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AP

Ap is a Welsh prefix indicating 'son', as ApRobert, son of Robert, now often reduced to simply Probert.
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MAC

Mac is a prefix in modern Irish and Gaelic signifying 'son', as MacDonald, son of Donald. But there are numerous historical uses of the prefix in the sense of 'great', evidently a corruption of the 'mag' in 'magnus'. The Welsh equivalent is Map or Ap, the Norman equivalent Fitz and the Irish O'.
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EDWARD I

Edward I was King of England from 1272 to 1307. He was born in 1239 at Winchester and died in 1307. Edward I was the son of Henry III and an able administrator and law-maker. He re-established royal power, investigating many of the abuses resulting from weak royal government and issuing new laws. Edward was an effective soldier, gaining experience from going on crusade to Syria before he became king. In 1277 Edward I invaded Wales where Llewelyn ap Gruffydd, prince of Wales, had built up considerable power. In a series of campaigns Edward I gained control of Wales, building strong castles to secure his conquests. Llewelyn was subdued before his death, by the 1277 treaty of Conway. In 1284, the Statute of Wales brought Wales under Edward I's rule. In 1301, he created his eldest surviving son, Edward, the first English Prince of Wales. Wanting to unite the country behind him and to raise money for his campaigns in Wales and Scotland and another war in France, in 1295 Edward called what became known as the 'Model Parliament'. To this meeting he summoned the aristocracy, bishops and abbots, and the knights of the shires, burgesses from the towns and the junior clergy.

In 1296 Edward I invaded Scotland, successfully seizing the Stone of Scone; the king John Baliol abdicated and surrendered to Edward I. However, a guerrilla war broke out and the English were defeated by the Scottish under William Wallace at the Battle of Stirling Bridge in 1297. William Wallace was finally captured and executed in 1305. Edward I died in 1307, when he was about to start another campaign against the Scots and their leader, Robert the Bruce.
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GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH

Geoffrey of Monmouth (also known as Geoffrey ap Arthur, that is Geoffrey son of Arthur) was a British historian. He was born in 1100 and died in 1154. He sprang from the Norman settlers in Wales; became archdeacon of Monmouth, whence he was, in 1152, raised to the bishopric of St Asaph. His famous history was first published in 1128. This ' Chronicon sive Historia Britonum' is now known to be, as the compiler states, chiefly a translation from an ancient book in the Breton tongue, discovered by Walter Calenius, an archdeacon of Oxford. It contains a pretended genealogy of the kings of Britain from the time of the fabulous Brutus, or Brute, the Trojan, to the death of Cadwallader, king of Wessex, in 688. It was soon translated into French, English, and Welsh, and became a great source of romance to the writers of successive generations.
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CREURDILAD

In Celtic mythology, Creurdilad was the daughter of Lludd and lover of Gwyn ap Nudd and Gwyrthur ap Greidawl. Her mythology developed into that of Cordelia, with the names of her lovers also amending with time.
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GWYN AP NUDD

In Celtic mythology, Gwyn ap Nudd (Gwyn) is the lord of the underworld and master of the wild hunt. He lives at Glastonbury Tor.
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GWYRTHUR AP GREIDAWL

In Celtic mythology, Gwyrthur ap Greidawl (Gwyrthur) is a rival to Gwyn ap Nudd for the affections of Creurdilad. He is a solar god, representing day.
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2A42

The 2A42 is a Russian 30 mm calibre auto-cannon mounted on BMP-2 and ZSU-30-2 and the Ka-50 helicopter. It is based upon the British Rarden gun and has dual loading for AP and HE ammunition allowing the gunner to switch rounds without unloading and reloading. The 2A42 has a muzzle velocity of 1000 meters-per-second and can pierce 50 mm of armour at 500 metres. The gun has a full range of 4 km.
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AP

In terms of ammunition, AP is an abbreviation for armour piercing.
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BATTLE OF FRASER'S FARM

The Battle of Fraser's Farm, Virginia., also called the Battle of Glendale, was an action in the Seven Days' fighting in the Peninsular campaign, on the fifth day, on June 30th, 1862 during the American Civil War. McClellan was retreating to the James, pursued by Jackson. James Longstreet and AP Hill attacked him at Fraser's Farm, intending to pierce his line. The Confederates attacked McCall's division with reckless impetuosity, but failed to break the line. They lost 7000 men killed, wounded .and missing, the Federals 4000.
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