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Hace 2 días · the Troubles, violent sectarian conflict from about 1968 to 1998 in Northern Ireland between the overwhelmingly Protestant unionists (loyalists), who desired the province to remain part of the United Kingdom, and the overwhelmingly Roman Catholic nationalists (republicans), who wanted Northern Ireland to become part of the republic ...
Hace 1 día · The Battle of the Bogside caused Catholics in Belfast to riot in solidarity with the Bogsiders and to try to prevent RUC reinforcements being sent to Derry, sparking retaliation by Protestant mobs.
Hace 4 días · Visit the memorial: an ode to memory. The Bloody Sunday Memorial, located near Bogside, the area where the murders took place, is a striking sculpture representing a square column pointing skywards, with the names of the victims engraved at its base.
Hace 4 días · Le Bogside. Type : Le conflit nord-irlandais contemporain. Sommaire. La Bataille du Bogside désigne 3 jours d’émeutes ayant eut lieu à Derry, en Irlande du Nord, du 12 au 14 août 1969. Ces émeutes opposèrent la population catholique du quartier du Bogside à la RUC.
Hace 3 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.
Hace 5 días · The Battle of Salamis was the first great naval battle recorded in history. Battle of Salamis, (480 bc), battle in the Greco-Persian Wars in which a Greek fleet defeated much larger Persian naval forces in the straits at Salamis, between the island of Salamis and the Athenian port-city of Piraeus.
Hace 2 días · The Battle of Thermopylae ( / θərˈmɒpɪliː / thər-MOP-i-lee; Greek: Μάχη τῶν Θερμοπυλῶν, Máchē tōn Thermopylōn) was fought in 480 BC between the Achaemenid Persian Empire under Xerxes I and an alliance of Greek city-states led by Sparta under Leonidas I. Lasting over the course of three days, it was one of the most prominent battles of both the s...
