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Hace 2 días · The emergency cabinet session on 13 August to consider a response to the ‘Battle of the Bogside’ and rioting in Belfast was the first of a long series of meetings on which there is dispute about what actually happened. One of the great merits of this biography is that it offers the most painstaking account to date of who said ...
Hace 5 días · The Battle of Villers-Bocage took place during the Second World War on 13 June 1944, one week after the Normandy Landings, which had begun the Western Allies' conquest of German-occupied France.The battle was the result of a British attempt to exploit a gap in the German defences west of the city of Caen.After one day of fighting in and around the small town of Villers-Bocage and a second day ...
Hace 1 día · The Battle of the Coral Sea, from 4 to 8 May 1942, was a major naval battle between the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) and naval and air forces of the United States and Australia. Taking place in the Pacific Theatre of World War II, the battle was the first naval action in which the opposing fleets neither sighted nor fired upon one another, attacking over the horizon from aircraft carriers instead.
Hace 1 día · The Battle of Mogadishu (Somali: Maalintii Rangers, lit. 'Day of the Rangers'), also known as the Black Hawk Down Incident , was part of Operation Gothic Serpent . It was fought on 3–4 October 1993, in Mogadishu , Somalia , between forces of the United States —supported by UNOSOM II —against the forces of the Somali National Alliance (SNA) and armed irregulars of south Mogadishu.
Hace 1 día · The Battle of Leyte Gulf (Japanese: レイテ沖海戦, romanized: Reite oki Kaisen, lit. 'Leyte Open Sea Naval Battle', Filipino: Labanan sa Golpo ng Leyte) was the largest naval battle of World War II and by some criteria the largest naval battle in history, with over 200,000 naval personnel involved. By the time of the battle, Japan had fewer capital ships (aircraft carriers and battleships ...
Hace 4 días · Battle of the Trench (Al Khandaq) The Battle of the Trench took place in Shawwal, the fourth year of the Hijra. Some say it occurred ten months and five days after the Hijra, while others believe it happened in the fifth year of the Hijra. It is also known as the Battle of the Confederates (Ghazwat al-Ahzab), as various factions of the enemies ...
Hace 2 días · The Battle of Chosin Reservoir, also known as the Chosin Reservoir Campaign or the Battle of Lake Changjin ( Korean : 장진호 전투; Hanja : 長津湖戰鬪; RR : Jangjinho jeontu; MR : Changjinho chŏnt'u ), was an important battle in the Korean War. [c] The name "Chosin" is derived from the Japanese pronunciation " Chōshin ", instead of ...
