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  • 1attack — vb Attack, assail, assault, bombard, storm are comparable not only in their military but also in their extended senses. All carry as their basic meaning to make a more or less violent onset upon. Attack originally connoted a fastening upon… …

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  • 2Battle for Henderson Field — Infobox Military Conflict conflict=Battle for Henderson Field partof=the Pacific Theater of World War II caption=Dead soldiers and destroyed tanks from the Japanese 17th Army lie at the mouth of the Matanikau River after a failed assault on U.S.… …

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  • 3Attack 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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  • 4Attack on Brest — Infobox Military Conflict conflict=Attack on Brest partof=the Nine Years War caption= date=1694 06 18 place=Brest, France casus= territory= result=French victory combatant1= combatant2= Kingdom of France commander1= commander2= strength1=10,000+… …

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  • 5Attack of the Jack O'Lanterns — infobox Book | | name = Attack of the Jack O Lanterns orig title = translator = author = R. L. Stine cover artist = Tim Jacobus country = United States language = English series = Goosebumps classification = Fiction genre = Horror fiction,… …

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  • 6Results of the attack on Pearl Harbor — The results of the attack on Pearl Harbor are many and significant. American responseOn December 7, 1941, the Japanese launched a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and hastened the entry of the United States into World War II on the side of the… …

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  • 7Responsibility for the September 11 attacks — Soon after the September 11 attacks, the Federal Bureau of Investigation was able to identify the 19 hijackers [cite press release |url=http://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel01/092701hjpic.htm |title=The FBI releases 19 photographs of individuals… …

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  • 8Hasty attack — is a specific form of attack identified within United States military doctrine, in which upon contact with an enemy that is unprepared a unit decides to conduct an attack with limited planning and coordination and with rapid preparation and… …

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  • 9Singapore embassies attack plot — The Singapore embassies attack plot was a plan in 2001 by the Al Qaeda affiliated Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) to bomb the diplomatic missions and attack personnel of the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom, and Israel based in Singapore. There …

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  • 10Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — Agency overview Formed October 27, 1992 Preceding agencies Office of National Defense Malaria Control Activities (1942) Office of Malaria Control in War Areas (1942 …

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