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Army of Africa led by victor of this war

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Spanish Civil War

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handing over of the CEDA campaign immediately preceded this war

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  • Germany supported one side with Condor Legion
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  • Emilio Mola coined “fifth column” to describe eventual losers of this war
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  • Americans provided support as part of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
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  • losing side led by Manuel Azaña
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Spanish Civil War

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  • group of young women known as the “Thirteen Roses” executed
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Spanish Civil War

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  • one faction based ideology on the “Twenty-Seven Points”
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Spanish Civil War

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  • one side perpetrated a Red Terror
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Spanish Civil War

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10
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  • fierce fighting at the Battle of Jarama
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Spanish Civil War

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11
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  • Spain invaded Portugal in the Fantastic War as part of this conflict
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Seven Years War

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12
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  • Robert Clive beat Siraj ud-Daulah at the Battle of Plassey during this conflict
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Seven Years War

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13
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  • Austrian attempts to regain Silesia failed
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Seven Years War

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14
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  • one side escaped destruction after the Battle of Kunersdorf
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Seven Years War

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15
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  • preceded by shift in alliances termed Diplomatic Revolution
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Seven Years War

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16
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  • string of British victories led one year to be called the Annus Mirabilis
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Seven Years War

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  • partially ended by Treaty of St. Petersburg, known as the Miracle of the House of Brandenburg
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Seven Years War

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18
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  • twelve Mingo warriors led win Battle of Jumonville Glen
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Seven Years War

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19
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  • Fort Duquesne surrendered during this war
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Seven Years War

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20
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  • one theater called Pomeranian War
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Seven Years War

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21
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  • one participant developed namesake “rose diagrams” to visualize death among soldiers at Scutari
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Crimean War

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22
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  • Victoria Cross introduced after this war
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Crimean War

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23
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  • one charge repulsed by “Thin Red Line” at Battle of Alma
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Crimean War

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24
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  • British Hotel estabished by Mary Seacole to nurse soldiers
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Crimean War

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  • Siege of Sevastopol saw disastrous cavalry charge at Battle of Balaclava
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Crimean War

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26
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  • offensive at Malakoff Redoubt caused enemy to turn around
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Crimean War

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27
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  • Prince Menshikov lost the Battle of Inkerman
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Crimean War

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28
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  • Roger Fenton took a picture of a road littered with cannonballs during this war
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Crimean War

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29
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  • French ship Charlemagne violated London Straits Convention
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Crimean War

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30
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  • Omar Pasha led failed Siege of Kars
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Crimean War

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31
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  • Treaty of Lubeck ended Christian IV’s involvement
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Thirty Years War

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32
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  • Hakkapeliitta used battle cry “Cut them down!”
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Thirty Years War

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33
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  • Tilly and Pappenheim sacked Madgeburg
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Thirty Years War

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34
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  • Scotsman Alexander Leslie repelled a siege at Stralsund
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Thirty Years War

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35
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  • Edict of Restitution attempted to revoke a previous treaty
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Thirty Years War

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36
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  • Spanish lost at Battle of Rocroi and Battle of Rain
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Thirty Years War

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37
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  • Battle of the Dunes ended by the Peace of the Pyrenees
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Thirty Years War

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38
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  • Croation soldiers turned to piracy in the Uskok War
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Thirty Years War

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39
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  • one period ended with Battle of White Mountain
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Thirty Years War

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40
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  • one leader able to retain lands under Treaty of Stettin
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Thirty Years War

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41
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  • War of the Quadruple Alliance engineered by Cardinal Giulio Alberoni after this
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Spanish Succession

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42
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  • exchange of cloth and wine outlined in the Methuen Treaty
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Spanish Succession

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43
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  • French troops massacred British in the Raid on Deerfield
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Spanish Succession

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44
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  • Britain given right to supply slaves to colonies through the Asiento
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Spanish Succession

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45
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  • Marshall Villars lost at the Battle of Malplaquet and Blenheim
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Spanish Succession

