| Philippine Revolution | During the | the Province of Manila was the 8th and last Province to revolt against Spa ... |
| Peninsular War | ... e United States in the War of 1812 (1812–15), and the French engaged in the | (1808–14). The Iberian conflict began when Portugal continued trade with t ... |
| Seven Years' War | During the | the Battle of Hastenbeck was fought on July 26, 1757, near the city. The F ... |
| Russian Civil War | ... s to control large amounts of the railway (and of Russia itself) during the | at the end of World War I. As one of the few organised fighting forces lef ... |
| Chaeronea | ... mony, but Theban influence faded quickly in the rest of Greece. Finally, at | in 338 BC, the combined forces of Thebes and Athens, driven into each othe ... |
| Peasants' War (1798) | ... liste - Partition of Belgium - Partitions of Luxembourg - Paulus, Camille - | - Peer - Peeters directive - Pfaff Jean-Marie - Picard language - Picqué, ... |
| Kurukshetra War | ... rregular rhythms to sustain attention. In Ugrasrava's epic Mahabharata, the | is narrated by a character in Vyasa's Jaya, which itself is narrated by a ... |
| Polish–Austrian War | ... led by Józef Poniatowski, participated in numerous campaigns, including the | of 1809, the French invasion of Russia in 1812, and the German campaign of ... |
| a major expedition | ... t the British settlements on the border of Acadia in Maine. France launched | to recover Louisbourg in 1746. Beset by storms, disease, and finally the d ... |
| World War II | At the outbreak of | , Wisdom was sent to work in a communications centre in a command bunker i ... |
| Spanish Civil War | ... h the exception of a disputed title in 1937) evaded them. A month after the | began in 1936, several players from Barcelona and Athletic Bilbao enlisted ... |
| Siege of Louisbourg (1758) | ... re were forcibly deported during the second wave of the expulsion after the | . In the Ile Saint-Jean Campaign (1758) General Jeffery Amherst ordered Co ... |
| siege of Florence | ... stumes. The most important match was played on 17 February 1530, during the | . That day Papal troops besiged the city while the Florentines, with conte ... |
| raid | ... his controversial role in planning and approving the famous Allied commando | in August 1942 |
| Iraq War | ... d with American policies regarding the Vietnam War, the status of Cuba, the | , Missile Defense, and the War on Terrorism. A serious diplomatic debate i ... |
| Battle of Berlin | ... ts (16–19 April) and the Battle of Halbe (21 April-1 May), both part of the | . The Waffen-SS was represented by the III (Germanic) SS Panzer Corps |
| diplomatic crisis | ... hand of Pakistan-based militant groups in the attacks resulting in a major | between the two countries. Delhi again witnessed terrorist attacks in Octo ... |
| Battle of Gaixia | ... ugh Xiang Yu proved to be a capable commander, Liu Bang defeated him at the | , in modern-day Anhui. Liu Bang assumed the title "emperor" (huangdi) at t ... |
| Cold War | ... nd religious identities will be the primary source of conflict in the post- | world |
| Battle of Blenheim | ... he great struggle of the Spanish succession. He shared in the defeat at the | , near Höchstädt, on 13 August 1704; his dominions were temporarily partit ... |
| Battle of Tondibi | ... d trade routes with much difficulty from the downfall of the Songhai at the | (13 March, 1591) to around the end of the 17th century |
| Napoleonic Wars | ... he French Revolution and the French Revolutionary Wars. In 1808, during the | , Catalonia was occupied by the troops of General Guillaume Philibert Duhe ... |
| Besieged from May until October 1574 | ... against Spanish rule and played an important role in the Eighty Years' War. | by the Spanish, Leiden was relieved by the cutting of the dikes, thus enab ... |
| French Revolutionary Wars | ... conflicts arose on the French border, due to the French Revolution and the | . In 1808, during the Napoleonic Wars, Catalonia was occupied by the troop ... |
| Operation Iraqi Freedom | The AH-64 took part in invasion of Iraq in 2003 during | . In one engagement on 24 March 2003, 31 Apaches were damaged, and one Apa ... |
| World War II | After the Pearl Harbor attack and the United States entry into | , the Air Force's use of the airport changed to being a base for antisubma ... |
| World War I | ... e railway (and of Russia itself) during the Russian Civil War at the end of | . As one of the few organised fighting forces left in the aftermath of the ... |
| Cold War | ... the Daugavpils Ghetto where the town's Jews were forced to live. During the | it was the site of the Lociki air base, 12 km northeast of the town itself |
| Napoleonic Wars | Indeed, as late as the | , at the dawning of the 19th century, even the Russian militia (mostly lan ... |
| Battle of Stiklestad | ... s you find Thorir Hund, who killed Norway's Patron Saint, Saint Olav in the | in 1030. In 1323, the chieftain seat was raided and burned by Karelian war ... |
| 2003 invasion of Iraq | In the | , the waterway was a key military target for the Coalition Forces. Since i ... |
| Battle of Hastenbeck | During the Seven Years' War the | was fought on July 26, 1757, near the city. The French army defeated the H ... |
| Battle of the Seelow Heights | ... med in 1945 to protect Berlin from the advancing Red Army. It fought in the | (16–19 April) and the Battle of Halbe (21 April-1 May), both part of the B ... |
| World War II | During | , soybeans became important in both North America and Europe chiefly as su ... |
| Cold War | The foreign policies of the neighbours have been closely aligned since the | . However, Canada has disagreed with American policies regarding the Vietn ... |
| World War I | During | , the grounds were used to test the first British tanks. An area was dug w ... |
| Spanish Civil War | ... , and had a significant role in Spain's colonial wars in Morocco and in the | on the Nationalist side. The Spanish Foreign Legion recruited foreigners u ... |
| World War I | Boley's development paralleled that of the railroad. After | , a fall in agricultural prices and the bankruptcy of the railroad caused ... |
| World War II | ... wn. Erin, Jason and John Boy are married in later television movie sequels. | deeply affects the family. All four of the Walton boys enlist in the milit ... |
| Lincoln County War | ... . Wallace served as Governor of the New Mexico Territory at the time of the | and worked to bring an end to the fighting |
| 2002 Venezuelan coup d'état attempt | ... the extreme of advocating a nondemocratic, insurrectional path." After the | , in which the media played a significant role, there was a change in edit ... |
| Battle of Halbe | ... d Army. It fought in the Battle of the Seelow Heights (16–19 April) and the | (21 April-1 May), both part of the Battle of Berlin. The Waffen-SS was rep ... |
| World War II | ... ought from 4–8 May 1942, was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of | between the Imperial Japanese Navy and Allied naval and air forces from th ... |
| 1383–1385 Crisis | ... der of Aviz, by which title he was known. He became king in 1385, after the | |
| Seven Years' War | ... y negotiations, held before the 1763 Treaty of Paris was signed, ending the | , were at Fontainebleau |
| Battle of Ad Decimum | ... from Carthage. Gelimer quickly assembled an army, and met Belisarius at the | ; the Vandals were winning the battle until Gelimer's brother Ammatas and ... |
| American Revolutionary War | ... hipping fleet, which turned to Privateering at every opportunity. After the | , Bermuda became the Royal Navy's Western Atlantic headquarters, before wh ... |
| Theater War | ... Swedish army failed to advance. Denmark declared war on Sweden in 1788 (the | ). After the decisive defeat of the Russian fleet at the Battle of Svensks ... |
| World War I | ... nd claimed as a colony by the German Empire in the late 19th century. After | , Nauru became a League of Nations mandate administered by Australia, New ... |
| Quasi-War | ... during an undeclared naval war with Britain and France, later known as the | . They were signed into law by President John Adams. Opposition to Federal ... |
| War of the Spanish Succession | His family was split during the | and was for many years under house arrest in Austria. Only in 1715 did the ... |
| World War I | ... inent in Hayes. The provision of adequate housing did not begin until after | , with the creation of modest dwellings of the garden suburb type |
| Thirty Years' War | ... ry of the New World (16th century) and the outbreak and consequences of the | (1618–48), the city began to decline gradually. Around 1700, it was altern ... |
| Operation Desert Storm | ... e deployed to Saudi Arabia in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. During | on 17 January 1991, eight AH-64As guided by four MH-53 Pave Low IIIs destr ... |
| American Revolutionary War | ... argest ore mine in the area, supplying much of the iron ore used during the | . The last mine in the township closed in the late 1960s |
| Battle of Monte Cassino | ... y, the source of the Benedictine Order, here around 529. It was the site of | in 1944. The site has been visited many times by the Popes and other senio ... |
| St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre | ... d his personal experience (he was in Walsingham's house in Paris during the | ), Sidney was a keenly militant Protestant. In the 1570s, he had persuaded ... |
| raided and destroyed | On November 28, 1745, the French with their Indian allies | the village of Saratoga, New York, killing and capturing more than one hun ... |
| World War II | ... s have been used to destroy buildings since the start of gunpowder warfare, | saw the first use of strategic bombing from the air to destroy the ability ... |
| Cenepa War | In 1995, the FAP took part in the | against Ecuador covering operations by the army and navy. After the war, t ... |
| Second Cortina War | ... 5. The First Cortina War ended on December 27, 1859. In May 1861, the brief | took place |
| World War II | When Germany invaded Poland on 1 September 1939 beginning | , Mussolini choose to stay non-belligerant, although he delcared his suppo ... |
| French invasion of Russia | ... pated in numerous campaigns, including the Polish–Austrian War of 1809, the | in 1812, and the German campaign of 1813 |
| World War I | ... ccessful career as a playwright. Liliom was not presented again until after | . When it reappeared on the Budapest stage, it was a tremendous hit |
| Ligny | ... campaign of 1815, the Prussians sustained a serious defeat at the outset at | (June 16), in the course of which the old field marshal was repeatedly rid ... |
| First Sacred War | ... nysus, Cleisthenes gained renown as the chief instigator and general of the | (590 BC) in the interests of the Delphians |
| unsuccessful attempt to capture Nassau | ... sing his own money to try to overcome problems. In 1720 the Spanish made an | |
| War of the Bavarian Succession | ... r in disputes that could, or did, lead to war. She acted as mediator in the | (1778–79) between the German states of Prussia and Austria. In 1780 she es ... |
| World War I | ... at the local university with a work on inflation in Italy during and after | . Notably, his tutor was Luigi Einaudi, one of the most important Italian ... |
| American Revolutionary War | ... the heart of the New York Campaign, a series of major battles in the early | . The Continental Army was forced to abandon Manhattan after the disastrou ... |
| World War II | ... s and boogie woogie beats in jazz based music. During and immediately after | , with shortages of fuel and limitations on audiences and available person ... |
| Battle of Tricamarum | On December 15, 533, Gelimer and Belisarius clashed again at the | , some from Carthage. Again, the Vandals fought well but broke, this time ... |
| Spanish Civil War | ... Republican Navy became divided after the coup of July 1936 that led to the | (1936–39). Two coastal battleships, one heavy cruiser, one large destroyer ... |
| Chinese invasion of Vietnam | ... etnam invaded Cambodia, an ally of China, to depose Pol Pot, resulting in a | in 1979. In 1978-79, some 450,000 ethnic Chinese left Vietnam by boat as r ... |
| Cold War | ... rnmost atoll until 1976. The British departure in 1976 at the height of the | almost immediately triggered foreign speculation about the future of the a ... |
| Battle of Guadalcanal | ... glas Munro, was posthumously awarded the Navy version for action during the | . A separate Coast Guard medal was established in 1963, but no design yet ... |
| American Revolutionary War | ... terms with both the Spanish and the British. In 1784, the treaty ending the | transferred British rule of Florida to Spain. The Spanish Empire's decline ... |
| Siege of St. Augustine | ... ars along with Seminole warriors, invaded Spanish Florida and conducted the | during the War of Jenkin's Ear. During this siege the black community of S ... |
| World War II | ... ost notably as a major influence or postulate of World War I and especially | . Fascism is a form of authoritarian nationalism which stresses absolute l ... |
| Spanish Civil War | ... Civil War, the Italian invasion of Ethiopia, the 1936 Summer Olympics, the | , and other events of the interwar period. He also worked with Horace Thor ... |
| Battle of Castricum | ... an expeditionary force captured the city but was ultimately defeated in the | . The French victory was commemorated on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris as |
| Russo-Japanese War | ... stroyer (TBDs), was invented to counter them. These ships, which, after the | (1904–1905), became known simply as destroyers, were basically enlarged to ... |
| Cold War | ... ence, and techno thriller storylines set during and in the aftermath of the | , along with video games on which he did not work, but which bear his name ... |
| Russian Civil War | ... d their supporters accused Trotsky of various mistakes and worse during the | and damaged his military reputation so much that he was forced to resign a ... |
| Cold War | ... e elected as the Mayor of a capital city in any of The Americas. During the | era, she ordered the establishment of the island's first Civil Defense sys ... |
| Gulf War | ... t "Rock the Casbah" had been adopted as a slogan by US bomber pilots in the | |
| World War II | ... 8 Arab–Israeli War including Aliyah Bet. The original Mahalniks were mostly | veterans from American and British armed forces |
| Vienna Offensive | ... ing, the 6th SS Panzer Army withdrew towards Vienna and was involved in the | . The only major force to face the attacking Red Army was the II SS Panzer ... |
| Iraq War | ... l Salvador became the last and longest serving Latin American nation in the | . Service in Iraq was a coveted assignment for the officers and long-servi ... |
| WWII | ... 5–46 season, when the league was played over two geographical groups due to | destructions, is not statistically considered, even if its title is fully ... |
| defeated | In 1791, Little Turtle and Blue Jacket | another American expedition, this time led by General Arthur St. Clair. It ... |
| World War II | ... er's command was responsible for many of the crimes against humanity during | (1939–1945). After 1945, the SS was banned in Germany, along with the Nazi ... |
| Wars of the Roses | ... lish castles, including Kenilworth, did not play a decisive role during the | (1455–85), which were fought primarily in the form of pitched battles betw ... |
| World War I | The book and its three sequels are set just before, during, and after | . The first book, originally published in 1967, tells how the teenage hero ... |
| Battle of Naissus | ... his cavalry participated in general Claudius' victory over the Goths at the | . Later that year Gallienus traveled to Italy and fought Aureolus, his for ... |
| Operation Southern Watch | ... 355th Wing (355 WG). Following Operation Desert Storm, the 355 WG supported | during deployments to Al Jaber, Kuwait, in 1997 by deploying 24 A-10s, in ... |
| Duc d'Anville Expedition | ... Acadia, Ramezay was sent from Quebec to the region to join forces with the | . Upon arriving at Chignecto, he sent Boishebert to Ile Saint-Jean on a re ... |
| Battle of Santiago de Cuba | In 1912, the Reina Mercedes, sunk at the | , was raised and used as the "brig" ship for the Academy |
| Second Battle of Copenhagen | ... an fleet in the First Battle of Copenhagen (2 April 1801), and again in the | (August–September 1807). This ended Dano-Norwegian neutrality, beginning a ... |
| Montgomery Bus Boycott | ... izing the public transportation boycott in Montgomery, Alabama known as the | . According to Rustin, "I think it's fair to say that Dr. King's view of n ... |
| Landing Operation on Hainan Island | ... s of China controlled by the Republic of China. From March to May 1950, the | captured the island for the Chinese communists. Feng Baiju and his column ... |
| Cold War | Throughout the | , the Non-Aligned Movement, and organisations like the Organization of Sol ... |
| World War II | ... famous diets: K-rations formulated as balanced meals for combat soldiers in | and the Mediterranean diet, which, with his wife Margaret, he popularized. ... |
| First Kashmir War | ... n involved in four wars with neighbouring India, beginning in 1947 with the | , when Pakistan gained control of present-day Azad Kashmir and Gilgit-Balt ... |
| Russian Civil War | ... s that landed troops at Vladivostok during the Siberian Intervention of the | . These forces supported the White Russian government of Admiral Aleksandr ... |
| Bacon's Rebellion | ... nd the geographic differences between the working and ruling classes led to | in 1676, by which time current and former indentured servants made up as m ... |
| Siege of Louisbourg (1745) | After the | during King George's War, the New Englanders also captured Île Saint-Jean ... |
| World War I | ... orces in history, perhaps most notably as a major influence or postulate of | and especially World War II. Fascism is a form of authoritarian nationalis ... |
| Battle of Trafalgar | ... n 1805 a Franco-Spanish fleet was defeated by the British Royal Navy in the | . The Spanish fleet was forced into the battle by French Admiral Villanuev ... |
| World War II | During | the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff defined psychological warfare more ... |
| Rhodesian Bush War | ... ). At its base is a roll of regimental members ('troopies') who fell in the | , along with the inscription ' For Peace and Reconciliation in Zimbabwe' |
| Acadia | ... r was the first European to see the island. As part of the French colony of | , the island was called "Île Saint-Jean" |
| Operation Blue Star | ... ce. She was assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards in retaliation for ordering | |
| First Intifada | ... nst Israeli rule in the occupied territories was much more violent than the | . The military and civilian death toll is estimated at 5500 Palestinians a ... |
| Cold War | During the | the World Service was one of the leading international broadcasters to the ... |
| Russian Civil War | ... official language in short-lived Idel-Ural State, briefly formed during the | . One should note, however, that Bolshevist Russia did not recognize offic ... |
| World War I | ... ete mobilization in 1914, and Switzerland escaped invasion in the course of | . Wille also ordered the suppression of the general strike (Landesstreik) ... |
| World War I | ... ny and its associates manufactured player pianos and rolls from just before | until the Great Depression. That, and the increasing sophistication of the ... |
| Battle of Brunanburh | ... mlaíb led his allies into battle against Athelstan, king of England, in the | and was decisively defeated |
| Katzbach battlefield | On June 3, 1814, he was made Prince of Wahlstatt (in Silesia on the | ). Soon afterward he paid a visit to England, where he was received enthus ... |
| English Civil War | ... porary France, it was relatively successful until the Puritan Revolution or | in the 17th century |
| Second Silesian War | ... in 1743 and 1744. The new alliance with Frederick II of Prussia during the | finally forced the Austrian army to leave Bavaria and to retreat back into ... |
| King George's War | After the Siege of Louisbourg (1745) during | , the New Englanders also captured Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island). ... |
| German invasion of Norway | ... nd the Norwegian 6th Division under General Carl Gustav Fleischer after the | on 9 April 1940 |
| World War I | He became a director of the Bank of England in 1907 and during | he was a financial advisor to government departments. He was appointed Dep ... |
| Spanish Armada | ... of the opposing English and Spanish fleets in the 1588 confrontation of the | were galleons, with the modified English "race built" galleons developed b ... |
| Battle of Trafalgar | ... ne operation that eventually leads to the resounding British victory at the | that costs Nelson his life |
| Revolutionary War | ... portions of present Clay and Craighead counties. The county was named after | hero Nathanael Greene. The original county seat was in Benjamin Crowley's ... |
| Johnson County War | ... of a railhead made Casper the starting off point for the "invaders" in the | . The special chartered train carrying the men up from Texas stopped at Ca ... |
| French Revolutionary Wars | Having initially opposed France in the | (1792–1802), Spain changed sides in 1796, but defeat by the British a few ... |
| World War II | ... the German army in its retreat in 1943 and 1944, remaining in Germany after | . Others emigrated to Canada, the United States and Latin America |
| World War I | ... ice in the area in 1876. The area continued to be popular for tourism until | |
| First Macedonian War | ... donian king, Philip V pledged his support to Hannibal – thus initiating the | against Rome. Hannibal also secured an alliance with newly appointed King ... |
| World War II | ... tled Miklavž prihaja (St. Nicholas arrives). The premiere took place before | in the Union Hostel in Ljubljana (now in Slovenia) with great success |
| Battle of Gettysburg | The 111th New York was present at, among others, the | , the Battle of the Wilderness, the Battle of Cold Harbor and the Appomatt ... |
| Iraq War | ... he Taliban government in Afghanistan. However, Kennedy strongly opposed the | from the start, and was one of 23 senators voting against the Iraq War Res ... |
| Battle of Santiago de Cuba | ... cruiser) as it gallantly tried to break out of an American blockade in the | . Admiral Cervera's squadron was overrun in a heroic attempt to break a po ... |
| Bisbee Deportation | ... out 1,000 workers from Bisbee, Arizona to New Mexico, an event known as the | |
| World War I | Before | steam torpedo boats which were larger and more heavily armed than hitherto ... |
| invasion | ... the protests erupted simultaneously, whilst under threat of Islamic Ottoman | ¹, which especially distracted the German princes responsible for military ... |
| Iraqi insurgency | ... 23 senators voting against the Iraq War Resolution in October 2002. As the | grew in subsequent years, Kennedy pronounced that the conflict was "Bush's ... |
| Anglo-Powhatan Wars | ... lony was perilous, and many died during the "starving time" in 1609 and the | , including the Indian massacre of 1622, which fostered the colonists' neg ... |
| World War II | ... ts and photographs relating to the experiences of Japanese Americans during | . The exhibition closed on January 11, 2004. On November 8, 2011, the Nati ... |
| World War II | Bang received six battle stars for her | service. She is officially credited with sinking eight Japanese merchant s ... |
| siege by Spanish forces | In 1573 the city successfully withstood a | under the leadership of Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba. It w ... |
| World War II | ... cians went on to studio and touring careers in Hollywood and New York after | . Musicians who went from the Miller bands to important reputations afterw ... |
| Iraq War | In the lead up to the | , in September 2002, Bob Brown said that the Greens would oppose military ... |
| Battle of Bennington | ... ew regimental flags from the American Revolution. Although Stark was at the | and likely flew this flag, the battle has become more commonly associated ... |
| Peninsular War | ... f the British Army troops were regular soldiers but only 7,000 of them were | veterans. In addition, there were 17,000 Dutch and Belgian troops, 11,000 ... |
| Russian Revolution | ... velopment, which Benedict XV had foreseen in his first encyclical. With the | , the Vatican was faced with a new, so far unknown, situation |
| Battle of San Jacinto | ... d modern La Porte gained fame early in Texas history as the location of the | on April 21, 1836, which ended the Texas Revolution, establishing the inde ... |
| World War II | The propaganda war that accompanied | invariably depicted the enemy in unflattering terms. Both the Soviet Union ... |
| Spanish Civil War | ... d Francisco Franco not used narrow-gauge tracks to repair bridges after the | . Zapf was happy in the cartography unit. His eyesight was so excellent th ... |
| World War II | ... wrote that although Marshall's assumption of the presidency would have made | much less likely, modern hypothetical speculation on the subject was unfai ... |
| World War II | ... hich piston-engined fighters fought each other, both sides deploying former | and Korean War American aircraft. Cavalier F-51D Mustangs, F4U-1, -4 and - ... |
| World War II | ... or six decades in the American public sector, beginning with his service in | . In the 1950s, he held senior positions in the Eisenhower Interior Depart ... |
| Acadia | ... raids, New England colonists retaliated by launching an expedition against | . Led by the famous Indian fighter Benjamin Church, the expedition raided ... |
| World War II | ... at the New South Wales Conservatorium of Music, but this was interrupted by | . He was enlisted to the Australian Army and was injured, almost losing a ... |
| World War II | ... er three years of construction of seaplane and dirigible facilities. During | , the naval base developed into an important center for military flight tr ... |
| World War I | ... for the War of 1812, The Civil War, the Spanish-American War, and following | as the Vermont National Guard |
| Battle of Santiago de Cuba | ... the city and garrison of Santiago. With the victory of the U.S. Navy at the | , the fate of the Spanish position at Santiago was sealed. Shortly afterwa ... |
| Peninsular War | ... in Catalonia as in other parts of Spain, and eventually developed into the | . Girona was besieged by the French and defended by its inhabitants under ... |
| World War II | ... ed a chain of nearly 30 hotels throughout the United Kingdom. Just prior to | the department employed 8,000 staff, served over 50 million customers per ... |
| captured Fortress Louisbourg | ... ies and reinforcements from Massachusetts. In 1745, British colonial forces | after a siege of six weeks. In retaliation, the Wabanaki Confederacy of Ac ... |
| World War II | ... at 13302 6th Street. The Santa Fe Community Library opened inside a former | army barracks in 1975. By 2011 the barracks became overwhelmed by the libr ... |
| English Civil War | ... udes of the cityfolk towards Royalist prisoners held in Coventry during the | are believed to have been the origin of the phrase "to be sent to Coventry ... |
| World War I | ... 782 BC by king Argishti I at the western extreme of the Ararat plain. After | , Yerevan became the capital of the Democratic Republic of Armenia as thou ... |
| Indian massacre of 1622 | ... ring the "starving time" in 1609 and the Anglo-Powhatan Wars, including the | , which fostered the colonists' negative view of all tribes. By 1624, only ... |
| World War II | During | , Panamanian airports were leased exclusively by the U.S. military. The ne ... |
| Gulf War | ... better low-altitude performance. It was used to good advantage in the 1991 | , where it scored many USAF air-to-air kills; however its kill probability ... |
| World War II | During | through the city passed Northwest Staging Route on which delivered planes ... |
| crowning victory | ... y. Ball was promoted commander on 14 April 1782, two days after his chief’s | , and on 20 March 1783 he became captain. With peace restored, Ball was fu ... |
| Battle of Las Guasimas | ... te disregard of orders, Wheeler brought on a fight which escalated into the | . Shafter apparently did not realize the battle was even underway nor did ... |
| American War of Independence | ... e a Crown Colony in 1718 when the British clamped down on piracy. After the | , thousands of pro-British loyalists and enslaved Africans moved to the Ba ... |
| Russian Civil War | ... tion of anti-Bolshevik groups attempted to unseat the new government in the | from 1918 to 1922. "It was this revolution which caused a chain reaction l ... |
| Russian Revolution | ... ery. She claims to have been a member of the Russian aristocracy before the | and suffered greatly as a result, but how much of that story is true is an ... |
| Cold War | During the height of the | , in 1954, the U.S. Army installed an Ajax-Nike missile base at the airfie ... |
| Thirty Years' War | ... rder in the duchy which enabled Maximilian to play an important part in the | ; during the earlier years of which he was so successful as to acquire the ... |
| Bagaudae | The | of Gaul are obscure figures, appearing fleetingly in the ancient sources, ... |
| World War II | ... oi serves as familiar plural. (In Italy, during fascist times leading up to | , voi was resurrected as a polite singular, and discarded again afterwards ... |
| World War II | ... RCA severed its ties with EMI in 1957 which led EMI to buy Capitol Records. | fragmented the ownership of the name still further, as RCA Victor's Japane ... |
| Battle of Lepanto | ... w Greeks fight against the Ottomans, such as the Greek participation in the | in 1571, the Epirus peasants' revolts of 1600–1601, the Morean War of 1684 ... |
| 2008 Mauritanian coup d'état | ... Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya. In August 2008 General Ould Abdel Aziz led the | that toppled President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi. Following the latter co ... |
| Battle of Queenston Heights | ... hirteen Irish American prisoners of war were executed as traitors after the | ; Winfield Scott urged American reprisal, but none was carried out |
| World War II | ... om the Great Depression under Joseph Lyons and into the early stages of the | under Robert Menzies |
| Battle of Demetrias | ... le of Neopatras, but the fleet won a similarly comprehensive victory at the | |
| Thirty Years' War | ... y corps) concentrated in Roussillon at the end of the 1630s, because of the | with France, the local peasants were required to lodge and provision the t ... |
| Gulf War | ... eration of the Grand Mosque Seizure. In 1991 Pakistan got involved with the | and sent 5,000 troops as part of a US-led coalition, specifically for the ... |
| Daze Village Uprising | ... within a short period. One of the immediate revolt attempts was the 209 BC | led by Chen Sheng and Wu Guang |
| Dresden | ... he end of the armistice, Napoleon seemed to have regained the initiative at | (August 1813), where he once again defeated a numerically superior Coaliti ... |
| War of the Polish Succession | During the | (1733-8), a renewed attempt to regain the lost Italian territories was mor ... |
| World War II | Such vessels remained useful through | . The Royal Navy's Motor Torpedo Boats (MTBs), Kriegsmarine 'S-Boote' (Sch ... |
| World War I | ... à irredente" did not join the Kingdom of Italy until the Italian victory in | |
| Battle of Cumae | ... years later, in 474, Syracuse's tyrant Hiero defeated the Etruscans at the | . Etruria's influence over the cities of Latium and Campania weakened, and ... |
| World War I | During the early years of | , Hearst's INS was barred from using Allied telegraph lines because of rep ... |
| World War II | During | , Fox took over a variety of characters and books of several of his collea ... |
| World War II | ... h 84 American prisoners of war were murdered by their German captors during | . The massacre was committed on December 17, 1944, by members of Kampfgrup ... |
| World War I | ... stablished in 1925 as Davis-Monthan Landing Field, and is named in honor of | pilots Lieutenants Samuel H. Davis and Oscar Monthan, both Tucson natives. ... |
| raided the British fishing port of Canso | ... tilities. Concerned about their overland supply lines to Quebec, they first | on May 23, and then organized an attack on Annapolis Royal, then the capit ... |
| World War II | ... öll (December 21, 1917 – July 16, 1985) was one of Germany's foremost post- | writers. Böll was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize in 1967 and the Nobel Pr ... |
| World War II | For inter-Allied communications during | , the Combined Cipher Machine (CCM) was developed, used in the Royal Navy ... |
| World War II | ... 942 became the U.S. Navy's first flying ace and Medal of Honor recipient in | . Butch O’Hare’s final action took place on the night of November 26, 1943 ... |
| Falklands War | ... ramme was initiated following the torpedo's reliability failures during the | and was headed up by Marconi Underwater Systems Limited as Prime Contracto ... |
| war broke out | In 1701, following the death in late 1700 of King Charles II of Spain, | over who should succeed him to the Spanish throne. Although the war was at ... |
| Cold War | At the height of the | , the Philippines was one of the most well-equipped militaries in Asia, be ... |
| Russian Civil War | ... rces in 1919. Trotsky, who was in overall charge of the Red Army during the | , thought little of Zinoviev's leadership, which aggravated their strained ... |
| Thirty Years' War | ... ew castle, which is situated on the hillside nearer to the town. During the | and the Nine Years' War, Baden-Baden suffered severely from the various co ... |
| Cynoscephalae | ... ful of troops, he overthrew the tyrant's far superior force on the ridge of | . However, wishing to slay Alexander with his own hand, he rushed forward ... |
| Acadia | | was also developed under Louis XIII. In 1632, Isaac de Razilly became invo ... |
| World War II | ... rence Alloway to describe paintings that celebrated consumerism of the post | era. This movement rejected Abstract expressionism and its focus on the he ... |
| World War II | The Waffen-SS grew from three regiments to over 38 divisions during | , and served alongside the Heer (regular army) but was never formally part ... |
| Revolution of 1688 | ... argely from the north of Ireland, to settle here. Some were veterans of the | . Named for Lord Charles Townshend, this settlement survived and was incor ... |
| World War I | ... lay close to London, development started slowly, and it was not until after | that the district became built up. An aircraft industry was established in ... |
| Orlov Revolt | ... evolts of 1600–1601, the Morean War of 1684–1699 and the Russian-instigated | in 1770 which aimed at breaking up the Ottoman Empire in favor of Russian ... |
| Cold War | Following in the | rior path of his fallen brother, Kennedy initially said he had "no reserva ... |
| World War II | ... ecame known to cinema audiences as the patriarch in a trio of popular post- | family films beginning with Here Come the Huggetts. He also co-starred in ... |
| Second Boer War | ... ed the 4th Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire militia in 1894 and served in the | . He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order in 1901 |
| American Revolutionary War | ... ased upon the Green Mountain Boys. Although Vermont initially supported the | and sent troops to fight John Burgoyne's British invasion from Quebec in b ... |
| World War II | ... general remoteness began to work against it; this was greatly aggravated by | and the resultant gasoline rationing. Tourism focus shifted within Tenness ... |
| Battle of Thymbra | ... al city of Sardis. Some months later the Persian and Lydian king met at the | . Cyrus won and captured the capital city of Sardis |
| Battle of Chesma | ... ), which saw some of the heaviest defeats in Turkish history, including the | (5–7 July 1770) and the Battle of Kagul (21 July 1770) |
| World War II | ... mous work, chronicling the rise of fascism in the 1930s and the conflict of | . His stinging depictions of Hitler and Mussolini led to his work being ba ... |
| Second | ... xed in 1849, after the defeat of the Sikh armies in the First (1845–46) and | (1848–49) Anglo-Sikh Wars |
| Cold War | ... which a moderate, domesticated modernism served as ideological prop to the | . |
| Cold War | ... rkers throughout the world. His Communist affiliations at the outset of the | and during the age of McCarthyism brought scrutiny, conflict and retributi ... |
| Battle of Anchem | ... Gugsa Welle was met by forces loyal to Negus Tafari and was defeated at the | . Gugsa Welle was killed in action. News of Gugsa Welle's defeat and death ... |
| fall of communism | ... legislative election in 1989 became one of the important events marking the | in Poland |
| World War II | Neither the Great Depression nor | was kind to Asbury Park. On September 8, 1934, the wreck of the cruise shi ... |
| East Pomeranian Offensive | The | lasted from 24 February to 4 April, in Pomerania and West Prussia. The Waf ... |
| Battle of Quebec | ... ard Montgomery, an American Revolutionary War general killed in 1775 at the | . The county seat is Fonda |
| World War II | ... centration camp to relive the memories of his time as its commandant during | . He revels in the recollections of the torment he inflicted on the inmate ... |
| Battle of Cunaxa | ... d to have been sung just before the start of various battles (including the | ) in Xenophon's "Anabasis" (or "Persian Expedition") |
| American Revolutionary War | During and after the | , from 1776 to 1783, the colony's efforts to attract exiled Loyalist refug ... |
| Revolutionary War | ... Lloyd Manor House, which he was forced to abandon by the British during the | . The British built several fortifications in the neck, including Fort Fra ... |
| Lützen | ... ventually to 400,000. Napoleon inflicted 40,000 casualties on the Allies at | (2 May 1813) and Bautzen (20–21 May 1813). Both battles involved total for ... |
| Battle of Kagul | ... in Turkish history, including the Battle of Chesma (5–7 July 1770) and the | (21 July 1770) |
| Nine Years' War | ... ed on the hillside nearer to the town. During the Thirty Years' War and the | , Baden-Baden suffered severely from the various combatants, especially fr ... |
| World War I | ... stro-Hungarian Empire, were calling for national self-determination. During | , representatives of the Czechs, Slovaks, Poles, Serbs, Croats, and Sloven ... |
| Battle of Tourcoing | ... ichegru in 1794. Leading a flanking column from the north, he fought at the | on 17-18 May. A French force under Dominique Vandamme slowed his progress ... |
| Battle of Vitoria | ... ritish dead in the breaches. In this context, his famous dispatch after the | calling them the "scum of the earth" can be seen to be fuelled as much by ... |
| Great Northern War | The Treaty of Nystad (, , ) was the last peace treaty of the | . It was concluded between the Tsardom of Russia and Swedish Empire on 30 ... |
| World War II | ... was adopted by the RAF, the Army and other governmental departments. During | , a large number of Typex machines were manufactured by Powers-Samas |
| Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 | ... as shocked to witness the government's massacre of unarmed civilians at the | . He wrote an opinion piece for The New York Times titled "China Won't Eve ... |
| Battle of Kings Mountain | Burke County citizens participated in the | that pitted Appalachian frontiersmen against the loyalist forces of the Br ... |
| attacked again | The English | in 1797, during the French Revolutionary Wars, led by Sir Ralph Abercromby ... |
| World War I | ... ngton, assumed leadership of the shipyard. Huntington Park, developed after | near the northern terminus of the James River Bridge, is named for him |
| World War II | ... rland, Ireland and the Vatican, Sweden maintained neutrality throughout all | , but like the mentioned countries, cooperated and traded with both sides. ... |
| Social War | The town only acquired municipal rights after the | and was unimportant except as a seaside resort. Cicero compares its villas ... |
| Leuctra | ... olitics. In the process he broke Spartan military power with his victory at | and liberated the Messenian helots, a group of Peloponnesian Greeks who ha ... |
| Hundred Days | When Napoleon returns from exile at the start of the | , Hornblower is staying at the estate of the Comte de Graçay. He leads a R ... |
| ousted | ... ulers of Afghanistan banned opium as "against Islam." After the Taliban was | , opium cultivation resumed in more widespread areas and in greater yield. ... |
| Damour | ... ar camp in east Beirut. The PLO and LNM retaliated by attacking the town of | , a Phalangist stronghold. Over 330 people were killed and many more wound ... |
| Napoleonic Wars | ... rtsmouth Block Mills to make ships' pulley blocks for the Royal Navy in the | . These were also used to make clocks and watches, and to make small arms. ... |
| siege and conquest of the city of Ceuta | ... ic development of the country. The only significant military action was the | in 1415. By this step he aimed to control navigation of the African coast. ... |
| Battle of Warsaw | ... t the city would be transferred to Lithuania. However, Soviet defeat in the | made these plans obsolete, and Lithuanian authority was never established ... |
| July Revolution | ... endar. It is known in European history as a rather tumultuous year with the | , the Belgian Revolution and the November Uprising taking place in respect ... |
| Battle of Saule | ... ndreas von Stierland, who was still angry at Vykintas for the defeat at the | in 1236, by sending him "many gifts" |
| Seven Years' War | Joining France against Britain near the end of the | (1756–63), the navy failed to prevent the British capturing Havana, during ... |
| Nine Years' War | In 1689 the Worms community was decimated by the French during the | . Gradually, it was rebuilt. In 1699 he was appointed rabbi of Worms where ... |
| War of Transnistria | After the | , Moldova had sought a peaceful resolution to the conflict in the Transnis ... |
| Seven Years' War | ... hich in turn had been named after Jeffery, Lord Amherst, a veteran from the | and later commanding general of the British forces in North America. On No ... |
| Channel Dash | A classic fast torpedo boat action was the | in February 1942 when German E-boats and destroyers defended the flotilla ... |
| Franco-Dutch War | ... s XIV of France under François Adhémar de Monteil, Count of Grignan, in the | in 1672, and again in August 1682. With the Treaty of Utrecht that ended t ... |
| American Revolutionary War | ... nstration of military prowess in battle. Little Turtle earned it during the | in action against a French force allied with the Continentals. Although he ... |
| World War II | Due to the onset of | , the games were not held again until 1950 |
| Battle of Pteria | ... Persian king Cyrus The Great marched with his army against the Lydians. The | led to a stalemate, thus forcing the Lydians to retreat to their capital c ... |
| First | ... ars. Punjab was annexed in 1849, after the defeat of the Sikh armies in the | (1845–46) and Second (1848–49) Anglo-Sikh Wars |
| Battle of Shrewsbury | ... ough. Prince Hal, later Henry V, was wounded in the face by an arrow at the | (1403). The royal physician John Bradmore had such a tool made, which cons ... |
| Siege of Hulst | ... logy in Wallonia - Second walls of Brussels - Senne - Seventeen Provinces - | - Siege of Leuven - Siege of Namur (1695) - Siege of Ostend - Signal de Bo ... |
| World War II | ... struggle by many national independence movements in the colonies following | . Upon gaining independence, some national leaders and opposition groups a ... |
| World War I | ... de Mogadishu the capital of the newly-established Italian Somaliland. After | , the surrounding territory came under Italian control with some resistanc ... |
| Bautzen | ... poleon inflicted 40,000 casualties on the Allies at Lützen (2 May 1813) and | (20–21 May 1813). Both battles involved total forces of over 250,000, maki ... |
| 1972 Easter Invasion | ... equipped with the XM26 Armament Subsystem were deployed to help counter the | . USAF Lieutenant James P. Fleming piloted a UH-1F on a 26 November 1968 m ... |
| Battle of Lechfeld | ... n 926. Only after the victory of King Otto I over the Magyars in 955 in the | , were the Swiss territories reintegrated into the empire |
| Second World War | ... ure, poetry and speech as a tool for political awareness. The period of the | saw the peak of the campaigns by the Quit India movement (led by "Mahatma" ... |
| World War I | ... procession. Originally, there was one for Prussia, which was removed during | and never reinstated |
| Battle of Salamanca | ... arly everyone). However, Álava was a witness to an incident just before the | . Wellington was eating a chicken leg while observing the manoeuvres of th ... |
| World War II | ... y's weapons, and sent the older weapons to the militants, Turkey sold their | stockpiles to the warlords, and the British and Swiss provided Blowpipe mi ... |
| capture Canada | ... membership in the new nation and sent a military expedition that failed to | in 1775. Most Canadians remained neutral but some joined the American caus ... |
| World War II | ... gational Rabbi raising a family, Klein volunteered for the U.S. Army during | as a chaplain, motivated by a cause he saw as clearly right with important ... |
| Battle of Mohács | ... es against Suleiman the Magnificent of the Ottoman Empire in the disastrous | . During the retreat, the nineteen-year-old king died in a marsh. As Louis ... |
| World War II | ... to include 74 firms, and became the fourth-largest combine in Japan during | |
| revolution of 1830 | ... ian of that generation". But it was generally neglected in France until the | . Then, in the 1830s, there was a surge of interest, and asphalt became wi ... |
| American Revolutionary War | ... Shipyard at Portsmouth was owned by the Commonwealth of Virginia after the | and was sold to the new United States federal government. During the Ameri ... |
| War on Terror | ... n, McCain supported Bush for re-election, praising Bush's management of the | since the September 11 attacks. At the same time, the Senator defended Ker ... |
| battle of N'Djamena | In February 2008 in the aftermath of the | , UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs John Holmes expresse ... |
| February 26 Incident | ... , and he was among those assassinated by rebelling military officers in the | of 1936. His grave is at the Tama Reien Cemetery in Fuchū, Tokyo |
| World War I | For a period after | , Steiner was extremely active and well known in Germany, in part because ... |
| Japanese invasion of Manchuria | The | in late 1931 placed U.S. Secretary of State Henry M. Stimson in a difficul ... |
| World War II | ... amage sustained by the Essex class inflicted by Japanese air attacks during | . The hangars on the ships are divided into three fire bays by thick steel ... |
| World War I | ... Mayne was born in Dumfries in 1759 and contributed in the field of poetry. | poet was another born in Dumfries |
| Azov campaigns | ... only in gaining a toehold in the south on the edge of the Black Sea in the | , Catherine completed the conquest of the south. Catherine made Russia the ... |
| World War II | This trend was not reversed until after the end of | , when more than 2 million Koreans moved from North to South following the ... |
| Second World War | ... , with East Finchley station being completely rebuilt, until stopped by the | . All passenger services from Finchley to Edgware ended in September 1939. ... |
| Paiute War | The | was a minor series of raids and ambushes initiated by the Paiute Indian tr ... |
| New People's Army | ... aign against the Communist Party of the Philippines and its armed wing, the | |
| Second Battle of Ypres | The first effective use were when the German forces at the | simply opened cylinders of chlorine and allowed the wind to carry the gas ... |
| Battle of Lake Benacus | ... relian marched north to meet the Alamanni, defeating them decisively at the | |
| World War II | ... er of the German Security Service, when Germany occupied the Netherlands in | . He later joined the Dutch national socialist NSB party and the SS |
| Operation Uphold Democracy | ... rture of Haiti's military leaders and the peaceful entry of US forces under | , thereby paving the way for the restoration of Jean-Bertrand Aristide as ... |
| North-West Rebellion | ... imself. It was the single worst multiple killing of RCMP officers since the | . One of the four Mounties killed had been on the job for only 17 days. Th ... |
| World War II | One of Hitler's ambitions at the start of | was to exterminate, expel, or enslave most or all East and West Slavs from ... |
| massacre | ... he Tel al-Zaatar camp fell to the Christians after a six-month siege, and a | followed in which thousands of Palestinians were killed. Arafat and Abu Ji ... |
| World War II | ... Lastly Stephen Fry suggested a series set in a prisoner of war camp during | but later remarked that "perhaps it's best to leave these things as a memo ... |
| First World War | ... arlier settings, foreshadowed responses to the universal bereavement of the | and became assimilated into them. This was reinforced when their foremost ... |
| French Revolutionary Wars | During France's occupation of Belgium in the | , the university closed by a decree of the French Republic. After Belgium ... |
| War of the Quadruple Alliance | Attempting to reverse the losses of the previous war, in the | (1718–20) the navy successfully convoyed armies to invade Sicily and Sardi ... |
| World War II | ... craft training base and the Hitchcock Naval Air Station at the beginning of | . After the end of the war, the bases were used as discharge centers, and ... |
| American Revolutionary War | ... assistance to George Rogers Clark both in financing Clark's exploration and | efforts, and in service as an agent obtaining military information for Cla ... |
| war | ... epartment store in Paris. Called up for military service in 1918, after the | , he was sent to the Near East to defend French interests there |
| World War II | At the end of | , the United States Army began to consider new directions for future milit ... |
