The Battle of St Matthew's or Battle of Short Strand was a gun battle that took place on the night of 27–28 June 1970 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It...
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The Battle of Matthew's Day (Estonian: Madisepäeva lahing) was fought near Viljandi (probably in Vanamõisa) on 21 September 1217 during the Livonian Crusade...
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Lembitu (redirect from Lembitu of Lehola)
managed to assemble an army of 6,000 Estonian men from different counties, but was killed in the following Battle of St. Matthew's Day in September 1217. The...
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St Matthew's Hospital, formerly known as the Burntwood Asylum, was a mental health facility in Burntwood, Staffordshire, England. Founded as the Second...
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Gascon War (redirect from Battle of St Matthew (1293))
fleet in the 15 May 1293 Battle of Point St Mathieu, supposedly destroying 200 Norman ships. (The contemporary Chronicle of Bury St Edmunds notes a second...
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Livonian Crusade (redirect from Conquest of Estonia)
remained an ally of the crusaders until his death in the Battle of St. Matthew's Day in 1217. By 1208 the important Daugava trading posts of Salaspils (Holme)...
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naval Battle of Saint-Mathieu took place on 10 August 1512 during the War of the League of Cambrai, near Brest, France, between an English fleet of 25 ships...
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Estonians and was killed in the Battle of St. Matthew's Day in 1217, fighting against the troops of the Estonian leader Lembitu of Lehola. Caupo had male successors...
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Short Strand (category Geography of Belfast)
the Provisional IRA's first major action and became known as the Battle of St Matthew's. Throughout the Troubles there was a Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC)...
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The Battle of the Bogside was a large three-day riot that took place from 12 to 14 August 1969 in Derry, Northern Ireland. Thousands of Catholic/Irish...
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St. Matthew's Churches, formerly St. Matthew Publishing, Inc., is an evangelical Christian ministry. It is primarily a mail-based ministry with an address...
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of Short Strand in east Belfast. When McKee heard about this, he drove to Short Strand with some men and weapons and took up position at St Matthew's...
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while also seriously injuring approximately 130 others. Battle at Springmartin Battle of St Matthew's Falls Curfew 1973 Old Bailey bombing 1997 Northern Ireland...
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"Battle of St Matthew's recalled after 50 years". The Irish News. Retrieved 7 February 2024. Viewed by many as a seminal moment in the emergence of the...
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Northern Crusades (category Christianization of Europe)
chief but were put down. Caupo of Turaida remained an ally of the crusaders until his death in the Battle of St. Matthew's Day in 1217. The German crusaders...
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Estonia (redirect from Republic of Estonia)
Battle of St. Matthew's Day, where Lembitu was killed. In 1219, Valdemar II landed at Lindanise, defeated the Estonians in the Battle of Lyndanisse, and...
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defenders of the Catholic community. McKee himself contributed greatly to this image by an action he undertook on 27 June 1970 (see Battle of St Matthew's). Rioting...
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Provisional Irish Republican Army campaign (category Political history of Northern Ireland)
occupied St Matthew's Church and defended it in a five-hour gun battle with the loyalists, in what became known as the Battle of St Matthew's. One of his men...
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Francis Hughes (redirect from Battle at Lisnamuck 1978)
youngest of four brothers in a family of ten siblings. Hughes' father, Joseph, had been a member of the Irish Republican Army in the 1920s and one of his uncles...
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Falls Curfew (redirect from Rape of the Falls)
in a Protestant part of the city, the Provisional IRA fought a five-hour gun battle with loyalists (see Battle of St Matthew's). Three people were killed...
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Bobby Sands (category Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Fermanagh and South Tyrone (since 1950))
of the Balmoral Furniture Company in Dunmurry on 14 October 1976. The showroom was destroyed but as the IRA men left the scene there was a gun battle...
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1971 Scottish soldiers' killings (category Military history of County Antrim)
The battle now joined against the terrorists will be fought with the utmost vigour and determination. It is a battle against a small minority of armed...
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Albertbridge Road and the Newtownards Road. The 1970 Battle of St Matthew's saw one of the deadliest expressions of the tensions in the area, although as recently...
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St Matthew's is an electoral ward in Preston, Lancashire, England. The ward is adjacent to the larger Ribbleton to the east but is considered to be an...
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Baltic Exchange bombing (category Economic history of the United Kingdom)
detonated in front of the Baltic Exchange building at 24–28 St Mary Axe. The façade of the offices was partially destroyed, and the rest of the building was...
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raids on St Nazaire and Dieppe. In August 1943, Mountbatten became Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia Command and oversaw the recapture of Burma and...
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led by Lembitu of Lehola who was killed along with Caupo of Turaida (fighting for the crusaders), at the 1217 battle of St. Matthew's Day, a crushing...
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1969 Northern Ireland riots (redirect from Northern Ireland riots of August 1969)
August, the Battle of the Bogside erupted in Derry: three days of fierce clashes between the RUC and thousands of Catholic/nationalist residents of Derry's...
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Crusade: The Livonian Brothers of the Sword and allied Livs and Letts defeat the Estonian army in the Battle of St. Matthew's Day, and kill their leader Lembitu...
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ends. The McCartney family travelled to the United States during the 2005 St Patrick's Day celebrations where they were met by US Senators (including Hillary...
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