Conflict and Warfare

In 1605, a man called Guy Fawkes attempted to ________ the Houses of Parliament in London with barrels of gunpowder.

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 ________ 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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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