| World War II | ... rovides insight into the huge maneuvers that prepared the United States for | and promoted the career of General Dwight D. Eisenhower, known for his org ... |
| Battle of Ligny | ... ch to Waterloo as it was in the best shape, not having been involved in the | . Although they had not taken casualties, IV Corps had been marching for t ... |
| War of the Sixth Coalition | Prussia had declared war against France on 16 March during the | , and their journey was fraught with difficulties. They arrived on the 25t ... |
| Fronde | ... utionary reign, France rose up from a long period of civil discord (see the | , or 'Slingshot Rebellion') to new heights of international prominence. Po ... |
| War of the Spanish Succession | ... isdiction of the Emperor. In return for supporting Emperor Leopold I in the | , Elector Frederick III was allowed to crown himself "King in Prussia" in ... |
| Seven Years' War | ... rom France under the terms of the Treaty of Paris in 1763 which settled the | . The British called their new colony St. John's Island (also the Island o ... |
| War of the Spanish Succession | The | (1705–14) resulted in the revocation of Catalonia's traditional autonomy a ... |
| World War II | ... ember 1937, he enrolled at the Sorbonne, where he studied mathematics until | broke out in 1939. Schneerson lived most of the time in Paris at 9 Rue Bou ... |
| invasion of Iraq | ... ez was among the 133 members of the House who voted against authorizing the | , but she has voted in favor of every appropriation bill for the war in Ir ... |
| World War I | From the mid-19th century until about the time of | , Halesite was served by a trolley line, which brought passengers from Hun ... |
| World War II | ... s substitutes for other protein foods and as a source of edible oil. During | , the soybean was discovered as fertilizer by the United States Department ... |
| Battle of Polotsk | ... a part of the French Army led by Marshal Nicolas Oudinot was stopped in the | by the right wing of the Russian Army, under command of General Peter Witt ... |
| Napoleonic Wars | ... continued nonetheless. A shortage of horses and fodder brought about by the | had made steam traction a more attractive proposition and encouraged furth ... |
| Second World War | ... Committee to determine Britain's airliner needs after the conclusion of the | . One of its recommendations was for a pressurised, transatlantic mailplan ... |
| World War I | ... s Reese Europe's "Hellfighters" infantry band took ragtime to Europe during | , then on return recorded Dixieland standards including "Darktown Strutter ... |
| Persian Gulf crisis | Egypt played a key role during the 1990-91 | . President Mubarak helped assemble the international coalition and deploy ... |
| Russo-Japanese War | As Minister of the Navy during the | , Yamamoto showed strong leadership and was responsible for appointing Tōg ... |
| Operation Litani | ... ing vehicles, killing thirty-seven civilians. In response, the IDF launched | three days later, with the goal of taking control of Southern Lebanon up t ... |
| Wars of the Roses | ... Mary. As England had recently gone through a lengthy dynastic conflict (see | ), Henry feared that his lack of a male heir might jeopardize his descenda ... |
| World War II | When the United States entered | , President Roosevelt appointed Baruch a special adviser to the director o ... |
| World War II | Shortly before, during and immediately after | , Stalin conducted a series of deportations on a huge scale which profound ... |
| Battle of Poitiers (1356) | ... the Battle of Neville's Cross (1346), the siege of Bergerac (1345), and the | ; such armour became available to European knights of fairly modest means ... |
| Battle of Dresden | ... easant house in the suburbs into the town, and during the next few days the | raged. The city was bombarded; many people were killed by bombs directly i ... |
| World War II | ... vehicle designed by the Porsche engineering firm in 1942 and widely used in | . The amphibious bodywork was designed by Erwin Komenda, the firm's body c ... |
| World War II | ... Guernsey, which is distinguished by its golden-coloured coat. At the end of | , the Golden Guernsey was almost extinct, due to interbreeding with other ... |
| World War II | He was interned during | at the Drancy deportation camp. When Gestapo agents were at his door he tu ... |
| war against terror | ... in the United States and declare solidarity with the American people in the | . It has contributed to UN peacekeeping efforts on the continent. In 1998, ... |
| Russian Civil War | ... It continued through the turmoil of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the | into the period of Soviet Russia and the until 1925 |
| Roman invasion | During the | the invaders were attracted to Derbyshire because of the lead ore in the l ... |
| American Revolutionary War | ... ates. Named after Nathan Hale, a captain in the Continental Army during the | who was captured at a tavern in Halesite. There is a rock with a tribute t ... |
| Battle of Cape Passaro | ... cily and Sardinia, but the escort fleet was destroyed by the British in the | and the Spanish invasion army was defeated in Italy by the Austrians. This ... |
| World War II | ... given a desk job, writing camp records and sports certificates in Fraktur. | broke out in September, and Zapf's unit was to be taken into the Wehrmacht ... |
| Cold War | ... purpose of the ships was initially to support the U.S. military during the | , and they were designed with capabilities for that role, including using ... |
| World War II | ... disclosure by MI5 that it had proposed using pigeons as flying bombs during | . The motion condemned the proposal, describing humans as "obscene, perver ... |
| Operation Black Thunderstorm | ... Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan. Major operations undertaken by the Army include | and Operation Rah-e-Nijat |
| English Civil War | During the | , the city of York was under siege from Scottish and Parliamentarian Armie ... |
| First Cortina War | On July 13, 1859, the | started. Juan Nepomuceno Cortina would become one of the most important hi ... |
| Peninsular War | During the | in Europe between France and Spain, assemblies called juntas were establis ... |
| Cold War | With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the | , the United States began a moratorium on nuclear testing and development ... |
| American Revolutionary War | ... ife is that he died in 1776, aged 66. It is presumed he was involved in the | . His descendant Quagmire McDuck inherited the silver watch, known by then ... |
| Gettysburg | ... . The next day, Paradine receives orders that the army is going to march to | |
| invasion of Iraq | In 2003, George W. Bush launched the | , in conjunction with coalition partners, most notably Great Britain. The ... |
| Reagan Doctrine | ... ssoud as the Afghan resistance leader most worthy of U.S. support under the | |
| Bloody Sunday | ... quad's activities peaked with the killing of 14 British agents in Dublin on | in 1920 |
| American Revolutionary War | During the | Charlottetown was raided in 1775 by a pair of American-employed privateers ... |
| Borodino | ... the higher virtues which would produce, according to Tolstoy, a victory at | during the 1812 invasion |
| American Revolutionary War | ... States in the Articles of Confederation. When Canada was invaded during the | , thousands joined the American cause and formed regiments that fought dur ... |
| Battle of Aspern-Essling | ... to Austria. His hurried attempt to cross the Danube resulted in the massive | (22 May 1809) — Napoleon's first significant tactical defeat. But the Aust ... |
| Dettingen | ... Prussia, but open hostilities between them did not take place until 1743 at | , and war was only formally declared between France and Britain in March 1 ... |
| 2005 Mauritanian coup d'état | ... ziz, a career soldier and high-ranking officer, was a leading figure in the | that deposed President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya. In August 2008 General ... |
| Battle of Manzikert | ... of peace, which were rejected by the emperor, and the two forces met in the | . The Cuman mercenaries among the Byzantine forces immediately defected to ... |
| World War II | ... The Execution of Private Slovik. Based on an incident that occurred during | , the film told the story of the only U.S. soldier to be executed for dese ... |
| World War II | ... mposer Dmitri Shostakovich whose symphonies use the theme of angst in post- | compositions depicting Russian strife during the war. However, it is the J ... |
| World War II | The United States experienced a shortage of harmonicas during | . Wood and metal materials that were used for harmonicas were in short sup ... |
| World War | ... rda film, Things to Come). This depicted, all too accurately, the impending | , with cities being destroyed by aerial bombs. He also portrayed the rise ... |
| First World War | During the | , Queen Mary instituted an austerity drive at the palace, where she ration ... |
| American Revolutionary War | This Farming Community has a history dating back to the | . Col. Thomas Robeson, whom Robeson County was named after lived in the Ta ... |
| World War I | ... til Wilhelmina's 18th birthday in 1898. The Netherlands remained neutral in | , during her reign, and this country was not invaded by Germany, as neighb ... |
| World War II | ... ing relationship with the Russian city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) during | . The relationship developed through ordinary people in Coventry who wante ... |
| Battle of Smolensk | ... ough Russia, winning a number of relatively minor engagements and the major | on 16–18 August. However, in the same days, a part of the French Army led ... |
| Glorious Revolution | ... m. He told Lord Holland that he was committed to the Whig principles of the | but not to "a heap of modern additions, interpolations, facts and fictions ... |
| Battle of Andernach | ... son and successor, Otto I, invaded Lotharingia and defeated Gilbert in the | . The dukes of Lotharingia were thereafter royal appointees |
| Battle of Arbedo | ... ed Italian men-at-arms also used the same method to defeat the Swiss at the | (1422) |
| World War II | After the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact divided Poland during | , Germans deported Poles and Jews from Polish territories annexed by Nazi ... |
| World War II | ... e job after college was as a sports reporter with The Raleigh Times. During | , Helms served stateside as a recruiter in the United States Navy. In 1945 ... |
| Battle of Crécy | ... ieval battles fought by the English, the most significant of which were the | (1346) and the Battle of Agincourt (1415), during the Hundred Years' War a ... |
| World War II | ... theory matured and developed mathematical optimization techniques. Second, | and the Apollo program were unprecedented in their demands for the rationa ... |
| Second World War | During the | , German U-boats used the currents to pass into the Mediterranean Sea with ... |
| American Revolutionary War | In 1775 during the Siege of Boston in the | a British ship visited Fort Pond Bay in search of provisions—notably cattl ... |
| military action | The country participated in | against the Taliban in 2001 with its ships patrolling the Arabian Sea sear ... |
| Glorious Revolution | The theory of divine right was abandoned in England during the | of 1688–89. The American and French Revolutions of the late eighteenth cen ... |
| World War II | ... hite reactor; however, being too busy with military-related research during | , they did not announce their discovery until 1947. The original proposed ... |
| siege of Sevastopol | ... as the "Foreign Brigade", in the battle of Alma (20 September 1854) and the | , during the winter of 1854–1855 |
| Spanish Civil War | ... ted in the Spanish Protectorate, during both the Rif War of 1921-26 and the | of 1936-39. Moroccan Regulares, together with the Spanish Legion, made up ... |
| World War I | ... and a younger sister, Elisabeth. He joined the German army in 1917, during | . After the war he served in the Freikorps under Franz Ritter von Epp's co ... |
| War of Transnistria | ... its own de facto government and acts independently from Chişinău since the | . The international diplomatic situation with respect to the question of T ... |
| World War I | In the debates leading up to | , a number of isolationist senators filibustered bills that Wilson conside ... |
| Battle of Leuctra | ... f Laconia. Agesilaus then struck the Thebans out of the treaty. The ensuing | in 371 BC marked the end of Spartan hegemony. Agesilaus himself did not fi ... |
| Battle of Colenso | ... rigade first looked after the Boers' great Long Tom gun, then fought in the | and later held the rearguard, harassing Lord Roberts' cavalry as the Boer ... |
| conquest of Britain | ... e few efforts to expand its already vast extent; the most notable being the | , begun by emperor Claudius (47), and emperor Trajan's conquest of Dacia ( ... |
| the revolution | ... s Light and Sound Museum chronicles the Filipinos desire for freedom during | under Rizal's leadership and other revolutionary leaders. The Metropolitan ... |
| World War II | ... d and pulled retail and residential development to the west and north after | . Such suburban development was aided by national subsidization of highway ... |
| Hundred Days | ... n end to Napoleon's rule as Emperor of the French and marked the end of his | return from exile |
| Seven Years' War | ... this as a threat, and the ensuing French and Indian War became part of the | (1756–1763). A militia from several British colonies, called the Virginia ... |
| World War I | ... unt Francesco Baracca, an ace of the Italian air force and national hero of | , who used to paint a horse on the side of his planes. The Countess asked ... |
| World War II | ... t the end of the 19th century, and about 600,000 volumes at the outbreak of | . An air raid on October 10 in 1944 destroyed about 200,000 volumes and a ... |
| Thirty Years' War | After suffering for years in the | , the region of Upper Lusatia (including Görlitz) was ceded to the Elector ... |
| Saur Revolution | ... ng with the Military of Egypt. In April 1978 there was a coup, known as the | , orchestrated by the Soviets and members of the government loyal to the P ... |
| World War II | During | he and his son Benoît Nicolas Musy were involved in the release of 1210 pr ... |
| World War I | Set during | . The Graf von Dracula, after being expelled from Great Britain in 1897, s ... |
| World War I | ... which declared that the Ottoman-Persian frontier run along the thalweg, but | canceled all plans |
| Battle of Stillman's Run | In what became known as the | , the two battalions of militia came into contact with Black Hawk and his ... |
| Battle of Gettysburg | ... troop movements and arguably contributing to the Confederate defeat at the | . Stuart received significant criticism from the Southern press as well as ... |
| World War II | ... -settled. In 1942, Camp Kearns, a massive military installation created for | , was created in what is now Kearns and Taylorsville on the western side o ... |
| King David Hotel bombing | ... wish Resistance Movement, the Irgun was asked to speed up the plans for the | of July 22. The hotel was where the documents were located, the base for t ... |
| War of the Polish Succession | Peace in Europe was shattered by the | (1733–1738), which started as a dispute over the throne of the Poland betw ... |
| World War II | ... ries three's "Death of a Batman" it was said that Steed was with I Corps in | , and in Munich in 1945. In series four episode "The Hour That Never Was" ... |
| Seven Years' War | ... t in the Austrian Netherlands, he entered the Austrian army in 1753. In the | (1756–1763) he distinguished himself, earning rapid promotion, and receive ... |
| Secret War | ... for covert operations especially in Laos and Cambodia during the so-called | |
| War of the Spanish Succession | The | arose from the establishment on the Spanish throne of an offshoot of Franc ... |
| World War I | Zinoviev spent the first three years of | in Switzerland. After the Russian monarchy was overthrown during the Febru ... |
| First Barons' War | ... The king reneged on his promises of reform, leading to the outbreak of the | . Even after the Magna Carta was signed, Fitzwalter maintained his control ... |
| English Civil War | During the | , Newcastle supported the king and in 1644 the city was besieged for many ... |
| Warring States Period | In 230 BC, King Zheng unleashed the final campaigns of the | , setting out to conquer the remaining independent kingdoms, one by one |
| World War II | The rise of totalitarianism in Germany, Russia, and Italy during | had a tremendous impact on the civil liberties movement. On the one hand, ... |
| bombing of the King David Hotel | Two of the operations for which the Irgun is best known are the | in Jerusalem on 22 July 1946 and the Deir Yassin massacre, carried out tog ... |
| Siege of Yorktown | ... ord Avenue and Broadway, en route to victory over General Cornwallis at the | and to victory in the Revolutionary War |
| Battle of the Philippine Sea | ... l Raymond Spruance's 5th Fleet was trouncing the Japanese task force in the | , virtually wiping out the enemy's naval air capability for the remainder ... |
| Battle of Solferino | ... in 1859 Jean-Henri Dunant organized local villagers to help victims of the | , including the provision of first aid. Four years later, four nations met ... |
| First Italian War of Independence | ... of revolutions, 1848, under liberal pressure. Under the same pressure, the | was declared on Austria. After initial success the war took a turn for the ... |
| Battle of Halidon Hill | ... uring the Hundred Years' War and followed earlier successes, notably at the | (1333) during the Scottish wars. The longbow corps saw particularly heavy ... |
| Second Boer War | He took part in the | , where he raised the Irish Transvaal Brigade. Despite being known as MacB ... |
| Napoleonic Wars | ... including Görlitz) was ceded to the Electorate of Saxony in 1635. After the | , the 1815 Congress of Vienna transferred the town from the Kingdom of Sax ... |
| American Revolutionary War | ... nsey River was the site of the Greenwich Tea Party during the run up to the | in which a load of tea meant to be sent overland into Philadelphia, Pennsy ... |
| Yom Kippur War | The Royal Moroccan Army fought on the Golan front during the | of 1973 (mostly in the battle for Quneitra) and intervened decisively in t ... |
| Hohenlinden | ... t Marengo, which forced them to withdraw from Italy, and then in Germany at | . These defeats forced Thugut's resignation, and Austria, now led by Ludwi ... |
| war in Iraq | ... diplomatic relations with Vietnam in the 1990s, and for his belief that the | should be fought to a successful conclusion. McCain has chaired the Senate ... |
| World War II | Clift was educated in French, German, and Italian. During | , he was rejected for military service due to allergies and colitis |
| Napoleonic Wars | ... Asian empire. They also temporarily possessed Dutch territories during the | , In 1819 Stamford Raffles established Singapore as a key trading post for ... |
| Battle of Panium | ... from the Ptolemies for the final time, defeating Ptolemy V Epiphanes at the | in 198 BCE. Seleucid rule over the Jewish parts of the region then resulte ... |
| 1813 War of Liberation | Following the start of the | , Blücher was again placed in high command, and he was present at Lützen a ... |
| Harald Fairhair's campaign in Götaland | ... re battles between the Geats and the Norwegian king Harald Fairhair, during | , a war the Geats had to fight without the assistance of the Swedish king ... |
| Kraków Uprising | ... ended in a fiasco in early 1846. In its most significant manifestation, the | of February 1846, patriotic action was combined with revolutionary demands ... |
| World War II | ... for Japanese Surrender is a statement calling for the Surrender of Japan in | . On July 26, 1945, United States President Harry S. Truman, United Kingdo ... |
| War against Terrorism | ... urrent military engagement known by the United States and its allies as the | |
| World War II | ... vertheless, Queen Wilhelmina became a symbol of the Dutch resistance during | . The moral authority of the Monarchy was restored because of her rule. Af ... |
| World War I | Following the defeat of Austria-Hungary in | , in the Aftermath of World War I the Empire was broken up based loosely o ... |
| Galician slaughter | ... citing the villagers against noble-dominated insurgent units; it led to the | , a violent anti-feudal rebellion, beyond the intended scope of the provoc ... |
| Napoleonic Wars | ... r, had been briefly imprisoned by the British at Dartmoor Prison during the | ; he broke jail, made his way back to the sea, and later left his ship in ... |
| Gulf War | ... 16, 1991 went unaired due to pre-emption for coverage the beginning of the | ; the program had already been shot before word came out of Baghdad that U ... |
| Persian Gulf War | ... r heightened when Saddam Hussein's Iraq invaded Kuwait, triggering the 1991 | |
| World War II | ... nistration in 1945, Kaohsiung developed rapidly. The port, badly damaged in | , was restored. It also became a fishing port for boats sailing to Philipp ... |
| World War II | ... the hospital moved to a new building in the city center of Bonn, and after | to the Venusberg on the western edge of Bonn. On January 1, 2001 the unive ... |
| Cold War | ... er Winston Churchill, to discuss relations with the Soviet Union during the | . Participants at the conference included Churchill, U.S. President Dwight ... |
| Yellow Turban Rebellion | ... riously challenged by large Daoist religious societies which instigated the | and the Five Pecks of Rice Rebellion. Following the death of Emperor Ling ... |
| Battle of Leuctra | ... ng Epaminondas wherever possible and does not even note his presence at the | . Xenophon, Hellenica, * Cawkwell, Introduction, 35–36; Hanson, Hoplites, ... |
| Revolt of the Ciompi | ... ompi), who in 1378 rose up in a brief revolt against oligarchic rule in the | . After their suppression, Florence came under the sway (1382–1434) of the ... |
| Lützen | ... Liberation, Blücher was again placed in high command, and he was present at | and Bautzen. During the armistice, he worked on the organization of the Pr ... |
| operation | ... nside the temple. She was killed on 31 October 1984 in retaliation for this | by her bodyguards |
| Napoleonic Wars | ... russia. It was administered within the Province of Westphalia following the | , and made part of the new state North Rhine-Westphalia after World War II |
| World War II | ... Ross said that she did not see her father until he returned from serving in | . Much has been made of whether her first name ends in an "a" or an "e". A ... |
| French Revolutionary Wars | After the | , by the Treaty of Campo Formio, this region was ceded to the French Repub ... |
| Trafalgar | ... f the fastest vessels in the Royal Navy, brought the news of the victory at | and the death of Admiral Nelson back to England |
| World War II | ... ently has about 65,000 inhabitants, but it only got a real city scope after | . But it has been an official city since 1809. After Coevorden, then a vil ... |
| Seven Years' War | Russia and Prussia fought each other during the | (1756–1763) until Peter's accession. Peter's insistence on supporting Fred ... |
| World War II | ... om 869 in 1925 to 1,300 in 1929. The population fell to 949 by 1931. During | the Lone Star Army Ammunition Plant and the Red River Army Depot were cons ... |
| Anglo-Boer War | ... ess in the Cape Colony continued at a steady pace until the outbreak of the | s in 1899 |
| Napoleonic Wars | ... ars, starting with an unpromising beginning as a seasick midshipman. As the | progress, he gains promotion steadily as a result of his skill and daring, ... |
| World War I | ... Franz Joseph as Emperor, in Sarajevo by a Serb nationalist group triggered | . The defeat of the Central Powers in 1918 resulted in the disintegration ... |
| Greek Military Junta | ... , playing in Illya Darling. She immediately joined the struggle against the | and started an international campaign, travelling all over the world to in ... |
| coup | ... mber of the Hanahoe, a secret military group, he gave critical support to a | later that year in which Chun became the de facto ruler of South Korea. Ro ... |
| marooned | ... d the houses of the native town. Crusoe opposed all these, therefore he was | , and settled at the Bay of Bengal for a long time |
| Finnish War | ... n September 1807. British men-of-war supported the Swedish fleet during the | and had victories over the Russians in the Gulf of Finland in July 1808 an ... |
| Battle of Chancellorsville | ... he Potomac, bringing fame to himself and embarrassment to the North. At the | , he distinguished himself as a temporary commander of the wounded Stonewa ... |
| World War I | ... Bell was inducted into a Mobile Hospital Unit of the United States Army for | and after training, he was deployed to France in May 1918. As a result of ... |
| Gunfight at the O.K. Corral | Outlaw Cowboy Ike Clanton, who was present at the | , was shot dead in Springerville by detective Jonas V. Brighton when he re ... |
| Napoleonic Wars | Residual military conflict resulting from the | in Europe had been steadily worsening throughout James Madison's first ter ... |
| Uruguayan War | ... was also victorious in three international conflicts (the Platine War, the | and the Paraguayan War) under his rule, as well as prevailing in several o ... |
| World War II | ... considered by many as a principal cause of the depression. Only during the | the recession ended in the United States. Also during the war, in 1944, 44 ... |
| Cold War | ... da, having made numerous personal visits. The meeting was called to discuss | tensions arising from construction of the Berlin Wall. The most recent sum ... |
| World War II | ... unist Party (ICP), whose members were almost exclusively Vietnamese, before | ; the 10-year struggle for independence from the French, when a separate C ... |
| Swabian War | ... primary form of effective infantry combat for the next forty years, and the | saw the first conflict in which both sides had large formations of well-tr ... |
| American Revolutionary War | ... h bank of the Mohawk River. It was named in honor of Richard Montgomery, an | general killed in 1775 at the Battle of Quebec. The county seat is Fonda |
| Warsaw Uprising | The most widely known AK operation was the failed | . The AK also defended Polish civilians against atrocities committed by no ... |
| Battle of Flodden Field | ... III to Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk to commemorate his victory at the | . It is a modification of the Royal coat of arms of Scotland. Instead of i ... |
| World War I | During the | , Germany's Pacific island territories were seized and they became League ... |
| Peninsular War | ... ops in Belgium were largely second-line troops; most of the veterans of the | had been sent to America to fight the |
| Gulf War | ... cant deployments the Nimitz class was involved in during the 1990s were the | and its aftermath, and Operation Southern Watch in southern Iraq. All acti ... |
| World War II | ... nd Harry Secombe became friends while serving in the Royal Artillery during | . Famously, Milligan first encountered Secombe after Gunner Milligan's art ... |
| Gettysburg | ... . The Army of the Potomac, which camped at Prospect Hall for weeks prior to | , went on to fight several major battles. The National Museum of Civil War ... |
| World War II | He was a successful commercial pilot before | , working airmail routes in Europe, Africa and South America. At the outbr ... |
| World War I | During | , European governments introduced border passport requirements for securit ... |
| Second World War | In the early months of the | , the German Navy sends out merchant raiders to attack Allied shipping. Th ... |
| World War I | ... rallied to the French side at the start of World War II as they had done in | . But the colons were generally sympathetic to the collaborationist Vichy ... |
| Diadochi | While the | were warring amongst themselves, the Mauryan Empire was developing in the ... |
| Syrian Wars | ... Alexander's empire, the Seleucid Empire and Ptolemaic Egypt, during the six | of the 3rd–1st centuries BCE: "After two centuries of peace under the Pers ... |
| Thirty Years' War | In 1618, the | broke out, and John Sigismund himself died the following year. His son, Ge ... |
| Spanish Civil War | Hill attempted to join the International Brigade and fight in the | , but was rejected. Following the outbreak of the Second World War, he joi ... |
| Easter Rising | ... as executed by a British firing squad because of his leadership role in the | of 1916 |
| Leisler's Rebellion | With his brother-in-law Peter Schuyler, he led the opposition in Albany to | . He served as Secretary for Indian Affairs from 1695 until his death. In ... |
| American Revolutionary War | In 1784, following end of the | , the name of Tryon County was changed to Montgomery County. This change w ... |
| Battle of Vertières | ... nst the French, culminating in the last major battle of the revolution, the | . On 18 November 1803, black and mulatto forces under Dessalines and Pétio ... |
| Somali Civil War | ... vil unrest, faring relatively better than other Somali cities, although the | still presents many problems. Hotels and other businesses have hired priva ... |
| Battle of the Standard | ... est Anglo-Saxon warfare and the first great English archery victory was the | in 1138 |
| Russo-Japanese War | ... the foreign loans critical to the Japanese government during and after the | of 1904-1905, he was appointed to the House of Peers of the Diet of Japan ... |
| war with Japan | ... issions for the once all-powerful Manchus. Still, the central lesson of the | was not lost on the Russian General Staff: an Asian country using Western ... |
| World War II | ... an non-combatants, mostly Jews, in the countries occupied by Germany during | . Himmler was responsible for establishing and operating concentration cam ... |
| massacre of Azerbaijanis | ... aijani Communist Party, becoming the country's first President. Following a | at Khojali in Nagorno-Karabakh in March 1992, Mutalibov resigned and the c ... |
| World War II | ... o play chess at the age of five on a train evacuating from Leningrad during | . He first drew wide attention in 1947 at age ten, when he defeated Soviet ... |
| Burgundian Wars | ... victories of the Swiss cantons against Charles the Bold of Burgundy in the | , in which the Swiss participated in 1476 and 1477. In the battles of Gran ... |
| besieged Cadiz | ... area around Lisbon (behind their impregnable lines of Torres Vedras) and to | . Napoleon married Marie-Louise, an Austrian Archduchess, with the aim of ... |
| Operation Southern Watch | ... s was involved in during the 1990s were the Gulf War and its aftermath, and | in southern Iraq. All active vessels were engaged in both of these to some ... |
| Revolutionary War | ... lly called West Bowdoinham Plantation, it was settled some years before the | . In 1773, William Bowdoin died, and by 1779 James Bowdoin had legal claim ... |
| World War II | Gide left France for Africa in 1942 and lived in Tunis until the end of | . In 1947, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature. He devoted much of h ... |
| Battle of Tolbiac | ... of the Louvre and was intended to glorify French military history from the | (traditionally dated 495) to the Battle of Wagram (5–6 July 1809). While a ... |
| Trafalgar | ... e only time that the two men met; Nelson was killed at his great victory at | just seven weeks later |
| First World War | ... rg and Gotha" to "Windsor" due to the anti-German sympathies aroused by the | . George V's reign was marked by the separation of Ireland into Northern I ... |
| Battle of Wagram | ... ilitary history from the Battle of Tolbiac (traditionally dated 495) to the | (5–6 July 1809). While a number of the paintings displayed in the galerie ... |
| American Revolutionary War | ... y hero who fought with and significantly aided the American Army during the | . The city's economy was primarily based on agriculture until the 1940s, w ... |
| World War II | After | , Syracuse University began to transform into a major research institution ... |
| Battle of Dupplin Moor | ... e early reign of King Edward III, with significant English victories at the | and the Battle of Halidon Hill |
| Second Anglo-Dutch War | ... d he was chiefly responsible for the attack on the Smyrna fleet and for the | , during which he ironically married the beautiful Dutch Elisabeth van Nas ... |
| Battle of Salamis | ... 06 BC against Ptolemy he defeated Menelaus, Ptolemy's brother, in the naval | , completely destroying the naval power of Egypt. Demetrius conquered Cypr ... |
| Battle of Roncevaux Pass | ... muladi family of Muslim leaders, annihilated the rearguard of Franks in the | through an ambush of a coaliated vascon and Muslim force |
| Revolutions of 1989 | ... that swept the Eastern Bloc, starting in Poland. Collectively known as the | , they heralded the dissolution of the Soviet Union two years later and th ... |
| notable persecutor of Christians | ... g of the 4th century AD, but this seems impossible in that Diocletian was a | |
| Battle of Gaza | ... er to defend Syria against Ptolemy the son of Lagus; he was defeated at the | , but soon partially repaired his loss by a victory in the neighbourhood o ... |
| Platine War | ... monarchy. Brazil was also victorious in three international conflicts (the | , the Uruguayan War and the Paraguayan War) under his rule, as well as pre ... |
| Second Northern War | ... al Prussia in order to territorially connect his two fiefs. Yet, during the | , Charles X Gustav of Sweden invaded Ducal Prussia and dictated the Treaty ... |
| Iraq War | ... in 1999. Elements of the Polish Armed Forces have since participated in the | and the Afghanistan War |
| Battle of Halidon Hill | ... I, with significant English victories at the Battle of Dupplin Moor and the | |
| Battle of Jemappes | ... f the French Revolution. In the Netherlands, he commanded the center at the | on 6 November. He opened the campaign of 1793 with the victory of Aldenhov ... |
| World War II | ... alition government with his main adversary, Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp. During | , in which Sweden maintained a policy of neutrality, he presided over a go ... |
| World War II | ... ds now known as Lake Lincolndale, Lake Purdys and Lake Shenorock. Following | , the rural countryside of Somers continued attracting “weekenders”, many ... |
| Operation Torch | ... the fall of the Vichy regime in Algeria (November 11, 1942) as a result of | , the Free French commander in chief in North Africa slowly rescinded repr ... |
| Battle of Kringen | The | (Slaget ved Kringen) took place in August 1612, just downstream of Dovre, ... |
| Battle of Monte Cassino | During the | (January - May 1944) the Abbey made up one section of the 100 mile Gustav ... |
| American Revolutionary War | ... te County" was changed to Washington County to honor George Washington, the | general and later President of the United States of America |
| Old Zürich War | ... n from 1440 to 1450 due to a conflict over the territory of Toggenburg (the | ). The Confederation's power and wealth increased significantly, with vict ... |
| Bussaco | ... a better laxative than a source of calories. After the subsequent defeat at | , Massená's army marched on to Coimbra where much of the city's old univer ... |
| Battle of Toulouse | ... es français sont perdus!" ("The French are lost!"). Another time, after the | , when an aide brought him the news of Napoleon's abdication, he broke int ... |
| invaded from the east | ... the Germans invaded Poland from the west and, on 17 September, the Soviets | |
| Battle of Legnica | ... n Długosz mentions usage of poisonous gas by the Mongol army in 1241 in the | . However, his report is not firsthand, as he was born in the 15th century ... |
| American Revolutionary War | ... States. It was named in honor of Francis Marion, a Brigadier General of the | , known as the "Swamp Fox". As of the , the city population was 1,927 |
| Glorious Revolution | ... ved from power was James VII and II, who fled into exile in 1688 during the | |
| World War II | During | , Feijenoord played their matches at Sparta Rotterdam's Kasteel, as the Na ... |
| First World War | After the | , Max Weber was among the founders of the liberal German Democratic Party. ... |
| World War II | Originating in a USO activity created by Canadian Don Reid for | soldiers, the game was developed into a radio show by Reid and John Moses. ... |
| World War II | ... aft engine built by BMW and used in a number of German military aircraft of | . Production versions of the engine generated between 1,560 and 2,000 PS ( ... |
| World War II | During the rise of the Third Reich and through | , van der Waerden remained at Leipzig, and passed up opportunities to leav ... |
| Yugoslav Wars | ... make up 7.0% of the total population. Due to emigration resulting from the | in the 1990s, Indianapolis has over 10,000 people from the former Yugoslav ... |
| Bloody Sunday | ... ion in Northern Ireland continued to deteriorate during Lynch's first term. | (30 January 1972), saw the killing of 14 unarmed civilians by British para ... |
| Battle of Alalia | Around 540 BC, the | led to a new distribution of power in the western Mediterranean Sea. Thoug ... |
| Acadia | ... e Cajuns are a group of Francophones who arrived in Louisiana after leaving | in Canada. The city of New Orleans, Louisiana, being a major port, has act ... |
| Guadalcanal Campaign | ... n's resulting strategic vulnerability in the South Pacific and launched the | that, along with the New Guinea Campaign, eventually broke Japanese defens ... |
| World Wars | ... fought in almost all French wars including the Franco-Prussian War and both | . The Foreign Legion has remained an important part of the French Army, su ... |
| World War I | ... oration agreement was terminated in 1909, but re-established in 1910. After | in 1918 a new agreement was made that also included the Swedish Rederi AB ... |
| World War II | ... y, they have declined in significance greatly since the 19th century. Since | , defense industries in the region have also played a very important role ... |
| World War II | ... an influx of Scandinavian and European fishermen in the early 1900s. During | , the area was a strategic military site for the Aleutian Campaign, and ma ... |
| Wagram | ... eon to prepare and seize Vienna in early July. He defeated the Austrians at | , on 5–6 July. (It was during the middle of that battle that Marshal Berna ... |
| Mukden Incident | ... ts colonial empire. In 1931, 21 years later, Japan invaded Manchuria in the | . This culminated in the invasion of East, Southeast and South Asia in Wor ... |
| World War II | ... l towns or cities, particularly Villa Clara Province in central Cuba. After | , veterans relocated to Bergen County, causing a short-lived decline in th ... |
| World War II | By the end of the | , Moroccan troops took part of the French Expeditionary Force engaged in t ... |
| Austerlitz | ... er by Napoleon at Ulm, before the main Austro-Russian force was defeated at | on December 2. By the Treaty of Pressburg, Austria was forced to give up l ... |
| Battle of Edessa | ... them the general Sebastian, were killed in the worst Roman defeat since the | , the high point of the Crisis of the Third Century. The battle was a deva ... |
| 1960 U-2 incident | ... ch activists wanted. Eisenhower was also criticized for his handling of the | and the international embarrassment, the Soviet Union's perceived leadersh ... |
| Operation Pedestal | ... ter which was sunk by two Italian torpedo boat (M.S. 16 and M.S. 21) during | on 13 August 1942 |
| Battle of Waterloo | ... hich, together with a Prussian army under Blücher, defeated Napoleon at the | . Wellesley's battle record is exemplary, ultimately participating in some ... |
| World War I | ... rked by the German Revolution of 1918–1919 in Munich and Berlin, the end of | , the exile of Kaiser Wilhelm, and the establishment of Bavaria as a free ... |
| English Civil War | ... e and such units as arquebusiers and grenadiers began appearing. Before the | , a pamphlet by William Neade entitled The Double-Armed Man advocated that ... |
| World War II | ... ts in wait, the Europeans returned to a very different Southeast Asia after | . Indonesia declared independence in 17 August 1945 and subsequently fough ... |
| World War II | The use of lead for potable water declined sharply after | because of increased awareness of the dangers of lead poisoning. At this t ... |
| World War I | ... n honor of Lieutenants Samuel H. Davis and Oscar Monthan, two Tucsonans and | –era pilots who died in separate military aircraft accidents. Davis, who d ... |
| Spring Offensive | ... ies over the British in the German offensives in March and April 1918. (See | .) A Star of the Grand Cross of the Iron Cross was manufactured for World ... |
| French invasion of Russia | ... retreat until mid-January 1942; by this time the losses were comparable to | in 1812 |
| Second World Wars | ... es of the British Army and other Commonwealth nations in both the First and | (these Commonwealth nations included Canada, Australia and South Africa, a ... |
| Battle of Bicocca | ... cline of the combat column of pikemen was starkly displayed at the terrible | in 1522, for instance, where arquebusiers contributed to the heavy defeat ... |
| Battle of Trenton | ... ral Nathanael Greene, commander of George Washington's left wing during the | , made his headquarters during the winter of 1776 |
| Battle of Stiklestad | ... candinavian countries. The end of the Viking-era in Norway is marked by the | in 1030. Although Olafr Haraldsson's (later known as Olav the Holy) army l ... |
| Spanish Civil War | ... 936, the organisation suffered a temporary setback with the outbreak of the | , as many Catholic priests and religious figures, including Escrivá, were ... |
| Iran hostage crisis | The pregame festivities honored the end of the | (which was announced 5 days before the game), which featured a performance ... |
| Hundred Days | ... he served as the ambassador to France and was granted a dukedom. During the | in 1815, he commanded the allied army which, together with a Prussian army ... |
| Battle of Ane | ... cht at the hands of Drenthe's peasants, in what has come to be known as the | . A battle, incidentally, in which the Bishop was killed. His successor or ... |
| World War I | ... last Allied power to withdraw (doing so in 1925). Despite its small role in | (and the Western powers' rejection of its bid for a racial equality clause ... |
| World War II | ... Bar Airport, named for the owner's two daughters, Nancy and Barbara. During | Nan-Bar Airport served as an accessory airfield for Naval Air Station Gros ... |
| World War II | ... in films, beginning with those films made in Great Britain during and after | – she was one of J. Arthur Rank's 'well-spoken young starlets' – followed ... |
| World War I | ... led Risør home. But the transition to steamships and the economic damage of | destroyed Risør’s shipping industry |
| Pequot War | ... 1637 the Montauketts sided for their own protection with the English in the | in Connecticut. In the aftermath the Montauketts were to sell Gardiners Is ... |
| Battle of Ligny | ... right wing of the army, he attacked and defeated Blücher's Prussians at the | . The Prussian centre gave way under more heavy French assaults, but the f ... |
| Selma to Montgomery marches | ... , police violence, and economic retaliation, the campaign culminated in the | --initiated and organized by SCLC's Director of Direct Action, James Bevel ... |
| Battle of Adwa | ... ibuted to the victorious war against Italy a quarter century earlier at the | . Another member of his entourage, Mulugeta Yeggazu, actually fought at Ad ... |
| Seven Years' War | ... asury of the Fortress of Louisbourg after it fell to the British during the | |
| World War II | #The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng set in | Penang, was nominated for 2007 Man Booker Prize |
| Battle of Pydna | ... fairs and engaged in a series of wars with Macedon. Macedon's defeat at the | in 168 signaled the end of Antigonid power in Greece. In 146 B.C. Macedoni ... |
| Battle of Waterloo | ... as presented to Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher for defeating Napoleon in the | , 1815. That medal is called the Blücherstern (Blücher's Star). The second ... |
| Falklands War | ... Trident with some success when their influence was at its height after the | |
| World War I | Increased aircraft traffic during | led to the construction of landing fields. Aircraft had to approach these ... |
| Battle of Aljubarrota | ... loyal Constable and talented supporter, repelled the attack on the decisive | (14 August 1385), where the Castilian army was virtually annihilated. John ... |
| Battle of Marignano | ... earlier wars suffered a first setback in 1515 with the Swiss defeat in the | |
| Dubingiai | ... ish and Lithuanian civilians in June 1944 in the Glitiškės (Glinciszki) and | (Dubinki) villages |
| Battle of Fallen Timbers | ... ed States. The confederacy, numbering around 1,000 men, was defeated at the | . This battle forced the confederacy to sign the Treaty of Greenville |
| World War I | A new generation of Muslim leadership emerged in Algeria at the time of | and grew to maturity during the 1920s and 1930s. Various groups were forme ... |
| World War II | ... ing all existing houses, or kota, and visible traces of Sami culture. After | , the pressure was relaxed somewhat, though the legacy was evident into re ... |
| World War I | ... ulevard north of the Mercury Boulevard, Hilton Village was developed during | as a planned community. Beyond this point to the west, much of the city ta ... |
| Battle of Rocroi | ... rance's greatest victory in the war against the Habsburg Empire came at the | (1643), five days after Louis's death—apparently from complications of int ... |
| World War II | ... d on a family in a rural Virginia community during the Great Depression and | . The series pilot aired as a television movie entitled The Homecoming: A ... |
| Third Anglo-Dutch War | ... the Dutch terms of peace which were indignantly refused, failing to end the | . But Arlington's support of the court policy was entirely subordinate to ... |
| 2003 invasion of Iraq | ... regard to the War on Terror, including the 2001 war in Afghanistan and the | |
| Yom Kippur War | ... פיקוד המרכז). He retired in September 1973, but rejoined the army when the | broke out on 6 October 1973. A close friend of IDF Chief of Staff David El ... |
| War on Terror | Republicans secured gains in the 2002 and 2004 elections, with the | being one of the top issues favoring them. Since the September 11, 2001 at ... |
| Battle of Kadesh | ... lassical antiquity portray the power and feats of its military leaders. The | in 1274 BC was one of the defining points of Pharaoh Ramesses II's reign a ... |
| World War II | During | , all soldiers of the Philippine military were incorporated in the U.S. Ar ... |
| World War I | ... he planned town and Maryville, would later be annexed by the city of Alcoa. | brought about a spike in the demand for aluminum, and the company quickly ... |
| Swabian War | The city had remained neutral through the | of 1499 despite being plundered by soldiers on both sides. The Treaty of B ... |
| Battle of Vitoria | ... arshal after leading the allied forces to victory against the French at the | in 1813. Following Napoleon's exile in 1814, he served as the ambassador t ... |
| English Civil War | The Battle of Naseby took place on June 14, 1645, during the | . In the area called Broad Moor a small distance north of the village the ... |
| World War II | ... r and security. Algerian Muslims rallied to the French side at the start of | as they had done in World War I. But the colons were generally sympathetic ... |
| American-led 2001 overthrow | In reaction to the attacks, Kennedy was a supporter of the | of the Taliban government in Afghanistan. However, Kennedy strongly oppose ... |
| World War II | By the end of | , nearly all the Kuvaszok in Hungary had been killed. The dogs had such a ... |
| World War II | During | , the region was invaded by the Japanese Imperial Army and included in the ... |
| Peninsular War | Meanwhile, in the | , Arthur Wellesley renewed the Anglo-Portuguese advance into Spain just af ... |
| Battle of Neerwinden | ... ved instrumental in causing the complete defeat of Charles Dumouriez at the | . In October, however, his victorious career suffered a reverse at the Bat ... |
| Chancellorsville | ... he would be replacing General Joseph Hooker after the latter's disaster at | in May. The Army of the Potomac, which camped at Prospect Hall for weeks p ... |
| Russo-Japanese War | In the | (1904-5), the Trans-Siberian Railway was seen as one of the reasons why Ru ... |
| World War II | ... singen, Netherlands, for Rotterdamsche Lloyd (now Nedlloyd). Interrupted by | and two bombing raids, the ship was not launched until July 1946 as the Wi ... |
| World War I | ... d to the and documentation of materials related to military activities from | to the Iraq war, as well as documenting the history of the air base itself |
| Mukden Incident | ... vince and the customs revenues from the port city of Tianjin. Following the | and the Japanese invasion of Zhang's own domain of Manchuria in 1931, Zhan ... |
| World War II | ... ed in the U.S. Air Force in 1942 after completing high school. A veteran of | Noland took advantage of the G.I. Bill to study art at Black Mountain Coll ... |
| Battle of Gulnabad | ... power in Kandahar and decisively defeated the Persian Safavid Empire at the | in 1722 |
| World War II | ... peacetime SS until 1939, replaced by a wartime SS lasting until the end of | . The group was formally disbanded upon the defeat of Nazi Germany |
| Battle of the Catalaunian Plains | ... 51 and marching as far as Aurelianum (Orléans) before being defeated at the | |
| Napoleonic Wars | ... esley rose to prominence as a general during the Peninsular campaign of the | , and was promoted to the rank of field marshal after leading the allied f ... |
| Iraq war | ... losevic that Yugoslavia join the Union of Russia and Belarus. Following the | of 2003, the United States intelligence agencies issued a report that anno ... |
| World War I | ... orces. Puerto Rican soldiers have served in every US military conflict from | to the current military engagement known by the United States and its alli ... |
