Something different...5 quotes uttered either before, during, or after a battle. Name the person, rank, and battle. Easy first then harder, I hope. 1. 'England expects that each man will do his duty' 2. 'Don't shoot until you see the whites of their eyes' 3. 'Nuts' 4. 'Veni, vidi, vici' 5. 'There are two kinds of people who are staying on this beach. Those who are dead and those who are going to die.'
Cold guesses: 1 - Trafalgar 2 - Bunker Hill 3 - Battle of the Bulge 4 - Caesar in France I think - Alesia? 5 - I'll guess Normandy.
I think 2 is actually some battle in the Zulu wars, not sure which one, but I agree about the rest. "Nuts" was Brigadier general A C Mcauliffe, on 22nd december, 1944, in the town of Bastogne. (I love my library) OK, when did the battle of Blore Heath occur?
1. Adm. Nelson @ Trafalgar 2. Col. Prescott @ Bunker Hill 3. Gen McAuliffe @ Bastogne 5. Col. George Taylor @ Omaha (not Gen Coda as in The Longest Day) I'll give you those but what battle did veni,vidi,vici follow?
OK, nobody wants to guess about Blore Heath. Instead, I shall ask, at which battles did the English demonstrate the superiority of the long bow over the Scots Schiltrons in the 14th century?
Guthrie, was Blore Heath fought during the English Civil War? Actually, having looked it up I see Blore Heath was fought in September 1459, during the Wars of the Roses.
Not exactly conforming to the rules, but more on the subject of quotes. Interesting to see who answers this without the need for search engines. Who will be honest? Quote: "I want no prisoners. I wish you to kill and burn, the more you kill and burn, the better you will please me."
Hint: 20th century. Another hint: I'm conducting a little personal experiment to see how much Americans really know about their own history.
Negative. Keep guessing. Hint number 4: Didn't take place in America. Other battles were fought in the same area 40-odd years later.
Hell, thats an entire region not a battle. Americans seem to have a rather selective education - this must be something like the Japanese knowing less about events in China before and during WW2 than we do. No. Head further East.
Apparently geography is passed over frequently as well. "East" of Indochina, not north. Balangiga. The pacification of Samar, Phillipines. American-Phillipine war, 1898-1902. Following a massacre of American troops by Phillipinos, General Jacob Smith uttered these words when ordering the "Pacification of Samar". Have a read, there are plenty of links on the net. It comes as somewhat of a surprise to me that the majority of Americans I've spoken to have no idea they even had a war with the Philipines, let alone know anything regarding the details of it.
