>Smith set off to sea at age 16 after his father died. He served as a mercenary in the army of Henry IV of France against the Spaniards, fighting for Dutch independence from King Philip II of Spain. He then went to the Mediterranean where he engaged in trade and piracy, and later fought against the Ottoman Turks in the Long Turkish War. He was promoted to a cavalry captain while fighting for the Austrian Habsburgs in Hungary in the campaign of Michael the Brave in 1600 and 1601. After the death of Michael the Brave, he fought for Radu Șerban in Wallachia against Ottoman vassal Ieremia Movilă.[7]
>Smith reputedly killed and beheaded three Ottoman challengers in single-combat duels, for which he was knighted by the Prince of Transylvania and given a horse and a coat of arms showing three Turks' heads.[8] However, in 1602 he was wounded in a skirmish with the Crimean Tatars, captured, and sold as a slave.[9] He claimed that his master was a Turkish nobleman who sent him as a gift to his Greek mistress in Constantinople, Charatza Tragabigzanda, who fell in love with Smith. He then was taken to the Crimea, where he escaped from Ottoman lands into Muscovy, then on to the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth before travelling through Europe and North Africa, returning to England in 1604
This reads like a M&B bio.
>This reads like a M&B bio.
>uh em an bee baiyo
The muttification of english....epic...It's supposed to be "an" here.
No one familiar with the franchise ever says or reads "M and B" since it's the same number of syllables as "Mount and Blade"
i was only criticizing the "a" that you put before it.
that wasn't me and no shit; i was just explaining why it didn't betray some deeper misunderstanding of English
He has to use any opportunity to virtue signal that he's le ebin raysist
''an'' is only used before vowels, no?
not just vowels, but all "glottal stops" - i think that's what they're called. it's not a thing to do with letters but with sounds.
"m" isn't a vowel but when you say the letter "em" you are pronouncing a vowel.
that pronunciation is, i think, called a "glottal stop". the name isn't important - but the concept is what we're taught in english class as children.
if our schools don't teach us, the assumption which native speakers make is that we're supposed to "feel it out".
well, "feeling it out" means intuiting the rule. and some people never get it because they're just copying folks around them.
Source: Trust me bro
John Smith was just an old fashioned bullshitter. You can find people like that at your local pub every night of the week.
>Smith reputedly killed and beheaded three Ottoman challengers in single-combat duels, for which he was knighted by the Prince of Transylvania and given a horse and a coat of arms showing three Turks' heads. However, in 1602 he was wounded in a skirmish with the Crimean Tatars, captured, and sold as a slave. He claimed that his master was a Turkish nobleman who sent him as a gift to his Greek mistress in Constantinople, Charatza Tragabigzanda, who fell in love with Smith. He then was taken to the Crimea, where he escaped from Ottoman lands into Muscovy, then on to the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth before travelling through Europe and North Africa, returning to England in 1604.
Cope, it's real!
John Smith did nofap.
He did leave England for a while, and judging by his later experience, probably acquired the skills that made him an effective soldier, diplomat, and administrator while in continental Europe.
That said, he probably embellished the more colorful aspects of his life. Still makes for a great story tho.
He shouldn't trust you
It is important to note that even if he made that all up the stuff he made up for his life before America was more interesting than the stuff he made up for his life in America.
Chad
>voiced by Mel Gibson
>He claimed that his master was a Turkish nobleman who sent him as a gift to his Greek mistress in Constantinople, Charatza Tragabigzanda, who fell in love with Smith
Nice