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1. Made famous in Homer's epic poem, the "Iliad", his one weakness is now used to describe any small but potentially fatal flaw.
2. This military leader spread Greek culture from his native Macedonia to the Indian subcontinent.
3. The Spanish referred to him as El Draque. (Contrary to urban legend, this does *not* mean 'The Dragon'). He was instrumental in annihilating the mighty Spanish Armada and was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe.
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':
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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
10. What is 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? He was notorious for flying a maroon colored Fokker tri-plane.
11. Major General Thomas Jonathan Jackson of the Confederacy was given this nickname when fighting the Union forces at Manassas and Sharpsburg. What was it?
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.
13. The only WWII personality to make it to the dictionary, this turncoat served Nazi Germany as a puppet-dictator in Norway.
14. This recipient of the ("Congressional") Medal of Honor later had a successful career as a Hollywood actor.
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:
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