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  2. USS Texas (BB-35) - Wikipedia

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    USS Texas (BB-35) is a museum ship and former United States Navy New York-class battleship.She was launched on 18 May 1912 and commissioned on 12 March 1914. Texas served in Mexican waters following the "Tampico Incident" but saw no action there, and made numerous sorties into the North Sea during World War I without engaging the enemy, though she did fire for the first time when shooting ...

  3. Guadalcanal campaign - Wikipedia

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    The Guadalcanal campaign, also known as the Battle of Guadalcanal and codenamed Operation Watchtower by American forces, was a military campaign fought between 7 August 1942 and 9 February 1943 on and around the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific theater of World War II. It was the first major land offensive by Allied forces against the ...

  4. Tower defense - Wikipedia

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    Tower defense is seen as a subgenre of real-time strategy video games, due to its real-time origins, even though many modern tower defense games include aspects of turn-based strategy. Strategic choice and positioning of defensive elements is an essential strategy of the genre.

  5. Bloons Tower Defense - Wikipedia

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    Bloons TD Battles. Bloons TD Battles was released on December 12, 2012, and later to Android and iOS platforms in-between November 5 and 6, 2013, respectively. On April 20, 2016, it came to Steam as a ported version. The gameplay is similar to that in Bloons TD 5 but two players compete against one another in one of four game modes. In Assault ...

  6. List of established military terms - Wikipedia

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    Administrative (all arms) [ edit] Access control. Cantonment: a temporary or semi-permanent military quarters; in South Asia, the term cantonment also describes permanent military stations. Chief of defence. Cloak and Dagger. Combat information center. Command (military formation) Command center. Command and control.

  7. Windsor Castle - Wikipedia

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    Windsor Castle. /  51.48333°N 0.60417°W  / 51.48333; -0.60417. Windsor Castle is a royal residence at Windsor in the English county of Berkshire. It is strongly associated with the English and succeeding British royal family, and embodies almost a millennium of architectural history .

  8. List of military engagements during the Israel–Hamas war

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    This is a list of notable engagements during the Israel–Hamas war, encompassing land, naval, and air engagements, covering events which took place or began during the 2023 Hamas attack on Israel on the 7 October, events and immediately afterwards, Israel's declaration of war on 8 October, the imposition of the 2023 Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip, and active operations in the Gaza Strip.

  9. Sniper - Wikipedia

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    t. e. A sniper is a military / paramilitary marksman who engages targets from positions of concealment or at distances exceeding the target's detection capabilities. [1] Snipers generally have specialized training and are equipped with telescopic sights. Modern snipers use high-precision rifles and high-magnification optics.