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Dreadnoughts
History; World history

Battleships modelled on HMS Dreadnought, launched by Britain in 1906, whose large guns, thick armor and fast speed made every other battleship in the world obsolete. Their ...

Dreikaiserbund
History; World history

A 'League of the Three Emperors' created by Otto von Bismarck to maintain the status quo in Europe while isolating France. The first understanding was made between Kaiser Wilhelm ...

Dresden bombing
History; World history

(13-14 February 1945) Destruction of the German city of Dresden by Allied bombers during a raid in World War II. Firestorms engulfed the city, killing between 50,000 and 100,000 ...

Dual Alliance
History; World history

(1879) Bismarck's secret agreement with Austria promising support if either signatory were attacked by Russia. Joined by Italy in 1882 (making it the Triple Alliance), it was in ...

Dual Monarchy
History; World history

The arrangement reached in 1867 whereby the Habsburg sovereign ruled both as the emperor of Austria and as the constitutional king of Hungary. Each country had its own parliament ...

Duma
History; World history

A self-governing council such as offered to larger towns by Czar Alexander II in his Duma Statute (1870). After the 1905 Russian revolution the term was used to describe four ...

Dumnonii
History; World history

An ancient tribe of Britain that occupied Devon, Cornwall and part of Somerset. Probably defeated by Vespasian, after 43 BC it became a self-governing civitas ('community') under ...

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