After the siege of Constantinople in 1204 the Crusaders ________ the city and transferred its riches to Italy.
Looted
Two of Henry VIII’s six wives were ________, two he divorced, one died following childbirth and the last one survived.
Executed
In 1605, a man called Guy Fawkes attempted to ________ the Houses of Parliament in London with barrels of gunpowder.
Blow up
The Great Fire of London ________ in a bakery on 2nd September 1666 and wasn’t extinguished until four days later.
broke out
On 3rd September 1783, a peace ________ was signed between the United States and Britain that ended the American War of Independence.
treaty
In 1805, naval ________ Horatio Nelson led the British Royal Navy to destroy the French-Spanish Fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar.
commander
The French army under Napoleon was ________ at the Battle of Waterloo by the British-led and Prussian armies.
defeated
A ________ is a soldier who usually works alone and specializes in shooting from very long distances.
sniper
The total number of ________, (people killed or injured) caused directly by the First World War was around 40 million.
casualties
Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole were nurses who improved the treatment of the ________ in the Crimean War from 1853-6.
wounded
The ________ in the United States, fought between the Northern and Southern states, lasted from 1861 to 1865.
civil war
Although the Anglo Zanzibar war of 1896 lasted only 38 minutes, over 500 people, both combatants and ________, where killed or injured.
civilians
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.
ceasefire
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.
captured
The battleship Bismarck was sunk during the Second World War. Of a crew of 2,200, there were only 114 _______________.
survivors
On 8th December 1941, President Roosevelt ____________war on Japan following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor the previous day.
declared
