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Additional information

There is a lot of additional information on the page that we'd want to have in the dataset – sections such as belligerents, leaders, strengths, and casualties (refer to the lower rectangle on the screenshot in Step 2 – Scraping information from the Wiki page section, named Supplemental info). As you can see, each header here is a row in the table – and all the actual information sits beneath it – similar to lists after headers in the previous task. You will also observe that most of the sections are split horizontally into two cells, the first being on allies, and the second on the axis. In fact, in some cases (refer to the Vilnius Offensive page), Wikipedia adds third column for a third party involved in the event. ...