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| 1876 |
| | | George Custer leads a US cavalry attack on the Sioux at the Little Bighorn river, with disastrous results | |
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| 1881 |
| | | The Boers inflict a convincing defeat on a British army at Majuba, in the Transvaal | |
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| 1898 |
| | | Winston Churchill gallops into battle with the Twenty-First Lancers at Omdurman | |
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| 1899 |
| | | Within a single 'Black Week' the British forces in South Africa suffer three defeats, at Stromberg, Magersfontein and Colenso | |
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| 1905 |
| | | The Japanese defeat a larger force of Russians at Mukden in the final land battle of the Russo-Japanese War | |
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| 1914 August 23 |
| | | The British Expeditionary Force fights a rearguard action to escape encirclement by the Germans at Mons | |
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| 1914 August 25-28 |
| | | A German army encircles and almost annihilates a larger Russian force at Tannenberg | |
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| 1914 September 3 |
| | | A Germany army crosses the river Marne in an advance towards Paris | |
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| 1914 September 5 |
| | | A French army halts the German advance, just 30 miles from Paris | |
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| 1914 September 8 |
| | | After a four-day battle, the French drive the German forces back over the river Marne | |
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