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46
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  • George Rook won at Vigo Bay
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Spanish Succession

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47
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  • caused by objections to Second Partition Treaty
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Spanish Succession

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48
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  • ended by Treaty of Utrecht
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Spanish Succession

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49
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  • Duke de Villeroi lost at Ramillies
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Spanish Succession

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50
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  • Convention of Milan signed after failed Siege of Turin
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Spanish Succession

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51
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  • Robert Clive captured at the Battle of Madras during First Carnatic War
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Austrian Succession

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52
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  • Maurice de Saxe won at Battle of Fontenoy
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Austrian Succession

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53
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  • Maurice de Saxe won at Battle of Fontenoy
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Austrian Succession

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54
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  • known as King George’s War or War of Jenkin’s Ear in America
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Austrian Succession

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55
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  • started because of a proposed violation of Salic Law
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Austrian Succession

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56
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  • ended with the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle
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Austrian Succession

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57
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  • ended with the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle
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Austrian Succession

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58
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  • George II beat French forces at the Battle of Dettingen, the last British monarch to lead troops into battle
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Austrian Succession

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59
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  • started because of Charles Albert’s contestation of Charles VI’s Pragmatic Sanction
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Austrian Succession

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60
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  • British regained right to asiento in this war
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Austrian Succession

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61
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  • Peace of Travendal signed during this war
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Great Northern War

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62
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  • Treaty of Altranstadt caused Augustus the Strong to abdicate, but Treaty of Thorn restored him
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Great Northern War

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63
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  • one side kept ship named Gangut, named after vicory
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Great Northern War

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64
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  • King Charles XII decisively defeated at the Battle of Poltava
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Great Northern War

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65
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  • ended by Treaty of Nystad
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Great Northern War

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66
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  • Pruth River campaign a sub-conflict of this war
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Great Northern War

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67
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  • troops under Charles Eugene de Croy trapped under a collapsed bridge
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Great Northern War

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68
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  • Cossack Ivan Mazepa deserted to losing side of this war
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Great Northern War

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69
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  • one leader fled to Ottoman Empire after losing decisive battle
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Great Northern War

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70
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  • Johann Patkul’s instigation of this conflict led to his execution on breaking wheel
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Great Northern War

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71
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  • losing side used chassepot rifles and mitrailleuse machine guns
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Franco-Prussian War

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72
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  • ended by the Treaty of Frankfurt
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Franco-Prussian War

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73
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  • began as a result of an alteration to the Ems Telegram
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Franco-Prussian War

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74
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  • Army of the Rhine trapped at the Battle of Gravelotte in the city of Metz
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Franco-Prussian War

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75
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  • Papal States annexed by Italy and Alsace-Lorraine lost as a result
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Franco-Prussian War

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76
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  • prompted by the proposed installation of Leopold Hohenzollern onto Spanish throne after Isabella II
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Franco-Prussian War

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77
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  • idea of revanchism initially developed as a result of this war
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Franco-Prussian War

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78
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  • losing side lost the Battle of Worth aka Battle of Froeschwiller
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Franco-Prussian War

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79
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  • Moltke defeated Matrice de MacMahon at Battle of Sedan
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Franco-Prussian War

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80
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  • Army of Chalons participated in the Siege of Metz
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Franco-Prussian War

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81
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  • Leon Gambétta escaped Paris in a hot air balloon from one battle
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Franco-Prussian War

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82
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  • British trawler fleet attacked at Dogger Bank incident
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Russo-Japanese War

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83
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  • Theodore Roosevelt won Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating Treaty of Portsmouth
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Russo-Japanese War

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84
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  • Alexei Kuropatkin’s army retreated from the Battle of Mukden
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Russo-Japanese War

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85
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  • began with a pre-emptive strike on the Pacific Fleet at Port Arthur
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Russo-Japanese War

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86
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  • Togo Heihachiro won this war at the Battle of Tsushima Strait
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Russo-Japanese War