| Thirty Years' War | During the | , Switzerland was a relative "oasis of peace and prosperity" (Grimmelshaus ... |
| Second World War | ... t in the Spanish Civil War, but was rejected. Following the outbreak of the | , he joined the British Army, initially as a Private in the Field Security ... |
| Nine Years' War | ... w-Vlaamse Alliantie (N-VA) - Nieuwerkerken - Nieuwpoort, Belgium - Nijlen - | - Ninove- North Sea Fisheries Conventio |
| Russo–Swedish War | ... ugavpils was granted Magdeburg town rights. In the 17th century, during the | initiated by Alexis of Russia, the Russians captured Daugavpils, renamed t ... |
| World War II | In a more "secular" cause, prior to | he supported the work of restoration-forester Richard St. Barbe Baker to r ... |
| Western Sahara War | ... een 1976–78 and had operated as a transport and observation squadron in the | . During the same time two Cessna 337s and two DHC-5 Buffalo STOL transpor ... |
| World War II | Luck favored Tanaka during the endgame of | . None of his major buildings were damaged in the firebombing of Tokyo, an ... |
| World War I | In 1914, during | , Leuven was looted by German troops. They set fire to a large part of the ... |
| Battle of Pavia | ... arl of Suffolk and was the leading Yorkist pretender until his death at the | on 24 February 1525 |
| American Revolutionary War | ... verland into Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was torched in the night. After the | , the pronunciation of the town was changed to Green-witch to differentiat ... |
| Malayan Emergency | ... lonization process. After suppressing the communist insurrection during the | from 1948 to 1960, Britain granted independence to Malaya and later, Singa ... |
| Carnation Revolution | Following a 1974 coup (the " | "), the new government favoured a gradual decolonisation process for Portu ... |
| Warring States | ... rial dynasty was the Qin Dynasty (221–206 BCE). The Qin unified the Chinese | by conquest, but their empire became unstable after the death of the first ... |
| Siege of Yorktown | ... shington and Comte de Rochambeau defeated British General Cornwallis in the | . His surrender on October 19, 1781, led to peace negotiations in Paris an ... |
| Soviet invasion of Hungary | ... Party. He left the party in 1956, with many other intellectuals, after the | when one of his reports was rejected |
| Operation Eagle Claw | One of the first major operations in which the ships were involved was | launched by USS Nimitz in 1980 after she had deployed to the Indian Ocean ... |
| Battle of Borodino | ... mander-in-Chief by Tsar Alexander I. Finally, the two armies engaged in the | on 7 September, in the vicinity of Moscow. The battle was the largest and ... |
| Afghanistan War | ... of the Polish Armed Forces have since participated in the Iraq War and the | |
| Friedland | ... ussians to withdraw further north. Napoleon then routed the Russian army at | (14 June 1807). Following this defeat, Alexander had to make peace with Na ... |
| Shaba I | ... attle for Quneitra) and intervened decisively in the 1977 conflict known as | to save Zaire's regime. The Armed Forces also took a symbolic part in the ... |
| Russo-Japanese War | The | 1904-1905, was the first great war of the 20th century. It was the first m ... |
| Cold War | ... litary collaboration began during World War II and continued throughout the | on both a bilateral basis through NORAD and through multilateral participa ... |
| Spanish attack | ... ded in suppressing piracy. In 1720, Rogers led local militia to drive off a | |
| World War II | ... y for Il diavolo (1963). Sordi acted alongside Britain’s David Niven in the | comedy The Best of Enemies and in 1965 he was in another highly regarded c ... |
| World War II | ... by brothers Miles and Sam Collier, and dissolved in 1941 at the outbreak of | . The SCCA was formed in 1944, at first as only an enthusiast group. The S ... |
| Battle of Assaye | ... ed major-general won a decisive victory over the Maratha Confederacy at the | in 1803 |
| Greek military junta of 1967–1974 | A political activist during the | , she became a member of the Hellenic Parliament in 1977 and the first fem ... |
| Spanish Civil War | Lardner held strong left-wing views and during the | he helped raise funds for the Republican cause. He was also involved in or ... |
| Battle of Adrianople | ... ered, but fired by their zeal, Constantine's army emerged victorious in the | . Licinius fled across the Bosphorus and appointed Martius Martinianus, th ... |
| Napoleonic Wars | ... always off on another mission when a great naval victory occurs during the | |
| World War II | ... in 2002 with another Wimsey/Vane novel, A Presumption of Death, set during | and based on some short wartime writings of Sayers known as "The Wimsey Pa ... |
| Ardeatine massacre | ... several atrocities against Italian civilians in occupied zones, such as the | and the Sant'Anna di Stazzema massacre. On June 4, 1944, the German occupa ... |
| Marengo | ... lessness, and the Austrians were defeated by Bonaparte, now First Consul at | , which forced them to withdraw from Italy, and then in Germany at Hohenli ... |
| World War II | ... Micronesia and elsewhere. Henry de Monfreid stated in his books that before | , in the Horn of Africa, whips were made from the tail of big stingrays, a ... |
| French Revolutionary Wars | ... c and Prussia and Spain ended the First Coalition against France during the | . In more recent times, the World Zionist Organization held its first cong ... |
| English Civil War | ... he Great Plague again killed around one third of the population. During the | Norfolk was largely Parliamentarian. The economy and agriculture of the re ... |
| Spanish Civil War | At the beginning of the | the colony remained loyal to the Republican government. On July 24, 1936, ... |
| Yorktown | In 1782, following the British defeat at | , a Spanish fleet appeared off the coast of Nassau, and the city surrender ... |
| First World War | ... date an outspoken socialist, often (but not always, as the beginning of the | ) sympathizing with pacifist views. His later works became increasingly po ... |
| World War I | In 1914, Japan joined the Entente powers during | , and found it possible to capture German colonies in China and Micronesia ... |
| World War II | During | , shipping again used the canal to avoid U-boats patrolling offshore. The ... |
| Chilean Civil War | ... t sinking of an armoured ship by a torpedo boat occurred in 1891 during the | |
| World War II | ... ly one perpetrated on such a scale against American troops in Europe during | , caused an uproar at the time. However, the number of victims was quite l ... |
| Gulf War | ... I to save Zaire's regime. The Armed Forces also took a symbolic part in the | among other Arab armies |
| Cold War | The nuclear reactors were decommissioned at the end of the | , and the Hanford site is now the focus of the world's largest environment ... |
| Kargil War | ... ashmir and the wars of 1947–48, 1962, 1965, and 1971, and recently the 1999 | . The party strongly advocates the view that Kashmir should remain an inte ... |
| World War I | As part of a series of studies conducted by the United States Navy after | into the possibility of submarine-borne observation and scouting aircraft, ... |
| World War II | Through a tragic coincidence intended by neither of the opposing sides in | , Bari gained the unwelcome distinction of being the only European city to ... |
| American Revolutionary War | ... d the Hudson River at this location, Dobbs Ferry played a vital role in the | . In July and August, 1781, during the seventh year of the war, Continenta ... |
| Attica Prison riot | ... York's Attica Correctional Facility, which was the location of the infamous | that occurred on September 13, 1971. That prison and the New York Wyoming ... |
| Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire | ... ittle reliable information about the area in the 16th century following the | . Some state that the first Spanish settlement was founded by Álvar Núñez ... |
| World War I | After serving in | , Brown was given his first co-directing credit (with Tourneur) for The Gr ... |
| Second World War | On 7 April 1939, with the storm clouds of the | gathering in Europe and the Pacific, Joseph Lyons became the first Prime M ... |
| World War II | Although Portugal was neutral during | , in December 1941, Portuguese Timor was occupied by Australian and Dutch ... |
| World War II | ... strict in Grosse Pointe. Many of the houses in the Park were built prior to | , and many of these were designed by noted architects using the finest mat ... |
| surrendered without a fight | ... at Yorktown, a Spanish fleet appeared off the coast of Nassau, and the city | |
| Battle of Balanjar | ... slim army under Abd ar-Rahman ibn Rabiah was defeated outside the town (see | ) |
| Katzbach | ... sed other generals to follow his lead. He defeated Marshal MacDonald at the | , and by his victory over Marshal Marmont at Möckern led the way to the de ... |
| American Revolutionary War | Crosswicks played a role during the | . On June 23, 1778, British soldiers near the Crosswicks Creek shot the ho ... |
| Battle of Tsushima | ... ral Tōgō Heihachirō on the battleship , assisting in Japan's victory at the | . During this time, he suffered from a very weak stomach, and was vomiting ... |
| Battle of Wagram | After Archduke Charles' Austrian army was defeated by Napoleon at the | , the Armistice of Znaim was signed. Point IV of the agreement stated that ... |
| Cold War | During the | , countering the threat of communism was a major theme in the decolonizati ... |
| Fall of Quebec | ... region resettled slowly in the 1750s until peace was assured with the 1759 | |
| war | ... largely adopted, with James Byrnes appointed to carry them out. During the | Baruch remained a trusted adviser and confidant of President Roosevelt, wh ... |
| Battle of Waterloo | ... Battle of the Golden Spurs - Battle of Turnhout (1789) - Battle of Warns - | - Baudouin I of Belgium - Beaulieu International Group - Beaumont - Beer i ... |
| World War II | ... rowar sentiments, and supported ultra-nationalist causes through the end of | . After Japan's victories over China and Russia, the ultranationalists con ... |
| First World War | ... s beyond Yeading to Northolt seems to have been by footpath only before the | . During the War, a properly constructed road was built linking the Great ... |
| Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 | ... Western nations suffered for a time following the military crackdown on the | , although in recent years China has improved its diplomatic links with th ... |
| Napoleonic Wars | ... ick-Lüneburg (later described as the Elector of Hanover). At the end of the | , the Electorate was enlarged to become the capital of the Kingdom of Hano ... |
| King William's War | ... fled in 1676 during King Philip's War and returned in 1677. In 1689 during | , they were driven out again, and the village remained a desolate waste fo ... |
| World War II | ... regon State University to study engineering, attending for a semester. With | in progress, Stevens attempted to join the Navy and serve in Naval Aviatio ... |
| First Jewish–Roman War | ... have long resisted Hasmonean dominance, however, and indeed as late as the | was still considered Idumean. Herod the Great built the wall which still s ... |
| World War II | ... exposure from a full body scan is the same as standing 2.4 km away from the | atomic bomb blasts in Japan), especially in children, the benefits that st ... |
| War of the League of Cognac | ... o the site of negotiations in 1529 that led to France's withdrawal from the | |
| World War II | ... d Esther Walton, raise their seven children during the Great Depression and | . The family's story is narrated at the opening and closing of each episod ... |
| invaded | ... ncursions into Thai territory was in December 1941 when the Empire of Japan | then occupied the country, and in the 1980s with the Vietnamese incursions ... |
| Battle of Isandlwana | ... se at hand were decisions that the British were soon to regret. The ensuing | was the greatest victory that the Zulu kingdom would enjoy during the war. ... |
| Siege of Boston | In 1775 during the | in the American Revolutionary War a British ship visited Fort Pond Bay in ... |
| World War II | ... unding area was home to a number of prisoner-of-war camp towards the end of | . The camps were disbanded and prisoners released after the war |
| Battle of Lepanto | At the | (1571), the Holy League, formed by Spain, Venice, the Papal States and oth ... |
| World War II | ... d the film has an alternate ending for European audiences in recognition of | , which the US had not yet entered |
| World War II | Elverum municipality served as a temporary capital of Norway during the | German invasion. On 9 April 1940 Norwegian troops prevented German parachu ... |
| Russo-Japanese War | During the | , Katō served as chief of staff to Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō on the battlesh ... |
| Battle of Chester | ... rom the Britons by the Kingdom of Northumbria after the brutal and decisive | in the early 7th century. Deverdoeu was still one of two Welsh language na ... |
| Rebellion of the Seven States | ... adually lost all vestiges of their independence, particularly following the | . The Xiongnu, a nomadic confederation which dominated the eastern Eurasia ... |
| Kurukshetra War | ... he Panchatantra often had stories within them. In the epic Mahabharata, the | is narrated by a character in Krishna Dwaipayana Vyasa's Jaya, which itsel ... |
| Fourth Anglo-Mysore War | ... ey saw action in the Netherlands and later in India, where he fought in the | at the Battle of Seringapatam. He was appointed governor of Seringapatam a ... |
| World War II | ... érieure (ENS) in Paris. However, he found himself enlisted in the run-up to | , and like most French soldiers following the Fall of France Althusser was ... |
| Napoleonic Wars | Risør played a role in the | in 1807-1814, when Denmark–Norway took France's side, and therefore became ... |
| World War II | ... port became Tucson Army Air Field in 1940 as the United States prepared for | . The first assigned U.S. Army Air Corps units were the 1st Bomb Wing, 41s ... |
| Second World War | After the | , a large prefab estate was erected in Yeading. By 1956, Yeading's Tilbury ... |
| American Revolutionary War | When the | began, George Washington was selected to head the colonial army. During th ... |
| Winter War | On the eve of the | , when Marshal Mannerheim once again threatened to resign from his post as ... |
| Swabian War | ... ions and other international meetings. The Treaty of Basel (1499) ended the | . Two years later Basel joined the Swiss Confederation. The Peace of Basel ... |
| Russo-Japanese War | ... as well, largely due to his pacifist views and vocal opposition against the | in his newspaper columns, which came into conflict with the paper's offici ... |
| Thirty Years' War | ... sized chunk of Thuringia from 1631, plunging the town into the midst of the | |
| UNITA | ... Nations. The initial focus of the UN's investigation was on Jonas Savimbi's | movement in Angola, which was found to have bartered uncut diamonds for we ... |
| Battle of Maloyaroslavets | At the | the French tried to reach Kaluga, where they could find food and forage su ... |
| Cheriton Down | ... t live to study, who did only study to live." After the defeat of Hopton at | , Fuller retreated to Basing House. He took an active part in its defence, ... |
| Second World War | During the | , George VI wished his mother to be evacuated from London. Although she wa ... |
| Great War | ... rough a period of self-revision at the time to prepare itself for the post– | era, discontinuing old product lines and incubating new ones. The Great Wa ... |
| War of the League of Cambrai | ... ice against his former ally France. The conflict is also referred to as the | and lasted from 1508 to 1516. Cambrai was also the site of negotiations in ... |
| 2009 Eastern Congo offensive | ... eneral of police, ran a parallel chain of command in the east to direct the | , Operation Umoja Wetu; the regular chain of command was by-passed. Previo ... |
| World War II | In | , the United States, during the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign, inv ... |
| World War II | ... iking workers were shot and killed and the National Guard had to intervene. | proved immensely profitable for ALCOA, as aluminum was needed for aircraft ... |
| Battle of Ligny | ... ening, but too late to send help to the Prussians, who were defeated at the | on the same day. The Prussian defeat made Wellington's position at Quatre ... |
| World War II | ... ous Jefferson County, Virginia. The time is during the Great Depression and | , during the presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. John Walton Jr. — kn ... |
| Battle of Tours | ... ously halted at the Siege of Constantinople by the Byzantine Empire and the | by the Franks. The tide of Arab conquest came to an end in the middle of t ... |
| French Revolutionary Wars | ... areer, he led Austrian troops in the war against Ottoman Turkey. During the | he saw extensive fighting and rose to the rank of Field Marshal |
| captured | ... y, during the Russo–Swedish War initiated by Alexis of Russia, the Russians | Daugavpils, renamed the town Borisoglebsk and controlled the region for 11 ... |
| World War II | ... ce Frick, invited the writer to the United States to escape the outbreak of | in Europe. Yourcenar lectured in comparative literature in New York City a ... |
| action | ... in of HMS Illustrious which lay in Norfolk, Virginia, for repairs following | at Malta in the Mediterranean in January. During this period of relative i ... |
| Battle of Cape St Vincent | ... changed sides in 1796, but defeat by the British a few months later in the | was followed by the blockade of the main Spanish fleet in Cadiz. The run d ... |
| Warring States Period | ... mn Period, only occasionally deferring to the Zhou king. By the time of the | , there were seven powerful sovereign states, each with its own king, mini ... |
| plot against Hitler's life | ... given the SS jurisdiction over all concentration camps. In the wake of the | by a group of regular military generals in July 1944, the Führer came to d ... |
| World War I | After the defeat of Imperial Germany in | , a plebiscite was held on 20 March 1921 in Oppeln to determine if the cit ... |
| World War II | Following | , airport design became more sophisticated. Passenger buildings were being ... |
| Battle of Turnhout (1789) | ... ) - Battle of Sprimont - Battle of the Downs - Battle of the Golden Spurs - | - Battle of Warns - Battle of Waterloo - Baudouin I of Belgium - Beaulieu ... |
| Peninsular War | During the | the Aragonese capital was a site of two fierce sieges. During the siege in ... |
| World War II | During | , Dartmouth was one of 131 colleges and universities nationally that took ... |
| English Civil War | More damage was done by Parliamentary forces during the | . They are said to have used the church as their camp in 1643. Many window ... |
| World War II | ... hwest. The southeastern point is Jerbourg Point, used by the Germans during | |
| Second Boer War | ... rawing from an area. The term was first coined by Lord Kitchener during the | , as a measure to force the Boer generals into submission. The Scorched Ea ... |
| Battle of the Clouds | ... White Horse Inn on Swedesford Road. Because of bad weather, however, the " | " was never fought |
| expedition to Portugal | ... land of Belle Île in 1761, then served in 1762 with the British Army in the | . Contrary to prevailing medical opinion at the time, Hunter was against t ... |
| World War II | ... e popular in the prewar period, but war songs later became popular when the | occurred. |
| World War II | ... Iron, first mined by the Japanese during their occupation of the island in | , is the most important. Also important are titanium, manganese, tungsten, ... |
| World War I | When the Ottomans left at the beginning of | in 1915, the British And Ottomans recognised Sheikh Abdullah bin Jassim Al ... |
| Battle of Quipaipan | ... in 1527. It was captured by the generals of Atahualpa in April 1532 in the | . Nineteen months later, Spanish explorers invaded the city (see battle of ... |
| World War II | ... ment was abolished in 1945 after the defeat of Imperial Japan at the end of | . The territories formally claimed by the puppet state were first seized i ... |
| World War II | ... above the cupola of the theatre. This was taken down for its safety during | and was lost. In 2006, a replica of the original statue was restored in it ... |
| World War II | ... of soldiers based at what became nearby Fort Eustis during World War I and | . The larger-than-normal rural two-story frame depot is highly valued by r ... |
| War of the Spanish Succession | During the | the advancing army of German, British and Dutch troops defeated the Spanis ... |
| English Civil War | He was the grandson of Colonel Baker of Crook, Durham, who won fame in the | by his defence of Newcastle upon Tyne against the Scots. Thomas was educat ... |
| Seven Years' War | ... colonies and the mother country had been deteriorating since the end of the | in 1763. The war had plunged the British government deep into debt, and so ... |
| Battle of Guilford Court House | ... nstock Parish. In 1812, Captain Lemuel B. Mason, who had fought in the 1781 | in North Carolina during the Revolutionary War and subsequently retired to ... |
| World War I | ... he time supported the conviction of many Americans that the U.S. entry into | had been orchestrated by bankers and arms dealers for profit reasons. This ... |
| Battle of Largs | The Clan Ross by tradition fought at the | in 1263 in support of Alexander III of Scotland against King Haakon IV of ... |
| World War I | ... ze the economy and society. The opportunity for freedom appeared only after | , when the partitioning imperial powers were defeated by war and revolutio ... |
| Operation Blue Star | Immediately after | , authorities were unprepared for how quickly extremism spread and gained ... |
| Isly | ... ar he continued his operations with unvarying success. His great victory of | on 14 August 1844 won him the title of |
| Battle of Megiddo (609 BC) | ... echo met King Josiah of the Kingdom of Judah at Megiddo and killed him (see | ). The Book of Chronicles gives a lengthier account and 2 Chronicles 35:20 ... |
| World War I | Draftees from the territory participated in the European fronts of | in the battalions of the Senegalese Rifles. Between 1915 and 1916, the dis ... |
| War of the Spanish Succession | ... Malplaquet, fought on 11 September 1709, was one of the main battles of the | , which opposed the Bourbons of France and against an alliance whose major ... |
| World War II | ... road to an unpaved pedestrian path. The term trail gained popularity during | , when many servicemen from the United States were stationed in Australia, ... |
| Sennacherib besieged Jerusalem | ... silver and strip the gold from the doorposts of Solomon's Temple. However, | in 701 BC, though the city was never taken |
| Battle of Veii | ... the city, which may corroborate Livy's account of the Roman victory in the | |
| Seven Years' War | ... eagerly with the hope to find a suitable bread job in Dresden. However, the | ended all hopes to find anything in Oriental studies. His "letters on Arab ... |
| anti-Napoleonic coalition | ... wing Trafalgar, some were left in port under blockade until they joined the | in 1808. In the years immediately afterwards, the crisis of Spain's Napole ... |
| World War II | Coventry first twinned with Volgograd, Russia. After | Coventry twinned with Dresden as an act of peace and reconciliation, both ... |
| Battle of Resaca | The Civil War | was fought in and around Resaca in May 1864. Each year a re-enactment of t ... |
| Cold War | As the | deepened, Dulles sought to isolate the Soviet Union by building regional a ... |
| Great Lakes refugee crisis | ... m the turmoil following the Rwandan Genocide of 1994, which then led to the | . Within the largest refugee camps, beginning in Goma in Nord-Kivu, were R ... |
| Battle of Ksar El Kebir | ... e absorption of Portugal into the Spanish crown of Philip II after the 1578 | , when Spain started to take direct actions in Morocco, as in the occupati ... |
| American Revolutionary War | ... 1786 to 1787. The rebellion was named after Daniel Shays, a veteran of the | and one of the rebel leaders |
| World War II | Like many other remote areas during | , a area to the south east of the town and extending to the coast of the S ... |
| World War II | During World War II, Crystal City was home to the largest of the | internment camps, having housed American civilians of German, Japanese, an ... |
| World War I | ... d five senior ministers (RG Casey, GA Street, Senator McLeay, HS Gullet and | Prime Minister Billy Hughes). In January 1940, Menzies dispatched potentia ... |
| Cold War | During the | the Soviet bloc states developed a number of amphibious APCs, fighting veh ... |
| World War II | ... olution. After gaining Philippine independence from colonial rule following | in 1946, the Visayas region established its community and re-formed its go ... |
| World War I | ... he had the unfortunate distinction of becoming the first U-boat casualty of | when she was rammed by HMS Badger on 29 October 1914. Her hull was badly d ... |
| Battle of Stiklestad | ... Steinmeyer organ was commissioned in 1930 for the 900th anniversary of the | . The organ was funded mostly by donations, particularly by Elias Anton Ca ... |
| World War I | | began with an unprecedented outpouring of love and goodwill towards the Un ... |
| English Civil War | The | had not yet started, but both sides began to arm as the summer of 1642 pro ... |
| Third Anglo-Dutch War | ... h Virgin Islands came under British control in 1672, at the outbreak of the | , and have remained so ever since. The circumstances of the British taking ... |
| Cold War | ... orated Monguagon Township at that point. In the 1950s and 1960s, during the | , the Department of Defense (through the United States Army) operated Nike ... |
| St. Bartholomew's Day massacre | ... a week of the assassination of Henry, stilling Protestant fears of another | . The subsidies had been reduced by degrees, as Henry gained more secure c ... |
| Spanish Civil War | During the | between the socialist Republicans and nationalists led by Francisco Franco ... |
| 1982 Lebanon War | The following year, during the | Israeli F-16s engaged Syrian aircraft in one of the largest air battles in ... |
| World War II | ... ic science, as its supporters had originally envisioned in the aftermath of | . By 1950, support for major areas of research had already become dominate ... |
| Battle of Tours | ... and warlord Charles Martel, which defeated the Umayyad Arab invasion at the | in 732, were still largely infantry armies, the elites riding to battle bu ... |
| American Revolutionary War | To honor John Eager Howard, an officer in the | and later the fifth Governor of Maryland,, the area was designated the How ... |
| An Shi Rebellion | After the | (755–763), the economy of northern China was greatly damaged and never rec ... |
| World War I | When | began in August 1914, Hoover helped organize the return of 120,000 America ... |
| Battle of Warns | ... tle of the Downs - Battle of the Golden Spurs - Battle of Turnhout (1789) - | - Battle of Waterloo - Baudouin I of Belgium - Beaulieu International Grou ... |
| World War I | After the outbreak of | , which confronted the partitioning powers against each other, Piłsudski's ... |
| Second World War | ... ed to be influential. Following the closure of the Festspielhaus during the | , the 1950s saw productions by Wagner's grandsons Wieland and Wolfgang Wag ... |
| Persian Gulf War | ... on is directly related to the stability of certain states, e.g., during the | , speculation on the survival of the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq. Sim ... |
| Revolutionary War | ... zed in 1833 upon separation from Cooper County. It is named in honor of the | General Daniel Morgan. Some parts of Morgan County touch the Lake of the O ... |
| World War I | ... ens of thousands of soldiers based at what became nearby Fort Eustis during | and World War II. The larger-than-normal rural two-story frame depot is hi ... |
| World War II | ... revue. However, the duo split when they began their National Service during | . Wise served in the Merchant Navy. Morecambe was a Bevin Boy: conscripted ... |
| Spanish Civil War | After the | , Francoist Spain persecuted the Anarchists and Catalan nationalists among ... |
| World War II | ... ian Jonathan Miller was born into a wealthy family in the area. The British | flier Douglas Bader was born in St. John's Wood |
| Siege of Kenilworth Castle | The | in 1266 was "probably the longest in English history" according to histori ... |
| World War I | ... birth to a son. As a Quaker, Dingle was exempt from military service during | . He took a position as a Demonstrator in the Physics Department, and devo ... |
| siege to Jerusalem | ... Shishaq of Egypt, brought a huge army and took many cities. When they laid | , Rehoboam gave them all of the treasures out of the temple as a tribute a ... |
| Chancellorsville | ... s were fought in this county during the Civil War, including the battles of | , the Wilderness, Fredericksburg, and Spotsylvania Court House |
| Battle of Dunbar (1296) | ... rs of Scottish Independence the Clan Ross fought against the English at the | where their chief, the Earl of Ross was captured. This meant that for a sh ... |
| Battle of the Nations at Leipzig | ... ralfeldmarschall (field marshal) who led his army against Napoleon I at the | in 1813 and at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 with the Duke of Wellington |
| World War I | ... ee, which helped establish the Indian Military Academy at Dehra Dun. During | , Jinnah joined other Indian moderates in supporting the British war effor ... |
| World War I | ... was added to the Register for its high quality of preservation since before | . Nearly two hundred buildings in the borough qualified as contributing pr ... |
| American Revolutionary War | ... nsin became a territorial possession of the United States in 1783 after the | . However, the British remained in de facto control until after the War of ... |
| World War II | ... nghu to Japan, which would rule the island for 50 years until its defeat in | |
| Mukden Incident | ... Qing Empire in China. In 1931, the region was seized by Japan following the | and in 1932, a sympathetic government was established, with Puyi, the last ... |
| Spanish Civil War | During the | , Aragon saw the establishment of various anarchist communes |
| 1956 Soviet invasion of Hungary | In 1957, disillusioned by the | , Calvino left the Italian Communist Party. In his letter of resignation p ... |
| Carnation Revolution | Salazarist Portugal persecuted the language from 1936 until the | of 1975 |
| The Raid at St. Nazaire | ... ntbatten was in large part responsible for the planning and organisation of | in mid 1942: an operation resulting in disuse of one of the most heavily d ... |
| Falklands War | The Stinger's combat debut occurred during the | fought between Britain and Argentina. At the onset of the conflict soldier ... |
| World War II | An indication of the pre- | popularity of the autogyro, its subsequent decline and later rise of inter ... |
| World War II | ... the CPUSA to abandon civil rights work and focus supporting U.S. entry into | . Disillusioned, Rustin began working with members of the Socialist Party ... |
| Dambusters | After the | raid in 1943 an entirely new system was developed that was required to kno ... |
| World War II | ... Dukhan, on the western side of the Qatari peninsula. However, the start of | delayed exploitation of Qatar's oil resources, and oil exports did not beg ... |
| World War I | ... onism and non-interventionism in the US following its costly involvement in | , and sought to ensure that the US would not become entangled again in for ... |
| World War II | During | the United States Navy bought most of the east end, including Montauk Mano ... |
| Fall of Saigon | ... er the Watergate scandal in 1974; Refugees aboard a US naval boat after the | , leading to the end of the Vietnam War in 1975; The 1973 oil crisis puts ... |
| World War I | ... of the time overseas, negotiating for repayment of European war debts from | |
| Russian Civil War | ... on 29 November 1920, the Bolshevik 11th Red Army entered Yerevan during the | , on 29 November 1920, and Armenia was incorporated into the Soviet Union ... |
| Battle of Glen Shiel | ... gwall. In 1719 some men from the Clan Ross fought for the government at the | where the Jacobites were defeated |
| Great Terror | ... show trial, the Trial of the Sixteen that marked the start of the so-called | in the USSR and resulted in his execution the day after his conviction |
| World War I | The city was also the site of a | German awards ceremony in August 1918, in which Adolf Hitler was presented ... |
| Battle of Shrewsbury | ... rl later rebelled against King Henry IV and after defeating the earl in the | , the king chased him north to Alnwick. The castle surrendered under the t ... |
| World War I | When | broke out, Chevalier was in the middle of his national service, already in ... |
| Second Siege of Saragossa | ... pain, and was stationed in Madrid during the revolt of the Dos Mayo. At the | , he won further promotion to the rank of captain, and in 1809 - 1810 foun ... |
| American Revolutionary War | Although the Badge of Military Merit fell into disuse after the | , the concept of a military award for individual gallantry by members of t ... |
| World War I | ... Italy's leading baritones, Riccardo Stracciari, was unable to turn his pre- | London and New York operatic engagements into unambiguous triumphs due to ... |
| War of Canudos | ... themes such as messianism and irrational human behaviour. It recreates the | , an incident in 19th-century Brazil in which an armed millenarian cult he ... |
| World War II | ... red by the issuance of bonds in the late 1920s was not paid off until after | |
| World War II | ... n response to the growing turmoil in Europe and Asia that eventually led to | . They were spurred by the growth in isolationism and non-interventionism ... |
| Operation Torch | ... responsibility for planning and supervising the invasion of North Africa in | in 1942–43 and the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944–45, f ... |
| Battle of Jutland | ... ean liners and ; the Royal Navy battlecruiser, , which was destroyed at the | in 1916; Queen Mary College, University of London; Queen Mary Hospital, Ho ... |
| American Revolutionary War | ... name Camilla was chosen in honor of the granddaughter of Henry Mitchell, an | general for whom Mitchell County was named |
| Winnebago War | ... hite miners prompted tension with the local Native American population. The | of 1827 and the Black Hawk War of 1832 led to the forced removal of Americ ... |
| Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 | The death of pro-reform official Hu Yaobang helped to spark the | , during which students and others campaigned for several months, speaking ... |
| World War II | ... eversed during the intense anti-colonial agitation that followed the end of | . On 4 September 1947, the colony was revived as a part of the French Unio ... |
| Battle of Bir Hakeim | ... rian and North African campaigns. The 13th Demi-Brigade was deployed in the | . Reflecting the divided loyalties of the time, part of the Foreign Legion ... |
| World War II | ... erved largely as a cavalry post for the 6th Cavalry. During World War I and | , it served a war-time induction and processing center, and also housed pr ... |
| World War I | ... ld of a French mother and an English taxi-driver father, who had met during | . The family moved to London, and she attended school in Brixton until the ... |
| Roxanne Wars | ... Revenge" (1985), sparking off the huge wave of answer records known as the | . More disses (insults intended to show disrespect) from Shanté followed: ... |
| Gulf of Sidra incident | ... ip's F-14 Tomcats shot down two Libyan aircraft in what became known as the | . In 1987, Vinson participated in the first U.S. carrier deployment in the ... |
| World War II | ... wn, South Carolina. Most of the town's growth, however, began shortly after | |
| revolt of the Dos Mayo | ... e first French corps to enter Spain, and was stationed in Madrid during the | . At the Second Siege of Saragossa, he won further promotion to the rank o ... |
| World War II | ... East Asian Studies and Art History at McGill University, claimed that after | , Japanese people as shown in their and became "fascinated" with neoteny a ... |
| Winnebago War | ... y handled administrative and diplomatic tasks, most notably during the 1827 | , but he had never seen combat. On April 8, he set out from Jefferson Barr ... |
| Wars of the Roses | During the | , castles were infrequently engaged in battle and conflict was generally b ... |
| Revolutionary War | ... el Campbell, to honor his grandfather Ezekiel Polk who was a colonel in the | and an early settler in western Tennessee. But, when the legislature acted ... |
| Battle of Fontenoy | ... th of Balnagowan was killed in 1745 leading some members of the clan at the | fighting against the French on 30 April 1745. Balnagowan passed to George, ... |
| World War II | ... eine Elizabeth Bushell Szabo, GC, (26 June 1921 – c. 5 February 1945) was a | French-British secret agent |
| Eighty Years' War | ... contributed to a desire for independence in the provinces, which led to the | and eventually, the separation of the largely Protestant Dutch Republic fr ... |
| attack on Norway | ... decisions and the Great Depression of the late 1920s and 1930s. During the | 9 April 1940 it came to a battle between a German naval force and the Norw ... |
| World War II | For a few years prior to | , San Marino had a railway network consisting of a single line, connecting ... |
| World War II | ... tween Mogadishu and Jowhar, built by the Italians in 1926 but dismantled in | by British troops. The Mogadishu-Villabruzzi Railway was planned in 1939 t ... |
| Wars of the Roses | ... pporters defeated those of Richard III at Bosworth Field in 1485. While the | effectively ended at Tewkesbury in 1471, Richard III's alleged murder of t ... |
| World War II | The Foreign Legion played a smaller role in | than in World War I, though having a part in the Norwegian, Syrian and Nor ... |
| Indian Rebellion of 1857 | ... aying the title role of a real-life sepoy and a martyr who helped spark the | or the 'First War of Indian Independence' |
| World War I | During | , Benedict placed the world under the protection of the Blessed Virgin Mar ... |
| Battle of Callinicum | ... s with Belisarius on the eastern front until the latter was defeated at the | in AD 531 and recalled to Constantinople. Procopius witnessed the Nika rio ... |
| English Civil War | Charles's last years were marked by the | , in which he fought the forces of the English and Scottish parliaments, w ... |
| World War I | ... s and artillery became vitally important, and both were dominant factors in | . Though entrenched positions were a significant part of both the Franco-P ... |
| capturing Havana | ... d of the Seven Years' War (1756–63), the navy failed to prevent the British | , during which the Spanish squadron present was also captured. In the Amer ... |
| Gwangju massacre | ... arged with mutiny and treason for their roles in the 1979 coup and the 1980 | |
| Operation Opera | ... nnon fire. On 7 June 1981, eight Israeli F-16s, escorted by F-15s, executed | , their first employment in a significant air-to-ground operation. This ra ... |
| Battle of Adwa | ... ed as a general in the First Italo–Ethiopian War, playing a key role at the | ; he too was paternally Oromo but maternally Amhara. Haile Selassie was th ... |
| Battle of Settepozzi | ... d Genoese fleet of 48 ships was defeated by a smaller Venetian force at the | |
| Second Battles of the Somme | The Somme experienced war twice more in the First and | of 1918 |
| World War II | ... 39. With the defeat of Poland in the Invasion of Poland at the beginning of | in 1939, formerly Polish Eastern Upper Silesia was re-added to the Provinc ... |
| World War II | The tower became important again in | , when Lincolnshire was known as "Bomber County" for its proliferation of ... |
| World War I | ... iot's critical lens, The Waste Land likely shows his personal despair about | rather than an objective historical understanding of it |
| Battle of Trafalgar | ... ber; the British squadron subsequently caught and defeated his fleet in the | on 21 October (the British commander, Lord Nelson, died in the battle). Na ... |
| World War II | ... age. Its population and industrial production significantly increased after | |
| World War II | ... in 1858. A statue of the queen was almost destroyed by a German bomb during | , and was moved one inch on its plinth by the blast. The statue was not re ... |
| Iraq War | ... a cynical, exploitative attitude to viewers by television executives), the | and other foreign policies of George W. Bush and Tony Blair, British cuisi ... |
| World War II | ... mpleted his recruit training, but was classified for limited service during | . He was assigned to direct United Service Organization (U.S.O.) programs ... |
| Nat Turner's slave rebellion | ... e labor was increasingly used in mining, shipbuilding and other industries. | in 1831 and John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859 showed deep social ... |
| Battle of Luchana | ... , but all proved unsuccessful. One of the main battles of this time was the | , when general Baldomero Espartero defetead the Carlists, freeing the city ... |
| Battle of Queenston Heights | Brock died a Canadian hero as he repelled the American landing at the | and Tecumseh was later killed at the Battle of the Thames. Many engagement ... |
| World War II | During | a number of V1 flying bombs came down on Surbiton and Tolworth, including ... |
| 1905 Russian Revolution | The | arose new waves of Polish unrest, political maneuvering, strikes and rebel ... |
| Siege of Cuzco | The city was retaken from the Spanish during the | of 1536 by Manco Inca Yupanqui, a leader of the Sapa Inca. Although the si ... |
| World War I | ... which would be one of the most powerful motives in France's involvement in | |
| Napoleonic Wars | ... States Military Academy (1802) reflect this. However, at about the time of | "military" began to be applied to armed forces as a whole and in the 21st ... |
| World War II | ... iness in 1887. In 1894, Coke was sold in bottles for the first time. During | , bottling plants were set up in Europe, Africa, and the Pacific islands |
| King William's War | ... en bases for attacks on New England settlers migrating toward Acadia during | . The frontier areas between the Saint Lawrence River and the primarily co ... |
| Battle of the Plains of Abraham | ... bec, that was originally grazing land, but became famous as the site of the | , which took place on 13 September 1759. Though written into the history b ... |
| Gulf War | ... ewman Hislop wrote the BBC Radio 4 series Gush, a satire based on the first | , in the style of Jeffrey Archer. With Newman he also wrote the family-fri ... |
| taking of hostages | ... imitz in 1980 after she had deployed to the Indian Ocean in response to the | in the U.S. embassy in Tehran. Although initially part of the U.S. Atlanti ... |
| American War of Independence | ... , if America had been conquered by the Soviet Union, if Britain had won the | , if penicillin had not been invented, or if men were subservient to women |
| Guilford Court House Military Battlefield | ... rch cemetery in October 1790. However, his remains were later reinterred at | . His original gravestone remains in the town cemetery |
| World War I | ... hanges in grammar, morphology and orthography that reflect the Bosniak pre- | literary tradition, mainly that of the Bosniak renaissance at the beginnin ... |
| Glitiškės | ... ted in the massacres of Polish and Lithuanian civilians in June 1944 in the | (Glinciszki) and Dubingiai (Dubinki) villages |
| Hungarian Revolution | c.The Soviet leadership, which had previously ordered the | and the Prague Spring crushed, now became worried about the demoralization ... |
| World War II | ... car could run at . This prototype was to be put into production only after | , first as an Industrieverband Fahrzeugbau (IFA) F9 (later to become Wartb ... |
| Sino-Vietnamese War | ... etween communist states — the Cambodian-Vietnamese War of 1975-1989 and the | of 1979 — were fought in the region |
| Glorious Revolution | ... ent's authority in the colonies. The orthodox British view, dating from the | of 1688, was that Parliament was the supreme authority throughout the empi ... |
| Battle of Mohács | ... om of Hungary adopted Protestantism during the 16th century. After the 1526 | the Hungarian people were disillusioned by the ability of the government t ... |
| Cold War | ... ed the world rankings – in effect they treated chess as an extension of the | . These conflicts included |
| Spanish Civil War | ... en Catalans and the Castilians, seen by one author as a re-enactment of the | |
| Greco-Turkish War of 1897 | ... s, bowing to popular pressure, declared war on the Ottomans. In the ensuing | the badly trained and equipped Greek army was defeated by the Ottomans. Th ... |
| World War II | During | , the U.S. government reportedly struck a secret deal with the imprisoned ... |
| Battle of Austerlitz | As a result of Napoleon's victory over Austria in the | in 1805, the Holy Roman Empire was dissolved. On July 12, 1806, 16 states ... |
| An Shi Rebellion | ... re was at its height of power until the middle of the 8th century, when the | destroyed the prosperity of the empire. The Song Dynasty was the first gov ... |
| World War II | The years after | saw rapid growth as people began moving into the area and Largo annexed su ... |
| World War II | ... raft were embargoed and pressed into Luftwaffe service upon the outbreak of | |
| World War II | In | , the German battleship Tirpitz used Kåfjord, an arm of Altafjord, as a ha ... |
| English Civil War | ... d Byron with a man of their own choosing, Sir John Conyers. By the time the | broke out in November 1642, the Tower of London was already in Parliament' ... |
| Battle of Waterloo | ... orrential rain soaked in, hampering movement. The next day, on 18 June, the | was fought. This was the first time Wellington had encountered Napoleon, a ... |
| Race to the Sea | At the beginning of the First World War, during the September 1914 | , the Somme became the site of the Battle of Albert. The battle was a five ... |
| Battle of the Thames | ... ing at the Battle of Queenston Heights and Tecumseh was later killed at the | . Many engagements proved to be bloody but indecisive, including the Battl ... |
| World War II | ... eir mark on the palace and its park. Modern French governments of the post- | era have sought to repair these damages. They have on the whole been succe ... |
| World War II | ... t was almost completely destroyed during the fighting in this region during | . Today there is no operational railway in San Marino, but many disused ar ... |
| Køge | ... he Second Battle of Copenhagen which took place in August. He fought at the | , during which the men under his command took 1,500 prisoners, with Welles ... |
| German Peasants' War | ... have raised hopes that he would be won over to Protestantism; but after the | of 1525 he ranged himself definitely among the supporters of Catholicism, ... |
| Operation Wooden Leg | ... tempt when Israeli Air Force F-15s bombed his headquarters there as part of | , leaving 73 people dead. Arafat had gone out jogging that morning |
| Coconut War | On 30 July 1980, amidst the brief | , the Republic of Vanuatu was created |
| World War II | ... end. Jack Churchill is the only soldier credited with a longbow kill during | |
| Liberators' civil war | ... neral and ambassador to the Parthians, sided with Brutus and Cassius in the | ; after their defeat Labienus joined the Parthians and assisted them in in ... |
| Battle of Quatre Bras | ... Prussians at Ligny, and fought an indecisive battle with Wellington at the | . These events compelled the Anglo-Allied army to retreat to a ridge on th ... |
| First Intifada | ... reconstruct the badly battered PLO. This was particularly useful during the | in December 1987, which began as an uprising of Palestinians against the I ... |
| Battle of Halidon Hill | ... at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314. Aodh, the 5th earl, was killed at the | in 1333, and his successor William died without male issue. The earldom of ... |
| Fenian raids | ... tinued , however, due to a series of small-scale armed incursions named the | by Irish-American Civil War veterans across the border from 1866 to 1871 i ... |
| Unified Task Force | ... alia operation, in which Moroccan personnel served as part of UNOSOM I, the | , and the follow-on mission |
| Kargil War | They have also taken care of many victims of the | of 1999 |
| World War II | ... owns Arabkir, Malatya, Sebastia, and Marash, respectively. After the end of | , German POWs were used to help in the construction of new buildings and s ... |
| World War II | ... d lead to prolonged periods of high unemployment. Following the outbreak of | , Keynes's ideas concerning economic policy were adopted by leading Wester ... |
| World War II | ... s created by Rufus A. ("Ray") Gotto while he was serving in the Navy during | in Washington, D.C. as an illustrator for Navy instruction manuals |
| Revolutionary War | ... Piedmont colonial town where court was held, and was the scene of some pre- | tensions. In the late 1760s, tensions between (in a nutshell) Piedmont far ... |
| Iraq War | ... nd decriminalization of cannabis, and opposed Canadian participation in the | in 2003 |
| Pugachev's Rebellion | ... e of the chief reasons behind several rebellions, including the large-scale | of cossacks and peasants |
| World War I | During | he participated in many fundraising activities such as the American Red Cr ... |
| Battle of Kunyang | ... ously as Emperor Guangwu (r. 25–57 CE), after distinguishing himself at the | in 23 CE, was urged to succeed Gengshi as emperor. Under Guangwu's rule th ... |
| Battle of Panium | ... Syrian War, the Seleucids ousted Ptolemy V from control of Coele-Syria. The | (198 BC) definitively transferred these holdings from the Ptolemies to the ... |
