# Bakers Dozen **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [August 4, 2010, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173 "2010-08-04T17:56:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1685
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2015, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/33684 "2015-03-07T22:07:52Z")
Battles won by the side that ended up losing the war 1. Chancellorsville - Confederates - American Civil War 2. Austerlitz - victory for Napoleon, who was ultimately defeated 3. Pearl Harbor - Japan - World War 2 4. Battle of Bladensburg, Maryland - British - War of 1812 5. Battle of the Alamo - Mexicans - Texas Revolution 6. Battle of the Coral Sea - Japan - World War II 7. Guilford Court House - Great Britain - American Revolution ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2015, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/33685 "2015-03-07T22:51:49Z")
Battles won by the side that ended up losing the war 1. Chancellorsville - Confederates - American Civil War 2. Austerlitz - victory for Napoleon, who was ultimately defeated 3. Pearl Harbor - Japan - World War 2 4. Battle of Bladensburg, Maryland - British - War of 1812 5. Battle of the Alamo - Mexicans - Texas Revolution 6. Battle of the Coral Sea - Japan - World War II 7. Guilford Court House - Great Britain - American Revolution 8. Dunkirk - Germany - World War 2 ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2015, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/33686 "2015-03-08T00:43:09Z")
Battles won by the side that ended up losing the war 1. Chancellorsville - Confederates - American Civil War 2. Austerlitz - victory for Napoleon, who was ultimately defeated 3. Pearl Harbor - Japan - World War 2 4. Battle of Bladensburg, Maryland - British - War of 1812 5. Battle of the Alamo - Mexicans - Texas Revolution 6. Battle of the Coral Sea - Japan - World War II 7. Guilford Court House - Great Britain - American Revolution 8. Dunkirk - Germany - World War 2 9. Tannenberg - Germany - World War I ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2015, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/33687 "2015-03-08T02:12:07Z")
Battles won by the side that ended up losing the war 1. Chancellorsville - Confederates - American Civil War 2. Austerlitz - victory for Napoleon, who was ultimately defeated 3. Pearl Harbor - Japan - World War 2 4. Battle of Bladensburg, Maryland - British - War of 1812 5. Battle of the Alamo - Mexicans - Texas Revolution 6. Battle of the Coral Sea - Japan - World War II 7. Guilford Court House - Great Britain - American Revolution 8. Dunkirk - Germany - World War 2 9. Tannenberg - Germany - World War I 10. Thermopylae - Persia - Second Greco-Persian War ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2015, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/33688 "2015-03-08T03:54:09Z")
Battles won by the side that ended up losing the war 1. Chancellorsville - Confederates - American Civil War 2. Austerlitz - victory for Napoleon, who was ultimately defeated 3. Pearl Harbor - Japan - World War 2 4. Battle of Bladensburg, Maryland - British - War of 1812 5. Battle of the Alamo - Mexicans - Texas Revolution 6. Battle of the Coral Sea - Japan - World War II 7. Guilford Court House - Great Britain - American Revolution 8. Dunkirk - Germany - World War 2 9. Tannenberg - Germany - World War I 10. Thermopylae - Persia - Second Greco-Persian War 11. Battle of the Alamo - Mexico - Texas Revolution ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2015, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/33689 "2015-03-08T07:01:23Z")
Battles won by the side that ended up losing the war 1. Chancellorsville - Confederates - American Civil War 2. Austerlitz - victory for Napoleon, who was ultimately defeated 3. Pearl Harbor - Japan - World War 2 4. Battle of Bladensburg, Maryland - British - War of 1812 5. Battle of the Alamo - Mexicans - Texas Revolution 6. Battle of the Coral Sea - Japan - World War II 7. Guilford Court House - Great Britain - American Revolution 8. Dunkirk - Germany - World War 2 9. Tannenberg - Germany - World War I 10. Thermopylae - Persia - Second Greco-Persian War 11. Lostwithiel - Royalists - English Civil War The Alamo had already been used as #5. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2015, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/33690 "2015-03-08T16:18:57Z")
Battles won by the side that ended up losing the war 1. Chancellorsville - Confederates - American Civil War 2. Austerlitz - victory for Napoleon, who was ultimately defeated 3. Pearl Harbor - Japan - World War 2 4. Battle of Bladensburg, Maryland - British - War of 1812 5. Battle of the Alamo - Mexicans - Texas Revolution 6. Battle of the Coral Sea - Japan - World War II 7. Guilford Court House - Great Britain - American Revolution 8. Dunkirk - Germany - World War 2 9. Tannenberg - Germany - World War I 10. Thermopylae - Persia - Second Greco-Persian War 11. Lostwithiel - Royalists - English Civil War 12. Little Bighorn (Indians were ultimately doomed) ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2015, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/33691 "2015-03-08T16:58:59Z")
