovers, leads the charge to rout the Spartan army, Battle of Leuctra, 371 BCE (lemmy.world)
Pelopidas being saved in combat - Pelopidas would later go on to lead the Sacred Band of Thebes, a military unit of all male-couples (lemmy.world)
Ancient Romans performing rituals to Juno, goddess of the family (lemmy.world)
Portrait of Frederick the Great of Prussia, widely accepted by scholarship as having been gay (lemmy.world)
Two women waltzing at the Moulin Rouge, France, 1892 (lemmy.world)
Off to Commit the First Act of Submersible Warfare on the Brits (1775) (lemmy.world)
Turtle (also called American Turtle) was the world’s first submersible vessel with a documented record of use in combat. It was built in 1775 by American David Bushnell as a means of attaching explosive charges to ships in a harbor, for use against the Royal Navy during the American Revolutionary War.