It's also called the Seven Weeks War and the Unification war iircQuote:
Originally Posted by Evil_Maniac From Mars
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It's also called the Seven Weeks War and the Unification war iircQuote:
Originally Posted by Evil_Maniac From Mars
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Originally Posted by Conradus
Sedan?
Yes, go ahead.
What General led the Prussian 1st Army Corps at the battle of Waterloo, and arrived at a crucial time to reinforce Wellington's left flank so that he could transfer crucially needed troops to other parts of the front?
Blücher
Nope
Bulow
Nope
Pirch
Ziethen?
Darn, should've known the answer to the previous question was Sedan.
I'll give it to you. The spelling is kinda off his name was Zieten.Quote:
Originally Posted by Conradus
Thanks, but I don't have a question right now, first one after me may ask one.
Zieten?
Whoo its right!! heres a question!
Operation drumbeat, devoloped by Admiral Karl Doenitz during ww2. It was an attack on america's eastern seaboard shipping lanes. It became so easy to target ships against americans bright coastline that before they even knew what was going on tonnage was going down. The first actual warship to respond to this was named the ________. She was almost taken out of order by a light deckgun shell that came from a friendly merchant who thought she was a german uboat. What was this ships name?
Bonus: What was the name of ships filled with cork and specifically made to be blown up?
A little hard? Heres a hint, It was one of the main destroyers Homer Hickham talks about in his book Torpedo Junction.
did I find a question to hard for the historians at .org?
I don't think anyone wants to find the name of not so well know ship. It's hardly a question one knows without reading the book recently or looking it up.
It isn't that unknown of a ship, actually pretty well known if you live on the east coast. I walked into a museum back there and they had an entire section on said ship. But I will give it to people who can answer the bonus, which I think is incredibly straight forward and easy.
All I could find is the USS Roper and the USCGC Icarus (WPC-110)
USS Roper.
You got it, the Roper. Your up
Sweet...
I hope this is hardish...than some of my earlier ones haha....so here goes nothing...
I was/am considered one of the best naval commanders of my time even serving as a galley slave for sometime after I was captured by Barbary pirates. I eventually got away and would go on to lead the defense against a great Ottoman host for several months conducting one of the best siege defenses in history. Who am I and what was my position by the time of the siege? His full name and title is a must..
I'm thinking of Niklas Graf Salm, but I haven't read anything about him being a galley slave.Quote:
Originally Posted by Decker
"Field Gentleman" (title referred to high commanders, I believe) Niklas Graf Salm, Siege of Vienna. All I can think of.
Jean Parisot de la Valette. Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitallers and defender in the great seige of Malta in 1565.
I'm not a Hospitaller for nothing you know.:laugh4:
Hey I knew that one :balloon2: I'd been reading about the Ottoman seige of Malta just last week.....
You are correct sir....you putz:inquisitive: I was hoping to dupe like at least 2-3 people lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by QuintusJulius-Cicero
And I actually just read it my self in Sea of Faith...a couple decent questions abound in that book...
Well, I know alot of other members knows history better than me but I do know my own order's history and it's grandmasters:beam: .
Ok, here's the question, a rather funny one actually "What ethnic of people fought a war against the British Empire when a British governor insisted on sitting on a stool?":inquisitive:
War of the Golden Stool, the Ashanti Confederacy. Read about this in a site about funny named or strange reasoned wars.Quote:
Originally Posted by QuintusJulius-Cicero
The British governor demanded to the Ashanti to turn over their golden stool, basically the symbol of their independance.
Man, I love the interwebz.
I got this from 'Horrible History', it made me laugh.:laugh4: From what I red was that the Ashanti were defeated and forced to join the British Empire, they agreed, and Queen Victoria as the new leader of the Ashanti should have the golden stool. This was also deemed reasonable. Then Freddy Hodgson, governor of the Gold Coast, demanded to sit on the Sacred Stool (What a dumbo). The Ashanti weren't too happy and went to war. Eventually they lost, but were happy because the intergurity of the Stool is kept.:sweatdrop:Quote:
Originally Posted by SwedishFish
Go on then Mr. SwedishFish, let's hope you got a harder one than mine.