The Great Fire of London ________ in a bakery on 2nd September 1666 and wasn’t extinguished until four days later.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

In 2018, convicted British football hooligans had to _______________ their passports to police to prevent them from travelling to the World Cup in Russia.

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

A ________ is a soldier who usually works alone and specializes in shooting from very long distances.

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

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

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