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1. I was the site of the last pitched battle fought on the British mainland on 16 April, 1746. It was a bloody encounter where the Duke of Cumberland defeated Charles Edward Stuart (aka Bonnie Prince Charlie):
2. This was a great patriotic victory, for the Scots in September 1297. Here William Wallace defeated the Earl of Surrey and Hugh Cressingham:
3. It was here in 331 B.C., that Alexander the Great defeated a huge Persian Army under Darius:
4. It was here in 31 B.C., that those two great lovers Antony and Cleopatra, fought and lost a naval battle against Octavian:
5. In 1571, another naval battle. A Christian force under John of Austria defeated Ali Pasha's Ottoman forces, denying command of the seas to the Ottoman Turks:
6. May 15, 1464, a Yorkist Army completely defeated a Lancastrian force near Devil's Water, all but completing the Yorkist hold on Northern England. Where was this?
7. In 1685 a rebel army led by the Duke of Monmouth ran into the a Royal Army, led by Sir John Churchill, and was utterly defeated:
8. In 451 A.D., the Roman General Aetius, with a coalition, defeated the famous Atilla the Hun, putting a stop to his campaign in Gaul:
9. Often called the Battle of Nations did Napolean suffer a serious defeat at the hands of the Allies (Octber 1813)?
10. In May 878, Alfred the Great, defeated the a Danish army under Guthrum, securing Wessex and the partition of England under Danelaw.
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