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366 matches to Wager of Battle
Wager of Battle. Trial by Combat. 8C-1817. Norse custom in England. Accused challenges accuser to combat-acquitted if he refuses.
Tz’u-hsi. 1835-1908. Dowager empress of China 1861-. Regent for T’ung-chi. Resisted reforms. Boxer Rebellion.
Abd ar-Rahman. -732. Moslem Governor of Andalusia. Def, killed at Poitiers.
Aboukir, Battle. Nelson defeats French fleet, 1798. Napoleon defeats Turks, 1799.
Actium, Battle. 31BC. Octavian defeats Antony to become sole ruler of Roman Empire.
Admiral Graf Spee. -1939. German battleship def by British, scuttled at Montevideo.
Adrianople, Battle. 378. Visigoths defeat Rome, kill Valens.
Aegospotami. 405BC. Naval battle, ends Peloponnesian War. Victory of Lysander vs Athens.
Agincourt, Battle. 1415. English victory over French during 100 Years War. High French losses.
Alamein, El, Battles of. 1942. Montgomery defeats Rommel, saving Egypt from Germans.
Alarcos, Battle. 1195. Moslems defeat Christians in Spain, go on to conquer Castile.
Alfred the Great. 849-99. Saxon King of Wessex 871-. Resisted Danes 877-79 (Edington) + 892-96. Captured London 886. First British Navy 897.
Aljubarrota, Battle. 1385. Confirmed Portugal’s independence from Castile.
Alma, Battle. 1854 Crimean War. French and British defeat Russians at Sebastapol.
Anglo-American War. 1812-14. US, angry at British blockade of France, and Tippecanoe interference, invades Canada. Toronto and White House burned. US defeated. Ghent Treaty.
Antony, Mark. c83-30BC. Caesar’s lieutenant. Triumvirate 43-32. Defeated at Actium with Cleopatra. Suicide.
Anzio, Battle. 1944. Allied landing site in Italy.
Ardennes, Battle. Battle of the Bulge.
Aristides. 540-468BC. Athenian general at Marathon.
Armageddon. Site of battle at end of the world.
Arnhem, Battle. 1944. Unsuccessful Allied attempt to cross Rhine.
Arras, Battle. 1917. British WWI defeat.
Asculum, Battle. 279BC. “Pyrrhic” victory of Pyrrhus over Romans.
Aspern-Essling, Battle. 1809. First important loss for Napoleon.
Assandum, Battle. 1016. Danes defeat English in Essex.