 "Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)")
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Karbala suicide attack jolts untested foreign soldiers.
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Byline: Evan Osnos
KARBALA, Iraq _ Three months after Polish, Bulgarian and Thai forces inherited control of this once-quiet city from U.S. forces, a weekend attack has shattered Karbala's peaceful reputation and posed sudden demands on largely untested troops.
Foreign commanders and Karbala residents said Saturday's attack _ which killed 19 and injured at least 135 in the most sophisticated assault on coalition troops in months _ hints of deeper problems in a patch of the country that had provided the U.S.-led coalition with a success story.
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Henry V.
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History
; ...control in 1418, came quietly under the English with the Treaty of Troyes (21 May 1420). The marriage match first proposed in 1408 followed two weeks after the Treaty, as the Princess Royal, Katherine of Valois, wed...
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The arts in France around 1400.
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques
; ...Agincourt. Five years later Charles was forced to sign the Treaty of Troyes, which made Henry, rather than the son of Charles...of Arc, who argued that Charles had only signed the treaty because of his illness. Charles VI died in Paris in...
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 "The Evening Standard (London, England)")
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On this day . . . in 1558.
Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England)
; ...you shall find Calais lying in my heart." Calais was originally captured in 1347 by Edward III during the Hundred Years War after a punishing 12-month siege. The town was signed away to the French forever in the 1564 Treaty of Troyes.
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Queen Katherine and the secret of Lydgate's Temple of Glas.(John Lydgate)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum
; ...marks her decisive entry into English political history, for the union was orchestrated to seal the Anglo-French Treaty of Troyes in 1420, forming her into so much epoch-making symbolic capital. (1) But neither the marriage nor the peace...
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Joan of Arc, Her Story.
Magazine article from: Church History
; ...the eighth century. Nor do we learn here that Charles VII's coronation was called into question because by the treaty of Troyes in 1420, Charles's mother, Isabeau de Bavaria, had assented to the marriage of Henry V, king of England, and...
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HOW THE ENGLISH TRIED AND FAILED TO SEIZE FRANCE
Newspaper article from: Evening Standard - London
; ...time. He took advantage of factionalism during the madness of French king Charles VI, and by 1420 had forced the Treaty of Troyes. Under its terms he married Charles's daughter, disinherited the dauphin and installed himself as heir to the...
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HOW THE ENGLISH TRIED AND FAILED TO SEIZE FRANCE [Edition 2]
Newspaper article from: Evening Standard - London
; ...time. He took advantage of factionalism during the madness of French king Charles VI, and by 1420 had forced the Treaty of Troyes. Under its terms he married Charles's daughter, disinherited the dauphin and installed himself as heir to the...
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 "Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)")
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Slowly stitching up a famous monarch.(News)
Newspaper article from: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
; ...longbowmen. By 1419 his army had captured lands including Normandy and Picardy and forced the French to agree the Treaty of Troyes in 1420. He died in August 1422 after catching dysentery at the siege of Meaux. Henry has been immortalised both...
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Saturday, April 11
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream
; ...this date: 1564 - Peace of Troyes ends war between England and...1805 - Britain and Russia, by Treaty of St. Petersburg, agree to...France and is banished to Elba by Treaty of Fontainebleau. 1843 - Britain...British protectorate. 1899 - The treaty ending the Spanish-American...
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Monday, April 11
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream
; ...this date: 1564 - Peace of Troyes ends war between England and...1805 - Britain and Russia, by Treaty of St. Petersburg, agree to...France and is banished to Elba by Treaty of Fontainebleau. 1843 - Britain...British protectorate. 1899 - The treaty ending the Spanish-American...
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