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Castle in Wales taken by Owain Glyndŵr in 1404 but recaptured by the English a few years later (7) ____ Hill, pioneering social reformer and one of the three founders of the National Trust (7) 16th-century religious reformer, founder of Presbyterianism in Scotland (4) The battle of ____ (aka battle of the Three Emperors), fought on 2 December 1805; it was a great victory for Napoleon (10) George Orwell's celebrated political fable, published in 1945 (6,4) The Channel Island which, between 1927 and 1974, was ruled by Dame Sibyl Hathaway (4) “____” Townshend, nickname of the 18th-century politician who supported the use of a certain vegetable in crop rotation (6) Speaker such as Demosthenes, Cicero, Winston Churchill or Rodrigo (Pope Alexander VI) and Cesare were two notable members of this powerful Italian family of Spanish origin (6) The Roman poet best known for his unfinished epic, the (6) The middle of an ancient Roman month, such as the famous day of the assassination of one of that civilisation's greatest leaders (4) In Greek mythology, the son of Penelope and Odysseus (10) Her marriage to a soldier considered to be beneath her station led to her banishment from the Tudor court by her (more famous) sister, Anne (4,6) Sumerian name of a great Mesopotamian city, one of the world's first (4) An important temple and oracle site, thought by the ancient Greeks to be the centre of the world (6) Ancient region spanning parts of modern Afghanistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, probably subdued in the sixth century BC by Persian king Cyrus the Great (7)
