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x Vietnam War Vietnamese village after an attack South Vietnam Southeast Asia Ngo Dinh Diem
The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, was a Cold War military conflict that which may be said to have occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from September 26, 1959 to April 30, 1975. The war was fought between the communist...
Thailand Vietnam Nguyen Van Thieu
United States of America Creighton Abrams
Australia Robert McNamara
South Korea William Westmoreland
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x Tết Offensive Tết Offensive South Vietnam South Vietnam William Westmoreland
The Tet Offensive was a military campaign during the Vietnam War that began on January 31, 1968. Forces of the National Liberation Front for South Vietnam, or Viet Cong, and the People's Army of Vietnam, or North Vietnamese army, fought against the...
United States of America
South Korea
New Zealand
Australia
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x Second Battle of the Atlantic /guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000004aad9c5 Kingdom of Italy Gulf of Saint Lawrence  
The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest continuous military campaign of World War II, (though some say it was a series of naval military campaigns and offensives) running from 1939 through to the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945, and was at its...
Canada Labrador Sea
United States of America Irish Sea
Dominion of Newfoundland North Sea
Free French Forces Atlantic Ocean
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x Pacific War US landings Allies of World War II Pacific Ocean Winston Churchill
The Pacific War was the part of World War II—and preceding conflicts—that took place in the Pacific Ocean, its islands, and in the Far East. The war began as a conflict between the Empire of Japan and the Republic of China on July 7, 1937, but by...
Axis Powers Joseph Stalin
British Raj Hideki Tojo
Netherlands Chiang Kai-shek
United States of America William Halsey, Jr.
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x Mediterranean Theatre of World War II Mediterranean Relief Kingdom of Italy Balkans Albert Kesselring
The African, Mediterranean and Middle East Theatre of World War II encompasses the naval, land, and air campaigns fought between the Allied and Axis forces in the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and Africa. The fighting in this theatre lasted...
New Zealand Dwight D. Eisenhower
Union of South Africa François Darlan
British Raj Claude Auchinleck
Ethiopian Empire Erwin Rommel
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x Middle East Theatre of World War II The Middle East-1942 Free French Forces Middle East Claude Auchinleck
The Middle East Theatre of World War II is defined largely by reference to the British Middle East Command, which controlled Allied forces in both Southwest Asia and eastern North Africa. From 1943, most of the action and forces concerned were in...
Nazi Germany Southwest Asia Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell
Kingdom of Italy Italian North Africa Erwin Rommel
Vichy France Italian East Africa Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein
United States of America Tunisia Dwight D. Eisenhower
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x African campaigns of World War II        
There were several separate Africa campaigns during World War II. Allied forces fought Axis forces, between 1940 and 1943, on the African mainland and in nearby waters and islands. The bulk of the combat operations took place in the Mediterranean...
x Gulf War WarGulf photobox United States of America Arabian Peninsula Margaret Thatcher
The Persian Gulf War (2 August 1990 – 28 February 1991), known also as the Gulf War, the First Gulf War, or often as the Second Gulf War and by Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein as The Mother of all Battles, or commonly as Desert Storm, for the military...
Australia Persian Gulf Hosni Mubarak
United Kingdom Iraq
France
Iraq
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x War of 1812 War of 1812 Canadian Units of the War of 1812 Pacific Ocean Tecumseh
The War of 1812, between the United States of America and the British Empire (particularly Great Britain and British North America), lasted from 1812 to 1815. It was fought chiefly on the Atlantic Ocean and on the land, coasts and waterways of North...
Eastern Woodlands tribes Atlantic Ocean George Prevost
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland North America Gordon Drummond
United States of America Gulf Coast of the United States Isaac Brock
Shawnee Roger Hale Sheaffe
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x Thirty Years' War Location of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Holy Roman Empire Europe John George I, Elector of Saxony
The Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) was one of the most destructive conflicts in European history. The war was fought primarily (though not exclusively) in Germany and at various points involved most of the countries of Europe. Naval warfare also...
Catholic League Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar
Archduchy of Austria Christian IV of Denmark
Habsburg Spain Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu
Swedish Empire Johan Banér
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x Franco-Prussian War /wikipedia/images/commons_id/197894 France France Patrice MacMahon, duc de Magenta
The Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War, often referred to in France as the 1870 War (19 July 1870—10 May 1871) was a conflict between France and Prussia. Prussia was aided by the North German Confederation, of which it was a member, and the...
