Quick Quiz: Nouns Score: Change category, Flip order Reset Incorrect! Try again. Noun: battle of britain Your choice? battle in 401 BC when the Persian King Artaxerxes II defeated his younger brother who tried to usurp the throne the battle in which Alexander won his first major victory against the Persians (334 BC)   (Noun: battle of granicus river) the bombardment of British cities by German aircraft during World War II and the aerial combat that accompanied it a battle in World War I (May 1918); the Germans tried to attack before the American numbers were too great to defeat; the tactical success of the Germans proved to be a strategic failure   (Noun: battle of soissons-reims)