Quiz of the Month

Talking Wargaming

by Don Featherstone

1. Who held Rorke's Drift - names?

2. Who went out to India to command the British in the later stages of the Indian Mutiny?

3. Who perished to a man at Gandamak during the retreat from Kabul?

4. Who stirred even Wellington to enthusiasm at Busaco by "hurling back the heroes of Austerlitz and Marengo like playthings."?

5. Who was the leader of cavalry who, at the height of the most desperate charge of military history, restrained an impetuous subordinate by placing the flat of his sabre across his breast as he rode level?


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