| Battle of Harlaw | ... laimants—the Lord of the Isles and the Duke of Albany. This resulted in the | 1411, where the Clan Ross fought as Highlanders in support of the Lord of ... |
| Thirty Years' War | ... 6 fell to the Habsburg Monarchy, it was devastated several times during the | and conquered by King Frederick II of Prussia in 1742. In 1871 it was conn ... |
| Spanish Civil War | Flix was the site of a battle in the | in 1938. The Battle of the Iron Bridge was fought between the Internationa ... |
| Aspern-Essling | ... st than Napoleon, who suffered his first battlefield defeat in this war, at | , had expected. The terms of the Treaty of Schönbrunn were quite harsh. Au ... |
| Battle of Jutland | ... er The Hon. Edward Bingham whilst on board HMS Nestor while fighting in the | in July 1916 for which he received the Victoria Cross |
| American Revolutionary War | Even after fighting in the | began at Lexington and Concord in April 1775, most colonists still hoped f ... |
| Third Coalition | ... respect the terms of the Treaty of Amiens by occupying Malta and gathered a | against France. The French intervention in the Swiss civil strife, a breac ... |
| Eighty Years' War | ... therland") organized the Dutch revolt against Spanish rule, which after the | led to an independent Dutch state |
| World War II | During | , John Carroll was one of 131 colleges and universities nationally that to ... |
| Second Boer War | ... publics in the interior and the British colonial government resulted in the | of 1899–1902, which Britain won. In 1910, Britain established the Union of ... |
| Largs | ... of the Hebrides. After peace talks failed, his forces met with the Scots at | , in Ayrshire. The battle proved indecisive, but it did ensure that the No ... |
| Battle of Segale | ... army under Fitawrari Habte Giyorgis loyal to Zewditu and Tafari. During the | , Negus Mikael was defeated and captured. Any chance that Iyasu would rega ... |
| Battle of Vitoria | ... French. His equestrian portrait features prominently in the Monument to the | , in present-day Vitoria-Gasteiz |
| World War I | ... d its appeal to English musicians had helped to make it widely known before | , when its themes struck a powerful chord with English readers. A Shropshi ... |
| first Iraq war | ... , in his capacity as executive producer, as a sign of patriotism during the | in 1991, and as a show of support to the American car industry, which was ... |
| World War I | The Netherlands remained neutral during | . However, the Allies included the Netherlands in their blockade of German ... |
| expedition | ... ristagoras. Attempting to save himself after a disastrous Persian-sponsored | in 499 BC, Aristagoras chose to declare Miletus a democracy. This triggere ... |
| World War I | ... ng that would distract the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from | |
| World War I | ... an independent mining consultant, traveling worldwide until the outbreak of | in 1914. His lectures at Columbia and Stanford universities were published ... |
| World War II | ... ply and replenishment U-boat ("Milchkuh") of the German Kriegsmarine during | |
| Regime of the Colonels | ... ch culminated in a coup d'état on 21 April 1967 by the United States-backed | . The brutal suppression of the Athens Polytechnic uprising on 17 November ... |
| World War II | After | , Billings boomed into the major financial, medical and cultural center of ... |
| Cold War | ... nuclear-armed submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) built during the | by Lockheed Corporation of California for the United States Navy |
| Italy's invasion of Ethiopia | Roosevelt invoked the act after | in October 1935, preventing all arms and ammunition shipments to both coun ... |
| Kitos War | ... ars in the 1st–2nd centuries CE, including the Great Revolt (66–73 CE), the | (115–117), and Bar Kokhba's revolt (132–135) |
| ROKS Cheonan sinking | Some trade was cut off after the | , for which South Korea blamed North Korea |
| World War II | ... of the town. The cenotaph also lists the names of 173 local fatalities from | |
| Battle of Bouvines | ... released Ferdinand, Count of Flanders, who had been in captivity since the | . She also ceded land and castles to Philip Hurepel, son of Philip II and ... |
| Tithe War | ... ary. Among its first duties was the forcible seizure of tithes during the " | " on behalf of the Anglican clergy from the mainly Catholic population as ... |
| Wars of the Roses | ... e face". The Howards were staunch adherents of the House of York during the | , and John Howard, backed by his powerful Mowbray relations, upheld the Yo ... |
| Battle of Naseby | ... tle of Edgehill and continued indecisively through 1643 and 1644, until the | tipped the military balance decisively in favour of Parliament. There foll ... |
| World War II | The Vertac site was originally part of the Arkansas Ordnance Plant (AOP), a | –era facility that manufactured various components of explosive devices, s ... |
| Siege of Paris | After the French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War, with the | dragging on, the palace was the main headquarters of the Prussian army fro ... |
| Battle of North Cape | ... nd Jamaica participated in the sinking of the battleship Scharnhorst at the | ; Sheffield, with Belfast and Norfolk, opened the attack at 09.00; as at t ... |
| Gulf War | ... t in Vietnam, and limited service in Operation Just Cause (Panama), and the | (Kuwait) |
| Indonesia invaded the territory | Nine days later, | declaring it Indonesia's 27th province Timor Timur in 1976. The United Nat ... |
| Battle of Stirling Bridge | ... etter success when they operated in an aggressive fashion. The Scots at the | (1297), for example, utilized the momentum of their charge to overrun an E ... |
| WWII | The wind tunnel used by German scientists at Peenemünde prior to and during | is an interesting example of the difficulties associated with extending th ... |
| World War II | ... ted in the area, was a major staging area for the United States Army during | and the Korean War |
| English Civil War | By the end of the | , the monarchy, House of Lords and Privy Council were abolished. The remai ... |
| civil strife | ... ered a Third Coalition against France. The French intervention in the Swiss | , a breach of the Treaty of Lunéville (1801) between France and the Holy R ... |
| Russian Revolution | ... d locals to join the movement towards self-rule. Tilak was impressed by the | , and expressed his admiration for Lenin |
| World War I | ... rgia. The base served largely as a cavalry post for the 6th Cavalry. During | and World War II, it served a war-time induction and processing center, an ... |
| Siege of Oxford | ... t. There followed a great number of defeats for the Royalists, and then the | , from which Charles escaped in April 1646. He put himself into the hands ... |
| Battle of Clontarf | The | was fought on the banks of the River Tolka in 1014 (a field called the blo ... |
| Massacre of Vassy | ... was overtaken by events, as it was not formally registered until after the | on 1 March 1562, which triggered the first of the French Wars of Religion |
| Johnson County War | Wyoming was the location of the | of 1892, on which the controversial 1980 film Heaven's Gate was based, whi ... |
| World War II | ... t Home Park was destroyed by German bombers during the Blitz on Plymouth in | . Having been rebuilt after the war, Home Park was largely demolished as p ... |
| Mau Mau Uprising | A key watershed came from 1952 to 1956, during the | , an armed local movement directed principally against the colonial govern ... |
| Battle of the Ebro | ... s fought between the International Brigades and the Fascists as part of the | . The operation was initially a success for the republicans with the const ... |
| Vietnamization | ... s of anti-war speeches, Kennedy opposed President Richard Nixon's policy of | , calling it "a policy of violence [that] means more and more war." In Dec ... |
| World War II | During | , Gambian troops fought with the Allies in Burma. Banjul served as an air ... |
| American Revolutionary War | ... n County fled to Canada. In 1784, following the peace treaty that ended the | , the name of Tryon County was changed to Montgomery County in order to ho ... |
| World War I | ... rebuilt with new volunteers — in all, 865 Accrington men were killed during | . All of these names are recorded on a war memorial, an imposing white sto ... |
| Battle of Littleferry | ... he McFarquhar's Jacobite force were ambushed by pro-government Scots at the | near Golspie. At most one-tenth survived; John Ross escaped to Sutherland ... |
| World War II | ... on, and she attended school in Brixton until the age of 14. At the start of | , she was working in Le Bon Marché department store in Brixton on the perf ... |
| attack El Caney | ... he attack on Santiago. Shafter would send his first division of infantry to | while his second infantry division and cavalry would attack the heights so ... |
| Carnation Revolution | Following the 1974 | , Portugal began a process of decolonisation and began a withdrawal from P ... |
| San Marcial | Soult's relief attempt was blocked by the Spanish Army of Galicia at | , allowing the Allies to consolidate their position and tighten the ring a ... |
| War of the Spanish Succession | ... rs which the Danish Governor either could not or would not stop. During the | the Danes supported the French colonies, and allowed the French to sell Br ... |
| Leipzig | ... gust 1813. The Austrian intervention was decisive. Napoleon was defeated at | in October, and forced to withdraw into France itself. As 1814 began, the ... |
| Battle of the Golden Spurs | ... used their geldon long spear to absorb the attack of French knights at the | in 1302, before other troops in the Flemish formation counterattacked the ... |
| Kargil War | ... ilitary tension between the two countries in the Kargil district led to the | of 1999, after which General Pervez Musharraf took over through a bloodles ... |
| Sack of Rome | ... independence of many of the city-states. Most damaging was the May 6, 1527 | by Spanish and German troops that all but ended the role of the Papacy as ... |
| Hungarian Revolution of 1956 | ... ously he condemned the brutal Soviet invasion of Hungary in response to the | . Therefore he publicly disavowed his allies at the United Nations, and us ... |
| World War I | ... rent ethnic groups, and meetings of the parliament ceased altogether during | |
| Battle of Tours | ... metimes attributed to an author called Isidore Pacensis in reference to the | fought against Muslim forces |
| World War II | ... y of industrial engineering, and was elected to the school's honor society. | interrupted his studies. In 1943, DeLorean was drafted for military servic ... |
| Flodden Field | ... the absence of the English King Henry VIII. His forces met with disaster at | ; the King, many senior noblemen, and hundreds of soldiers were killed. As ... |
| immediate violence | ... e first official mediator in the UN's history. This was necessitated by the | that followed the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine and the subs ... |
| Second Italo-Abyssinian War | ... tion for world influence. In 1935 Mussolini decided to invade Ethiopia. The | resulted in the international isolation of Italy, as France and Britain qu ... |
| World War I | ... ngland's gradual loss of prominence and related conflicts (Boer War, India, | ) had an influence on Lovecraft's worldview. It is likely that the "roarin ... |
| World War I | Dreyfus volunteered for military service again in 1914, at the beginning of | , and served despite advancing age in a range of artillery commands, first ... |
| World War II | ... y film directed by John Huston about the Battle of San Pietro Infine during | . It was shot by Jules Buck |
| Gulf War | ... deployed in a particular theatre, or as an aggregate of such forces. In the | the United States Central Command controlled military forces (units) of ea ... |
| First World War | ... eet in 1913, but following the mobilisation just before the outbreak of the | , she joined the 6th Cruiser Squadron. The 6th Cruiser Squadron was initia ... |
| World War II | ... t has continued uninterrupted, except for a four-year (–) suspension during | |
| World War II | ... ited States Ambassador to the Court of St. James in the years leading up to | |
| World War II | After | , after the Republic of China took over Taiwan, Lee enrolled in the Nation ... |
| The Second World War | ... Commissar (Minister) of the Navy, a post he would hold for the duration of | . In 1939, despite the Stalin policy against the Nikolaevsky Engineering A ... |
| English Civil War | ... mated) destroyed 15–20% of the population of Germany. At the same time, the | pitting King against Parliament was just beginning |
| World War II | ... the of the Columbia Basin Project in central Washington. With the onset of | , the focus of dam construction shifted to production of hydroelectricity. ... |
| World War I | ... s on 1 December 1918, the fifth year of his Pontificate. It requested after | all Catholics everywhere in the world, no matter which side they were on, ... |
| Franco-Dutch War | In 1678 the | ended, and the Dutch returned their attention to Tortola, although it was ... |
| American Revolutionary War | ... , particularly in central and western Massachusetts, the economy during the | had been one of little more than subsistence agriculture. Most of the resi ... |
| World War I | Soy took on a very important role in the United States after | . During the Great Depression, the drought-stricken (Dust Bowl) regions of ... |
| 2003 invasion of Iraq | ... led "O2." He is a peace activist, and has often spoken publicly against the | . Harrelson is also an ethical vegan and raw foodist. He did not eat Twink ... |
| Hohenlinden | ... the Austrians at Marengo in 1800, but the decisive win came on the Rhine at | later that year. The defeated Austrians left the conflict after the Treaty ... |
| World War II | ... d one of the "hard styles," largely follows Ueshiba's teachings from before | , and surmises that the secret to ki lies in timing and the application of ... |
| Warsaw Uprising | ... nside the ghetto together with Jewish fighters from ŻZW and ŻOB. During the | a year later, Batalion Zośka, one of the most notable units of the Uprisin ... |
| World War I | ... ile with Christians who had become separated over theological issues. After | the Catholic Church was not the only church which began to make changes wi ... |
| Thirty Years' War | ... althy Hanseatic city of Rostock. The worst time in regional history was the | , which depopulated the area almost completely |
| Battle of Ashdown | ... planned an invasion of Wessex. On 8 January 871, Bagsecg was killed at the | along with his Earls. As a result, many of the Vikings returned to norther ... |
| Battle of Tarbat | At the | , 1486, Angus Roy Mackay was overthrown and slain at Tarbet Church by the ... |
| Russian Civil War | ... were held in reserve until 1916. Baikal was burnt out and destroyed in the | but Angara survives. She has been restored and is permanently moored at Ir ... |
| Dogger Bank incident | ... ion), vessels of the Russian fleet nearly sparked a war with Britain in the | by firing on British fishing boats that they mistook for enemy torpedo boa ... |
| ongoing war | The first US memorial to an | , the Northwood Gratitude and Honor Memorial in Irvine, CA, is modelled on ... |
| Philippine Revolution | During the | and the Philippine–American War between 1896 to 1913, the island of Negros ... |
| jihad | ... onquered Ngazargamu. Usman dan Fodio led the Fulani thrust and proclaimed a | (holy war) on the irreligious Muslims of the area. His campaign eventually ... |
| World War II | ... er. His works have been included among the most important and radical post- | avant-garde, experimental, and contemporary music. Young is especially kno ... |
| World War I | ... any exported its first shipment in 1907. In 1914, following the outbreak of | , Nauru was captured by Australian troops. Australia, New Zealand and the ... |
| Battle of Leuctra | ... id to have been instrumental in procuring their punishment. He survived the | (371 BCE), as he is reported to have compared the victory of the Thebans t ... |
| Great Northern War | ... at's rule Russia gained control over much of the Baltics from Sweden in the | at the beginning of the 18th century, but left the German nobility in cont ... |
| St. Bartholomew's Day massacre | ... defining characteristic of the time, illustrated at its most intense in the | of August 1572, when the Roman Catholic party annihilated between 30,000 a ... |
| Meuse-Argonne Offensive | ... until October 3, 1918; served with the 1st Field Artillery Brigade, in the | , until November 7, 1918; and again commanded the 54th Field Artillery Bri ... |
| Iraq War | ... al Guard officer from Suffern, was killed in a fragging incident during the | |
| World War II | ... f Marshallese work there. The main airport was built by the Japanese during | , and the only tarmac road of the capital was built partly by the Taiwanes ... |
| Battle of Salamanca | ... etrained Portuguese army. Campaigning in Spain, he routed the French at the | , taking advantage of a minor French mispositioning. The victory liberated ... |
| Philippine–American War | During the Philippine Revolution and the | between 1896 to 1913, the island of Negros and other neighboring islands i ... |
| World War II | During | , the German Army heavily fortified the island as part of the Atlantic Wal ... |
| Lower Canada Rebellion | ... the Société des Fils de la Liberté (“Sons of Liberty”) and took part in the | of 1837 at the Battle of St-Denis. For his part in the uprising, Cartier w ... |
| Battle of Passchendaele | ... o - Battle of Mons-en-Pévèle - Battle of Nieuwpoort - Battle of Oudenarde - | - Battle of Roosebeke - Battle of Saint-Omer - Battle of Sluis (1603) - Ba ... |
| World War II | During | , some U.S. aircrew (primarily Navy and Marine Corps) were issued .38 Spec ... |
| Battle of Vitoria | ... lington caught up with and smashed the army of King Joseph Bonaparte in the | , for which he was promoted to field marshal on 21 June. He personally led ... |
| World War II | ... adian defence was organized against an American invasion until the onset of | |
| World War II | ... his son Bechtold Eugen Graf von Bernstorff inherited Schiermonnikoog. When | broke out and the German military occupied the island, he ensured that the ... |
| Battle of Laupen | ... an English army while the Englishmen were crossing a narrow bridge. At the | (1339), Bernese pikemen overwhelmed the infantry forces of the opposing Ha ... |
| American Revolutionary War | ... uart, commanded a regiment at the Battle of Guilford Court House during the | . His father, Archibald Stuart, was a War of 1812 veteran, slaveholder, at ... |
| Spanish Civil War | The | started in Bilbao with small uprisings suppressed by the republican forces ... |
| Battle of Eccles Hill | ... radically until 1871. The raids ended after unsuccessful attacks during the | in Quebec and in the northwest frontier, near the Manitoba border. The Fen ... |
| Battle of Vouillé | ... fusion followed the death of Alaric II, the son-in-law of Theodoric, at the | . The Ostrogothic king stepped in as the guardian of his grandson Amalaric ... |
| Winnebago War | ... re divided. Some bands, remembering their loss to the Americans in the 1827 | , decided to stay clear of the conflict. Other Ho-Chunks with ties to the ... |
| World War II | ... ia in 1742. In 1871 it was connected by rail to Liegnitz and Glogau. During | about 70% of its buildings were destroyed. In 1945 between the days of 8–1 ... |
| Cold War | Anti-communist sentiment gripped the United States during the | beginning in 1946. Federal investigations caused many persons with communi ... |
| restore his daughter to the Portuguese throne | ... tive and Liberal parties). He and Amélie immediately departed for Europe to | , which had been usurped by his brother Miguel I. Left behind, the Prince ... |
| Ulm Maneuver | ... performed a wheeling movement that put the French at the Austrian rear. The | was well-executed and on 20 October Mack and 23,000 Austrian troops surren ... |
| Operation Cyclone | ... some sources claim 1,500–2,000) to the Mujahideen in Afghanistan as part of | . with the supply of 250 launchers |
| Thirty Years' War | ... ined the crown by force. This overthrow in 1621 marked the beginning of the | . In 1622, after a siege of two months, the armies of the Catholic League, ... |
| Anglo-Scottish Wars | During the | , John Ross, 2nd Lord Ross of Halkhead, died when leading his forces again ... |
| Rif War | During the | in Morocco, the Spanish navy conducted operations along the coast, includi ... |
| American Revolutionary War | ... of power. Another example of this can be seen in a quote by a Pennsylvania | soldier, noted by Gregory T. Knouff, “Ordinary soldiers in the American Re ... |
| World War II | In the immediate post- | era the US Army introduced the M41 Walker Bulldog into service to fill the ... |
| Battle of Shaho | ... evere Manchurian winter, there had been no major land engagements since the | the previous year. The two sides camped opposite each other along 60 to of ... |
| World War I | When Estonia and Latvia became independent nations after | a degree of autonomy was granted to ethnic German institutions, and German ... |
| Second World War | ... It was the second most devastated city in the world after Warsaw during the | . Since then the city has been rebuilt |
| Battle of Guilford Court House | ... His great grandfather, Major Alexander Stuart, commanded a regiment at the | during the American Revolutionary War. His father, Archibald Stuart, was a ... |
| World War II | During | , "kraut" was an ethnic slur for a German soldier or civilian |
| seized power | ... poleonic Wars began. Possible dates include 9 November 1799, when Bonaparte | in France; 18 May 1803, when Britain and France ended the only period of p ... |
| American Revolutionary War | ... r General Joseph Warren, who was killed in the Battle of Bunker Hill in the | |
| Cold War | ... efficient energy sources as well as energy education. After the end of the | , the department's attention also turned toward radioactive waste disposal ... |
| World War I | ... y of Death was her first published work, a family saga lasting from 1837 to | , about two families in western Pennsylvania who rise to control a great a ... |
| World War II | ... he release of about 31,000 prisoners from German concentration camps during | , including 450 Danish Jews from Theresienstadt released on 14 April 1945. ... |
| Russian Revolution | ... the Paris newspaper Le Matin. In 1905, he was present at, and covered, the | |
| Gulf War | Prior to the | in 1990–91, when the Intifada's intensity began to wear down, Arafat suppo ... |
| World War II | ... en he left the United States with American troops bound for North Africa in | . During the war, he initially flew a Bloch MB.170 with the GR II/33 recon ... |
| Second World War | ... 2010) as a Scottish patient who had served with the Black Watch during the | |
| World War I | After | and until 1986, Accrington Corporation buses were painted in the regimenta ... |
| Battle of Roosebeke | ... le - Battle of Nieuwpoort - Battle of Oudenarde - Battle of Passchendaele - | - Battle of Saint-Omer - Battle of Sluis (1603) - Battle of Sprimont - Bat ... |
| World War II | The | era US Navy frigate USS Moberly (PF-63) was named for the town. The ship p ... |
| Battle of Bunker Hill | ... the USA. They are named after General Joseph Warren, who was killed in the | in th |
| Regulator movement | ... tween (in a nutshell) Piedmont farmers and county officers welled up in the | , which had its epicenter in Hillsborough. With specie scarce, many inland ... |
| Battle of Edgehill | ... Array. The First Civil War started on 26 October 1642 with the inconclusive | and continued indecisively through 1643 and 1644, until the Battle of Nase ... |
| World War II | ... assumed her to be imaginary, until proofs of her existence were found after | |
| Second World War | German bombing during the | caused massive damage to the docks with 380,000 tons of timber destroyed i ... |
| several military campaigns | ... u continued to raid Han borders, Emperor Wu of Han (r. 141–87 BCE) launched | against them. The ultimate Han victory in these wars eventually forced the ... |
| Russian Civil War | ... El Lissitzky, Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge. Despite this echo of the | , Red Wedge was not a communist organisation; neither was it officially pa ... |
| Great War | ... ea of the Somme département was the site of a series of battles through the | . Particularly significant was the 1916 Battle of the Somme. As a result o ... |
| Easter Rising | ... ay 1916) was an Irish republican executed for his participation in the 1916 | |
| Thirty Years' War | ... ous conflicts. His failure to successfully aid Protestant forces during the | , coupled with the fact that he married a Roman Catholic princess, generat ... |
| World War I | ... ire after its creation in 1871. However, the Treaty of Versailles following | restored West Prussia to Poland and made East Prussia an exclave of Weimar ... |
| World War I | In the aftermath of the | , high casualty rates, soaring inflation compounded by heavy taxation, a w ... |
| English Civil War | ... nfluenced the foundation of republics during the Dutch Revolt (1568–1609) , | (1642–1651) , American Revolution (1775–1783) , and the French Revolution ... |
| Battle of Mogadishu | ... licopter pilot Chief Warrant Officer Michael Durant and his crew during the | in 1993. Both men lost their lives in doing so |
| Battle of Myriokephalon | The | , also known as the Myriocephalum, has been compared to the Battle of Manz ... |
| Second Boer War | Named after a hill that was the scene of a famous battle in the | , the Spion Kop is built into a natural hill at the east end of the ground ... |
| Deluge | ... who was under strong influence of Piotr Skarga and other Jesuits. After the | , and other wars of the mid-17th century, in which all enemies of Poland w ... |
| Jugurthine War | ... iline conspiracy (De coniuratione Catilinae or Bellum Catilinae) and of the | (Bellum Iugurthinum) have come down to us complete, together with fragment ... |
| World War II | From the 1930s on (except during | , when it was repressed as music of the enemy) jazz has had a strong prese ... |
| World War I | ... irst encyclical written by Pope Benedict XV coincided with the beginning of | , which he labelled The Suicide of Civilized Europe. Benedict described th ... |
| World War II | ... ng emigration from communism and migration to nearby cities and towns after | , when the Paris Peace Treaty with Italy that was signed on February 10, 1 ... |
| World War I | ... h it for France on July 31, 1917. When the United States became involved in | , this was the first artillery unit to be sent to France, and it fired the ... |
| Wars of the Roses | ... in 1460, his eldest son Edward IV led the Yorkists to victory in 1461. The | , nevertheless, continued intermittently during his reign and those of his ... |
| World War II | ... 20,000 units produced, the DUKW was the most successful amphibious truck of | . This 6x6 truck was deployed in the Pacific theatre to establish and supp ... |
| World War I | ... mon techniques are munitions, bombs, projectiles, spray tanks and warheads. | saw the earliest implementation of this technique. The actual first chemic ... |
| Battle of Flodden Field | ... d Ross of Halkhead, died when leading his forces against the English at the | on September the 9th, 1513. Fought in the county of Northumberland, in nor ... |
| Battle of Bunker Hill | ... vember 10. On June 17, two months into the colonial siege of Boston, at the | , just north of Boston, British forces are victorious, but only after suff ... |
| Battle of Ceuta | ... al, where he participated in the conquest of the Moorish city of Ceuta (see | ). In 1416 he joined King Sigismund in France and they travelled together ... |
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| battle | ... d the Ottoman–Egyptian fleet at Navarino. Following a week long standoff, a | began which resulted in the destruction of the Ottoman–Egyptian fleet. Wit ... |
| Finnish War | After the | (1808–1809) the eastern part of Sweden was ceded to Russia, thus becoming ... |
| World War I | The province's Armenian population was devastated during | by Ottoman troops in the opening phases of the Armenian Genocide. The regi ... |
| Roman conquest | ... y dropped. That island was first invaded by Julius Caesar in 55 BC, and the | of the island began in AD 43, leading to the establishment of the Roman pr ... |
| World War I | ... nd psychiatrist, best known for his work with shell-shocked soldiers during | . Rivers's most famous patient was the poet Siegfried Sassoon. He is also ... |
| Battle of Legnano | ... y from the Holy Roman Empire, defeating Emperor Frederick Barbarossa at the | in 1176. In the south, the Normans occupied the Lombard and Byzantine poss ... |
| British expedition of 1867 – 1868 | ... ing coast passed, nominally, to Egypt in 1866. Zula was the place where the | against Tewodros disembarked, Annesley Bay affording safe and ample anchor ... |
| World War II | ... NFL players had been drafted into the United States Armed Forces because of | . This shortage of players could have been eradicated if African Americans ... |
| Battle of the Nile | ... rtefacts dominated the antiquities displays. After the defeat of the in the | , in 1801, the British Museum acquired more Egyptian sculpture and in 1802 ... |
| World War I | During | approximately 3,000 island men served in the British Expeditionary Force. ... |
| Battle of Gettysburg | ... th Infantry Regiment in the Confederate States Army. On a single day at the | , during the assault known as Pickett's Charge, 13 of the 14 commanding of ... |
| Battle of the Wabash | ... t. Clair, governor of the Northwest Territory. The engagement, known as the | or as St. Clair's Defeat, was the crowning achievement of Blue Jacket's mi ... |
| Israeli occupation of the south | ... reign aid to help it rebuild from both the long civil war (1975–89) and the | (1978–2000). In addition, the delicate social balance and the near- dissol ... |
| Operation Anthropoid | ... Czechoslovak soldiers on behalf of the Czechoslovak government in exile in | , and knowledge from decoded transmissions allowed the U.S. to carry out a ... |
| Wars of the Roses | Encountering both insufficient endowment and trouble from the | (for their charter was from the deposed Lancastrian), the College seems on ... |
| Second World War | Early matches between the two sides were fairly even, but after the | , repeated US dominance led to a decision to extend the representation of ... |
| Stenka Razin | ... e Assassination of the Duke of Guise , and by Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, for | |
| Mau Mau Uprising | ... eader Dedan Kimathi on 21 October 1956 signalled the ultimate defeat of the | , and essentially ended the British military campaign. The conflict arguab ... |
| Spanish Civil War | ... st wave of colonial French subjects from Africa and Asia. By the end of the | , some half-million Spanish Republican refugees had crosse |
| Cold War | ... drew in 1995, as part of the wave of base closures following the end of the | |
| New Fourth Army Incident | ... agreement and suspended anti-Communist operations until the outbreak of the | with Mao exploiting the interlude, enlarging his base and strengthening hi ... |
| Easter Rising | When the | occurred on 24 April 1916, Connolly was Commandant of the Dublin Brigade. ... |
| World War II | ... ly left entertainment. He enlisted in the United States Navy Reserve during | , served as a lieutenant commander, and never returned to film, preferring ... |
| Silesian Uprisings | ... s fought for independence: Great Poland Uprising in Provinz Posen and three | in Upper Silesia |
| War on Terror | ... Hirabayashi decisions have taken on renewed relevance in the context of the | |
| Thirty Years' War | The | broke out in 1618. The French Court was initially unsure which side to sup ... |
| World War I | ... ssioning, which occurred one month before the Armistice with Germany ending | took effect, R-19 remained on the West Coast of the United States for nine ... |
| Second World War | ... new factory in Valcourt. Then a major setback hit the growing business: the | was well underway and the Canadian government issued wartime rationing reg ... |
| Iraq War | On March 8, 2003, International Women's Day, on the eve of the | , Alice Walker, Maxine Hong Kingston, author of The Woman Warrior; and Ter ... |
| English Civil War | ... colony, and became an important figure in Parliament before and during the | s; he was beheaded after the Restoration. |
| Black War | ... attacks against British soldiers in Tasmania during the period known as the | , was a Plangermaireener (one of the 3 bands) elder, and in 1835 became th ... |
| Battle of Nedao | ... Ostrogoths led by Theodemir broke the Hunnic power of Attila's sons in the | in 454 |
| Eighty Years' War | ... . Despite these defences, Doetinchem was besieged many times and during the | (1568–1648) was besieged and conquered twice. However, eventually the wall ... |
| Fox Wars | ... w France and other Native American tribes, particularly after the so-called | ended in the 1730s. By the time of the Black Hawk War, the population of t ... |
| Battle of Nassau | In 1776 the | resulted in a brief occupation by the Americans during the American War of ... |
| rebellion | ... de Latimer was truly on began to reach Cromwell and the King in London. The | in Yorkshire put him in a terrible dilemma. If he was found guilty of trea ... |
| Second World War | ... erland League, and was part of the Norwegian resistance movement during the | . Since the end of the war, he had worked as an independent right-wing pol ... |
| Battle of the Utus | ... The Roman army under the Gothic magister militum Arnegisclus met him in the | and was defeated, though not without inflicting heavy losses. The Huns wer ... |
| Jameson Raid | ... owledged British authorisation, in December of that year – in the ill-fated | . After the failed raid, there were rumours that Germany offered protectio ... |
| World War I | ... d by Serbian nationalist insurgents (The Black Hand) is blamed for igniting | after a succession of minor conflicts, while belligerents on both sides in ... |
| Wars of the Roses | Much of the latter half of the 15th century was occupied by the | between the claimants to the throne, the houses of Lancaster and York. The ... |
| World War II | When | was imminent he returned from excavating a site in Normandy during August ... |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | The | in the Autumn of 1962, in which the United States blockaded a Soviet attem ... |
| World War II | ... pitated by the use of jellied gasoline mixtures by the Allied forces during | . The latex that had been used in these early forms of incendiary devices ... |
| Operation Eagle Claw | ... e participated in many conflicts and operations across the world, including | in Iran, the Gulf War, and more recently in Iraq and Afghanistan |
| World War II | ... more movie owed under her contract, MGM bought her out for $100,000. During | she was a member of American Women's Voluntary Services |
| World War I | ... he sixth year of his pontificate. It deals with the Catholic missions after | |
| Glorious Revolution | ... terwards King William III) landed in Brixham on 5 November 1688, during the | , and issued his famous declaration "The Liberties of England and The Prot ... |
| World War II | ... ple of reconnaissance-pull was documented during the Tinian landings during | . The United States Marine Corps's Amphibious Reconnaissance Battalion, fr ... |
| World War II | ... he Great Depression in the 1930s and continued to exist for some time after | in industries such as coal mining and oil production. Cartels also played ... |
| Gulf War | ... ity that King Olav suffered a great trauma during the outbreak of the first | . Olav's son Harald V succeeded him as King |
| War of the Polish Succession | ... s and occupations, Lorraine was finally ceded to France at the close of the | (1737). In 1766 the duchy was inherited by the French crown and became the ... |
| battle | ... ant arrived on Solferino on the evening of June 24, 1859, on the same day a | between the two sides had occurred nearby. Thirty-eight thousand wounded, ... |
| War of the Spanish Succession | During the | Alberoni laid the foundation of his political success by the services he r ... |
| The Second World War | ... eet of the Soviet Union and served as People's Commissar of the Navy during | |
| World War I | ... rated and reinstated as a major in the French Army. He fought for France in | |
| Second Battle of Ypres | ... ences. This "bite and hold" method was based upon his experience, as in the | where the Germans used worth of solid defence in the face of fire to achie ... |
| 2001 war in Afghanistan | ... rt neoconservative policies with regard to the War on Terror, including the | and the 2003 invasion of Iraq |
| Gulf War | ... nd operations across the world, including Operation Eagle Claw in Iran, the | , and more recently in Iraq and Afghanistan |
| Battle of Cannae (1018) | ... s, against the Byzantine governorate, though it was firmly repressed at the | , offered their Norman adventurer allies a first foothold in the region. I ... |
| World War II | ... after a succession of minor conflicts, while belligerents on both sides in | used operatives specifically trained for assassination. Reinhard Heydrich ... |
| War of Devolution | ... antee company - War Crimes Law (Belgium) - War of the Austrian Succession - | - War of the Reunions - War of the Spanish Succession - War of the Success ... |
| Napoleonic Wars | ... easide resort, initially frequented by members of the Royal Navy during the | while the Royal Navy anchored in Torbay and later, as the town's fame spre ... |
| World War II | ... nerations, but were expelled by the British from Mandatory Palestine during | , due to pro-Nazi sympathies expressed by many of them |
| First Intifada | ... roughout the Arab world in the 1980s, Hamas was founded in 1987 (during the | ) as an offshoot of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. Co-founder Sheik Ahme ... |
| Pequot War | ... n the colonists and the natives meant that clashes were inevitable, and the | was the first major conflict the colony engaged in. Winthrop sat on the co ... |
| Ligny | The French invaded Belgium, defeated the Prussians at | , and fought an indecisive battle with Wellington at the Battle of Quatre ... |
| World War II | ... f the company produced very famous models such as the RT 125 pre- and post- | , and after the war it still made 175, 250 and 350 models. As reparations ... |
| Hungarian Revolution of 1956 | ... tter. He thought he had learned an important lesson from the failing of the | , believing the Kremlin would allow him a free hand in pursuing domestic r ... |
| American Revolutionary War | ... d Strzelecki in 1840, in honour of the Polish national hero and hero of the | General Tadeusz Kościuszko, because of its perceived resemblance to the Ko ... |
| War of the Third Coalition | ... luding the annexation of Genoa and Parma, led once again to war in 1805—the | , in which Austria, Britain, Russia, and Sweden took on Napoleon. The Aust ... |
| Battle of Trafalgar | ... fatally wounded Lord Nelson" proved himself to be a model of heroism in the | . In the course of his duties, the seventeen-year-old midshipman's foot wa ... |
| Battle of Tannenberg | ... directed towards the Western Front according to the Schlieffen Plan. In the | in 1914 and the Second Battle of the Masurian Lakes in 1915, however, the ... |
| War of the Reunions | ... Crimes Law (Belgium) - War of the Austrian Succession - War of Devolution - | - War of the Spanish Succession - War of the Succession of Flanders and Ha ... |
| War of the Spanish Succession | ... War of the Austrian Succession - War of Devolution - War of the Reunions - | - War of the Succession of Flanders and Hainault - Waregem - Warocqué, Rao ... |
| World War II | The later stages of | , and the period after the end of that war, saw the forced migration of mi ... |
| World War II | ... dor romanticizes Chopin's patriotism in the film, which was produced during | . Chopin, played by Cornel Wilde, is first presented to the audience as a ... |
| Second Boer War | ... rike against the nearby British colonies in 1899, a strike which became the | |
| Battle of Falkirk | ... tion of chancing all on the outcome of a day, as had William Wallace at the | . Almost to the last minute, he was prepared to withdraw. The Chronicle of ... |
| Nine Years' War | ... , allies in this conflict, had been on opposite sides of the recently ended | . Conflicting territorial claims between Carolina and Florida south of the ... |
| Rhodesian Bush War | Very late in the | the Rhodesian Air Force was able to obtain and use eleven former Israeli A ... |
| Tokyo raid | ... is, and Jimmy Doolittle. Doolittle, awarded the Medal of Honor for his 1942 | , was the first military customer at the field on 9 October 1927. The comb ... |
| World War I | In both | and World War II, Bermudians served in the British armed forces. Among the ... |
| War of the Spanish Succession | ... p with the Marlboroughs; the Duke of Marlborough had fought with him in the | , and John and Sarah made frequent visits to the Hanoverian court during t ... |
| World War II | ... the island, the French torpedo boat, Mosquet 10 miles off Muka Head. During | , Penang, then a British island garrison, suffered devastating aerial bomb ... |
| World War II | ... erfortress used by the United States to execute the first atomic bombing in | . The American Legion and Air Force Association believed the exhibit put f ... |
| American Revolutionary War | ... been captured and adopted by Shawnees in the 1770s, around the time of the | . This story, popularized in historical novels written by Allan W. Eckert ... |
| Bidassoa | ... into a fighting retreat into France, punctuated by battles at the Pyrenees, | and Nivelle. Wellington invaded southern France, winning at the Nive and O ... |
| Second Coalition | The | was formed in 1798 by Austria, Great Britain, the Kingdom of Naples, the O ... |
| English Civil War | The | battle of Lansdowne (or Lansdown) was fought on 5 July 1643, near Bath, so ... |
| war in Iraq | ... however not endorsed Berlusconi's government on several issues, such as the | |
| war | ... the RAF in 1944. He completed his navigator training in Canada just as the | ended |
| World War I | ... ded Newport News Shipbuilding, which was responsible for building six major | -era battleships for the U.S. Navy from 1907–1923. During the war, German ... |
| World War II | ... and vitality well into the 1980s despite having been an active hero during | . His sidekick, Robin, took over thirty years in real time to graduate fro ... |
| Polish–Ottoman War (1672–1676) | ... withstanding, Michał lost a war against the Turks, who occupied Podole (see | ) He was unable to cope with his responsibilities and with Poland's quarre ... |
| World War II | | did what World War I had done, drawing more young people away from Holly S ... |
| American Revolutionary War | ... ulation was 27,088. Its county seat is Columbia. Marion County is named for | guerrilla leader Francis Marion |
| Grandson | ... n Wars, in which the Swiss participated in 1476 and 1477. In the battles of | , Morat and Nancy, the Swiss not only successfully resisted the attacks of ... |
| Trajan's Dacian Wars | ... ation, coupled with the massive amount of gold and silver carried off after | , allowed the emperor to mint a larger quantity of denarii than his predec ... |
| Quasi-War | ... 1795 and 1801, one over appropriations for Jay's Treaty, the other over the | , and in neither case did the party decide to vote unanimously |
| Battle of Leuven (1831) | ... landers - Battle of Flushing - Battle of Hasselt - Battle of Leuven (891) - | - Battle of lillo - Battle of Mons-en-Pévèle - Battle of Nieuwpoort - Batt ... |
| Ionian Revolt | The Greek city-states of Athens and Eretria had supported the unsuccessful | against the Persian Empire of Darius I in 499-494 BCE, led by the satrap o ... |
| penalty shoot-out | ... e City score twice, the equaliser in injury time, and go on to win 3–1 in a | |
| Quatre Bras | ... , but the flanks held their ground. Ney, meanwhile, found the crossroads of | lightly held by the Prince of Orange, who successfully repelled Ney's init ... |
| World War II | Wapping was devastated by German bombing in | accessed 1 April 2007 and by the post-war closure of the docks. It remaine ... |
| World War I | ... a monument to Cézanne, as well as numerous war memorials commissioned after | |
| Falklands War | ... tine Air Force Bell 212 were included with the aircraft deployed during the | . They performed general transport and SAR missions and were based at Port ... |
| World War II | ... e Island nearly continuously since, with the only interruption being during | . Alumni of the cast include Andy Griffith (who played Sir Walter Raleigh) ... |
| Battle of Neopatras | ... harass the Latin states in Greece. The army was crushingly defeated at the | , but the fleet won a similarly comprehensive victory at the Battle of Dem ... |
| 1832 slave revolt | ... f intense and increasing public agitation against slavery. In addition, the | in Jamaica convinced government ministers that abolition was essential to ... |
| Sino-French War | ... tte was built in 1891 to defend the southeastern corner of China during the | . The Xiuying Fort Barbette covers about a third of an acre. Its five larg ... |
| Doolittle Raid | ... sey and including the carriers and , just returned to Pearl Harbor from the | in the central Pacific and therefore would not reach the South Pacific in ... |
| Cold War era | The | was ushered in at Davis-Monthan in March 1946, in the form of the 40th and ... |
| war in 1914 | ... ughout Europe, the Americas, Australia and the Far East; by the outbreak of | it had been performed in more than 50 cities worldwide |
| World War II | ... n of Italy). The city suffered a number of destructive bombing raids during | |
| Battle of Alarcos | ... s," was earned by the defeat he inflicted on Alfonso VIII of Castile in the | (1195) |
| Battle of Leuven (891) | ... f Charleroi - Battle of Flanders - Battle of Flushing - Battle of Hasselt - | - Battle of Leuven (1831) - Battle of lillo - Battle of Mons-en-Pévèle - B ... |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | ... Program, were abandoned, both for political reasons (in consequence of the | ) and the initial operational availability of the first SSBN George Washin ... |
| Battle of Raphia | ... essful in the Fourth Syrian War against Egypt, which led to a defeat at the | (217 BC), Antiochus would prove himself to be the greatest of the Seleucid ... |
| Jallianwala Bagh massacre | ... d to British attacks on demonstrators, culminating on 13 April 1919, in the | (also known as the Amritsar Massacre) in Amritsar, Punjab. The British mil ... |
| World War I | The outbreak of | was a pivotal moment for Russia and Alexandra. The war pitted the Russian ... |
| Seven Years' War | ... p d'état and the assassination of her husband, Peter III, at the end of the | . Russia was revitalized under her reign, growing larger and stronger than ... |
| Charge of the Light Brigade | ... survived some of the worst military disasters (the First Anglo-Afghan War, | , the Siege of Cawnpore, Battle of the Little Bighorn, Battle of Isandlwan ... |
| Battle of Worcester | David Ross, 12th of Balnagowan later led some of the clan at the | on 3 September 1651 where he was captured and imprisoned at the Tower of L ... |
| World War | ... he world is paying for its ruthless destruction of life and property in the | and for its failure to adjust purchasing power to productive capacity duri ... |
| Sino-French War | ... the British in the Opium War, and in 1884 the French invaded as part of the | . Because of these incursions, the Qing government began constructing a se ... |
| World War I | | put what proved to be unbearable burden on Imperial Russia's government an ... |
| Battle of Mons-en-Pévèle | ... selt - Battle of Leuven (891) - Battle of Leuven (1831) - Battle of lillo - | - Battle of Nieuwpoort - Battle of Oudenarde - Battle of Passchendaele - B ... |
| World War II | ... , and took over as director of the organization in 1937. At the outbreak of | , Bernadotte worked to integrate the scouts into Sweden's defense plan, tr ... |
| Sino-Soviet split | ... ), escalation of the United States involvement in Vietnam, and the widening | . It was thought that stimulating a technological revolution in the muniti ... |
| World War II | ... ervice with the United States Navy. The lead ship of the class is named for | Pacific fleet commander Chester W. Nimitz, who was the Navy's last fleet a ... |
| besieged Jerusalem | ... Hophra of Egypt. In 589 BCE, Nebuchadnezzar II returned to Judah and again | . During this period, many Jews fled to surrounding Moab, Ammon, Edom and ... |
| Battle of Solferino | ... ist. During a business trip in 1859, he was witness to the aftermath of the | in modern day Italy. He recorded his memories and experiences in the book ... |
| Battle of Camlann | ... entually destroyed by King Mark of Cornwall after the loss of Arthur at the | . However maddening to later scholars searching for Camelot's location, it ... |
| English Civil War | During the | , Merton was the only Oxford College to side with Parliament. The reason f ... |
| World War II | ... such as the Sangiovese di Romagna from the nearby Romagna region. Following | , the general trend in the world wine market for cheap, easy-drinking wine ... |
| War | ... der of the German writers who tried to come to grips with the memory of the | , the Nazis, and the Holocaust—and the guilt that came with them. He and h ... |
| World War II | ... et a standard for European (and American) figure sculpture until the end of | |
| Glorious Revolution | James's overthrow, known as the | , was one of the most important events in the long evolution of parliament ... |
| World War II | Following | , some composers, such as Roman Palester and Andrzej Panufnik, fled the co ... |
| World War I | ... ildings to provide temporary quarters for the United States military during | , the reinforced concrete structures remained in place until 1970. Much of ... |
| Battle of Hatfield Chase | ... tics of what is now northern England". After Edwin was killed in 633 at the | , Eanfrith temporarily regained power in Bernicia, and subsequently Oswald ... |
