Super Quiz: Famous land battles

December 16, 2016 at 1:45 a.m.

  1. Napoleon was defeated by the armies of the Seventh Coalition (1815)

  2. Commonly referred to as "Custer's Last Stand" (1876)

  3. Often described as the turning point of the U.S. Civil War (1863)

  4. French defeat that influenced talks over the future of Indochina (1954)

  5. The only battle where U.S. casualties exceeded those of the Japanese (1945)

  6. A turning point in the Western Desert Campaign of World War II (1942)

  7. The battle ensured the continued Protestant ascendancy in Ireland (1690)

  8. Carthage's army, under Hannibal, defeated a larger Roman army (216 B.C.)

  9. The battle is depicted on the "Bayeux Tapestry" (1066)

ANSWERS

  1. Battle of Waterloo

  2. Battle of the Little Bighorn

  3. Battle of Gettysburg

  4. Battle of Dien Bien Phu

  5. Battle of Iwo Jima

  6. Battle of El Alamein

  7. Battle of the Boyne

  8. Battle of Cannae

  9. Battle of Hastings

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