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Pillage of Jerusalem

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Troops on a night raid during the First World War

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Khudadad Khan

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This detail from the Gundestrup Cauldron – a richly decorated silver vessel thought to date from the second-century BC – depicts a Celtic god or druid surrounded by beasts. (Werner Forman/Universal Images Group/Getty Images)

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Chinese irregular cavalry and infantry from the north-western provinces move towards the front during the 1894–95 war

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Renewed debate over battle of Hastings location

Sport offered the two sides the perfect stage on which to get one over on the 'enemy', says Dominic Sandbrook. Pictured here is a queue for a football match between Arsenal and Dynamo Moscow. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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"Nobody could have held their nerve in Normandy like Monty did," says Al Murray of the wartime general. (Photo by Mark Kauffman/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

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Slang and swear words 'helped soldiers survive the First World War'

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Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, displayed remarkable leadership of the British army at the battle of Waterloo. (Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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Excavation search for soldiers killed on Flodden battlefield

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Q&A: When and where was the trebuchet invented?

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A Second World War memorial monument depicting Soviet soldiers

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Residents of Chongqing on the streets of their bombed-ravaged city in the autumn of 1940. China's temporary wartime capital was subjected to 218 Japanese air raids between May 1938 and August 1941, costing nearly 12,000 lives. (Photo by Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

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