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7 Members of Jewish sect that died out with the Roman destruction of Jerusalem and its temple in AD 70 (9)

9 Combining term, as in the First ____-Turkish War (1897) (5)

10 City of northern England, founded by the Romans, and one of the last English towns to fall to William the Conqueror (7)

11 Two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle used in battle and racing, for example by the Egyptians, Greeks and Romans (7)

12 Celebrated Roman historian who thrived in the time of Octavian/Augustus (4)

14 US Republican presidential candidate beaten by Lyndon B Johnson in 1964 (9)

Battle of February 1807 pitting France against Russia and Prussia, resulting in Napoleon’s

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