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Test Your Brain - Military Quiz Ancient to 1600AD1. How many Punic Wars were there? 2. What was a Brigandine? 3. Which barbarian sacked Rome in 410AD? 4. What was a medieval Destrier? 5. How was Scotland's JAMES II killed in 1460? 6. What is considered most unusual about the Flemish victory at Courtrai in 1302? 7. Who took command of the famed White Company in 1364? 8. Name the original Pyrrhic victory? 9. How many centuries in a Roman cohort? 10. Where in 73AD did the defenders commit suicide rather than surrender? 11. Who said ' Another such victory over the Romans like this one and we are undone'? 12. What would a Roman naval captain do with a Corvus? 13. Whose epitaph read; ' Go tell the Spartans, thou who passest by, that here, obedient to their laws, we lie.' 14. The Teutonic knights were founded after which siege? 15. Who commanded the ENGLISH at the battle of Stirling where William Wallace led the Scots to victory in 1298? 16. What was considered the best wood to make English longbows? Clue: The answer's NOT Balsa. 17. How did Hannibal find out that the reinforcements led by Hasdrubal were not going to arrive? 18. Who first established the Royal Navy? 19. Why did the emperor Augustus say on his deathbed 'where are my eagles'? 20. Name the only major battle of the THIRD Crusade? |