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July 31
This weekend is looking tricky, so I'll get a bit ahead here.
30 BC. The Battle of Alexandria. Despite mounting desertions, the forces of Mark Antony repulse an attack in Egypt by Octavian (not yet Caesar Augustus) in the Final War of the Roman Republic. Despite the success, his forces continue to desert. Within two weeks he will have committed suicide, and Cleopatra with him, and Octavian will be victorious.
1941. Following Hitler's orders, Reichmarshall Hermann Goering orders SS General Reinhard Heydrich to "submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired final solution of the Jewish question."
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