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

The total number of ________, (people killed or injured) caused directly by the First World War was around 40 million.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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