Thread of ultimate badasses

[Underseer]

https://medium.com/@tjbdaily/wrongf...he-same-courtroom-as-an-attorney-985b40c96ed8

The dictionary definition of badass should just be a picture of this man.

Isaac Wright jr​

He was wrongfully convicted of being the drug kingpin of New Jersey, so he educated himself, became a lawyer, freed himself, went after the people who wrongfully convicted him and got them tossed in jail.



Offer your own favorite tales of ultimate badasses. Anyone from the modern world or history.

 

[Underseer]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Tubman

Harriet Tubman​

Harriet Tubman was an escaped slave. Having escaped the horrors of slavery, she immediately went back into the belly of the beast to free her family. She made some thirteen missions to travel back into the flesh-peddling horror show to free other slaves. She helped John Brown recruit people for the attack on Harpers Ferry, which probably helped cause the war that ended slavery.

During that war, she joined the Union army as a scout/spy and eventually led an armed raid that freed some 70 slaves.

If anyone tells you women can't lead troops in battle, just point to Harriet Tubman.

Bear in mind that while she was doing all of that, she was suffering from this:

Early in life, she suffered a traumatic head wound when an irate slave owner threw a heavy metal weight intending to hit another slave and hit her instead. The injury caused dizziness, pain, and spells of hypersomnia, which occurred throughout her life.

 

[braces_for_impact]

Meet Dylan McWiliams, the bastard that wouldn't die.

[h=1]Meet the man who's survived a snake, bear and shark attack[/h]

 

[bilby]

Jack Churchill. Fought as a commando in WWII armed with a longbow, bagpipes, and a broadsword; After his capture by the Germans in May 1944, he spent a year in various camps (escaping once and being recaptured) before being freed in 1945 as the Germans withdrew; He walked over ninety miles to Italy, where he met an American unit, and was transferred home - only to travel out to Burma to join the fight against the Japanese.

The Wikipedia entry on him tells of his actions at Salerno:

Leading 2 Commando, Churchill was ordered to capture a German observation post outside the town of Molina, controlling a pass leading down to the Salerno beachhead. With the help of a corporal, he infiltrated the town and captured the post, taking 42 prisoners including a mortar squad. Churchill led the men and prisoners back down the pass, with the wounded being carried on carts pushed by German prisoners. He commented that it was "an image from the Napoleonic Wars." He received the Distinguished Service Order for leading this action at Salerno.

Churchill later walked back to the town to retrieve his sword, which he had lost in hand-to-hand combat with the German regiment. On his way there, he encountered a disoriented American patrol, mistakenly walking towards enemy lines. When the NCO in command of the patrol refused to turn around, Churchill told them that he was going his own way and that he wouldn't come back for a "bloody third time"

After his retirement from the army (having been awarded the DSO and MC twice each), he became the first man to surf the Severn Bore, and had a habit of upsetting the railway staff by hurling his briefcase out of the train window into his back garden, so that he wouldn't have to carry it from the station.