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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 47. Chapters: Battle of Ryesgade, Siege of Stralsund, Battle of Bornholm, Battle of Ethandun, Battle of Wolgast, Battle of Bravellir, Finnesburg Fragment, Battle of Lund, Battle of Dybbol, Battle of Fredericia, Battle of Helsingborg, Battle of Ashdown, Battle of Lundby, Assault on Copenhagen, Conquest of Jemtland, Operation Bollebank, Siege of Fredriksten, Battle of Lyndanisse, Battle of Visby, Battle of Landskrona, Battle of Assandun, Battle of Halmstad, Battle of Brunkeberg, Battle of Grathe Heath, Battle of Reading, Battle of Bov, Battle of Lottorf, Battle of Bornhoved, Evacuation of Dannevirke, Battle of Lutter, Siege of Malmo, Battle of Als, Battle of Englefield, Battle of Marton, Battle of Carham, First Battle of Alton, Battle of Marstrand, Battle of Koge, Battle of Isted, Operation Amanda, Battle of Uddevalla, Battle of Basing, Battle of Axtorna, Battle of Sehested, Battle of Bogesund, Battle of Lena, Battle of Finnburg, Battle of Brentford, Battle of Bauds, Battle of Verchen, Battle of Schmilau, Battle of Tempsford, Battle of Kolding, Battle of Vasteras, Action of 26 July 1566, Battle of Sankelmark, Battle of Dollar, Battle of Mared. Excerpt: The Battle of Ryesgade was a nine-day series of street fights in mid-September 1986, in the Copenhagen street Ryesgade. It was the most violent event in a long-standing conflict between the Copenhagen city council and the city's community of squatters. Faced with an ultimatum to leave their illegally occupied housing or face eviction, the squatters instead fortified the streets around their building so strongly that it became a cop-free zone. They took advantage of this lack of control by burning down a building belonging to the Sperry Corporation. For nine days, massed police unsuccessfully attempted to evict the squatters. The civil disorder was of a magnitude never before seen in ...
