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War of the Second Coalition: The Ottoman–Albanian forces of Ali Pasha of Janina defeated French troops and captured the town of Preveza at the Battle of Nicopolis.
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Second war on revolutionary France by European monarchies
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Ali Pasha of Yanina
Albanian ruler (1740–1822)
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Preveza
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Battle of Nicopolis (1798)
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