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Post by Iron Duke on Aug 26, 2020 18:44:39 GMT
Hercules was not a try,I just read about Arnold's Victims. Just a hint. You found him Iron Duke ! - Your turn - pleaseOk, he was an Anglo-Irish peer who served in the British Army, eventually attaining the rank of field marshal. Due to his ruthlessness during the Irish famine he earned the nickname The Exterminator. He was one of the three men held responsible for the mix up that led to the Charge of the Light Brigade. One of his descendants and inheritors of his peerage was involved in one of the biggest British scandals of the 1970s. He was the 3rd Earl of .... and commanded the British cavalry during the Crimean war. His brother-in-law was Lord Cardigan and he conveyed to him the order to lead the Charge of the Light Brigade. The 7th Earl disappeared in 1974 after his children's nanny was murdered and he was finally declared dead in 2016. His whereabouts remains one of the great unsolved mysteries of recent British history. His noble title is sufficient for the answer. |
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Post by Nobunaga Oda on Aug 27, 2020 17:04:37 GMT
Iron Duke, I'm just going to place a guess on a random jurisdiction: Marlborough.
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Post by Iron Duke on Aug 27, 2020 19:41:16 GMT
Iron Duke , I'm just going to place a guess on a random jurisdiction: Marlborough. Worth a try, but no. The earldom is in Ireland, but it's not a famous place. |
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Post by Nobunaga Oda on Aug 28, 2020 8:31:21 GMT
Iron Duke , I'm just going to place a guess on a random jurisdiction: Marlborough. Worth a try, but no. The earldom is in Ireland, but it's not a famous place. Sadly, we're not going to see his name in the Crimean War Challenge of EW6: 1804. |
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Post by Iron Duke on Sept 2, 2020 12:10:27 GMT
Ok, he was an Anglo-Irish peer who served in the British Army, eventually attaining the rank of field marshal. Due to his ruthlessness during the Irish famine he earned the nickname The Exterminator. He was one of the three men held responsible for the mix up that led to the Charge of the Light Brigade. One of his descendants and inheritors of his peerage was involved in one of the biggest British scandals of the 1970s. He was the 3rd Earl of .... and commanded the British cavalry during the Crimean war. His brother-in-law was Lord Cardigan and he conveyed to him the order to lead the Charge of the Light Brigade. The 7th Earl disappeared in 1974 after his children's nanny was murdered and he was finally declared dead in 2016. His whereabouts remains one of the great unsolved mysteries of recent British history. His noble title is sufficient for the answer. I'll give the answer and set a new question tomorrow if nobody has guessed it by then. |
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Post by Iron Duke on Sept 4, 2020 12:17:23 GMT
He was the 3rd Earl of .... and commanded the British cavalry during the Crimean war. His brother-in-law was Lord Cardigan and he conveyed to him the order to lead the Charge of the Light Brigade. The 7th Earl disappeared in 1974 after his children's nanny was murdered and he was finally declared dead in 2016. His whereabouts remains one of the great unsolved mysteries of recent British history. His noble title is sufficient for the answer. I'll give the answer and set a new question tomorrow if nobody has guessed it by then. Lord Lucan is the answer I was looking for. He's the chap in the bicorn hat:
Edit: I just realised the thumbnail has 2 others in bicorns  he's the one at 11 seconds played by Harry Andrews. And here's the bio for the infamous 7th earl: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bingham,_7th_Earl_of_Lucan |
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Post by Iron Duke on Sept 4, 2020 12:30:27 GMT
Ok, new question:
One of the most famous kings of England even though he only ruled for 10 years
During that time he spent as little as perhaps 6 months actually in England
He was one of 3 kings of this regnal name, but he is best known by his epithet
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Post by Nobunaga Oda on Sept 6, 2020 7:09:07 GMT
Ok, new question: One of the most famous kings of England even though he only ruled for 10 years During that time he spent as little as perhaps 6 months actually in England He was one of 3 kings of this regnal name, but he is best known by his epithet Is he a certain inf gen we know of in EW5?  Is he the one with Rumour and Logistics? |
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Post by Iron Duke on Sept 6, 2020 8:07:48 GMT
Ok, new question: One of the most famous kings of England even though he only ruled for 10 years During that time he spent as little as perhaps 6 months actually in England He was one of 3 kings of this regnal name, but he is best known by his epithet Is he a certain inf gen we know of in EW5? Is he the one with Rumour and Logistics? He might well be |
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Post by Iron Duke on Sept 9, 2020 12:06:29 GMT
Is he a certain inf gen we know of in EW5? Is he the one with Rumour and Logistics? He might well be Are you going to claim this one Nobunaga Oda and set a new question? |
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Post by Nobunaga Oda on Sept 9, 2020 12:56:05 GMT
He might well be Are you going to claim this one Nobunaga Oda and set a new question? I guess so. He's Richard Lionheart. |
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Post by Iron Duke on Sept 9, 2020 15:18:52 GMT
Are you going to claim this one Nobunaga Oda and set a new question? I guess so. He's Richard Lionheart. You are of course correct. |
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Post by Nobunaga Oda on Sept 9, 2020 17:15:29 GMT
- He was famous for the defence of his country's capital city.
- In the same battle, he was also criticised for not pursuing the retreating enemy.
- He had been credited with many successes, but he was also tied to key costly failures.
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Post by Iron Duke on Sept 11, 2020 12:39:41 GMT
- He was famous for the defence of his country's capital city. - In the same battle, he was also criticised for not pursuing the retreating enemy. - He had been credited with many successes, but he was also tied to key costly failures. Is he Russian? |
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Post by Nobunaga Oda on Sept 11, 2020 12:48:08 GMT
- He was famous for the defence of his country's capital city. - In the same battle, he was also criticised for not pursuing the retreating enemy. - He had been credited with many successes, but he was also tied to key costly failures. Is he Russian? No. If you're considering Bagration, Kutuzov or Barclay, he's neither of them. |
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he's the one at 11 seconds played by Harry Andrews.
