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1447
The Battle of Trafalgar by Jawaharlal Nehru

A year into his reign as Emperor of France, Napoleon Bonaparte had much of Europe under his government but the United Kingdom still eluded him.

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1448
The Battle of Vienna by Colonel John Sobieski

With Christian Europe tearing itself apart over the Protestant Reformation, the Ottoman Turks saw an opportunity for Europe-wide domination.

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1449
The Battle of Waterloo by Clay Lane

The Russians had checked it in the East, but in the West the expansion of Napoleon Bonaparte’s empire was far from over.

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1450
The Battle of Ynys Mon by Clay Lane

Suetonius Paulinus, Governor of Britain, hoped to enhance his reputation.

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1451
The Bearded Foreigner by Clay Lane

A Japanese swordsman confronts a Russian monk for... actually, he’s not really quite sure.

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1452
The Beggar’s Petition by Thomas Moss

A destitute and friendless farmer, turned from the tradesman’s entrance, tries his luck at the front door.

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The Conversion of Saul : A fiery fanatic wins support for the suppression of Christianity in its very cradle.
The Two Shakespeares : Arthur Clutton-Brock complained that idealising Shakespeare had made him dull.
Fairway : Use each noun below in two sentences, first as the subject, and then as the object of a verb.
England Expects : Lieutenant John Pasco not only flew the most famous signal in British history, he helped write it.
Running Late : Use these adverbial clauses in your own sentences.
Peggy’s Dog : Some lines from the comic verse of Thomas Hood, for reading aloud.
An Interruption : Report this conversation without using direct speech.
Tender Plants : Prince Albert regretted the destructive power of the Art Critic.
Lost for Words : Join these ideas together into a single sentence, using ‘although’ or ‘though’.
Loan Words : Match these words to the language they come from, whether Old Norse, Malay or Welsh.
Evidence : Join these ideas together to form a single sentence, using the relative pronoun ‘who’.
Fatal Vow : Robert Pierrepont called heaven to witness that he would never pick a side in the Civil War.
Lost and Found : What would you in these difficult situations?
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