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THE DAY IN HISTORY · AUGUST 25

August 25 in history

1270 — Tunis

25 Aug 1270 — on his second crusade, Louis IX dies of dysentery in the camp outside Tunis, for reasons of strategy no one has ever fully explained. The last great royal crusade ends before it begins.

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1920 — The Miracle on the Vistula

13–25 Aug 1920 — At the gates of Warsaw, Piłsudski’s flank counterstroke shatters Tukhachevsky’s exhausted, overextended armies. The Red drive to “sovietize” Europe over the corpse of Poland is broken in a week.

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1944

Paris is liberated. Against orders, its German commander has declined to burn it; de Gaulle walks down the Champs-Élysées.

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