Kingdom of Prussia Kingdom of Prussia
French Third Republic
x Falklands War Vulcan Argentina South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands Leopoldo Galtieri
The Falklands War (Spanish: Guerra de las Malvinas/Guerra del Atlántico Sur), also called the Falklands Conflict/Crisis, was fought in 1982 between Argentina and the United Kingdom (UK) over the disputed Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the...
United Kingdom Falkland Islands Margaret Thatcher
Argentina
x Irish War of Independence Warofindep United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Ireland  
The Irish War of Independence (Irish: Cogadh na Saoirse, also known as the Anglo-Irish War or Tan War) was a guerrilla war mounted against the British government in Ireland by the Irish Republican Army (IRA). It began in January 1919, following the...
Irish Republican Army
x Battle of the Little Bighorn Custer Massacre At Big Horn, Montana June 25 1876 United States of America Little Bighorn River George Armstrong Custer
The Battle of the Little Bighorn —also known as Custer's Last Stand and, by the Native Americans involved, the Battle of Greasy Grass Creek—was an armed engagement between a Lakota–Northern Cheyenne combined force and the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the...
x American Revolutionary War Rev collage Kingdom of Great Britain Lexington Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau
The American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), also sometimes known as the American War of Independence, began as a war between the Kingdom of Great Britain and thirteen united former British colonies in North America, and concluded in a global war...
United States of America North America Benedict Arnold
Dutch Republic Atlantic Ocean François Joseph Paul de Grasse
Thirteen Colonies East Coast of the United States Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester
  Gulf Coast of the United States William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe
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x Quasi-War USS Constellation United States of America North America Jean de Beaune
The Quasi-War was an undeclared war fought almost entirely at sea between the United States and France from 1798 to 1800. In the United States, the conflict was sometimes also referred to as the Franco-American War, the Undeclared War with France,...
France Tarifa George Washington
Caribbean Napoleon Bonaparte
x Battle of Cape St. George Battle of Cape St. George United States of America Buka Island  
The Battle of Cape St. George was a naval battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II fought on November 26, 1943, between Cape St. George, New Ireland, and Buka Island (now part of the North Solomons Province in Papua New Guinea). It was the...
Empire of Japan
x Korean War /wikipedia/images/commons_id/1087726 Australia Korean Peninsula Joseph Stalin
The Korean War is a war that started between North Korea (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, DPRK) and South Korea (Republic of Korea, ROK) on 25 June 1950 and paused with an armistice signed 27 July, 1953. To date, the war has not been...
United States of America Korea Harry S. Truman
United Kingdom Douglas MacArthur
South Korea Mark Wayne Clark
North Korea
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x Iraq War /guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000004ed2901 Australia Iraq David Petraeus
The Iraq War, also known as the Occupation of Iraq or Operation Iraqi Freedom, is an ongoing military campaign which began on March 19, 2003, with the invasion of Iraq by a multinational force led by troops from the United States and the United...
Al-Qaeda David Petraeus
United States of America David Petraeus
Japan
United Kingdom
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x Second Boer War Afrikaner Commandos2 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland South Africa Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener
The Second Boer War (Dutch: Tweede Boerenoorlog, Afrikaans: Tweede Boereoorlog), commonly referred to as The Boer War and also known as the South African War (outside of South Africa), the Anglo-Boer War (among most South Africans) and in Afrikaans...
Australia Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts
British Raj Koos de la Rey
New Zealand Christiaan De Wet
Canada Paul Kruger
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x Eastern Front yyyy Soviet Union Central Europe Adolf Hitler
The Eastern Front of World War II (German: die Ostfront 1941–1945 , der Rußlandfeldzug 1941–1945 (Russian campaign) or der Ostfeldzug 1941-1945 (Eastern Campaign)) was a theatre of war between the European Axis powers, Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy,...
Nazi Germany Konstantin Rokossovsky
Independent State of Croatia Ivan Konev
Slovak Republic Ferdinand Schörner
Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb
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x World War II World War II montage image United States of America Africa Benito Mussolini
World War II, or the Second World War (often abbreviated WWII or WW2), was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including all great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the...
United Kingdom Mediterranean Sea Hideki Tojo
France Middle East Adolf Hitler
Soviet Union Southeast Asia Charles de Gaulle
Republic of China Pacific Ocean Chiang Kai-shek
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x Second Battle of Ypres The Second Battle of Ypres United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Ypres Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer
The Second Battle of Ypres was the first time Germany used poison gas on a large scale on the Western Front in World War I and the first time a former colonial force (Canadians) pushed back a major European power (Germans) on European soil, which...
