"Second World War clashes named as 'Greatest British Battle'" Topic
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Tango01  | 02 Sep 2020 2:35 p.m. PST |
"The two victories over the Japanese, which took place in the same region of north east India over the same period in 1944, were voted the winner of a contest run by the National Army Museum to identify "Britain's Greatest Battle". Taken as a single victory, Imphal-Kohima was on a shortlist of five battles which topped a public poll and on Saturday, they were selected as the ultimate winner by an audience of more than 100 guests at a special event at the museum, in Chelsea, west London. Imphal-Kohima received almost half of all votes. In second place was D-Day and Normandy, in 1944 (25 per cent), ahead of Waterloo, in 1815, (22 per cent), Rorke's Drift, during the Zulu War in 1879 (three per cent), and Aliwal, during the First Sikh War in 1846 (two per cent)…"
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| Frederick | 02 Sep 2020 3:35 p.m. PST |
Now that's interesting! I would guess if you asked 100 Canadians about the Battle of Imphal-Kohima they would think about Alexander the Great |
| Legionarius | 02 Sep 2020 5:37 p.m. PST |
And I thought the 14th Army was known as "the forgotten Army"! |
| boggler | 03 Sep 2020 5:03 a.m. PST |
Surely that should be the Indian army's greatest battle? |
| Tango01 | 03 Sep 2020 10:51 a.m. PST |
Glad you enjoyed it my friend!- (smile)
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