| coup of 18 Brumaire | ... 1799, and seized control of the French government on 9 November 1799 in the | , replacing the Directory with the Consulate. He reorganized the French mi ... |
| War of the Second Coalition | ... anization of Germany, and Austria joined Russia, Britain, and Naples in the | in 1799. Although Austro-Russian forces were initially successful in drivi ... |
| World War I | ... he early 1990s, and was also a common sidearm cartridge used by soldiers in | . In other parts of the world, it is known by its metric designation of 9× ... |
| World War II | During | , hundreds of young British airmen were taught to fly at Lakeland's Lodwic ... |
| First World War | ... ales. As his queen consort from 1910, she supported her husband through the | , his ill-health and major political changes arising from the aftermath of ... |
| Cuban intervention in Angola | ... forces to African and Arab countries; Syria in 1973, Ethiopia in 1978, the | from 1975–1989, and Nicaragua and during the 1980s |
| World War II | ... mork, Tinn, with a capacity of 12 tonnes per year. From 1940 and throughout | , the plant was under German control and the allies decided to destroy the ... |
| World War I | ... The flourishing village was once again struck down by war with the start of | . The young men went off to fight, and many others went away to work in wa ... |
| Battle of Jena-Auerstedt | ... nt political roles in German history. After the 1806 Prussian defeat at the | , Napoleon took the Quadriga to Paris |
| Battle of Hatfield Chase | Following the disastrous | on 12 October 633, in which Edwin was defeated and killed by Cadwallon ap ... |
| World War II | In 1943, German and Italian prisoners of | were brought to Kansas and other Midwest states as a means of solving the ... |
| Yom Kippur War | ... efence, training and advisory roles. During the Six-Day War in 1967 and the | in October 1973, PAF pilots volunteered to go to the Middle East to suppor ... |
| Great Purge | ... l of the Soviet Union in 1935. Voroshilov played a central role in Stalin's | of the 1930s, denouncing many of his own military colleagues and subordina ... |
| Hundred Days | On Napoleon's escape and return to France (the | ), he regained Murat's support, but Murat proved unable to convince the It ... |
| Battle of Waterloo | ... rant for his execution when he is saved by news of Napoleon's defeat at the | |
| Napoleonic Wars | One of the most comprehensive attempts at an embargo happened during the | . In an attempt to cripple the United Kingdom economically, the Continenta ... |
| World War I | ... starring Anthony LaPaglia; the animated feature Mary and Max; and the 2010 | drama Beneath Hill 60, directed by Jeremy Sims and starring Brendan Cowell |
| the Nive | ... enees, Bidassoa and Nivelle. Wellington invaded southern France, winning at | and Orthez |
| Roosebeke | ... ally when the pikemen did not have adequate armor. Many defeats, such as at | and Halidon Hill, were suffered by the militia pike armies when faced by c ... |
| Battle of Tannenberg Line | ... o two phases: the Battle for Narva Bridgehead from February to July and the | from July to September. A number of volunteer Waffen-SS units from Norway, ... |
| Bagaudae | ... among the Huns in 433, and the troops Attila provided against the Goths and | had helped earn him the largely honorary title of magister militum in the ... |
| Dunmore's War | Blue Jacket participated in | and the American Revolutionary War (allied with the British), always attem ... |
| Spanish Armada | ... atea. Because of financial problems, Cervantes worked as a purveyor for the | , and later as a tax collector. In 1597, discrepancies in his accounts of ... |
| English Civil War | During the | , Guernsey sided with Parliament, while Jersey remained Royalist. Guernsey ... |
| Battle of Carbisdale | ... James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose in 1650. During the Civil War at the | the Clan Ross and Clan Munro fought on the side of the Scottish Government ... |
| Winter War | ... the State Defense Committee. Voroshilov commanded Soviet troops during the | from November 1939 to January 1940, but, due to his poor planning and over ... |
| First Boer War | ... 1880 the independence of the republic was proclaimed again, leading to the | . The Pretoria Convention of 1881 gave the Boers self-rule in the Transvaa ... |
| Trafalgar | ... with Horatio Nelson in many sea victories, and as Nelson's successor after | , completing the destruction of the Napoleonic fleet. Other notable people ... |
| Warrenpoint ambush | ... Parachute Regiment at Warrenpoint, County Down, in what became known as the | |
| World War II | ... l values of abstinence before marriage was retained. With the conclusion of | , the societal importance of abstinence declined swiftly. The advent of th ... |
| World War II | ... , director Steven Spielberg cast Damon as the titular character in the 1998 | film Saving Private Ryan |
| Seven Years' War | ... ench territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/ | . The purpose of the proclamation was to organize Great Britain's new Nort ... |
| Second Boer War | ... nally from Lancashire. He joined the British Army in 1895 and fought in the | with the King's Own Royal Regiment, and served in major campaigns includin ... |
| World War II | ... inner London. This industry made Mitcham a target for German bombing during | . During this time Mitcham also returned to its agricultural roots, with M ... |
| Battle of Ulm | ... he invading Austrian army of General Mack and forced it to surrender in the | . In 1810, Ulm was incorporated into the Kingdom of Württemberg and lost i ... |
| Spartacist uprising | ... ets of Berlin made more armed attempts to establish communism, known as the | . Those attempts were put down by paramilitary Freikorps units consisting ... |
| Battle of Blenheim | ... ater, the Second Battle of Höchstädt was fought, known in English mainly as | |
| siege to Jerusalem | ... les, after invading "the land of Hatti (Syria/Palestine)" in 599 BC, he lay | . Jehoiakim died in 598 BC during the siege, and was succeeded by his son ... |
| Russo-Japanese War | ... e promised role as a transit route between Europe and East Asia. During the | , the military traffic to the east almost disrupted the flow of civil frei ... |
| World War II | ... beach fringe areas. In the 1950s, in part to aid in Japanese recovery from | , the Forest Service set up long-term contracts with two pulp mills: the K ... |
| World War II | During | , Berea was one of 131 colleges nationally that took part in the V-12 Navy ... |
| Battle of Fort Beauséjour | ... t the mouth of the St. John River (Fort Menagoueche). Immediately after the | (1755), Robert Monckton sent a detachment to take Fort Menagoueche. French ... |
| disastrous attempt to invade England | ... r menace to Spanish shipping. The effort to neutralise this threat led to a | in 1588. This defeat led to a reform of fleet operations. The navy at this ... |
| World War I | In | , the foreign legion fought in many critical battles on the Western Front, ... |
| World War II | ... hip of that name; the second, , named for Robert M. Thompson, served during | and the Korean War |
| Paris itself was under siege | ... leon III in July 1870, turned out disastrously for France, and by September | . The gap between rich and poor in the capital had widened during the prec ... |
| World War II | ... d one son, Harald, and two daughters, Ragnhild and Astrid. As exiles during | , Crown Princess Märtha and the Royal children lived in Washington, D.C., ... |
| World War I | In | , before the advent of antibiotics, silver compounds were used to prevent ... |
| American Revolutionary War | After the | , more settlers came to the area, mostly to trade with the Onondaga Nation ... |
| defeat at Waterloo | ... between 1792 and 1814. The Napoleonic Wars ended following Napoleon's final | on 18 June 1815 and the Second Treaty of Paris |
| Cold War | ... er Police (Bundesgrenzschutz). In the early 1990s, following the end of the | the garrison tradition of the town came to an end when the Bundeswehr's Ma ... |
| Second World War | ... l of the German state of Saxony, that took place in the final months of the | . In four raids between 13 February and 15 February 1945, 1,300 heavy bomb ... |
| Battle of Chrysopolis | ... sar, but Constantine next won the Battle of the Hellespont, and finally the | on 18 September 324 |
| English Civil War | ... England. His grandfather had suffered for the Royalist cause following the | , leaving the family in reduced circumstances. Bentley's mother, the daugh ... |
| city's fall | ... n 5th century Constantinople and operated in various incarnations until the | to the Ottomans in 1453. The University of Constantinople was Christian Eu ... |
| Emirate of Sicily | ... Mediterranean: the Abbasid Caliphate, the Umayyad Caliphate of Córdoba, the | , and the Fatimid Caliphate (which relied on Slavs purchased at the Bari m ... |
| Battle of Isandlwana | ... of the Light Brigade, the Siege of Cawnpore, Battle of the Little Bighorn, | ), always coming out with more heroic laurels. The date of his last advent ... |
| St. John River Campaign | ... sought refuge from maintland Nova Scotia to the St. John River. During the | (1758), the British built Fort Frederick on the remains of Fort Menagouech ... |
| World War II | ... s. The region remained well below national levels of prosperity until after | |
| Revolutionary War | ... Stuart after Sir John Stuart, it was incorporated as Stewartstown after the | , following the original Scottish spelling of the name |
| World War I | ... of the world for thousands of years, "modern" chemical warfare began during | - see Poison gas in World War I |
| Gyldenløve War | Construction of fortifications started in 1673 during the | as Hammersberg Skanse (also referred to as Terningen Skanse); the bastion ... |
| World War II | The company did very well during | as military demand skyrocketed; it specialized in high technology devices ... |
| World War II | ... energies. This situation was not considered adequately resolved until after | ended, when Julian Schwinger, Richard Feynman, and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga inde ... |
| Uruguayan War | ... tish. A Brazilian army invaded Uruguay in December 1864 beginning the brief | , which ended on 20 February 1865 |
| World War II | ... ect, like others in the state, had to contend with the Great Depression and | , work continued as Colonial Williamsburg became a major tourist attractio ... |
| World War I | ... ation often colors discussion of sexual behavior in the later 20th century. | began a return to sexual freedom and indulgence, but more often than not, ... |
| Great Purge | ... tudent of Communist ideology, particularly Trotskyism; though following the | , Joseph Stalin privately met with him and ordered him to publicly denounc ... |
| Spanish Civil War | ... guages. It is also considered by many to be the best novel dealing with the | |
| Battle of Flushing | ... 071) - Battle of Cassel (1328) - Battle of Charleroi - Battle of Flanders - | - Battle of Hasselt - Battle of Leuven (891) - Battle of Leuven (1831) - B ... |
| Rhodesian Bush War | ... the Rhodesian Air Force to skirt the UN endorsed embargo imposed during the | |
| War on Terror | ... s served as a hub for anti-war activity during both the Vietnam War and the | |
| World War II | ... inifred Wagner took over the Bayreuth Festival, running it until the end of | |
| Battle of Penang | During the First World War, in the | , the German cruiser SMS Emden surreptitiously sailed to Penang and sank t ... |
| Eighty Years' War | ... inly Calvinist) inhabitants of the Netherlands. Things went badly after the | started in 1568, but luck turned to his advantage when Protestant rebels a ... |
| World War II | ... submarine U-691 was a Type VIIC/41 U-boat of the German Kriegsmarine during | . Her construction by Howaldtswerke of Hamburg was ordered on 2 April 1942 ... |
| Spanish Civil War | At the start of the | , she worked for the autonomous Government of Catalonia |
| Battle of Hasselt | ... el (1328) - Battle of Charleroi - Battle of Flanders - Battle of Flushing - | - Battle of Leuven (891) - Battle of Leuven (1831) - Battle of lillo - Bat ... |
| prolonged revolt in 1866–1869 | ... the Greek-speaking provinces of the Ottoman Empire. Especially in Crete, a | had raised nationalist fervour. When war broke out between Russia and the ... |
| World War I | ... ayed all across the country. Average major league attendances reached a pre | peak of 5,836 in 1909, before falling back during the war. Where there wer ... |
| World War I | ... he gyrocompass at 40 Flatbush Avenue Extension in Downtown Brooklyn. During | the company diversified into aircraft components including bomb sights and ... |
| World War II | In 1941, at the age of 19, LaMotta turned professional. During | , he was rejected for military service because of a mastoid operation on o ... |
| Cold War | ... f all nuclear test explosions worldwide. However, within the context of the | , skepticism about the capability to verify compliance with a comprehensiv ... |
| World War II | During | , Olav stood by his father's side in resisting the occupation of Norway by ... |
| Hundred Days | ... irst restoration he was made a colonel, but he rejoined Napoleon during the | , and under his old chief Suchet distinguished himself in the war in the A ... |
| Battle of Skuodas | ... were restricted. Several pitched battles ensued. In 1259 the Order lost the | , and in 1260 it lost the Battle of Durbe. The first defeat encouraged a r ... |
| English Civil War | ... e of The Restoration, because it had remained loyal to the crown during the | , and the present moniker, "Old Dominion" is a reference to that title. Th ... |
| Battle of Alnwick | ... ion, King of Scotland and William was captured outside the walls during the | . Eustace de Vesci, lord of Alnwick, was accused of plotting with Robert F ... |
| German Peasants' War | Due to its participation in the uprisings of the | of 1525, Wiesbaden lost all its privileges for over forty years. During th ... |
| invade Canada | ... in New York Colony's northern frontier, and American forces unsuccessfully | , with an attack on Montreal defeated by British forces on November 13 and ... |
| World War II | ... mainland until 1949. In 1945, the ROC acquired Taiwan from Japan following | |
| American Revolutionary War | The end result of the | was the Treaty of Fort Stanwix (1784) enacted by the United States on Octo ... |
| World War II | ... was a Type VIIC U-boat built for the German Kriegsmarine for service during | |
| World War II | ... Morison Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Military History, is an expert on | , a Distinguished Visiting Professor at West Point and the United States A ... |
| Battle of Kings Mountain | ... rican Revolutionary War for both the Battle of Musgrove Mill (1780) and the | (1780), and a local community within the secessionist North Carolina "Stat ... |
| Iraq War | ... Winick. housemates Simon Sherry-Wood and Leah Gillingwater argued over the | , and in a subsequent episode, Chris "C.T." Tamburello became confrontatio ... |
| Battle of Heavenfield | ... 's brother Oswald then raised an army and finally defeated Cadwallon at the | in 634. After this victory, Oswald appears to have been recognised by both ... |
| Battle of Leipzig | ... he other states of Europe re-allied themselves and defeated Napoleon at the | , after which his Italian allied states, with Murat first among them, aban ... |
| Gustafsen Lake | ... s occupation of a farmer's field in the Cariboo region of the province. The | siege, led by Dosanjh became the largest-scale police operation in BC hist ... |
| World War I | During | , military hospitals were sited in Torquay – many survivors from the Battl ... |
| World War II | ... o find crystals of wolframite, a tungsten ore that was mined briefly during | when access to other sources was cut off, and small grains of topaz, which ... |
| Battle of Yiwulu | ... i Corridor in Gansu. Dou Gu (d. 88 CE) defeated the Northern Xiongnu at the | in 73 CE, evicting them from Turpan and chasing them as far as Lake Barkol ... |
| Peninsular War | ... e United Kingdom and Austria against France formed as the UK engaged in the | against France |
| American Revolutionary War | ... rn North Carolina. The county was created from Bladen County in 1786 by two | heroes and residents of the area, General John Willis and Colonel Thomas R ... |
| Napoleonic Wars | ... Indonesian island of Java from Dutch and French military forces during the | and contributed to the expansion of the British Empire. He was also an ama ... |
| Battle of Spion Kop | ... the King's Own Royal Regiment, and served in major campaigns including the | . He moved to Jersey to serve as a Sergeant, having signed up in 1906 for ... |
| War of the Fourth Coalition | ... ely, his fortunate position was not to last: on 28 November 1806 during the | , Napoleon Bonaparte's troops captured Warsaw, and the Prussian bureaucrat ... |
| World War I | ... ifically opposing the Second Boer War, but supported British involvement in | |
| World War I | At the beginning of | he was commissioned into the Royal Artillery (Territorial Force), at first ... |
| his generals | After the death of Alexander the Great in 324 BC, | fought amongst themselves over the succession. Lycia fell into the hands o ... |
| Battle of the Milvian Bridge | Constantine defeated Maxentius at the | on October 28, 312. Maxentius died, and Italy came under Constantine's rul ... |
| Easter Rising | ... Belfast, who became his secretary and would later accompany him during the | |
| Spanish Civil War | After the | , several Basque families migrated to Colombia. Many of these families wer ... |
| World War I | ... an oil boom north of Volant. The drilling continued until the beginning of | |
| English Civil War | ... n 1642, the conflict between King and Parliament reached its climax and the | began |
| Battle of Durbe | ... sued. In 1259 the Order lost the Battle of Skuodas, and in 1260 it lost the | . The first defeat encouraged a rebellion by the Semigalians, and the defe ... |
| Napoleonic Wars | ... ostensibly set in the early eighteenth century, there are references to the | and other indicators that the story is contemporary to the time of its wri ... |
| World War II | ... in 1938 for him to complete his doctoral thesis. Caught by the outbreak of | in 1939, he returned to Romania, but soon changed his mind and, with the h ... |
| Second Boer War | ... pposed British imperialism in general, as well as specifically opposing the | , but supported British involvement in World War I |
| Battle of Musgrove Mill | ... jor historic muster site during the American Revolutionary War for both the | (1780) and the Battle of Kings Mountain (1780), and a local community with ... |
| Battle of Verdun | ... ensives could begin, the Germans attacked first, engaging the Allies at the | . As this battle dragged on, the purpose of the Somme campaign (which was ... |
| First World War | ... ice force, in 1921, following the service of many of its members during the | , King George V awarded the force the status of a regiment of dragoons, en ... |
| Seven Years' War | ... s burned and Hamarhus castle was destroyed by the Swedish armies during the | with Sweden. Hamar lost its city status, leaving no kjøpstad, or official ... |
| Revolutionary War | ... ght in the 1781 Battle of Guilford Court House in North Carolina during the | and subsequently retired to Gunstock Parish, successfully proposed incorpo ... |
| Battle of Culloden | ... t is also mentioned that a member of the Flashman family was present at the | , 1746. Fraser has confirmed that Flashman died in 1915 but the circumstan ... |
| World War II | The project's initial purpose was irrigation, but the onset of | created a high demand for electricity, mainly for aluminum production and ... |
| Central Plains War | ... Chiang Kai-shek and Yan Xishan. Yan's opposition to Chiang during the 1930 | caused Yan to formally retire from all positions of leadership in Shanxi, ... |
| Battle of Sentinum | ... aken over by the Etruscans. The Romans took control of central Italy by the | in 295 BC. They built the flourishing municipium Asisium on a series of te ... |
| Battle of Tolbiac | After the Franks under Clovis I defeated the Alamanni in the | in 496, the Franks eventually displaced the Alamanni in the Wiesbaden area ... |
| Battle of Fallen Timbers | ... n August 20, 1794, Blue Jacket's confederate army clashed with Wayne at the | , just south of present-day Toledo, Ohio. Blue Jacket's army was defeated, ... |
| World War II | ... the pre-Islamic period of Afghanistan began in Afghanistan in earnest after | and proceeded until the late 1970s when the nation was invaded by the Sovi ... |
| Yamasee War | ... aining indigenous people there, some recently arrived as refugees after the | , such as the Yuchi, Yamasee and others. In a process of ethnogenesis, the ... |
| 2003 invasion of Iraq | ... of the population, and were championed by figures such as Noam Chomsky. The | led to a significant anti-war movement in which socialists argued their ca ... |
| Thirty Years' War | ... Marshal General Torquato Conti was in command of Imperial forces during the | . Forced to retreat from the advancing Swedish army of King Gustavus Adolp ... |
| Battle of Vittorio Veneto | ... sewhere. This changed in October, 1918, with Austro-Hungarian defeat in the | , the Imperial army collapsed and started to withdraw and, on 29 October, ... |
| Ústí (Aussig) massacre | ... ers accompanied the expulsions. Some had experienced massacres, such as the | , in which 80-100 ethnic Germans died, or conditions like those in the Upp ... |
| World War II | ... eintopf) was a typical German food during the famines and food shortages of | , as well the following years. As a result, many older Germans don't have ... |
| World War II | ... ermany and the Soviet Union by their Invasion of Poland at the beginning of | . Millions of Polish citizens perished in the course of the Nazi occupatio ... |
| Thirty Years' War | During the | , Royal (Habsburg) Hungary joined the Roman Catholic side, until Transylva ... |
| World War II | ... es was a pacifist who sought to become a member of the Medical Corps during | . The United States armed forces, however, would not guarantee him that po ... |
| World War I | Between the Napoleonic Wars and | there were several grand duchies in Europe. A considerable number of grand ... |
| World War II | During | , Camp Atlanta was established next to the town as an Allied prisoner-of-w ... |
| second world war | ... ionsstraat, which is now considered to be the centre of the town. After the | a shortage of houses resulted in a rapid growth of Ermelo. In 1973 Nunspee ... |
| Nagorno-Karabakh War | As a result of the | between Azerbaijan and Armenia, Azerbaijan refuses entry to holders of Arm ... |
| Great Northern War | During the | , Russia scorched earth in the way of Swedish king Charles XII's forces |
| King William's War | ... New England remained uncertain despite battles along the border throughout | . New France defined the border of Acadia as the Kennebec River in souther ... |
| Napoleonic Wars | Between the | and World War I there were several grand duchies in Europe. A considerable ... |
| invasion of Russia in 1812 | ... es conquered much of Europe but collapsed rapidly after France's disastrous | . Napoleon's empire ultimately suffered complete military defeat resulting ... |
| Operation Anaconda | ... y platform capable of providing accurate close air support (CAS) duties for | ; although they regularly took fire during the intense early fighting, the ... |
| First World War | ... née Princess Augusta of Cambridge), and wrote to her every week. During the | , the Crown Princess of Sweden helped pass letters from May to her aunt, w ... |
| Battle of Asiago | After the | in 1916, which ended in a stalemate and brought only minor territorial gai ... |
| World War I | Established during | at historic Mulberry Island, the large base at Fort Eustis in modern times ... |
| World War II | ... date administered by Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. During | , Nauru was occupied by Japanese troops, who were bypassed by the Allied a ... |
| Second World War | ... n Provost Corps, was raised for service in Europe and served throughout the | as Military Police |
| Battle of Mardia | ... le of Cibalae, with Constantine being victorious. They clashed again at the | in 317, and agreed to a settlement in which Constantine's sons Crispus and ... |
| World War II | ... rival of Americans with their informal demeanour and relative wealth during | was instrumental in the rise of nationalism in the islands. The belief in ... |
| Battle of Nanshan | ... he Russians back towards Port Arthur. The subsequent battles, including the | on 25 May 1904, were marked by heavy Japanese losses largely from attackin ... |
| World War II | ... he original negative was returned to Germany, where it was destroyed during | |
| World War I | ... and reinstated as a major in the French Army. He served during the whole of | , ending his service with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel |
| Beaver Wars | ... ry to control the fur trade with the French. As part of what was called the | , the Iroquois drove the Anishinaabe people from the island by 1650. Accor ... |
| World War II | During | Torquay was regarded as safer than the towns of South East England, and pl ... |
| Russian Civil War | ... Voroshilov was instrumental as a commander of the Southern Front during the | and the Polish-Soviet War while with the 1st Cavalry Army. As Political Co ... |
| Battle of Zutphen | Later that year, he joined Sir John Norris in the | . During the siege, he was shot in the thigh and died twenty-six days late ... |
| Cold War | ... cades, little progress was made in nuclear disarmament until the end of the | in 1991. Parties to the PTBT held an amendment conference that year to dis ... |
| World War II | In the 1940s, during | , Hull, along with various other regions within Canada, such as the Saguen ... |
| Peninsular War | ... tunities for winning distinction under Suchet in the eastern theatre of the | , in which he rose to the rank of major and the command of a full regiment ... |
| Operation Iraqi Freedom | ... the initiation of three ongoing missions: Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF), | (OIF), and Operation Noble Eagle (ONE) |
| Boer War | ... , which had annexed the republics of Transvaal and Orange Free State in the | . The Boers were descendants of early Dutch colonists, to whom Wilhelmina ... |
| Cold War | The | , especially in the 1950s and 1960s, put a damper on the Esperanto movemen ... |
| Battle of Cibalae | in either 314 or 316 the two Augusti fought against one another at the | , with Constantine being victorious. They clashed again at the Battle of M ... |
| East African Campaign | ... of the FP were also used to form Belgian colonial units that fought in the | during World War II |
| Battle of the Hellespont | ... us, the commander of his bodyguard, as Caesar, but Constantine next won the | , and finally the Battle of Chrysopolis on 18 September 324 |
| Cold War | The United States presidential election of 1952 took place in an era when | tension between the United States and the Soviet Union was escalating rapi ... |
| Castle Hill rebellion | ... ikes, made from bayonets on poles, were used by escaped convicts during the | of 1804 |
| Thirty Years' War | ... onarch. Under Louis and Richelieu, the crown successfully intervened in the | against the Habsburgs, managed to keep the French nobility in line, and re ... |
| Revolutionary War | ... county seat of Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, United States. It is named for | General Nathan Greene. The population was 4,398 at the 2000 census |
| English Civil War | ... armour popular amongst infantry. Although quilted armour survived into the | in England as a poor man's cuirass, and as an item to be worn beneath the ... |
| War of the Spanish Succession | ... mself King of Spain—both were members of the House of Habsburg. The ensuing | , which pitted France's candidate, Philippe, Duke of Anjou, Louis XIV of F ... |
| Revolutions of 1989 | When the | occurred and the Wall fell, the gate symbolized freedom and the desire to ... |
| 84th Regiment of Foot (Royal Highland Emigrants) | ... ne 30, 1777 under the command of Captain Hawker, four British ship with the | arrived on the scene under the command of Major Gilfred Studholme. When th ... |
| Eighty Years' War | ... river) occurred. It was led by Prince of Orange Frederick Henry, during the | (1568–1648) with Spain. An earlier siege by his brother Prince Maurits too ... |
| Battle of Charleroi | ... s - Battle of Cadsand - Battle of Cassel (1071) - Battle of Cassel (1328) - | - Battle of Flanders - Battle of Flushing - Battle of Hasselt - Battle of ... |
| Cold War | ... eagan-Gorbachev summit in Reykjavík, which set the stage for the end of the | |
| World War II | ... , Europe's third largest war cemetery for unidentified soldiers who died in | . 8,301 soldiers are buried there under long rows of white crosses and sta ... |
| World War II | The Bailiwick of Guernsey was occupied by German troops in | . Before the occupation, many Guernsey children were evacuated to England ... |
| Acadia | ... on Barbados, a source of cotton, and with the neighboring French colony of | |
| American Revolutionary War | ... The Provisions State" because of the material aid the state rendered to the | effort. Connecticut is also known as "The Land of Steady Habits" |
| Finnish War | ... Russia should force Sweden to join the Continental System, which led to the | of 1808–09 and to the division of Sweden into two parts separated by the G ... |
| War of the Spanish Succession | ... Franco-Spanish expedition briefly occupied the Bahamian capital during the | |
| American Revolutionary War | ... independence from Great Britain, more than a year after the outbreak of the | . The Independence Day of the is celebrated on July 4, the day Congress ap ... |
| World War II | After | a new government was founded. With the inception of this new government, m ... |
| Russo-Japanese War | The tsarevich Alexei was born during the height of the | on 12 August 1904. He was the Heir Apparent to the throne of Russia, and A ... |
| Mongol invasion of Europe | ... Historian Nicolae Iorga associated the Roma people's arrival with the 1241 | and considered their slavery as a vestige of that era, the Romanians takin ... |
| War on Terror | ... Poland, where foreign suspects may have been tortured in the context of the | . The alleged constitutional and international law trespasses took place w ... |
| World War I | ... e first British soldier and the first soldier of the Commonwealth killed in | was born in Church End Finchley, and lived at 52 Lodge Lane, North Finchle ... |
| World War II | ... eiantanus remained for the most part agrarian until it became evident after | that the city of Rome was going to expand into and develop that area as a ... |
| Spanish Civil War | ... socialist feminist organization in the U.S. and is still active. During the | , Dolores Ibárruri (La Pasionaria) led the Communist Party of Spain. Altho ... |
| Bar Kokhba revolt | ... on bar Kokhba (died A.D. 135) was the Jewish leader of what is known as the | against the Roman Empire in 132 CE, establishing an independent Jewish sta ... |
| World War II | He served with the British Army in North Africa during | and was wounded on three occasions, once severely during the Battle of El ... |
| siege of Constantinople | ... Serbia. Both of them were checked by the Ottoman Empire. During the Ottoman | in 1453, a significant band of Venetian and Genoese knights died in the de ... |
| World War II | ... net") was a German heavy fighter and Schnellbomber used by Luftwaffe during | . Though essentially a straightforward modification of the Me 210, it was ... |
| World War I | ... States. The population was 3,055 at the 2000 census. It was the hometown of | sniper Herman Davis. A park in the town honors his memory today |
| Nine Years' War | The Battle of Fleurus, fought on 1 July 1690, was a major engagement of the | . In a bold envelopment the Duc de Luxembourg, commanding Louis XIV’s army ... |
| Battle of Jutland | ... -ton armoured cruiser, which went down in a heavy storm four days after the | with only 12 surviving from its 655 crew, lies in 70 metres of water 1.5 m ... |
| Siege of Hulst | In 1645, the | (to control the left bank of the Schelde river) occurred. It was led by Pr ... |
| Fox Wars | ... mpact on trade, launched a series of attacks on the Sac, culminating in the | , which drove them out of the area by 1742 |
| Cold War | ... cast an interview with Nixon's longstanding nemesis Alger Hiss, a convicted | perjurer. Howard K. Smith: News and Comment aired in the 10:30 Eastern slo ... |
| World War II | ... ka, in the United States. The population was 131 at the 2010 Census. During | the town was neighbored by Camp Atlanta, which housed more than 3,000 Nazi ... |
| Beer Hall Putsch | ... y admired Wagner's music. When Hitler was jailed for his part in the Munich | , Winifred sent him food parcels and stationery on which Hitler's autobiog ... |
| United States invasion of Panama | The Sheridan's only air drop in combat occurred during the | (Operation Just Cause) in 1989, when fourteen M551s were deployed: four we ... |
| English Civil War | ... head" was the nickname given to the supporters of the Parliament during the | . Also known as Parliamentarians, they fought against King Charles I and h ... |
| Pequot War | ... and sold into slavery in the 17th century, notably in the aftermaths of the | , and King Philip's War, but some are have believed to come from as far aw ... |
| Philadelphia campaign | During the | of the American Revolutionary War, George Washington and the Continental A ... |
| Battle of Tolentino | ... ar. But the proclamation failed and the Austrians soon crushed Murat at the | (2 May to 3 May 1815), forcing him to flee. The Bourbons returned to the t ... |
| World War II | ... ied when Scott was six. He studied accounting and served in the Navy during | . With Bill Maynard he appeared at Butlin's Holiday Camp in Skegness and p ... |
| Warsaw Uprising | ... factories. Cycle rickshaws became popular in Warsaw and by the start of the | were a common sight on the city's streets |
| Battle of Lechfeld | After the defeat of the Hungarians by Emperor Otto the Great in the | (955), new marches were established in what is today Austria. The one know ... |
| World War I | ... ponse to the increased need for scientific and technical services caused by | . On June 1, 1917, the council convened a meeting of scientific representa ... |
| American Revolutionary War | ... ent spelling as St. Clair. The name is sometimes attributed as honoring the | General and Governor of the Northwest Territory Arthur St. Clair, but the ... |
| American Revolutionary War | ... art of Dobbs County. It was named for "Mad Anthony" Wayne, a general in the | . The act, establishing the County, provided the first court should be hel ... |
| World War II | ... e deported to or put in camps in other parts of Russia during the course of | |
| battlefield at Ashdown | ... ales, but mentions various places that he visited in England, including the | , Countisbury (which he calls Cynuit), and Athelney. It is evident from As ... |
| World War II | ... he flag known as the Bellamy salute, described in detail by Bellamy. During | , the salute was replaced with a hand-over-heart gesture because the origi ... |
| World War II | Afghan–Japanese relations have existed as far back as | , and have been mainly positive. The Japanese government in 1974 started f ... |
| World War II | Although Griffith was in the middle of the Great Depression and | had broken out in Europe, optimistic views were still present throughout t ... |
| Mukden Incident | ... ded his influence to Northern China around Beijing and Hebei. Following the | of 1931, when the Japanese invaded and took full and direct control over M ... |
| World War II | ... e was founded on the site of three farms by Walter Hendricks, for returning | veterans, with poet Robert Frost as its first trustee. The , founded in 19 ... |
| World War II | ... ists" by the FBI, denied promotion during service in the US military during | , and pursued by Congressional committees during the Red Scare |
| American Revolutionary War | During the Philadelphia campaign of the | , George Washington and the Continental Army were encamped here after thei ... |
| Napoleonic Wars | ... a was a time of war, with the French Revolution (1789–1799) followed by the | until 1815. These wars, along with the political and social turmoil that w ... |
| World War II | ... s radio antenna tower in Garland, and it is operational to this day. During | , several aircraft plants were operated in the area, and the Kraft Foods c ... |
| World War II | Following | , Hoover became friends with President Harry S. Truman. Hoover joked that ... |
| Port Royal, Nova Scotia | ... England volunteers and two hundred of Oliver Cromwell's soldiers to capture | . Prior to the battle, Sedgewick captured and plundered La Tour's fort on ... |
| Thirty Years' War | ... e English and French Crowns that was not surmounted for the duration of the | . Buckingham's failure to protect the Huguenots – indeed, his attempt to c ... |
| Battle of Benevento | ... Sacred Heart - Basketball League Belgium - Bastogne - Batetela Rebellions - | - Battle of Beverhoutsveld - Battle of Bouvines - Battle of Cadsand - Batt ... |
| Battle of Eutaw Springs | ... The city is the county seat of Greene County and was named in honor of the | , the last engagement of the American Revolutionary War in the Carolinas. ... |
| Russo-Japanese War | ... the Tsarevich Alexei in the opulent surroundings of the Imperial Court. The | is on and Tsar Nicholas (Michael Jayston) is warned by Count Witte (Lauren ... |
| Uprising of 1953 in East Germany | ... the 17th of June was an official holiday in West Germany to commemorate the | , even with the name "Day of the German Unity". Since 1963, it was proclai ... |
| Spanish–American War | Puerto Rico was ceded to the United States by Spain at the end of the | by the Treaty of Paris of 1898. The Foraker Act of 1900 provided for an or ... |
| WWII | ... "Conditions of Learning". Gagné pioneered the science of instruction during | when he worked with the air force training pilots. He went on to develop a ... |
| Nördlingen | ... to rescue her brother Condé, his old comrade in the battles of Freiburg and | |
| Spanish Civil War | ... escape from the Republican zone through the mountains of Andorra during the | .* In the 1997 novel The Genesis Code by John Case, the leader of Opus Dei ... |
| Cold War | Throughout the | , Hoover, always an opponent of Marxism, became even more outspokenly anti ... |
| Sack of Magdeburg | ... torians directly blame Ferdinand for the large civilian loss of life in the | in 1631: he had instructed Tilly to enforce the edict of Restitution upon ... |
| 2003 invasion of Iraq | ... ording to contemporary polls, the majority of Canadians were opposed to the | . Many Canadians, and the former Liberal Cabinet headed by Paul Martin (as ... |
| North-West Rebellion | Regina attained national prominence in 1885 during the | when troops were mostly able to be transported by train on the CPR from ea ... |
| U.S. invasion of Afghanistan | ... gnificant before and during the Soviet intervention, but by the time of the | , the number of aircraft available was minimal. The United States and its ... |
| Thirty Years' War | ... . Mercantilism became prominent in Central Europe and Scandinavia after the | (1618–1648), with Christina of Sweden, Jacob Kettler of Courland, Christia ... |
| Fleurus | ... ier attached to the army of the Sambre et Meuse. After Jourdan's victory at | (26 June 1794) he became a general of division. At the Battle of Theininge ... |
| Kimberley was besieged | The Second Boer War proved to be a challenging time for the company. | as soon as war broke out, thereby threatening the company's valuable mines ... |
| First World War | ... tics and physics and received a degree in physics. With the outbreak of the | in 1914, he offered his services to the army in the development of radio c ... |
| Aerial Battle of Taiwan-Okinawa | ... wan University) in Taiwan. Many of the Japanese forces participating in the | were based in Taiwan. Important Japanese military bases and industrial cen ... |
| World War II | Baseball boomed after | . 1945 saw a new attendance record and the following year average crowds l ... |
| Battle of Ceuta | In 1415, during the | , the city was captured by the Portuguese during the reign of John I of Po ... |
| World War II | ... uschniggs's authoritarian one-party system, which had ruled Austria. During | , however, he distanced himself from politics completely |
| Russian Revolution | ... rted to slowly return to normal, until the industry was rocked again by the | and American Prohibition, which closed off two of Madeira's biggest market ... |
| Roxanne Wars | ... he song title). Shanté's version and the Real Roxanne's version sparked the | and made Shanté a hip-hop star in the process. The single would go on to s ... |
| Battle of White Mountain | ... iralling into a wider European war. In 1620 Frederick V was defeated at the | and by 1622, despite the aid of English volunteers, had lost his hereditar ... |
| World War II | ... ivate aviation museum in Scotland. The restored control tower of the former | airfield is now a listed building. The museum is run by volunteers and hou ... |
| First World War | During the | he became Director of Propaganda for France at the Ministry of Information ... |
| Iraq invasion | ... l Theatre production featured Henry as a modern war general, ridiculing the | |
| Battle of Jutland | After the | , the German High Seas Fleet rarely ventured out of its bases at Wilhelmsh ... |
| Prinitza | ... er the Principality of Achaea, but this expedition failed in the battles of | and Makryplagi, and a mixed imperial and Genoese fleet of 48 ships was def ... |
| World War I | ... The United States Railroad Administration (USRA) took over the D&RG during | . In 1918 the D&RG fell into receivership after the bankruptcy of Western ... |
| Thirty Years' War | ... novated many times. The development of the new capital stagnated due to the | , but afterwards many famous baroque buildings were added to the town. Aft ... |
| Beer Hall Putsch | ... ecame a hotbed of extremism: the 1919 Bavarian Soviet Republic and the 1923 | involving Erich Ludendorff and Adolf Hitler took place in the same city. F ... |
| World War II | ... stablished as a site to train newly commissioned Navy and Marine pilots for | . The program ran until 1946, and the land that was used for that program ... |
| Battle of Ipsus | ... as defeated by the united forces of Seleucus and Lysimachus at the decisive | in 301 BC. Antigonus himself died in the battle after being struck by a ja ... |
| Gulf of Tonkin Incident | ... hnson expanded the numbers and roles of the American military following the | (less than three weeks after the Republican Convention of 1964, which had ... |
| invading French army | In 1882, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky quoted "La Marseillaise" to represent the | in his 1812 Overture. He also quoted the Russian national anthem he was fa ... |
| World War I | ... This growth led to several moves within Kansas City, and eventually, after | , to the development of Unity Village, 15 miles from Kansas City. The move ... |
| Franco-Dutch War | ... Michel - Franck, César - Franco-Belgian comics - France–Habsburg rivalry - | - Francqui, Emile - Free Belgian Forces - French Community Commission - Fr ... |
| Battle of Mallavelly | ... were senior to Wellesley). Much of this friction was put to rest after the | , some from Seringapatam, in which Harris's army attacked a large part of ... |
| Cold War | ... hugely influential in setting the intellectual structures for managing the | ." The current Director-General and Chief Executive is Dr John Chipman CMG ... |
| Battle of Dunbar | ... ing the then-Scottish border town. In April, the Scots were defeated at the | in East Lothian and by July Edward had forced John to abdicate. Edward the ... |
| Battle of Montgisard | ... ad of the army of the kingdom, he helped King Baldwin defeat Saladin at the | ; Saladin narrowly escaped. In 1181 the temptation of the caravans which p ... |
| Iraq War | Four servicemen were awarded the Medal of Honor for actions in the | : Army Sergeant First Class Paul Ray Smith, Army Private First Class Ross ... |
| World War I | ... of trench warfare in the 19th and 20th century. This was mainly employed in | in the Gallipoli campaign and the Western Front. Trench warfare often turn ... |
| the war | ... ng of the town. They also appear to have both been partisan fighters during | ; and while Peppone makes public speeches about how "the reactionaries" ou ... |
| East African Campaign | ... the Italian army in Ethiopia was defeated by the British forces during the | , Emperor Haile Selassie returned to Addis Ababa on 5 May 1941—five years ... |
| World War II | ... an, an MI5 agent and Oxford academic who ran the double cross system during | ; Alfred Whiting, the golf professional at Royal St George's Golf Club, Sa ... |
| Libyan–Egyptian War | ... pt's tensions with its Arab neighbors culminated in 1977 in the short-lived | |
| World War II | ... lower Donut Corporation is the first company to use that spelling, prior to | |
| Communist insurgency | ... rty was Penang's first Chief Minister. He presided during the period of the | and the formation of Malaysia |
| Makryplagi | ... pality of Achaea, but this expedition failed in the battles of Prinitza and | , and a mixed imperial and Genoese fleet of 48 ships was defeated by a sma ... |
| Battle of Teruel | The International Brigades also saw combat in the | in January 1938. The 35th International Division suffered heavily in this ... |
| World War II | During | , the Santa Ana Army Air Base was built as a training center for the Unite ... |
| Battle of Assaye | ... September, Wellesley led his forces over a ford in the river Kaitna and the | commenced. After crossing the ford the infantry was reorganised into sever ... |
| July Revolution | ... s that foreigners were forbidden to serve in the French Army after the 1830 | , so the foreign legion was created to allow the government a way around t ... |
| Port Royal, Nova Scotia | ... 1632, Captain Andrew Forrester, commander of the then Scottish community of | , crossed the Bay of Fundy with twenty-five armed men and raided Fort Sain ... |
| Battle of Bouvines | ... ne - Batetela Rebellions - Battle of Benevento - Battle of Beverhoutsveld - | - Battle of Cadsand - Battle of Cassel (1071) - Battle of Cassel (1328) - ... |
| Gulf War | ... of a pulsar, the Sliders are pulled into a military operation commanded by | veteran Colonel Angus Rickman and Captain Maggie Beckett. The goal of this ... |
| World War II | During | many Navy pilots and mechanics were trained and housed in Coral Gables |
| Battle of the River Garonne | ... the troops of Abd er Rahman in 732, after he had defeated Duke Eudes in the | near Bordeaux and before the former was killed during the Battle of Tours ... |
| Gran Colombia – Peru War | ... ught for supremacy in the northern and southern parts of the continent. The | of the north and the Cisplatine War (between the Empire of Brazil and the ... |
| Caste War | ... mostly Maya mestizo descendants of Mexican refugees who fled from the 1840 | . The district's main economic base is drawn from agriculture, with sugar ... |
| World War II | The | drama Blood Oath (1990) debuted both Russell Crowe and Jason Donovan, in m ... |
| Battle of Trafalgar | ... he authority and military power of the Spanish Empire, especially after the | , which seriously hampered the contact of Spain with its American possessi ... |
| Napoleonic Wars | ... ernard Cornwell's Richard Sharpe, an officer in the British Army during the | ; an |
| Issus | ... eek states in 334 BC. Following Greek victories in the battles of Granicus, | and Gaugamela, the Greeks marched on Susa and Persepolis, the ceremonial c ... |
| American Revolutionary War | ... rook, one of the battles in the New York and New Jersey campaign during the | , occurred on April 13, 1777, and resulted in a defeat for the Continental ... |
| First World War | ... the prime minister as Premier of Canada, a custom that continued until the | , around the time of Robert Borden's premiership. While contemporary sourc ... |
| World War II | ... Potsdam, Germany, which derives its fame from the Potsdam Conference of the | allies Winston Churchill, Harry Truman and Joseph Stalin in 1945. The Taj ... |
| Napoleonic Wars | ... easide resort, initially frequented by members of the Royal Navy during the | while the Royal Navy anchored in the bay and later by the crème de la crèm ... |
| Thirty Years' War | Charles's primary concern during his early reign was foreign policy. The | , originally confined to Bohemia, was spiralling into a wider European war ... |
| Spanish Civil War | 1. Spanish-born emigrants (mainly exiles from the | and economic migrants) and their children are eligible to recover their de ... |
| Battle of Crécy | ... galia which became closely associated with the status of knighthood. At the | (1346), Edward III of England sent his son, Edward, the Black Prince, to l ... |
| war with the Dutch | There was a | ten years later. The Dutch re-took control of New Amsterdam but after a ye ... |
| Nine Years' War | ... st thirty years, only giving it up in the Treaty of Ryswick which ended the | in 1697. During the War of the Spanish Succession, parts of Lorraine, incl ... |
| Cold War | Years after the success of his | spy novels, novelist and Lincoln graduate John le Carré, himself a one-tim ... |
| World War II | ... Yamashita which started the Battle for the Liberation of Baguio City during | |
| World War I | During | he applied for recognition as a conscientious objector, but in the event w ... |
| July Revolution | ... in the 4th Hussars two years later. The role played by his regiment in the | of 1830 was regarded as insubordination, and Fialin was dismissed from the ... |
| Operation Anaconda | ... n September 11, 2001. Canadian forces joined the multinational coalition in | in January 2002. On April 18, 2002, an American pilot bombed Canadian forc ... |
| Battle of Bound Brook | The | , one of the battles in the New York and New Jersey campaign during the Am ... |
| 16th Street Baptist Church bombing | ... public library on Sunday afternoon, September 15, 1963 (the same day as the | in Birmingham), further violence ensued and two black ministers, N.Q. Reyn ... |
