🇭🇺 The Siege of Eger, painting by Bertalan Székely. In 1552, the forces of the Ottoman Empire led by Kara Ahmed Pasha laid siege to the Castle of Eger, located in the northern part of the Kingdom of Hungary, but the roughly 2,000 defenders led by István Dobó repelled the attacks and defended the castle, despite being vastly outnumbered by 35,000–40,000 Turk warriors. The battle finished with Hungarian victory.
A police mugshot of a young 23 year old Josef Stalin, 1901. Raised Christian, his mother originally hoped he would become a priest. However he turned instead to radical atheism and communism, and would later go on to become a brutal dictator of the Soviet regime, and be responsible for the deaths of 20-60 million.
21 October 1805: British Admiral Horatio Nelson defeats combined French and Spanish fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar during the War of the Third Coalition during the Napoleonic Wars. In a particularly fierce battle, 27 British ships of the line fought 33 French and Spanish ships of the line. The lead ships of the British columns were heavily battered, with Nelson's flagship HMS Victory nearly disabled, but the greater experience and training of the Royal Navy overcame greater numbers. The Franco-Spanish fleet lost 22 ships while the British lost none. Nelson himself was shot by a French musketeer, and died shortly before the battle ended.