Index Biography #22: Prize a book September 30, 2015
Author: Beach Combing | in : Modern , trackback
***Tacitus wins***
The Index Biography is a new form of biography pioneered by this blog and introduced in a previous post. The creator must find a biography of a famous individual from history, they must turn to the index and write down eight peripheral facts about the individual’s life. We offered up previously here Sheridan le Fanu and Joseph Stalin (he of ripe banana fame) and these might stand as examples. The reader on the other hand must identify who is being described: think of it as a history version of balderdash. The prize is a copy of the relevant and fun biography sent via Amazon: the first claimed prize went to South Africa so we take our duties seriously.
Better at war than peace
Killed a man who had battered his wife
Preferred hand-to-hand combat to shooting
Wounded four times in war (once deliberately by one of his own side)
Six foot one
Sold livestock for a time
Six months schooling
Risked arrest after war
The
Answer
IS
Nathan Bedford Forrest
