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ANSWERS1. Three 2. A jacket with iron plates in the lining 3. Alaric the Goth 4. A knights horse. (Richard III shouting 'my kingdom for a Destrier just doesn't sound right). 5. Friendly fire; A cannon exploded at the siege of Roxborough. And he never liked the place anyway!! 6. Infantry withstood a charge by mounted knights. (All had bike clips on during the charge though). 7. Sir John Hawkwood 8. Heraclea 280BC 9. Six 10. Masada;- Not Masala as someone once said. 11. Pyrrhus 12. Use it on an enemy vessel as a spiked plank dropped onto the deck to allow soldiers to cross over 13. Spartans 14. Acre 1190 15. John de la Warenne, Earl of Surrey 16. Spanish Yew 17. Hasdrubal's severed head was catapulted into the Carthaginian camp, which gave the game away really.!! (I wonder what it screamed as it flew threw the air. Answers on a postcard). 18. Alfred the Great, (or after he burnt the cakes perhaps it should have been Grate)!! 19. Three legions destroyed at Teutoburger-wald in 9AD haunted Augustus for five years 20. Arsuf 1191AD |