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[halenhusky309]

Not the episode 3 of WFC: Seige tried to justify Optimus' dumbassery of yeeting the Allspark out of Cybertron when neither side was even closed to finding the Allspark... Like he would have pretended he found the Allspark and trick them to run on a goose chase away from the Cybertron by leaving Cybertron on the Ark with a fake-ass Allspark, while the Autobots maintained on Cybertron continued the search of Allspark, while the Decepticons were still believing that the Allspark was gone. Oh wait, that would have been too smart for the Autobots to pull this off, right? Because Autobots weren't allowed to be smart and even deceptive, so we continue to suffer the Autobots' dumbassery, resulted in the fucking Optimus Prime who made decisions just solely on the basis of "I won't do this shit because it will make me a bad person. So let me make decisions that not just screw own my life but everyone else involved of my dumbassery"...

[halenhusky309]

Starting to watch Transformers Prime Wars: Combiner and it was somehow less unbearable to watch compared to the WFC Seige, despite the poor dialogues, poor animations, the clunky and weird-ass plot.

All it took is Optimus being literally a mom trying to stop two murderous children going rampage on a quest...

[halenhusky309]

*Me watching the first two episodes of Transformers WFC: Seige: I would gladly break off Oplita so that I don't have to see Elita dealing with the walking Inoperable Malfunction-Cerebralitus...

[scotianostra]

On April 1st 1571 Dumbarton Castle, under siege since January 1570, was captured by Captain Thomas Crawford scaling the walls.

Crawford, also spelled Craufurd was a close confident of Lord Darnley and had every reason to be an enemy of Mary Queen of Scots. It is said he was one of the few people who seems to have had a genuine regard for Darnley.

Dumbarton Castle was held by supporters of Mary Queen of Scots, who had been forced to abdicate and fled Scotland in 1568 leaving regents loyal to James VI ruling Scotland, the King was still an infant.

Although Crawford knew the castle and was familiar with its defences he was unsure of the numbers and disposition of the garrison defending it. According to local tradition he got the information required from a disgruntled former garrison member by the name of Robertson. It seems this man had left the castle after his wife had been accused of theft and publicly flogged at Dumbarton cross. He now held a grudge against the castle’s governor, Lord Fleming.

Robertson knew the castle’s defences intimately and was familiar with the topography of the rock. He suggested to Crawford that the castle could be taken by climbing the rock with ladders to reach the walls on the north side of the castle above seemingly impenetrable cliffs. The walls here were not as strongly defended as the rest of the castle, as the garrison reckoned that the chances of anyone reaching them were almost non -existent due to the sheer rocks beneath them.

Crawford assembled a force of 150 men, and made plans to approach the castle in secret and under the cover of darkness. A temporary truce between the forces of the Crown and those loyal to the deposed queen was set to expire on the 1st April 1571, and that was when Crawford planned to strike. On the evening of the first he began his advance on the castle rock. He sent a small cavalry force to scout the road ahead and intercept any travellers who might give away his approach.

At Dumbuck, a mile or so from the castle his small force was equipped with scaling ladders and ropes and made their way towards the castle rock under cover of a mist which had rolled in from the River Clyde. They reached the foot of the rock undetected and began scaling the slopes. The ladders were equipped with steel hooks or “craws” at their heads for wedging into the crevices of the rock and by passing the ladders up in turn and slowly advancing they hoped to reach the top of the cliff without alerting the castle guards. The first attempt failed when the ladders slipped from their perch and came crashing to the ground. If the guards had been more alert the attack could have been foiled before it had even begun, but luck was on Crawford’s side and a second attempt was made. This time the “craws” were wedged more securely and the advance party managed to reach a small ledge where a tree was growing. They quickly tied their ropes to the tree and this enabled them to haul the rest of their force up to the ledge. They were only half way up the rock at this stage however and the second stage of the climb began. It is said that during this second climb one of the soldiers was seized with a fit or convulsion whilst climbing his ladder and gripped the ladder so tightly that he could not be prised from it. With the situation so precarious that no-one could climb over him, the advance had come to a halt.

Crawford ordered the man to be tied to the ladder and the ladder was then turned around with the unfortunate soldier suspended beneath it allowing the rest of the force to climb the ladder. During the climb one man fell to his death, but the remainder reached the foot of the castle wall where three of the party climbed the wall into the castle to try and find a means of entry for the remainder.

At this point they were finally discovered by the castle guards who quickly engaged Crawford’s three men.

The castle walls were reputedly in poor repair and Crawford’s men on the outside were able to force their way through a partially collapsed section and stormed to the aid of their three comrades inside loudly shouting “A Darnley!, A Darnley!“, the battle cry of the Earl of Lennox’s followers. Some of the castle’s cannon were quickly seized and turned against the castle’s defenders, who decided that discretion was indeed the better part of valour and promptly surrendered.

In the confusion, and under cover of the mist, the castle governor Lord Fleming was able to make his escape, possibly by the Watergate of the castle where he fled, according to local tradition, by boat.

The French ambassador to Queen Mary was captured within the castle, but was released unharmed. He made his way to Edinburgh Castle where he continued to aid Mary’s cause.

The Governor’s wife, Lady Fleming, was also captured, but she was allowed to leave the castle along with her servants and possessions.

Another prominent occupant of the castle was not so fortunate. John Hamilton, the Archbishop of St Andrews, was captured in mail shirt and steel helmet, and sent to Stirling to be tried for his part in the murder of Darnley. At 6pm on 6th April 1571, three days after his capture, he was hanged beside the Mercat Cross at Stirling

The capture of Dumbarton Castle was a major blow to those loyal to Mary and left Edinburgh as the only major stronghold still in their possession. Following his success at Dumbarton, Crawford went on to advise in the siege of Edinburgh two years later and in 1577 he was made Provost of Glasgow. In later life he retired to his family’s historical estates in Kilbirnie where he died on the third of January 1603 aged 73. He is buried in Kilbirnie churchyard within a tomb that he designed himself!

[trainsgenderfoxgirl2816]

me and my army of Puppygirls are off to go uh go conquer some lands and maybe lay seige to um... idk some city, Belgrade? idk

[alkalische]

vina victoria with zero edits at all this is just what she looks like promise

[qupritsuvwix]

South African government says it won't help 4,000 illegal miners inside a closed mine

South Africa’s government says it will not help an estimated 4,000 illegal miners inside a closed mine in the country’s North West province