Famous Wars and Battles by Tony D.
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| the political upheaval during the last half of the 18th century in which the Thirteen Colonies of North America overthrew the governance of the British Empire and then rejected the British monarchy | American Revolution | show 🗑
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| show | War of 1812 | 1812-14
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| military conflict between US and Spain over Cuba; included the battle of San Juan Hill. | show | 1898
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| show | Mexican-American War | 1846-47
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| 15 mil killed; involved Entente vs. Central Powers; incited by the Asassination of Franz Ferdinand; ended by the Treaty of Versailles | show | 1914-18
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| 70 million killed; Axis vs. Allies; ended on V-E Day. Trench warfare and Blitzkreig were important tactics of this war. | show | 1941-45
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| Contains Operation Frequent Wind and the evacuation of Saigon; The United States entered the war to prevent a communist takeover of South Vietnam as part of their wider strategy of containment; Vietcong resistance; | Vietnam War | show 🗑
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| A proxy war of the Cold War Era, US intervened on one side, while Communist China protected the other; the armistice restored the original boundaries at the end of this conflict | show | 1950-53
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| Ended by the Treaty of Portsmouth, mediated by Teddy Roosevelt; Russia invades Manchuria, loses to Japan | Russo-Japanese War | show 🗑
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| The namesake Middle East country invaded its neighbor on 22 September 1980 following a long history of border disputes and fears of Shia insurgency among Iraq's long suppressed Shia majority influenced by the Iranian Revolution in this War. | show | 1980-88
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| fought primarily (though not exclusively) in Germany;religious conflict between Protestants and Catholics in the Holy Roman Empire; included the Bohemian Revolt; ended by the Peace of Westphalia | show | 1618-1648
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| show | 100 Years' War | 1337-1453
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| show | War of the Spanish Succession; Queen Anne's War | 1702-12
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| series of dynastic civil wars fought in England between supporters of the Houses of Lancaster and York. | War of the Roses | show 🗑
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| continuation of wars sparked by French Revolution, revolutionized European armies, mainly due to the application of modern mass conscription. French power rose quickly, conquering most of Europe, but collapsed rapidly after France's invasion of Russia | Napoleonic Wars | show 🗑
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| show | Peloponnesian Wars | 434-401 BCE
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| Rome vs. Carthage; Includes Hannibals' crossing of the Alps; Carthage destroyed as a result | show | 264-241 BCE; 218-201 BCE; 149-146 BCE
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| Set off over slavery and nullification, fought between northern and southern US; Included battles of Shiloh, Antietam, and Ghettysburg | American Civil War | show 🗑
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| conflict between Great Britain and Spain; name comes from an exhibited body part in the British Parliament | War of Jenkin's Ear | show 🗑
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| show | Crimean War | 1853-56
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| arose from the heated colonial struggle between the British Empire and French Empire, as well as control of Prussia; G.B. + Prussia vs. France, Austria, and Russia; ended with G.B. / Prussian victory | show | 1955-63
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| show | Boer War | 1899-1902
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| a violent anti-foreign, anti-Christian movement by the "Righteous Fists of Harmony,” Yihe tuan [1] or Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists in China | Boxer Rebellion | show 🗑
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| began under the pretext that Maria Theresa of Austria was ineligible to succeed to the Habsburg throne; war ended with the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle | show | 1744-48
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| the term "iron curtain" stems from this war of arms development between US and Russia; the term proxy war is also developed for several outbreaks of violence in this time | Cold War | show 🗑
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| Russian army officers led about 3,000 soldiers in a protest against Nicholas I's assumption of the throne after his elder brother Constantine removed himself from the line of succession | Decembrist Uprising | show 🗑
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| show | Opium Wars | 1839-42; 1856-60
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| Israel defeated the armies of the neighboring states of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria; At the war's end, Israel had gained control of the Sinai Peninsula, the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights | Six Day War | show 🗑
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| watershed in the Greco-Persian wars, supposedly a messenger ran over twenty miles to bring news of the victory to Athens; inspires this namesake race | show | 490 BCE
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| show | Battle of Actium | 31 BCE
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| naval battle fought between an Alliance of Greek city-states and the Achaemenid Empire of Persia; the naval counterpart of the Battle of Thermopylae, Themistocles led the Athenian fleet to victory | Battle of Salamis | show 🗑
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| show | Battle of Thermopylae | 480 BCE
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| Supposedly started over the kidnapping of Helen, a thousand ships waged a ten year war on the name-sake city-state | show | Sometime in 12-13th Century; lasted 10 years
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| show | Battle of Mons Graupius | 83-84 CE
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| show | Sack of Rome | 410 CE
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| show | Battle of Tours | 732 CE
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| the decisive Norman victory in the Norman Conquest of England. It was fought between the Norman army of William the Conqueror, and the English army led by Harold Godwinson; The famous Bayeux Tapestry depicts the events before and during the battle | show | 1066
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| fought between the Byzantine Empire and Seljuq forces led by Alp Arslan; the most decisive defeat of the Byzantine Empire; capture of the Byzantine Emperor Diogenes; prepared the way for Turkish settlement in Anatolia | show | 1071
