Editor in Chief Bill | 01 Dec 2021 11:57 p.m. PST |
In the annals of military history, do you have a favorite hill? |
Wargamer Blue | 02 Dec 2021 1:00 a.m. PST |
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vagamer63 | 02 Dec 2021 1:04 a.m. PST |
Cemetery Hill, where one country was saved while another was lost, then following a short yet pointed speech a whole Nation was born again! |
Old Contemptible | 02 Dec 2021 2:05 a.m. PST |
Senlac Hill, Battle of Hastings Pratzen Heights – Austerlitz Bunker Hill (Breed's Hill) – AWI Mount Defiance – AWI King's Mountain – AWI Bloody Hill – ACW, Wilson's Creek Nicodemus Hill – ACW, Antietam Culp's Hill – ACW, Gettysburg Little Round Top – ACW, Gettysburg – Favorite Cemetery Hill – ACW. Gettysburg San Juan Hill – Spanish American War Kettle Hill – Spanish American War Pieters Hill, 2nd Boer War Talana Hill, 2nd Boer War Diamond Hill, 2nd Boer War Hill 60 – WWI, Western Front Hill 60 – WWI, Gallipoli Hill 609 – WWII, Tunisia Hill 102.0 (Mamayev Kurgan) – WWII, Stalingrad Hill 593 – WWII, Monte Casino Hill 262 – WWII, Normandy Hill 112 – WWII, Southwest of Caen Hill 400 – WWII, Hürtgen Forest Hill 252.2 – WWII, Prokhorovka Hill 239.0 – WWII, Korsun-Cherkassy Pocket Hill 69.9 (Tower Hill) – WWII, Narwa Isthmus Sugar Loaf Hill – WWII, Okinawa Pork Chop Hill – Korean War Hamburger Hill – Vietnam War The Hill Fights – Vietnam, Khe Sanh |
Cardinal Ximenez | 02 Dec 2021 3:15 a.m. PST |
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Timbo W | 02 Dec 2021 3:16 a.m. PST |
Lansdown Hill – ECW Roundway Down – ECW |
olicana | 02 Dec 2021 4:13 a.m. PST |
Greater and Lesser Apariles (Salamanca). Great views over one of the most unspoilt battlefields in Europe. BTW: Although it is a place that saw much vicious fighting, and should be remembered as such, Hill 112 isn't much of a hill. It's not much more than higher ground in an otherwise a billiard table flat landscape (you can certainly cycle up it without breaking a sweat). Strategically important, as a long distance vantage point and because of the dead ground it provided to the occupier, I wouldn't call it inspiring as a hill – as a geographical feature, I was mightily unimpressed with it when I saw it back in the 90s. |
advocate | 02 Dec 2021 4:28 a.m. PST |
While named 'The battle of Glen Shiel' it was fought on the extremely steep side of the Glen. Does that count? |
BillyNM | 02 Dec 2021 5:01 a.m. PST |
Isandhlwana The Santon Hill 60 |
robert piepenbrink | 02 Dec 2021 5:02 a.m. PST |
General Sir Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill. Always partial to Daddy Hill--kind, generous and competent. That's a rare combination. |
robert piepenbrink | 02 Dec 2021 5:02 a.m. PST |
General Sir Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill. Always partial to Daddy Hill--kind, generous and competent. That's a rare combination. |
FusilierDan | 02 Dec 2021 5:08 a.m. PST |
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cavcrazy | 02 Dec 2021 5:30 a.m. PST |
Last stand hill, Little Bighorn. |
huron725 | 02 Dec 2021 6:14 a.m. PST |
Bunker Hill (Breed's Hill) – AWI |
Oddball | 02 Dec 2021 6:45 a.m. PST |
Blueberry – Thank you, Fats. After that, Daniel Harvey. Coming in third, beans. Are we talking about a different type of "hill"? |
boggler | 02 Dec 2021 6:46 a.m. PST |
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Oddball | 02 Dec 2021 6:52 a.m. PST |
Hill 112, wow, is that in the middle of nowhere. You gotta WANT to drive to that spot, but really cool. Got a bunch of shrapnel found there by just kick'n the dirt. |
BTCTerrainman | 02 Dec 2021 7:12 a.m. PST |
Galgenhügel or Windmühlenhügel. This covers a whole lot of battlefields. |
robert piepenbrink | 02 Dec 2021 7:45 a.m. PST |
Yes! how could I have forgotten Daniel Harvey? And Ambrose Powell should at least be on the list. |
