military
Oddlets tagged military.
The Queen Who Made Her Own Chair
She arrived to negotiate a peace treaty, noticed there was no chair for her, and solved the problem immediately.
The General Who Conquered an Empire and Then Had to Give It Back
He took the fortress that defeated Napoleon, routed the Ottoman army, and marched to within a hundred miles of Constantinople — and then his father told him to wait.
The Man Who Ate Everything Else
The French army once used a man who could swallow live puppies whole as a courier, hiding documents in his stomach.