2. Marcus Cassius Scaeva - Roman Centurion that served under Julius Caesar during the Roman invasion of Gaul. Also participated in raids on Germany and Britain. While alone and standing guard in Britain, Scaeva was attacked by a large group of the barbarian Britons. They hurled javelins at him which he was able to block with his shield, but in the meantime they had closed in and surrounded him. Scaeva refused to submit and fought savagely against his attackers. During the fight his shield had been destroyed, his helmet knocked off by a blow from one of his attackers, and his weapon shattered in the torso of one of the Britons. Disarmed during the fight and wounded, Scaeva managed to fight his way out and escape back to safety in the Roman camp. Later during the Battle of Dyracchium during a Roman Civil War, Scaeva once again found himself fighting against superior numbers of the enemy. He fought savagely even after his helmet and shield were destroyed, and his thigh cut by a sword and his shoulder pierced by a spear. When an enemy arrow struck him in the left eye, he pulled it out and continued fighting. Despite his wounds he killed many of the enemy, including one man whose skull Scaeva crushed with a rock after he had become disarmed. At one point during the fight Scaeva collapsed (from blood loss I imagine), and two enemy officers asked him to yield. Scaeva responded by slashing one of their throats, and cleaving the other in half.
3. The Viking of Stamford Bridge - At the Battle of Stamford Bridge a Viking Army was defeated by the Saxons. During the battle however one Viking whose name has unfortunately been lost to history, fought a delaying action single-handedly on the bridge against the advancing Saxons. We are told that he killed 40 of his enemies before he finally fell in battle.
4. Adnan bin Saidi - A Malaysian Officer serving as part of the British defense of Singapore during WW2. When his platoon was attacked by overwhelming numbers of the enemy during the Japanese invasion of Singapore, Adnan bin Saidi refused to surrender. Despite being heavily outnumbered he held of the Japanese for two days against repeated assaults, that often involved ferocious hand-to-hand fighting. Bin Saidi personally manned a machine gun during the final Japanese assault until his arm was shattered by a Japanese bullet. Drawing his pistol with his other arm, he continued firing at the enemy until he and his men ran out of ammunition. Refusing to surrender, Bin Saidi and his men fought to the death with bayonets, knives, and their fists.
5. Captain Jean Danjou - An Officer serving in the French Foreign Legion during the Franco-Mexican War. Leading 62 Legionaires, Danjou and his men were attacked by a Mexican force of over 2,000 men. After forming his men up in a square and repelling several cavalry charges with heavy Mexican casualties, Danjou had his men take up a more defensible position in the Hacienda Camaron. Offered a chance at surrender by the Mexican commander, Danjou refused, replying that he would not while his men still had munitions. He then swore an oath to fight to the death and had every man in his unit take the same oath. The Legionaires fought fiercely against repeated Mexican assaults on the Hacienda, with Captain Danjou rushing to wherever the action was thickest, rallying his men as he fired his pistol at the enemy. Even after attrition began to take it's toll on the heavily outnumbered defenders, Captain Danjou shouting above the roar of the battle, "THE LEGION DIES! IT DOES NOT SURRENDER!" True to his oath, Captain Danjou fell in battle, but not before he and his 62 men had slain 300 of the enemy and wounded another 300.
6. Miyamoto Musashi - 17th Century Japanese Samurai and author of The Book of Five Rings, a book on strategy, tactics and philosophy that much like Sun Tzu's Art of War, is still studied today. A veteran of the battle of Sekigahara, Musashi was also duelist and was perhaps the best swordsman in all of fuedal Japan, as well as one of the greatest warriors of all time. What made Musashi such a great warrior was not just hus physical prowess, but his ability to psychologically outmaneuver opponents.
7. Master Sgt Vito Bertoldo - Soldier in the US Army during WW2, and Medal of Honor recipient. When his company's command post came under attack by the Germans, Master Sgt Bertoldo manned a machine gun and kept enemy infantry at bay even while 88 milimeter rounds were fired from a German tank at the building he was in. Eventually blown back and away from the machine gun by a round from the tank, he returned to his weapon. When two enemy armored personnel carriers and another enemy tank advanced on his position, Master Sgt Bertoldo waited until the enemy troops dismounted from the personnel carriers before opening up on them, killing 20 of the enemy. Later during the battle he gunned down another squad of Germans while a 88 milimeter round fired from a German anti-tank gun slammed into the flank of the building he was in. Knocked down and dazed, Bertoldo rose to his feet and continued fighting until ordered to evacuate under cover of darkness. Before his unit could pull back another combined attack by tanks and infantry on their position was launched, with Bertoldo manning a machine gun and hurling white phosphorous grenades at advancing enemy troops until they broke and retreated. A German tank fired a round at close rank into the building he was in, destroying the machine gun and once agin throwing Bertoldo across the room. Ignoring his wounds, Master Sgt Bertoldo continued to fight and covered the retreat of his unit with accurate rifle fire and was credited with killing at least 40 of the enemy during the battle.
8. Leonidas - The real king of Sparta, not the cartoon character from the movie 300. His masterful defense of the pass at Thermopylae is rightly the stuff of legends. Although massively outnumbered, Leonidas' clever use of both the terrain and the Greek advantages over the Persians in terms of equipment and training enabled the Greek defenders to hold off the Persians just long enough to save Greece (and Western Civilization) from conquest. When it became clear that the Greeks could no longer hold the pass, Leonidas and his remaining Spartans (and Thespians, often forgotten by history) stayed behind and fought to the last man to cover the retreat of the rest of the Greek force.
9. Lance Sergeant John 'Jack' Baskeyfield - Soldier in the British Army during WW2 and posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross. During the Battle of Arnhem his unit came under a fierce asault by German armor and infatry. In command of two 75mm anti-tank guns, Lance Sergeant Baskeyfield allowed the German armor to get within 100 meters before ordering his men to open fire, succeeding in destroying two of the tanks and a self-propelled gun and pushing the Germans back. During the course of the engagement Baskeyfield was wounded and his crew killed by enemy fire, but he refused medical attention and continued to fight. During a second assault Lance Sgt Baskeyfield manned his anti-tank gun alone, firing shell after shell at the enemy and keeping them at bay, until his gun was finally knocked out of action. Crawling under enemy fire, Baskeyfield reached and manned another anti-tank gun whose crew had been killed. Manning it alone, he destroyed an enemy self propelled gun before being killed by shrapnel from an enemy tank round.
10. Tech Specialist: Nikola Tesla. Sure, he's a bit short on combat abilities but assuming there is adequate time to train him up before the suicide run, who better for the role of tech specialist?
And last but not least, a sniper and spotter to provide overwatch:
11. Vasily Zaitsev: Soviet sniper during the Second World War. 225 confirmed kills, including 6 enemy snipers.
12. Carlos Hathc-ck: American scout/sniper during the Vietnam War. 93 Confirmed kills. Once killed an enemy sniper sent to track him down. Also killed an enemy general on a solo mission in which he spent four days and three nights without sleep, crawling at a snail's pace and evading enemy patrols, just to get into position.
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