Battles

Gabrielle Chanel, known artistically as Coco Chanel, was a French haute couture designer and founder of the Chanel brand.

The Battle of Trebia took place on December 18, 218 B.C., near the banks of the Trebia River, in the Italian province of Emilia, in which the Roman general Tiberius Sempronio Longo was defeated by the Carthaginian army commanded by Hannibal, in one of the most important warlike successes of the Punic Wars where Romans and Carthaginians clashed.

The Battle of Trasimeno was one of the major war clashes of the Second Punic War, and was fought on the morning of June 21, 217 BC.

The Battle of the Philippine Sea was a naval air battle that took place during the Pacific Campaign of World War II, pitting the Imperial Japanese Navy and the United States Navy in the Philippine Sea, near the Mariana Islands, between June 19 and 20, 1944, during the occupation by U.S. troops of the island of Saipan to later invade the island of Tinian, two Northern Mariana Islands.

Henry Purcell was an English composer, the greatest representative of early English Baroque.

The Battle of Actium was a naval confrontation between Octavian on one side and Mark Antony and Cleopatra’s navy on the other, which took place at Actium, just outside the present-day city of Preveza.

Tsushima Sea Battle – the naval battle of May 14 – May 15, 1905 near Tsushima Island, in which the Russian 2nd squadron of the Pacific Fleet, commanded by Vice-Admiral Z. Z.

The Battle of San Jacinto, was fought on April 21, 1836, present day Harris County, Texas, was the decisive battle of the Texas Revolution.

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The Battle of Sedan took place between August 31 and September 2, 1870; it was the decisive clash of the second phase of the Franco-Prussian War and ended with the total encirclement and surrender of the French army “of Châlons” under the command initially of Marshal of France Patrice de Mac-Mahon, and, after the latter’s wounding, of Generals Ducrot and de Wimpffen.