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87
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  • one side launched a failed assault on Manjuyama Hill
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Russo-Japanese War

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88
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  • William Pakenham’s report sparked the dreadnought race
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Russo-Japanese War

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89
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  • Fedor Keller defeated at Battle of Motien Pass
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Russo-Japanese War

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90
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  • Father Gapon led a march calling for the end of this war
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Russo-Japanese War

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91
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  • ship Aurora hit by friendly fire six times
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Russo-Japanese War

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92
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  • one side forced enemies into small pockets called “motti”
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Winter War

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93
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  • started with false flag attack on border village of Mainila
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Winter War

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94
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  • Simo Hayha, the White Death, scored 500 confirmed sniper kills at Battle of Kollaa
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Winter War

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95
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  • Battle of Raate Road was a surprise ambush
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Winter War

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96
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  • one side sought to create puppet state called Terijoki Government
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Winter War

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97
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  • fears inspired by rise of Lapua Movement in one country
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Winter War

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98
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  • one border set at Mannerheim Line
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Winter War

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99
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  • ended with the cession of Karelia
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Winter War

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100
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  • “Loveday” failed to reconcile belligerents
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Wars of the Roses

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101
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  • soldiers saw three suns in the sky at Battle of Mortimer’s Cross
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Wars of the Roses

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102
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  • Henry VI captured at Battle of Saint Albans
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Wars of the Roses

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103
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  • Edwarth IV won at the Battle of Towton
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Wars of the Roses

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104
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  • ended with death of RIchard III at Battle of Bosworth Field
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Wars of the Roses

105
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  • Richard Neville called “Kingmaker”
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Wars of the Roses

106
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  • friendly fire occured at Battle of Barnet after a star was confused with a sun
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Wars of the Roses

107
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  • Act of Accord ended this conflict
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Wars of the Roses

108
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  • Mary of Anjou led an army with son Edward of Westminister
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Wars of the Roses

109
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  • Bastard of Fauconberg burned various bridges and suburbs
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Wars of the Roses

110
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  • caused in part by ship money tax
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English Civil War

110
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  • Prince Rupert of the Rhine lost the Siege of Bristol
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English Civil War

111
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  • one commander bludgeoned to death with wooden leg
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English Civil War

112
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  • Thomas Fairfax led winning side
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English Civil War

113
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  • Solemn League and Covenant drawn up during this war
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English Civil War

114
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  • Pride’s Purge created Rump Parliament during this conflict
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English Civil War

115
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  • ended at Battle of Naseby
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English Civil War

116
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  • sparked by dismissal of the Grand Remonstrance, crafted by John Pym
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English Civil War

117
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  • Battle of Marston Moor turning point
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English Civil War

118
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  • hunting poodle Boy described as “dog-witch” and later killed
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English Civil War

119
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  • John Talbot defeated at Battle of Castillon
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Hundred Years War

120
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  • Guillaume (William) Cale led Jacquerie uprising
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Hundred Years War

121
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  • John the Good ransomed in Treaty of Bretigny
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Hundred Years War

122
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  • initial stage saw Battle at Sluys
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Hundred Years War

123
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  • Henry V led longbowmen to victory at one battle
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Hundred Years War

124
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  • English sought to place Jean de Montfort on the throne of John III in the War of Breton Succession
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Hundred Years War

125
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  • Edward Woodstock won key battles
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Hundred Years War

126
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  • both sides backed opposing factions in War of the Two Peters
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Hundred Years War

127
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  • Charles d’Albret killed during a battle preceded by St. Crispin’s Day speech
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Hundred Years War

128
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  • Charles the Mad signed the Treaty of Troyes
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Hundred Years War

129
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  • Herbert Jones led an attack made on Goose Green settlement
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Falklands War

130
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  • one side based two aircraft carriers at Ascension Island
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Falklands War

131
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  • nuclear submarine sank General Belgrano
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Falklands War

132
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  • includeed invasions of the South Sandwich Islands
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Falklands War

