Last Stands Trivia Quiz

Answer: Captain Jean Danjou 's 3rd Company, 1st Battalion, French Foreign Legion

Thirty-three legionnaires died (including Danjou) and thirty-one were captured (nineteen soon died of their wounds) Only a drummer managed to escape with two bullet wounds and seven lance wounds.

Answer: Battle of Isandhlwana

There were only 55 British survivors at Isandhlwana. Shortly after, the garrison at Rorke's Drift managed to repulse a heavy Zulu attack, killing 400 or 500 warriors and losing 17 of their own. The British revenged Isandhlwana and won the war at the battles of Khambula and Ulundi.

Answer: The Alamo

After twelve days of heavy casualties, Santa Ana launched a massive attack. Every defender and over 1,500 mexicans were killed. A few weeks later, the Texans defeated Santa Ana at San Jacinto shouting the battle cry: 'Remember the Alamo!'

Answer: To allow his men to choose between saving their lives or fighting to the death

'A hundred and eighty were challenged by Travis to die, with a line that he drew with his sword when the battle was nigh. The man who would fight to the death cross over but he who that would live better fly! And over the line stepped a hundred and seventy-nine...' Jane Bowers: Remember The Alamo

Answer: Werner Voss

Carl Menckhoff, a German ace with 39 victories, tried to help Voss but was quickly damaged and had to disengage. The British were all crack pilots, leaded by James McCudden (57 kills) and including Gerald Bowman, Reg Hoidge and Arthur Rhys Davids. Voss managed to damage nearly every plane, but finally Rhys Davids brought his silver blue Fokker triplane down, killing the young German.

Answer: Durandal

Legend says that he captured the sword from a Saracen prince at the battle of Aspromonte. He also had an ivory horn, the Olifan, that could be heard from a great distance. He refused to use it calling support from his king at the start of the battle, but when he remained the only survivor he sounded it to announce the sacrifice before dying himself.

Answer: Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull

The entire 7th Cavalry detachment was put to death including, of course, Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer. The Army took a merciless revenge over the Sioux.

Answer: Leonidas

Herodotus says that, when someone said to Dieneces, the Spartan, that the Medes (Persians) were so many that the sun would be darkened by their arrows, he answered: 'Our Trachinian friend brings us excellent tidings. If the Medes darken the sun, we shall have our fight in the shade.'

Answer: Brigadier General Pierre-Jacques-Etienne, Viscount Cambronne

Later, the historians would change Cambronne's answer to: 'La Garde meurt, mais ne se rend pas' (The Guard dies, but does not surrender).

Answer: Nuts

The 'Battered Bastards of Bastogne' endured the onslaught until the German ring was broken on 26 December, 1944, when elements of Patton's 3rd Army shot their way into the town.