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1. Despite using the 'schiltron' formation, he was crushed at the battle of Falkirk

2. This man thrice served as Chancellor of the Exchequer under Lord Derby's minority governments, the third of which eliminated rotten boroughs and gave workers the right to vote by passing the Second Reform Act that this man championed

3. In the leadup to this battle, the victor held a convention in Caen to assemble over 700 ships, which landed at Bulverhythe

4. He had his brother Odo imprisoned for raising troops without his permission, and this man commissioned the Domesday survey

5. His reign saw Byrhtnoth lose the Battle of Maldon to the Vikings, and this king also paid a gigantic Danegeld to stop the armies of Thorkell the Tall

6. The brothers Christopher and John Wright, who were both killed here along with the Gunpowder Plot's organizer

7. In the 1950s, a massive temple dedicated to Mithras at Walbrook was excavated in this city

8. He returned to office after his successor Henry Addington signed the unpopular Peace of Amiens

9. The Saville Commission investigated a 1972 incident on this island in which soldiers shot at unarmed civilians

10. Upon the cessation of fighting in this conflict, Oliver Cromwell declared himself 'Lord Protector'

11. One noble with this name took rule after the death of his father Roger II and fought against his chancellor Maio of Bari

12. Late in his life, he concentrated on writing a History of the English-Speaking Peoples

13. The Pilgrims left England during this king's reign, and he lent his name to a settlement in Virginia ruled by John Rolfe

14. (*) Halley's comet appeared before one of this man's victories, which is recorded on the Bayeux Tapestry and resulted in the death of Harold II Godwinson

15. One split in this party occurred over the leadership of Michael Foot, and Stafford Cripps and George Lansbury were among its members to resign following a split over whether to place sanctions on Italy for invading Ethiopia

16. This ruler was excommunicated for the Second Act of Supremacy by the papal bull Regnans in Excelsis

17. This man's victory over Geoffrey Martel at Varaville secured the independence of his duchy

18. This man's biggest rival was Charles James Fox, whose father was the main rival of this man's father as well

19. That the English army had just fought the Battle of Stamford Bridge was one factor in Harold II's defeat at this battle

20. A scheme that would put this monarch on the throne was discovered by Francis Walsingham in the Babington Plot, and this heir of James V was once married to Lord Darnley

21. His pamphlet on the 'Question of the East' opposed Turkish massacres, which he called the 'Bulgarian Horrors,' and was written during his Midlothian campagin

22. This king attempted to resolve the York-Canterbury dispute with the Accord of Winchester, which he signed along with his wife Matilda of Flanders

23. Under this king, the Statute of Laborers was introduced as an attempt to keep wages low despite major population loss caused by the Black Death

24. His forces were overcome at the Battle of Bouvines and the siege of Rouen, and he lost Normandy and many other territories to Phillip II Augustus

25. During a siege of this city, James II fought in a battle at which William Lockhart's troops were led to victory over the Grand Conde by the Vicomte de Turenne

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