TAG Teaser 223 - Famous Battles

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  1. 2. Battle of ______ - another word for "halfway", as the island it was fought near is halfway between North America and Asia, this famous WW2 battle turned the tide against the Japanese (6)
  2. 3. Battle of the _____, infamous battle of 1690 in which the forces of King William of Orange defeated the army of King James VII and II (5)
  3. 7. Battle of _______, this famous battle of 1940 - and the even more famous evacuation of 338,000 British and Allied troops from France back to safety, was hailed by Churchill as "a miracle of deliverance" (7)
  4. 8. Battle of Bunker ____, battle fought in Charlestown, Massachusetts, in 1775, that essentially started the American Revolutionary War (4)
  5. 10. Battle of ________, Napoleon's last stand in 1815. Boney may have lost Europe... but Abba won Eurovision with their song of the same name! (8)
  6. 13. This famous battle of 1066 reshaped England and the world, as the last Anglo-Saxon king, Harold Godwinson, was slain by the forces of the Normans under William the Conqueror (8)
  7. 14. Battle of ______: this famous Parliamentary victory in 1645 - during the English Civil War - dashed the hopes of King Charles I of ever winning that conflict (6)
  8. 15. Battle of _________, one of the most famous naval battles of all time, this 1805 battle famously resulted in a British victory against the French navy, but at the bitter cost of Admiral Horatio Nelson's life (9)
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  1. 1. Battle of __________, this absolutely ferocious, half-year long conflict ended the Nazis' dreams of conquering the Soviet Union, and took place in a city - now Volgograd - that then bore the Soviet leader's name (10)
  2. 3. Perhaps the most famous Scottish battle of all time - and the most successful - this 1314 rout of the English guaranteed Scottish independence, thanks to the military genius of King Robert the Bruce (11)
  3. 4. Battle of _______, not strictly a battle, more a series of air battles, this 1940 campaign saved our island from the Luftwaffe, with Churchill describing the victorious RAF pilots as "the Few" (7)
  4. 5. Battle of the _____, this famous WW2 battle sounds like someone trying to lose weight! In fact, it was the last offensive launched by the Germans against the Allies in that conflict (5)
  5. 6. Battle of ________ Bridge, this battle of 1297 in one of Scotland's greatest victories against England, and immortalised the Scots' leader, Sir William Wallace (8)
  6. 9. Battle of _________, this battle sounds like it was over an item of woolly headwear! But it was actually a battle between the British Empire and the Russians during the Crimean War... (9)
  7. 11. Battle of ________, an infamous 1745 battle in which "Butcher" Cumberland, the son of George II, massacred the Jacobites (8)
  8. 12. Battle of Iwo ____, 1945 naval battle fought between the United States navy and marines and the Imperial Japanese forces (4)