The NAME THAT HISTORICAL EVENT game

[MOBIUS]

This picture was taken during which event?

[Saras]

Scorzeny rescuing Mussolini in one of the most daring commando ops in history.

[Saras]

Operation Unternehmen Eiche, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unternehmen_Eiche. Thanks for the pic, never seen any footage, actually suprised someone was arsed to take a camera to that one

[MOBIUS]

Glider raid on a mountain hotel in the Gran Sasso.

Otto Skorzeny: Would you mess with "The most dangerous man in Europe"?



You're up Saras!

[Saras]

what is this:

[Darsnan]

Surrender of the Polish Home Army after the battle of Warsaw, 1944?

[Saras]

Yea, a sad end to a heroic struggle. Many thanks to great co-belligerents (allies just doesn't sound right) the Soviets. NOT.

Your turn.

[Darsnan]

Another aquatic-oriented event, and a significant one in history, at that. What battle was this?

[Anaximander]

1453 siege of Constantinople?

[MOBIUS]

Originally posted by Darsnan
Another aquatic-oriented event, and a significant one in history, at that. What battle was this?

Hmmm, this would be a tough one except I had some points of reference in the absence of any flags/heraldry etc...

1. The attackers look 'middle eastern', with Turban style headdress and scimitar style swords.

2. The boat is clearly c.15/16th C. in appearance cf. Mary Rose, Matthew or Golden Hinde. A caravel?

3. The painting style is sort of Tudorish, insofar as I've seen tons of this type of painting in the UK. Also done by someone who obviously has never been to the place in question: hence the attackers having a 'Tudor' ship and attacking somewhere with Gothic architecture...

Therefore, the only thing I could think of was the Turks/Ottomans attacking Europe during the same period using big fleets, e.g. Constantinople, Rhodes and Malta... (I have visited all three!)

Obviously the most important of these would be the Siege of Constantinople in 1453 by Mehmed II (Did you see my picture clue earlier in this thread?), and lo and behold we can see both our paintings in the wiki entry for the siege...

[MOBIUS]

Originally posted by Anaximander
1453 siege of Constantinople?

And there I am spending a while during work giving my reasons and Anaximander steals in and beats me to it!

You're up then...

(It's more fun guessing anyway...)

[Darsnan]

Originally posted by MOBIUS


And there I am spending a while during work giving my reasons and Anaximander steals in and beats me to it!

Good job, Anaximander! Your up


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[Anaximander]

Didn't mean to steal your thunder! I have to say, though, your reasoning was spot on. As I am also at work, I'll pass my turn to you though and let you post the next picture.

[Anaximander]

All right, I feel bad that the game has stopped. If someone can tell me how to insert an image, I'll post one.

[MOBIUS]

A nice easy one - I'm kinda time poor right now...