Heroes and Villains of War

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1. Made famous in the epic poem, Homer's "Iliad", his one weakness is now used to describe any small but potentially fatal flaw. Achilles Odysseus Hector Agamemnon

2. This military leader spread Greek culture from his native Macedonia to the Indian subcontinent. Marco Polo Cyrus The Great Alexander The Great Genghis Khan

3. The Spanish referred to him as El Draque (the Dragon), he was instrumental in annihilating the mighty Spanish Armada and was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe. Capt. John Smith Earl of Essex Sir Francis Drake Sir Walter Raleigh

4. This French teenager who heard voices led the French to lift the siege of Orleans during the Hundred Years' War, earning her the nom de guerre 'The Maid of Orleans': Answer: (three words)

5. This failed farmer and businessman found his niche in the military during the American Civil War and quickly rose to the rank of Commander of the Union Armies. George Custer Ambrose Burnside Ulysses Grant George Meade

6. Twice wounded in heroic battle for the Americans in the Revolution, his name became synonymous with traitors when, dejected and unappreciated, he attempted to sell West Point to the British. Answer: (first and last name)

7. This Mexican general-turned-dictator cemented his reputation for military ineptitude by squandering his superior forces against a much smaller group of volunteers in an abandoned church near San Antonio in March, 1836. Benito Juarez Antonio Lopez De Santa Anna Pancho Villa Don Juan

8. Perhaps the only positive result in the disastrous Crimean War was the movement toward treatment of war wounded by this person, the founder of modern nursing: Florence Nightingale Clara Barton Sarah Bernhardt Dorothea Dix

9. He is Japan's greatest naval hero, destroying the mighty Russian Black Fleet in the Straits of Tsushima in 1905 during the Russo-Japanese War. Shohei Baba Isoroku Yamamoto Hideki Tojo Heihachiro Togo

10. The nickname of Manfred von Richthofen, Germany's top fighter ace in World War I, downing 80 enemy aircraft before he was killed in action in 1918. Notorious for flying a maroon colored Fokker tri-plane. Answer: (Three words)

11. Major General Thomas Jonathan Jackson was praised throughout the Confederacy for his stubborn defense against the Union forces as Manassas and Sharpsburg, earning him this nickname: Answer: (One Word)

12. As Lord of the Admiralty in WWI, this future British leader oversaw the disastrous Gallipoli campaign, costing thousands of lives in a futile attempt to take Turkey out of the war. Douglas Haig Winston Churchill Edward Heath Neville Chamberlain

13. The only WWII personality to make it to the dictionary, this turncoat served Nazi Germany as a puppet-dictator in Norway. Vidkun Quisling Alfred Jodl Benedict Arnoldssen Rudolf Hess

14. This recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor later had a successful career as a Hollywood actor. Audie Murphy John Wayne Jimmy Stewart Clark Gable

15. During the 'Battle of the Bulge' in December, 1944, German generals ordered the surrounded American troops stationed in Bastogne to surrender. Brigadier General Anthony McAuliffe responded with this one-word reply: Answer: (One Word)