It's quiz time!

[wellinghall]

Who did Britain beat in the following conflicts?

1. The shortest war in history
2. Battle of Madagascar
3. Battle of Tamatave
4. Battle of Mirbat
5. Battle of Bladensburg
6. Battle of the North Cape
7. Battle of Mount Harriet
8. Battle of the Falkland Islands
9. Battle of the River Plate
10. Quatre-Bras

Comments

[helflaed.livejournal.com]

1 The Sultan of Zanzibar

10 Napoleon

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Both right!

Ah.

[wemyss.livejournal.com]

2, Vichy; 3, the Frogs under the little Corsican bastard; 5, the Yanks, in 1812; 6 and 9, the Kriegsmarine; 7, the Argies; and 8, the Kaiserliche Marine. Was 4 really ours? As I recall, Them took on South Yemeni cadres and the Omani Adoo.... But was that technically 'our' fight?

Re: Ah.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

All right. And for 4, well, there was some involvement ...

Yes, well.

[wemyss.livejournal.com]

I don't mind the SAS, but they really can be rather ... SAS at times.

[gareth-rees.livejournal.com]

Didn't Britain and allies lose at Quatre-Bras?

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

That was the bonus point?

[jane-somebody.livejournal.com]

I recognise Quatre Bras from Georgette Heyer's Regency novels, which must make it the Napoleonic Wars. Other than that, I'm saying not-my-period :-)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Quatre-Bras is indeed in the Napoleonic Wars; two days before Waterloo.

I suppose there aren't that many well-known British vctories from your period ... ? ;-)