| Cold War | The | led to the expansion of national defense government programs housed in off ... |
| World War II | ... formed part of the Allied occupation in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, after | , and became a dedicated friend of Germany during that time |
| World War I | ... rmans in Congress Poland migrated further east into Russia between then and | , particularly in the aftermath of the Polish insurrection of 1830. The Po ... |
| Battle of the Ebro | In October 1938, at the height of the | , the Non-Intervention Committee ordered the withdrawal of the Internation ... |
| Iraq War | ... n appeared in the magazine The Nation. On August 28, 2005, he visited anti- | activist Cindy Sheehan at Camp Casey. He prayed with her and spoke to her ... |
| Aden Emergency | ... njuring fifty, and a state of emergency was declared, becoming known as the | |
| Battle of Cadsand | ... ons - Battle of Benevento - Battle of Beverhoutsveld - Battle of Bouvines - | - Battle of Cassel (1071) - Battle of Cassel (1328) - Battle of Charleroi ... |
| Second Anglo-Maratha War | ... emained at Mysore until November when he was sent to command an army in the | |
| World War II | ... y different meanings. In the widespread political reorganisations following | many monarchies ceased to exist, making the title far less prevalent and i ... |
| Kokoda Track campaign | ... cific islands. They were turned back at the Battle of the Coral Sea and the | before they were finally defeated in 1945 |
| Second Barons' War | ... Battle of Evesham in August 1265 was the second of two main battles of the | . It marked the victory of Prince Edward, who led the 8,000 strong army of ... |
| Cold War | During the | , there was a dramatic new increase in the number of political assassinati ... |
| Battle of Falkirk | ... idge in 1297, and was Guardian of Scotland, serving until his defeat at the | . In 1305, Wallace was captured in Robroyston near Glasgow and handed over ... |
| Indian Rebellion of 1857 | ... until the British East India Company gained ascendancy over South Asia. The | , also known as the Sepoy Mutiny, was the region's major armed struggle ag ... |
| Franco-Dutch War | ... t from another. A number of wars, most notably the Anglo-Dutch Wars and the | s, can be linked directly to mercantilist theories. Most wars had other ca ... |
| Spanish Civil War | Graves and Riding left Majorca in 1936 at the outbreak of the | . In 1939, they moved to the United States and took lodging in New Hope, P ... |
| World War II | ... 11, Browning 1917/19, and the BAR saw action with US forces in World War I, | and the Korean War, with the 1911 going on to serve as the U.S.'s standard ... |
| World War II | After | , Campini emigrated to the US at the request of Preston Tucker (famous for ... |
| World War II | After | existentialism became a popular movement, attracting supporters and influe ... |
| his conquest of southern Italy | ... . In 1860, the inhabitants enthusiastically supported Giuseppe Garibaldi in | (in the course of the Unification of Italy). The city suffered a number of ... |
| Invasion of Hanover | ... verian Army of Observation, leading to the city's occupation as part of the | . It was recaptured by Anglo-German forces led by Ferdinand of Brunswick t ... |
| Thirty Years' War | ... into the Swabian League of Towns. The town's decline led by the end of the | to a drop in population, to 1,500 |
| battles of the Empire | Later he had an illustrious career in the many | , notably, Wagram, Moscow, Lützen, Hanau and Waterloo. He became a major-g ... |
| first Jewish war | ... ive historical persecutions of Christians by Jews in Palestine prior to the | (3) The use of the concept of imitation in 1 Thes. 2.14 is singular. (4) T ... |
| Royalton Raid | ... ss to the last major raid of the Revolutionary War in New England. In the " | " three hundred Indians led by British soldiers invaded from Canada along ... |
| Expedition of the Thousand | ... fought by Giuseppe Garibaldi against the Kingdom of Two Sicilies during his | |
| Warring States | ... er a single name. As an example, the surname Ma includes descendants of the | –era bureaucrat Zhao She, descendants of his subjects in his fief of Mafu, ... |
| Battle of Roncevaux Pass | ... robably undermining the power of the Duke Lupo, and possibly leading to the | that very year. In 814, Seguin was made Duke of Vasconia, but he was depos ... |
| Gulf War | ... udi Arabia and Israel by MIM-104 Patriot missile batteries during the first | , where the objective was to cover populated areas |
| War of the Spanish Succession | ... n the Treaty of Ryswick which ended the Nine Years' War in 1697. During the | , parts of Lorraine, including the capital Nancy, were again occupied by F ... |
| American Revolutionary War | ... s named in honor of the Battle of Eutaw Springs, the last engagement of the | in the Carolinas. It is a part of the Tuscaloosa, Alabama Metropolitan Sta ... |
| World War II | ... 9, he married his first and second cousin Princess Märtha of Sweden. During | his leadership was much appreciated and he was appointed Norwegian Chief o ... |
| invading Iraq | ... e of 21 Democrats in the Senate to vote against the War Authoritization for | . Quoted from her Senate speech |
| American Revolutionary War | # Elijah Churchill, soldier in the | and recipient of the medal later known as the Purple Heart |
| Bléneau | ... l Condé's arrival from Guyenne. His bold leadership made itself felt in the | (April 7, 1652), in which a portion of the royal army was destroyed; but f ... |
| Port Royal, Nova Scotia | ... ort Sainte-Marie. After this victory, La Tour went on to attack d'Aulnay at | . LaTour was unsuccessful then in catching d'Aulnay and the rivalry contin ... |
| World War II | ... y", which was first used in 1882. It did not become more common until after | , and was not declared the official name by Federal law until 1967. On Jun ... |
| American Revolutionary War | ... own and Williamsburg, where many sites of the Historic Triangle are of both | and Civil War significance. The first modern duel of ironclad warships, th ... |
| Cold War | ... at of global thermonuclear war was foremost in the minds of most during the | , both the Soviet and Western governments put enormous resources into deve ... |
| World War II | During | he worked on what would later be called operations research |
| Battle of the Coral Sea | ... the Solomon Islands and other Pacific islands. They were turned back at the | and the Kokoda Track campaign before they were finally defeated in 1945 |
| Battle of Tours | ... the River Garonne near Bordeaux and before the former was killed during the | on 10 October. After Duke Eudes's defeat, Aquitaine pledged allegiance for ... |
| Iran hostage crisis | ... who is an Iranian immigrant living in the United States at the time of the | . The film was written and directed by Ramin Serry. Mariam Parris plays th ... |
| Front for the Liberation of Occupied South Yemen | ... nse, the security situation deteriorated with the creation of the socialist | (FLOSY) which started to attack the NLF in a bid for power, as well as att ... |
| World War I | ... protective of this technology, restricting its export. By the aftermath of | the colonies where the cotton was grown started to purchase and manufactur ... |
| Port Royal, Nova Scotia | ... ck of furs, merchandise, and food. Forrester took his prisoners and loot to | . This conflict was the last fighting, between the Scots and the French, b ... |
| Thirteen Years' War | ... Its defeat was formalised in the Second Treaty of Thorn in 1466 ending the | , and leaving the former Polish region Pomerelia and under Polish control. ... |
| Long March | ... Halliday claim that Chiang Kai-shek allowed the Communists to escape on the | , allegedly because he wanted his son Chiang Ching-kuo who was being held ... |
| Battle of Beverhoutsveld | ... all League Belgium - Bastogne - Batetela Rebellions - Battle of Benevento - | - Battle of Bouvines - Battle of Cadsand - Battle of Cassel (1071) - Battl ... |
| Seven Years' War | ... leonic Wars were much less global in scope than preceding conflicts such as | which historians would term a "world war" |
| Iraq War | ... o this were the Canadian government's opposition to the Vietnam War and the | , which caused some brief diplomatic tensions. Despite these issues, milit ... |
| Demyansk Pocket | ... t offensive of January 1942 had trapped a number of German divisions in the | between February and April 1942; the 3 SS Totenkopf was one of the divisio ... |
| World War II | ... and others to locate there. For decades, Delco Remy and Guide Lamp, during | built the M3, M3a1 submachine gun and the liberator pistol for the allies, ... |
| World War I | ... . The Colt 1911, Browning 1917/19, and the BAR saw action with US forces in | , World War II and the Korean War, with the 1911 going on to serve as the ... |
| Battle of Lake Erie | ... s reached of the monumental victory of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry in the | , and so the residents decided to name the village in his honor |
| World War II | ... elevision also began in the 1930s, it did not become widespread until after | . Jack Wyrtzen and Percy Crawford switched to TV broadcasting in the Sprin ... |
| Battle of Manzikert | ... 71), faced Sultan Alp Arslan of the Seljuk Turks (reigned 1059–1072) in the | . The battle ended in humiliating defeat and capture for Romanus. As a res ... |
| World War II | ... le da Costa Andrade at University College, London, but with the outbreak of | (in particular, an incident during the Battle of Britain when a bomb fell ... |
| Battle of the Plains of Abraham | ... as not achieved until French forces in North America were vanquished at the | at Quebec City, and France ceded most of her claims outside of the Caribbe ... |
| World War II | With the advent of | came the temporary alignment of British and Soviet interests: in 1940, bot ... |
| Seven Years' War | ... of the changes in warfare. During Europe's major pre-revolutionary war, the | of 1756–1763, few armies ever numbered more than 200,000. By contrast, the ... |
| World War II | After | , a huge number of Germans emigrated to Australia to escape the war-torn E ... |
| World War II | ... r and set up an authoritarian dictatorship. Italy joined the Axis powers in | , falling into a bloody Civil War after a monarchist coup ousted Mussolini ... |
| World War II | The beginning of US involvement in | necessitated depriving the game of many players who joined the armed force ... |
| World War II | After | , the FCC moved FM to the frequencies between 88 and 108 MHz on June 27, 1 ... |
| World War II | ... 938 Kerr married Alison Worstead, with whom he had three children. He spent | working for an Australian intelligence organisation, the Directorate of Re ... |
| War of the Spanish Succession | ... ath to be genuine. Eventually, as a result of mass support for peace in the | , Anne decided she no longer needed the Duke of Marlborough and took the o ... |
| World War II | Following | , nationalist movements arose across West Africa. In 1957, Ghana, under Kw ... |
| Second Boer War | Lord Kitchener applied Scorched Earth policy during the later part of the | (1899–1902) when the Boers, not conforming to classic military defeat when ... |
| World War II | ... water became an important component of early nuclear energy programs during | (1939–1945). Partly because of Nazi Germany's overreliance on heavy water, ... |
| World War II | ... lace the Bf 110 in heavy fighter role; design started before the opening of | . The first examples of the Me 210 were ready in 1939, but they proved to ... |
| Seven Years' War | The great event of Elizabeth's later years was the | . Elizabeth regarded the treaty of Westminster ( 16 January 1756, whereby ... |
| Battle of Brunkeberg | At the | in 1471, he triumphed against Swedish and Danish forces in the support of ... |
| March Intifada | In March 1965, an uprising broke out, called the | , against the British presence in Bahrain. The spark of the riots was the ... |
| World War II | ... oison gas versus non-lethal chemical weapons against civilians. Even before | , chemical warfare was revolutionized by Nazi Germany's discovery of the n ... |
| Peninsular campaign | Wellesley rose to prominence as a general during the | of the Napoleonic Wars, and was promoted to the rank of field marshal afte ... |
| Charge of the Light Brigade | ... Light Dragoons. The 11th, commanded by Lord Cardigan, later involved in the | , had just returned from India and were not likely to be posted abroad soo ... |
| World War II | Father Aloysius Schmitt (1909–1941), the first chaplain to die in | , on board the USS Oklahoma during the Pearl Harbor bombin |
| Gingindlovu | ... lumn was marching on Eshowe. On 2 April this force was attacked en route at | , the Zulu being repulsed. Their losses were heavy, estimated at 1,200 whi ... |
| Wars of the Roses | ... the reigning Tudor dynasty that wrested the throne from Richard III in the | . More's work, however, little mentions King Henry VII, the first Tudor ki ... |
| Operation Blue Star | ... -militancy operations by the Indian security forces. In one such operation, | (June 1984), the Indian Army led by the Sikh General Kuldip Singh Brar for ... |
| World War I | The growth of the university came to a halt with | . Financial and economic problems in Germany in the aftermath of the war r ... |
| World War II | ... ield served as a Cadet Pilot Training Center until the country's entry into | . Detrick Field was formally leased from the City of Frederick in 1940 (ha ... |
| Raid on Deerfield | ... adien attacks against New England were the Siege of Pemaquid (1696) and the | (1704) |
| first world war | During the | the Sardinian soldiers of the Brigata Sassari distinguished themselves, wi ... |
| World War I | The area remained predominantly rural well into the mid-20th century. After | , some employees of the Federal Government began moving into the area, and ... |
| Contras | ... et Union and policy towards Central American conflicts, such as backing the | in Nicaragua. McCain opposed keeping U.S. Marines deployed in Lebanon citi ... |
| American Revolutionary War | ... named Queen's Bridge in 1767. Later, it became a covered bridge. During the | the bridge was used repeatedly by both sides including during the Battle o ... |
| World War I | ... onflicts", intending the removal of Poles and Jews from the projected post– | "Polish Border Strip" and its resettlement with Germans |
| Glorious Revolution | ... ed by the London, Quo Warranto Judgment Reversed Act 1689 shortly after the | |
| uprising | Inspired by the general strikes, a workers' | began in the Ruhr region when 50,000 people formed a "Red Army" and took c ... |
| Warsaw Uprising | ... in the occupied Poland and a major political event of World War II was the | of 1944. The uprising, in which most of the Warsaw population participated ... |
| Peninsular War | ... The British Army provided long-term support to the Spanish rebellion in the | of 1808–1814, assisted by Spanish guerilla ('little war') tactics. Anglo-P ... |
| World War II | With the end of | and the timely return of Hank Greenberg and others from the military, the ... |
| World War I | The post remained in active service, being expanded for | into Vancouver Barracks. During World War I it was the home of the Army's ... |
| Second World War | ... bre tank gun designed by Krupp and used by the German Wehrmacht, during the | . It was the primary armament of the Panzerkampfwagen VI Ausf. B Tiger II, ... |
| World War II | ... one of the "Men Of The Year". Dole's study of law at KU was interrupted by | . After the war, he returned to being a law student. Dole attended the Uni ... |
| World War I | ... the few European members of the Second International who opposed, outright, | . This put him at odds with most of the socialist leaders of Europe. He wa ... |
| World War I | ... n. The Baltic states and Poland gained their independence from Russia after | , thus enabling a relatively free Church life in those former Russian coun ... |
| Cold War | ... the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. With nuclear proliferation and the | , people began to wonder what would become of the world now that humanity ... |
| World War I | ... ated a US Coast Guard station on the island during the latter stages of the | , and US Navy vessels had also used the island, which was a hub for trans- ... |
| English Civil War | ... nbury. The location inspired him to pen the ballad "Red and Gold" about the | , which has become another staple of Fairport's repertoire |
| War of the Polish Succession | In 1737, after the | , Lorraine was part of an agreement between France, the House of Habsburg ... |
| Poitiers | ... arfare to achieve decisive victory in similar engagements such as Crécy and | |
| King William's War | ... ish Conquest of Acadia in 1710, these militias fought the New Englanders in | and Queen Anne's War. After the conquest, in the New England colonies and ... |
| sacking of Rome | Most likely, the menorah was looted by the Vandals in the | in 455 CE, and taken to their capital, Carthage. The Byzantine army under ... |
| Western Design | ... experience as a sailor, Morgan sailed to the Caribbean to take part in the | , Cromwell's plan to invade Hispaniola. His first battle at Santo Domingo ... |
| World War II | ... sserschmitt Me 210 was a German heavy fighter and ground-attack aircraft of | . The Me 210 was designed to replace the Bf 110 in heavy fighter role; des ... |
| Austerlitz | ... esulted in the shutting off of Mack in Ulm. As a reward for his services at | (2 December 1805) he became the 1st Sovereign Prince of Ponte Corvo (5 Jun ... |
| English Civil War | ... while a film set in Bray, County Wicklow, in Ireland, covers Charles I, the | , the Commonwealth of England, The Protectorate, and restoration of Charle ... |
| World War II | ... Roosevelt's decision to intern Japanese Americans on the West Coast during | . The decision is an example of Black's belief in the limited role of the ... |
| Russo-Swedish War (1495–1497) | ... r opposite the fortress of Narva held by the Livonian Confederation. In the | Ivan III unsuccessfully attempted to conquer Viborg from Sweden but this a ... |
| World War II | ... tary aviation was extensively used, and particularly the bombers during the | , which marked the most frantic period of weapons development in history. ... |
| Spanish Civil War | ... panish republican government in a military uprising that was to lead to the | . The troops were transported to mainland Spain in an airlift using transp ... |
| Irish Rebellion | The | which started in October 1641 brought the control of the army back into th ... |
| Battle of Borodino | ... Gagarin (London, England, 12 July 1784 – 25 July 1842) who took part in the | (7 September 1812) against Napoleon, and later served as Ambassador in Tur ... |
| besieged | ... n 1684, and twice in 1694 under Anne Jules de Noailles. In May 1809, it was | by 35,000 French Napoleonic troops under Vergier, Augereau and St. Cyr, an ... |
| Black Hawk War | ... of his noted for his service in the War of 1812, the Seminole Wars and the | . Twenty-one votes were polled in the organization meeting at Ephraim Flet ... |
| World War I | ... d poor, originating the Italian diaspora. Italy suffered enormous losses in | but came out on the winning side, but the fragile liberal state soon colla ... |
| Red River Rebellion | ... sfer to take effect in December. What followed was the generally successful | of 1869 leading to the Manitoba Act and that province's entry into the Can ... |
| Earp Vendetta Ride | ... awmen supporting different sides of the conflict, which became known as the | |
| 1339 | ... land was occupied by the Capetians on several occasions, the first being in | |
| Queen Anne's War | ... in 1710, these militias fought the New Englanders in King William's War and | . After the conquest, in the New England colonies and Nova Scotia, the Roy ... |
| Revolution of 1830 | With the | and the establishment of the July Monarchy, the status of Versailles chang ... |
| World War I | During | the need to break the deadlock of the trenches saw the rapid development o ... |
| Battle of Ipsus | ... 500 war-elephants, a military asset which would play a decisive role at the | in 301 BC. In addition to this treaty, Seleucus dispatched an ambassador, ... |
| World War II | Until | the group armed itself by weapons purchased in Europe, primarily Italy and ... |
| Cold War | ... ng the last two decades of his career. He filmed two spy thrillers set with | -related themes. The first, Torn Curtain (1966), with Paul Newman and Juli ... |
| Yakima War | ... settlers and the region's natives. The subsequent Indian Wars, notably the | , decimated the native population and removed much land from native contro ... |
| Peninsular War | ... im much about military matters that would prove vital to his success in the | . These included a strong sense of discipline through drill and order, the ... |
| First Intifada | In the first years of the | (1987–1993), Hamas violence was directed first at collaborators with Israe ... |
| Battle of the Philippine Sea | ... 44, during the last major carrier air battle of the War in the Pacific, the | , the USS Alabama, operating with Task Group 58.7, provided the first conf ... |
| Battle of Bound Brook | ... onary War the bridge was used repeatedly by both sides including during the | in 1777. In 1875, the wooden bridge was replaced by a steel pipe truss bri ... |
| Third Anglo-Afghan War | ... nullified existing treaties and a second phase of the Great Game began. The | of 1919 was precipitated by the assassination of the then ruler Habibullah ... |
| Battle of Catraeth | ... tribune." It may have been Æthelfrith who destroyed the British army at the | (Catterick, c. 600); the battle is described in the early poem . The Brito ... |
| World War I | ... small-boat building, having built 550 sub chasers for the Royal Navy during | . Additionally, in 1921, they introduced the famous "Cruisette", (a gasoli ... |
| Battle of Pydna | ... possession, off and on, until it was conquered by the Roman Republic at the | in 168 BC |
| World War II | In | , during Operation Market Garden (September 1944), the British 1st Airborn ... |
| English Civil War | ... ervening in local politics in the 16th century and just a century later the | was reputedly started by John Hampden in mid-Bucks |
| 2003 invasion of Iraq | Tens of thousands of Iraqis have fled conflict in their nation since the | |
| Taiping Rebellion | ... yes of the Chinese people had several consequences. One consequence was the | , a civil war which lasted from 1851 to 1862. The rebellion was led by Hon ... |
| World War II | ... 1938, it was commanded by future Army Chief of Staff George C. Marshall. In | when Vancouver Barracks was used as a staging area for the Seattle Port of ... |
| World War II | By | , control theory was an important part of fire-control systems, guidance s ... |
| War of the Spanish Succession | ... he Tory government of Harley and Henry St. John in their efforts to end the | . The war had profited John and Sarah Churchill, and the Tory ministry sou ... |
| Opération Lamantin | He pursued a controversial course in foreign policy. In 1977, in the | , he ordered fighter jets to deploy in Mauritania and go to war against th ... |
| Gulf War | ... hthawk "stealth fighter" appeared at the airshow in 1991, shortly after the | . The plane was roped off and the cockpit was concealed to hide sensitive ... |
| Battle of Bloody Creek (1711) | ... e end of the war. Resistance by the Wabanaki Confederation continued in the | and raids along the Maine frontier. The remainder of Acadia, present-day e ... |
| World War II | ... ne, which were themselves replaced with diesel-powered pumps and, following | , the small electric stations that are still used today |
| Cold War | After World War II, with the onset of the | , the constant technological development of new weapons was institutionali ... |
| World War II | ... the plans were substantially altered after the devastation of Manila during | and the subsequent administrations |
| Roxanne Wars | ... nsbridge Projects of Queens, NYC, Shanté first gained attention through the | and her association with the Juice Crew |
| Red Terror | ... encies existed in all of the country's fourteen administrative regions. The | (1977–1978) marked the beginning of a steady deterioration in the economic ... |
| World War I | ... an Senator Robert M. La Follette, Sr. for his opposition to U.S. entry into | . Through Capital Newspapers, Lee also owns many other papers in southwest ... |
| Thermidorian Reaction | The | was a movement within the revolution against perceived excesses of the Jac ... |
| Battle of Oudenarde | ... rlborough, with his ally Prince Eugene of Savoy, won a great victory at the | . On the way to the thanksgiving service at St Paul's Cathedral, Sarah eng ... |
| Revolutions of 1989 | ... ceful anti-communist revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe known as the | (Jesień Ludów). Solidarity's example was repeated in various ways by oppos ... |
| World War II | ... 42, Dole joined the United States Army's Enlisted Reserve Corps to fight in | . Dole became a second lieutenant in the Army's 10th Mountain Division |
| the wars | ... ire by opposing coalitions that ran from 1803 to 1815. As a continuation of | sparked by the French Revolution of 1789, they revolutionised European arm ... |
| World War II | ... Camp Vail, a housing complex for families of Fort Monmouth employees. After | the government planned to close the site but the established families, wit ... |
| World War I | As | started, Paul Paray heeded the call to arms and joined the French Army. In ... |
| World War II | ... ny in the 1930s (and are unlikely to identify first as ethnic Germans), and | prisoners of war held in Great Britain who decided to stay there. Others a ... |
| World War II | ... land west of the city into pineapple plantations beginning in 1904. During | , much of their land was confiscated and used as the site of the Boca Rato ... |
| Battle of Breitenfeld (1631) | ... to Leipzig, where they suffered their first substantial defeat at the First | |
| Cold War | ... ement was able to keep the CCF at bay. As this was during the height of the | , Bennett was able to effectively use the scare tactic of the "Red Menace" ... |
| Winter War | ... ergeant Vladimir Tereshkov, was a war hero. He lost his life in the Finnish | during World War II in the Lemetti area in Finnish Karelia. Tereshkova was ... |
| Battle of Port Arthur | These attacks developed into the | the next morning. A series of indecisive naval engagements followed, in wh ... |
| American Revolutionary War | ... r trade at Sault Ste. Marie. After the rebellious colonists' victory in the | , the territory changed hands again, being ceded to the new United States |
| World War I | IG Farben was Germany's premier poison gas manufacturer during | , so the weaponization of these agents can not be considered accidental. B ... |
| Battle of Vertières | ... roops led by Donatien-Marie-Joseph de Vimeur, vicomte de Rochambeau, at the | . In late 1803, France withdrew its remaining 7,000 troops from the island ... |
| English Civil War | ... silver, and appointing royal goldsmiths and jewellers. In 1649, during the | , the contents of the Jewel House were disposed of along with other royal ... |
| Battle of Königsberg | ... n. Königsberg surrendered on 9 April 1945, following the desperate four-day | . The number of civilians killed is estimated to be at least 300,000 with ... |
| War of the Second Coalition | In 1802, Napoleon victoriously brought to an end the | , with only Great Britain remaining formally at war. Isolated, Britain rel ... |
| World War II | ... ickey. During the 1945 season, with talent depleted by call-ups to fight in | , the Washington Senators had a pitching rotation which included four knuc ... |
| World War II | ... to provide transcontinental flights. With the increase in air travel after | , CP Air was granted one coast-to-coast flight, and a few international ro ... |
| Swedish invasion | ... hmelnytsky Uprising engulfed the south and east, and was soon followed by a | , which raged through core Polish lands. Warfare with the Cossacks and Rus ... |
| Gulf War | ... seen as a threat to American power. Japan was the primary financier of the | , yet received major criticism in some US circles for its refusal to commi ... |
| World War II | During | , the Colstrip mine was identified as strategically important because it s ... |
| Operation MO | ... gi in the southeastern Solomon Islands. The plan to accomplish this, called | , involved several major units of Japan's Combined Fleet, including two fl ... |
| World War II | ... Hills have included professional cyclist Joseph M. Papp,unjustly convicted | war criminal John Demjanjuk, former professional football player Jack Squi ... |
| English Civil War | ... easantry and saw the emergence of the bourgeoisie. From this viewpoint, the | provided the basis for a major acceleration of enclosures. The parliamenta ... |
| World War II | ... g Training camp in College Park. In order to conserve rail transport during | , the 1943 Spring Training was limited to an area east of the Mississippi ... |
| English Civil War | ... iament. Government-controlled monopolies were common, especially before the | , but were often controversial |
| World War II | After his return from Europe after the outbreak of | , Robeson quickly became a national celebrity once again when he performed ... |
| Gulf War | Some nations that were allies of the United States during the | were either opposed to the second Iraq war or were reluctant to help with ... |
| Glorious Revolution | ... st daughter of King James II (d. 1701), born after he lost his crown in the | , was given the title of Princess Royal during James's exile at Saint-Germ ... |
| World War I | In the run-up to | , both empires were alarmed by Germany's increasing activity in the Middle ... |
| American Revolutionary War | During the | , both Comte de Rochambeau & George Washington's troops camped on what is ... |
| Glorious Revolution | ... with the utmost violence'. Nor did the city accept the outcome of the 1688 | with a unified voice. The pre-eminent citizen, Bishop William Lloyd, would ... |
| Iran hostage crisis | ... perdome in New Orleans, Louisiana, on January 25, 1981, five days after the | ended. The game was thus held under patriotic fervor, as the pregame cerem ... |
| Hitler's first coup | ... ersary of the proclamation of the German Republic in 1918 and the defeat of | in 1923. However, 9 November was also the anniversary of the first large-s ... |
| English Civil War | ... ve character and events are placed at a slightly earlier period, during the | . He successfully protects his parishioners by adopting a diplomatic appro ... |
| World War II | ... f the project started in May 1940 and was completed by March 1942. However, | intervened and work stopped on the project, which was not fully completed ... |
| Cold War | ... gow Air Force Base, used during the Vietnam War and the earlier part of the | . After the de-activation and closure of the base in 1969, Glasgow's popul ... |
| American Revolutionary War | ... 1775, she briefly returned to naval service as a troop transport during the | and was scuttled in a blockade of Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island in 1778. ... |
| First World War | ... office, and schools. There were fewer British and German tourists after the | but more Americans. Winter tourism gave way to summer tourism and the summ ... |
| proclamation of the German Republic | ... all came down—November 9, 1989, which coincided with the anniversary of the | in 1918 and the defeat of Hitler's first coup in 1923. However, 9 November ... |
| World War II | ... As with a number of other villains in the Bond novels, there is an echo of | , with Goldfinger employing members of the German Luftwaffe, some Japanese ... |
| Whiskey Rebellion | ... shington led federal and state militia to put down what is now known as the | |
| Spanish Civil War | Thereafter, until the outbreak of the | in 1936, Riding and Graves lived in Deià, Majorca, where they were visited ... |
| World War II | After | , a fear of technology continued to grow, catalyzed by the bombings of Hir ... |
| Crécy | ... hivalric warfare to achieve decisive victory in similar engagements such as | and Poitiers |
| Contras | ... ding U.S. intervention in the Salvadoran Civil War and U.S. support for the | in Nicaragua, and in opposing Reagan-supported weapons systems, including ... |
| Spanish Civil War | ... 'Duffy led a brigade of 700 Irish volunteers to fight for Franco during the | , and Frank Ryan led the Connolly column who fought on the opposite side, ... |
| Great Northern War | ... longed to the Russian Monarchy and had been acquired by it between the 1700 | and the Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907 |
| Opium Wars | ... y activity, opium produced by British India was forced onto Qing China. Two | with Britain weakened the Emperor's control. European imperialism proved t ... |
| Qissa Khwani bazaar massacre | ... t (1930–31), while in Peshawar unarmed demonstrators were fired upon in the | . The latter event catapulted the then newly formed Khudai Khidmatgar move ... |
| World War II | ... owledged mutuality of strong interests, beliefs and friendship. Memories of | linger among the older members of the Australian public, as does a contemp ... |
| Thirty Years' War | During the | the neighbouring town Medebach and Hallenberg were 1634 destroyed by Hessi ... |
| World War II | ... tion converted for the manufacture of the military equipment at the dawn of | . After the war, the USSR brought an entire Opel manufacturing line from B ... |
| Battle of Lützen (1632) | ... he Swedes from Bohemia. In November 1632 the Catholics were defeated in the | , but Gustavus Adolphus died. A period of minor operations followed, perha ... |
| Operation Cyclone | ... Lee-Enfields (a common rifle in the Middle East and South Asia). The CIA's | provided hundreds of thousands of Enfields to the Mujahideen, funneling th ... |
| Operation Forager | ... Alabama again got under way as a part of Task Force 58 to participate in " | ", the invasion of the Marianas Islands and the recapture of Guam from Jap ... |
| First World War | During the | the EMI factories produced aircraft. Charles Richard Fairey was seconded t ... |
| North Yemen Civil War | ... ted Badr's royalist forces to oppose the newly formed republic starting the | . Conflict continued periodically until 1967 when Egyptian troops were wit ... |
| Battle of Bunker Hill | ... residents included Asa Pollard (1735–1775), the first soldier killed at the | , and Thomas Ditson (born 1741), who was tarred and feathered by the Briti ... |
| World War I | ... established themselves in town. On August 7, 1914, at the very beginning of | , the invading German army executed 27 civilians and destroyed 10 homes in ... |
| First World War | Before the | , he lived for a time at Dymock in Gloucestershire, part of a community th ... |
| World War I | ... alist movements in Europe to mobilize a cross-border workers' opposition to | . At present most, but certainly not all, left-wing groups accept the nati ... |
| Cold War | ... rsive groups in Latin America throughout the past century (referring to the | and the contra affair, among numerous other incidents) |
| Yamasee War | ... ose allied to the British in this war. This discontent flared into the 1715 | that posed a major threat to South Carolina's viability. The loss of popul ... |
| World War II | Don Kelly enlisted in the United States Navy on June 17, 1941 just prior to | and saw active duty aboard the USS Stanton and USS Palmer. He saw convoy d ... |
| King David Hotel bombing | ... General in Jerusalem, wrote in response to a pro-Irgun commemoration of the | : "We do not think that it is right for an act of terrorism, which led to ... |
| Cold War | ... many other continents, became a battlefield for the superpowers during the | in the late 20th century |
| rebellion of Ras Gugsa Welle | ... o redress this perceived insult to the dignity of the crown, leading to the | . Gugsa Welle was the husband of the Empress and the Shum of Begemder Prov ... |
| Second World War | ... odrome, but was acquired by the Ministry of Aviation towards the end of the | , and developed to become Heathrow Airport |
| World War I | After | Sambia formed part of the East Prussian exclave of Weimar Germany. In 1945 ... |
| Napoleonic Wars | ... the island of Java was returned to control of the Netherlands following the | , under the terms of the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1814, but not before he was ... |
| World War II | ... t of the proms were held in the Bedford Corn Exchange. Following the end of | the proms continued in the Hall and have done so annually ever summer sinc ... |
| Battle of Chancellorsville | At the | , Stuart accompanied Stonewall Jackson on his famous flanking march of May ... |
| Contras | ... office, he augmented the direct support to an anti-Sandinista group, called | , which included factions loyal to the former dictatorship. When Congress ... |
| Russian Civil War | ... nd the bloodshed and widespread famine which occurred during the subsequent | . He undertook the greatest efforts trying to help the victims of the Russ ... |
| American Revolutionary War | ... Juan del Misuri (1796–1803) was built in present-day Washington. After the | , migrants from the new United States started moving West. Among them were ... |
| Battle of Marengo | ... lps to Italy once again. On 14 June his army met the Austrian forces at the | (near Alessandria). Austrian troops were initially successful; by mid-morn ... |
| World War II | ... lin) and David L. Johns. Her mother was an accountant. Her father fought in | and was awarded a |
| Thirty Years' War | His forced conversions or evictions carried out in the midst of the | , which with the later general success of the Protestants therefore had gr ... |
| Battle of the Plains of Abraham | On 13 September 1759, the area was the scene of the | , part of the French and Indian War, which was itself part of the Seven Ye ... |
| Battle of Ipsus | ... ng his and Lysimachus' victory over Antigonus Monophthalmus at the decisive | in 301 BC, Seleucus took control over eastern Anatolia and northern Syria |
| Battle of Valmy | ... The invading forces were repulsed from France following their defeat in the | |
| War of Canudos | ... alf of the 19th century onward, as blacks, mestizas, and ex-soldiers of the | in Rio de Janeiro came from various parts of Brazil (mainly Bahia) and set ... |
| First Jewish–Roman War | ... ecorded Jewish history, with special emphasis on the 1st century AD and the | , which resulted in the Destruction of Jerusalem and its temple in 70 |
| World War II | In | the bulk of the Norwegian Army during their years in exile in Britain cons ... |
| King George's War | ... aliseet militias fought the New Englanders during Father Rale's War. During | , and Father Le Loutre's War the first British militias were established i ... |
| unsuccessfully besieged Fort William at St. John's | ... rench and Mi'kmaq expedition that destroyed several English settlements and | . The French and their Indian allies continued to harry the English throug ... |
| Anglo-Spanish War of 1727 | ... of disputes between Great Britain and Spain which had spilled over into the | . The Congress was largely successful and led to the signing of a peace tr ... |
| Spanish Armada | ... rs Cervantes led a nomadic existence, working as a purchasing agent for the | and as a tax collector. He suffered a bankruptcy and was imprisoned at lea ... |
| Battle of Nedao | ... equence they were divided, defeated and scattered the following year in the | by the Ostrogoths and the Gepids under Ardaric who had been Attila's most ... |
| Sack of Magdeburg | ... he became even more forceful leading to infamies by his armies such as the | |
| World War II | During | , Chevalier kept performing for audiences. In 1941, he performed a new rev ... |
| World War II | After | , heavy industry saw a prolonged period of decline, drastically reducing t ... |
| World War II | ... a formed part of the East Prussian exclave of Weimar Germany. In 1945 after | , Poland and the Soviet Union partitioned East Prussia between themselves. ... |
| American Revolutionary War | ... ddeus Kosciusko, the Polish patriot who helped the United States during the | . The name was altered first to "Volenia" and then to "Volinia" |
| Cold War | ... neoliberal economic policies. They placed their own actions within the U.S. | doctrine of "National Security" against internal subversion. Throughout th ... |
| Spanish conquest | One of the main uses for llamas at the time of the | was to bring down ore from the mines in the mountains. Gregory de Bolivar ... |
| Tuscarora War | ... action by James Moore against the Tuscaroras of North Carolina (part of the | begun in 1711), many of them fled north as refugees to join their linguist ... |
| World War II | The historic context for Article 116 was the eviction, following | , of an estimated 9 million ethnic Germans from other countries in Central ... |
| World War I | After the outbreak of | , the proximity of the border proved disastrous for Kalisz, as it was one ... |
| another fought | ... zzo was also the seat of a battle in 1718 between Spain and Austria, and of | by Giuseppe Garibaldi against the Kingdom of Two Sicilies during his Exped ... |
| World War II | In 1939, the Viceroy Linlithgow declared India's entrance into | without consulting provincial governments. In protest, the Congress asked ... |
| World War II | ... he "National Sport". The most significant part of this immigration prior to | was carried out by the Revisionist camp, largely because the Yishuv instit ... |
| ceasefire | In June 2008, as part of an Egyptian-brokered | , Hamas ceased rocket attacks on Israel and made some efforts to prevent a ... |
| Nine Years' War | ... Years War in about 1622 by Johan Tilly's troops, and once again during the | in 1689 by the French Army |
| World War II | ... as deleted because it was feared such sentiments expressed at the height of | would prove to be unpopular with audiences. Capra felt the film made no se ... |
| final bid to get rid of Tafari | ... palace reactionaries including some of the courtiers of the Empress, made a | . The attempted coup d'état was tragic in its origins and comic in its end ... |
| Thirty Years' War | ... s reputation for strong headed uncompromising intolerance had triggered the | in May 1618 in the polarizing first phase, known as the Revolt in Bohemia. ... |
| Doolittle Raid | ... named after a Killeen native who was a pilot of a B-25 bomber on the famous | on Tokyo in 1942. He was killed later in World War II flying combat missio ... |
| Russian Revolution of 1917 | ... f a Dry Law was introduced in 1914. It continued through the turmoil of the | and the Russian Civil War into the period of Soviet Russia and the until 1 ... |
| World War II | ... lways the case; for example, in some European countries prior to the end of | , admiral was the third highest naval rank after general admiral and grand ... |
| Great War | ... ith the Imperial Family, the aristocracy and the Russian people. During the | , her German birth further inflamed this hatred and made her the immediate ... |
| Cold War | ... ely close partners. Canada was a close ally of the United States during the | |
| Spanish Civil War | ... egree after the defeat of the Second Spanish Republic (founded 1931) in the | (1936–39) brought General Francisco Franco to power. Even though public us ... |
| World War II | During | , most fruits rich in vitamin C, such as oranges, became almost impossible ... |
| Cold War | ... tes tended to be interventionists who felt that America needed to fight the | overseas and resist Soviet aggression in Europe and Asia; they were also w ... |
| captured St. John's | ... December 1708 a combined force of French, Canadian, and Mi'kmaq volunteers | and destroyed the fortifications. Lacking the resources to hold the prize, ... |
| Libyan–Egyptian War | ... nsions arose due to Egypt's rapprochement with the west. Following the 1977 | , relations were suspended for twelve years. However, since 1989 relations ... |
| World War I | ... are, these themes have led critics to cite Tolkien's own experiences during | as instrumental in shaping the story. The author's scholarly knowledge of ... |
| U.S. plan to invade Iraq | The Holy See took a firm stance against the | . Pope John Paul II's special envoy, Cardinal Pio Laghi, was sent by the C ... |
| First World War | ... wartime military and paying back in full Canada's debts accrued during the | , the Great Depression and World War II. With remaining revenues, St-Laure ... |
| Seven Years' War | ... of Abraham, part of the French and Indian War, which was itself part of the | . On that date, British soldiers under the command of General Wolfe, climb ... |
| Battle of Edington | ... all of Wessex if he had not suffered a defeat at the hands of Alfred at the | in 878. At the Battle of Edington, Guthrum’s entire army was routed by Alf ... |
| Battle of Austerlitz | ... iantly demonstrated in the rout of the Austro-Russian forces in 1805 in the | . The French Army reorganized the role of artillery, forming independent, ... |
| Congo Crisis | ... nks' rebellion five days after independence in 1960, which helped spark the | . The new Congolese government sided with the enlisted soldiers, and the B ... |
| siege of Jerusalem | ... s installed as king of Judah by Nebuchadnezzar II, king of Babylon, after a | to succeed his nephew, Jeconiah, who was overthrown as king after a reign ... |
| World War II | Before | , Toshiba was a member of the Mitsui Group zaibatsu (family-controlled ver ... |
| March on Rome | ... nse, a group of 30,000 Fascists began a long trek across Italy to Rome (the | ), claiming that Fascists were intending to restore law and order. The Fas ... |
| World War II | During | , tank destroyers were developed to counter German mobile armored units. T ... |
| World War II | ... thday in November 1930. These celebrations were held every five years until | , during which time none were held |
| World War I | ... ighbouring towns. This all came to an end with the German occupation during | |
| Chanak Crisis | ... George's Coalition Cabinet, Curzon ceased to support Lloyd George over the | and had just resigned when Conservative backbenchers voted at the Carlton ... |
| World War II | ... become Angelo State University. The military returned to San Angelo during | with the founding of Goodfellow Air Force Base, which was assigned to trai ... |
| American Revolutionary War | ... oseph Read owned more than half of the land in this town at the time of the | . They both fought in the Massachusetts Militia, and the Continental Army. ... |
| Fall of Saigon | ... n Refugees and Escapees continued to focus on Vietnam, especially after the | in 1975 |
| World War I | ... s Constantine (a member of the same infamous family as John Constantine), a | veteran who has repeatedly struggled with his inability to kill. During th ... |
| Cold War | ... overnment Plan) has been a part of government operations since at least the | , when President Dwight D. Eisenhower provided (via executive order) vario ... |
| World War II | ... y year since then, with the exception of the periods during World War I and | . It is the largest 4th of July celebration outside the United States, and ... |
| Battle of Zorndorf | ... eltsy Uprising (1698) against Peter the Great, distinguished himself in the | (25 August 1758), receiving three wounds. He represented an opposite to Pe ... |
| Western Sahara War | ... e Algerian War (1954–1962), the Portuguese Colonial War (1961–1974) and the | (1975–1991),The Six days war by Israel(1967) in Nigeria (1969), India and ... |
| World War II | Following | it was for a period under American occupation, who reestablished the state ... |
| World War I | After | , interest in graphology continued to spread in Europe as well as the Unit ... |
| World War I | The Lake was the scene of two famous battles during | |
| Keelung Campaign | ... Jilong) in Formosa (Taiwan), where it took part in the later battles of the | . The battalion played an important role in Colonel Jacques Duchesne's off ... |
| World War II | ... cation after a semester to serve in the United States Army Air Corps during | . Tom was inspired to join the armed forces in honor of his brother, Rober ... |
| WWII | ... on to ethnically cleanse the regions may have also been a factor. After the | , the population of East Prussia was replaced by the Soviet one, mainly by ... |
| Battle of Vouillé | ... lls of Clovis putting a flower in his helmet just before his victory at the | , leading him to choose the fleur-de-lis as a royal symbol |
| World War II | In 1945, after the end of | , Littlewood, her husband, and other Theatre Union members formed Theatre ... |
| Battle of Mohács | In 1526, following the | , in which Ferdinand's brother-in-law Louis II, King of Hungary and Bohemi ... |
| World War II | After | the Ehapa Verlag in Stuttgart, West Germany, a subsidiary of Danish Egmont ... |
| World War II | ... as the site of the United Kingdom's chief naval base during World War I and | . The base was closed in 1956 |
| Council House Fight | ... ries of conflicts between the Texas Rangers and the Comanches, known as the | and the Battle of Plum Creek, finally pushed the Comanches westward, mostl ... |
| war | ... father had served in the 1st Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment during the | and was often away from home. Bremner traveled to 's-Hertogenbosch, the Du ... |
| World War II | ... was a famous singer in early 1940s. His older brother, who was born during | , was named Savaş ("war" in Turkish) while he was named Barış ("peace" in ... |
| World War II | During | , the nearby Wendover Army Air Field was a training base for bomber pilots ... |
| English Civil War | ... members and those members did not agree to its dissolution until after the | and at the end of Interregnum in 1660. It sat from 1640 until 1648, when i ... |
| UNITA | ... of Angola (MPLA) and National Union for the Total Independence of Angola ( | ) reconfirmed Cabinda's status as part of Angola. The treaty was rejected ... |
| Kapp Putsch | ... epublic, and would only defend it if it were in their interests. During the | for example, the army refused to fire upon the rebels. However, as right w ... |
| surrender at Saratoga | ... General John Burgoyne was waiting were held up, and Burgoyne was forced to | ten days later with his reinforcements still far to the south |
