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  • 21Battle Club (manga) — Infobox animanga/Header name = Battle Club caption = Cover of Battle Club Volume 1 ja name = バトルクラブ ja name trans = Batoru Kurabu genre = Martial artsInfobox animanga/Manga title = Battle Club author = Yuji Shiozaki publisher = Shōnen Gahosha… …

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  • 22Battle of Mogadishu (1993) — 1993 Battle of Mogadishu Part of Operation Gothic Serpent and Somali Civil War …

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  • 23Battle of Flamborough Head — The Battle of Flamborough Head, between a small squadron led by John Paul Jones and two British convoy escorts, is one of the best known, but least understood, naval actions in history. What follows is an attempt to present a balanced view of the …

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  • 24Battle of Antietam — The Battle of Antietam (also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg, particularly in the South), fought on September 17, 1862, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, and Antietam Creek, as part of the Maryland Campaign, was the first major battle in the American… …

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  • 25Battle of the Standard — Infobox Military Conflict conflict=Battle of the Standard caption=Battlefield monument at gbmapping|SE360977 date=22 August 1138 place= Cowton Moor near Northallerton in Yorkshire result=English victory combatant1=Kingdom of England… …

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  • 26fight */*/*/ — I UK [faɪt] / US verb Word forms fight : present tense I/you/we/they fight he/she/it fights present participle fighting past tense fought UK [fɔːt] / US [fɔt] past participle fought 1) [intransitive/transitive] if people fight, they use guns or… …

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  • 27battle — I n. 1) to do, give, join battle 2) to fight, wage; lose; win a battle 3) to break off, terminate a battle 4) a bloody; decisive; fierce, pitched, raging; losing; running battle 5) a naval battle 6) a battle royal 7) a battle rages 8) a battle… …

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  • 28Battle of Vienna — This article is about the 1683 battle. For the earlier Ottoman siege of 1529, see Siege of Vienna. For the 1485 Hungarian siege, see Siege of Vienna (1485). For 1945 battle, see Vienna Offensive. Battle of Vienna Part of the Great Turkish War,… …

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  • 29fight — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 struggle using physical force ADJECTIVE ▪ big ▪ fierce ▪ brutal, nasty, vicious ▪ real …

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  • 30Battle of Himera (480 BC) — Infobox Military Conflict conflict=Battle of Himera partof=The Sicilian Wars campaign=The First Sicilian War http://www.livius.org/a/1/maps/sicily map.gifMarco Prins Jona Lendering] with all the Phoenician and Greek settlementsdate=480 BC… …

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