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 | The Battle of Alamein, or more correctly the Second Battle of El Alamein, marked a significant turning point in the Western Desert Campaign of World War II. The battle lasted from October 23 to November 3, 1942. Following the First Battle of El Alamein, which had stalled the Axis advance, General Bernard Montgomery took command of the British Commonwealth's Eighth Army from Claude Auchinleck in... |  | 10/25/2005 | 1,436 | 
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 | The Battle of Polygon Wood was a small conflict of the Battle of Passchendaele in World War I. The majority of the battle was fought near Ypres, Belgium, in an area named the Polygon Wood after the layout of the area. However, much of the woodland had been under intense shelling during the Battle of Passchendaele, and the area changed hands many times throughout the course of the campaign. The ... |  | 11/19/2009 | 379 |
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 | The Battle of Verdun was a major battle of the Western Front in World War I. The battle was fought between the German and French armies between February 21 and 19 December 1916 around Verdun-sur-Meuse in northeast France. It resulted in more than a quarter of a million deaths and about half a million wounded. It was the longest battle of World War I, and the second bloodiest after the battle of... | | 08/03/2005 | 641 |
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 | Location of Taffy 3 Memorial, in remembrance of The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors, during the Battle off Samar, the final stage of the Battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval battle in history. | | 11/06/2007 | 333 |
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 | Completed in 1891, the Bennington Battle Monument is a stone obelisk structure that stands 306 feet tall. The monument was built to commemorate the Revolutionary War Battle of Bennington. It is the tallest structure in the state of Vermont. | | 08/21/2007 | 263 |
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 | Battle of Trent's Reach, January 23-24, 1865 | | 07/26/2007 | 471 |
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 | The permanent exhibition "Battle for the Leie 1940" starts with a reproduction of the end offensive in 1918.
The battle for the Leie officially lasted from 24 May up to 28 May 1940. In an old factory at Kuurne, situated on the former battlefield, a piece of forgotten history is presented in the form of dioramas, photographs, documents, uniforms, weapons and numerous oth... | | 09/04/2009 | 217 |
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 | Imposing memorial to the famed battle of Leipzig in which Napoleon's army was defeated by allied forces in 1813... This monument made me consider the meaninglessness of all monuments... This gigantic structure built as an indictment against the horrors of war... But it didn't change a thing... |  | 04/11/2006 | 263 |
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 | Both sides suffered very heavy casualties during the ten months of the Battle of Verdun. Sources do not agree on the number of casualties suffered during the battle. In some, French loses were 61,000 dead, 101,000 missing and 216,000 wounded, a total of 378,000 while German loses were 142,000 killed or missing and 187,000 wounded, for a total of 329,000. Other sources give higher figures Fren... | | 11/04/2008 | 337 |
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 | The Battle of Britain Memorial at the southern coast of Britain.
This is the place where the old warbirds make flybys when they return from airshows on the continent. | | 07/22/2005 | 561 |
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 | This is the BATTLE CREEK regional Airport. Now closed to the public, it is used for flight training. | | 08/29/2007 | 299 |
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 | The Battle on the Marchfeld (Morava Field) at Dürnkrut and Jedenspeigen took place on August 26, 1278 and was a decisive event for the history of Central Europe for the following centuries.
The opponents were King Ottokar II of Bohemia and an Imperial Army led by Rudolf I of Habsburg in alliance with the Hungarian King Ladislaus IV of Hungary. The Hungarian Army included Hungaria... | | 04/17/2006 | 311 |
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