| Russian Civil War | On April 9, 1918 (old style March 27, 1918), during the chaos of the | , the Bessarabian legislature (Sfatul Ţării) voted in favor of unification ... |
| Castellammarese War | ... or being made Maranzano's second-in-command. This deal would end the famous | |
| World War I | ... celebrated every year since then, with the exception of the periods during | and World War II. It is the largest 4th of July celebration outside the Un ... |
| American Revolutionary War | ... ortation and its role in US Army operations, including topic areas from the | through operations in Afghanistan |
| Streltsy Uprising | Grigory Orlov, the grandson of a rebel in the | (1698) against Peter the Great, distinguished himself in the Battle of Zor ... |
| World War II | The , Allied reporting name "Val") was a | carrier-borne dive bomber of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN). It was the ... |
| World War II | In Italy, steak was not widely eaten until after | because the relatively rugged countryside does not readily accommodate the ... |
| World War I | ... t is best known as the site of the United Kingdom's chief naval base during | and World War II. The base was closed in 1956 |
| Battle of Soissons | ... e "Kingdom of Soissons", until it fell to the Frankish king Clovis I in the | |
| first Russo-Turkish War | ... Catherine made Russia the dominant power in south-eastern Europe after her | against the Ottoman Empire (1768–74), which saw some of the heaviest defea ... |
| World War II | ... t located in McKinleyville. This airport was built by the Army Air Corps in | in a particularly foggy location, as a site to test fog dispersal techniqu ... |
| World War I | At the start of | , although 43 and officially over-age, Munro refused a commission and join ... |
| Cold War | ... ), each republic retained the right to secede from the USSR. Throughout the | , this right was widely considered to be meaningless; however, the corresp ... |
| World War II | ... ariety of torpedo-armed fast attack craft used by the United States Navy in | to attack larger surface ships. "PT" is the US hull classification symbol ... |
| World War II | German | veteran and sub commander Erich Topp was one of the game's technical advis ... |
| Battle of Plum Creek | ... e Texas Rangers and the Comanches, known as the Council House Fight and the | , finally pushed the Comanches westward, mostly ending conflicts in Centra ... |
| Battle of Sainte-Foy | ... d walking trails have been built on the site, and monuments commemorate the | and James Wolfe, the latter being an astronomic meridian marker raised in ... |
| World War I | ... y the Self-Determination of Nations (民族自決) proposed by Woodrow Wilson after | , and finally, during World War II, a period of kōminka (皇民化), a policy wh ... |
| Portuguese Colonial War | ... ring the First Indochina War (1946–1954), the Algerian War (1954–1962), the | (1961–1974) and the Western Sahara War (1975–1991),The Six days war by Isr ... |
| Cold War | ... ederal Aid Highway Act of 1956 as essential to American security during the | . It was believed that large cities would be targets in a possible war, he ... |
| Battle of Panipat | ... rsia during the 18th to the 19th century. One of the famous battles was the | during 1761, in which the Afghans invaded and decisively defeated the Hind ... |
| Spanish Armada | ... yed by the captain's refusal to return during the winter. The coming of the | led to every able English ship being commandeered to fight, which left Whi ... |
| Operation Scorched Earth | ... t insurgent intrusions of the kingdom's border, started using the Apache in | ; this involved launched air strikes against Houthi rebels operating insid ... |
| Prague uprising | ... 00-30,000 dead, including 4-5,000 in internment camps and ca. 15,000 in the | . Yugoslavia-5,777 deliberate killings and 48,027 deaths in internment cam ... |
| World War II | ... del in the 20th century: to the peace efforts of Pius XII before and during | , the policies of Paul VI during the Vietnam War and the position of John ... |
| World War I | ... company became a major supplier of armor plate and ordnance products during | and World War II, including the manufacture of 1,100 warships. After rough ... |
| Cold War | During the | , when Europe was divided by the Iron Curtain, several LOT planes were hij ... |
| Fall of Constantinople | ... r of the Palaiologan dynasty that would rule the Byzantine Empire until the | in 1453. He recovered Constantinople from the Latin Empire in 1261 and tra ... |
| Revolutionary War | ... ington County was the first county in the United States to be named for the | general (and later President) George Washington. Its county seat is |
| Second World War | When the | began, Milland tried to enlist in the U.S. Army Air Forces, but was reject ... |
| Russo-Japanese War | As a direct result of the | (1904/05) Japanese influence replaced Russia's in Inner Manchuria. In 1906 ... |
| World War II | ... military airfield named Gardner Field which was used to train pilots during | . After the base was closed its abandoned airstrip served as a clandestine ... |
| World War I | The original pre– | torpedo boats were designed with "displacement" hulls. They displaced up t ... |
| Distomo massacre | ... duties and anti-partisan operations. On 10 June they became involved in the | , when over a period of two hours they went door to door and massacred Gre ... |
| revolted | In 1920, the Arab and Kurdish people of Mesopotamia | against the British occupation, which cost the British dearly. As the Meso ... |
| Congo Crisis | ... Nobles - Confederation of Christian Trade Unions - Confiserie Roodthooft - | - Congo Free State - Constitutional Court of Belgium - Copycat (song) - Co ... |
| Battle of Moscow | ... s. Das Reich had lost 60% of its strength and was still to take part in the | , and was decimated in the following Soviet offensive. The Der Führer Regi ... |
| Thirty Years' War | ... mber 1619 thus marked the beginning of turmoil which would develop into the | . This conflict made a great impression upon the English Parliament and pu ... |
| World War I | ... fice was constructed on the plains to commemorate soldiers who were lost in | ; it continues to be the location of Remembrance Day ceremonies every year |
| World War II | ... saved thousands of people, British and American servicemen and Jews, during | while in the Vatican in Rome. His story is told in two books and a film |
| the war | ... the Gdynia seaport project, was in progress at the time of the outbreak of | . The interwar period's overall economic situation in Poland was however s ... |
| Battle of Vimeiro | Wellesley defeated the French at the Battle of Roliça and the | in 1808 but was superseded in command immediately after the latter battle. ... |
| World War II | ... major supplier of armor plate and ordnance products during World War I and | , including the manufacture of 1,100 warships. After roughly 140 years of ... |
| Iran hostage crisis | ... crisis zones. In addition to the Vietnam War, he has also been through the | and the Gulf War, plus a number of missions in the Soviet Union, and claim ... |
| Siege of Paris | ... foreign legion had been deployed in France itself. It attempted to lift the | by breaking through the German lines. It succeeded in retaking Orléans, bu ... |
| Battle of Bunker Hill | ... hero of the Revolution who sent Paul Revere on his ride and who died at the | |
| World War II | ... any's plan and execution of the systematic genocide of European Jews during | , resulting in the most deadly phase of the Holocaust. According to histor ... |
| World War I | ... e, is the village War Memorial. This memorial, built in 1918 to commemorate | , is a smaller copy of one of Edwin Henry Landseer's four lions at Nelson' ... |
| Cold War | ... nion between Bavaria and Austria was also considered. With the onset of the | , support for Bavarian independence quickly lost support both within Bavar ... |
| Battle of Roliça | Wellesley defeated the French at the | and the Battle of Vimeiro in 1808 but was superseded in command immediatel ... |
| Gulf War | ... o the Vietnam War, he has also been through the Iran hostage crisis and the | , plus a number of missions in the Soviet Union, and claims to have "had A ... |
| World War II | ... city council had the idea of an international film festival shortly before | . The first opened on 20 September 1946, held in the Casino Municipal |
| King William's War | ... f the Avalon Peninsula, the English at St. John's on Conception Bay. During | , d'Iberville had destroyed most of the English communities in 1696–7; the ... |
| Wars of the Roses | Owen Tudor became an early casualty of the | (1455–1487) between the House of Lancaster and the House of York |
| World War I | ... Such regimes had initial origins in the chaos that followed in the wake of | , at which point the sophistication of modern weapons and communications e ... |
| Battle of Little Mountain | ... named after Captain James Estill, a Kentucky militia officer killed in the | during the American Revolutionary War. It is a prohibition or dry county |
| Operation Arctic Fox | SS Division Nord in northern Finland took part in | with the Finnish Army and at the battle at Salla, where against strong Sov ... |
| Falklands War | ... and later instructor in helicopter flight. He saw active service during the | , flying on multiple missions including anti-surface warfare, Exocet missi ... |
| World War II | ... ountries, fought along side the United States in most major conflicts since | , including the Korean War, the Gulf War, the Kosovo War, and most recentl ... |
| World War II | ... e established in the city, such as the canning and metal industries. During | , Leiden was hit hard by Allied bombardments. The areas surrounding the ra ... |
| World War I | ... ined the officially stated chief aim of Honduran foreign policy until after | |
| First Barons' War | ... erwards further disagreements plunged England into a civil war known as the | . The war came to an abrupt end after John died in 1216, leaving the Crown ... |
| World War II | ... League of Nations through which they could rule the world. They were behind | , through which they made huge financial gains by trading in armaments, an ... |
| American Revolutionary War | ... ed to the creation of the United States of America. However, the associated | was an important war that touched all corners of the region. The flight of ... |
| Rif War | During the | in Spanish Morocco in 1921–1927, combined Spanish and French forces droppe ... |
| Kingdoms of the Diadochi | ... tance of the city-state. These larger cities were parts of the still larger | . Greeks, however, remained aware of their past, chiefly through the study ... |
| Battle of Waterloo | During the | Drouot was ordered to relieve a corps of the army as the Marshall who woul ... |
| World War I | ... e German colonies in Volhynia. When Poland reclaimed its independence after | , it ceased to be a source of German emigration to Russia, but by then man ... |
| English Civil War | ... tle in East Sussex, a 14th century building that had been gutted during the | . He restored it extensively, then bequeathed it to the National Trust |
| French Revolutionary Wars | ... in 1798 after the left bank of the Rhine was occupied by France during the | |
| American Revolutionary War | ... Kentucky militia officer killed in the Battle of Little Mountain during the | . It is a prohibition or dry county |
| World War II | After | , France granted Chad the status of overseas territory and its inhabitants ... |
| Black Company | ... through the Bavarian, Thuringian and Swabian principalities, including the | of Florian Geier, a knight from Giebelstadt who joined the peasants in the ... |
| World War II | ... ponder developed in the United Kingdom, was routinely used by the allies in | to identify aircraft as friend or foe. Transponders are still used by most ... |
| World War II | After | Coralville began to grow as many university students began to make their h ... |
| World War II | ... eral George Patton's summer home. In honor of the general's achievements in | , the town named their central park after him, and even placed a full-size ... |
| Second Barons' War | ... emaining. During the 13th century, one of the two main battles of England's | took place near the town, marking the victory of Prince Edward who later b ... |
| World War II | During | , the airport was used by the United States Army Air Force Air Transport C ... |
| Gulf War | ... s in most major conflicts since World War II, including the Korean War, the | , the Kosovo War, and most recently the war in Afghanistan. The main excep ... |
| Gulf War | During the | in 1990 when Iraqi forces were driven out of Kuwait they set the oil wells ... |
| Operation MO | In April 1942, the army and navy developed a plan that was titled | . The plan called for Port Moresby to be invaded from the ocean and secure ... |
| Cold War | ... is 400 kg while the rest is from stockpiles of Russia generated during the | . In 2003, only three mines produced scandium: the uranium and iron mines ... |
| Battle of Yarmouk | ... Ubaida ibn al-Jarrah captured Baalbek after defeating the Byzantine army at | . It was still an opulent city and yielded rich plunder. It became a bone ... |
| Bagaudae | ... paign. In the late summer of 285, he suppressed rebels in Gaul known as the | . From 285 to 288, he fought against Germanic tribes along the Rhine front ... |
| Revolutionary War | ... settlement of the area by Europeans in the Colony of Virginia, through the | era, and extending through most of the first half of the 19th century in V ... |
| Bay of Pigs Invasion | ... 2's at a cost of $35 million.The Eisenhower administration also planned the | to overthrow Fidel Castro in Cuba, which John F. Kennedy was left to carry ... |
| World War II | ... g over 2,000 Allied service personnel to escape from occupied France during | |
| Hundred Days | ... his exile to the island of Elba, and during his brief comeback known as the | |
| March on Rome | ... ain supporters in a bid for political power. Inspired by Benito Mussolini's | , the Nazis attempted to seize power in Munich on 8–9 November 1923 in a f ... |
| World War II | ... that he was to lead for the rest of his life and that stayed in power until | , was neither leftist, nor overtly fascist. Political institutions and par ... |
| World War I | ... ork City. The original bookstore was at 31 West 15th St., and opened during | . In 1932, at the height of the Great Depression, the bookstore was moved ... |
| Cold War | ... orce radar base operated just outside of town during the early years of the | |
| Beer Hall Putsch | ... to seize power in Munich on 8–9 November 1923 in a failed coup known as the | . Göring, with Hitler at the head of the march to the War Ministry, was sh ... |
| World War II | The devastation during | was enormous, as fleets of American B-29 bombers blasted away on a regular ... |
| Battle of New Orleans | ... concerned" – one week before the fall of Saigon. Ford drew parallels to the | , saying that such positive activity could do for America’s morale what th ... |
| Battle of Talavera | The next day, 27 July, at the | the French advanced in three columns and were repulsed several times throu ... |
| Battle of Jarrab | Shakespear died at the | . He was followed by St John Philby in 1917 seconded by the British India ... |
| Hubbardton | ... pture of Fort Ticonderoga, the 1775 invasion of Canada, and 1777 battles at | and Bennington |
| World War II | ... ns in Canada. The movement for human rights and freedoms that emerged after | also wanted to entrench the principles enunciated in the Universal Declara ... |
| Battle of Fei River | ... ly a leader of the Army of the Northern Garrison (北府军) that notably won the | in 383 AD. In 404 AD, he helped suppress Huan Xuan's rebellion, leading to ... |
| Fall of Saigon | rect 301 4 592 200 | rect 2 2 297 200 Watergate scandal rect 390 202 611 424 1973 oil crisis re ... |
| Swedish-Norwegian War of 1814 | ... aim to Norway. Norway entered a personal union with Sweden after losing the | |
| invasion of Canada | ... onary War, including notably the 1775 Capture of Fort Ticonderoga, the 1775 | , and 1777 battles at Hubbardton and Bennington |
| Gulf War | ... me to "Massive" on the advice of McVey to avoid controversy relating to the | . They went back to being "Massive Attack" for their next single, "Safe fr ... |
| Battle of Blenheim | ... er Blenheim Palace), a gift from Queen Anne after the duke's victory at the | . Nevertheless, Anne sent her news of political developments in letters an ... |
| Second Battle of Porto | ... r narrowly escaping shipwreck. Reinforced, he took to the offensive. In the | he crossed the Douro river in a daylight coup de main, and routed Marshal ... |
| Japanese invasion of Manchuria | After the | in 1931, Japanese militarists moved forward to separate the region from Ch ... |
| Easter Rising | ... (Fine Gael). At his funeral, Senator Nora Connolly O'Brien, daughter of the | leader James Connolly, gave the oration |
| World War II | Before | , some 30% of the population in the Czech lands were ethnic Germans, and i ... |
| World War I | Thousands of | veterans and their families demonstrated and camped out in Washington, DC, ... |
| Russo-Japanese War | ... y was burnt down during the Boxer Rebellion, and was destroyed again in the | (1904–1905). As a result of this war, Japan had gained influence in Liaoni ... |
| Easter Rising | ... ey published “Requiem for the Croppies” on the 50th anniversary of the 1916 | , a poem that commemorates the Irish rebels of 1798. He has read the poem ... |
| Cold War | ... al Archives. Haar believes figures have been inflated in Germany due to the | and domestic German politics, he also maintains that the 2.225 million num ... |
| World War II | During | , the Nazis and the Ustaša embarked on a systematic genocide of the Romani ... |
| Operation Rolling Thunder | ... years old, in mid-1967, when Forrestal was assigned to a bombing campaign, | , during the Vietnam War. McCain and his fellow pilots became frustrated b ... |
| Babylonian War | ... e of his own, and he soon established control of the eastern satrapies. The | began between Antigonus and Seleucus, where Seleucus defeated both Demetri ... |
| Second Barons' War | ... reign, Simon de Montfort led the barons in another rebellion, beginning the | . The war ended in a clear royalist victory, and in the death of many rebe ... |
| Diadochi | Alexander's generals (the | ) jostled for supremacy over parts of his empire. Ptolemy, a former genera ... |
| World War I | Until the end of | the shells were still being manufactured according to his original princip ... |
| Japanese occupation of Hainan | ... munists and the Li natives fought a vigorous guerrilla campaign against the | (1939–45), but in retaliation over one third of the male population were k ... |
| Chincha Islands War | ... ru continued to exhibit their increasing domination, defeating Spain in the | . Finally, after once more defeating an alliance of Peru and Bolivia durin ... |
| Warsaw Uprising | At the other end of Europe, the Waffen-SS was dealing with the | . Between August and October 1944, the Dirlewanger Brigade (recruited from ... |
| Fronde | Bordeaux adhered to the | , being effectively annexed to the Kingdom of France only in 1653, when th ... |
| 18 Brumaire | ... is 9 November 1799, when Bonaparte seized power in France with the coup of | . 18 May 1803 is the most commonly used date, as this was when a renewed d ... |
| Peterloo Massacre | ... a general disease in our society". He also opposed an enquiry into the 1819 | in which eleven protesters were killed at a political rally demanding refo ... |
| German Peasants' War | ... Catholic Church of their day. In the course of this religious upheaval, the | of 1524–1525 swept through the Bavarian, Thuringian and Swabian principali ... |
| World War II | In 1943, German and Italian prisoners of | were brought to Missouri and other Midwest states as a means of solving th ... |
| Dutch War | With the signing of the Treaty of Nijmegen in 1678, which ended the | , the third building campaign at Versailles began (1678–1684). Under the d ... |
| Nagorno-Karabakh War | ... Azerbaijanis and Iranians present as well. However with the breakout of the | from 1988 to 1994, the Azerbaijani minority diminished in the country in w ... |
| Silesian Wars | ... ick II of Prussia conquered most of Silesia from Austria in 1740 during the | ; Prussian control was confirmed in the Peace of Breslau in 1742. During t ... |
| Bornhöved | ... all hazards to cripple Denmark and to secure Norway, defeating the Danes at | in December. His efforts culminated in the favourable Treaty of Kiel, wher ... |
| World War II | ... pelled from the Greek region of Epirus between 1944 and 1945, at the end of | - a demand firmly rejected by the Greeks (see Cham issue) |
| Operation Rolling Thunder | ... for assignment with the USS Oriskany, another aircraft carrier employed in | . Once there, he would be awarded the Navy Commendation Medal and the for ... |
| Cold War | ... ed the initial cycle as in a fever after a troubling dream, affected by the | and the Soviet suppression of the 1956 Hungarian revolution; in another ve ... |
| War of the Spanish Succession | ... uring much of Anne’s reign, the Duke of Marlborough was abroad fighting the | , while Sarah remained in England. Despite being the most powerful woman i ... |
| World War I | ... ricant and has been used in internal combustion engines, including those of | airplanes, some racing cars and some model airplanes. It has advantages ov ... |
| World War II | ... g population, the suburban style residential development was born after the | and Kendall Park was begun in the 1950s. Kendall Park is located right off ... |
| Second World War | ... evel. This concept was pioneered by the German army prior to and during the | . At this level planning and duration of activities takes from one week to ... |
| French Revolutionary Wars | No consensus exists as to when the | ended and the Napoleonic Wars began. An early candidate is 9 November 1799 ... |
| lunch-counter demonstrations in Greensboro | ... n the dismantling of segregated school systems, and that, combined with the | , compelled him to run. Lake lost to Terry Sanford, who ran as a racial mo ... |
| Battle of Stillman's Run | ... awk responded by attacking the militia force, soundly thrashing them at the | . He led his band to a secure location in what is now southern Wisconsin. ... |
| War of the Sixth Coalition | ... e area in the case of the return of Java to Dutch rule after the end of the | in Europe |
| World War II | By the end of | , "mountaineer" string band music known as bluegrass had emerged when Bill ... |
| War of the Spanish Succession | Queen Anne's War (1702–1713), as the North American theater of the | was known in the British colonies, was the second in a series of French an ... |
| Mukden Incident | ... henzing Iron Ore Company Unlimited was started in Anshan in 1918. After the | in 1931, Japan occupied the northeast of China. The mills were turned into ... |
| Battle of Clontarf | One of the last major battles involving Vikings was the | on the 23 April 1014, in which Vikings fought both for the Irish over-king ... |
| Battle of Mohács | With the death of King Louis II of Bohemia at the | , Silesia was inherited by Ferdinand I, placing Opole under the sovereignt ... |
| Congo Crisis | ... he United Nations Operation in the Congo peacekeeping force during the 1960 | , to consolidate Congolese integrity and independence from Belgian troops, ... |
| Second World War | ... e south at Pitreavie, and to the west at Elgin Street. After the end of the | traditional industries, particularly linen and coal mining became obsolete ... |
| Mafia War | ... on a day-release from prison, he fled again to Brazil to escape the brewing | instigated by Totò Riina that subsequently led to the deaths of many of Bu ... |
| Siege of Boston | ... son, became a Revolutionary War Chaplain commissioned in the militia at the | , and who also served in the Invasion of Canada (1775) under Colonel Bened ... |
| Seven Years' War | ... Orlov brothers. In 1757 Poniatowski served in the British forces during the | , thus severing close relationships with Catherine. She bore him a daughte ... |
| First World War | ... regiment of the Austro-Hungarian army, where he served until the end of the | |
| Beer Hall Putsch | Further pressure from the right came in 1923 with the | , also called the Munich Putsch, staged by the NSDAP under Adolf Hitler in ... |
| Third Taiwan Strait Crisis | ... ear, together with Lee's June 1995 visit to Cornell University, sparked the | . The previous eight presidents and vice presidents of the ROC had been el ... |
| Battle of Cambrai | The | (20 November 1917 – 3 December 1917), a campaign of World War I took place ... |
| battle at Chester | ... nd 616, Æthelfrith attacked the Kingdom of Powys and defeated its army in a | , in which the Powysian king Selyf Sarffgadau was killed, along with anoth ... |
| World War II | ... care, and voted to exclude Communists from its leadership positions. During | , the ACLU defended Japanese American citizens who were forcibly relocated ... |
| Russo-Swedish War | From 1788 to 1790 Russia fought in the | against Sweden, a conflict instigated by Catherine's cousin, King Gustav I ... |
| Thirty Years' War | The Reformation led to a series of religious wars that culminated in the | (1618–1648), which devastated much of Germany, killing between 25 and 40% ... |
| Dennewitz | ... ot in August and against Ney in September at the Battles of Grossbeeren and | ; but after the Battle of Leipzig he went his own way, determined at all h ... |
| Tyrone's Rebellion | On the basis of an apparent allusion to Essex's failed mission to quell | , the play is thought to date from early 1599.The Chronicle History of Hen ... |
| World War I | ... colonial areas were still expanding in Ukraine as late as the beginning of | |
| World War II | ... andards that the public expected. The demand for parks after the end of the | had left the parks overburdened with demands that could not be met. In 195 ... |
| Battle of Albuera | ... rd, fought Soult's 'Army of the South' to a mutual bloody standstill at the | . In May, Wellington was promoted to full General on 31 July for his servi ... |
| Black Hawk War | ... ith the local Native American population. The Winnebago War of 1827 and the | of 1832 led to the forced removal of American Indians from most parts of t ... |
| Battle of N'Djamena (2008) | ... ce and recurrent attempted coups d'état (see Battle of N'Djamena (2006) and | ) |
| World War II | ... ollege, was the best school for a writer, and that US Army participation in | was an opportunity. The army shipped him to Texas where he played the cymb ... |
| 2003 invasion of Iraq | ... ibes the positions of world governments before the actual initiation of the | , and not their current positions as they may have changed since the |
| World War II | ... tage. He succeeded, wreaking havoc throughout Europe in the early stages of | . The propaganda effect was so great that the United States government dec ... |
| Battle of Solferino | ... ell against the Austrians at the battle of Magenta (4 June 1859) and at the | (24 June). The losses were significant and the Second Foreign Regiment los ... |
| Battle of Austerlitz | ... ecember 1972. Whitlam noted that the polling day was the anniversary of the | —at which another "ramshackle, reactionary coalition" had been given a "cr ... |
| civil war | After the ousting of the Siad Barre regime and the ensuing | , various militias fought for control of the city, later to be replaced by ... |
| Gulf War | ... ose hostility towards Saddam's Iraq stemmed from the events surrounding the | . The public appeared to consider Saddam to be as much of a threat in 2003 ... |
| World War II | ... rbor, US domestic washer production had to be suspended for the duration of | . However, numerous US appliance manufacturers were given permission to un ... |
| World War II | ... as known as "The Walking Phoenix". He then served in the merchant marine in | before attending Antioch College in Ohio and dropping out to work as a for ... |
| Putsch | After the failed 1923 | by the Nazi Party, the SA and the Stabswache were abolished, yet they retu ... |
| English Civil War | ... institutional changes brought by the end of feudalism in Britain after the | in the 17th century. As national border controls became more effective, th ... |
| battle off Hogland | ... irectly. But Russia's Baltic Fleet checked the Royal Swedish navy in a tied | (July 1788), and the Swedish army failed to advance. Denmark declared war ... |
| Revolutionary War | ... and is named for General Francis "The Swamp Fox" Marion, an officer in the | |
| World War II | An airport was built on Ascension during | to be used as a staging point for aircraft being ferried from factories in ... |
| Second World War | Tourism in particular has grown throughout the post- | era, especially the growth in vehicle-based touring, which was furthered b ... |
| Indian Ocean raid | ... They achieved their first major success against the Royal Navy during their | in April 1942. Val dive bombers scored over 80% hits with their bombs duri ... |
| Hungarian Uprising | ... oviet communist regime in the Eastern Bloc, which had quelled both the 1956 | and the 1968 Prague Spring with Soviet-led invasions |
| captured by the British | ... President of the Provincial Congress of South Carolina. When Charleston was | in 1780, Middleton accepted defeat and status as a British subject. This r ... |
| Second World War | ... ed States, having been forced to leave Paris due to the dislocations of the | . He lived in Los Angeles, California from 1940 until 1951. A few days aft ... |
| First World War | ... t, who was removed on 13 December 1921 for pro-German activities during the | |
| Dengbu | ... and. This allowed the Hainan takeover to be successful where the Jinmen and | assaults had failed in the previous fall. The takeover was made possible b ... |
| Mutiny on the Bounty | In 1789 the | against William Bligh led to several of the mutineers escaping the Royal N ... |
| War of the Triple Alliance | ... region, but an alliance of Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay (in the resulting | , 1864-1870) ended Paraguayan ambitions. Thereupon, the Southern Cone nati ... |
| Battle of Pork Chop Hill | ... 7th Infantry Division, and fought in a number of engagements including the | . In a 1954 speech, the emperor spoke of Ethiopian participation in the as ... |
| Battle of Fuentes de Onoro | ... Portugal to relieve Almeida; Wellington narrowly checked the French at the | . Simultaneously, his subordinate, Viscount Beresford, fought Soult's 'Arm ... |
| civil war in Bulgaria | ... y during Michael VIII's reign, and the Emperor tried to take advantage of a | in the late 1270s but the Byzantine armies suffered several major defeats ... |
| Angolan Civil War | ... ments consider the occupation of the territory by Angola illegal. While the | largely ended in 2002, an armed struggle persists in the exclave of Cabind ... |
| Gulf War | During the | in 1991, Coalition forces began a ground war in Iraq. Despite the fact tha ... |
| Second World War | ... e was tenanted for most of the 20th century, used by the US Army during the | , and then converted into flats and sold, without the gardens, in the 1970 ... |
| Battle of Ridgefield | ... pport the Danbury troops and ensuing engagement of the British known as the | on April 27, 1777. Wooster was wounded at Ridgefield and died five days la ... |
| Sri Lankan Civil War | During the | in 2009 |
| Bautzen | ... tion, hoping to secure Norway. After the defeats at Lützen (2 May 1813) and | (21 May 1813), it was the Swedish Crown Prince who put fresh fighting spir ... |
| Second Italo-Abyssinian War | On 5 May 1936, Italian troops invaded Addis Ababa during the | , making it the capital of Italian East Africa from 1936 to 1941. After th ... |
| Battle of Alarcos | ... uadiana, then the principal Castilian town in the region. At the subsequent | , he was roundly defeated by the caliph Abu Yaqub Yusuf al-Mansur. The reo ... |
| Revolutionary War | Crestwood is the burial place of Sgt. John Sappington. He was a | soldier who was a personal bodyguard to Gen. George Washington at Valley F ... |
| Battle of Acajutla | ... d their Mayan speaking neighbors. Despite Alvarado's initial success in the | , the indigenous people of Cuzcatlan, who according to tradition were led ... |
| Battle of Wyoming | The Wyoming Monument marks the gravesite of victims of the July 1778 | . The battle was named for the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania, of which th ... |
| World War II | During | , Tulane was one of 131 colleges and universities nationally that took par ... |
| Great War | ... , happens during the Russo-Japanese War. In other albums he experiences the | in several locations, participates in the Russian Civil War after the Octo ... |
| War of the League of Cambrai | The | was a major conflict in the Italian Wars. The principal participants of th ... |
| Western Sahara War | ... ), India and Pakistan (1965 and 1971), Turkey (1974), by Morocco during the | (1975–1991), Iran (1980–88), Brazil (1972), Egypt (1973), Iraq (1980–88, 1 ... |
| civil wars | ... ave supposed that Shakespeare was familiar with Samuel Daniel's poem on the | |
| World War I | ... federacy, which grew from 17,000 members in 1900 to nearly 100,000 women by | . They were "strikingly successful at raising money to build Confederate m ... |
| Battle of Largs | ... ope, where he witnessed an eclipse of the sun prior to sailing south to the | . En route back to Norway Haakon anchored some of his fleet in Scapa Flow ... |
| Siege of Kenilworth | ... important historical role. The castle was the subject of the six-month long | in 1266, believed to be the longest siege in English history, and formed a ... |
| World War II | ... 7 Eccles returned to Australia, where he worked on military research during | . After the war, he became a professor at the University of Otago in New Z ... |
| Operation Provide Comfort | During the post war periods called Operation Desert Calm and | , Fort Hood units continued to serve in the Persian Gulf area. From Decemb ... |
| Gate Fulford | ... ardrada's aid, Tostig sailed up the Humber and defeated Morcar and Edwin at | |
| Mafeking | ... d been a young hussar in the Boer War and had been present at the relief of | . He never held long conversations with anyone, except perhaps with me, po ... |
| Earp vendetta ride | ... eir killing of Frank Stilwell. The ride for vengeance came to be called the | . Wyatt and Doc left the Arizona Territory for Colorado in April, 1882 and ... |
| Battle of Cambrai | ... k place there. It was noted for the first successful use of tanks. A second | took place between 8 October 1918 – 10 October 1918 as part of the Hundred ... |
| Selma to Montgomery marches | ... e Jackson, by a white state trooper, James Bonard Fowler, which sparked the | . In 2008, the county voted to establish a Barack Obama Day, a legal holid ... |
| Invasion of Canada (1775) | ... missioned in the militia at the Siege of Boston, and who also served in the | under Colonel Benedict Arnold. Samuel carried Benedict Arnold and Aaron Bu ... |
| Long March | ... ress the Red Army of the Chinese Communist Party. The CPC was forced on the | after suffering heavy losses and then set up another base in Yan'an, Shaan ... |
| World War I | ... Medal of Honor during that war. The criteria for the award tightened after | and starting in 1942, the medal would be awarded only for action in combat |
| World War II | During | , a prisoner-of-war camp was situated in Dade City. The prisoners were Ger ... |
| 2003 invasion of Iraq | In 2005, van Creveld made headlines when he said in an interview that the | was "the most foolish war since Emperor Augustus in 9 sent his legions int ... |
| Cold War | ... erican citizens who were forcibly relocated to internment camps. During the | , the ACLU headquarters was dominated by anti-communists, but many local a ... |
| World War II | ... s formally issued statements for its military occupations during and before | , but it has done little in helping to improve its relationships with neig ... |
| Lützen | ... ssia, in the Sixth Coalition, hoping to secure Norway. After the defeats at | (2 May 1813) and Bautzen (21 May 1813), it was the Swedish Crown Prince wh ... |
| World War II | ... n-command, André Heussler, who was subsequently executed for treason during | by the French Resistance. |
| World War I | Three years later, during | , Black resigned in order to join the United States Army, eventually reach ... |
| Hundred Days Offensive | ... Cambrai took place between 8 October 1918 – 10 October 1918 as part of the | |
| Battle of Mons Lactarius | ... ers Teia, Aligern, Scipuar, and Gibal were all killed or surrendered in the | in October 552 or 553. Widin, the last attested member of the Gothic army ... |
| invading the Lae-Salamaua | ... attack by Allied land- and carrier-based aircraft on Japanese naval forces | area in New Guinea in March, Inoue requested the Combined Fleet to send ca ... |
| World War II | ... grounds of the Dyersburg Army Air Base, which documents the history of the | Army Air Corps. It was the main base for the B-17 Flying Fortress Bombers ... |
| invasion by Indonesia | ... uent internal unrest and fear of the communist Fretilin party encouraged an | , who opposed the concept of an independent East Timor. In 1975, East Timo ... |
| Fourth Anglo-Mysore War | ... the British Indian Empire after Tippu Sultan was defeated and killed in the | (1799). The British returned administrative control of the Bangalore "pētē ... |
| Gaza flotilla raid | ... eva reported that tensions caused by differences of opinion over the recent | , had caused Arab residents of the village to threaten to expel the Jewish ... |
| World War I | ... fervor either. Therefore in his capacity as Archbishop, on the outbreak of | , Della Chiesa made a speech on the Church's position and duties, emphasiz ... |
| Battle of Salamanca | ... ng and capturing the fortified towns of Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, and in the | (which was a damaging defeat to the French). As the French regrouped, the ... |
| Battle of Gettysburg | ... The inconclusive battle delayed the Confederate cavalry on their way to the | . Three days before the battle, another detachment of Virginia cavalry had ... |
| World War II | ... he preservation of Alabama as a memorial to the men and women who served in | . (Nearly $100,000 was raised by Alabama schoolchildren, mostly in the for ... |
| World War II | ... ood Cemetery bearing coffins at 2/6 each. This station was destroyed during | |
| First World War | During the | , Munthe became a British citizen and served in an ambulance corps. He wro ... |
| Schlieffen Plan | ... he German Army had been directed towards the Western Front according to the | . In the Battle of Tannenberg in 1914 and the Second Battle of the Masuria ... |
| bungled attempt to capture | ... ick with Ethan Allen and were captured along with Allen in August 1775 in a | the city of Montreal. Some members of this unit were Congressman Matthew L ... |
| British expedition to Tibet | ... aid a visit to the Persian Gulf in 1903. At the end of that year, he sent a | under Francis Younghusband, ostensibly to forestall a Russian advance. Aft ... |
| Khmelnytsky Uprising | ... ful Commonwealth vulnerable to foreign intervention. From 1648, the Cossack | engulfed the south and east, and was soon followed by a Swedish invasion, ... |
| Athens Polytechnic uprising | ... United States-backed Regime of the Colonels. The brutal suppression of the | on 17 November 1973 sent shockwaves through the regime, and a counter-coup ... |
| Irish Rebellion of 1641 | ... in the conflict between the Gaelic Irish, and New English settlers, in the | , the Old English sided with the Gaelic Irish whilst simultaneously profes ... |
| Battle of La Marfée | ... 1. With help from the Holy Roman Empire, it managed to defeat France at the | , though immediately afterwards it was besieged and its prince, Frédéric M ... |
| Battle of Saule | ... n 1201. Their efforts in Lithuania were temporarily halted by defeat at the | in 1236, but armed Christian orders continued to pose a threat. The countr ... |
| World War II | During | , Tufts College was one of 131 colleges and universities nationally that t ... |
| East African Campaign | On 18 January 1941, during the | , Haile Selassie crossed the border between Sudan and Ethiopia near the vi ... |
| English Civil War | This special, set in the | , was shown as part of Comic Relief's Red Nose Day on Friday 5 February 19 ... |
| Battle of Taginae | ... he Goths reconquered most of the lost territory until Totila's death at the | . The war lasted for almost 20 years and caused enormous damage and depopu ... |
| Battle of Largs | ... in 1171; and 1263 in Scotland by the defeat of King Hákon Hákonarson at the | by troops loyal to Alexander III. Godwinson was subsequently defeated with ... |
| Second Italian War of Independence | ... l capital of Italy), the kingdom had successfully challenged Austria in the | , liberating Lombardy-Venetia from Austrian rule. The kingdom also had est ... |
| Ruby Ridge | ... ed by what he perceived as its mishandling of the Waco Siege (1993) and the | incident (1992), McVeigh timed his attack to coincide with the second anni ... |
| Panjdeh Incident | In 1884, Russian expansionism brought about another crisis — the | — when they seized the oasis of Merv. The Russians claimed all of the form ... |
| Operation Just Cause | ... litary exercises there. The Apache was first used in combat in 1989, during | , the invasion of Panama. The AH-64 participated in over 240 hours of comb ... |
| military coup | ... eory, with the first neoliberal governments being created in Chile, where a | led by Augusto Pinochet took place in 1973 |
| military coup | ... olitical system until July 1996, when Tutsi Pierre Buyoya seized power in a | . Under international pressure, the warring factions negotiated a peace ag ... |
| Second Battle of the Masurian Lakes | ... cording to the Schlieffen Plan. In the Battle of Tannenberg in 1914 and the | in 1915, however, the Russians were decisively defeated and forced to retr ... |
| World War II | ... ril 28, 1999), who had served as a sergeant in the US Army Air Corps during | and worked at the Southern Pacific Railroad while studying to become a tea ... |
| Fronde | ... rin's library was sold by the parlement of Paris during the troubles of the | , and Queen Christina invited Naudé to Stockholm. He was not happy in Swed ... |
| Shays' Rebellion | ... llowing the Revolutionary War produced disastrous conditions for colonists. | in 1786 sought to close the courts to prevent debt collections and the for ... |
| Battle of Gaza | ... d besieged Tyre for more than a year. His son Demetrius was defeated at the | by Ptolemy in 312 BC, and after the battle, Seleucus made his way back to ... |
| Seven Years' War | ... erick, fearing encirclement, launched a pre-emptive invasion of Saxony. The | , too, was indecisive, and saw Prussia holding onto Silesia, despite Russi ... |
| conquest of Mexico | ... z de Cuéllar died in Santiago de Cuba in 1524, a very bitter man. After the | , Cuba experienced an exodus of settlers. A decade later, Cuba was subject ... |
| Operation Vigilant Sentinel | ... S. troops during Operation Restore Hope. The same ship also participated in | in the Persian Gulf in 1995. Roosevelt flew patrols in support of the Kurd ... |
| World War I | ... nited States. Developed as a result of serious mobilization problems during | , this organizational scheme provided a framework to rapidly expand the Ar ... |
| Lower Canada Rebellion | ... s remaining colonies with large populations of British colonists. After the | led by Louis-Joseph Papineau in 1837, and the Upper Canada Rebellion led b ... |
| American Revolutionary War | ... Old Milford, and Miami Township were built on a survey by John Nancarrow, a | veteran from Virginia. The area known as Miami Township was named after th ... |
| World War I | ... epairs on 1 January 1917 and was still there when the United States entered | . She arrived at Yorktown, Virginia on 2 May for duty as a training ship a ... |
| Thirty Years' War | ... . Allied with the Habsburg Monarchy, it did not directly participate in the | |
| Keian Uprising | ... As rōnin found themselves with fewer and fewer options, they joined in the | (AD 1651). This forced the shogunate to rethink its policy. It relaxed res ... |
| Gettysburg | ... later transferred to another unit, missing the regiment's famous defense at | . His son Wesley, who had enlisted with his father, was killed in the batt ... |
| Battle of Inchon | Incheon was the site of the | during the Korean War |
| second World War | During the | the university suffered heavy damage. An air raid on October 18, 1944 dest ... |
| War of the Polish Succession | ... sh throne after the death of August II the Strong in 1733, which led to the | . In September 1733, Stanisław himself arrived at Warsaw, having traveled ... |
| Dakota War of 1862 | ... the promises of the treaty were not kept. The Dakota became angered and the | began in Cottonwood County. In August 1862 the Dakota attacked the German ... |
| Canada was invaded | ... proved for joining the United States in the Articles of Confederation. When | during the American Revolutionary War, thousands joined the American cause ... |
| Falklands War | In the 1982 | , the Argentine armed forces deployed the newest west European weapons inc ... |
| Light Brigade Relief Fund | ... served in the British Library Sound Archive. The recording is in aid of the | , and says |
| an attempted coup | ... lly a one-party state. On August 1 members of the Kenyan Air Force launched | , which was quickly suppressed by Loyalist forces led by the Army, the Gen ... |
| Operation Ostra Brama | ... Uprising on October 2, 1944. Other major city uprisings of AK included the | in Wilno and the Lwów Uprising. In addition, AK prepared an uprising in Kr ... |
| Second Boer War | ... ter King Edward VII granted the Force "Royal" status for its service in the | , replacing gold-trimmed scarlet straps from the earlier uniforms. Current ... |
| World War II | ... apoleonic Wars, and made part of the new state North Rhine-Westphalia after | |
| Christmas truce | ... l extended a heartfelt plea for an end to hostilities. His early call for a | in 1914 was ignored |
| World War II | ... along the waterfront that opened in 2001. The New Jersey saw action during | , the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and provided support off Lebanon in ear ... |
| Crecy | ... Hundred Years' War, particularly at the start of the war in the battles of | (1346) and Poitiers (1356), and most famously at the Battle of Agincourt ( ... |
| Battle of New Orleans | ... or future president Andrew Jackson, the commander of American forces at the | (1815) and presidential hopeful in 1824. Jacksonville was a major stopping ... |
| Versinikia | ... al success in spring 813, Michael's army prepared for a major engagement at | near Adrianople in June. The Byzantine army was turned to flight and the E ... |
| Plug Riots | ... s met on the green, and planned the closure of Stalybridge factories in the | . By 1860 the population had peaked. The 1844 railway passed through the v ... |
| Irish Rebellion of 1641 | ... was open it was a great success but it had to be closed as a result of the | |
| Cold War | On June 22, 1955, during the | . a US Navy P2V Neptune with a crew of 11 was attacked by two Soviet fight ... |
| Black Hawk War | ... chanan County. It was named after Black Hawk, a Sauk leader during the 1832 | |
| World War I | Benedict XV's pontificate was dominated by | , which he termed "the suicide of Europe," and its turbulent aftermath. Be ... |
| World War II | ... she played Natalie Henry, an American Jewish woman trapped in Europe during | . The series was based on a successful novel by Herman Wouk, and is noted ... |
| World War II | ... Japan with support from the United States and the Republic of China. After | , the Việt Minh opposed the re-occupation of Vietnam by France and later o ... |
| World War II | As | unfolded, Nazi Germany deported and killed millions of Jews and many milli ... |
| Revolutionary War | ... urial ground at the south east edge of town now bear the name. Prior to the | , what is now known as the Town of Washington was called the Charlotte Pre ... |
| World War I | Sedan was occupied by the Germans for four years during | |
| Second Battle of Ypres | ... yment of chemical warfare agents was during World War I, originating in the | , April 22, 1915, when the Germans attacked French, Canadian and Algerian ... |
| World War II | The Great Depression followed by gasoline rationing during | hurt the tourist trade in Fall City. Tourism was further hampered just aft ... |
| Battle of St Fagans | ... glish Civil War, St Fagans just to the west of the town, played host to the | . The battle, between a Royalist rebellion and a New Model Army detachment ... |
| First World War | Before the | the garden required the services of 22 gardeners to maintain it, but that ... |
| the war | ... siblings Edna, Harold and Lorna. She began acting at the age of 14. During | , the Simmons family was evacuated to Winscombe in Somerset. Her father, a ... |
| Battle of the Coral Sea | ... hips to aircraft carriers after the successes of carrier combat in both the | , and to a greater extent, the Battle of Midway.As a result the constructi ... |
| Paraitacene | ... eastern provinces. Antigonus fought against Eumenes in two great battles at | in 317 BC and Gabiene in 316 BC. Both were inconclusive, however. Yet in t ... |
| Cold War | ... politicians such as Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, the Vietnam War, the | and the War on Drugs |
| the Great War | ... diate his experiences. Similarities to the works of other writers who faced | are seen in The Hobbit, including portraying warfare as anti-pastoral: in ... |
| World War II | ... ce of 1932. A working compromise was never established, and by the start of | , reparations payments had stopped completely. Hoover in 1931 urged the ma ... |
| Battle of Monte Cassino | :For information about the World War II battle, see the | |
| Battle of Zhizhi | ... yu (r. 56–36 BCE), was killed by Chen Tang and Gan Yanshou (甘延壽/甘延寿) at the | , in modern Taraz, Kazakhstan |
| Battle of Gettysburg | ... the dark, his exhausted men reached Dover on the morning of July 1, as the | was commencing without them |