Belgium Horace Smith-Dorrien
French Third Republic Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby
John French, 1st Earl of Ypres
x Battle of Stalingrad Battle of Stalingrad Nazi Germany Volgograd Adolf Hitler
The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in southwestern Russia. The battle took place between 17 July 1942 and 2...
Soviet Union Konstantin Rokossovsky
Kingdom of Italy Georgy Zhukov
Independent State of Croatia Joseph Stalin
Kingdom of Hungary Erich von Manstein
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x Battle of Thermopylae Thermopylae ancient coastline large Sparta Thermopylae Xerxes I of Persia
The Battle of Thermopylae (pronounced /θərˈmɒpɨliː/, thər-MOP-i-lee; Greek: Θερμοπύλαι) took place over three days during the second Persian invasion of Greece. It took place simultaneously with the naval battle at Artemisium, in August or September...
Thespiae Leonidas I
Persian Empire
Achaemenid Empire
x World War I WW1 TitlePicture For Wikipedia Article United Kingdom Europe Józef Haller de Hallenburg
World War I (abbreviated as WW-I, WWI, or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, the World War (prior to the outbreak of the Second World War), and the War to End All Wars, was a global military conflict which involved most of the...
Australia Asia Louis Archinard
France Africa
Russia
Italy
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x Antonio Garra revolt       Joshua Bean  
x Cuban Revolution /guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000498f62a Cuba Cuba Fidel Castro
The Cuban Revolution was an armed revolt that led to the overthrow of U.S.-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista of Cuba on January 1, 1959 by the 26th of July Movement led by Fidel Castro. The "Cuban Revolution" also refers to the ongoing...
Che Guevara
x Bay of Pigs Invasion Alerta United States of America Bay of Pigs Che Guevara
The Bay of Pigs Invasion (known as La Batalla de Girón, or Playa Girón in Cuba), was an unsuccessful attempt by a CIA-trained force of Cuban exiles to invade southern Cuba with support from US government armed forces, to overthrow the Cuban...
Cuban exile Fidel Castro
Military of Cuba
Soviet Union
Cuba
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x Battle of Santa Clara Revolution Map of progress   Santa Clara Che Guevara
The Battle of Santa Clara was a series of events in late December 1958 that led to the capture of the Cuban city of Santa Clara by revolutionaries under the command of Che Guevara. The battle was a decisive victory for the rebels fighting against...
x Battle of Yaguajay /guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000498f62a   Santa Clara  
The Battle of Yaguajay (December 19 – December 30, 1958) was a decisive victory for the Cuban Revolutionaries over the soldiers of the Batista government near the city of Santa Clara in Cuba during the Cuban Revolution. In 1958, Fidel Castro ordered...
x Battle of Las Mercedes /guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000498f62a   Sierra Maestra Fidel Castro
The Battle of Las Mercedes (July 29 - August 8, 1958) was the last battle of Operation Verano, the summer offensive of 1958 launched by the Batista government during the Cuban Revolution. The battle was a trap, designed by Cuban General Cantillo to...
Che Guevara
x Battle of La Plata /guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000498f62a   Sierra Maestra Fidel Castro
The Battle of La Plata (July 11 - July 21, 1958) was part of Operation Verano, the summer offensive of 1958 launched by the Batistia government during the Cuban Revolution. The battle resulted from a complex plan created by Cuban General Cantillo to...
x War of the Pacific War of the Pacific LOC map Chile   Patricio Lynch
In progress The War of the Pacific (Spanish: Guerra del Pacífico), occurring from 1879-1884, was a conflict between Chile and the alliance of Bolivia and Peru. Also known as the "Saltpeter War," the war arose from disputes over the control of...
Peru Juan Williams Rebolledo
Bolivia Miguel Grau Seminario
Manuel Baquedano
Andrés Avelino Cáceres
x Battle of Leyte Gulf USS Princeton on fire east of Luzon United States Navy Leyte Island Douglas MacArthur
The Battle of Leyte Gulf, also called the "Battles for Leyte Gulf", and formerly known as the "Second Battle of the Philippine Sea", is generally considered to be the largest naval battle of World War II and also one of the largest naval battles in...
