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    Battle of Uhad

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    BATTLE OF UHAD Objectives: a. Quraish. The main objective of the Quraish‚ as before‚ was to eliminate the Muslims and knock out their base at Madina. b. Muslims. For Muslims‚ it was the battle of their survival. At this stage they could not hope to eliminate their enemies at Makkah. They however wanted to establish their military reputation and consolidate the gains of the Battle of Badr. Contending Forces | |

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    Battle of Quebec

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    The Battle of Quebec Military History CPT Gonzalez Carlos Colon Rivera September 28‚ 2011 UNCLASSIFIED Battle of Quebec T States. he Battle of the Plains of Abraham‚ also known as the Battle of Quebec‚ was a crucial advance towards the battle ground Native Americans (Indians) and militia start shooting against the British in an attempt to slow down their movement. battle in North America’s theater of war of the French and Indian War in the United The battle‚ which

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    The Battle Of Thermoplyae

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    The Battle of Thermopylae The Spartans vs. The Persians The Battle of Thermopylae started in August of September of 480 BC. The battle lead by King Leonides of Sparta and Xerxes of The Persian empire. The Persians were trying to overtake Greece. In an effort to protect the Greek cities‚ The Greek Army lead by King Leonides was sent to the Pass of Thermopyle to stop the Persian entry into Greece. King Leonides started his march to Thermopylae with 300 men from the Royal Body Guard. As

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    Battle of Midway

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    Fletcher had begun launching his aircraft at 07:00. The first squadrons to arrive were the TBD Devastator torpedo bombers from Hornet (VT-8) and Enterprise (VT-6). Attacking at low level‚ they failed to score a hit and suffered heavy casualties. Battle of Midway - Aftermath: On the night of June 4th‚ both sides retired to plan their next move. By 02:55‚ Yamamoto ordered his fleet to return to base. In the following days‚ American aircraft sunk the cruiser Mikuma‚ while the Japanese submarine I-168 torpedoed

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    The Battle of Hattin

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    The battle of Hattin took place in 1187 and was fought between the Christians and the Muslims. Both religious accounts of this battle give light on certain aspects missed by the other religion. The Muslim account shows the genius of Saladin‚ while the Christian account gives a more ruthless image. The Christian account tells of how Saladin ordered skirmishers to harass the Christians from morning to mid-day‚ while the Muslim account tells Saladin surrounded them not with skirmishers but with his

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    Battle of Passchendale

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    Battle of Passchendale: 1) Background: a. General Douglas Haig‚ British General‚ believed that the morale of the German army was very low - especially after the success of the Allies at the Battle of Messines. i. He thought that the Allies could use this low morale and go across Flanders without much trouble. b. British were afraid that the Russians were going to pull out soon so they had to attack soon before the German forces only had to focus on the western

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    Battle of Gettysburg

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    History 24 April 2000 The Battle of Gettysburg " The Turning Point of the Civil War Gettysburg was the turning point of the American Civil War. This is the most famous and important Civil War Battle that occurred over three hot summer days‚ July 3‚ 1863‚ around the small market town of Gettysburg‚ Pennsylvania. More importantly Gettysburg was the clash between the two major American Cultures of their time: the North and the South. The causes of the Civil War‚ and the Battle of Gettysburg‚ one must

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    Battle of Salamis

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    The Battle of Salamis The naval battle of Salamis was one of the last great battles of the Greco-Persian Wars‚ An invasion of Greece by the Persians Led by Persian King forces cunningly defeated Xerxes larger fleet under the leadership of Athenian general Themistocles. Xerxes‚ the son of King Darius was aggressive in the building of his empire. To get revenge for his late his father’s defeat at Marathon‚ he led an army of 150‚000 men and a navy consisting of 600 triremes (war vessels) into Greece

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    Battle of Culloden

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    The battle of Culloden Moor‚ fought on 16 April 1746‚ took less than an hour to reach its conclusion and extinguish the Scots’ hopes of returning a Scottish Stuart king to the throne of Scotland. This was a battle between the Jacobites‚ who were the supporters of Bonnie Prince Charlie‚ and the Hanoverian British army; and it brought to a bloody end the Jacobite uprising of 1745. The lead-up to this battle started in the 1630s‚ which was a period of religious and political upheaval in Britain.

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    Beowulf's Battles

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    Beowulf’s Battles Beowulf‚ like Anglo-Saxon culture generally‚ strikes us readers as a peculiar blend of traditions‚ resulting in a Christianity that is dark‚ realistic‚ anxious‚ violent-in short‚ and oddly modern. Moreover‚ it results in a heroism that Beowulf portrays throughout the story. Beowulf’s victories allow for the continued existence of the Danes‚ while also allowing him to correspond with his unending subsistence through heroic performances. Throughout the poem‚ Beowulf clashes with

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