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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (49272)	10/17/2005 3:46:44 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50167

This Day in History Second Battle of Kosovo The last major effort by Crusaders to free the Balkans from Ottoman rule began this day in 1448 with the second Battle of Kosovo in Serbia, in which a Hungarian-Walachian army suffered a crushing defeat. More events on this day 1854: British and French troops began the Siege of Sevastopol during the Crimean War. 1777: British General John Burgoyne surrendered his troops following his shocking defeat in the Second Battle of Saratoga. 1707: German Baroque composer Johann Sebastian Bach married his cousin Maria Barbara Bach at Dornheim. 1346: At the Battle of Neville's Cross, the English defeated the Scots who, as allies of the French, had invaded England in an attempt to distract Edward III from the siege of Calais, France.