Famous Battles Lost

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1. My men "died with their boots on". Who am I? George Armstrong Custer Ambrose Burnside Robert E Lee Philip Sheridan

2. I lost the Battle of Watling Street. Ethelred the Unready Alfred the Great Cleopatra Boudica

3. I held the "Gates of Fire". Who was I? King Priam King Xerxes King Leonidas King Agamemnon

4. I was in command at the Alamo. Who am I? William Barret Travis Sam Houston Jim Bowie Davy Crockett

5. Historians say I lost the "flower of France" at Crecy. King Henri IV King Edward III King Philip VI King Louis XIV

6. One in the eye cost me my crown. Edward the Confessor Harold Hadrada Harold Godwinson William Duke of Normandy

7. I led the last attempted invasion of England. Harold Hadrada William the Conquerer Bonnie Prince Charlie Julius Caeser

8. It could be said that "half a league" and a horse carried me into a day of infamy. James Scarlett Lord Raglan Lord Cardigan Earl Lucan

9. I lost a civil war and the Crown of England. King Charles II King Richard II King John King Charles I

10. My falling off a horse and dying effectively broke up the world's largest ever empire. Alexander the Great Kublai Khan Ghengis Khan Julius Caeser