History

General Knowledge & Quiz Questions

• In the sea shanty Boney Was a Warrior, what did the sailors call the French?
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• What was the biggest cause of deaths in British army hospitals in the Peninsula between 1812 and 1814?
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• What was a blackening ball?
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• Name five Peninsular War battles beginning with S.
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• Who was the French ruler at the time of the Congress of Vienna?
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• Finish this saying from Napoleon Bonaparte. "Friends must always be treated as if one day they might be ..."
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• How did the French Revolution weaken the French navy?
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• The key members of the Confederation of the Rhine were ...?
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• Of which ageing Spanish general was it said he was "So violent and obstinate that everbody feared him ... but his enemies."?
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• General Kray versus General Sherer on 5 April 1799. What battle?
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• Napoleon Bonaparte's sister Elisa became Grand Duchess of which region?
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• What were Eclaireurs-a-Cheval?
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• What were the reported final words of Napoleon Bonaparte when he farewelled his Old Guard at Fontainebleau?
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• Name five Revolutionary or Napoleonic battles beginning with C.
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• Who organised supplies for the British army?
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