The NAME THAT HISTORICAL EVENT game

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by Darsnan
My son thinks its the Battle of Monmouth, American Revolutionary War.

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Please tell me who is depicted as well

/me walks off mumbling, hoping the Son of Darsan is more than 4 years old

[Darsnan]

Originally posted by Grandpa Troll



Please tell me who is depicted as well

I see Washington in the background. Is that who your refering to?

Originally posted by Grandpa Troll
* Grandpa Troll walks off mumbling, hoping the Son of Darsan is more than 4 years old

You've got it easy! Everyday he'll ask me questions like "Dad, at the Battle of Saratogo why do you think General so-and-so did this, instead of that" and can't understand why I don't know the answers.

Anyways, does this mean I get to post now?

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[Grandpa Troll]

It was Molly Pitcher, the female in front of the flag

But please post away

/me believes he just got Trout Slapped

[Darsnan]

If you know what the sign says, then this one should be easy.

[Kropotkin]

Kiev, right?
So it's a picture from the battle of Kiev in 1941 where the russian lost and Budjenny, the old hero of the soviet union from the Russian revolution, got dissmissed by Stalin after losing him more than a million men.



or something like that

[Darsnan]

Originally posted by Kropotkin
Kiev, right?

The sign actually reads "To Kiev!"

Originally posted by Kropotkin
So it's a picture from the battle of Kiev in 1941

Not 1941, and not in Kiev.

[MOBIUS]

Kursk (Summer 1943) is only a couple of hundred miles away.

The sign to Kiev therefore indicates the turning point where Germany could no longer win the war in the east, and would hencefore be on the retreat.

[Darsnan]

Originally posted by MOBIUS
Kursk (Summer 1943) is only a couple of hundred miles away.

The sign to Kiev therefore indicates the turning point where Germany could no longer win the war in the east, and would hencefore be on the retreat.

Good guess, but this battle happened after Kursk. Another hint: the soldiers in the picture are building a raft.


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[MOBIUS]

Ah well then, why didn't you say so: The Battle of the Lower Dnieper...

I just figured that Kursk was a more 'salient' battle given its ramifications...

[Darsnan]

Originally posted by MOBIUS
I just figured that Kursk was a more 'salient' battle given its ramifications...

Originally posted by MOBIUS
The Battle of the Lower Dnieper...

We have a winner! The Battle of the Dnieper: this battle had the distinction of having the most "Hero of the Soviet Union" awards earned, which really says something considering some of the other major battles the Soviets fought in WW2 (Moscow, Kursk, Stalingrad, Bagration).

Your up MOBIUS!


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[MOBIUS]

Name the battle, and for a bonus name the famous dude in the picture...

[KrazyHorse]

First Battle of the Marne, John French commanding the BEF?

[MOBIUS]

Nope. Right War though.

(Oh yeah, it's somewhere I've been...)

[Addled Platypus]

Originally posted by MOBIUS
Ah well then, why didn't you say so: The Battle of the Lower Dnieper...

and you got that from "building a raft"

[MOBIUS]

Because that was the main mode of transport for the Russians...

The battle is one of the largest ever, and one of the least recognised for its size...

http://www.answers.com/topic/battle-of-the-dnieper

BTW Are clues needed already!? It is WWI and the uniforms are pretty distinctive. And the guy is a national hero, in every sense of the word!