Stunned Fans

Philip II of Spain and his Spanish Armada were stunned on August 8th, 1588 by Queen Elizabeth I and her English fleet.  So stunned that the Queen thought it appropriate to have a portrait painted of herself titled the ‘Armada Portrait‘.  It’s kind of like the Tebow plaque.

In 1989 this man stunned the Chinese Army in Tiananmen Square.  It was a lot like USC losing to Washington.

Tsar Nicholas II and Kaiser Wilhelm II as cousins, were equally stunned during The Great War.   The Tsar didn’t managed to make it through the war and the Kaiser had the indignity of losing to his other cousin, King George V of England.

I’m sure there was one hell of a family reunion around 1919 when this whole ‘World War’ thing blew over and everyone toasted to Nick.

As you can see in the photograph above General Robert E. Lee was stunned by the Union Army and General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House on April 12th, 1865.

This photograph was taken by Mathew Brady after the surrender of Lee’s Army.  Also stunned above is Lee’s aides-de-camp, Major General George Washington Custis Lee (left), who is Lee’s eldest son, and Colonel Walter Taylor (right).

Comanche was the lone survivor of  General George Armstrong Custer’s 7th cavalry regiment after the Battle of Little Big Horn.   It’s safe to say he stunned nearly everyone when he was spotted 2 days after the battle, wounded 7 times but still kicking.

It was said at the time that Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull discussed shooting Comanche an 8th time but they feared that would only anger the immortal beast.

Comanche lived until 1890 (15 years after the battle) and is one of only two horses in United States history to be buried with full military honors because he walked away from Custer’s Last Stand.

Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the ‘Japanese Instrument of Surrender‘ on the U.S. battleship Missouri, officially stunning Empire of Japan.

No man has stunned more beasts in the Animal World than Teddy Roosevelt.  TR was always his best on the opposing team’s home field.

In 2008 Cracked listed Teddy Roosevelt as the Number 1 Badass President of All Time.  Needless to say he stunned Man, Beast and Geography for 60 years.  Leaving photographs like these in his wake.

* I’m rather certain that last photograph is of the former President slaying a Triceratops… Stunned.

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Man in the white hat looks like the Wings just lost Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final on home ice.