Correct.
An Gadai, if, as the OP said, this thread is “just like” the U.S. History thread in its rules, I respectfully suggest you limit yourself to asking five questions at a time.
Greece and/or Cyprus?
OK, if you aren’t going for the 26+6 counties, you must be going for the 4 ancient provinces: Ulster, Munster, Leinsterand…Connaugh.
Don Rickles
The Ottoman Empire
Turkey
Nope.
No.
I believe that she once shot a lit cigarette from the mouth of Kaiser Wilhelm. I suspect that would be the shot she might regret not having missed.
Queen Victoria?
Queen Victoria
Great Britain.
I was at the Military Museum in Istanbul, once - I can’t recommend it enough for mil history buffs - and I was shocked, and then vastly amused by the Gallipoli Audio-Visual Extravaganza room. We’re all so used to thinking of the Dardanelles Campaign as a massive fiasco, but as far as the Turks are concerned it’s one of their most glorious victories, and rightly so.
Anyway, a couple of mine:
Moshe Dayan had his eye shot out by soldiers of what army?
Why was Yitzhak Rabin hospitalized a few days before the Six Day War?
Martin Luther, at the time of the Peasant’s Rebellion, wrote some very strong letters condemning the leaders of the rebellion for daring to use his theology to support their revolutionary ideals.
The Yavuz began life as the SMS Goeben. When the British Mediterranean fleet failed to engage or stop the Goeben, she ended up escaping into the Dardenelles, where the German gov’t ended up transferring her to the Ottomans. The name changed, then, but the crew remained the same. It was one of the key incidents in getting the Ottomans to come in on the Central Powers side, and lead to the closing of the Dardanelles to Russian trade, which contributed to the worsening of the Russian economy, and thus to the Russian Revolution.
The Breslau was a light cruiser escort of the Goeben.
Getting warmer, but no (likewise Alessan).
OtakuLoki is correct as to Queen Victoria and Kaiser Wilhelm.
I misnumbered a question a couple of posts ago - count 179 as 170.
Then Australia/New Zealand, obviously.
A related question:
Wasn’t that the battle in the movie “The Lighthorsemen?” If so,it would be the last city captured by cavalry, or something like that.
I didn’t realise there was a 5 question limit. Ooopsy!
Close enough. It was the last successful use of massed cavalry in modern warfare.
I believe it was Landesberg
Otherwise, you all know your Nazis.
You and Alessan have it right. I was thinking of Australia; there’s an Australian monument in Ankara, I think, saluting Ataturk as an honorable opponent who after WWI welcomed grieving Australian families to the Gallipoli battlefields, and paid homage to their fallen.
His words at the ANZAC gravesite are wonderful. I’ve been reluctant to read more about him, just because I’d hate to have that image of the man revised by feet of clay.
He was a very interesting guy, in many ways as dominant in the Turkish imagination and polity as George Washington is here, if not more so. I think even heroes with major flaws are worth learning about. You can appreciate, admire and laud a great leader with remarkable accomplishments even as you acknowledge his or her shortcomings.
It seems that most questions have been answered (and I don’t know the answers to the rest), so here goes: