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Oh wow! I’m genuinely shocked! Sorry to disappoint but I’ve got no questions in mind at the moment so……

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Four historical battles -- a bit obscure, but hopefully not impossibly so: all took place well within the past couple of centuries. Please tell who was fighting against whom, in these engagements: "virtual bonus points" for any further info, including dates and whereabouts -- but "who versus whom" is all that is required, to score.

Khalkhin-Gol

Lomas Valentinas

Adua alias Adowa

Mars-la-Tour
 
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Gloster said:
Was Adowa Italians versus Ethiopians and Mars-la-Tour France versus Prussia?
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Both right. At Adowa (1896), the Ethiopians "kicked Italian ass", for the time being; at M-la-T (1870), Prussia sorta-kinda won -- it wasn't altogether clear.
 
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Grumpus63 said:
Thank you.

It is well known that the Japanese city of Nagasaki was the target of the second atom bomb attack on Japan in August 1945 (Hiroshima already having been largely destroyed three days before). Nagasaki was not the primary target that day, though, and was only chosen as a secondary target due to the weather being cloudy over the city marked for destruction. What is the name of that city?
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Is it Battenburg? Or is that the thing it is often known as? It is not Battenburg, as that is the very similar design, almost a spin-off, used on emergency vehicles.
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Khalkin - Gol: sounds Indain sub-continent, so I'm guessing India v Afghanistan

Lomas Valentinas - how about Argentina v Chile?
 
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xotGD said:
Spanish Civil War? Fascists v Republicans
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Not in Spain -- different continent (see below)

MotCO said:
Khalkin - Gol: sounds Indain sub-continent, so I'm guessing India v Afghanistan
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Right continent, very broadly; but not the Indian sub-part thereof, and not involving Indians or 'Ghans.

MotCO said:
Lomas Valentinas - how about Argentina v Chile?
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Argentina was involved, but not Chile.
 
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Calthrop said:
Not in Spain -- different continent (see below)



Right continent, very broadly; but not the Indian sub-part thereof, and not involving Indians or 'Ghans.



Argentina was involved, but not Chile.
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Argentina v Brazil?

And the other one North v South Korea?
 
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xotGD said:
Russia v Japan?
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Re Khalkhin-Gol: correct -- took place in Mongolia in 1939: culmination of on-and-off fighting -- a brief undeclared war -- between the Soviet Union and Japan, jockeying for territory. (After this bout, each side reckoned the other pretty formidable: when Japan entered World War II, and thereafter, she and the Soviet Union refrained from declaring war on each other: too much to contend with elsewhere !)


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Argentina v Brazil?
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Re Lomas Valentinas: Argentina and Brazil were involved, but on the same side; and there was another country on that side. The "opposition" was "someone else again".

MotCO said:
And the other one North v South Korea?
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Re Khalkhin-Gol: no (see above).

Just Lomas Valentinas still to get; and @MotCO, you're most of the way there.
 
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Calthrop said:
Re Lomas Valentinas: Argentina and Brazil were involved, but on the same side; and there was another country on that side. The "opposition" was "someone else again".
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Uruguay on the same side, USA on the other?
 
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xotGD said:
Uruguay on the same side, USA on the other?
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It was indeed Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay on one side: but not against the USA (who had plenty of bother of their own to deal with, at that approximate time). The enemy was much nearer home.
 
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Calthrop said:
It was indeed Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay on one side: but not against the USA (who had plenty of bother of their own to deal with, at that approximate time). The enemy was much nearer home.
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Paraguay?
 
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Calthrop said:
It was indeed Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay on one side: but not against the USA (who had plenty of bother of their own to deal with, at that approximate time). The enemy was much nearer home.
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Chile?
 
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MotCO said:
Paraguay?
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Correct. The War of the Triple Alliance, 1864 -- 70: per Wiki, "the deadliest and bloodiest inter-state war in Latin American history" -- Brazil / Argentina / Uruguay, versus Paraguay: which looks a bit like the bullies ganging-up on the lone weedy kid -- but Paraguay's then leader was, shall we say, eccentric; in the kind of way that Hitler was. Lomas Valentinas was towards the end of the war, in late 1868.
 
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