A Game for the Amateur Military Historian.

[chequita guevara]

Well, considering the Carthegenians were using them soon after (African elephants are to aggressive to be used by humans, so they had to be imported Indian elephants) I think it likely that after the fall of Alexander's empire, the sucsessor states used them.

Anyway, we still have to figure out Spence's pic.

[chequita guevara]

I'm thinking, he was the commander of the unit that built and destroyed the bridge at the River Kwai.

[grobnok]

Originally posted by Locutus
Grobnok,

No, they didn't, not at the time of Alexander anyway.

I said medieval The mongols defeated them in their conquest.

[chequita guevara]

Which would be beyond the scope of the painting.

[Locutus]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Well, considering the Carthegenians were using them soon after (African elephants are to aggressive to be used by humans, so they had to be imported Indian elephants) I think it likely that after the fall of Alexander's empire, the sucsessor states used them.

Indeed. Even Alexander himself used elephants once or twice after Hydaspes, and after his death all his successors did indeed employ them as well. The Romans were actually first introduced to elephants by Pyrrhus around 280 BCE.

[chequita guevara]

Fighting elephants sux.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by SpencerH
He is british. The photos could have been taken in India.

Orde Wingate- leader/creator of the Chindits, I think.

Given his varied career, you could have pictures from Ethiopia, Palestine or Burma.

Che- there were more than one variety of African elephant. The Egyptians (pre-Ptolemies) imported them from Ethiopia for their exoticism and display, but the Ptolemies used African elephants in battle against the Seleucids, who used Asiatic elephants.


Hannibal's elephants were indeed African, of a variety that became, ah, used up.

The North African variety were once so plentiful that their tusks were used as fenceposts in Morocco. These elephants were trained in Carthage prior to Hannibal's journey across the Alps.

[Whoha]

Rest assured, I am desparately trying to find a zerg rush picture for this thread.

[Koyaanisqatsi]

Originally posted by molly bloom Orde Wingate- leader/creator of the Chindits, I think.

Correct.

[SpencerH]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
I'm thinking, he was the commander of the unit that built and destroyed the bridge at the River Kwai.

No, but your heading in the right direction. He was also famous for his unorthodox activities in Palestine and the Sudan. Strangely he is buried at Arlington.

[SpencerH]

Originally posted by molly bloom


Orde Wingate- leader/creator of the Chindits, I think.

Given his varied career, you could have pictures from Ethiopia, Palestine or Burma.

Correct, Orde Wingate, probably the most brilliant leader of large special force units in WWII.

I doubt that the pictures were from Palestine or the Sudan (looks like a brigadier rank in one and the ozzy in the other).

[chequita guevara]

Can't wait to see what Molly comes up with.

[Kidlicious]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Can't wait to see what Molly comes up with.

Yeah. I knew the answer, but I wanted Molly to come up with something.

[molly bloom]

I think I scored a goal there SpenceH.


He was an ardent Zionist too, because of his fundamentalist Protestant beliefs, and is also a hero to the nation of Israel, as well as to Ethiopia.


Unfortunately his reputation suffered an unwarranted decline in the post-war period thanks to his successor in the Chindits who lacked his ability, and hostile biographers who failed to appreciate the genius of Wingate. Like many great unorthodox mavericks he lacked the everyday social graces that might have smoothed his path through the thickets of the intrigues in British headquarters in India.


Anyway- name the woman, the emperor most associated with her, and with whom she came into conflict, and the name of the 'crisis' associated with her.


She has been named the model of a mediaeval general.

[Koyaanisqatsi]

Matildia of tuscany
Investiture Controversy
One of the Henry's?