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  • 73Military chaplain — Catholic Mass in an Austrian military hospital, 1916. A military chaplain is a chaplain who ministers to soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines and other members of the military. In many countries, chaplains also minister to the family members of… …

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  • 74Russo-Japanese War — Infobox Military Conflict conflict=Russo Japanese War partof= caption= date=8 February 1904 ndash; 5 September 1905 place=Manchuria, Yellow Sea casus=Rival ambitions over Manchuria and the Korean peninsula territory= result=Japanese victory;… …

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  • 76Polish–Soviet War — Bohdan Urbankowski, Józef Piłsudski: marzyciel i strateg , (Józef Piłsudski: Dreamer and Strategist), Tom drugi (second tome), Wydawnictwo ALFA, Warsaw, 1997, ISBN 8370019145, p. 83] while the Bolsheviks did proclaim the partitions null and… …

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