Battles won by the side that ended up losing the war 1. Chancellorsville - Confederates - American Civil War 2. Austerlitz - victory for Napoleon, who was ultimately defeated 3. Pearl Harbor - Japan - World War 2 4. Battle of Bladensburg, Maryland - British - War of 1812 5. Battle of the Alamo - Mexicans - Texas Revolution 6. Battle of the Coral Sea - Japan - World War II 7. Guilford Court House - Great Britain - American Revolution 8. Dunkirk - Germany - World War 2 9. Tannenberg - Germany - World War I 10. Thermopylae - Persia - Second Greco-Persian War 11. Lostwithiel - Royalists - English Civil War 12. Little Bighorn (Indians were ultimately doomed) 13. Battle of Asculum, in the Pyrrhic Wars. I know I’m cheating by going twice in a row, but how could we risk leaving out the battle that gave us the phrase “Pyrrhic Victory”? The Romans lost the Battle of Asculum, but Pyrrhus lost so many irreplaceable men that he commented, “One more such victory and we are finished.” I pass on new topic ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2015, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/33692 "2015-03-08T17:25:38Z")
Well, since it’s International Women’s Day: New: Famous women, but no repeating the same country. 1. Indira Gandhi - India ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2015, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/33693 "2015-03-08T18:01:20Z")
Famous women, but no repeating the same country. 1. Indira Gandhi - India 2. Margaret Thatcher- England ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2015, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/33694 "2015-03-08T20:13:49Z")
Famous women, but no repeating the same country. 1. Indira Gandhi - India 2. Margaret Thatcher- England 3. Eleanor Roosevelt - United States ---
**Author:** ![Thin\_Ice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@Thin\_Ice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thin_Ice)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2015, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/33695 "2015-03-08T20:22:18Z")
Famous women, but no repeating the same country. 1. Indira Gandhi - India 2. Margaret Thatcher- England 3. Eleanor Roosevelt - United States 4. Imelda Marcos - The Philippines ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2015, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/33696 "2015-03-08T20:42:47Z")
Famous women, but no repeating the same country. 1. Indira Gandhi - India 2. Margaret Thatcher- England 3. Eleanor Roosevelt - United States 4. Imelda Marcos - The Philippines 5. Gerti Cori - Czechoslovakia March is National Women’s History Month! Cori, born in Czechoslovakia, was the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2015, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/33697 "2015-03-08T21:43:36Z")
Famous women, but no repeating the same country. 1. Indira Gandhi - India 2. Margaret Thatcher- England 3. Eleanor Roosevelt - United States 4. Imelda Marcos - The Philippines 5. Gerti Cori - Czechoslovakia 6. Queen Isabella -Spain ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2015, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/33698 "2015-03-08T22:11:40Z")
Famous women, but no repeating the same country. 1. Indira Gandhi - India 2. Margaret Thatcher- England 3. Eleanor Roosevelt - United States 4. Imelda Marcos - The Philippines 5. Gerti Cori - Czechoslovakia 6. Queen Isabella -Spain 7. Madame Marie Curie - France ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2015, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/33699 "2015-03-08T22:21:47Z")
Famous women, but no repeating the same country. 1. Indira Gandhi - India 2. Margaret Thatcher - England 3. Eleanor Roosevelt - United States 4. Imelda Marcos - The Philippines 5. Gerti Cori - Czechoslovakia 6. Queen Isabella - Spain 7. Madame Marie Curie - France 8. Aung San Suu Kyi - Burma ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2015, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/33700 "2015-03-08T22:31:51Z")
Famous women, but no repeating the same country. 1. Indira Gandhi - India 2. Margaret Thatcher - England 3. Eleanor Roosevelt - United States 4. Imelda Marcos - The Philippines 5. Gerti Cori - Czechoslovakia 6. Queen Isabella - Spain 7. Madame Marie Curie - France 8. Aung San Suu Kyi - Burma 9. Anita Ekberg - Sweden ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2015, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/33701 "2015-03-08T23:29:25Z")
Famous women, but no repeating the same country. 1. Indira Gandhi - India 2. Margaret Thatcher - England 3. Eleanor Roosevelt - United States 4. Imelda Marcos - The Philippines 5. Gerti Cori - Czechoslovakia 6. Queen Isabella - Spain 7. Madame Marie Curie - France 8. Aung San Suu Kyi - Burma 9. Anita Ekberg - Sweden 10. Celine Dion - Canada ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2015, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/33702 "2015-03-08T23:40:17Z")
Famous women, but no repeating the same country. 1. Indira Gandhi - India 2. Margaret Thatcher - England 3. Eleanor Roosevelt - United States 4. Imelda Marcos - The Philippines 5. Gerti Cori - Czechoslovakia 6. Queen Isabella - Spain 7. Madame Marie Curie - France 8. Aung San Suu Kyi - Burma 9. Anita Ekberg - Sweden 10. Celine Dion - Canada 11. Natassja Kinski - Germany ---
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Famous women, but no repeating the same country. 1. Indira Gandhi - India 2. Margaret Thatcher - England 3. Eleanor Roosevelt - United States 4. Imelda Marcos - The Philippines 5. Gerti Cori - Czechoslovakia 6. Queen Isabella - Spain 7. Madame Marie Curie - France 8. Aung San Suu Kyi - Burma 9. Anita Ekberg - Sweden 10. Celine Dion - Canada 11. Natassja Kinski - Germany 12. Catherine of Siena - Italy [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173.md?page=1684) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173.md?page=1686)