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At the battle of, fought off the coast of Flanders in 1340, Edward III's fleet inflicted a terrible defeat on the French (5) Louis, 19th-century French chemist, a major pioneer of microbiology (7) British historian EH, author of (1961) (4) King Richard II is thought to have died in the castle of this West Yorkshire town in 1399 (10) English campaigner whose early 20th-century humanitarian work with the Boers in South Africa led to her being reviled at home (5,8) Lech, electrician and labour activist who won the 1983 Nobel Peace Prize and became leader of his country Wall, second-century AD Roman barrier between the Clyde and Firth of Forth (8) Head of the Reich Security Central Office, killed by Czech resistance fighters in 1942 (8) “borough”, term coined in the 19th century for a small English election district where voting by residents was effectively controlled by the landowner (6) British art and cultural historian who presents TV series including (BBC Two, 2019-21) (6,7) A large, typically monocultural farm often established in the New World and historically worked by enslaved people (10) Imperial measure once defined as the combined length of three barleycorns placed end to end (4) Georg von der, a Prussian general of the First World War (7) Prime minister who played a key role in his country's transition to democracy after Franco's rule (6)
