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What battle of the American Civil War took place July 1st-3rd of 1863 and marked the turning point of the war as the Union Army drove back the Confederacy's advance?
The Battle of Gettysburg
The Battle of Antietam Creek
The Battle of Shiloh
The Battle of Cowpens
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What 1340 battle was a major turning point in the Reconquista as Iberian European forces repelled a caliphate invasion so well that this invasion would be the last to touch down in the Iberian Peninsula?
The Battle of Rio Salado
The Battle of Le Panto
The Battle of San Juan Hill
The Battle of Ose-Grande
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What 1945 battle in the Pacific Theater of World War Two saw Allied forces, through Operation Iceberg, take one of the final major islands in their "island hopping" campaign which they intended to use as a base from which to launch an invasion of Japan?
The Battle of Midway
The Battle of Okinawa
The Battle of the Philippines
The Battle of Burning Dale
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What early World War One battle saw German forces decisively crush the Russian Second Army to the point that its commanding officer committed suicide?
The Battle of Tannenberg
The Battle of Flers Couclette
The Battle of Waterloo
The Battle of South Riezberg
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What 1453 battle saw Mehmed the Conqueror take over the capital of the Byzantine Empire effectively ending the empire itself?
The Battle of Rome
The Battle of Tarsus
The Battle of Constantinople
The Battle of Orleans
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What battle saw the deposed King James II and his followers utterly defeated in their attempt to retake the English crown by the forces of the reigning King William III?
The Battle of Bardou
The Battle of Brigsby
The Battle of Belfast
The Battle of the Boyne
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What battle of World War Two was the last German offensive of the war and also sealed the defeat of the Nazi regime?
The Battle of Normandy
The Battle of Bogden
The Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Sienna
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What is the name of the battle where Attila the Hun's forces were finally repelled from their conquest by Roman forces?
The Battle of Urden Flats
The Battle of Catalaunian Plains
The Battle of Riodedese River
The Battle of Saltfrom Shale
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What battle of the Korean War saw a massive Chinese army encircle and force the withdrawal of U.N. forces from North Korea thus leading the war into a state of stalemate?
The Battle of Chosin Reservoir
The Battle of Tei-Dun Falls
The Battle of the White Spires
The Battle of Mao Graun
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What 1098 siege and battle saw the forces of the First Crusade take the final major stronghold in their way of marching to Palestine?
The Siege of Rishuld-Khan
The Siege of Istanbul
The Siege of Varnes
The Siege of Antioch
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What battle saw William the Conqueror and his forces rout the forces of King Harold Godwinson to take over England?
The Battle of the Channel
The Battle of Briarsburg
The Battle of Cowpens
The Battle of Hastings
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What battle ended the Second Punic War by seeing the defeat of Hannibal and the end of Carthage?
The of Isker-Cross
The Battle of Rome
The Battle of Zama
The Battle of Dunidrie Marsh
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What battle effectively ended the American Theater of the Seven Years War (French and Indian War) as the English commander Wolfe scaled the cliffs around a French encampment?
The Battle of Trenton
The Battle of New York City
The Battle of Cayahoga
The Battle of Quebec
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What battle in 490 B.C. saw Greek citizens successfully fight off a superior Persian force in what was the turning point of the Greco-Persian War?
The Battle of Athens
The Battle Of Tehran
The Battle of Marathon
The Battle of Agrippa Plains
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What early battle of the American Revolutionary War showed the Americans' intent to see the war through by claiming massive casualties against an invading British force landing in Massachusetts?
The Battle of Langdon
The Battle of Trenton
The Battle of Gettysburg
The Battle of Bunker Hill
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What major battle of the Second World War saw a prolonged urban conflict between German and Soviet forces which resulted in over one million casualties?
The Battle of Moscow
The Battle of Leningrad
The Battle of Minsk
The Battle of Stalingrad
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What siege/battle effectively ended the American Revolutionary War as it saw the surrender of General Cornwallis?
The Siege of Yorktown
The Siege of Boston
The Siege of Princeton
The Siege of Augusta
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What major battle saw King Leonidas I of Sparta and a small strike force of elite soldiers stand against and successfully stall a massive Persian Army?
The Battle of Thermopylae
The Battle of Reningen
The Battle of Bulecrest
The Battle of Wisedurn
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What 1805 battle of the Napoleonic Wars saw the British Navy defeat the allied forces of France and Spain to defend the English Channel from invasion?
The Battle of Bristol Bay
The Battle of Put-In Bay
The Battle of Trafalgar
The Battle of the Five Masts
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What battle, only six months after Pearl Harbor, saw Allied forces turn the tides of the Pacific Theater of World War Two against the Japanese?
The Battle of the Sandwich Isles
That Battle of Guam
The Battle of The Philippines
The Battle of Midway
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What 1813 battle of the War of 1812 saw the death of Tecumseh thus leading to the fall of his namesake Tecumseh Confederacy?
The Battle of Ogden Park
The Battle of the Thames
The Battle of Fallen Timbers
The Battle of White Birch
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What is the name of the 1529 battle where the Ottoman Turks sieged an Austrian city but were defeated by Sobieski and his legendary cavalry charge?
The Siege of Paris
The Siege of Vienna
The Siege of Ledenburg
The Siege of Budapest
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What is the name of the major 1644 battle of the First English Civil War where the Parliamentarians turned the tide on the Royalists and routed them out of northern England?
The Battle of Beldan
The Battle of Cornwall Downs
The Battle of Marston Moor
The Battle of the Thierin River
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What 1815 battle saw the defeat of Napoleon and led to his banishment?
The Battle of Hamburg
The Battle of Nice
The Battle of Waterloo
The Battle of Barcelona
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The Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485 ended what war in European history?
The Thirty Years War
The Napoleonic Wars
The War of the Roses
The Seven Years War
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The Battle of Agincourt began a period of English domination in what war?
The Hundred Years War
The War of the Glorious Revolution
The First Crusade
The Norman Wars
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In 1429, the French broke the siege of what city to begin turning the tide of the Hundred Years War against the English?
Flers-Couclette
Paris
Orleans
Nice
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What major naval battle in 1571 saw a European alliance successfully destroy a major naval fleet of the Ottoman Empire to the point that the Ottomans never tried to invade Europe by sea again after this fight?
The Battle of Iser-Float
The Battle of Victoria Bay
The Battle of the Black Sea
The Battle of Lepanto
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What 1916 battle of World War One saw one million casualties as British and French forces tried to gain ground against German forces and helped break the stalemate-state of the war?
The First Battle of the Marne
The Battle of the Somme
The Battle of Verdun
The Battle Zwarden Veil
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The 1632 Battle of Lutzen was a major turning point in what war which began to favor victory for the Protestant faction?
The French Revolutionary War
The War of the Roses
The Seven Years War
The Thirty Years War
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