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Statistics for Famous Battles in History #2
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- This quiz has been taken 326 times
- The average score is 6 of 15
Answer Stats
| Description & Date | Answer | % Correct |
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| The Normans under William the Conqueror defeated the Anglo - Saxon army in this battle to secure the English throne ( 1066 ) | Battle of Hastings | 93%
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| In this battle in Pennsylvania , the Confederate army under Robert E. Lee was strategically defeated by a larger opposing Union army ( 1863 ) | Battle of Gettysburg | 71%
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| Finnish and German forces besieged this Russian city for 859 days , with staggering military and civilian casualties in total ( 1941 - 44 ) | Siege of Leningrad | 70%
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| In this disastrous battle which directly resulted in Winston Churchill's sacking , Australian , New Zealand and British troops attempting to invade Turkey via the sea were repulsed with heavy casualties by the Ottoman Turks ( 1915 - 16 ) | Gallipoli Campaign / Dardanelles Campaign | 61%
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| In one of the bloodiest battles of World War I , German forces failed to capture this fortified French city , with massive casualties on both sides ( 1916 ) | Battle of Verdun / Siege of Verdun | 59%
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| Hannibal and his Carthaginians obliterated a Roman army , but this devasting defeat did not give any significant advantage to the victors ( 216 BC ) | Battle of Cannae | 49%
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| In the largest naval battle of WWI , the British Royal Navy and German Navy clashed but the result proved indecisive ( 1916 ) | Battle of Jutland | 48%
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| Crusader army under Richard the Lionheart captured this vital seaport after a brief siege ( 1091 ) | Siege of Acre | 41%
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| German troops under General Walter Model surrounded smaller US forces at this small Belgian village and attacked it but were repulsed , in one the key battles of the Ardennes Offensive ( 1944 ) | Battle of Bastogne | 33%
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| Seljuk Turks defeat Crusader and Turcopole forces under King Guy in this battle ( 1187 ) | Battle of Hattin | 30%
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| An army of Polish - Lithuanian and Tartar Russian men defeated a much more experienced and well - equipped Teutonic army ( 1410 ) | Battle of Grünwald / Battle of Tannenberg | 22%
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| In this battle , a Swedish - Saxon army edged an Imperial army under renowned commander Prince Albricht Von Wallenstein , but the Swedish king , Gustav Adolph was killed while leading the charge ( 1632 ) | Battle of Lützen | 18%
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| The Ottoman army crushed a Hungarian , German and Austrian army at this famous battle , in which the Hungarian king was also killed ( 1526 ) | Battle of Mohacs | 17%
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| This Belgian village was the furthest advance in the 3rd Battle of Ypres , and the scene of massive bloodshed ( 1917 ) | Battle of Passchendaele | 15%
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| The fearless charge of a British light regiment in this Crimean War battle inspired Alfred Tennyson's famous poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade" ( 1854 ) | Battle of Balacava | 14%
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