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75Battle of Tyre (332 BC)
In the 350s b.c. Philip I assumed the throne of Macedon, a relatively poor province north of Greece. He developed a first-class army and, taking advantage of the temporary weakness of Athens (Greece's dominant...
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71Battle of Orleans (1428-1429 AD)
There were a number of momentum shifts during the course of the Hundred Years War. Edward III's victories at Sluys and Crecy gave England the early advantage, but during the middle part of the fourteenth...
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77Battle of Granada (1491 AD)
In a.d. 711 Muslim forces in modern Morocco crossed the Straits of Gibraltar into Spain. This was another in a series of conquests over the previous millennium: Carthaginians, Romans, Vandals, and Visigoths....
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73Battle of Vienna (1529 AD)
Just as the weakened condition caused by Byzantine-Persian hostility had opened the door for Islam to break out of Arabia in the seventh century, Europe in the 1520s presented to a potential outside aggressor...
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70Battle of Rhodes (1522 AD)
The Order of the Knights of the Hospital of St. John (also known as the Knights Hospitalers) were organized during the First Crusade and operated a hospital in Jerusalem. These were Christian knights dedicated...
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70Battle of Montsegur (1243-1244 AD)
Although Martin Luther is credited with beginning the Reformation, he was not the first to openly point out the worldliness of the Catholic Church. Almost since Constantine's legal acceptance of Christianity...
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65Battle of Arcot (1751 AD)
Eighteenth-century India was an active place. The Moghul Empire was falling apart as the monarchy weakened and the nobility grew stronger. Although Delhi was the putative capital, local princes (nawabs) ruled...
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75Battle of Masada (73-74 AD)
Conflict between imperial Rome and Palestine was probably inevitable, given the Jewish belief in a single God versus the polytheism of Rome. Although Roman practice was to allow fairly wide autonomy in...
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72Battle of Jerusalem (70 BC)
The Zealots were a revolutionary faction in Israel during the Roman occupation, active in the first century a.d. Although the Romans rarely did anything to hamper the Jews of Israel in the practice of their...
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64Battle of Carthage (149-146 BC)
For many years two powers slowly grew in strength and ambition, one on the southern coast of the central Mediterranean, the other directly north on the Italian peninsula. Carthage grew wealthy by the sea, her...
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