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 | show | 1776-1781
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| between the United States of America and the British Empire; over trade restrictions, impressment, and British support of Native Americans | show | 1812-14
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| show | Spanish-American War | 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. | World War II | show 🗑
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| show | Vietnam War | 1964-73
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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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| show | Russo-Japanese War | 1904-05
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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. | Iran-Iraq War | show 🗑
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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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| prolonged conflict between two royal houses for the French throne; two primary contenders were the House of Valois and the House of Plantagenet, also known as the House of Anjou; ended in the expulsion of the Plantagenets | show | 1337-1453
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| several European powers combined to stop a possible unification of the Kingdoms of Spain and France under a single Bourbon monarch; concluded by the treaties of Utrecht (1713) and Rastatt (1714). | War of the Spanish Succession; Queen Anne's War | show 🗑
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| show | War of the Roses | 1453-1487
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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 | show | 1803-1815
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| Ancient Greek military conflict, fought by Athens and its empire against the Peloponnesian League, led by Sparta | Peloponnesian Wars | show 🗑
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| Rome vs. Carthage; Includes Hannibals' crossing of the Alps; Carthage destroyed as a result | Punic Wars | show 🗑
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| show | American Civil War | 1861-65
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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 | French and Indian War; Seven Year's War | show 🗑
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| fought between the British empire and the Orange Free State and South African Republic; the namesake settlers successfully resist British annexation of the Transvaal Republic | show | 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 | show | 1900
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| show | War of the Austrian Succession; King George's War | 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 | show | 1945-91
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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 | show | 1825
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| the climax of a trade dispute between China and the British Empire. British smuggling of the namesake drug from India into China in defiance of China's drug laws erupted into open warfare; the Treaty of Nanjing and the Treaty of Tianjin was a result | show | 1839-42; 1856-60
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| show | Six Day War | 1967
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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 | Battle of Marathon | show 🗑
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| Octavian vs. Mark Antony and Cleopatra; fought on the Ionian Sea; led to Octavian's crowing and title of First Citizen | show | 31 BCE
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| show | Battle of Salamis | 480 BCE
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| Vastly outnumbered, the Greeks held up the Persians for seven days in total in the namesake pass; Leonidas vs. Xerxes I | show | 480 BCE
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| show | Trojan War | Sometime in 12-13th Century; lasted 10 years
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| landmark battle, signifying that the British governor, Agricola, had subdued the last of the British tribes | show | 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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| show | Battle of Hastings | 1066
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| show | Battle of Manzikert | 1071
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| an English victory against a larger French army in the Hundred Years' War; notable for the use of the English longbow, which Henry used in very large numbers; The battle was also immortalised by William Shakespeare as the centrepiece of his play Henry V | show | 1415
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| marked a turning point in the Hundred Years' War between France and England. This was Joan of Arc's first major[1] military victory and the first major French success to follow the crushing defeat at Agincourt in 1415 | show | 1428-1429
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| was Lancastrian Henry Tudor's defeat of Yorkist Richard III, ending the Plantagenet dynasty to begin a new Tudor dynasty. Historically, the battle is considered to have marked the end of the Wars of the Roses as well as the Middle Ages in England | Battle of Bosworth Field | show 🗑
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| five hour naval battle between the Holy League and the Ottoman Empire; Victory gave the Holy League temporary control over the Mediterranean, protected Rome from invasion, and prevented the Ottomans from advancing into Europe | show | 1571
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| the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War; "the shot heard round the world"; The namesake Minute Man, by Daniel Chester French, represents this battle | Battle of Lexington and Concord | show 🗑
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| captured by a small force of American Patriots led by Ethan Allen and Colonel Benedict Arnold. They surprised and captured, without significant injury or incident, the small British garrison at the fort | show | 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 | show | June 17, 1775
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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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| show | Battle of Yorktown | 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 | show | December 2, 1805
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| a sea battle fought between the British Navy and the fleets of the French Navy and Spanish Navy, during the War of the Third Coalition; British ships led by Admiral Lord Nelson defeated French and Spanish ships under French Admiral Pierre Villeneuve | Battle of Trafalgar | show 🗑
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| 'We have met the enemy and they are ours' was the most famous quote by Naval Officer Perry at this battle on the namesake Great Lake | show | September 10, 1813
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| show | Battle of the Thames | October 5, 1813
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| show | Battle of Montmartre | March 30, 1814
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| final major battle of the War of 1812.[1] American forces, with General Andrew Jackson in command, defeated an invading British Army intent on seizing the namesake city and America's vast western lands | show | January 8, 1815
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| forces of the French Empire under Napoleon Bonaparte and Michel Ney were defeated by those of the Seventh Coalition and an Anglo-Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington; subject of an ABBA song | show | 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 | Battle of the Alamo | show 🗑
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| show | Battle of San Jacinto | April 21, 1836
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| the bombardment and surrender of the namesake fort near Charleston, South Carolina, that started the American Civil War. | Battle of Fort Sumter | show 🗑
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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 | Battle of 1st Bull Run; 1st Manassas | show 🗑
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| show | Battle of Shiloh | April 6-7, 1862
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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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| the battle with the largest number of casualties in the American Civil War and is cited as the war's turning point. Union Gen. Meade's Army defeated attacks by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, ending Lee's invasion of the North | show | 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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| The American Asiatic Squadron under Commodore George Dewey engaged the Spanish Pacific Squadron under Admiral Patricio Montojo y Pasarón and destroyed the Spanish squadron. The first major engagement of the Spanish-American War | Battle of Manila Bay | show 🗑
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| show | Battle of San Juan Hill | July 1, 1898
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| an aerial attack during the Spanish Civil war of the namesake town made famous in Pablo Picasso's depiction of the casualties | show | 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 | Battle of Britain | show 🗑
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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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| show | Battle of Midway | 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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| show | Battle of Normandy | June 6, 1944
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| show | Battle of the Bulge | December 16, 1944-January 25, 1945
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| was the first American attack on the Japanese Home Islands; The U.S. invasion, known as Operation Detachment, was charged with the mission of capturing the airfields on the namesake island | show | February 19–March 26, 1945
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| pair of related Korean War infantry fights. These were fought while the U.S. and the Communist Chinese and Koreans negotiated an armistice. First described in a namesake book by S.L.A Marshal and also led to a film produced in 1959 | Battle of Pork Chop Hill | show 🗑
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