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1441
The Battle of Plassey Hari Chahan Das

Before Siraj ud-Daulah became Nawab of Bengal in 1756, his grandfather begged him to keep the English sweet, and put no trust in Jafar Ali Khan. If he had only listened...

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1442
The Battle of Salamis Plutarch

As the Persian Empire’s grip tightened by land and sea, it fell to one man to unite Greece in a last desperate bid to break it.

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1443
The Battle of the Nile Jawaharlal Nehru

As Napoleon Bonaparte swept from victory to victory in Europe, he began to think he might add the East to the possessions of the French Republic.

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1444
The Battle of the Somme Clay Lane

A British victory at tragic cost, in which both sides had to learn a new way of fighting.

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1445
The Battle of the Winwaed Clay Lane

In 655, the future of England as a Christian nation hung by the slenderest of threads.

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1446
The Battle of Thermopylae Herodotus

In 480 BC Leonidas, King of Sparta, frustrated the advance of Xerxes the Persian just long enough to change the course of the war — and history.

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