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Fiesta San Antonio (or simply Fiesta) has been since its 1891 inception an annual festival held in April in San Antonio, Texas. It is the city's signature event, along with some events held in the neighboring cities: Boerne, Schertz, Windcrest, Balcones Heights, and Alamo Heights). The festival, also known as the Battle of Flowers, commemorates ...
The Jersey Battle of Flowers is an annual carnival held in the Channel Island of Jersey on the second Friday and Saturday of August. The festival consists of music, funfairs, dancers, majorettes and a parade of flower floats alongside various street entertainers. It was inaugurated in 1902 to celebrate the coronation of King Edward VII and ...
The Battle of Flowers is the oldest parade carried out in the Barranquilla Carnival, and was organised for the first time in 1903 through General Heriberto Arturo Vengoechea's initiative. The general who was looking for a way to celebrate the end of the long Thousand Days War that had claimed thousands of lives.
Battle of Flowers can mean any of the following: Jersey Battle of Flowers. Battle of Flowers Parade held yearly during Fiesta San Antonio. Battle of flowers a fiesta held in Laredo, Cantabria, Spain. a flower parade. Category: Disambiguation pages.
The Charge of the Light Brigade was a military action undertaken by British light cavalry against Russian forces during the Battle of Balaclava in the Crimean War, resulting in many casualties to the cavalry. On 25 October 1854, the Light Brigade, led by Lord Cardigan, mounted a frontal assault against a Russian artillery battery which was well ...
San Antonio parade shooting. On April 27, 1979, 64-year-old Ira Attebury opened fire on the spectator crowd at the Battle of Flowers parade in San Antonio, Texas, killing two and injuring several dozen, including several police officers. It proceeded into a siege for over an hour, before the perpetrator then killed himself.
The Battle of Flodden, Flodden Field, or occasionally Branxton or Brainston Moor[ 4 ] was fought on 9 September 1513 during the War of the League of Cambrai between the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland and resulted in an English victory. The battle was fought near Branxton, in the county of Northumberland, in northern England ...
Battle of Flores (1591) The Battle of Flores was a naval engagement during the Brittany Campaign of the Anglo-Spanish War of 1585 fought off the Island of Flores between an English fleet of 22 ships under Lord Thomas Howard [2] and a Spanish fleet of 55 ships under Alonso de Bazán. [1] Sent to the Azores to capture the annual Spanish treasure ...