Cumulative History Quiz

[Andu Indorin]

As for SunTzu's question.

I've never come across a reference to this. But if were to guess: Cold Harbor (June 3, 1864), where Grant lost 7,000 in one hour. It is about the only action in which Grant admitted to making a "mistake."

But it Alciabates's turn to ask ...

 

[Alcibiaties of Athenae]

Another guess at Sun's...The wilderness?

For my Question...Let's get napoleonic:

Who was the last French men to leave Russia?

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[SunTzu]

Ding Ding Ding! Andu your right! It was the battle of Cold Harbor.


Last frenchmen? Napoleon?

was it him

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[Andu Indorin]

My guess goes for Marshal Ney, Prince of the Moscowa, was the last to leave Russia.

 

[Alcibiaties of Athenae]

Yes, "The bravest of the brave", Micheal Ney is correct.

Your up.

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[Andu Indorin]

Who commanded the Christian forces at the siege of Rhodes (1522) against the forces of Suleiman the Magnificent?

 

[SunTzu]

The Hospitallers and it was in 1523 not 1522.
I do believe the individual leader is Philippe Villiers de
L'Isle-Adam


Same period:

Who offered the Knights(The Hospitallers) Malta ? And how long did they stay in Malta? Beginning to end.


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[This message has been edited by SunTzu (edited June 04, 2001).]

 

[Andu Indorin]

H.R. Emperorer Charles V offered the Knights of St. John Malta (c. 1530); the Hospitalers successfully defended against Suleiman in 1565.

The island fell to Napoleon in 1798 (at the start of his Egyptian Campaign.) Failure of the French to evacuate Malta led to the breakdown of the Peace of Amiens (1803) with the British; and the British captured the island, I think, in early 1806, which they then controlled until after WWII.

If this be correct, a change pace question:
Which treasurer/exchequer of England was responsible for introducing the "ribbing" on the sides of coins (e.g., U.S. quarter) as a prevention against "skimming" the coins to make counterfeit new coins?

 

[SunTzu]

gOOD jOB Andu!

 

[stormerne]

(I've missed taking part in this history quiz.)

Answer: This was Charles Montague, in collaboration with none other than Isaac Newton (who was knighted as a result of his work at the Mint). The technique was/is called "milling" rather than ribbing.

Question: He was the son of a Pomeranian duke. He was the great-nephew of a Danish queen. He was king of three countries. Who was he?

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[animepornstar]

it must be erik av pommern, i don´t know his name in english.

 

[stormerne]

Perhaps for everyone else you could perhaps mention who his father was, who his great aunt was, what the three countries were, and when it all happened.

 

[Andu Indorin]

Nice job stormerne:

I was only looking for Newton; you came up with Montague!!!

 

[animepornstar]

erik av pommern, i don´t remember so much about him. he aunt must has been margareta, vratislav av pommern was his father and he ruled sweden, denmark and norway. he ruled from the end of the 14th century to the middle of the 15th. how can you know so much about the scandinavian history stormerne. i´m impressed!

next question: in end of thirty years war, 1648, did the swedish army come to prague. the swedish force was to small, just about five thousand men, to brake through the city wall of prague. however, they got in and plundered and took things for a enormous value. how did they get in?

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[Andu Indorin]

through the sewers???

 

[Andu Indorin]

A classic ploy in seige warfare; if not the answer, then I need a hint as to how the coup de grace was achieved.

 

[Az]

Thinking that there were no more questions (I was wrong sorry) I opened a new CQ (cumulative quiz) here

http://forums.civfanatics.com/Forum8/HTML/000809.html

Now it would be nice if we respected the "rules"
Give numbers to the questions qnd type them in bold