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| 1450 |
| | The French bring two small cannon on to the battlefield at Formigny, where they have a significant effect in achieving the French victory | |
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| 1756 |
| | The French in America, under the marquis of Montcalm, begin two highly successful years of campaigning against the British | |
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| 1796 |
| | After two rapid victories in north Italy, Napoleon marches on Turin and the king of Sardinia asks for an armistice | |
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| 1797 |
| | Napoleon marches against Vienna and is only two days from the city when the emperor requests an armistice | |
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| 1812 |
| | Damage to US trade by British orders in council prompts war (the War of 1812) between the two nations | |
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| 1815 |
| | American volunteers under Andrew Jackson defeat British regulars near New Orleans, two weeks after peace has been agreed at Ghent | |
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| 1853 |
| | Russia occupies two Ottoman principalities, Moldavia and Wallachia, on the west coast of the Black Sea | |
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| 1862 |
| | A two-day engagement at Shiloh is the first Civil War battle to bring massive casualties, with more than 23,000 dead, wounded or missing | |
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| 1864 |
| | Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman become Lincoln's two leading generals in the final thrust of the Civil War | |
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| c. 1895 |
| | General Alfred von Schlieffen devises plans for a potential two-pronged attack against France and Russia in a swift war | |
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