Imperial Japanese Navy Pacific Ocean Jisaburo Ozawa
Empire of Japan Philippine Sea Shoji Nishimura
United States Army Philippines Chester Nimitz
Imperial Japanese Army Leyte Gulf Takeo Kurita
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x Operation Torch Torch-troops hit the beaches Vichy France Algeria Dwight D. Eisenhower
Operation Torch (initially called Operation Gymnast) was the British-American invasion of French North Africa in World War II during the North African Campaign, started 8 November 1942. The Soviet Union had pressed the United States and Britain to...
Free French Forces Morocco François Darlan
United States of America Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope
United Kingdom
x Operation Frühlingserwachen Frülingserwachen Kingdom of Bulgaria Lake Balaton Sepp Dietrich
Operation Spring Awakening (Unternehmen Frühlingserwachen) (6 March 1945 – 16 March 1945) was the last major German offensive launched during World War II. The offensive was launched in Hungary on the Eastern Front. This offensive was also known in...
x Operation Rösselsprung   Nazi Germany Drvar  
The Raid on Drvar (Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, Serbo-Croatian: Desant na Drvar), codenamed Operation Rösselsprung (German for "knight's move"), was an attack by the Waffen-SS and the Luftwaffe that aimed to disrupt the command structure of the...
Independent State of Croatia
x Battle of Normandy Invasion training in England - Hitting the beach New Zealand Normandy Trafford Leigh-Mallory
The Invasion of Normandy was the invasion and establishment of Allied forces in Normandy, France, during Operation Overlord in World War II. The invasion was the largest amphibious operation in history. This article covers from the initial landings...
Nazi Germany Omar Bradley
Netherlands Gerd von Rundstedt
Free French Forces Dwight D. Eisenhower
Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein
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x Battle of Mohács Battle of Mohács Spain Mohács  
The Battle of Mohács (Hungarian: mohácsi csata or mohácsi vész; Turkish: Mohaç savaşı or Mohaç meydan savaşı; Croatian: Bitka na Mohačkom polju) was fought on August 29, 1526 near Mohács, Hungary. In the battle, forces of the Kingdom of Hungary led...
Ottoman Empire
Poland
Croatia
Kingdom of Poland
x Battle of Lützen Battle of Lutzen 1813 by Fleischmann First French Empire Lützen Napoleon Bonaparte
In the Battle of Lützen (May 2, 1813), Napoleon lured a combined Prussian and Russian force into a trap, halting the advances of the Sixth Coalition after his devastating losses in Russia. The Russian commander, Prince Peter Wittgenstein, attempting...
Kingdom of Prussia Nicolas Oudinot
Russian Empire Peter Wittgenstein
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher
Auguste Marmont
x Battle of Pozières The "Gibraltar" bunker, Pozières, in late August. A fatigue party laden with sandbags heads for the fighting at Mouquet Farm Australia Pozières William Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood
The Battle of Pozières was a two week struggle for the French village of Pozières and the ridge on which it stands, during the middle stages of the 1916 Battle of the Somme. Though British divisions were involved in most phases of the fighting,...
United Kingdom Hubert Gough
German Empire
x Battle of Crécy Battle of Crécy France Calais  
The Battle of Crécy (occasionally called the Battle of Cressy in English) took place on 26 August 1346 near Crécy in northern France, and was one of the most important battles of the Hundred Years' War. The combination of new weapons and tactics...
Kingdom of England
Denmark
Holy Roman Empire
Bohemia
x Battle of Lützen Battle of Lutzen Catholic League Lützen Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar
The Battle of Lützen (1632) was one of the most decisive battles of the Thirty Years' War. It was a Protestant victory, but cost the life of one of the most important leaders of the Protestant alliance, Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, causing the...
Protestantism Albrecht von Wallenstein
Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden
x Attack on Pearl Harbor Attack on Pearl Harbor Empire of Japan Pearl Harbor Isoroku Yamamoto
The attack on Pearl Harbor (or Hawaii Operation, Operation Z, as it was called by the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters) was a surprise military strike conducted by the Japanese navy against the United States' naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii...
Chuichi Nagumo
x Invasion of Poland WWII Poland Invasion 1939-09-01a Nazi Germany Poland Fedor von Bock
The Invasion of Poland, also known as the September Campaign or 1939 Defensive War (Polish: Kampania wrześniowa or Wojna obronna 1939 roku) in Poland and the Poland Campaign (German: Polenfeldzug) in Germany, was an invasion of Poland by Nazi...
