The French army under Napoleon was ________ at the Battle of Waterloo by the British-led and Prussian armies.

Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole were nurses who improved the treatment of the ________ in the Crimean War from 1853-6.

After the siege of Constantinople in 1204 the Crusaders ________ the city and transferred its riches to Italy.

On 3rd September 1783, a peace ________ was signed between the United States and Britain that ended the American War of Independence.

In 1805, naval ________ Horatio Nelson led the British Royal Navy to destroy the French-Spanish Fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar.

In 2019, there were 26 million____________ globally, the majority of whom had fled their home countries due to war and persecution.

In Sweden, compulsory service in the armed____________ – army, navy, or air force – was abolished in 2010, but then reintroduced in 2018.

The ________ in the United States, fought between the Northern and Southern states, lasted from 1861 to 1865.

In December 1914, Pope Benedict XV suggested a temporary break in World War I for the celebration of Christmas. While an official ________ was refused, many soldiers declared their own unofficial truce.

In the early 1930s, the divorced American socialite Wallis Simpson ____________ the heart of the heir to the British throne, who soon after became King Edward VIII. Their intended marriage caused a constitutional crisis.

In 1605, a man called Guy Fawkes attempted to ________ the Houses of Parliament in London with barrels of gunpowder.

Two of Henry VIII’s six wives were ________, two he divorced, one died following childbirth and the last one survived.