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Military History
Wars, Battles, Conflicts
Question | Answer |
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1812-1815 Caused by impressment of US sailors | War of 1812 |
1789 Fall of the French monarchy (Louis XVI - House of Bourbon) | French Revolution |
c. 12 century BC Partly legendary - Greeks attacked Troy | Trojan War |
1846-1848 "Manifest Destiny" - US gained territory from Mexico | Mexican-American War |
431-404 BC Sparta defeated Athens | Peloponnesian War |
June 1815 Napoleon defeated by Duke of Wellington Took place in modern-day Belgium | Battle of Waterloo |
1898 U.S. Seized Spanish colonies (Cuba, Puerto Rico, Philippines) USS Maine sinking Theodore Roosevelt and the Roughriders at San Juan Hill | Spanish-American War |
1854-1856 British and French joined to seize Russian naval bases on the Black Sea | Crimean War |
1096-14th century Medieval European campaigns to seize control of the Holy Land | Crusades |
1337-1453 Struggle between England and France for the control of the French throne | Hundred Years' War |
1618-1648 Catholic-Protestant war in Germany that drew in Spain, Sweden and France | Thirty Years' War |
1936-1939 Francisco Franco's forces overthrew the Second Spanish Republic Guernica | Spanish Civil War |
1066 William the conqueror killed Harold II, took over Anglo-Saxon England | Battle of Hastings |
1870-1871 Unified Germany emerged from Bismark's destruction o f the French Empire | Franco-Prussian War |
August, 1485 Last major battle of the War of the Roses Richard III killed, his body was found under a parking lot in Leicester in 2012 | Battle of Bosworth Field |
1642-1651 Struggle between king and Long Parliament - Charles I beheaded Charles I stormed parliament in 1642 Resulted in English republic under Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell from 1653-1658, monarchy restored after | English Civil War |
1189-1192 Richard Lionheart, Frederick Barbarossa failed to recapture Jerusalem | Third Crusade |
1917 Lenin's Bolsheviks seized power from the Provisional Government Romanov family executed in July 1918 | Russian Revolution |
September-October 1781 Cornwallis's army trapped at Virginia port by Americans, French | Battle/Siege of Yorktown |
1455-1485 Struggle between the houses of York and Lancaster for the English throne | War of the Roses |
"Invincible" fleet scattered and sunk by Elizabeth I's ships and storms | Spanish Armada |
1904-1905 Tsar Nicholas II's empire weakened by a loss to a rising Asian power | Russo-Japanese War |
April-May 1863 Stonewall Jackson killed during Lee's victory of Joseph Hooker | Battle of Chancellorsville |
September 1862 Union victory in Maryland that led to the Emancipation Proclamation | Battle of Antietam |
1756-1763 Prussia's Frederick the Great held off French, Austrians, Russians Britain, colonists seized Canada from French/Native American alliance | Seven Years' War / French and Indian War |
490 BC Athenian phalanx turned back Darius's Persian invasion of Greece | Battle of Marathon |
1701-1714 British, Dutch, Austrians fought to keep Louis XIV off the Spanish throne | War of Spanish Succession |
October 1805 Lord Nelson destroyed Napoleon's navy off the coast of Spain | Battle of Trafalgar |
1688 Catholic James II fled from England, letting Protestant William III take the throne | Glorious Revolution |
480 BC Leonidas and 300 Spartans died delaying Xerxes' Persian invasion | Battle of Thermopylae |