Including the palace in which Winston Churchill was born.
Indeed. And by coincidence, later in my life I got to live within a few miles of Blenheim Palace for a couple of years, so I’ve had double exposure.
There are two towns named Blenheim in the US. The one in NJ was named after the battle; the one in South Carolina was named for the palace.
Hah! The only Encyclopedia Brown mystery I remember some thirty plus years nigh. Don’t remember the Manassas part, but definitely the sword and the “First Battle” part.
There’s that too; the answer is that it is if that’s what you want to call it. There’s no real solid line dividing between when something is an offensive and when it’s a counteroffensive. Not that google is the arbiter of anything, but googling “Ardennes Counteroffensive” and “Ardennes Offensive” both return plenty of results both referring to the 1944 one. “Ardennes Offensive” produces numerically many more, but that doesn’t really mean anything other than it is probably the more commonly used one of the two. Results for “Ardennes Counteroffensive” are hardly lacking in authority leading to such places as the Eisenhower Presidential Library, the Imperial War Museum and the US Army’s Center of Military History.
At the end of the Great War the British set up a Battle Nomenclature Committee to assign names to the various battles on the Western Front; It eventually published its conclusions as The official names of the battles and other engagements fought by the military forces of the British Empire during the Great War 1914-1919 and the Third Afghan War 1919: report of the Battles Nomenclature Committee as approved by the Army.
Some, like the Third Battle of Ypres, commanded more-or-less universal acceptance in British historiography, others, like the Battle of Albert, are now used by nobody at all.
Also the only E.B. story I still remember, except I remembered “Manassas,” and forgot “First Battle.”
The US Revolutionary war battle was not in Saratoga as referenced; it was in Stillwater, NY as any Stillwaterian will tell you.
Interestingly, in various military history sources such as
they sprinkle the chapter with both “offensive” and “counteroffensive,” even on the same page.
I find that kind of sloppiness offensive.
Weren’t the ground conditions pretty sloppy?
Whereas I find it Counter-Offensive.
the ‘von Rundstedt offensive’ was also used for it at the time, although von Rundstedt actually had very little to do with it other than the operations orders going out under his nominal signature.
This is the kind of thing I was wondering. Thanks.
In a similar vein - who decided that the “Great War” should be called “World War 1”? Obviously - sometime after early September, 1939.
Yeah, you know a war memorial is prior to 1939 when it just says “The World War.”
All this and World War too!
Also someone who completely ignored the Seven Years’ War.
Actually, not so ‘obviously’. The First World War 1914-1918 had been used as a book title as early as 1920.
The First World War 1914 1918 by Repington C - AbeBooks
It was a term occasionally used by those who wanted to stress that there might be another world war.
There’s only one Blenheim.
