bureau@math.arizona.edu (Pierre Bureau) (06/15/91)
From: Pierre Bureau <bureau@math.arizona.edu>
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More trivia:
1) A naval architect and an athenian stateman. Commanding the fleet of
Athens and its Allies, he won a decisive victory at Salamines over
the Persian Fleet, thus putting an end at the Second Persian War,
around 500 BC. However, he was accused of embezzlement and was
banned to Persia.
2) A Roman general who destroyed the great confederation of pirats of
eastern Mediterranea. His future partner and rival had been captured
earlier by some of those pirats. His own some became a pirat
admiral.
3) Battle between Octavius and Marcus-Antonius.
4) He put an end to the endemic piratery in Borneo in the 1840s.
5) An Admiral of France and the chief of the Huguenot Party in France.
A fleet he sent founded Rio de Janeiro and Saint-Augustine under
different names.
6) This russian cruiser fired his cannons on the Winter Palace in
Petrograd at the beginning of the October Revolution.
7) The cadets of this russian naval academy were the nucleus of the
Red Army.
8) Nicknamed the "corsair of the Emperor", he captured more than
200 british merchant-ships between 1800 and 1814.
9) Like Salamines, Tsushima and Leyte, it was a "T-battle" that
changed World's History in 1571. Amongst the participants were Don
Juan of Austria, Cervantes and Dorgut.
10) He was Nelson's unfortunate rival at Trafalgar.
11) This battle opposed a british/french fleet to Mehemet Ali's
fleet in 1827 and resulted in the independence of Greece. Was it
another "T-battle" ?
12) Name of the british iron-clad steam-powered cruiser
flagship of the British fleet engaged in the Opium Wars.
13) Hungary's Regent from 1919 to 1944. Other titles included
Admiral. Died in exile in Spain.
14) Who was France's last Admiral of the Fleet ? His officers
obeyed his order to scuttle their ships a few days after his
murder.
15) German admiral father of the German Navy.
16) Who was the superior of Doenitz before resigning ?
17) New name of H.M.S. Hermes in the Indian Navy ?
18) This english admiral was court-martialed, found guilty
of incompetence and shot on his flagship in the 1750s after he lost
Minorca to the French.
19) Greek admiral of Alexander the Great.
20) Father of the modern Royal Navy. Started his carreer
serving in Crimea, China and pushed the Royal Navy well ahead in
this century.
21) What was "Le Vengeur" ?
22) When and where did the "Hero" fight against the "Heros" ?
23) What is the oldest commissioned warship in the world ?
24) A former US commodore, he became a russian admiral of
Catherina the Great.
25) Name of the admiral that was the Japanese War Minister
who ordered the bombing on Pearl Harbor.
Bonus)
When and where did the US Navy fight with the Royal Navy for the
first time ?
Have fun.
Pierre