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Vietnam War - Vietnam War - The U.S. role grows: By the middle of 1960 it was apparent that the South Vietnamese army and security forces could not cope with the new threat. During the last half of 1959, VC-initiated ambushes and attacks on posts averaged well over 100 a month. In the next year 2,500 government functionaries and other real and imagined enemies of the Viet Cong were assassinated.
Depends on how many freemen were ready to take up arms against the feudal lord and maybe secure protection from a rival feudal lord. Regardless, it's likely the lord of that feudal lord would interfere unless they weren't too fond of the feudal lord who lost the town.
We all know that the Jewish population was subject to genocide in WW2, but in WW1, it was the Armenians.
As in a modern day renaissance man? Or someone we’d consider renaissance during the time period? That could be Michelangelo. There isn’t really a modern renaissance. The whole point of a renaissance is a rebirth, which as far as I know hasn’t happened since then.