battles

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Across
  1. 2. The major battle of Operation Market Garden; Allies reach but fail to cross the Rhine; British First Airborne Division destroyed. Germany defeats the UK and Poland.
  2. 5. First battle of the Winter War, and the most notable Finnish victory over the Soviet Union
  3. 7. France loses Indochina
  4. 9. Hittite navy and army defeat the navy and army of the Kingdom of Alashiya in modern-day Cyprus. One of the first naval battles ever recorded.
  5. 13. Japan defeats Australians and occupies the first Australian territory taken by conquest in Australian history
  6. 15. Spanish civil war battle that inspired a work of art
  7. 19. Frances deadliest day
  8. 20. Last ditch effort to save the port
  9. 21. Mac-Mahon's French lose to Germans, paving the way to the founding of the German Empire
  10. 22. Japanese sink four U.S. cruisers; HMAS Canberra is also lost
  11. 24. Last engagement of the German High Seas Fleet
  12. 26. The Yellow Emperor defeats the Flame Emperor, forming the Huaxia Tribe
  13. 28. Defined the Marines
  14. 30. Made the England we now and love today
  15. 31. First battle between U.S. and North Koreans
Down
  1. 1. Sheridan routs Confederates in last important battle of the Civil War
  2. 3. In Flanders, Flemish forces led by William of Jülich and Pieter de Coninck defeat French knights.
  3. 4. Xiang Yu destroys the main Qin army for control of China.
  4. 6. Canada's finest hour
  5. 8. The attempt to open a new front on the central powers
  6. 10. USS Monitor defeats USS Merrimac
  7. 11. Union forces defeat pro-Confederate governor's Missouri State Guard
  8. 12. Heavy French losses resulted in the occupation of northern France by the English
  9. 14. First battle in the Invasion of Poland; Germany and Danzig defeat Poland
  10. 16. French win a strategic defensive victory
  11. 17. Soviet defenders drive back German Army Group Centre
  12. 18. First major ground engagement of the Gulf War
  13. 23. The battle that started the war to end all wars
  14. 25. In the first major air-landing operation in history, the Netherlands defeat Germany
  15. 27. Four battles, Allies (the UK, British India, the U.S., Free France, Poland, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and Italy) finally victorious against Germany, breaking through to advance on Rome
  16. 29. First and probably most important battle of the Irish Civil War