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Little-known Military Conflicts
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Questions on little-known military events, usually omitted from school curriculums.
Question 1:
In 1799, Napoleon began his campaign to conquer the Ottoman Empire, but was eventually defeated at this city.
Alexandria
Istanbul
Bagdhad
Acco
Question 2:
The English Navigation Acts were a series of laws which restricted foreign shipping. Resentment against the Navigation Acts was a cause for which war?
The English Civil War
The Anglo-Dutch Wars
The Anglo-Berber War
The Boer War
Question 3:
What precipitated the 1969 six-day war between El Salvador and Honduras?
A soccer game
Control over the oil reserves in the Gulf of Fonseca
Import tariffs on Salvadoran goods exported into Honduras
Import tariffs on Honduran goods exported into El Salvador
Question 4:
In the Battle of Gaugamela, 331 B.C. , Alexander the Great of Macedonia defeated which king?
Darius III
Leonidas of Sparta
Cyrus the Great
Marcellus Germanicus
Question 5:
F. D. Toussaint Louverture, a freed self-educated slave, was one of the leaders of which uprising?
Haitian Revolt
Sandanista Uprising
Rebellion of Martinique
Revolution of Devil's Island
Question 6:
What conflict was initiated by a self-proclaimed mystic, named Hong Xiuquan, who claimed that he was the new Messiah?
Taiping Rebellion
Opium Wars
Turko-Russian War
Boxer Revolution
Question 7:
In this 751 A.D. military conflict between Islamic forces and Chinese forces, the Chinese were completely defeated.
Talas War
Boxer Revolution
Sino-Turkish War
Opium War
Question 8:
This conflict, which lasted from 1839 to 1842, is regarded as a trade-inspired war between Great Britain and the Qing Empire in China.
The War of the Roses
The Shanghai Revolution
Boxer Rebellion
The First Opium War
Question 9:
The Great Northern War was the war fought between a coalition of Russia, Denmark-Norway and Saxony-Poland one side and Sweden on the other side. The coalition attacked Sweden in what year?
1864
1917
1942
1700
Question 10:
The Battle of Crécy, which took place on 26 August 1346, was one of the most important battles of a war conflict between which two countries?
France and England
France and Prussia
France and Flanders
France and Spain
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