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  The Probert Encyclopaedia - Weapons and Warfare (B)
The Battle of Algiers was a bitter conflict in Algiers from 1954 to 1962 between the Algerian nationalist population and the French colonial army and French settlers.
The Battle of Culloden was a defeat in 1746 of the Jacobite rebel army of the British prince Charles Edward Stuart (the 'Young Pretender') by the Duke of Cumberland on a stretch of moorland in Inverness-shire, Scotland.
The Battle of Navas de Tolosa was fought in 1212 between Yakub Almansur of the Almohades and the kings of Aragon, Castile and Navarre.
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  Probert Encyclopaedia: Battles (1850-1899)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The Battle of Adowa was a decisive battle fought at Adowa, in north central Ethiopia on March the 1st 1896.
The Battle of Angamos was a naval battle fought off Angamos Point, north of Antofagasta in Chile on October the 8th 1879 between the Peruvian ironclad Huascar and the Chilean ironclad Blanco Encalada and Almirante Cochrane, assisted by the corvette Covadonga.
The Battle of Caldera Bay occurred during the civil war in Chile in 1891 and was fought between the Congressionalist ironclad Blanco Encalada and the Balmacedist torpedo gunboats Almirante Lynch and Almirante Condell who torpedoed the ironclad amidships and sank her in two minutes.
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 Egypt - Outline Of The History Of Egypt From 1878 To The Present Day
The decisive battle of Omdurman was fought on September 2, 1898.
It was, in some respects, the bloodiest battle of the century, and is peculiarly interesting from the fact that, there, the most modern implements of war were used by the Anglo-Egyptian forces, with terribly machine-like and uniform result.
The battle began with the onset of the Mahdist cavalry and lancers.
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 The Probert Encyclopaedia - Weapons and Warfare (B)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The Battle of Algiers was a bitter conflict in Algiers from 1954 to 1962 between the Algerian nationalist population and the French colonial army and French settlers.
The Battle of Culloden was a defeat in 1746 of the Jacobite rebel army of the British prince Charles Edward Stuart (the 'Young Pretender') by the Duke of Cumberland on a stretch of moorland in Inverness-shire, Scotland.
The Battle of Navas de Tolosa was fought in 1212 between Yakub Almansur of the Almohades and the kings of Aragon, Castile and Navarre.
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The battle began when the Scottish forces, numbering about 40,000 troops under the command of Robert Bruce, king of Scotland, intercepted an army of about 60,000 commanded by Edward II of England, which was en route to the relief of a besieged English stronghold at Stirling Castle.
The Battle of Culloden was a defeat in 1746 of the Jacobite rebel army of the British prince Charles Edward Stuart (the 'Young Pretender') by the Duke of Cumberland on a stretch of moorland in Inverness‑shire, Scotland.
The Battle of Inkerman was an infantry battle of the Crimean War fought on the 5th of November 1854 when the Russians attacked the British forces besieging Sebastopol and were repulsed.
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 Browsing the inventory of The Virtual Bookshelf (Member of Ibooknet and IOBA) by catalog: Battles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
A well-written history of the militarily indecisive but historically significant battle which was the largest in Irish history and which concluded the English war of Succession and secured William III and the Protestant monarchy in England..
Account of one of the most grandious battles of all time: the gallantry on either side, the appalling natural difficulties to be overcome, the historical significance of the ancient Benedictine Abbey which unwittingly became the centre of hostilities, and the Allies relunctant decision to bomb it.
Account of the 1944 Battle for Arnhem, where the fifth bridge on the Rhine was the scene of a defeat for the Allies.
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