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

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Admiral Yi

Quote from: Barrister on July 30, 2009, 12:56:04 PM
Huh.  I ruled out Australia because you specified a national rate - I was sure it would be provincial jurisdiction in Australia (like it is in Canada).
Newsweek could be writing bullshit.  I can't vouch for it.

Grey Fox

Quote from: Caliga on July 30, 2009, 12:53:50 PM
Austerlitz.

Right. Your floor.

Next time, I'm going Nouvelle-France on you lot.
Colonel Caliga is Awesome.

Caliga

 :)

Napoleon = OSSUM. :yeah:

But then again he was a Corsican. -_-

Gimme a little bit to think something up.
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Caliga

The French submarine Le Surcouf was part of an invasion force during the Second World War.  Under what flag did it serve and where did the invasion occur?
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Barrister

Lets take a stab in the dark.  Vichy flag, invasion of... Norway?
Posts here are my own private opinions.  I do not speak for my employer.

Viking

Siezed by the Japs i 1940 and took part in the invasion of Malaya?
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.

Viking

Quote from: Barrister on July 30, 2009, 01:12:43 PM
Lets take a stab in the dark.  Vichy flag, invasion of... Norway?

Invasion of Norway 9 April 1940
Start of Fall Gelb (invasion of belgium) 10 May 1940

unpossible.
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.

Barrister

Quote from: Viking on July 30, 2009, 01:13:44 PM
Quote from: Barrister on July 30, 2009, 01:12:43 PM
Lets take a stab in the dark.  Vichy flag, invasion of... Norway?

Invasion of Norway 9 April 1940
Start of Fall Gelb (invasion of belgium) 10 May 1940

unpossible.

Meh - I figured it would break the rules to google even side facts like that.
Posts here are my own private opinions.  I do not speak for my employer.

Viking

Quote from: Barrister on July 30, 2009, 01:16:31 PM

Meh - I figured it would break the rules to google even side facts like that.

but come on.. getting the order of declarations of war in 1940 should be easy...
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.

Grey Fox

Colonel Caliga is Awesome.

Barrister

Okay, lets go with the more obvious guess:

Free French forces, invasion of Normandy.
Posts here are my own private opinions.  I do not speak for my employer.

Habbaku

British flag, invasion of Madagascar.
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.

-J. R. R. Tolkien

The Brain

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Viking

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.

The Brain

Women want me. Men want to be with me.