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  2. Battle of Waterloo - Wikipedia

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    On the western side of the main road, and in front of the rest of Wellington's line, was the farmhouse and orchard of La Haye Sainte, which was garrisoned with 400 light infantry of the King's German Legion. [71] On the opposite side of the road was a disused sand quarry, where the 95th Rifles were posted as sharpshooters. [72]

  3. Liam Scales - Wikipedia

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    On 17 September 2022, Scales was sent off in 3–1 defeat at Hibernian after he was shown a second yellow card by referee David Dickinson. [28] Four months later he was shown red again in a 6–0 loss against the same opposition, a result that saw manager Jim Goodwin removed from his position shortly after the match.

  4. Siege of Khartoum - Wikipedia

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    The siege of Khartoum (also known as the battle of Khartoum or fall of Khartoum) took place from 13 March 1884 to 26 January 1885.Sudanese Mahdist forces captured the city of Khartoum, Sudan, from its Egyptian garrison, thereby gaining control over the whole of Turco-Egyptian Sudan.

  5. Battle of Lake Trasimene - Wikipedia

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    The battle took place on the north shore of Lake Trasimene, to the south of Cortona, and resulted in a heavy defeat for the Romans. War had broken out between Rome and Carthage early in 218 BC. Hannibal, ruler of the Carthaginian territories in south-east Iberia , marched an army through Gaul , crossed the Alps and arrived in Cisalpine Gaul ...

  6. Deep Blue versus Garry Kasparov - Wikipedia

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    Deep Blue versus Garry Kasparov was a pair of six-game chess matches between then-world chess champion Garry Kasparov and an IBM supercomputer called Deep Blue.Kasparov won the first match, held in Philadelphia in 1996, by 4–2.

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  8. Battle of Culloden - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of Culloden [a] took place on 16 April 1746, near Inverness in the Scottish Highlands.A Jacobite army under Charles Edward Stuart was decisively defeated by a British government force commanded by the Duke of Cumberland, thereby ending the Jacobite rising of 1745.

  9. First English Civil War, 1644 - Wikipedia

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    But for once, the council of war on the other side was for fighting a battle. The Parliamentary armies, their spirits revived by the prospect of action, and by the news of the fall of Newcastle-on-Tyne and the defeat of a sally from Newark, marched briskly. On 26 October, they appeared north of Newbury on the Oxford road.