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Battles Flashcards

1
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Country where The Battle of Stirling Bridge (1297) took place.

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Scotland

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Country where The Battle of Agincourt (1415) took place

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France

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Country where The Wyatt Rebellion (1554) took place.

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England

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Country where The Siege of Drogheda (1649) took place.

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Ireland

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Country where The Boston Massacre (1770) took place.

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America

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The country where The Battle of Ypres (1914) took place.

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Belgium

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The country where The Battle of Stalingrad (1942) took place.

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Russia

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The country where The Velvet Revolution (1989) took place.

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Czechoslovakia

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The country where The Battle of Mogadishu (1993) took place.

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Somalia

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The winning side at The Battle of the Granicus (334BC)

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Alexander the Great

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The winning side at The Battle of Hastings (1066)

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The Normans, William the Conquerer

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The winning side at The Battle of Hattin (1187)

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Saladin

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The winning side at The Battle of Bannockburn (1314)

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Scottish king, Robert the Bruce,

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The winning side at The Battle of Agincourt (1415)

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English

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The winning side at The Battle of Bosworth Field (1485)

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Henry Tudor

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The winning side at The Battle of the Boyne (1689)

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King William III who, with his wife Queen Mary II (his cousin and James’s daughter), had acceded to the Crowns of England and Scotland[b]

17
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The winning side at The Battle of Plassey (1757)

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British East India Company

18
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The winning side at The Battle of Waterloo (1815)

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Seventh Coalition, a British-led coalition consisting of units from the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Hanover, Brunswick, and Nassau, under the command of the Duke of Wellington.

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The winning side at The Second Battle of El Alamein (1942)

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The Allies - Britain, France, USA, Poland etc…

20
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What Viking King was killed at the Battle of Stamford Bridge in 1066?

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Harald Hardrada was killed during the battle, as was Tostig Godwinson.

21
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In which was did the Battle of Lewes (1264) take place?

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The Second Barons war. Sussex, England

22
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In which war did Battle of Metaurus (207 BC) take place:

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Second Punic War (Rome and Carthage, Italy)

23
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In which war did Battle of Dorylaeum (1097) take place:

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during the First Crusade on 1 July 1097, between the Seljuk Turks and the Crusaders, near the city of Dorylaeum in Anatolia.

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In which war did Battle of Crécy (1346) take place:

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The Hundred Years War. During the Hundred Years War, King Edward III’s English army annihilates a French force under King Philip VI at the Battle of Crecy in Normandy. The battle, which saw an early use of the deadly longbow by the English, is regarded as one of the most decisive in history.

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In which war did Battle of Towton (1461) take place?

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English Wars of the Roses, near the village of Towton in Yorkshire.

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In which war did Battle of Marston Moor (1644) take place?

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One of the largest battles ever fought on English soil took place in the evening of the 2nd July 1644 during the English Civil War

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In which war did the Battle of Jutland (1916) take place

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World War 1 - North Sea

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In which war did the Battle of Kursk (1943) take place

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The Battle of Kursk was a Second World War engagement between German and Soviet forces on the Eastern Front near Kursk (450 kilometres or 280 miles south-west of Moscow) in the Soviet Union, during July and August 1943

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In which war did the Battle of Inchon (1950) take place?

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The Battle of Inchon was an amphibious invasion and battle of the Korean War that resulted in a decisive victory and strategic reversal in favour of the United Nations Command.

30
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In which war did the The Tet Offensive (1968) take place?

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Vietnam War

31
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In which war did the Battle of Basra (2003) take place?

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Iraq Was, Invasion of Iraq

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