Battle Facts: Part I Trivia Quiz

Answer: Withered arm.

Wilhelm II had a withered left arm. This was caused at birth, due to Erb's Palsy. In order to disguise the fact when he was posing for photos he used to rest his hand on a sword, or hold gloves.

He was the Kaiser of Germany during World War I from 1888-1918 and always wore uniform in public.

Answer: He was partially blind in the left eye due to a birth defect.

Jackson lost most of his hearing when he was in the artillery.
Jackson believed that his right arm was longer than his left so he would hold his arm up to compensate the blood flow.
There is a legend that Jackson was fond of lemons and that he would eat them to assist with his Dyspepsia (indigestion). But this is not quite true. He did chew on lemons during the war, but this was because they were readily available when enemy food caches were located. Visitors to Jackson's grave leave lemons as a tribute, and the lemon myth lives on!
His favourite fruit was peaches.

Answer: Left arm; shot by his own troops.

Returning from a recon of his own lines he was shot by his own troops. His left arm was amputated and he was conveyed to a hospital train. He died on the way.

Answer: His leg.

He lost his leg on 5 December, 1838 during a battle with the French. It was given a military burial and was later placed into a shrine. A few years later the leg was stolen during riots. It was never recovered.

His missing leg was replaced with a artificial leg made from wood and cork. In a cruel twist of fate the leg was stolen by an American solider during the Battle of Cerro Gordo (Mexican-American War). The leg can now been seen at the Illinois State Military Museum.

Santa Anna held the Mexican Presidential office eleven times.

He issued the orders to have Davy Crockett and the other soldiers at the Alamo killed.

Answer: 15

His first wife, Inés García died at age 33. She was 14 years old when she married Santa Anna. They had four children (Guadalupe, Maria del Carmen, Manuel and Antonio).

His second wife, María Dolores de Tosta, was just 15 when she married Santa Anna.

Mexicans believed he had disrespected the memory of his first wife by marrying María without having the traditional grieving period.

Answer: They all rode bicycles.

Moss volunteered for the duty of running the 25th Infantry bicycle unit.

The unit was made up of black soldiers (African-American) due to the racial segregation that standard practice in the US Army at the time.

As an experiment, Moss led his troops on a mammoth ride from Fort Missoula, Montana to St. Louis, Missouri. The trip covered about 1,900 miles and took 41 days.
In the end the experiment proved that bicycle riding infantry soldiers was not overly practical.

A few nice links about their adventures are listed below (worth the read):
http://www.highonadventure.com/Hoa97aug/Montana/montana.htm
http://www.moaa.org/magazine/February2004/f_steeds.asp
http://bicyclecorps.blogspot.com/


Moss and his 25th Infantry later went to fight in Cuba in 1898.

Answer: Onions.

The very next day three trainloads arrived. Grant was a big fan of onions because of the medical benefits he believed they possessed.

Answer: Former US Secretary of State, Colin L. Powell.

Colin Powell never attended West Point, however he did do ROTC training.
He was the 65th US Secretary of State from 2001 until 2005.
He did two tours during the Vietnam War.

Poe was expelled from West Point for committing 66 offences including failing to show up for parade, disobedience and refusing to attend classes. Legend has it that he rolled up to parade one morning only wearing his cartridge belt and nothing else!

Timothy Leary and Richard Hatch both dropped out.

Richard Hatch has the proud title of being the FIRST person to leave the Australian version of "Who Want's To be A Millionaire" with no cash whatsoever!

Answer: Sergeant.

Stubby was indeed awarded the rank of Sergeant.
He would warn the American troops of impending gas attacks and would help find wounded soldiers in no-man's land.
He even captured a German spy.
Stubby was awarded various medals.

Here is the full story:
http://awesomeplanet.blogspot.com/2008/02/sgt-stubby1917-1926a-pitbull.html

Answer: The Peninsula War.

The word guerrilla was derived the Spanish word that means "little war".

The Peninsula War was fought during 1807-1814. Part of the Napoleonic Wars, it was fought between Spain, Portugal and Britain fighting the French.

Guerrilla tactics were used during all of the wars mentioned in this question.