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Admiral

1 Who played Admiral Kolchak the TV series Admiral?

2 Who played Admiral the TV series Admiral?

3 What role did Anatoliy Pashinin play in the TV series Admiral?

4 [1] Crusaders learned the term during their encounters with the ________, perhaps as early as the 11th century.

5 What role did Richard Bohringer play in the TV series Admiral?

6 What role did Vladislav Vetrov play in the TV series Admiral?

7 Who played Mikhail Smirnov the TV series Admiral?

8 Who played General Kappel the TV series Admiral?

9 What role did Egor Beroev play in the TV series Admiral?

10 Who played Rostislav Ognivtsev the TV series Admiral?

đź’ˇ Interesting Facts

  • no admiral has ever served as Commander-in-Chief of the Swedish Armed Forces?
  • in 1132 George of Antioch was given the title ammiratus ammiratorum, which translates as Admiral of Admirals in modern English, but meant Emir of Emirs to contemporaries?
  • the French admiral Dupetit Thouars took possession of the Tahiti archipelago against his government's will?
  • the protagonist of Alexandre Dumas' recently rediscovered last novel The Knight of Sainte-Hermine has a pivotal encounter with the British admiral Horatio Nelson during the Battle of Trafalgar?
  • the Capitulations of Santa Fe granted Christopher Columbus the titles of Admiral of the Ocean Sea, the Viceroy, the Governor-General and honorific Don?
  • the Russian Admiral Samuel Greig died days after his most famous victory—the Battle of Hogland?
  • in 1847 French Admiral Jean-Baptiste CĂ©cille sent a captain to attack Vietnam to obtain the release of a bishop, not knowing the bishop had already been freed?
  • Japanese admiral Misu SotarĹŤ lost his left eye while commanding the Nisshin at Battle of Tsushima in the Russo-Japanese War?
  • Admiral Henry Wolsey Bayfield had joined the Royal Navy by the age of eleven?
  • Admiral Clarence S. Williams, commander in chief of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet, directed a 1926 military intervention to protect foreign nationals in Shanghai at the start of the Chinese Civil War?
  • British admiral Alexander Cochrane was responsible for the bombing of Fort McHenry which resulted in the authorship of the American national anthem "The Star-Spangled Banner"?
  • Nazi admiral Karl Dönitz advocated tonnage wars—military attacks on commercial vessels?
  • Polish Navy admiral WĹ‚odzimierz Steyer commanded the Polish Army in the Battle of Hel, the longest battle of the Polish September Campaign?
  • Dutch admiral Egbert Bartholomeusz Kortenaer (1604–1655) kept Maarten Tromp's standard raised to maintain morale after the latter died in the Battle of Scheveningen in 1653?
  • Admiral Robert Holmes (statue pictured) of the Royal Navy destroyed 130 ships and burned the town of Terschelling for the loss of three men in the action Holmes's Bonfire?
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