King William the first of Prussia was a great powerful monarch which was close to becoming an absolutist monarch. In the era of absolutism kings could do as they pleased, and that is exactly what king William did. Louis the fourteenth had his great palace, Versailles, and Philip the Second had his religion, but King William had something else. He had an army of giant men.
This small army of giants was a select part of the army. William recruited the men which had to be taller than six feet, and then he dressed them with costly clothing and advanced weaponry. Sometimes when the King felt sick he had his giants march through his bedroom with their pet mascot, a bear…
The funny part of this story is that king William never used his army in battle. He just made his men march through the palace sometimes directing the marches by himself. This army of giants was of such great significance for King William that to be Prussia’s ally one had to befriend the king by sending him tall men for his select army.
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Wow that’s really interesting. I was watching the history channel a while back, and they talked of Russia building an army of super humans. They wanted to genetically engineer soldiers to be ready to fight if needed in the cold war.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately though it never worked out because of the lack o f technology. I know soon we will have genetic engineering, ive read many news articles of "designer babies." This is when doctors change the genes of babies to make them have certain colored eyes, or a certain hair color. Sooner or later people will be pushing for these genetic mutations in our soldiers, making them faster, smarter, and stronger.
Personally I don’t have a good outlook about genetic engineering, I think though it’s a very interesting topic.