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41 Written questions
1. [War] 1899-1902; British empire annexed South African republics after costly struggle

2. [War] 1803-1815; Bonaparte's attempt to conquer Europe foiled by a hostile coalition

3. [War] 1756-1763; Prussia's Frederick the Great held o French, Austrians, Russians

4. [War] 1950-1953; "Forgotten War" that resulted in DMZ across Korean War

5. [Campaign] 1189-1192; Richard Lionheart, Frederick Barbarossa failed to recapture Jerusalem

6. [Treaty] 1803; U.S. acquired vast territory west of the Mississippi from France

7. [Battle] 1066; William the Conqueror killed Harold II, took over Anglo-Saxon England

8. [War] 1854-1856; British and French joined to seize Russian naval bases on the Black Sea

9. [War] 1701-1714; British, Dutch, Austrians fought to keep Louis XIV o the Spanish throne

10. [Battle] 490 BC; Athenian phalanx turned back Darius's Persian invasion of Greece

11. [War] 1936-1939; Francisco Franco's forces overthrew the Spanish republic

12. [Battle] 1876; Sitting Bull's Sioux beat the 7th Cavalry in Custer's Last Stand

13. [War] 1861-1865; Union forces defeated Confederate secession attempt, abolished slavery

14. [Battle] 1862; Union victory in Maryland led to the Emancipation Proclamation

15. [Battle] 1781; Cornwallis's army trapped at Virginia port by Americans, French

16. [War] 1455-1485; Struggle between Houses of York and Lancaster for English throne

17. [War] 1955-1975; Vietnam unied after U.S. defeat in Southeast Asian guerilla war

18. [Treaty] 1919; ended WWI, blamed for causing WWII by harsh treatment of Germany

19. [Battle] 1863; Stonewall Jackson killed during Lee's victory over Joseph Hooker

20. [War] 1939-1945; global conflict led to downfall of Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan

21. [War] ~1946-1991; struggle for influence between rival superpowers U.S. and USSR

22. [Battle] 1941; Japan's infamous surprise attack on U.S. naval base in Oahu, Hawaii

23. [War] 1618-1648; Catholic-Protestant war in Germany that drew in Spain, Sweden, France

24. [War] 1898; U.S. seized Spanish colonies like Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines

25. [War] 1775-1783; 13 colonies gained independence from Great Britain, established U.S.

26. [Battle] 1815; nal defeat of Napoleon by British, Dutch, and Prussian coalition

27. [Battle] 1863; ended Lee's invasion of Pennsylvania, inspired an address by A. Lincoln

28. [Uprising] 1789; fall of the Bourbon monarchy led to a series of short-lived regimes

29. [Military Unit] "Invincible" fleet scattered and sunk by Elizabeth I's ships, storm

30. [War] 1812-1815; inconclusive war caused in part by the impressment of U.S. sailors

31. [Battle] 1805; Lord Nelson destroyed Napoleon's navy o the coast of Spain

32. [War] 1846-1848; war of "Manifest Destiny" gained southwestern territory for U.S.

33. [War] 1337-1453; struggle between England and France for the control of the French throne

34. [Uprising] 1917; Lenin's Bolsheviks seized power from the Provisional Government

35. [War] circa 12th c. BC; semi-legendary conflict between Greeks, Priam's city of Troy

36. [Battle] 1415; French knights routed bu Henry V, outnumbered army of English longbowmen

37. [War] 1904-1905; Tsar Nicolas II's empire weakened by loss to a rising Asian power

38. [War] 431-404 BC; Thucydides wrote about this war in which Sparta defeated Athens

39. [War] 1870-1871; unied Germany emerged from Bismarck's destruction of French empire

40. [Battle] 1485; Richard III died at this nal battle of the War of the Roses

41. [War] 1914-1918; trench warfare between European alliances produced the "Lost Generation"