133
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  • main theater began with a landing at San Carlos
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Falklands War

134
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  • photo taken during this war of a soldier marching with a flag called The Yomper
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Falklands War

135
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  • Mount Tumbledown captured after a day of trench warfare
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Falklands War

136
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  • resulted in the collapse of Leopold Galteri’s government
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Falklands War

137
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  • ended after the Battle of Government House
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Falklands War

138
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  • HMS Sheffield sunk by an Exocet missile
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Falklands War

139
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  • Louis Botha and Paul Kruger won Battle of Colenso during “black week”
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Second Boer War

140
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  • “khaki election” won by Lord Salisbury
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Second Boer War

141
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  • Robert Baden-Powell resisted Siege of Makefing
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Second Boer War

142
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  • Fawcett Commission condemned involvement in this conflict
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Second Boer War

143
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  • Lord Kitchener used concentration camps
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Second Boer War

144
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  • Treaty of Vereeniging ended this conflict
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Second Boer War

145
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  • Siege of Ladysmith occured during this conflict
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Second Boer War

146
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  • Gandhi and Churchill both rose to prominence during this event
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Second Boer War

147
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  • Jameson Raid conducted at the start of this conflict
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Second Boer War

148
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  • Emily Hobhouse’s investigated strategies used in this conflict
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Second Boer War

149
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  • settled by Treaty of Ancon
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War of the Pacific

150
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  • Esmeralda sunk by the Huáscar
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War of the Pacific

151
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  • Captain Miguel Grau won the Battle of Iquique
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War of the Pacific

152
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  • one key ship captured at Battle of Angamos
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War of the Pacific

153
Q
  • failed peace negotiations occured aboard the USS Lackwanna
A

War of the Pacific

154
Q
  • territories of Tacna and Arica ceded during this conflict
A

War of the Pacific

155
Q
  • sparked by one side’s occupation of Antofagasta
A

War of the Pacific

156
Q
  • started at the Battle of Topater and Battle of the Halt of the Alliance
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War of the Pacific

157
Q
  • losing side won the Battle of Pacocha
A

War of the Pacific

158
Q
  • capture of Humaitá fortress turning point in this war
A

War of the Triple Alliance

159
Q
  • one country’s Children’s Day stems from the death of two thousand children in the battle of Acosta Ñu
A

War of the Triple Alliance

160
Q
  • most of losing country’s male population killed during this war
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War of the Triple Alliance

161
Q
  • Fracisco Solano López ordered invasion of Mato Grosso to start this war
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War of the Triple Alliance

162
Q
  • Rutherford B. Hayes helped arbitrate a dispute after this war took place
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War of the Triple Alliance

163
Q
  • losing leader’s mistress Eliza Lynch watched him die at Battle of Cerro Cora
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War of the Triple Alliance

164
Q
  • Duke of Caxias led winning army in this war
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War of the Triple Alliance

165
Q
  • Corrientes invaded in order to gain support of Justo Jose de Urquiza
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War of the Triple Alliance

166
Q
  • began following defeat of Atanasio Aguirre’s Blanco party by Colorado Party
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War of the Triple Alliance

167
Q
  • gunboat Tacuarí captured a civilian steamship in leadup to this war
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War of the Triple Alliance

168
Q
  • soldiers fed “embalmed beef” by Russell Alger
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Spanish-American War

