Who is your historical hero?

[jakarta]

Air Chief Marshall Hugh Caswell Tremenheere Dowding - without him we might well be conducting this thread in German...

 

[Fitzcarraldo]

Manuel Azana ¡Viva la República!

 

[Norman Potting]

Air Chief Marshall Hugh Caswell Tremenheere Dowding - without him we might well be conducting this thread in German...

I raise you Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Rodney Park GCB, KBE, MC & Bar, DFC, RAF

“

If any one man won the Battle of Britain, he did. I do not believe it is realised how much that one man, with his leadership, his calm judgement and his skill, did to save, not only this country, but the world.

”

 

[The Rivet]

Queen Elizabeth 1, without whom we might be speaking spanish.

 

[maltaseagull]

Nelson

Yep him.

 

[jakarta]

I raise you Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Rodney Park GCB, KBE, MC & Bar, DFC, RAF

“

If any one man won the Battle of Britain, he did. I do not believe it is realised how much that one man, with his leadership, his calm judgement and his skill, did to save, not only this country, but the world.

”

A good shout but Keith Park would be my second historical hero of the Battle in as much as he enacted the Dowding Air Defence System correctly as C-in-C of 11 Group. Hugh Dowding spent the 1930's fighting for 8 gun fighter monoplanes for Fighter Command and Ground Controlled Interception using Radar against huge resistance from those in power at the time both in Goverment and the Air Ministry (the prevailing view being that Air Defence was useless as the Bomber Would Always Get Through)

 

[Norman Potting]

A good shout but Keith Park would be my second historical hero of the Battle in as much as he enacted the Dowding Air Defence System correctly as C-in-C of 11 Group. Hugh Dowding spent the 1930's fighting for 8 gun fighter monoplanes for Fighter Command and Ground Controlled Interception using Radar against huge resistance from those in power at the time both in Goverment and the Air Ministry (the prevailing view being that Air Defence was useless as the Bomber Would Always Get Through)

..Would you allow me Air Vice Marshall Ralph Sorley?

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

Captain Mainwaring

 

[Don Quixote]

How people can think Ghandi is a hero is ridiculous. He may have 'freed' his Country but for what? Poverty and Corruption? India was much better off under British Imperialism.

I think they'd rather be free than be run by a foreign power.

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

Lord Flasheart

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

Caligula, he knew how to party.

 

[BUTTERBALL]

Glenn Murray

 

[jakarta]

..Would you allow me Air Vice Marshall Ralph Sorley?

That would be '8 machine guns and copious amounts of sherry' Air Vice Marshall Ralph Sorley?

I am beginning to suspect we both have the same BoB book as our inspiration?

 

[Norman Potting]

That would be '8 machine guns and copious amounts of sherry' Air Vice Marshall Ralph Sorley?

I am beginning to suspect we both have the same BoB book as our inspiration?

"The Most Dangerous Enemy" - great telling of the BoB story.

 

[red star portslade]

Sammy or Garry?

no....

 

[drew]

Lord Voldemort

Someone has already taken a Harry Potter character, Arther Weasley (oh, on re reading that appears to be Wellesley, didn't he do something with Abba?)

 

[aberllefenni]

Tom Paine and Owain Glyndwr. Not necessarily in that order.

 

[u'vebeenamexed]

Hard to look beyond Sir Winston in my opinion.

Is the correct answer. As recently proven in a nationwide survey.

 

[Poyetry In Motion]

So many to choose from....but, It has to be Winston Churchill. A strong leader and fantastic wit to boot

 

[Brighton Breezy]

Eric Arthur Blair and Aussie athlete Peter Norman. Not heroes as such but both are people I admire greatly.