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  • 91Battle of Plattsburgh — Infobox Military Conflict caption= conflict=Battle of Plattsburgh partof=the War of 1812 date=September 6 – September 11, 1814 place=Plattsburgh, New York result=Decisive American victory [Fitz Enz, The Final Invasion ] combatant1=flagicon|UK… …

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  • 92Japanese military strategies in 1942 — Immediately after the fall of Singapore in 1942 certain Army circles argued that Japan should exploit her advantage and seek peace with Great Britain. The heart of this reasoning was the fact that Japan could not knock out both the United States… …

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  • 93Battle of Rennell Island — Infobox Military Conflict conflict=Battle of Rennell Island caption=USS Chicago low in the water on the morning of January 30, 1943, from torpedo damage inflicted the night before. partof=the Pacific Theater of World War II date=January 29, 1943… …

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  • 94Sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse — Infobox Military Conflict conflict= Sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse caption= Prince of Wales (left, front) and Repulse (left, behind) under attack by Japanese aircraft. A destroyer Electra or Express is in the foreground. partof=World War… …

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  • 95Battle of Beachy Head (1690) — Infobox Military Conflict conflict=Battle of Beachy Head partof=the Nine Years War caption= Battle of Beachy Head Steel engraving by Jean Antoine Théodore de Gudin. date=10 July 1690 [ All dates in the article are in the Gregorian calendar… …

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  • 96USS Taylor (DD-468) — USS Taylor (DD/DDE 468) was a Fletcher class destroyer of the United States Navy, named for Rear Admiral William Rogers Taylor (1811 ndash;1889). She was laid down on 28 August 1941 at Bath, Maine, by the Bath Iron Works Corp.; launched on 7 June …

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  • 97Fire-control system — Note: the term fire control may also refer to means of stopping a fire, such as sprinkler systems. A fire control system is a computer, often mechanical, which is designed to assist a weapon system in hitting its target. It performs the same task …

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  • 98Grasse —     François Joseph Paul Grasse     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► François Joseph Paul Grasse     Count and Marquess de Grasse Tilly, lieutenant general of the naval forces; b. near Toulon, 1723; d. at Paris, 11 January, 1788. His family was one of… …

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  • 99Action of 11 November 2008 — November 11, 2008, incident off Somalia Part of the Operation Enduring Freedom Horn of Africa …

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  • 100Attack on Mers-el-Kébir — Coordinates: 35°43′10.18″N 0°41′20″W / 35.7194944°N 0.68889°W / 35.7194944; 0.68889 …

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