Baker's Dozen (WWI Edition)

[McMax]

Baker's Dozen of anything Portuguese

1. Manuel de Oliveira Gomes da Costa, commander Portuguese 2nd Div
2. Portuguese Adrian Helmet
3. Monument to the Portuguese soldiers who died in World War I
4. Aníbal Milhais. (Most decorated soldier)
5. José César Ferreira Gil
6. Corpo Expedicionário Português (Portuguese Expeditionary Corps)
7. Vasco de Gama(battleship)
8. Portuguese Fireplace
9. Massacre at Cuangar
10.Action of 14 October 1918

11.Kionga Triangle



The Kionga Triangle was a small territory on the border between German East Africa and the Portuguese colony of Portuguese Mozambique. First German then Portuguese.

[PGT Beauregard]

Baker's Dozen of anything Portuguese

1. Manuel de Oliveira Gomes da Costa, commander Portuguese 2nd Div
2. Portuguese Adrian Helmet
3. Monument to the Portuguese soldiers who died in World War I
4. Aníbal Milhais. (Most decorated soldier)
5. José César Ferreira Gil
6. Corpo Expedicionário Português (Portuguese Expeditionary Corps)
7. Vasco de Gama(battleship)
8. Portuguese Fireplace
9. Massacre at Cuangar
10.Action of 14 October 1918
11.Kionga Triangle

12. Desastre de Naulila - 18 december 1914

[Canuckster]

Baker's Dozen of anything Portuguese

1. Manuel de Oliveira Gomes da Costa, commander Portuguese 2nd Div
2. Portuguese Adrian Helmet
3. Monument to the Portuguese soldiers who died in World War I
4. Aníbal Milhais. (Most decorated soldier)
5. José César Ferreira Gil
6. Corpo Expedicionário Português (Portuguese Expeditionary Corps)
7. Vasco de Gama(battleship)
8. Portuguese Fireplace
9. Massacre at Cuangar
10.Action of 14 October 1918
11.Kionga Triangle
12. Desastre de Naulila - 18 december 1914

13. General Fernando Tamagnini de Abreu e Silva

Commander of the Portuguese Army

On the left.

[Canuckster]

Baker’s Dozen of Redoubts & Fortifications

1. Schwaben Redoubt

Resisting several attacks on the first day of the Somme…


...it was finally taken on October 1916!

[PGT Beauregard]

Baker’s Dozen of Redoubts & Fortifications

1. Schwaben Redoubt

2.Douaumont

[Nickuru]

1) Schwaben redoudt
2) Douaumont
3) Alnwick castle this was where Henry Percy Earl of Northumberland influences the Wars of the Roses in Enhttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4b/Alnwick_Castle_02.jpgglish history from 1456 to 1488.

[Nickuru]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi..._Castle_02.jpg

[PGT Beauregard]

Baker’s Dozen of Redoubts & Fortifications

1) Schwaben redoudt
2) Douaumont
3) Alnwick castle

4) Fort de Seclin

[Canuckster]

1) Schwaben redoudt
2) Douaumont
3) Alnwick castle this was where Henry Percy Earl of Northumberland influences the Wars of the Roses in Enhttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4b/Alnwick_Castle_02.jpgglish history from 1456 to 1488.

Hi Nickuru, this is the WW1 forum so the selections for baker's dozen should have relevance to that conflict.

Does Alnwick Castle have some association with WW1?

[Canuckster]

Baker’s Dozen of Redoubts & Fortifications

1) Schwaben redoudt
2) Douaumont
3) Alnwick castle
4) Fort de Seclin

5. Fort de Loncin

One of the twelve forts in the Liege defensive ring system

[tcox]

[QUOTE=Canuckster;2460097]Baker’s Dozen of Redoubts & Fortifications

1) Schwaben redoudt
2) Douaumont
3) Alnwick castle
4) Fort de Seclin
5. Fort de Loncin


6. A-H Fort Verle

[broderickwells]

Baker’s Dozen of Redoubts & Fortifications

1) Schwaben redoudt
2) Douaumont
3) Alnwick castle
4) Fort de Seclin
5. Fort de Loncin
6. A-H Fort Verle

7. Ivangorod

[PGT Beauregard]

Baker’s Dozen of Redoubts & Fortifications

1) Schwaben redoudt
2) Douaumont
3) Alnwick castle
4) Fort de Seclin
5. Fort de Loncin
6. A-H Fort Verle
7. Ivangorod

8. Fort de la Pompelle

[Canuckster]

Baker’s Dozen of Redoubts & Fortifications

1) Schwaben redoudt
2) Douaumont
3) Alnwick castle
4) Fort de Seclin
5. Fort de Loncin
6. A-H Fort Verle
7. Ivangorod
8. Fort de la Pompelle

9. Fort Pralkowce

Part of the Przemysl Fortress System

[broderickwells]

Baker’s Dozen of Redoubts & Fortifications

1) Schwaben redoudt
2) Douaumont
3) Alnwick castle
4) Fort de Seclin
5. Fort de Loncin
6. A-H Fort Verle
7. Ivangorod
8. Fort de la Pompelle
9. Fort Pralkowce

10. Fort de Dave

Part of the Namur Fortress System