Former generations as well as those who stand here today have often seen the soldiers of the First Guard Regiment and My Guards at this place. We were brought together then by an oath of allegiance which we swore before God. Today all have gathered to pray for the triumph of our weapons, for now that oath must be proved to the last drop of blood. The sword, which I have left in its scabbard for decades, shall decide. I expect My First Guard Regiment on Foot and My Guards to add a new page of fame to their glorious history. The celebration today finds us confident in God in the Highest and remembering the glorious days of Leuthen, Chlum, and St. Privat. Our ancient fame is an appeal to the German people and their sword. And the entire German nation to the last man has grasped the sword. And so, I draw the sword which with the help of God I have kept in its scabbard for decades.
[At this point the Kaiser drew his sword from its scabbard and held it high above his head.]
The sword is drawn, and I cannot sheathe it again without victory and honour. All of you shall and will see to it that only in honour is it returned to the scabbard. You are my guaranty that I can dictate peace to my enemies. Up and at the enemy! Down with the enemies of Brandenburg! Three cheers for our army!
-Kaiser Wilhelm III sending off German troops to the Goa'uld War in 1959.
One of the more interesting cultural divides that the Goa'uld War brought up was the melee weapons that different nations gave their troops. See the effectiveness of Mad Jack Churchill on the Goa'uld commanders had to the British making swords mandatory weapons for all of their officers in battle which would prove surprisingly useful once the war came to the Pegasus Galaxy and in several other cases. This equipment reform was taken on by the allies of the United Empire since they proved devastating useful, but each nation had their own spin on it. In the United States their troops were given hatchets while their officers had sabres until 1961 when the first American made longswords were handed out. The Japanese used the Katanas that they were already assigned so there was no change there. The Scandinavian Kingdoms gave their troops battle axes to honour the past. The rest of the world mostly just used variant examples of swords or axes depending on how well off the country in question was. This equipment reform also usually came alongside an addition to military uniforms with leather collars around necks strong enough that a Goa'uld could not penetrate allowing the allies to not have to deal with the decontamination procedures that they used every time they returned from a mission against the Goa'uld. There was some criticism against these reforms since giving you soldiers axes while they shoot plasma does leave a mixed impression, but those people were ignored and faded out of the public view following the Battle of Valhalla.
-Extract from a blog post on the equipment reforms of the Goa'uld War.
The first non-British Battleship was launched in 1959 by the United States of America the USSS Gettysburg was launched from the Brooklyn dockyards on the 1st of December by the ailing President Wallace. The ship was not as large as the HIMIS Vanguard only reaching a hundred and seventy-five meters long but sharing the general design of the Vanguard. Though it scrapped the speed that the British designed for and replaced it with heavy armour which defines American warship design ever since the Battle of Earth. A few weeks later the German Empire launched the SMIS Barbarossa which had a much slimmer design. See attached photo below for more details. The ship represented a change in design for humanity breaking away from the mould set by the British and developing their own styles of design once more. This would be tested when the Replicators reached the section of the galaxy that humanity defended but we persevered as we always have for humanity will never die.
-Extract from Neil Armstrong's book Mankind's Fist: A history of Interstellar warships.
The first encounter between Humanity and the Replicators was the Battle of Tuonela which was defending a newly established Finnish Colony from what was assumed to be a Goa'uld attack. When the Ha'taks kept on continuing on after a series of strikes which left large parts of the ship open to the void. The only thing that happened was that what seemed to be Jaffa corpses drifted out with strange pieces of metal on them. This was far from normal, so the ships sent out IIET-145 to check up on the ships. When they entered the ship, they were immediately set upon by the Replicators. Their weapons were able to kill them but not at high enough speeds to deal with the overwhelming numbers of the Replicators. As their perimeter slowly collapsed the Death Glider that they had used to enter the ship was compromised. Their commander saw the Replicators devouring the Death Glider's form and knew that their was nothing that he could do. So, he sent out a last message to the allied ships and asked them to destroy the ship. His request was approved, and the ships were annihilated in the cleansing light of atomic fire. His last message had also included the recording of the Replicators so that humanity knew how to deal with them. The sacrifice of IIET-145 was not in vain.
-Extract from Christopher Bowes's book The Bloody Wolves of the Stars: A history of Imperial Stargate Command.
My brethren across our great continent the time has come for us to take back our freedom from our oppressors from the sands of Algeria to the jungles of Madagascar there is nothing that can stand in our way. We have toiled for years under the jackboot of Paris no longer we are the sons of ten-thousand empires no Frenchmen can make us bend before them for we have the power that no despot can crush the desire to be free. We will die if needs be for the freedom of homes and no Frenchman will take that away from us. So, come my brothers let us set Africa aflame. For Freedom! For Independence! For our homes! Fr our families! For Honour! Rise up Africa!
-Transcript of the Africa aflame speech beginning the collapse of the French colonial Empire.