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"After the death of Alexander, Perdiccas...."

Then in July 1914 the Hapsburg government decided to invade Serbia to ensure the territorial integrity of their empire…..

England’s King Aethelred thought it would be a terrific idea to sort out the Viking problem by killing every Dane in the land…

While in 1941 the Imperial Japanese Navy…

In 1954 France bet the entire farm on tempting the N Vietnamese to attack them in...

Napoleons I and III enter the chat.

Then this one time Emperor Valens decided to smash the Goths before waiting for reinforcements and paid for his temerity in his own blood and that of the flower of the Roman east.

In the summer of 1513 Scottish king James IV found himself thinking a lot about the vulnerability of his English neighbours and his brother in law, Henry Tudor's, absence in France....