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Name That Battle Game

Wouldn't have got it without @steve making the Ethiopian connection. Needed a second look to realise they had guns...

Anyway, up next we have:
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I know that Norman Wilkinson did a series of paintings about the Royal Navy, but that's as far as I can get with this one.
 
Narvik is close enough. Second Battle of, with RN destroyers and HMS Warspite chasing the remnants of the Kriegsmarine destroyer force up a fjord. Luckily for the RN the German torpedoes were running too deep due to the fresh/salt water balance to actually hit anything.
 
Hapless said:
Narvik is close enough. Second Battle of, with RN destroyers and HMS Warspite chasing the remnants of the Kriegsmarine destroyer force up a fjord. Luckily for the RN the German torpedoes were running too deep due to the fresh/salt water balance to actually hit anything.
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Lucky guess ... close quarters ... destroyers... snowy hills in the background ... it fitted.
 
DAMNIT :(, DAMNIT :(. I was desperately trying to remember this, (Damn Your Eyes! ) ........ Walked this Battlefield many times ...... (Several lifetimes ago) @Ithikial :p

Ithikial said:
Battle of Spion Kop? 23–24 January 1900.
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Damn you too @Rico - I was certain I was right!!
Rico said:
Nope -- right part of the world though.
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Hmmmmmm, I've certainly walked the battlefield at some point, Grrrrrrrr why won't it come? (Because you're a dummy :rolleyes:, with a terrible memory for names :oops: - Probably caused by lifestyle :cool:- it was FUN:D but there is a price to pay. :eek: )
 
Can't see the enemy in the picture, so could it be Boer War?
 
mTk said:
Took awhile, but I think this is it.
Battle of Majuba Hill
Date: 27th February 1881

Place: In the northern tip of Natal near to the Transvaal Border, in South Africa.
http://www.britishbattles.com/first-boer-war/majuba-hill.htm
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Correct, it was the main battle of what is known as the 1st Anglo-Boer War in 1881 - by the time the 2nd major Boer war broke out, the Brits were no longer fighting in red ( or blue for naval troops) uniform tunics, but had switched over to khaki.
 
mTk said:
Took awhile, but I think this is it.
Battle of Majuba Hill
Date: 27th February 1881

Place: In the northern tip of Natal near to the Transvaal Border, in South Africa.
http://www.britishbattles.com/first-boer-war/majuba-hill.htm
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Correct, it was the main battle of what is known as the 1st Anglo-Boer War in 1881 - by the time the 2nd major Boer war broke out, the Brits were no longer fighting in red ( or blue for naval troops) uniform tunics, but had switched over to khaki.
 
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