169
Q
  • called a “splendid little war” by John Hay
A

Spanish-American War

170
Q
  • one campaign launched against “Butcher” Weyler
A

Spanish-American War

171
Q
  • victors had to put down the Moro rebellion afterwards
A

Spanish-American War

172
Q
  • overweight general William Shafter won at El Carney
A

Spanish-American War

173
Q
  • Henry Glass commanded the USS Charleston during this conflict
A

Spanish-American War

174
Q
  • “Fighting Joe” Wheeler stormed Las Guasimas, but failed
A

Spanish-American War

175
Q
  • continuation of the Virginius Affair 25 years prior
A

Spanish-American War

176
Q
  • withdrawl of troops after victory demanded in Teller Amendment
A

Spanish-American War

177
Q
  • one cause was the policy of “reconcentration” after the Ten Years’ War
A

Spanish-American War

178
Q
  • religion-restricted Mormon Battalion fought in this conflict
A

Mexican-American War

179
Q
  • Henry David Thoreau called on “honest men to rebel and revolutionize” and then didn’t pay his taxes
A

Mexican-American War

180
Q
  • Wilmot Proviso would’ve banned slavery from territory gained in this war
A

Mexican-American War

181
Q
  • peace successfully negotiated by Nicholas Trist
A

Mexican-American War

182
Q
  • Governor Charles Bent scalped and killed during this conflict
A

Mexican-American War

183
Q
  • Boy Heroes killed at the Battle of Chapultapec
A

Mexican-American War

184
Q
  • short-lived state commanded by William Ide incorporated by Stephen Kearney
A

Mexican-American War

185
Q
  • Thorton Affair south of the Nueces River triggered this conflict
A

Mexican-American War

186
Q
  • Spots Resolution given by Lincoln in opposition to this war
A

Mexican-American War

187
Q
  • John Slidell sent on a failed diplomatic mission to eventual losers
A

Mexican-American War

188
Q
  • Oliver Hazard Perry won Battle of Lake Erie
A

War of 1812

189
Q
  • “blue lights” were Americans accused of helping enemy ships
A

War of 1812

190
Q
  • Laura Secord warned James FitzGibbon of an attack
A

War of 1812

191
Q
  • Robert Ross led unit of escaped slaves during Battle of Bladensburg
A

War of 1812

192
Q
  • one general wrote “we have met the enemy and they are ours”
A

War of 1812

193
Q
  • pirate Jean Lafitte assisted winning side
A

War of 1812

194
Q
  • Edward Pakenham lost at final battle of this war
A

War of 1812

195
Q
  • Edward Pakenham lost at final battle of this war
A

War of 1812

196
Q
  • Hill and Knowlton firm hired Nayirah to falsely testify about babies being ripped out of incubators
A

First Gulf War

197
Q
  • losing side attacked in the Highway of Death
A

First Gulf War

198
Q
  • “Stormin” Norman Schwarzkopf led operations for one side during this war
A

First Gulf War

199
Q
  • sparked by dispute over Rumaila oil field
A

First Gulf War

200
Q
  • SCUD missiles fired into Israel during this conflict
A

First Gulf War

201
Q
  • Chuck Horner won Battle of Khafji
A

First Gulf War

202
Q
  • no-fly zones established in this conflict’s aftermath
A

First Gulf War

203
Q
  • first conflict to be televised through cable news
A

First Gulf War

204
Q
  • final battle Battle of Norfolk
A

First Gulf War

205
Q
  • namesake “syndrome” caused by anti-nerve agent deployed in this war
A

First Gulf War

206
Q
  • UN Security Council Resolution 242 dealt with territorial exchanges in this war
A

Six-Day War

207
Q
  • losing side issued a Khartoum Resolution declaring “three no’s”
A

Six-Day War

208
Q
  • began with the airstrike Operation Focus
A

Six-Day War

209
Q
  • sparked by one side closing the Straits of Tiran
A

Six-Day War

210
Q
  • USS Liberty attacked allegedly by accident in this war
A

Six-Day War

211
Q
  • ceasefire negotiated along the Purple Line
A

Six-Day War

212
Q
  • major cause was blockade of Eilat
A

Six-Day War

213
Q
  • one side received bad intelligence from the Soviet Union right before this conflict
A

Six-Day War

214
Q
  • began with the crossing of the Bar-Lev Line
