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Started by Admiral Yi, July 22, 2009, 03:15:40 PM

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Eddie Teach

#795
October 04, 2009, 01:15:53 PM
So instead of a (kinda) history trivia question, we now have an Agelastus trivia question?  :lol:
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Viking

#796
October 05, 2009, 05:14:41 AM
24 hrs

They played as if they were "all backs".

So I open up the floor.
First Maxim - "There are only two amounts, too few and enough."
First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
The fact remains that the only person or group to applaud the Norway massacre are random Islamists.

HisMajestyBOB

#797
October 05, 2009, 05:47:52 AM
Easy one: The HMS Victoria was a British battleship that was sunk in 1893 in the Mediterranean. What happened?
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Caliga

#798
October 05, 2009, 06:48:27 AM
Ran aground?
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HisMajestyBOB

#799
October 05, 2009, 06:49:15 AM
Nope. Even more embarrassing.
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Caliga

#800
October 05, 2009, 06:52:00 AM
Magazine explosion?
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Agelastus

#801
October 05, 2009, 06:52:18 AM
Admiral Tryon (commanding the Mediterranean Fleet from Victoria) mistook his turning radiuses, no-one had the guts to tell him he was wrong or turn without an order from him, and Admiral Markham (his second in command) rammed Victoria with his own battleship that was leading the other column.

Which, if I recall correctly, was Victoria's own sister ship! :lmfao:

Stupid, stupid combination, rams and a single forward firing turret.
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The Best is yet to be
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Threviel

#802
October 05, 2009, 06:53:20 AM Last Edit: October 05, 2009, 06:55:21 AM by Threviel
It was rammed by another battleship during training maneuvers. HMS Camperdown perhaps?

Meh... Too late.

Caliga

#803
October 05, 2009, 06:54:15 AM
Quote from: Agelastus on October 05, 2009, 06:52:18 AM
Admiral Tryon (commanding the Mediterranean Fleet from Victoria) mistook his turning radiuses, no-one had the guts to tell him he was wrong or turn without an order from him, and Admiral Markham (his second in command) rammed Victoria with his own battleship that was leading the other column.

Which, if I recall correctly, was Victoria's own sister ship! :lmfao:

Stupid, stupid combination, rams and a single forward firing turret.
Googled it.  :)
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HisMajestyBOB

#804
October 05, 2009, 06:56:49 AM
Agelastus has it!
That tale never ceases to amuse me. :lol:
And yes, it was the HMS Camperdown that did the ramming.
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Agelastus

#805
October 05, 2009, 07:00:04 AM
Quote from: Caliga on October 05, 2009, 06:54:15 AM
Quote from: Agelastus on October 05, 2009, 06:52:18 AM
Admiral Tryon (commanding the Mediterranean Fleet from Victoria) mistook his turning radiuses, no-one had the guts to tell him he was wrong or turn without an order from him, and Admiral Markham (his second in command) rammed Victoria with his own battleship that was leading the other column.

Which, if I recall correctly, was Victoria's own sister ship! :lmfao:

Stupid, stupid combination, rams and a single forward firing turret.
Googled it.  :)

YOU BASTARD!!!!! :mad: :lol: :P :hug:

Actually, although I have several sources, the best account of the scandal I have ever read is from "The Rules of the Game, Jutland and British Naval Command" by Andrew Gordon. A book which just happens to grace my shelves, not that I needed to look it up - even in the detail above, which I note neglects to mention the name of Markham's flagship, as I cannot remember it (although I do remember that the Nile was second ship in Markham's column.)

It's a crying shame that Tryon was discredited by this accident. If he had lived and continued to influence the Royal Navy away from the rigid signals school exemplified by Jellicoe in WWI, then things might have gone very differently at Jutland.

Now I have to think of a question...
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The Best is yet to be
The last of life for which the first was made."

Agelastus

#806
October 05, 2009, 07:06:41 AM
Ok, another easy one (and dammit, I need a broader selection of history books for inspiration, most of mine deal with Ancient Warfare or the Dreadnought era.)

Everyone knows the 300 Spartans died at Thermopylae (well, either 298 or 299 did, depending on whether Leonidas counted as one of the 300 or not.)

Anway, that's immaterial. The question is...

"Two other contingents stayed behind to die with the Spartans. From which Greek cities did they come?"

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The Best is yet to be
The last of life for which the first was made."

HisMajestyBOB

#807
October 05, 2009, 07:10:17 AM
Thebes and... er, Corinth?
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Agelastus

#808
October 05, 2009, 07:13:03 AM
Quote from: HisMajestyBOB on October 05, 2009, 07:10:17 AM
Thebes and... er, Corinth?

You've got one (Thebes, 400 men - alleged to have surrendered, but now considered likely to have been from the anti-Persian faction of the later-to-medize Thebes, and thus killed with the Spartans.)

The other is a less famous city, and the one I really want...
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Caliga

#809
October 05, 2009, 07:21:06 AM
Argos?
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