Bougainville
Bougainville is the largest of the Solomon Islands and is a province of Papua New Guinea.The island was named after the French navigator Louis Antoine de Bougainville.
On March 8, 1943 during World War II, American forces were attacked by Japanese troops on Hill 700 on this island in a battle that lasted five days ending on March 13 with a Japanese retreat.
A nine-year secessionist revolt on the island of Bougainville ended in 1997, after claiming some 20,000 lives.
See also: Rotokas language
Bougainville is also the name of a commune of the Somme département in France.
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later course of events.
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that year. Yet for that very year, the Annals has an expedition
earliest years, it seems to have had the same chronology as the
it has given the Ashdod expedition as two years earlier than the
data, it was clear that the Prism was earlier and therefore probably
that years "in the land" had been later padded out by the Annals, just
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Annals as a particularly untrustworthy example of annalistic writing.
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which are mere glorifications or otherwise of no value. Out of this
fair sample of what we have lost in other years is hardly too much to
itself, but, since it has a phrase common to the Annals and the Prism,
f.] but not found in the tablet, either the Prism itself or a common
his original are few but striking. It is indeed curious that he has in
giving three fortified cities and twenty four villages [Footnote:
four villages. [Footnote: Tabl. 89.] On the other hand, by a trick
tablet [Footnote: Tabl. 349.] has reached the enormous total.
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