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  • 41Battle of Ligny — Infobox Military Conflict conflict=Battle of Ligny caption= partof=the Waterloo Campaign date=16 June 1815 place=Ligny, present day Belgium result=French victory combatant1=flagicon|France French Empire combatant2=flagicon|Prussia|1803 Prussia… …

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  • 42Scorched earth — Not to be confused with Slash and burn. For other uses, see Scorched Earth (disambiguation). Kuwaiti oil wells set alight by retreating Iraqi forces in 1991. A scorched earth policy is a military strategy or operational method which involves… …

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  • 43Hundred Days — This article is about Napoleon s last period of rule. For other uses, see Hundred Days (disambiguation). Hundred Days Part of the Napoleonic Wars …

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  • 44Dover Beach — For other uses, see Dover Beach (disambiguation). Dover Beach is a short lyric poem by the English poet Matthew Arnold.[1] It was first published in 1867 in the collection New Poems, but surviving notes indicate its composition may have begun as… …

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  • 45Operation Dragoon — Part of World War II A map of the operation …

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  • 46Chinese Soviet Republic — 中華蘇維埃共和國 Unrecognized state ← …

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  • 47Battle of Yarmouk — Infobox Military Conflict caption=Across the ravines lies battlefield of Yarmouk, a picture taken 8 miles from battlefield, from Jordan. conflict=Battle of Yarmouk partof=the Muslim conquest of Syria and Byzantine Arab Wars date=15th 20th August …

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  • 48Bleiburg massacre — The Bleiburg massacre [ [http://www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/genocide/yugoslav hist1.htm Yalta and the Bleiburg Tragedy ] ] is a term encompassing events that took place during May 1945, three and a half months before the formal end of World War II in… …

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  • 49Puerto Rican Campaign — Infobox Military Conflict caption= Land Campaign in Puerto Rico conflict=Puerto Rican Campaign partof=the Spanish American War date=May 12, 1898 ndash; August 13, 1898 place=Puerto Rico result= Militarily inconclusive, Spain cedes Puerto Rico in… …

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  • 50Second Battle of Winchester — Infobox Military Conflict conflict = Second Battle of Winchester caption = Sketch of the Second Battle of Winchester , by Jedediah Hotchkiss. partof = the American Civil War date = June 13ndash June 15 1863 place = Frederick County and Winchester …

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