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    Impeachment of Warren Hastings (category 1788 in Great Britain)
    sailed for home on 6 February and reached Britain in June 1785. During the voyage he wrote a defence of his conduct The State of Bengal and presented it to...
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    hedgehog defence is a military tactic in which a defending force creates multiple mutually supporting strongpoints ("hedgehogs") in a defence in depth,...
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    retained his defence minister despite intense criticism of Grachev's management of the First Chechen War and the Russian military establishment in general...
    20 KB (1,221 words) - 08:38, 29 May 2024
  • Defence in depth (also known as deep defence or elastic defence) is a military strategy that seeks to delay rather than prevent the advance of an attacker...
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  • must be delayed until his innocence has been successfully challenged. Thus, in the early stages of the trial, arguments in his defence are as elaborate as...
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  • Thumbnail for Apologia Pro Vita Sua
    Pro Vita Sua (transl. 'A defence of one's own life') is John Henry Newman's history of his religious opinions, showing how his opinions had been formed...
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    Vojislav Šešelj (category Yugoslav expatriates in the United States)
    witnesses in his defence. After spending 11 years and 9 months in detention in the United Nations Detention Unit of Scheveningen during his trial, Šešelj...
    55 KB (6,133 words) - 03:26, 4 June 2024
  • Apology (Plato) (category Works set in the 4th century BC)
    self-defence which Socrates (469–399 BC) spoke at his trial for impiety and corruption in 399 BC. Specifically, the Apology of Socrates is a defence against...
    33 KB (4,389 words) - 19:46, 4 April 2024
  • James Hanratty (category Crime in Bedfordshire)
    lived. The Committee attempted to assist Hanratty in his defence, and later tried to disprove his conviction. The A6 Committee made a list of claims...
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  • Wikisource has original text related to this article: A Defence of General Funston "A Defence of General Funston" is a satirical piece written by Mark...
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  • In psychoanalytic theory, a defence mechanism is an unconscious psychological operation that functions to protect a person from anxiety-producing thoughts...
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    intelligence agencies (MI6, GCHQ and MI5) in that it is an integral part of a government department – the Ministry of Defence (MoD) – rather than a stand-alone...
    27 KB (2,578 words) - 03:47, 1 June 2024
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    Anton Ferdinand (category Expatriate men's footballers in Turkey)
    from an early age. Like his brother, Rio, he preferred to play in defence. His ability in this position led to him being signed to West Ham United's academy...
    48 KB (4,365 words) - 05:44, 7 June 2024
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    R v Parks (category 1992 in Canadian case law)
    automatism defence. On an early morning on May 24, 1987, Kenneth Parks drove 20 kilometres from Pickering, Ontario, to the house of his in-laws in Scarborough...
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    Billy Joe Saunders (category English sportspeople in doping cases)
    Having secured his third defence of the British middleweight title, Saunders earned the Lonsdale Belt outright; he gave this to his father Tommy as a...
    80 KB (7,721 words) - 20:32, 7 June 2024
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    Westland affair (category 1986 in British politics)
    Westland affair in 1985–86 was an episode in which Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and her Secretary of State for Defence, Michael Heseltine...
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  • needed] The Sicilian Defence was analysed by Giulio Polerio in his 1594 manuscript on chess, though he did not use the term 'Sicilian Defence'. It was later...
    75 KB (9,812 words) - 20:45, 13 May 2024
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    is the national anthem of the United States. The lyrics come from the "Defence of Fort M'Henry", a poem written by American lawyer Francis Scott Key on...
    75 KB (8,365 words) - 15:41, 28 May 2024
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    forces in any location. However, for most countries, the main effort has tended to be homeland defence. Missile defence is an extension of air defence, as...
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  • Thumbnail for Secretary of State for Defence
    The secretary of state for defence, also known as the defence secretary, is a secretary of state in the Government of the United Kingdom, with responsibility...
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