The NAME THAT HISTORICAL EVENT game

[Addled Platypus]

who to kill a cameraman?

[MOBIUS]

I suppose the image could do with a bit of flattening...

[Anaximander]

Alright, its a British Mark IV, like the ones used at Villers Bretonneux, the site of the first Tank vs. Tank Battle.

[MOBIUS]

Correct tank.

However the battle I am looking for occurred almost six months earlier...

[Anaximander]

Probably the battle of Cambrai then

[MOBIUS]

Yep!

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

Noted for the first successful use of tanks, the British attack demonstrated that the Hindenburg Line could be penetrated, while the German counter showed the value of new infantry tactics that would later be part of the Kaiserschlacht.

Over to you, sir!

[Anaximander]

Alright,

Lets try this one on for size!

[Anaximander]

[Darsnan]

The sinking of the USS Housatonic by the HL Hunley, February 1864?

[Anaximander]

Right war, wrong battle.

[Darsnan]

Originally posted by MOBIUS
Please don't make me go through all the Confederate Battleships one by one...

CSS Alabama versus the USS Kearsarge?

D

[Anaximander]

We have a winner!

[MOBIUS]

Ooh!!!

When I was in the Alabama Hills (where Hollywood filmed all the Westerns), outside Lone Pine, CA, I found out they were named during the Civil War...

In 1864 Southern sympathizers in Lone Pine discovered gold "in them thar hills." When they heard that a Confederate cruiser named the Alabama had burned, sunk or captured more than 60 Federal ships in less than two years they named their mining claims after the cruiser to celebrate. Before long the name applied to the whole area. Coincidentally, while Southerners were prospecting around Lone Pine, there were Union sympathizers 15 miles north near Independence. And when the Alabama was sunk off the coast of France by the U.S.S. Kearsarge in 1864, the Independence people struck back. They not only named their mining claims "Kearsarge" but a mountain peak, a mountain pass, and a whole town as well.

Neat, huh?

[Darsnan]

Who is this, and what battle was he associated with?

[MOBIUS]

Time for bed I think...