Parzival | 02 Dec 2021 8:15 a.m. PST |
Winstead Hill— Battle of Franklin, ACW. ‘Cause it's in my town, and I go walking there with my wife from time to time. Mount Badon/Badon Hill— site of King Arthur's legendary victory over the Saxon invaders of Britain. Is it a real place? Did it actually happen? I lean towards yes. Was an actual Arthur actually involved? Who knows? But I want him to be. |
PaulCollins | 02 Dec 2021 8:16 a.m. PST |
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Green Tiger | 02 Dec 2021 9:22 a.m. PST |
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Berzerker73 | 02 Dec 2021 9:26 a.m. PST |
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Mserafin | 02 Dec 2021 9:34 a.m. PST |
Robert Piepenbrink for the win! |
rustymusket | 02 Dec 2021 10:07 a.m. PST |
I am with Oddball though I suppose if we are speaking geologically, I would choose King's Mountain. |
troopwo | 02 Dec 2021 10:10 a.m. PST |
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troopwo | 02 Dec 2021 10:15 a.m. PST |
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Cardinal Ximenez | 02 Dec 2021 10:28 a.m. PST |
Lansdown Hill – ECW Roundway Down – ECW I actually visited Lansdown Hill the last time we visited For another favorite, "The Anthill" from Paths of Glory. |
Grelber | 02 Dec 2021 10:59 a.m. PST |
Perhaps not geographically a hill, but I vote for Missionary Ridge, November 25, 1863. Standards front and center, all the way, 23,000 men in four divisions advancing on a five mile front up a slope too steep for units to maneuver. Grelber |
The Virtual Armchair General | 02 Dec 2021 11:14 a.m. PST |
Hey, how can so many of the cognoscenti forget the terrain feature (even if misidentified in the press and popular history) that launched the United States on the world stage? Does "Teddy Roosevelt" and "SAN JUAN HILL" do anything for ya? TVAG |
Buck215 | 02 Dec 2021 12:16 p.m. PST |
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Perris0707 | 02 Dec 2021 12:40 p.m. PST |
Senlac Hill, Little Round Top, and of course, Benny Hill. |
David Manley | 02 Dec 2021 2:22 p.m. PST |
Crownhill, site of the old RNEC, now sadly closed down |
advocate | 02 Dec 2021 2:33 p.m. PST |
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dilettante | 02 Dec 2021 5:15 p.m. PST |
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enfant perdus | 02 Dec 2021 8:14 p.m. PST |
I'm partial to Knockdoe. It means "Hill of the Axes", which is both poetic and badass. It also introduced firearms to Irish warfare, something that would echo loud and long over the coming centuries. |
Narratio | 03 Dec 2021 12:12 a.m. PST |
My favourite hill? One tree hill at the Greenwich Royal Observatory. Looking down at the National Maritime Museum. As a kid you run screaming down that slope. Now it's been made 'safe' with barriers and fences. No more running down it, blasted nanny state. |
Dagwood | 03 Dec 2021 4:06 a.m. PST |
It must be Isandlhwana for me. |
Cerdic | 03 Dec 2021 6:20 a.m. PST |
Graham Hill – both a person and a place. Two for the price of one! |
tigrifsgt | 03 Dec 2021 9:51 a.m. PST |
Henry House Hill – 1st Manassas ACW |
etotheipi | 03 Dec 2021 10:48 a.m. PST |
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oldnorthstate | 03 Dec 2021 6:34 p.m. PST |
Chatterton Hill and Barren Hill, AWI. |
Capt John Miller | 04 Dec 2021 7:02 a.m. PST |
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Cmde Perry | 04 Dec 2021 1:28 p.m. PST |
James J. Hill (the Empire Builder) (My interest in miniatures includes trains) |
Tgerritsen | 04 Dec 2021 9:47 p.m. PST |
203 Meter Hill (Siege of Port Arthur) Butte des Mort (Obscure battle between the Fox Tribe and French) |
Anton Ryzbak | 07 Dec 2021 6:43 p.m. PST |
Faith Faith Hill, she has a lovely voice! |