Another quiz to test your knowledge and make you look things up
The Questions
1. Who commanded the Roman forces that defeated the Hun at Chalons in 451 ?
2. How many Punic wars were there ?
3. In the 'Combat of the Thirty' (1351), by what method did the French knights achieve victory ?
4. Why were Roman javelins constructed with a section of soft metal ?
5. What was fustibal ?
6. Who said, 'Success in war depends less on intrepidity than on prudence, to await, to distinguish, and to seize the decisive moment of fortune' ?
7. Which French duke's flag bore the device of a wounded swan ?
8. Who was the first commander of the New model Army ?
9. Name the positions at First Bull Run / Mannasas where Stonewall Jackson earned his nickname
10. When was the Battle of Sedgemoor ?
11. What was a razzia as devised by French officer Bugeard in Algeria in the 1840's ?
12.Which Napoleonic marshal sat on the touch hole of an Austrian cannon to prevent the destruction of the Danube bridge at Spitz in 1805 ?
13. President Abraham Lincoln's remark, 'I can spare this man. He fights', concerned which Union general ?
14. Who were known as Sarps in the Second Anglo-Boer War ?
15. Which British naval officer commanded a squadron of armoured cars in Russian Galicia during the War of Intervention of 1917-19 ?
16. Name the communications route that ran between Port Moresby and Buna in new guinea in WW2 ?
17. What was a 'Big Wing' ?
18. What kind of warship is a Kiev ?
19. What was renounced by countries signing the Briand-Kellogg Pact of 1927 ?
20. Who described the Argentine invasion of the Falklands as 'a most ungentlemanly act' ?
21. Which famous child care specialist was prominent in the anti-Vietnam War movement ?
The answers are in post #2 so stop scrolling here
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