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1469 BCE

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c. 1275 BCE

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c. 1000 BCE

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853 BCE

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612 BCE

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490 BCE

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480 BCE

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Go to Salamis, Battle of (480 bc) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.)

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479 BCE

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405 BCE

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371 BCE

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338 BCE

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334 BCE

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333 BCE

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260 BCE

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241 BCE

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217 BCE

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216 BCE

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202 BCE

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102 BCE

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101 BCE

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82 BCE

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53 BCE

Go to Crassus, Marcus Licinius in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.)

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52 BCE

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48 BCE

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42 BCE

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31 BCE

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9

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378

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451

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656
680

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732

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1014

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1040

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1066
1071

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1187

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1240

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1241

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1260

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1263

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1264
1265
1297
1298

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1314
1315

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1346

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1356
1380

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1385

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1389

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1402

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1410

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1415

Go to Henry V (b. 16 Sept. 1387) in The Kings and Queens of Britain (2 rev ed.)

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1444

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1453

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1455
1476

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1485
1513
1515

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1525

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1526

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1527
1531

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1555
1571

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1620

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1631

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1632

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1642
1644
1645
1651
1652

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1690

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1704

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1709

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1745

Go to Austrian Succession, War of the (1740–48) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.)

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1746
1754
1755
1759

Go to Wolfe, James (1727–59) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.)

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Go to Seven Years War (1756–63) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.)

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Go to ‘Heart of Oak’ in The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea (2 ed.)

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1776

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1777
1781
1792

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1793
1798

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1800
1801

Go to Nelson, Admiral Horatio (1758–1805) [Hist.] in The Oxford Dictionary of Reference and Allusion (3 ed.)

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1805
1808

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1809

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1812

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1813

Go to Vitoria, Battle of (21 June 1813) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.)

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Go to Lake Erie, Battle of (10 September 1813) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.)

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Go to Thames, Battle of the (5 October 1813) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.)

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Go to Leipzig, Battle of in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.)

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1815

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1827

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1854

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Go to Inkerman, battle of (1854) in A Dictionary of British History (1 rev ed.)

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1859

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1861

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1862

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Go to Shiloh, Battle of (1862) in The Oxford Companion to United States History (1 ed.)

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Go to Bull Run, Second Battle of in The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military (1 ed.)

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Go to Antietam, Battle of in The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military (1 ed.)

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1863

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1876

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1881
1898

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1899
1905

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1914

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Go to Marne, Battles of the in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.)

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Go to Marne, Battles of the in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.)

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Go to Ypres, Battles of (1914–18) in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.)

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1915

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Go to flame-throwers in The Oxford Companion to Military History (1 ed.)

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Go to Loos, battle of (1915) in The Oxford Companion to Military History (1 ed.)

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Go to Mesopotamian campaign in The Oxford Companion to Military History (1 ed.)

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1916

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Go to Somme, Battle of the in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.)

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1917

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Go to Lawrence, T(homas) E(dward) (1888–1935) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.)

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Go to Caporetto, Battle of (24 October 1917) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.)

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Go to Passchendaele, Battle of in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.)

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1918

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1939
1940
1941

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Go to Barbarossa (22 June 1941 – Dec. 1941) in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.)

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1942

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Go to Stalingrad, Battle of (1942–43) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.)

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Go to El Alamein, Battles of (1942) in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.)

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Go to Stalingrad, Battle of (Sept. 1942 – Jan. 1943) in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.)

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1943

Go to Paulus, Friedrich (b. 23 Sept. 1890) in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.)

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1944

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1945

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Go to Okinawa, capture of in The Oxford Companion to World War II (1 ed.)

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1954

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