Slovak Republic Gerd von Rundstedt
Soviet Union Edward Rydz-Śmigły
Second Polish Republic Ferdinand Čatloš
Mikhail Kovalyov
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x Battle of Königgrätz Battle of Koniggratz by Georg Bleibtreu Kingdom of Prussia Sadová  
The Battle of Königgrätz (German: Schlacht von Königgrätz), also known as the Battle of Sadowa, Sadová, or Hradec Králové, was the decisive battle of the Austro-Prussian War, in which the Kingdom of Prussia defeated the Austrian Empire. Taking place...
Austrian Empire
x English Civil War Lastseefather   England Oliver Cromwell
The English Civil War (1641–1651) was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Parliamentarians and Royalists. The first (1642–46) and second (1648–49) civil wars pitted the supporters of King Charles I against the supporters...
Cavalier Kingdom of England
Roundhead
x Greek Civil War Gr-map United States of America Greece  
The Greek Civil War (Greek: ο Eμφύλιος [Πόλεμος], "the Civil War") was fought from 1946 to 1949 between the Greek governmental army, backed by the United Kingdom, United States, and the Democratic Army of Greece (ΔΣΕ), the military branch of the...
United Kingdom
Soviet Union
x Wars of the Three Kingdoms Riot against Anglican prayer book 1637      
The Wars of the Three Kingdoms formed an intertwined series of conflicts that took place in England, Ireland, and Scotland between 1639 and 1651 after these three countries had come under the "Personal Rule" of the same monarch. The English Civil...
x Second English Civil War Pontefract Castle 1648   England Oliver Cromwell
The Second English Civil War (1648–1649) was the second of three wars known as the English Civil War (or Wars) which refers to the series of armed conflicts and political machinations which took place between Parliamentarians and Royalists from 1642...
Cavalier
Roundhead
x First Carlist War Stephens iii France Spain  
The First Carlist War was a civil war in Spain from 1833 to 1839. At the beginning of the 18th century, Philip V, the first Bourbon king of Spain, promulgated the Salic Law, which declared illegal the inheritance of the Spanish crown by women. His...
United Kingdom
x Seminole Wars Osceola United States of America Florida Don Carlos Buell
The Seminole Wars, also known as the Florida Wars, were three conflicts in Florida between various groups of Native Americans, collectively known as Seminoles, and the United States. The First Seminole War was from 1817 to 1818; the Second Seminole...
x Eighty Years' War Eighty Years' War Netherlands Low Countries  
The Dutch Revolt or the Revolt of the Netherlands (1568–1609), was the partially successful revolt of the Seventeen Provinces in the Low Countries against the Spanish Empire. It led to the formation of the independent Dutch state of the Netherlands...
Habsburg Spain
Dutch Republic
Kingdom of Portugal
Kingdom of England
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x Second Anglo-Dutch War Storck, Four Days Battle Denmark-Norway North Sea Prince Rupert of the Rhine
The Second Anglo–Dutch War was fought between England and the United Provinces from 4 March 1665 until 31 July 1667. England tried to end the Dutch domination of world trade. After initial English successes, the war ended in a Dutch victory. English...
Dutch Republic
Kingdom of England
x Crimean War Malakhov1 Second French Empire Crimea  
The Crimean War (October 1853–February 1856) was fought between the Russian Empire on one side and an alliance of the British Empire, France, the Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of Sardinia on the other. The war was part of a long-running contest...
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Ottoman Empire
Russian Empire
Kingdom of Sardinia
x Irish Confederate Wars Kilkenny castle Covenanter Ireland Oliver Cromwell
This article is concerned with the military history of Ireland from 1641-53. For the political context of this conflict, see Confederate Ireland. The Irish Confederate Wars, also called the Eleven Years War (derived from the Irish language name...
x Breton War of Succession Battle of Auray      
The Breton War of Succession was a conflict between the Houses of Blois and Montfort for control of the Duchy of Brittany. It was fought between 1341 and 1364. It formed an integral part of the early Hundred Years War due to the involvement of the...
x Boshin War Satsuma-samurai-during-boshin-war-period      
The Boshin War (戊辰戦争, Boshin Sensō, "War of the Year of the Dragon") was a civil war in Japan, fought from 1868 to 1869 between forces of the ruling Tokugawa shogunate and those seeking to return political power to the imperial court. The war found...
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