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Second Achaemenid conquest of Egypt
The Second Achaemenid conquest of Egypt was the campaign by which the Persian king Artaxerxes III overthrew pharaoh Nectanebo II around 343 BC, ending native rule.
Second Act (film)
Second Act (2018) is an American romantic comedy directed by Peter Segal, starring Jennifer Lopez as Maya, a Queens shop assistant manager whose fabricated résumé lands her a Madison Avenue job; released December 21, 2018, Metascore 46.
Second Albanese ministry
The Second Albanese ministry is the executive government of Australia under Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of the Australian Labor Party, in office since 22 May 2022.
Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets
The Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets (Второй Всероссийский съезд Советов) met at Smolny in Petrograd in October 1917, deposed the Provisional Government, adopted the Decrees on Peace and Land, and formed Lenin's government.
Second Amendment sanctuary
Second Amendment sanctuary: a US state, county, or city resolution or law pledging nonenforcement of gun-control measures deemed unconstitutional; borrowed from immigration sanctuary cities; about 1,200 local adopters; generally no formal legal effect.
Second Amendment to the United States Constitution
The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1791 as the second of the ten Bill of Rights amendments, states that "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
Second and Third Dynasties of Egypt
Pehen-Ptah is a figure of ancient Egypt's 2nd Dynasty, an obscure period dated c. 2800–2670 BCE that began with the Saqqara kings Hetepsekhemwy, Raneb, and Ninetjer.
Second Anglo-Afghan War
Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878–1880), also called Second Afghan War: British Empire versus Emirate of Afghanistan during the Great Game. Triggered by a Russian mission to Kabul; ended with Treaty of Gandamak, Maiwand, Roberts' Kandahar victory, and Abdur Rahman as amir.
Second Anglo-Burmese War
The Second Anglo-Burmese War was fought in 1852 and 1853 between the British East India Company and Burma, ending with Britain annexing Lower Burma as the Province of Pegu.
Second Anglo-Dutch War
The Second Anglo-Dutch War (1665–1667), also called the Second Dutch War, pitted England under Charles II against the Dutch Republic over trade and colonies. England took New Amsterdam in 1664, won at Lowestoft, but lost the Four Days' Battle and suffered the 1667 Medway raid, ending with the Treaty of Breda.
Second Anglo-Maratha War
Second Anglo-Maratha War (1803–1805), also dated 1802–1805 from the Treaty of Bassein: East India Company victory over Scindia, Bhonsle, and Holkar; battles of Assaye, Laswari, Argaum, Delhi; Treaty of Surji Arjungaon.
Second Anglo-Mysore War
Second Anglo-Mysore War (1780–1784), conflict between the East India Company and Mysore under Haidar Ali and Tipu Sultan, allied with France; marked by Pollilur and the Treaty of Mangalore.
Second Anglo-Sikh War
Second Anglo-Sikh War (1848-49), also called the Second Sikh War: conflict between the Sikh Empire and the British East India Company, sparked by the Multan rebellion, marked by Chillianwala, decided at Gujrat, and ending with the annexation of the Punjab on 29 March 1849.
Second Asiatic campaign of Amenhotep II
The second Asiatic campaign of Amenhotep II was a Year 9 expedition into central Palestine, as far as the Sea of Galilee, known from the Memphis stela.
Second Avenue Subway
The Second Avenue Subway is a New York City Subway line in Manhattan; Phase 1 opened in 2017, extending the Q line to 96th Street.
Second Balkan War
The Second Balkan War (Interallied War), 29 June–10 August 1913: Bulgaria attacked former allies Serbia and Greece over Macedonia, was defeated by them plus Romania, Montenegro, and the Ottomans, and lost territory by the Treaty of Bucharest.
Second Bank of the United States
The Second Bank of the United States was a federally chartered national bank in Philadelphia, operating from 1817 to 1836 as the country's de facto central bank.
Second Barbary War
The Second Barbary War, also called the Algerine War or U.S.–Algerian War, was an 1815–1816 naval conflict between the United States and Algiers, won by Commodore Stephen Decatur.
Second Battle of Adobe Walls
The Second Battle of Adobe Walls was fought on June 27, 1874, when about 700 Comanche, Kiowa, Cheyenne, and Arapaho warriors attacked a buffalo hunters' camp in the Texas Panhandle.
Second Battle of Bull Run
Second Battle of Bull Run (Second Manassas), August 28–30, 1862: Lee, Jackson, and Longstreet defeated Pope's Army of Virginia in northern Virginia, enabling Lee's Maryland invasion and Antietam.
Second Battle of Donetsk Airport
Second Battle of Donetsk Airport (September 28, 2014 to January 21, 2015): Ukrainian "cyborgs" defended the ruined Donetsk airport against DPR and Russian forces until the new terminal was blown up; 101–109 Ukrainians killed.
Second Battle of El Alamein (معركة العلمين الثانية)
Second Battle of El Alamein (معركة العلمين الثانية), 23 October to 4 November 1942: Montgomery's Eighth Army defeated Rommel's Axis army in Egypt, breaking through minefields via Operations Lightfoot and Supercharge and ending the Axis threat to Egypt.
Second Battle of Fallujah
Second Battle of Fallujah, also Operation Phantom Fury or Operation al-Fajr, was the November 7 to December 23, 2004 US-led assault retaking Fallujah from insurgents: 13,500 US/British and 2,000 Iraqi troops against about 3,000 fighters; heaviest US urban combat since Hue, 1968.
Second Battle of Fort Wagner
Second Battle of Fort Wagner, July 18, 1863, Morris Island, Charleston Harbor: failed Union assault led by the 54th Massachusetts; Shaw killed, 1,515 Union casualties, fort taken by siege two months later.
Second Battle of Guararapes
The Second Battle of Guararapes (Segunda Batalha dos Guararapes) was a 1649 battle in Pernambuco, colonial Brazil, where Luso-Brazilian forces decisively defeated the Dutch West India Company.
Second Battle of Homs
The Second Battle of Homs was fought on 29 October 1281 north of Homs, Syria, where Sultan Qalawun's Mamluk army defeated a full-scale Mongol Ilkhanate invasion under Abaqa.
Second Battle of Jijiga
The Second Battle of Jijiga was a March 1978 battle in which Ethiopian, Cuban, and Soviet-backed forces recaptured Jijiga from Somalia, deciding the Ogaden War.
Second Battle of Kharkov
The Second Battle of Kharkov was a failed Soviet offensive launched in May 1942 during World War II, ending when German counterattacks encircled the attacking forces.
Second Battle of Nola
The Second Battle of Nola was a 215 BC repulse of Hannibal by the Roman consul Marcus Claudius Marcellus outside Nola in Campania, during the Second Punic War.
Second Battle of Panipat
Second Battle of Panipat (5 November 1556): Hemu, Hindu king of Delhi, defeated by Akbar's forces led by regent Bairam Khan; Hemu hit in the eye by an arrow, captured and beheaded; victory began Mughal rule under Akbar.