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Penn Symons, a Common card
Lieutenant-General Sir William Penn Symons KCB was a British Army officer who was mortally wounded as he commanded his forces at the Battle of Talana Hill during the Second Boer War.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 62
- DEF
- 58
- Power
- 120
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 5,900
Ranked #2,154 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- While his forces won the battle, they had to abandon their position and fall back to Ladysmith.
- Symons and the more severely wounded were left to the Boers, he died three days later.
- A monument to his valour was raised in Victoria Park, Saltash, Cornwall, UK.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Penn Symons article was read about 5,900 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 62 and blocks with 58: each hit it takes is cut by 23 %.
How to get Penn Symons
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Penn Symons (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
