Name that historical figure!

**Grymloq** · May 09, 2013, 03:56 PM

How is it possible? I have changed the name of the pic so it doesn't show up

**Grymloq** · May 09, 2013, 03:59 PM

delete...

**Grymloq** · May 09, 2013, 04:03 PM

Stupid TWC....

**~~Prince Regent George~~** · May 10, 2013, 01:06 AM

When you press the mouse's right click button and then the "View Image" option, it goes you ta a page which reveals his name.
http://s1098.photobucket.com/user/Gr...e97ae.jpg.html

**Grymloq** · May 10, 2013, 02:18 AM

Ok, I change picture ( I didn't notice it, because I don't have the Show image option available on that picture)

**barry12** · May 10, 2013, 05:06 AM

Originally Posted by Grymloq

Ok, I change picture ( I didn't notice it, because I don't have the Show image option available on that picture)

I know this one but I'll let the others guess first... clue: same nationality as Grymloq

**~~Prince Regent George~~** · May 10, 2013, 08:47 AM

francesco algarotti i presume

**Grymloq** · May 10, 2013, 09:12 AM

Correct!

**barry12** · May 10, 2013, 09:38 AM

Go for it Tabor!

**~~Prince Regent George~~** · May 10, 2013, 10:33 AM

Great!
So, here's the new picture (an easy one):

**GhirYear** · May 10, 2013, 04:51 PM

Looks like José Miaja Menant (Spanish Civil War).

**~~Prince Regent George~~** · May 11, 2013, 03:32 AM

Miaja is correct!
+1

**GhirYear** · May 12, 2013, 05:16 AM

I guess I owe you some new entertainment:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

And thanks for the rep, Tabor.

**Grymloq** · May 12, 2013, 12:21 PM

I can't see the picture

**GhirYear** · May 12, 2013, 04:29 PM

It is inside the spoiler but just in case anybody else has trouble - here is the pic again:

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**GhirYear** · May 14, 2013, 05:50 AM

Still not a single guess? I have to admit this is probably a tough one - but far from impossible. Some hints:

The man in the picture had a more famous grandfather who led the troops of a major European power against one of the great military talents of history ... and failed miserably. He is also known for negotiating an unfavourable peace.
The man in the picture fought against yet another military genius, it cost him an eye, but he was lucky enough to be on the side that eventually won.
Later he married far above his station and cuckolded a far greater man

**Lord Oda Nobunaga** · May 14, 2013, 11:09 PM

Neiperg the pirate faced married Napoleon's second wife Marie Louise of Austria.

**barry12** · May 16, 2013, 04:47 AM

Money is correct I believe

**GhirYear** · May 16, 2013, 10:29 AM

Money is indeed correct. Adam Albert von Neipperg is the solution, born in a Swabian noble house, he fought for most of the Napoleonic Wars in the Austrian Army. At Leipzig he was a Lieutenant-Fieldmarshall. 1814 he entered into the service of Marie-Louise of Austria, negotiated for the new Duchess of Parma at the Vienna Congress, became her Foreign Minister, lover and finally husband. His grandfather Wilhelm Reinhard failed pretty badly against Frederic II of Prussia during the War of Austrian Succesion, in particular he lost the Battle of Mollwitz. Earlier von Neipperg already negotiated the unfavourable peace treaty of Belgrad with the Ottoman Empire.