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1. This king was criticized in the Casement Report, which detailed atrocities carried out during rubber harvesting by the Force Publique

2. This man fled a battle his troops eventually won under Schwerin at Mollwitz

3. Hundreds of thousands of men clashed at Mukden, but one side' s forces were unable to prevent the fall of Port Arthur

4. Some of its key figures were Richelieu and Gustavus Adolphus, and it eventually led to the Hapsburgs losing Spain and Holland

5. That government in this city was crushed in 1871 after the fall of the Second Empire

6. This country featured political factions called the 'Caps' and 'Hats' during its so-called Age of Liberty in the eighteenth century'

7. This ruler was defeated by Stephen Bathory in the Livonian War, and he founded a secret police force called theoprichina

8. He was supported financially by his mistress Harriet Howard after disguising himself as a mason and escaping life imprisonment in the fortress of Ham

9. This issuer of the Berlin Decree and the victor of the Battle of Marengo created the Continental System

10. One of this leader' s accomplishments was the Peace of Vervins, at which Philip II recognized him as king and agreed to withdraw forces from France

11. A generation called the decreței partly grew out of an initiative of this leader that declared women with ten children to be 'heroine mothers'

12. Their decline is often traced to a decisive loss at the First Battle of Tannenberg in 1410, a battle also called Grunwald

13. The first king 'of,' rather than 'in,' this region was known as 'Old Fritz'

14. At the Battle ofLech, also known as the 'Battle of Rain,' he commanded troops over the Count of Tilly'

15. The high prices fetched by items such as the Semper Augustus in this capital city are described in an exaggerated account by Charles MacKay

16. He stated that 'the crash will come twenty years after my departure' , a prophecy fulfilled almost to the month with World War I'

17. Giuseppe Fieschi attempted to assassinate this man with several rigged guns that ended up killing eighteen other people instead

18. Beginning with the occupation of Port Arthur, this war saw a climactic battle was at Tsushima Straits

19. A commander for this monarch worked with star-shaped fortifications, and during his rule, the import of Venetian glass was banned

20. This country was depicted in one American political cartoon as a five-headed man pointing a dagger towards the ground at a group of Americans

21. It fought against William the Silent in the Eighty Years War, leading to the creation of Belgium

22. This country gained the Dodecanese Islands from the Ottoman Empire after it won a war that included the first aerial bombardment

23. Members of this country' s nobility formed the Confederation of Targowica (TAR-go-VEET-sah)

24. Under its leader Enrico Dandalo, this city funded the Fourth Crusade, which ultimately sacked Constantinople

25. That battle in this war was won when Jean Bureau set up a ditch and cannon around his camp near Castillon