Military "Pictionary" Game II

[sydhe]

I'll take Nicopolis, Bayazed I vs. Sigismund because I think Thunderbolt is a cool nickname.

 

[Tunch Khan]

I'm going to stick my neck out to help get this going. Utterly selfless of course

These are early Ottomans, fighting in the Balkans, taking say Belgrade?

Therefore it is: Mehmet II vs. Szilágyi. June 29, 1456. Err Belgrade!

The turbans and short curved swords were what their cavalry were famed for in early days. It is mid-15th century because I am interpretting the clouds behind to be partly from cannon shots.

BTW - It's a poor reproduction, making it hard to see much detail. But then maybe that was the idea.

Nope. You got the Ottomans right tho.

 

[Tunch Khan]

I'll take Nicopolis, Bayazed I vs. Sigismund because I think Thunderbolt is a cool nickname.

This is not true either.

 

[Tunch Khan]

It could be the battle of Mohacs between the Ottomans (Suleiman the Magnificient) and the Hungarians (Louis II) in 1526. The Hungarians lost, their king died and their country lost independence to the Ottoman Empire and Austria (I simplified the things here, of course).

Not this one, sorry. The picture actually includes a very nice clue if you look carefully in the city. And there is a city in the background, if you haven't noticed. You can see a major landmark there.

 

[Dreadnought]

Maybe you should tell us the answer, because this picture is too random and we haven't got the right answer

 

[sydhe]

He never actually said it wasn't Vienna.

Let's try Battle of Vienna, Kara Mustapha and John Sobieski, with Charles IV inside the city.

 

[Tunch Khan]

He never actually said it wasn't Vienna.

Let's try Battle of Vienna, Kara Mustapha and John Sobieski, with Charles IV inside the city.

We have a winner here. The reason i didn't go with the first answer was it was too vague. There was the siege of Vienna 1529 and Battle of Vienna 1683.

Kara Mustapha Pasha was executed by imperial decree after the loss.

 

[sydhe]

Name the siege at which this took place. For a bonus, name the two forces.

 

[Rambuchan]

I give up .

 

[fe3333au]

Turks vs someone?

 

[Rambuchan]

I'm pretty sure you're right on the latter fe33.

 

[sydhe]

Turks are right. So is somebody, but I'd like more detailed infromation.

 

[jeriko one]

Turks vs. The French Aqqah(or Aqqa or Akka)?

 

[Kosez]

Hm, flag looks like French tricolore. And gun-carriage looks like a 19th century one. I think at least.
Maybe its Crimean war and French are fighting some Turco-Tatar members of Russian army. But I don't know whether the French used tricolore at that time.

 

[sydhe]

No, not French. Not Aqqa.

 

[Steph]

But I don't know whether the French used tricolore at that time.

Yes, we did, starting with the revolution in 1789. Howver, during the Napoleonic wars, we also used a different pattern, with a white losange in the middle, and the red and blue in the angles

 

[Tunch Khan]

The hat of the soldier cutting the Turk's throat in the front (with the banner) looks Italian, but their uniforms don't look like Tripolitan War. It's confusing.

 

[sydhe]

No, he's not Italian either.

 

[Tunch Khan]

It's definately sometime after 1850 and before 1880 by Turkish uniforms.

 

[sydhe]

You've got the right time period.