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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 ...
The 1838 Mormon War, also known as the Missouri Mormon War, was a conflict between Mormons and their neighbors in Missouri. It was preceded by tensions and episodes of extralegal violence targeting and involving Mormons, dating back to their initial settlement in Jackson County in 1831. State troops became involved after the Battle of Crooked ...
The Battle of the Books at Wikisource. " The Battle of the Books " is a short satire written by Jonathan Swift and published as part of the prolegomena to his A Tale of a Tub in 1704. It depicts a literal battle between books in the King's Library (housed in St James's Palace at the time of the writing), as ideas and authors struggle for supremacy.
John Eager Howard. John Eager Howard (June 4, 1752 – October 12, 1827) was an American soldier and politician from Maryland. He was elected as governor of the state in 1788, and served three one-year terms. He also was elected to the Continental Congress, the Congress of the Confederation, the United States Senate, and the Maryland Senate. [1]
March 18, 1952 [ 4] The Battle of Brandywine, also known as the Battle of Brandywine Creek, was fought between the American Continental Army of General George Washington and the British Army of General Sir William Howe on September 11, 1777, as part of the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783). The forces met near Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania.
Howard E. Wasdin. Howard Eugene Wasdin[ 2] (born Howard E. Wilbanks, November 8, 1961 – April 6, 2023) was an American chiropractor and a former member of the United States Navy who served as a sailor in the Atlantic Fleet and as a Navy SEAL. Following his honorable discharge, he co-wrote the autobiographical memoir SEAL Team Six: Memoirs of ...
Natasha Lomas. Lauren Forristal. Julie Bort. Two "tell all" books about the world's biggest social networks will be published in 2009. The first, set to be published on March 17, 2009, is Wall ...
Bisbee Massacre. The Bisbee massacre ( a.k.a. the Bisbee murders or Bisbee raid) occurred in Bisbee, Arizona, on December 8, 1883, when six outlaws who were part of the Cochise County Cowboys robbed a general store. Believing the general store's safe contained a mining payroll of $7,000, they timed the robbery incorrectly and were only able to ...