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

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.

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

Nelson Mandela was ______________ in 1990 after having been imprisoned for 27 years.

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.

The battleship Bismarck was sunk during the Second World War. Of a crew of 2,200, there were only 114 _______________.

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

On 8th December 1941, President Roosevelt ____________war on Japan following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor the previous day.

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

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.

Although the Anglo Zanzibar war of 1896 lasted only 38 minutes, over 500 people, both combatants and ________, where killed or injured.