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Military History

Wars, Battles, Conflicts

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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
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