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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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