Riddle of Ages: Travelling Through History

[NedimNapoleon]

Little Big Horn, Custer being a fool and the legend was actually a coward?

 

[mayor]

eehm, no. the legend and the fool are two different persons

 

[Bowsling]

Well, my next best guess after VOC and French West Indies is CHOAM from Dune, but I suppose that doesn't qualify as history.

 

[mayor]

hehe, no Dune doesn't count as history

 

[W|M]

Quintus Lollius Urbicus' invasion of Pictland?

 

[NedimNapoleon]

The sale of New York for a pitty price?

 

[mayor]

no to both but Nedim is thinking in the right country

 

[NedimNapoleon]

I knew it was the Netherlands! When that guy I cant remember his name took 2 french forts in Acadia but then his administrator lost it?

 

[mayor]

hmm, if you thought about the Netherlands you were actually thinking about the wrong country

 

[Sonereal]

McCellan?

 

[mayor]

eehm, I'm not sure if there was a McCellan there (I'm looking for a event)
There was a man with a similarish name

 

[W|M]

MacArthur?

 

[Sonereal]

Gettysburg?

 

[mayor]

MacArthur?

nope, it's an event

Gettysburg.

no, it's earlier in history

 

[W|M]

The burning of Washington in 1814?

 

[Sonereal]

Hmm, the failed Invasion of Canada during the American Revolution?

 

[mayor]

no


A divided joint venture
Had set their sights
On those few from the hills
That came to preserve
But a leader was a fool
A legend was a coward

The fathers and brothers
The sergeants and captains
Witnessed a defeat
That was hard to equal
Until the rising sun

 

[Sonereal]

Battle of the Wabash (after that, I'm out of guesses )

 

[mayor]

nope, hmm I thought that extra verse would give it away...

well I'm off to bed, let those braincells work guys

 

[KaiserElectric]

Definitely involves Japan at one point. I'm guessing some historical feat was accomplished that the Japanese later bested.