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    Battle of the Persian gate under Alexander or the battle at the Cilician gates in the first crusade?

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    Brewster is correct
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    My school and highschool history books always had that painting on the back cover. That's the battle of Calugareni in 1595. I drew mustaches on every single one of those cavalrymen at least twice

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    Very good!

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    Hello fellow Dane. Oberst Max Müller commanding the Danes in the Battle near Sankelmark, where the Austrians failed to intercept the Danish retreat to Dybbøl. Of course Austria held the field, though the Danes never intended to hold it in the first place, so the Austrians saw it as a victory.

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    Daym, rigsfælle, well done.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cookiegod View Post
    From Socrates over Jesus to me it has always been the lot of any true visionary to be rejected by the reactionary bourgeoisie
    Qualis noncives pereo! #justiceforcookie #egalitéfraternitécookié #CLM

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    Think this is simply an image recognition competition tied to who can distort the most to avoid look ups. Understand the reasoning but to me seems pointless.

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    Making me doubt Cookie. I know which picture this is.. it's a captured German identifying a member of the SS who participated in the shootings of captured US soldiers at Malmedy. This picture is not at malmedy though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by wilddog View Post
    Think this is simply an image recognition competition tied to who can distort the most to avoid look ups. Understand the reasoning but to me seems pointless.
    Fair point, but I always make sure that there are identifiable hints in the image that makes the battle guessable, rather than relying on picture identification. In this case it's super easy. The last one I made was slightly harder.
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    Making me doubt Cookie. I know which picture this is.. it's a captured German identifying a member of the SS who participated in the shootings of captured US soldiers at Malmedy. This picture is not at malmedy though.
    very good. I wouldn't call Malmedy a battle. But you're extremely close and that last step is trivial.

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    Probably looking for the battle of the Bulge then? When the massacre took place.

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    Correct. BotB is also when the guys and the photo got taken. Just at a later stage of it.

    Photo had American military police and German soldiers, that and the surrounding area made it super obvious which front we were talking about; and the circumstances were also highly special (pretty much the only large scale German offensive on the Western front at this stage of the war, with lots of dirty tricks). So if one sees American MP's in action during WW2, chances are quite high that it's the Bulge. I had actually initially planned to use one of the execution pics from the German spies who got caught, but this pic was much more beautiful.

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    Battle of the Golden Spurs?

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    Afraid not.

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