| Description | Mountain pass |
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| A strategic location in the Hindu Kush, on the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan, garrisoned by the British until 1947. | |
| A mountain pass of the Pyrenees where Charlemagne's paladin Roland was allegedly ambushed by Basque marauders or a Saracen unit in 778. | |
| An Alpine pass on the Italo-Austrian border, along the road from Innsbruck to Bolzano. | |
| An Appalachian mountain pass near the junction of Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee, through which Daniel Boone blazed the Wilderness Road. | |
| A narrow pass in the mountains near Capua, Italy, where the Romans surrendered to the Samnites without a fight in 321 bc. | |
| A Swiss mountain pass between the cantons of Uri and Ticino, named after a Bavarian saint. | |
| The site of a series of battles in the Tunisia Campaign of World War II in 1943, during which the US Army suffered heavy casualties at the hands of Rommel's Afrika Korps. | |
| The most ancient pass through the Western Alps, on the border between Switzerland and Italy. Napoleon famously crossed it in 1800 on his way to Marengo. | |
| The site of the last major battle of the Mexican-American War in northern Mexico, where Zachary Taylor repelled a Mexican attack in 1847. | |
| A pass in Greece where a Greek army reportedly put up a heroic defence against the Persian army of Xerxes in 480 bc. | |
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