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Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels
01-27-2015, 12:22 PM (This post was last modified: 01-27-2015 12:23 PM by L Verge.)
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RE: Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels
(01-26-2015 08:41 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  Brilliant, Laurie, that is correct! McClellan “tried English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Indian, a little Russian and Turkish,” all without success" - here is the incident:

https://books.google.de/books?id=6jBnAgA...CAsQ6AEwAA

Now - "Guten Appetit" to all winners and thanks again for your wonderful guesses! Enjoy!

PS: Even Chinese fought in the CW:
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=44949

Thanks for sharing this - and part of Prof. Doyle's new book - with us. As for the Chinese, that was one of the languages I started to list on your original question. Glad I didn't since there is so little evidence of how many fought.
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