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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.