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1. April 30, 1863. Sixty-five men from this famous combat unit choose to fight to the end against some 2,000 enemies at Camerone. Brigadier General Pat Cleburne's 15th Arkansas Regiment, CSA Lieutenant General Thomas J. Jackson's Stonewall Brigade Captain Jean Danjou 's 3rd Company, 1st Battalion, French Foreign Legion Lieutenant Colonel George Custer's 7th Cavalry Regiment

2. January 22, 1879. In this Anglo-Zulu War engagement some 1,700 British men, including six companies of the 24th Foot Regiment, are encircled by a huge Zulu 'impi' of some 20,000 warriors. Battle of Khambula Battle of Ulundi Defense of Rorke's Drift Battle of Isandhlwana

3. February, 1836. The Mexican government sends General Antonio de Santa Ana as a response to the Texas rebellion and demands for independence. Santa Ana crosses the Rio Grande and lays siege with 3,000 of his men to an old catholic mission turned into a fort, and defended by 188 rebels (William Travis, Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett are among them). Name this famous site. Answer: (One or two words (remember John Wayne).)

4. Why did Colonel William Barrett Travis draw a line in the dirt with his sword before the above mentioned battle? To make a powder line to the magazine, allowing him to blow it up if the attackers forced a way into To allow his men to choose between saving their lives or fighting to the death He said that the Mexicans would not be allowed to cross it He divided his soldiers under Davy Crockett's command and himself

5. This young WWI air ace is hunting alone in the skies. He meets two British planes, and, as he downs them, a flight of six British S.E.5A's from the elite No.56 Squadron arrives at the fray. The German ace decides to turn and face all of them. Werner Voss Max Immelmann Manfred Von Richthofen Oswald Boelcke

6. 'La Chanson de Roland', a medieval epic, narrates the defeat of one of Charlemagne's paladins at Roncesvalles (Roncesvaux). Do you know the name of Roland's famous sword? Durandal Excalibur Gram Joyeuse

7. 1876. At Little Big Horn, 211 U.S. Army men must face an overwhelming Sioux assault. Who are leading the indians? Geronimo and Sitting Bull Black Hawk and Crazy Horse Black Hawk and Geronimo Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull

8. 480 B.C. Three hundred Spartan hoplites are defending Thermopylae Pass, trying to delay a Persian expedition that attempts to invade Boeotia and Attica. Who is the Spartan leader? Miltiades Leonidas Epaminondas Themistocles

9. Waterloo, June 18th, 1815. A handful of Vieille Garde Chasseurs (Old Guard Light Infantry) are completely surrounded at Mount Saint-Jean. An English general, Colville according to some, Maitland according to others, shouts to them, 'Surrender, brave Frenchmen!'. The French commander only answers 'Merde!' Who is he? Marshall Francois Joseph Lefebvre, Duke of Danzig Marshall Michel Ney, Duke of Elchingen, Prince of the Moskova Marshall Emmanuel, Marquis de Grouchy Brigadier General Pierre-Jacques-Etienne, Viscount Cambronne

10. December 22, 1944. The U.S. 101st Airborne Division is completely surrounded at the town of Bastogne. The German Commander issues an ultimatum that demands the Americans to honorably surrender within two hours or be annihilated by German artillery. Anthony McAuliffe answers: 'To the German Commander: ___! From the American Commander'. Fill in the blank. Answer: (One Word (think hard shell))