American history game

Nick22 · **Reply #400 on:** August 16, 2005, 06:20:36 PM

i Can't think of them at the momemt. please list them so we can move on, please...

Malte279 · **Reply #401 on:** August 17, 2005, 06:05:00 AM

It would be easy to find at google

, but if we have to move on...

The battles were at Brooklyn Hights, Kip's Bay, and Haarlem Hights.

Everyone knows Gettysburg as the bloodiest battle of the Civil War, but who can name the second bloodiest (by number of casualties)?

Nick22 · **Reply #402 on:** August 21, 2005, 04:38:18 AM

Battle of the Wilderness?

Malte279 · **Reply #403 on:** August 21, 2005, 04:51:04 AM

Nope. Though I think the two days battle in the Wilderness ranks among the 10 bloodiest battles it was not the second bloodiest. That one however also covered two days.

Nick22 · **Reply #404 on:** August 21, 2005, 04:52:43 AM

Shiloh?

Malte279 · **Reply #405 on:** August 21, 2005, 03:34:35 PM

Nope, not Shiloh, but it was a battle that took place in the western theatre of the war.

Nick22 · **Reply #406 on:** August 21, 2005, 06:30:37 PM

So It took place west of Shiloh.. let me think...

Malte279 · **Reply #407 on:** August 24, 2005, 03:20:05 AM

I didn't say it was west of Shiloh I just said it was in the western theatre of the war which excludes the many battles which were fought in Virginia and other east-coast states. Shiloh is one battle that was fought in the western theatre.

Nick22 · **Reply #408 on:** August 24, 2005, 10:00:12 AM

oops my bad then malte...

Malte279 · **Reply #409 on:** September 28, 2005, 04:24:57 AM

The name of the battle is a name of native American origin. Translated to English it would mean "river of blood".

Nick22 · **Reply #410 on:** September 29, 2005, 10:07:31 AM

Chickamauga(Sp)?

Malte279 · **Reply #411 on:** September 29, 2005, 10:57:03 AM

That's right. In that two day battle in Georgia (very close to the Tennessee border) more than 40 000 people were killed or wounded. Only at Gettysburg more people were killed or wounded, but they fought for three days around Gettysburg.
Your turn Nick.

Nick22 · **Reply #412 on:** September 29, 2005, 01:37:45 PM

that battle is rarely mentioned over here... odd...

Malte279 · **Reply #413 on:** September 29, 2005, 03:29:29 PM

I suppose that's because already by the time of the Civil War itself the focus of attention was on the eastern theatre of war, even though it was ultimately won in the west.

Nick22 · **Reply #414 on:** September 29, 2005, 03:55:20 PM

That's a good explaination malte.. let me think of a new question...

Malte279 · **Reply #415 on:** October 06, 2005, 03:24:28 PM

I will let you

Nick22 · **Reply #416 on:** October 06, 2005, 03:27:14 PM

how long did US forces occupy Cuba after the Spanish_american War?

Malte279 · **Reply #417 on:** October 07, 2005, 06:04:40 PM

Cuba was granted "independence" in 1902. A strange independence though it was; limited by the Platt Amendment, which granted the United States a major influence in Cuban affairs, even occupying Cuba a second time from 1905 to 1909. Also the basis at Guantanamo is held by US troops to this day. I wonder what Cubans think of the people there.

Nick22 · **Reply #418 on:** October 08, 2005, 12:30:20 AM

Well, that's a good question. They probably aren't as rabidly anti-Us as castro would like, I would say. Plus we will hold Gitmo (shorthand for Guantanamo) until at least 2033, and castro will be (finally)gone by then. Then we'll see about guantanamo. There are a frw hundred cubans living at the base, refugees from when castro took over. They are alowedspecial visa which allow them to live there and are considered Us citizens.

Malte279 · **Reply #419 on:** October 08, 2005, 05:32:29 AM

I was thinking not only of the Americans at Guantanamo, but also of the prisoners there. Anyway, was the answer correct?