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| show | Battle of Agincourt | 1415
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| show | Seige of Orleans | 1428-1429
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| show | Battle of Bosworth Field | 1485
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| show | Battle of Lepanto | 1571
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| show | Battle of Lexington and Concord | April 19, 1775
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| show | Capture of Fort Ticonderoga | July 1777
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| also known as the battle of Breed's Hill, part of the Seige of Boston between Generals Putnam and Howe; While the result was a victory for the British, they suffered their greatest losses of the entire war: over 800 wounded and 226 killed | Battle of Bunker Hill | show 🗑
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| Took place after General George Washinton's crossing of the Delaware; The hazardous crossing in adverse weather allowed Washington to lead the main body of the Continental Army against Hessian soldiers garrisoned in the namesake town | show | December 26, 1776
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| show | Battle of Saratoga | September-October 1777
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| proved to be the last major land battle of the American Revolutionary War, as the surrender of Cornwallis’s army prompted British negotiations | show | 1781
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| a British fleet under Rear-Admiral Horatio Nelson surprised and largely destroyed a French fleet anchored near Alexandria, stranding Napoleon's army in Egypt | Battle of the Nile | show 🗑
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| also known as the Battle of the Three Emperors, was one of Napoleon's greatest victories, effectively destroying the Third Coalition against the French Empire; decisively defeated a Russo-Austrian army, commanded by Tsar Alexander I | Battle of Austerlitz | show 🗑
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| show | Battle of Trafalgar | October 21, 1805
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| show | Battle of Lake Erie | September 10, 1813
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| resulted in the death of the Shawnee chief Tecumseh, and the destruction of the Native American coalition that he led; also known as the Battle of Moraviantown | Battle of the Thames | show 🗑
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| show | Battle of Montmartre | March 30, 1814
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| show | Battle of New Orleans | January 8, 1815
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| show | Battle of Waterloo | June 18, 1815
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| most famous battle of the Texas Revolution; Santa Anna led a seige of this fort, leading to the death of Davy Crockett | show | February 23-March 16, 1836
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| show | Battle of San Jacinto | April 21, 1836
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| show | Battle of Fort Sumter | April 12-13, 1861
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| the first major land battle of the American Civil War; Unseasoned Union Army troops under Brig. Gen. Irvin McDowell advanced across Bull Run against the equally unseasoned Confederate Army under Brig. Gens. Joseph E. Johnston | show | July 21, 1861
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| Also known as the battle of Pittsburgh Landing | Battle of Shiloh | show 🗑
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| first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Northern soil. It was the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, with about 23,000 casualties | show | September 17, 1862
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| show | Battle of Ghettysburg | July 1-3, 1863
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| the final engagement of Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia before it surrendered to the Union Army under Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant near the end of the American Civil War | Battle of Appomattox Courthouse | show 🗑
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| show | Battle of Manila Bay | May 1, 1898
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| the bloodiest and most famous battle of the Spanish-American War. It was also one of the greatest victories for the Rough Riders, under Theodore Roosevelt | Battle of San Juan Hill | show 🗑
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| show | Bombing of Guernica | April 26, 1937
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| name given to the sustained strategic effort by the German Air Force during the summer and autumn of 1940 to gain air superiority over the Royal Air Force; name derives from a speech made in the House of Commons by Prime Minister Winston Churchill | show | Summer-Autumn, 1940
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| a surprise military strike conducted by the Japanese navy against the United States' naval base in Hawaii; led to the U.S's involvement in World War II | show | December 7, 1941
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| a major naval battle in the Pacific of World War II between the Japanese Navy and the Allied forces of the United States and Australia. Was the first battle in which aircraft carriers engaged each other. Marked the first Japanese repulsion in the Pacific | Battle of the Coral Sea | show 🗑
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| The United States Navy decisively defeated an Imperial Japanese Navy attack, inflicting irreparable damage on the Japanese carrier force; Four Japanese aircraft carriers and a heavy cruiser were sunk in exchange for one American carrier and destroyer | show | June 4-7, 1942
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| show | Battle of Stalingrad | July,1942-February,1943
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| the first major offensive launched by Allied forces against the Empire of Japan; the first significant combined arms victory by Allied forces over the Japanese in the Pacific theater. It is often referred to as a "turning point" in the war | Battle of Guadalcanal | show 🗑
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| invasion and establishment of Allied forces in France, during Operation Overlord in World War II. | Battle of Normandy | show 🗑
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| Also known as the Battle of Ardennes, became the bloodiest battle U.S. forces experienced in World War II; The “bulge” was the initial incursion the Germans put into the Allies’ line of advance | Battle of the Bulge | show 🗑
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| show | Battle of Iwo Jima | February 19–March 26, 1945
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| show | Battle of Pork Chop Hill | Spring-Summer 1953
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