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Anakin meets Thrawn in the later stages of the clone wars (because of anakins newer fighter ship). They search padmes abandoned ship, anakin deflects some shots from smugglers, Thrawn talks them down.

Islamic sermon describes the Islamic view of Christian’s. How brothers rob brothers, neighbours are sold out for money, wine is drunk and bread is eaten. Christians are unforgiving. Describes ideal Muslim treatment of slaves meaning they are given fair terms and are helped once term is finished.

Describes Muslims take about how Jesus will return on Judgement day, sending Christian’s to hell for calling him God and sending Jews to hell for attempting to capture and torture him.

Mosques and prayer 7 times a day. No shoes inside, fully carpeted. Priest uses a sword.

Talking about Mohammed and Ali, Ali’s sword zulfiqar.

Talking about “heathens” and their holidays. Christian chronicler breaking down Muslim traditions with bias.

The way of combat. Talks about how it does not only rely on swordsmanship (physicality) but also the arts (primarily strategy).

Thrawn and Vader navigating to batuu. Rukh sneaking around vaders ship. Even without visuals Vader is imposing.

Meeting with Palpatine, Vader and Thrawn. Thrawn disagrees with the Death Star plan. Flashback to post S5 of clone wars. Padme goes to batuu and anakin continues the war until he discovers her ship was abandoned.

His life is heavily debated (unsure of place of birth or what happened in his later life). A man with an uneducated understanding of world history so some chapters are historically inaccurate but are valuable for the way he views things. Took part in many campaigns for Mehmet II.

About musashis later years. Wrote many texts which were passed down to his student maganojo. Died in a cave and was buried in his armour.

In aftermath of when the Americans took Dorchester heights, the Loyalists were forced to evacuate. Not prepared at all for this, Howe put everyone on ships, leaving everything behind. They sailed down the coast out of range of cannons and bobbed back and forth there for days. Howe had the redcoats rob anything of value in Boston, accusing retaliatory as abettors of the rebels. After 10 days, they sailed to Halifax.

Musashi humiliated the yoshioka clan on 3 separate occasions, then started his own school. He also won a duel on Ganryujima. Not demeaning to artistry like other samurai who thought themselves above it.

A bit more on Musashi’s “adopted” father, who allegedly taught him the double swords swordsmanship technique, although a lot of the information is debated among scholars.

The differences in almost every aspect of the two armies is wild. British were arrogant and not taking the Americans seriously all throughout the siege of Boston up until they were forced to evacuate. The American army is portrayed to be a group of drunken everyday people who were terrible at taking orders yet all shared the same motivation coming from “divine purpose”.

Just started, lots of Japanese names that are confusing. Interesting how his identity was more than likely blown out of proportion, especially in early modern Japan when they were trying to heavily promote nationalism.