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During the night, a fierce storm destroyed his fleet and about a third of his men were lost.
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During the invasion of Poland at the beginning of World War II, Piotrków was the setting for fierce fighting between the Polish 19th Infantry Division and the 16th Panzer Corps of the German Wehrmacht on September 5, 1939.
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