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    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
    Last edited by flash; 01-12-2017 at 09:28.

    "He is wise who watches"

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    Answers:


    1. Flavius Aetius; commonly known just as Aetius.
    2. Three.
    3. At a vital moment one squire mounted his horse and charged into the English breaking their formation.
    4. So they would bend when they penetrated enemy shields, rendering the shields unusable, and also becoming useless (to the enemy) themselves.
    5. A sling mounted on a staff for throwing large projectiles.
    6. Count Belisarius.
    7. The Duc de Berri.
    8. Sir Thomas Fairfax, appointed in February 1645.
    9. Henry House Hill.
    10. 6th July 1685.
    11. Separate columns converging on a single objective; an early form of search and destroy.
    12. Marshal Lannes, trying to persuade the Austrians that there was an armistice and they should not destroy the bridge. He was successful in his ruse and the bridge was taken intact.
    13. General Ulysses S Grant.
    14. The South African Armed Police (from their shoulder titles SAAP).
    15. Lieutenant-commander Oliver Locker-Lampson.
    16. The Kokoda Trail.
    17. A grouping of squadrons of fighters during the Battle of Britain so as to meet German attacks en masse.
    18. An aircraft carrier.
    19. War (except in self defence). Altogether 65 countries, including Germany, signed.
    20. The British Governor, Rex Hunt.
    21. Dr Benjamin Spock.


    Hope you do better than I did !
    Last edited by flash; 01-12-2017 at 09:29.

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    Started well - six out of the first eight!

    Then bogged down.................total ten.
    I laugh in the face of danger - then I hide until it goes away!

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    I got six so you beat me by a long way Tim !

    "He is wise who watches"

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    I reach the dizzy heights of two correct answers



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