The NAME THAT HISTORICAL EVENT game

[Addled Platypus]

LA California

protest the Rodney King beatings

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Platypus Rex
LA California

protest the Rodney King beatings

Right place wrong protest

[KrazyHorse]

Illegal immigrant protest?

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
Illegal immigrant protest?

Close enough. It's a protest against illegal-immigration reform.

The baton passes to KwazyHoss!

[KrazyHorse]

I'm out of ideas. Somebody else go.

[Alexander I]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
I'm out of ideas. Somebody else go.

What is the event depicted in this engraving? When did it take place, and who were the major players?

[molly bloom]

Battle of the White Mountain 1620, in Bohemia near Prague in the Thirty Years' War.


The Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II, with the armed might of the Catholic League commanded by the illustrious Tilly, defeated a force of Bohemians/Czechs and their mercenaries who were mightily put out at the loss of their Elector Frederick and his Winter Queen, Elizabeth Stuart (sister to Charles I of Great Britain).


In this confrontation (over yet another claimant's 'rights' to a European throne) should the commanding officers have been fighting on opposite sides ?

Country the battle was fought in, the relevant commanders at the battle, and the war for extra virtual Easter eggs.

[molly bloom]

One of the monarchs involved:

[Fake Boris]

So, are you posting a new puzzle?

edit:

[ElTigre]

Well, the monarch is Louis XIV, so the war is probably the War of Spanish Succession, but I can't identify the battle. The terrain looks quite mountainous, so it's probably not one of the battles fought in the Low Countries. Maybe Spain or Italy.

Famous commanders in that war were the Duke of Marlborough and Eugene of Savoy.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by ElTigre
Well, the monarch is Louis XIV, so the war is probably the War of Spanish Succession, but I can't identify the battle. The terrain looks quite mountainous, so it's probably not one of the battles fought in the Low Countries. Maybe Spain or Italy.

Famous commanders in that war were the Duke of Marlborough and Eugene of Savoy.

I thought with the battle scene being relatively anonymous, I had to post a picture of one of the rulers involved, and Queen Anne would have been far too obvious, so there you have a relatively well-known Le Brun portrait of Le Roi Soleil.

So, ElTigre: right monarch, right war, and with Eugene of Savoy you could say he should have been fighting on the opposite side, but he isn't one of the commanders involved in this battle.

Same confrontation, another view:

[ElTigre]

Battle of Almansa, in Spain. The Duke of Berwick, son of James II and Arabella Churchill, led a French and Spanish army to a decisive victory over an Anglo-Portuguese army commanded by the Marquis de Ruvingy, a Frenchman. Interesting mix...

[ElTigre]

An easy one:

[Darius871]

Flight 655?

[ElTigre]

Originally posted by Darius871
Flight 655?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_flight_655