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Dr. Loïc Guyon (“loh-EEK gwee-ON”) leads a team devoted to finding the remains of a general of this ethnicity who apocryphally remarked that he had not shed blood for his home country before dying at the Battle of Landen. Along with Tuscan forces, a Spanish officer of this ethnicity led a disastrous 1775 invasion of Algiers. (10[1])This ethnicity is not Swedish or Finnish, but a 7-foot-tall soldier of this ethnicity was once the tallest member of the Potsdam Giants. Along with expatriates (-5[1])from a country to the east, soldiers of this (10[1])ethnicity assassinated Albrecht von Wallenstein. The Battle of Fontenoy featured a brigade of this ethnicity founded after (-5[1])the “Flight of the Wild (10[1])Geese.” (10[3])Soldiers of this (-5[1])ethnicity (10[1]-5[1])called a king “the Shit” (-5[1])after he fled a 1690 (10[1])battle. For 10 points, (-5[2])name this ethnicity whose home (10[1])country was where the Battle of the Boyne was (10[1])fought. (10[1])■END■ (10[6]0[5])

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