Friday Quiz 18

Friday does seem to come round real quick, shame I still have four more work days before a day off LOL

1. What natural event event helped defeat Kublai Khan's 1281 invasion of Japan?

2. At which battle did Gustavus Adolphus die?

3. Which Confederate general ended his days as president of the Georgia Military Academy?

4. Which boy sailor won a posthumous Victoria Cross at the Battle of Jutland (1916)?

5. The Russian's had the Stalin Organs but what did British troops call the German Nebelwerfer?

Answers some time early next week.

It's still Monday and I get the answers out, how is that possible?

1. A great storm, known as the kamikaze (Divine Wind).

2. The Battle of Lutzen in 1632.

3. General Daniel Harvey Hill.

4. Boy (1st Class) John Travers Cornwell of HMS Chester. His citation read
"the instance of devotion to duty by Boy (1st Class) John Travers Cornwell who was mortally wounded early in the action, but nevertheless remained standing alone at a most exposed post, quietly awaiting orders till the end of the action, with the gun's crew dead and wounded around him. He was under 16½ years old. I regret that he has since died, but I recommend his case for special recognition in justice to his memory and as an acknowledgement of the high example set by him."

5. Moaning Minnie's though as has been suggested other names will have been used that are rather less printable.

Thanks again for all who have joined in again this week.