History Quiz / 'F' Battles

Where in the Province of New York did a massacre conducted by American Indians occur following a successful siege 1757 by the French during the French and Indian War?

The bombardment and surrender of where near Charleston South Carolina in April 1861 officially started the American Civil War?

Which battle in 1862 in Tennessee during the American Civil War was the first important victory for the Union and General Ulysses S. Grant in the Western Theater?

In which major battle 1862 in Virginia during the American Civil War did Robert E. Lee defeat the Union Army of the Potomac commanded by Major General Ambrose Burnside?

King Edward I defeated the Scot William Wallace in which battle of 1298 during the First War of Scottish Independence?

Scots King James IV invaded England and was killed in which battle in Northumberland 1513?

A French army under Maurice de Saxe defeated the Pragmatic Allies commanded by the Duke of Cumberland at which major battle in Belgium 1745 during the War of the Austrian Succession?

King Charles VII defeated the English at which major battle of the 100 Years' War in 1450 resulting in the French capture of Normandy?

Which battle or 'Pocket' was the decisive engagement of the Battle of Normandy in 1944 during WWII?

Napoleon routed a Russian army under Count von Bennigsen in which major battle in Russia 1807 during the Napoleonic Wars?

British Admiral George Anson almost annihilated a protected French 30-ship convoy off Cape ....... northwestern Spain in which 1747 battle during the War of the Austrian Succession.

Confederate General John Bell Hood was defeated by Union forces under General John M. Schofield in a disaster for the Confederates at which battle of 1864?

In which battle of 1066 in Yorkshire England did the invading Viking King Harald III 'Hardrada' of Norway and Tostig Godwinson defeat the northern Earls Edwin and Morcar?

Which 1914 battle in the South Atlantic resulted in a British naval victory over the Imperial German Navy during WWI?

The French defeated the Imperial forces of the Holy Roman Empire in which 1702 battle fought in present day Germany during the War of the Spanish Succession?

Confederate General James Longstreet failed to raise the siege of Knoxville Tennessee conducted by Union General Ambrose Burnside in which battle of 1863 during the American Civil War?

Which battle in Tennessee 1864 ended with a massacre of mostly African American Union troops surrendering to Confederate Major General Nathan Bedford Forrest during the American Civil War?

A series of battles fought on the eastern frontier of France and in southern Belgium shortly after the outbreak of WWI in 1914 is known as the Battles of the ........?

In which disastrous battle of July 1916 in Flanders intended to hold German reserves from moving south to the Somme did British and Australian troops suffer heavy casualties during WWI?

Francis Scott Key wrote the 'Star Spangled Banner' during the bombardment of ....... in an attack by the British navy in 1813 during the War of 1812?

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