The Guadalcanal Campaign centred on the control of Lunga Point, the only area flat enough to host a major operational airfield. The Japanese started building an airfield, the Americans seized it from them in August 1942, and the Japanese spent six months trying to take it back, at enormous cost to both sides. But how much do you really know about the Guadalcanal Campaign?
The American Civil War (1861–1865) was fought across a vast continent, from Pennsylvania and Virginia to Tennessee, Mississippi and beyond. Great armies and famous commanders dominate its history, but the war was also shaped by strategy, terrain, technology, and political decisions. Gettysburg, Antietam and Appomattox are familiar names — but how much do you really know about the American Civil War?
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The Seven Years’ War, or the French and Indian War as the North American theatre is commonly known, was a truly global conflict. The European great powers and their Indigenous allies clashed across five continents. How much do you really know about the Seven Years’ War?
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Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, fought from Normandy to the Netherlands, Bastogne and the final advance into Germany and Austria. Its story became famous through Stephen Ambrose’s Band of Brothers and the HBO series, but the history extends well beyond the screen. Test your knowledge with 20 questions covering the men, battles, commanders and campaigns of the real Easy Company.
For more than two thousand years, soldiers, commanders and theorists have wrestled with the nature of war — how armies should fight, how commanders make decisions, and how technology, politics and society reshape the battlefield. Test your knowledge with 20 questions on theorists and innovators from the ancient world to the modern era.
There is perhaps no military organisation more surrounded by mystique and legend than the French Foreign Legion. For almost 200 years, the Legion has accepted volunteers from across the world and fought in campaigns from Algeria and Mexico to Madagascar, Indochina and France itself.
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How well do you really know military operations?
From OVERLORD and BAGRATION to JAYWICK, KINGPIN, CASTOR and GOTHIC SERPENT, military history is filled with memorable, and sometimes mysterious, operational codenames.
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How well do you really know the history of the D-Day landings? This 20-question military history quiz goes beyond Hollywood. Test your knowledge of the D-Day landings including the US and British airborne operations, and all five invasion beaches.
How well do you really know the Battle of Thermopylae?
This 20-question military history quiz goes beyond Leonidas and the 300, testing your knowledge of the Greek and Persian forces, commanders, terrain and the events of the three-day battle. Score 60% to pass — but expect a challenge.