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72 matches to Second Front
Second Front. 1944 Allied attack from west.
Abbasid. 750-1258. Second Empire of Caliphate dynasty. Overthrew Umayyads; destroyed by Mongols.
Abel. Old Testament. Second son of Adam and Eve. Killed by Cain.
Adventists. US religious sect that believes in the imminent second coming of Christ.
Aegospotami. 405BC. Naval battle, ends Peloponnesian War. Victory of Lysander vs Athens.
Bassein, Treaty. 1802. Indian alliance with British East India Company leads to second Maratha War.
Beauvoir, Simone de. 1908-86. French Existentialist writer. The Second Sex 1949.
Bernard, St. 1090-1153. Founder of Clairvaux 1115, Second Crusade instigator.
Capernaum. Jesus’ second home and site of miracles.
Crusades. 1095-1272. European Christian wars to regain Holy Land after Seljuk Turks take Jerusalem in 1072. Literature and the arts benefitted from Eastern cultural infusion. Peasants 1096. Annihilated. First. 1096-99. Genoa financed Godfrey of Bouillon to recapture Jerusalem. Only successful crusade. Second. 1147-49. Louis VII and Conrad III pillage Byzantium. Third. 1189-92. Richard I and Philip II Truce with Saladin allows access to Jerusalem. Fourth. 1202-4. French and Flemish nobles conquer, sack Constantinople, form Latin Empire. Childrens. 1212. Stephen of Cloyes led 30,000 unarmed French youths. Nicholas of Cologne led 20,000 German. All died or enslaved. Fifth. 1218-21. John of Brienne in Egypt. Sixth. 1228-29. Frederick II crowned king of Jerusalem. Seventh. 1248-54. St Louis of France captured by Egypt and ransomed. Eighth. 1270. St Louis dies of plague. Ninth. 1271-2. Prince Edward of England.
Eleanor of Aquitaine. Divorced from Louis VII 1152 after accompanying him on Second Crusade. Married Henry II of England, bringing Aquitaine under English crown...Angevin Empire. Mother of Richard I. Led 1173 revolt vs husband, Henry II.
February Revolution. 1848. Established French Second Republic.
French Wars. 1701-1815. Second Hundred Years War.
Hundred Days. 1815. March 20 to July 8; Napoleon’s escape from Elba to his second abdication. 1933. Began Roosevelt’s administration. New Deal enacted.
International. Socialist revolutionary workers movements. First. 1864-76. Founded by Marx in London. Second. 1889-1914. Paris. IFTU. Revived in 1920s. Third. 1919-43. =COMINTERN. Stalin’s Vehicle for world-wide Communist Revolution. Fourth. 1938-53. Trotsky’s Transitional Program for reform.
Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1879-. Christian sect believing in Christ’s imminent second coming. Founded by Russell. Publish Watchtower and Awake!. Yahweh.
Louis VII. The Young. 1120-80. French King 1137-. Second Crusade. Marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine annulled, consanguinity.
Marquess. (Marquis). Second rank of British peerage.
Ney, Michel. 1769-1815. Marshal under Napoleon. Shot after second Restoration. “Bravest of the brave”-Napoleon.
Numa Pompilius. c715-673BC. Second king of Rome. Organized the ceremony of state.
Omar. 581-644. Second Moslem caliph. Invaded Syria, Egypt, Persia. Established taxation.
Peloponnesian War, Second. 431-404BC. Sparta defeats Athens, beginning Greek decline.
Poppaea Sabina. -65. Second wife, kicked to death by Nero.
Potidaea. 432BC. Revolt vs Athens. Second Peloponnesian War.
Reich, Second. 1871-1918. German Empire under Kaisers William I, II.