Letter
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Hint
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Answer
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A
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Where English longbowmen unexpectedly defeated a larger French force, turning the tide of the Hundred Years' War
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Agincourt
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B
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Chinese city where student-led demonstrations were violently suppressed by military force
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Beijing
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C
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Ancient city-state destroyed by Rome in the Punic Wars
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Carthage
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D
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Vietnamese city where the Việt Minh besieged and defeated French forces, eventually leading to France's withdrawal from Indochina
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Điện Biên Phủ
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E
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Ugandan city where Israeli forces conducted a raid to rescue nearly a hundred Jewish hostages from an airport
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Entebbe
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F
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Iraqi city and Ba'ath stronghold besieged by an American-led coalition and devastated by intense urban warfare
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Fallujah
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G
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Spanish city whose devastation by aerial bombing in the Spanish Civil War is depicted in a Picasso painting
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Guernica
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H
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English city where William the Conqueror decisively defeated Anglo-Saxon forces
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Hastings
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I
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Ancient Anatolian town where Alexander the Great defeated Darius III, marking the beginning of the fall of the Achaemenid Empire
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Issus
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J
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Holy city whose conquest was the goal of the mostly unsuccessful Crusades
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Jerusalem
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K
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Soviet site of the largest tank battle in history
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Kursk
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L
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American city where a weather balloon was mistaken for an attacking Japanese aircraft, prompting an hour-long anti-aircraft artillery barrage; 3 people were killed in car crashes and 2 suffered fatal heart attacks in the ensuing chaos
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Los Angeles
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M
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African city where two American Black Hawk helicopters were shot down in a botched raid operation
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Mogadishu
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N
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Site of the last major battle of the War of 1812, which was fought after the war had formally ended and resulted in a major British defeat
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New Orleans
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O
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Polish village with a fortress where Russian soldiers, resembling zombies due to the effects of German gas attacks, routed the advancing Germans in the so-called "Attack of the Dead Men" in WWI
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Osowiec-Twierdza
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P
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The Mexican victory over the Second French Empire in this city is celebrated every 5th of May
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Puebla
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Q
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South American city which was liberated from Spanish forces in the Battle of Pichincha
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Quito
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R
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Pakistani city where Muslim mobs raped and killed thousands of Hindus and Sikhs months before the partition of India
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Rawalpindi
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S
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City where Salvador Allende was violently deposed in a CIA-backed coup
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Santiago
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T
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Aztec capital besieged and captured by Hernan Cortés
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Tenochtitlan
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U
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Texas town where 21 were killed in a school shooting
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Uvalde
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V
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French site of the longest battle of WWI, which saw over 700,000 casualties
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Verdun
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W
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City where Napoleon faced his final defeat
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Waterloo
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X
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Chinese city where Chiang Kai-shek was detained by his subordinates, causing a political crisis that ended with Chiang's agreement to ally with the Communists against Japan
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Xi'an
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Y
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Where British general Cornwallis surrendered to American troops, ending the American Revolution
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Yorktown
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Z
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Ukrainian city where Russian troops attacked and set fire to a nuclear power plant in 2022
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Zaporizhzhia
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Also, please accept Az* as an alternate spelling for "A".