Who/What was Humpty Dumpty?

Question

NOT AN EGG!!!

Answer 1

Humpty Dumpty was a powerful cannon during the English Civil War. It was mounted on top of the St Mary's at the Wall Church in Colchester defending the city against siege in the summer of 1648. Although Colchester was a Royalist stronghold, it was besieged by the Roundheads for 11 weeks before finally falling. The church tower was hit by enemy cannon fire and the top of the tower was blown off, sending "Humpty" tumbling to the ground. Naturally all the King's horses and all the King's men (Royalist cavalry and infantry respectively) tried to mend "him" but in vain. Other reports have Humpty Dumpty referring to a sniper nicknamed One-Eyed Thompson, who occupied the same church tower.

Answer 2

That Humpty Dumpty is an egg is not actually stated in the rhyme. In its first printed form, in 1810, it is a riddle, and exploits for misdirection the fact that "humpty dumpty" was 18th-Century reduplicative slang for a short, clumsy person. Whereas a clumsy person falling off a wall would not be irreparably damaged, an egg would be. The rhyme is no longer posed as a riddle, since the answer is now so well known.

OR Humpty Dumpty was a powerful cannon during the English Civil War. It was mounted on top of the St Mary's at the Wall Church in Colchester defending the city against siege in the summer of 1648

OR Humpty Dumpty referred to King Richard III of England, the hunchbacked monarch, the "Wall" being either the name of his horse (called "White Surrey" in Shakespeare's play), or a reference to the supporters who deserted him.

OR The story of Cardinal Wolsey's downfall is depicted in the children's nursery rhyme of Humpty Dumpty

Take your pick. They all work.

Answer 3

Humpty Dumpty was a man-egg.

Answer 4

Some say that it represents the "cracking" of the English empire as colonization around the world was gaining a more and more unfavorable taste in the mouths of citizens.

Other people think this is an urban legend.

I suppose the secret will lay with the impotence of "all the kings men."

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Answer 5

Mother Goose would argue with you. Every picture I have seen shows him as some Egg creature.

Answer 6

He was an egg with a bad sense of where to sit.

Answer 7

some short clumsy person that is never fully described in the rhyme but has been portraid as an egg for years.

Answer 8

He was a man, not the king (notice that they distinguish them in the rhyme) who fell off of a wall and broke into pieces for some reason.

Answer 9

he was a man shaped like an egg

Answer 10

humpty dumty was a british cannon which was hit by enemy connon fire durring the british civil war