Historic Battles: True or False Quiz

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At the Battle of Zama, the Second Punic War ended effectively as Scipio Africanus decisively beat Hannibal.
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The Battle of Chosin Reservoir resulted in Chinese forces halting and reversing the U.N. invasion of North Korea.
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The Battle of Ten Kings was an important political conflict that took place in modern-day Saudi Arabia.
Historic Battles: True or False Quiz
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In 1683, the Polish king John Sobieski defeated the Ottoman Empire's armies at the Battle of Vienna.
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The Battle of the Bulge got its name because one of the participants, General Lutz von Tannenberg, was a rotund man who was colloquially called "The Bulge of Germany"?
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At the Battle of Marcoing in World War One, it is said that a British private named Henry Tandey spared the life of Adolph Hitler.
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Molotov Cocktails were given their names in 1939 by Finnish soldiers fighting in the battles of the Winter War.
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Joan of Arc was known as the Maiden of Versailles because she helped break the Siege of Versailles.
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Confederate General Stonewall Jackson died during Pickett's Charge in the Battle of Gettysburg.
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The Battle of Towton in 1461 was the bloodiest battle fought on British soil.
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At the Battle of Little Bighorn, Chief Tecumseh and his men killed Goerge Armstrong Custer.
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At the Battle of Hattin, the emperor Saladin reconquered the Crusader States of the Levant thus reversing any territorial gains won during the First Crusade.
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The Battle of Cuautla in 1911 brought down the dictator Porfirio Diaz at the outset of the Mexican Revolution.
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At the Battle of Milvian Bridge, the Roman leader Constantine won control over his homeland.
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The Battle of Trafalgar witnessed the defeat of Napoleon's navy.
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General George Patton was killed during the Siege of Berlin at the War in Europe's tail-end.
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The Battle of Tippecanoe earned Andrew Jackson his nickname as he won the battle.
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Oliver Cromwell did not participate in the Battle of Worcester which effectively won him the English Civil War because he was suffering from digestive problems.
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In 1857, soldiers in India rebelled against the British Raj because of rumors that their weapons cartridges contained animal fat.
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World War One's Battle of Meuse-Argonne was named for the Argonne River alongside which the combat took place.
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The Battle of Waterloo happened toward the end of Napoleon's hundred-day return to France.
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In 778, Charlemagne's famous knight Roland was killed during a battle in Iberia known as the Battle of Roncevaux Pass.
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The Battle of Shiroyama is famous for ending the samurai class.
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The Battle of the Coral Sea was famous for being the first major naval confrontation where warships never sighted nor fired on one another.
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At the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains, the Romans and the Visigoths teamed up to fight Attila the Hun even though the latter had sacked Rome only forty years prior.
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The Battle of Gettysburg was the only major battle where one future President of the United States fought against another future President of the United States.
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The Siege of Antioch was a battle during the First Crusade that effectively opened up the crusaders' route to Palestine.
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The Battle of Britain was fought primarily by submarines in the English Channel.
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Julius Caesar was able to take Rome by winning the Battle of Agrivine where he captured and ransomed his rival Pompey.
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The Battle of Chancellorsville is often called "Lee's Perfect Battle" because Robert E. Lee dominated the Army of the Potomac led by Joseph Hooker.
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