There are people who get out alive from 100% fatal situations. Not only old folk legends tell about those who were spoken from death. There are very few of them, but they live among us.
Let's leave alone medieval European legends and Russian epics. Folklore is the business of literary scholars. Let's take examples that are unlikely at first glance, but which are difficult to pass over in silence, because there are many eyewitnesses. First, a little history. During the Spanish war with the Netherlands in the 16th century, Prince William of Orange sentenced a Spaniard prisoner of war to be shot. When the smoke cleared, everyone saw that the prisoner was still alive. They fired another volley - to no avail. When the soldiers tore off the clothes of the Spaniard to find out what kind of shell their enemy was wearing, to their amazement they saw only an amulet on his neck. When the amulet was removed, the prisoner fell after the first shot.
The famous English pirate of the 17th century, Henry Morgan, became famous not only for robberies, but also for the fact that for several decades of sea robbery, participating in battles and skirmishes, he did not receive a single scratch. The filibuster stood under a hail of bullets and cannonballs, fought hand-to-hand during the boarding, but neither the foolish bullet nor the good-looking bayonet took him. The former robber and city destroyer became Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica. Henry Morgan died of obesity and liver cirrhosis.
The young officer Napoleon Bonaparte often led regiments during the Italian campaign of 1796-1797. The venerable Soviet historian Yevgeny Tarle in his book "Napoleon", referring to the author of the multivolume history of the Napoleonic campaigns, General Jomini, notes that "literally from the very first days of his first command, Bonaparte discovered daring and disdain for personal dangers." During the battle on the Arkolsky bridge, the commander-in-chief Bonaparte rushed forward with a banner in his hands. “Several soldiers and adjutants were killed near him,” Yevg wrote. Tarle.
Companion of Suvorov, an active participant in the Patriotic War of 1812, infantry general and favorite of the soldiers Mikhail Andreevich Miloradovich participated in many battles. The main content of his life was war, counts biographer Alexander Bondarenko. Miloradovich, who was always spared by bullets, was mortally wounded on December 14, 1825, when he tried to force the soldiers to leave Senate Square. Before his death, he said with joy: "Thank God that he was not killed by the hand of a Russian soldier."
In 1876, the leader of the Sioux tribe, Big Horse, in the battle in the Little Bighorn River valley, utterly defeated a detachment under the command of General John Custer. One of his fellow tribesmen in the book "My Sioux People" wrote about the leader that he was "the first to rush to meet the enemy. He galloped past the line of soldiers from one end to the other. They aimed and fired at him, but not a single bullet wounded either the rider or the horse. " The chief of another Cheyenne Indian tribe named the Iron Hawk, who was shot by American soldiers, allegedly showed bullets entangled in the folds of his clothes. These examples were collected by Russian researcher Yuri Kotenko.
The writer Eugenia Blavatsky, in her book Isis Unveiled, tells the story of the journey of several Europeans to Sudan. At the end of the century before last, a certain sorcerer lived there. For a small fee, tourists were able to shoot him with pistols and rifles. Bullets, as if spellbound, flew off target. Then one of the Europeans was allowed to make a point-blank shot. The barrel shattered to pieces to the butt, and the sorcerer remained unharmed.
The white Russian general, Baron Ungern von Sternberg, who during the Civil War dreamed of reviving the Great Yellow Empire within the borders of Genghis Khan's empire, was considered to be conspired from death. After one of the battles, 70 holes from bullets and saber blows were found in his dressing gown.
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Even more surprising is the phenomenon of Alexander Pokryshkin, three times Hero of the Soviet Union. During the years of the Great Patriotic War, he conducted 159 air battles. More than once the technicians looked at the holes in Pokryshkin's MiG with amazement. In one of the battles, a bullet, striking the side of the cockpit, touched the shoulder straps of the parachute and ricocheted, scratching the chin. The bombs dropped on the airfield did not explode twice literally at the pilot's feet. These cases (about a dozen) Alexander Ivanovich described in his memoirs. They “made me believe in fate. I will never hide from the enemy and remain alive. I have always followed this."
More than 30 assassination attempts on General De Gaulle, organized by professionals in their field, ended in complete failure. One of the episodes of the preparation and implementation of the terrorist attack against the head of the French state is colorfully described in the thriller by Frederic Forsyth "The Day of the Jackal". The general believed so much in his own invulnerability that at the moment when his car was fired upon by 15 machine gunners, turning to his wife, he said: "Well, as you like, Yvonne, it seems they are shooting again …"
Cuban leader Fidel Castro should be recognized as the most unsurpassed master of getting out of the water. For half a century of being in power, the commandant was assassinated more than 600 times! Nobel laureate Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez states: “Presumably there is some special factor that eludes CIA computers. Perhaps there is some kind of Caribbean magic taking place here.
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