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The siege of Damascus 1148. Occurred when a European army supported by the Kingdom of Jerusalem, attempted to capture the heavily fortified city of Damascus within the Seljuk Empire. The outcome of which would determine the success or failure of the Second Crusade.

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Of the 1,418 sailors aboard the British battle cruiser HMS Hood, only three survived the catastrophic explosion and sinking during the battle of the Denmark strait against the German battleship Bismarck and heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, May 24th 1941.

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January 1946, the German battleship Gneisenau frozen in winter ice. She was scuttled on March 27th 1945 to block the port of Gotenhafen in Poland. Her turrets were removed and re purposed as coastal defense batteries. She was later cut up and scraped 1951 - 1953.

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Major Erich Hartmann was a German fighter pilot during the Second World War and the most successful fighter ace in the history of aerial warfare. He flew 1,404 combat missions and participated in aerial combat on 825 separate occasions of which he scored 352 confirmed victories.

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Australian aviators examine the 7.92mm Spandau machine guns from Manfred von Richthofen's Fokker Dr I Triplane after he was shot down April 21st, 1918.

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The Siege of Kut Al Amara 1915 - 16 Was fought between the Ottoman Empire and Great Britain. The eventual capitulation of 13,000 British - Indian soldiers after a 147 day siege, was not only an English defeat but the worst surrender to befell the British Empire in its history up to that point.

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Gold wreath discovered in 1976 at the ancient town of Amphipolis near present day Thessaloniki within the tomb of Spartan General Brasidas, who had died in 422 BC.

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