Poll: Which of these battles have you heard of? Mod needed.

[History_Buff]

All save 8

 

[sydhe]

I've heard of all but #24. I feel I should get extra credit for knowing two sieges of Malta and two of Vienna.

 

[sydhe]

Oh and eight sieges of Constantinople. Twice by Arabs, twice by 4th Crusade, once by Varangians, once by Avars, once by Bayazid I, and the final one by Mehmed the Conqueror. I bet the Bulgars and Visigoths did it too and sent home post cards.

 

[aronnax]

Dang I only know 17 of the 24, Im going studying

 

[Plotinus]

It's not possible for a moderator to add a poll to a thread such as this.

 

[cybrxkhan]

i know all of them... except for Malta.

 

[Mirc]

All except Dien Bien Phu and 'Ain Jalut.

 

[rilnator]

8, 10,13 and 14 are ones I've never heard of.

Malta? WW2 Malta? or was it a Crusades thing.

 

[SeleucusNicator]

Heard of all of them except Red Cliffs.

 

[shortguy]

Malta? WW2 Malta? or was it a Crusades thing.

I assumed he meant the 1565 Siege of Malta, when the Knights of St. John held off a much larger Ottoman force.

 

[sydhe]

Red Cliffs is the late Han Dynasty battle between the warlord Cao Cao, who ran the North and an alliance between Liu Bei, who ran the southwest and whichever Sun it was who ran the south. According to legend, Liu Bei's general Zhuge Liang used deception to incinerate the boats that were to carry Cao Cao's army across the Yangtze, with most of the army aboard. The alliance won, ensuring that China would split into three kingdoms.

 

[cybrxkhan]

Heard of all of them except Red Cliffs.

Red Cliffs was the biggest and baddest battle of the Three Kingdoms - an era known and romanticized all over Eastern Asia. (a novel based on the events of this time, The Romance of The Three Kingdoms, is basically the East Asian equivilent of Shakespeare or Homer - and at more than 2000 pages, its not an easy read)

if i remember correctly, China was under pretty much civil war - northern warlord Cao Cao sends supposedly an impossible 1 million guys down, outnumbering greatly his opponents, the Western general Zhuge Liang and Southern general Zhou Yu, and in a series of amazing long epic battle of tactics and strategy, Cao Cao gets owned, ALMOST gets killed, and voila, it becomes prime meat for a great epic.

the battle is also known as the Battle of Chibi.

 

[GeneralMatt]

1. D-day
2. Monte Casino
3. Austerlitz
4. Waterloo
5. Marathon
6. Thermophilae
8. The Battle of the Red Cliffs
9. Dien Bien Phu
12. The Seige of Constantinople
13. 'Ain Jalut
15. Seige of Tenochtitlan
17. Battle of Hastings
18. Lexington and Concord
19. Trafalger
21. Stalingrad
22. Malta
23. The Alamo
24. Yo Mama Hill!/Other (Probably but cannot place it right now..)

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

1. D-day
2. Monte Casino
3. Austerlitz
4. Waterloo
5. Marathon
6. Thermophilae
7. Gaugamela
9. Dien Bien Phu
10. Carrhae
11. Teutobergald Forest
12. The Seige of Constantinople
14. Battle of Qadesh
15. Seige of Tenochtitlan
16. Seige of Vienna
17. Battle of Hastings
18. Lexington and Concord
19. Trafalger
20. Actium
21. Stalingrad
22. Malta
23. The Alamo
24. Yo Mama Hill!/Other

All but Red Cliffs and 'Ain Jalut. But I probably shouldn't count Gaugamela as I just heard of it today or Carrhae as I don't remember anything about it.

 

[Dreadnought]

All except 13.

 

[cybrxkhan]

14. Battle of Qadesh - Big chariot battle between Egypt and Persia (I think)

its not as you think... it was between Egypt and Hittites, and in the aftermath, witnessed propaganda not so dissimilar to Bush. Pharaoh Ramses said (on a big huge monument in big huge letters), "Oh look Egyptians, im so awesome, the gods favored me and i won the day! Woohoo! I'm so awesome, we're doing this and that and this and that and i won!"

in reality, thuogh Ramses technically won, it was only because of sheer luck - a naive military general, his tactics got himself surrounded in the midst of battle, and he nearly died, before getting rescued by reinforcements. afterwards, if i remember correctly, he signed a treaty with the Hittites, agreeing to divide the lands they were fighting over in half.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

and in the aftermath, witnessed propaganda not so dissimilar to Bush.

Eran's Law FTW!

 

[Yui108]

Heard of

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1. D-day
3. Austerlitz
4. Waterloo
5. Marathon
6. Thermophilae
7. Gaugamela
11. Teutobergald Forest
12. The Seige of Constantinople
15. Seige of Tenochtitlan
16. Seige of Vienna
17. Battle of Hastings
18. Lexington and Concord
19. Trafalger
20. Actium
21. Stalingrad
22. Malta

Haven't heard of
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2. Monte Casino
8. The Battle of the Red Cliffs
9. Dien Bien Phu
10. Carrhae
13. 'Ain Jalut
14. Battle of Qadesh
24. Yo Mama Hill!/Other

 

[The Gonzo]

All but Red Cliffs and Concord.

 

[Tee Kay]

I assumed he meant the 1565 Siege of Malta, when the Knights of St. John held off a much larger Ottoman force.

There's also the French Conquest of Malta in 1798, then the British Blockade and Conquest of Malta in 1800, and the bombing and siege of Malta during WWII.

Oh and four Battles of Carrhae/Harran. Once in Parthian times, another in Sassanid times, once in the Crusades and last time in the Mongol conquests.