A

Yom Kippur War

215
Q
  • U.S. airlifted supplies to one side during Operation Nickel Grass
A

Yom Kippur War

216
Q
  • one side’s inadequate defenses investigated by Agranat Commission
A

Yom Kippur War

217
Q
  • misinterpretation of writing on agricultural equipment gave one position in this war the name Chinese Farm
A

Yom Kippur War

218
Q
  • two attempts made to breach defensive line at Fort Budapest
A

Yom Kippur War

219
Q
  • one site known as Valley of Tears after Kahalani held out against a larger force
A

Yom Kippur War

220
Q
  • UN Security Council Resoution 338 called for an end to this conflict
A

Yom Kippur War

221
Q
  • non-aggression urged by one side’s defense minister Moshe Dayan
A

Yom Kippur War

222
Q
  • Golda Meir resigned in favor of Yitzhak Rabin
A

Yom Kippur War

223
Q
  • started with one side launched Operation Badr
A

Yom Kippur War

224
Q
  • sparked by raid on “Thirteen Factories” ordered by Lin Zexu
A

Opium Wars

225
Q
  • one side intervened due to execution of August Chapdelaine
A

Opium Wars

226
Q
  • initially ended by the Treaty of the Bogue
A

Opium Wars

227
Q
  • cargo ship called the Arrow was seized before this conflict
A

Opium Wars

228
Q
  • resulted in numerous “Unequal Treaties”
A

Opium Wars

229
Q
  • letter asking “Where is your conscience?” sent to one leader
A

Opium Wars

230
Q
  • Lord Elgin burned the Summer Palaces
A

Opium Wars

231
Q
  • inspired Prince Gong’s Self-Strengthening Movement
A

Opium Wars

232
Q
  • James Hope Grant captured Eight-Mile Bridge
A

Opium Wars

233
Q
  • saw Battle of Luding Bridge
A

Chinese Civil War

234
Q
  • two sides of this conflict created two seperate United Fronts
A

Chinese Civil War

235
Q
  • George Marshall attempted to mediate the end of this conflict
A

Chinese Civil War

236
Q
  • troops departing from Jiangxi participated in the Long March
A

Chinese Civil War

237
Q
  • attempted reversal through Project National Glory
A

Chinese Civil War

238
Q
  • back-to-back engagements at Siping
A

Chinese Civil War

239
Q
  • winning army instructed to follow Three Rules of Discipline and Eight Points of Attention
A

Chinese Civil War

240
Q
  • began at Battle of Saguntum in over border at Ebro River
A

Second Punic War

241
Q
  • one general’s brothers Mago and Hasdrubal, defeated together
A

Second Punic War

242
Q
  • initiated First Macedonian War against Philip V
A

Second Punic War

243
Q
  • Syphax captured after Battle of Cirta
A

Second Punic War

244
Q
  • Numidian cavalry led by Masinissa played a critical role
A

Second Punic War

245
Q
  • ended at Battle of Zama by Scipio Africanus
A

Second Punic War

246
Q
  • Fabian strategy first used after Battle of Lake Trasimene
A

Second Punic War

247
Q
  • Battle of the Trebia saw Sempronius Longus ener a trap
A

Second Punic War

248
Q
  • one historian wrote “the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must” during this war
A

Peloponnesian War

249
Q
  • interrupted by a peace treaty named for Nicias
A

Peloponnesian War

250
Q
  • losing side’s Long Walls connecting to Port of Piraeus worsened a plague during this conflict
A

Peloponnesian War

251
Q
  • one side massacred after a leader held off on an invasion because of a lunar eclipse
A

Peloponnesian War

252
Q
  • general on the losing side recalled on charges of defacing and castrating statues
A

Peloponnesian War

253
Q
  • included Sicilian expedition of Alcibiades
A

Peloponnesian War

254
Q
  • ended after Lysander’s victory at Battle of Aegospotami
A

Peloponnesian War

255
Q
  • Melos was destroyed for refusing to join one side in this war
A

Peloponnesian War

256
Q
  • six generals executed for failing to rescue drowning sailors
A

Peloponnesian War

257
Q
  • Yale historian Donald Kagan wrote a four-volume history on this war
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Peloponnesian War

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