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| show | Aachen
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| field outside quebec, where 1759 the british under general wolfe defeated the french under general montcalm, establishing british supremacy in north america | show 🗑
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| show | el alamein
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| show | Alsace-Lorraine
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| show | Amristar Town
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| former region of france, part of the english crown lands 1154-1204 roughly corresponding with but slightly larger than the modern region of Maine-et-Loire | show 🗑
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| former duchy and kingdom of southwest France, a powerful medieval state; held as a vassal state of the French Crown by Henry 2 of england , but recovered by the french monarchy during the hundred years war | show 🗑
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| show | Ardennes
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| show | Augsburg
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| show | Austerlitz
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| ancient ramparted city of southeast france, on the rhone, the papal residence during the Babylonian Captivity and home to antipopes during the Great Schism | show 🗑
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| Town in Crimea, now part of Sebastopol; site of the famous charge of the light brigade in the battle (October 1854) of the crimean war in which the british forces repulsed a russian assault on the base hear | show 🗑
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| name for the southeast peninsula of europe, comprising Greece, Albania, Bulgaria, most of Yugoslavia, southeastern Romania and, under the Ottomans, Turkey-in Europe; continual source of national and international tensions in the 50 years before ww1 | show 🗑
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| name for four north african provinces of the ottoman empire; tripolitania, tunisia, algeria and morocco; famous for turkish piracy in the 17th and 18th centuries | show 🗑
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| bay on the south coast of cuba where cuban exiles, supported by the u.s. landed in an abortive attempt (1961) to overthrow fidel castro | show 🗑
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| show | Bethlehem
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| show | Bighorn
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| village in Bavaria, just outside which anglo-austrian forces under the duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Savoy defeated (1704) a franco-bavarian army in the war of the spanish succession;___ palace in in woodstock, oxfordshire | show 🗑
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| medieval kingdom in the western part of modern Czechoslovakia of a largely Czech population; from the late 15th century dominated by the Hapsburgs and in 1627 robbed of its status as an independent kingdom and demoted to an imperial crown land austrohung | show 🗑
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| village in the central european U.S.S.R., site of napoleon's indecisive victory over the russian army under general Kutuzov in a battle which resulted in more than 100,000 casualties | show 🗑
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| provinces of present-day yugoslavia, where peasant rebellion against ottoman rule in 1875 led to the russo-turkish war and the administration by the Austro-hungarian empireunder turkish sovereignty; annexed by AustriaHungary in 1908; site of a. of franzfe | show 🗑
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| show | Bosporus
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| show | Boston
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| show | Botany Bay
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| small stream in northeast Virginia, site of two Civil War battles, the first being the opening engagement of the war, in which stonewall jackson resisted the union advance and the second also being a confederate victory; also called Manassas | show 🗑
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| region of east France, a powerful duchy and kingdom in the middle ages, emerging in the 5th century and thereafter waxing and waning with constantly shifting boundaries; at its peak, in the late 14th and 15th centuries, it covered most of modern belgium | show 🗑
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| city in west bengal, india founded c. 1690 by the british east india company; in 1856 captured by the nawab of Bengal, who killed most of the Company's garrison by imprisoning it in a small airless chamber known ast the black hole | show 🗑
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| outside Jerusalem where jesus was crucified of uncertain location but traditionally placed inside the present church of the holy sepulcher; also call golgotha hebrew for "skull" | show 🗑
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| show | Camp David
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| show | canterbury
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| town in morocco site of the allied conference at which churchill and roosevelt agreed to demand the "unconditional surrender" of the Axis powers | show 🗑
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| Ancient Kingdom of north-central spain, united with the kingdom of aragon under the strong central monarchy of isabella and her husband ferdinand | show 🗑
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| in prince edward island, canada, site of the conference in 1864 between british and colonial officials that led to canadian confederation (1867) | show 🗑
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| town in the ukraine, 24 miles from the soviet nuclear power station, which exploded in april 1986, releasing vast amounts of radioactive material and forcing the evacuation of 135,000 residents in the area | show 🗑
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| town in massachusetts, site of the first battle of the american war of independence; colonial militia fired the opening shots across the___ river at british soldiers arriving to seize the colonial arsenal | show 🗑
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| danish capital, site of teh famous battle of 1801 during the napoleonic wars, in which the british navy commanded by sir hyde parker and horation nelson destroyed the danish fleet; site also of british bombardment | show 🗑
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| stretch of ocean in the southwest pacific, where on may 4-8, 1942, in the first of a series of aircraft-carrier engagements, the u.s. successfully blocked Japan's intended advance toward australia | show 🗑
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| show | crimea
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| moor in northeast scotland, site in 1745 of the final battle which ended the jacobite rising under bonnie prince charlie; 1000 highlanders lost their lives and 1000 were take prisoner by the victorious army of george 2 | show 🗑
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| town in bavaria site of the first concentration camp established by the nazis in 1933 and the model for the rest | show 🗑
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| show | Damascus
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| show | Danzig (Gdansk)
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| strait linking the Aegean to the sea of marmara and separtating Asian from european turkey; of great strategic importance as russias water gateway to asia and the middle east; scene of two failed allied campaigns of 1915 to take control of black sea | show 🗑
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| small caribbean island off french guiana, site of an infamous french penal colony, chiefly for political prisoners; its most famous inmate was Alfred Dreyfus | show 🗑
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| show | Dien Bien Phu
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| village near washington dc, where a series of meetings (august-October 1944) attended by great britain, the us, china, and the ussr, laid down the basis for the united nations | show 🗑
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| show | Dunkirk
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| show | Elba
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| Spa in western Germany where, in 1870, bismarck drew up and dispatched the "__ telegram" deliberately misreporting an interview between the french amabassador and Kaiser Wilhelm to provoke war | show 🗑
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| show | Falkland Islands
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| show | Flanders
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