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By Edwin S. Grosvenor

a number of the world's most desirable historians - from Morris Bishop and J. Christopher Herold to H. R. Trevor-Roper and Barbara Tuchman - inform the tales of the best showdowns of all time. the following, Richard the Lionheart faces off opposed to the sultan Saladin, Pope Leo I opposed to Attila the Hun, Spanish Explorer Hernán Cortés opposed to Aztec King Moctezuma II, and Emperor Napoleon opposed to Russia's Alexander I. the gathering ends with the 1904 standoff among President Teddy Roosevelt and Moroccan desperado Mulay Ahmad al-Raysuni over the abduction of an American citizen.

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