| World War II | Below, events of | have the "WWII" prefix |
| Revolutionary War | ... nie and Tex Hoppus. One of Hoppus' ancestors, Michael Happes, fought in the | , leading Hoppus to describe himself as "a proud Son of the American Revol ... |
| Battle of Fleurus | ... the French used a hot-air balloon to survey Coalition positions before the | , on 26 June 1794. Advances in ordnance and rocketry also occurred in the ... |
| Castellammarese War | What became known as the | raged from 1928 to 1931, resulting in the death of as many as 60 mobsters. ... |
| Mau Mau Uprising | ... ribal resistance to the British in the 1950s, and increased support for the | (1952–1960). In 1956, under pressure from the British, the council of male ... |
| English Civil War | In the course of the events which lead up to the | Charles I had to raise as much money as possible, and mortgaged Lancaster ... |
| Napoleonic wars | ... tually conquer St. Thomas, St. John and St. Croix in March 1801 through the | , but they restored them by the Treaty of Amiens in March, 1802. They were ... |
| World War I | ... n in Tipton County, Tennessee. The population was 3,235 at the 2000 census. | Medal of Honor recipient Joseph B. Adkinson is buried there |
| Hubbardton | ... troops to fight John Burgoyne's British invasion from Quebec in battles at | and Bennington in 1777, Vermont eventually adopted a more neutral stance a ... |
| Battle of Stamford Bridge | ... r Harðráði), who was defeated by Saxon King Harold Godwinson in 1066 at the | ; in Ireland, the capture of Dublin by Strongbow and his Hiberno-Norman fo ... |
| World War II | The estate was first subdivided during and immediately after | , and was developed as a planned community by Pierre Ghent & Associates of ... |
| attempted a coup d'état | ... y Senior Private Grade-I Hezekiah Ochuka and backed by university students, | to oust Moi. It failed and was followed by looting of Asian-owned stores b ... |
| World War II | After | , further public housing projects were built to rehouse the many Londoners ... |
| Anglo-Russian expedition | Wellesley then served in the abortive | to north Germany in 1805, taking a brigade to Elbe. Upon this return from ... |
| Battle of Yalu River | ... railway, which was incomplete near Irkutsk at the time. On 1 May 1904, the | became the first major land battle of the war; Japanese troops stormed a R ... |
| First World War | ... m part of the family's Heligan estate. The gardens were neglected after the | , and only restored in the 1990s, a restoration that was the subject of se ... |
| Operation Bringing Home the Goods | ... was not adhering to the agreement reached with Israel. Israel then launched | , in which it raided the Jericho prison and seized the five |
| Abushiri Revolt | ... apher Oscar Baumann, but the mission was aborted due to consequences of the | . Meyer and Baumann were captured and held hostage, and only escaped after ... |
| Siege of Osaka | ... ndred thousand rōnin joined forces with Toyotomi Hideyori and fought at the | . In the ensuing years of peace, there was less need to maintain expensive ... |
| Battle of Sagrajas | ... m Alfonso. El Cid probably commanded a large Moorish force during the great | , which took place in 1086, near the Taifa of Badajoz. The Almoravid and A ... |
| Third Anglo-Mysore War | ... red by the British armies under Lord Cornwallis on 21 March 1791 during the | and formed a centre for British resistance against Tippu Sultan, being inc ... |
| World War II | Over the years, populations of all nearby communities increased and after | , Richfield flourished with commuters to Twin Cities jobs. Today, Richfiel ... |
| Chichimeca War | ... shing colonies or even initiating peace treaties as seen in the Arauco War, | , Red Cloud's War, the Second Seminole War, and Pontiac's Rebellion. Herná ... |
| World War II | ... d on Hero Street (formerly Second Street), who gave their lives fighting in | . This street, consisting of roughly twenty-five homes, has sent over one ... |
| World War II | :For information about the | battle, see the Battle of Monte Cassino |
| World War I | The Battle of Cambrai (20 November 1917 – 3 December 1917), a campaign of | took place there. It was noted for the first successful use of tanks. A se ... |
| Anglo-Boer War | After the | from 1899 to 1902 and the formation of the Union of South Africa in 1910, ... |
| Second World War | After the | the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) began an investigation i ... |
| Cedar Revolution | ... the resulting Mehlis report that there was Syrian involvement, prompted the | , which drove Syrian troops out of Lebanon |
| Battle of Berlin | ... in Berlin were some of the last buildings to fall to the Soviets during the | in 1945. The British built structures in the Thames Estuary and other tida ... |
| American Revolutionary War | ... in the world despite having successfully gained its independence during the | |
| World War II | ... the League of Nations. They were also staunchly opposed to intervention in | until the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor |
| victory at Issus | ... ended campaign against the Achaemenid Persian Empire. Following Alexander's | , the Persian mercenary commander Memnon of Rhodes ordered a counter-attac ... |
| World War I | ... the Territoire de Belfort. When France regained the ceded departments after | , the Territoire de Belfort was not reintegrated into Haut-Rhin. In 1922, ... |
| World War I | ... fter Ernst completed his studies in the summer, his life was interrupted by | . Ernst was drafted and served both on the Western and the Eastern front. ... |
| Second World War | After a flurry of interest in America following the end of the | , the theremin soon fell into disuse with serious musicians, mainly becaus ... |
| American Revolutionary War | ... pply of fresh water. The supply dwindled as the city grew rapidly after the | . To satisfy the growing population, the city acquired land in Westchester ... |
| Puget Sound War | The first settlements in the area were two forts built in 1856 during the | to protect future settlers against possible uprisings by the native popula ... |
| Thirty Years' War | ... ifth year of a conflict between France and Spain which had begun during the | —and the peace of the Pyrenees was signed on November 5. On January 27, 16 ... |
| World War II | During the course of their | attempts to occupy much of the western USSR, the government of Nazi German ... |
| Eighty Years' War | ... h the Dutch revolt against Spanish rule and played an important role in the | . Besieged from May until October 1574 by the Spanish, Leiden was relieved ... |
| Fall of Constantinople | ... most of the Greek speakers, "Hellene" still meant pagan. On the eve of the | the Last Emperor urged his soldiers to remember that they were the descend ... |
| Second World War | ... ilding for the Secretariat and Army GHQ, but these were cancelled after the | broke out, at which point more than two-thirds of the hotel's rooms were b ... |
| English Civil War | ... work was almost entirely confined to English history during the time of the | and the Commonwealth; and although he is somewhat overshadowed by S.R. Gar ... |
| World War I | ... and small distribution networks was greatly spurred by the requirements of | , with large electrical generating plants built by governments to provide ... |
| First World War | In 1916 Belgian troops conquered the area during the | . In 1923, the League of Nations mandated to Belgium the territory of Ruan ... |
| Bombardment of Brussels | ... 1439. All four were finished before 1450. They were destroyed in the French | in 1695, but are known from many surviving descriptions, from a free parti ... |
| Warsaw Uprising | ... forces. The largest and best known of the Operation Tempest battles was the | – the attempt to liberate Warsaw, the capital of Poland. It started on Au ... |
| World War II | During | , the United States viewed itself as the de facto leader of the Allies. Af ... |
| 2003 invasion of Iraq | In 2003, in the lead-up to the | , an ONA intelligence officer named Andrew Wilkie resigned from the agency ... |
| World War I | ... oreign policy actions. Republicans opposed Woodrow Wilson's intervention in | and his subsequent attempt to create the League of Nations. They were also ... |
| Sino-Soviet split | ... on, led to a major upheaval in Chinese society. In 1972, at the peak of the | , Mao and Zhou Enlai met Richard Nixon in Beijing to establish relations w ... |
| Afghanistan War | ... eekers, and opposed the bipartisan offers of support to the US alliance and | by the Howard Government and Beazley Opposition in the aftermath of the 11 ... |
| First World War | ... ry could have happened in the real world. Marco is an Italian hero from the | and is shown fighting against Austro-Hungarian fighter planes in a flashba ... |
| World War II | The air base was built to train | pilots to fly the P-38 Lightning and B-17 Flying Fortress, two planes that ... |
| siege | ... to take Port Royal. Led by John March, 1,600 men failed to take the fort by | ; a followup expedition in August was also repulsed. In response, the Fren ... |
| World War I | By 1917, the patriotism of | changed into political radicalism in most of Europe, the United States, an ... |
| World War II | ... ght revival in mining interest in 1940, but has remained fairly quiet since | . The town has experienced five major fires throughout its history, includ ... |
| Constantinople Pogrom | ... after the 1923 exchange, has now dwindled to a few thousand, after the 1955 | and other state sponsored violence and discrimination. This effectively en ... |
| Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 | ... onsiders a potential threat to "social stability", as was the case with the | . The Communist Party has had mixed success in controlling information: a ... |
| World War I | ... y speak as much as you want about regional and world wars. They were behind | , when they were able to destroy the Islamic Caliphate, making financial g ... |
| Battle of the Ebro | ... om the rest of republican Spain. The defeat of the Republican armies in the | led in 1938 and 1939 to the occupation of Catalonia by Franco's forces, wh ... |
| American Revolutionary War | ... ill Road while returning from a Port Tobacco Tavern. This was following the | |
| World War II | During | the German troops first invaded neutral Belgium and crossed the Meuse Rive ... |
| Gulf War | ... ds according to official ratings during that time period), the onset of the | caused NBC to continually preempt or reschedule the episodes resulting in ... |
| World War II | ... o started with United Press in Kansas City, gained fame for his coverage of | in Europe and turned down Edward R. Murrow's first offer of a CBS job to s ... |
| World War II | Taiwan was ceded to Japan in 1895 and was a major Japanese prefecture in | . Following the unconditional surrender of Japan to Allied Powers after Wo ... |
| Cold War | ... us of Kenya into a de-jure status during the 1980s, but with the end of the | , the practices of political repression and torture which had been "overlo ... |
| World War II | ... st because of his possible involvement with the Nazis and war crimes during | . Fred Sinowatz resigned, and Franz Vranitzky became chancellor |
| Wars of Alexander the Great | ... Macedonian and Greek army. This invasion, which marked the beginning of the | , was followed almost immediately by the victory of Alexander over the Per ... |
| Battle of Jena-Auerstedt | ... avalry general in the disastrous campaign of the latter year. At the double | , Blücher fought at Auerstedt, repeatedly charging at the head of the Prus ... |
| World War II | Until | Poulsbo retained Norwegian as a primary language. However, during World Wa ... |
| Dieppe Raid | ... in the Battle of the Atlantic. He personally pushed through the disastrous | of 19 August 1942 (which certain elements of the Allied military, notably ... |
| Battle of Issus | ... eld against Alexander’s army until a year and a half after Granicus, at the | in 333 BC. His forces outnumbered Alexander's soldiers by at least a 2 to ... |
| staged an attack from the Trentino | On May 15, 1916, the Austrian army | , unaided by the German army, whose command had advised against such a mov ... |
| Seven Years' War | ... Indian War in North America, which spread to Europe two years later as the | . In Acadia and Nova Scotia, war continued in Father Le Loutre's War |
| World War I | ... s influential and potentially as precursors to postmodernism emerged around | and particularly in its aftermath. With the introduction of the use of ind ... |
| Operation Torch | ... pointment for security reasons. The campaign in North Africa was designated | ; French cooperation was deemed necessary to the campaign, and Eisenhower ... |
| Yugoslav Wars | ... as part of United Nations sanctions against the country as a result of the | . The sanctions were not lifted until 1994, by which time it was no longer ... |
| Battle of Isandlwana | ... ies of many cairns marking British soldiers' mass graves at the site of the | , South Africa. Another is the Matthew Flinders Cairn on the side of Arthu ... |
| military coup d'état | In 1987, Major Pierre Buyoya overthrew Col. Bagaza in a | . He dissolved opposition parties, suspended the 1981 constitution, and in ... |
| Battle of Shelon | ... nd after his generals had twice defeated the forces of the republic, at the | River and on the Northern Dvina, both in the summer of 1471, the Novgorodi ... |
| Battle of the Bridge of Cornellana | First, he had to deal with the usurper Nepocian, defeating him at the | , by the river Narcea. Ramiro then removed the system of election which al ... |
| Battle of Poitiers | Although everything appears well, Adhemar has returned from fighting in the | and discovers William's humble origins from a young girl outside Thatcher' ... |
| World War II | ... ld War II Poulsbo retained Norwegian as a primary language. However, during | , the military constructed about 300 residential units to provide housing ... |
| World War II | ... ower had retained his enormous personal popularity from his leading role in | , and huge crowds turned out to see him around the nation. His campaign sl ... |
| World War II | There was a Jewish enclave in Penang before | , but few Jews if any remain today. Penang currently has a sizeable expatr ... |
| Cold War | ... United States Air Force on UK air bases throughout the Second World War and | . Much of the collection was lost in the 1994 fire, but the collection has ... |
| Battle of Trafalgar | ... e given to the historic route used to carry dispatches with the news of the | overland from Falmouth, Cornwall to the Admiralty in London in 1805 and th ... |
| Siege of Paris | ... War. Hugo returned again to Guernsey (1872–73), after suffering through the | , before finally returning to France for the remainder of his life |
| Marcomannic Wars | ... ided in two tribal groups, the Silingi and the Hasdingi. At the time of the | (166–180) the Silingi lived in an area recorded by Tacitus as Magna German ... |
| World War II | ... alleged that the Soviet Union had held American prisoners after the end of | and more may have been transferred there during the Korean War and during ... |
| Glorious Revolution | ... the monarch was all but extinguished by the Whig revolution of 1688-89 (see | ). The king or queen of the United Kingdom is one of the last monarchs sti ... |
| Mongol invasion of Europe | ... ial German immigration as the court sought to replace losses from the brief | in 1241. Germans settled primarily along the northern, western, and southe ... |
| Warring States Period | ... (嬴政), was king of the Chinese State of Qin from 246 BC to 221 BC during the | . He became the first emperor of a unified China in 221 BC. He ruled until ... |
| World War I | ... fan Zweig He travelled, giving lectures, throughout Europe. The outbreak of | had a devastating effect on the poet's deep pacifist feelings |
| World War II | ... y staff who were killed during the two world wars. Damage to the station in | required considerable repair but entailed no significant changes of layout |
| Seven Years' War | ... ritish conquest of all French North American territories in the area in the | |
| Battle of Inchon | On September 15, 1950, during the Korean War, Incheon was the site of the | , when United States troops landed to relieve pressure on the Pusan Perime ... |
| Operation Provide Comfort | ... oosevelt flew patrols in support of the Kurds over northern Iraq as part of | in 1991. In 1996, George Washington played a peacekeeping role in Operatio ... |
| Battle of Taginae | Totila was slain in the | in July 552 and his followers Teia, Aligern, Scipuar, and Gibal were all k ... |
| Pig War | After the peaceful settlement obtained following the | , the San Juan Islands became a separate county in 1873. Friday Harbor was ... |
| World War II | During | they were reactivated and modernised. The forts were regularly attacked by ... |
| English Civil War | ... f the slighting, or deliberate partial destruction, of the castle after the | , Kenilworth illustrates five centuries of English military and civil arch ... |
| Battle of Cajamarca | In 1532 at the | a group of Spanish soldiers under Francisco Pizarro and their indigenous A ... |
| World War II | ... rby hill of Beeston Bump a geological SSSI which was the site of one of the | secret Y-stations. The Bump can be climbed using the Norfolk Coast Path fr ... |
| World War I | ... rtlepool United. He died in April 1917, when he was killed in action during | |
| World War I | ... nd installation support units ("Zone of the Interior" units) created during | . Corps areas had the added responsibility for planning and implementing m ... |
| First World War | ... ritation, causing the skin to turn a bright yellow-orange color. During the | , munition workers who handled the chemical found that their skin turned b ... |
| WWII | Related preceding technologies include the gas mask used in | , the oxygen mask used by pilots of high flying bombers in WWII, the high ... |
| Cold War | ... g and presumed dead. This report remained confidential until the end of the | , when the West German government authorized its release and summary of th ... |
| First World War | ... double dissolution election, and the only one until the 1951 election. The | had broken out in the middle of the 1914 election campaign, with both side ... |
| World War I | ... 8-day affair. Lauwo claimed that he had climbed the mountain 3 times before | . The committee concluded that he had been a member of Meyer's team and th ... |
| World War II | The construction of the Alaska Highway during | shifted much of the economic activity of the area south to Delta Junction. ... |
| Boer War | ... ) and Dutch ancestry; Theron is descended from early Huguenot settlers, and | figure Danie Theron was her great-great uncle. "Theron" is an Occitan surn ... |
| Beaver Wars | ... 's land was home to the Wenrohronon, whom the Senecas eliminated during the | in the 1650s |
| Capture of Fort Ticonderoga | ... panies served in the American Revolutionary War, including notably the 1775 | , the 1775 invasion of Canada, and 1777 battles at Hubbardton and Benningt ... |
| Battle of Karnal | ... ls in the First Battle of Delhi. In 1739, a weakened Mughal Empire lost the | , following which the victorious forces of Nader Shah, the Turkic ruler of ... |
| Christmas Offensive | ... aile Selassie's northern armies were able to launch what was known as the " | ". During this offensive, the Italians were forced back in places and put ... |
| World War II | The 1939, 1941, 1943, and 1945 tournaments were canceled due to | |
| World War II | ... ystem and played a crucial role in military research and development during | , but later was renamed to the abbreviation for the more descriptive term. ... |
| Russo-Japanese War | After the | , Russia and Japan signed the Treaty of Portsmouth of 1905, which saw the ... |
| First World War | ... cousin, Otto, and proclaimed himself King Ludwig III of Bavaria. During the | , Ludwig's eldest son, Crown Prince Rupprecht, commanded the Bavarian army ... |
| War of the Polish Succession | ... ughter Maria Theresa his heir. The most notable instance of this was in the | whose settlement saw Austria cede Naples and Sicily to the Spanish Infante ... |
| Napoleonic Wars | ... rejoined because of the British refusal to evacuate the islands. After the | , through the Treaty of Paris of 1814, as ratified by the Congress of Vien ... |
| civil war | ... lish–Ukrainian War), taking advantage of the Russian preoccupation with the | . By June 1920, the Polish armies were past Vilnius, Minsk and (allied wit ... |
| Battle of Camden | ... tablished there the main British supply post for the Southern campaign. The | , the worst American defeat of the Revolution, was fought on August 16, 17 ... |
| World War I | In 1912, the Anthroposophical Society was founded. After | , the Anthroposophical movement took on new directions. Projects such as s ... |
| World War II | ... an acceptable solution to the problems of ethnic conflict, up until around | and even a little afterward, in certain cases. Transfer was considered a d ... |
| Second World War | ... arate, self-governing countries within a Commonwealth of Nations. After the | , the vast majority of British colonies and territories became independent ... |
| Seven Years' War | ... as occupied by Great Britain for two years from 1762 to 1764 as part of the | . The city remained the capital of the Philippines under the government of ... |
| Operation Linebacker II | At the end of 1972, the failed of | brought US to a negotiated end to Hanoi government. By 1974, the United St ... |
| Falklands War | ... later single, "I Love a Man in a Uniform", was banned by the BBC during the | in 1982 |
| King George's War | ... Brunswick. The disputes over Acadia, which flared into open conflict during | in the 1740s, would not be resolved until the British conquest of all Fren ... |
| World War I | ... portunity of Berlin's distraction with the European War (which would become | ) and wanting to expand its sphere of influence in China, Japan declared w ... |
| Operation Southern Watch | ... November 2000. The carrier's air wing flew 869 combat sorties in support of | , including a strike on Iraqi air defense sites on 16 February 2001, in re ... |
| Great Northern War | ... ossack hetman, to desert Peter the Great at the most critical period of the | between Russia and Sweden, and Stanisław placed a small army corps at the ... |
| Final War of the Roman Republic | The Battle of Actium was the decisive confrontation of the | . It was a naval engagement fought between the forces of Octavian and the ... |
| coup d'état carried out by ARVN officers | In 1963 Ngo Dinh Diem was killed in a | and encouraged by US officials such as Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. In the confu ... |
| Persian Gulf War | ... ancial difficulties as the airline industry slumped in the aftermath of the | . In response the airline restructured its management, hiring former Delta ... |
| Tibetan uprising | ... ed to India, following the 14th Dalai Lama in 1959 after the failure of his | . This wave lasted until the 1960s, and another wave followed when Tibet w ... |
| Great Northern War | ... s II and Augustus III, brought the Commonwealth further disintegration. The | , a period seen by the contemporaries as a passing eclipse, may have been ... |
| Lechfeld | The ravages of the Hungarians ceased after their defeat on the | (955), and the area of the duchy temporarily grew with the addition of cer ... |
| World War II | ... his crew against the petty tyranny of the ship's commanding officer during | . Nearly all action takes place on a backwater cargo ship, the USS Relucta ... |
| Battle of Watling Street | Part of the route was the site of the Roman victory at the | in 61 AD between the Roman governor Gaius Suetonius Paulinus and the Brito ... |
| World War II | ... r Shinichiro Akizuki, director of Saint Francis Hospital in Nagasaki during | , theorized that miso helps protect against radiation sickness |
| World War I | ... h, and on supporting conscientious objectors who wished to avoid serving in | . Three Supreme Court decisions in 1919 each upheld convictions outlawing ... |
| Old Zürich War | ... olf Stüssi, burgomaster of Zürich, against the Old Swiss Confederacy in the | (Alter Zürichkrieg) |
| World War II | ... egion is active in the community. Since Damascus Post 171 was founded after | , it has engaged in charitable and civic endeavors, ranging from installin ... |
| World War II | During | , since Mannheim was an important industrial centre for Nazi Germany, Mann ... |
| Wars of the Roses | ... im to the crown in 1460 was the key escalation of the conflict known as the | . When his father was killed at the Battle of Wakefield, Edward inherited ... |
| Gulf War | While Canada participated in the | of 1991, it refused to engage in a war on Iraq without UN approval. Prime ... |
| American Revolutionary War | ... ia organized in what is now southwestern Vermont in the decade prior to the | . They comprised settlers and land speculators who held New Hampshire titl ... |
| World War I | ... heme of brotherhood about a series of escape attempts by French POWs during | , it was enormously successful but was also banned in Germany, and later i ... |
| Battle of Cambrai | ... tinguished Service Order (DSO) (on 18 February 1918, for his actions at the | ), and the Croix de Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur. He first entered th ... |
| Ipsus | ... imachus united to destroy him and his father. The hostile armies met at the | in Phrygia (301 BC). Antigonus was killed, and Demetrius, after sustaining ... |
| American Revolutionary War | ... etween the North and South. The New York and New Jersey campaign during the | saw more battles than any other theater of the conflict. Philadelphia, mid ... |
| Falklands War | ... na, were invaded by Argentina on 2 April 1982, an event that instigated the | . Invincible was one of the two operational aircraft carriers available at ... |
| Kunersdorf | ... rsburg, interfered with the progress of the war, and the crushing defeat of | (12 August 1759) at last brought Frederick to the verge of ruin. From that ... |
| World War II | ... echnology of the British GEE radio navigation system that was used early in | . While GEE had a range of about 400 miles (644 km), initial LORAN systems ... |
| civil war | On 2 February the Byzantine Empire's | between John VI Kantakouzenos and the regency ended with John VI entering ... |
| Lwów Uprising | ... prisings and helping to liberate various cities (ex. Operation Ostra Brama, | ), only to find that immediately afterwards AK troops were arrested, impri ... |
| Black Hawk War | ... land. Wabokieshiek served as an advisor to Black Hawk and took part in the | . Wabokieshiek and his followers, the Sauk Indians, resided where the curr ... |
| World War II | ... signs for each of the country's 48 states. The picnic was suspended during | , but when it resumed in 1948, it attracted 120,000 people. A 1941 Ripley' ... |
| World War II | During | . the U.S. government seized managerial control of these critical rayon pl ... |
| Waterloo | After the allied victory at | the department was occupied by Prussian troops between June 1815 and Novem ... |
| Cold War | ... has strong relations with the People's Republic of China during much of the | and good relations with the United States of America . Today, the People's ... |
| Battle of Newburn | ... rts, and met virtually no resistance until reaching Newcastle where, at the | , Newcastle upon Tyne – and hence England's coal supply – fell into the ha ... |
| World War II | ... y's failed lobotomy and the deaths of his brother Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. in | and sister Kathleen Agnes Kennedy in an airplane crash. An early political ... |
| Russo-Japanese War | The Treaty of Portsmouth formally ended the 1904-05 | . It was signed on September 5, 1905 after negotiations at the Portsmouth ... |
| World War II | During | James joined the United States Navy, was promoted to coxswain and took par ... |
| Mexican Drug War | As a result of the | , the Los Zetas drug cartel members overtook much of the department and oc ... |
| Cold War | ... 1990. Foreign military assistance to Zaire ceased following the end of the | and Mobutu deliberately allowed the military's condition to deteriorate so ... |
| World War II | ... Dec. 1941). When Corrigan enlisted in the military and departed to serve in | , in More Fun #90 (April 1944), the Spectre became permanently invisible, ... |
| captured Port Royal | ... er 1710, 3,600 British and colonial forces led by Francis Nicholson finally | after a siege of one week. This ended official French control of the penin ... |
| World War I | After | , Congress attempted to stem the flow of immigrants, still mainly coming f ... |
| Operation Restore Hope | ... December 9, 1992 to spearhead the United Nations peacekeeping forces during | , in which Pakistan, Italy and Malaysia also participated |
| World War II | ... ed codes officer of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) in London during | , he very quickly recognized the weakness of the technique, and the conseq ... |
| Warsaw Uprising | ... , they proceeded to annihilate the Soviet 3rd Tank Corps. The advent of the | brought the Soviet offensive to a halt, and relative peace fell on the fro ... |
| Sengoku period | Especially in the | , daimyo needed additional fighting men, and even if one's master had peri ... |
| Glorious Revolution | ... Catholic - a law which dates from the Act of Settlement 1701, following the | of 1688. However, since the monarch is also the Supreme Governor of the Ch ... |
| Cold War | ... he French and Indian War, the American Revolution and the Civil War, to the | and the War on Terrorism. Stories about historic figures, such as those su ... |
| World War II | ... ing a degree of confusion as some people mistook it for a fallen satellite. | searchlights were installed, to illuminate the sky and surrounding archite ... |
| Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia | ... ulation. In August 1968, the Polish People's Army took part in the infamous | |
| World War II | ... transfer underwent considerable evolution during the 20th century. Prior to | , a number of major population transfers were the result of bilateral trea ... |
| San Elizario Salt War | ... f the salt lakes and levying fees on the traders. The result was the 7-year | , which heightened tensions between Mexicans and Americans in the 1870s |
| arrival of the Normans | Until the | , Bari continued to be governed by the Byzantines, with only occasional in ... |
| Battle of Leipzig | ... is part cost him any advantage that this victory might have secured. At the | in Saxony (16–19 October 1813), also called the "Battle of the Nations", 1 ... |
| World War II | ... it from selling that news to papers owned by others. At that time and until | , most newspapers relied on news agencies for stories outside their immedi ... |
| World War II | ... ral government took control of Sonora’s irrigation infrastructure and after | , began extensive dam and reservoir construction. From the 1940s to the 19 ... |
| Revolutionary War | ... shortage of hard currency and the general economic depression following the | produced disastrous conditions for colonists. Shays' Rebellion in 1786 sou ... |
| Battle of Vertières | ... s became the leader of the revolution. He defeated Napoleon's forces at the | in 1803. Declaring Haiti an independent nation in 1804, Dessalines was cho ... |
| World War I | ... s . On the other hand, the 19th century use of fixed balloons survived into | , when it was accompanied by observation from airships (zeppelins) and the ... |
| Battle of Waterloo | ... ainst Napoleon I at the Battle of the Nations at Leipzig in 1813 and at the | in 1815 with the Duke of Wellington |
| Cold War | During the decades of the | , scores of Livermore-designed warheads entered the nation's nuclear stock ... |
| Second World War | ... ge to Catalonia, was first published in 1938 and foreshadowed the causes of | . It remains one of the most widely read books on the Spanish Civil War |
| Battle of Poltava | ... anisław depended so entirely on the success of Charles' arms that after the | (1709) Stanisław's authority vanished as a dream at the first touch of rea ... |
| World War II | Axminster is the southern starting point of the Taunton Stop Line, a | defensive line consisting of pillboxes and anti-tank obstacles, which runs ... |
| National Liberation Front | ... in the Yemen Arab Republic spread to South Arabia with the formation of the | (NLF), who hoped to force the British out of South Arabia. Hostilities sta ... |
| World War II | ... ion, the local textile industry closed. The city's fortunes were revived in | , when it became a center of fabric manufacturing for the war effort. In t ... |
| Cold War | ... entury". The contest took place in Reykjavík, Iceland, at the height of the | , and consequently was seen as symbolic of the political confrontation bet ... |
| Operation Ostra Brama | ... couting or organizing uprisings and helping to liberate various cities (ex. | , Lwów Uprising), only to find that immediately afterwards AK troops were ... |
| World War II | ... the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Texas A&M University. After | , the Air Force established ROTC units at 77 colleges and universities thr ... |
| American Revolutionary War | Site of the Battle of Eutaw Springs in 1781 during the | |
| Battle of Blood River | ... trekker leader Andries Pretorius, who commanded the Boers to victory at the | |
| American Revolutionary War | ... e smaller than they had been during the French colonial efforts. During the | , West Florida and Mobile became a refuge for loyalists fleeing the other ... |
| battle | ... antine met a large force of heavily armed Maxentian cavalry. In the ensuing | Constantine's army encircled Maxentius' cavalry, flanked them with his own ... |
| World War I | ... ition, especially from France, who saw significant losses to Germany during | . The Moratorium did little to ease economic declines. As the moratorium n ... |
| Seven Years' War | ... victory in the War of Austrian Succession (1740–8) and brought it into the | (1756–63). On the eve of her death, Russia spanned almost |
| Spanish conquest of Yucatán | ... and other 'indigenous peoples' allied against the Mexica/Aztec empire. The | is the much longer campaign, from 1551–1697, against the Maya peoples of t ... |
| Cold War | ... concerning the US Corona program) has been declassified with the end of the | |
| World War II | ... es Lake Army Air Base. It was activated on November 24, 1942 as a temporary | training center. Major Donald A. Larson, for whom the base was later renam ... |
| Battle of Qarqar | ... cy of Assyria, which was beginning to expand westward from Mesopotamia: the | (853 BC), which pitted Shalmaneser III of Assyria against a coalition of l ... |
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| Cold War | During and after the | -era, huge populations of refugees migrated from conflict, especially from ... |
| World War II | After graduating, Anderson worked for the final year of | as a cryptographer for the Intelligence Corps, at the Wireless Experimenta ... |
| World War II | In 1945, following the end of | , the Republic of China (ROC) led by the Kuomintang (KMT) became the gover ... |
| civil war | ... serious problem requiring royal action was the aftermath of the disastrous | between King Stephen and the Empress Maud. The two competing factions had ... |
| Second World War | ... nd has become common in the United States. In the United Kingdom during the | where Camp Coffee, a coffee and chicory essence, has been on sale since 18 ... |
| Yellow Turban Rebellion | The Partisan Prohibitions were repealed during the | and Five Pecks of Rice Rebellion in 184 CE, largely because the court did ... |
| Seven Years' War | ... Swedish Army as a Hussar. At the time Sweden was at war with Prussia in the | . Blücher took part in the Pomeranian campaign of 1760, where he was captu ... |
| Operation Southern Watch | ... in Afghanistan. Vinson sailed towards the Persian Gulf intending to support | in July 2001. This changed in response to the attacks, and the ship change ... |
| World War II | During | , La Junta had an Army Air Force Training Base outside town. The airport, ... |
| Lwów Uprising | ... or city uprisings of AK included the Operation Ostra Brama in Wilno and the | . In addition, AK prepared an uprising in Kraków, but it was canceled due ... |
| Spanish Civil War | ... the most famous artillery pieces in history. First used in Spain during the | , the gun proved to be one of the best anti-aircraft guns in the world, as ... |
| Corinthian War | ... inth, and Argos, found itself arrayed against Sparta (a former ally) in the | . That war, which dragged on inconclusively for eight years, saw several b ... |
| Italy invaded Albania | ... Albania to avoid becoming second-rate member of the Axis. On April 7, 1939, | |
| Battle of Crête-à-Pierrot | ... e's principal lieutenant, he led many successful engagements, including the | |
| World War I | ... The country is described as having existed as an independent state between | and World War II. The capital is Örkko, and its principal resources are pe ... |
| World War I | Lord Mountbatten served in the Royal Navy as a midshipman during | . After his service, he attended Christ's College, Cambridge, for two term ... |
| battle | ... battle between SNA militia and US soldiers on October 3-4, 1993. During the | , SNA soldiers successfully shot down two US Army MH-60 Black Hawk helicop ... |
| Battle of Stirling Bridge | ... 11 September 1297, an army jointly led by Wallace and Andrew Moray won the | . Although vastly outnumbered, the Scottish army routed the English army. ... |
| Thirty Years' War | He was later in exile from the | in Transylvania, where he remained for the rest of his life. In 1629 Alste ... |
| Battle of Yarkand | ... Revolutionary Army) led by General Ma Zhancang at the Battle of Kashgar and | . All the Afghan volunteers were killed by the Chinese Muslim troops, who ... |
| Shaba II | ... mprovements, a second invasion by the former Katangan gendarmerie, known as | in May–June 1978, was only dispersed with the despatch of the French 2e ré ... |
| Cold War | ... nated Calvino's growing political doubts and the divisive turbulence of the | . Skillfully interweaving elements of the fable and the fantasy genres, th ... |
| Siege of Yorktown | ... olumbus Day and Yorktown Victory Day, which honors the final victory at the | in the Revolutionary War |
| Battle of Greece | ... untry would eventually fall to urgently dispatched German forces during the | . The German occupiers nevertheless met serious challenges from the Greek ... |
| World War II | ... described as having existed as an independent state between World War I and | . The capital is Örkko, and its principal resources are peat and by-produc ... |
| took Rhegium | After a protracted siege, he | in 386 and sold the inhabitants as slaves. He joined the Illyrians in an a ... |
| Battle of Lechfeld | ... ctory of the Holy Roman Empire and Bohemia over invading Magyars in the 955 | , Boleslaus I of Bohemia was granted the March of Moravia by German empero ... |
| Battle of Theiningen | ... s victory at Fleurus (26 June 1794) he became a general of division. At the | (1796), Bernadotte contributed, more than anyone else, to the successful r ... |
| World War I | With a beat of a kettledrum, Benn started as an expressionist poet before | when he published a booklet of poems, titled Morgue and other Poems, 1912, ... |
| Turkish invasion of Cyprus | ... land's colonization by the British Empire. Waves of emigration followed the | in 1974, while the population decreased between mid-1974 and 1977 as a res ... |
| collapse | ... tinues, as does its reliance on fundamentally non-pecuniary incentives. The | of Communist governments around the world in 1991, particularly North Kore ... |
| English Civil War | In 1649, the | raged and King Charles I was beheaded in Whitehall, London. The execution ... |
| military coup in Lisbon | A 1974 | abolished the authoritarian regime established by António de Oliveira Sala ... |
| World War II | ... ew York and San Francisco, centers for abstract painting that emerged after | . By the 1950s Taos had become on of the major centers for modern art in t ... |
| World War II | ... the Japanese colonial expansion into Southeast Asia and the Pacific during | . Japanese imperial education was implemented in Taiwan and many Taiwanese ... |
| Spanish conquest of Yucatán | ... onquest of Mexico' between the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire and the | . The former is conquest of the campaign, led by Hernán Cortés from 1519–2 ... |
| Cold War | The Schieder Commission was set up by the West German government in the | Era (1952) to document the fate of the Germans in eastern Europe. The head ... |
| New Guinea campaign | ... een Allied and Japanese forces over the next year which, in tandem with the | , eventually neutralized Japanese defenses in the South Pacific, inflicted ... |
| Reagan Doctrine | Under a policy that came to be known as the | , Reagan and his administration also provided overt and covert aid to anti ... |
| Battle of Kolwezi | ... anyola Division units collapsed almost immediately. French units fought the | to recapture the town from the FLNC. The U.S. provided logistical assistan ... |
| World War I | ... assport requirements. In the later part of the nineteenth century and up to | , passports were not required, on the whole, for travel within Europe, and ... |
| the expedition | ... ity to provide necessary provisions. Sailing for Quebec at the end of July, | entered the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, and a number of its ships foundered on ... |
| World War II | ... Canada's debts accrued during the First World War, the Great Depression and | . With remaining revenues, St-Laurent oversaw the expansion of Canada's so ... |
| a battle in 1718 | Milazzo was also the seat of | between Spain and Austria, and of another fought by Giuseppe Garibaldi aga ... |
| Spanish Armada | Its etymology is most likely derived from the Salvador, a ship from the | that sank by the rocks near Arromanches-les-bains in 1588. However, others ... |
| Russian Civil War | ... olshevik party, the one revolutionary group that nobody took seriously. The | starts very soon afterwards, and the family is transferred to the grim Ipa ... |
| World War II | ... ity's General Electric plant that produced clothing irons. During and after | , Ontario experienced a housing boom common to many suburbs. The expansion ... |
| Second Boer War | In 1900 the ZAR was annexed by the United Kingdom during the | although the official surrender of the territory only took place at the en ... |
| World War II | ... d processing which occurs in the area. This economic activity peaked during | and declined through the second half of the Twentieth Century. A resurgenc ... |
| Great Northern War | ... of Old Prussian. The plague, probably brought by foreign troops during the | , killed 250,000 East Prussians, especially in the province's eastern regi ... |
| World War II | A | French Resistance leader and a close ally of Charles de Gaulle, Pineau was ... |
| Battle of Prokhorovka | The next test for the Waffen-SS was the | , which was part of the Battle of Kursk. The SS Panzer Corps had been rena ... |
| Italians invaded Ethiopia | Starting in early October 1935, the | . But, by November, the pace of invasion had slowed appreciably and Haile ... |
| Battle of Sekigahara | ... the country, daimyo found it unnecessary to recruit new soldiers. Next, the | (AD 1600) resulted in the confiscation or reduction of the fiefs of large ... |
| Whiskey Rebellion | The | culminated in Washington. The home of David Bradford, one of the rebellion ... |
| Battle of Salamis | ... rchipelago, but he was at length totally defeated by Demetrius at the naval | |
| World War I | ... which now houses Silverwater Cafe. There is also Fort Worden with its pre- | architecture including the publicly accessible Olympic Youth Hostel. Perha ... |
| Battle of Poitiers | ... ll armoured) was used effectively by the English longbowmen to help win the | |
| Battle of Manzikert | ... manos IV was defeated and captured by Alp Arslan of the Seljuk Turks at the | in August 1071, Michael VII remained in the background, while the initiati ... |
| American Revolutionary War | ... Green Mountain Boys became the state militia. Some companies served in the | , including notably the 1775 Capture of Fort Ticonderoga, the 1775 invasio ... |
| Cold War | Reagan escalated the | , accelerating a reversal from the policy of détente, which began in 1979 ... |
| War of the Spanish Succession | ... (1672–1679), the War of the League of Augsburg (1688–1697) and finally the | (1701–1714), in which the French and Austrians (along with their British, ... |
| Jaybird-Woodpecker War | Fort Bend County was the site of the | |
| Cold War | ... was probably the greatest blow struck against the Soviet Empire during the | . When my parents and their friends opened the morning Times and read its ... |
| Iraq War | ... my, the United States Marine Corps, and the British Army as recently as the | |
| Battle of Pichincha | ... nce after Antonio José de Sucre defeated the Spanish Royalist forces at the | , near Quito. Following the battle, Ecuador joined Simón Bolívar's Republi ... |
| Battle of Tours | ... Liège. Pippin was the father of Charles of Héristal, victor of the decisive | that stopped the Arab-Muslim advance into northwestern Europe, earning him ... |
| Ottoman invasion | ... population in the West, because of their foreign appearance, as part of the | (the German Reichstags at Landau and Freiburg in 1496-1498 declared the Ro ... |
| Falklands War | In 1982, during the | the Argentine Air Force extensively used civilian 707s for long-range mari ... |
| First Battle of Delhi | ... tha forces sacked Delhi, following their victory against the Mughals in the | . In 1739, a weakened Mughal Empire lost the Battle of Karnal, following w ... |
| Battle of Kursk | ... test for the Waffen-SS was the Battle of Prokhorovka, which was part of the | . The SS Panzer Corps had been renamed the II SS Panzer Corps and was part ... |
| Italy's invasion of Ethiopia | In October 1935, in protest of | , Merton joined a picket of the Casa Italiana. The Casa Italiana, establis ... |
| Iraq War | In the | , the United States used the shock and awe campaign to psychologically mai ... |
| 1960 U-2 incident | ... antage of possibly being intercepted by aircraft or missiles such as in the | |
| first battle | ... 42. The chief backer of the drainage locally, Lord Lindsey, was shot in the | and the fens returned to their accustomed dampness until after 1750 |
| World War II | ... lude: Sevastopol and Yalta - location of the peace conference at the end of | . Visitors can also take cruise tours by ship on Dnipro River from Kyiv to ... |
| encounter | ... siege, and sent only a small force to oppose him. In the desperately fought | that followed, Ruricius was killed and his army destroyed. Verona surrende ... |
| Crête-à-Pierrot | ... , with Dessalines defeating them at the battle for which he is most famous, | |
| Cold War | ... s commonly known in the West as "Communist China" or "Red China" during the | . In 1950, the People's Liberation Army succeeded in capturing Hainan from ... |
| World War II | ... he 1973 energy crisis, marking the end of the "thirty glorious years" after | , combined with the official discourse that the "end of the tunnel was nea ... |
| Spanish–American War | ... time of the U.S. invasion and occupation of Puerto Rico in 1898 during the | , Ponce was the largest city in the island with a population of 22,000. Po ... |
| World War II | ... f Overijssel were recreated. Overijssel was occupied by Nazi Germany during | from May 1940 until its liberation in April 1945. The Noordoostpolder, whi ... |
| Cold War | The film Dr. Strangelove from 1964 was a popular satire on the | . A more humorous brand of satire enjoyed a renaissance in the UK in the e ... |
| Battle of Wuhan | ... mperor authorized the use of toxic gas on 375 separate occasions during the | from August to October 1938 |
| Diadochi | He also roused the jealousy of Alexander's | ; Seleucus, Cassander and Lysimachus united to destroy him and his father. ... |
| Platine War | ... s forged between Brazil, Uruguay and disaffected Argentines, leading to the | and the subsequent overthrow of the Argentine ruler in February 1852. In t ... |
| World War II | ... lect the early emphasis on art as part of the university's curriculum. With | , the university's technical programs swelled, and as a result Drexel grad ... |
| World War II | ... olice aide; his older brother died serving in the Imperial Japanese Navy in | and is listed in Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo. During his youth Lee had a Japa ... |
| World War II | After the onset of | , the US War Department decided to add a number of new bases. Fort Rucker ... |
| Maoist insurgency in rural India | ... een in the hands of both the Naxalites and the Indian police in the ongoing | |
| First World War | ... of the Somme (, ), also known as the Somme Offensive, took place during the | between 1 July and 18 November 1916 on either side of the river Somme in F ... |
| World War II | ... nent-wide conspiracy that eventually leads to the events of a fictionalized | . It stars Joel McCrea and features Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall, George ... |
| Napoleon's invasion of Russia | ... 1806 Kalisz became a provincial capital within the Duchy of Warsaw. During | , following Yorck's Convention of Tauroggen of 1812, von Stein's Treaty of ... |
| Hundred Days | See also | and the Neapolitan War between the Kingdom of Naples and the Austrian Empi ... |
| World War I | At the outbreak of | , Weber, aged 50, volunteered for service and was appointed as a reserve o ... |
| Port Royal, Nova Scotia | ... 1st Earl of Stirling established the first incarnation of “New Scotland” at | . This set of British triumphs which left only Cape Sable as the only majo ... |
| World War II | ... Company. When Bixby was eight, his father enlisted in the U.S. Navy during | and traveled to the South Pacific. He attended Lowell High School where he ... |
| Neapolitan War | See also Hundred Days and the | between the Kingdom of Naples and the Austrian Empire |
| Gulf War | ... changing fortunes of oil since 1985, for example, during and following the | of 1990-91. With its highly developed communication and transport faciliti ... |
| 'plug riots' | In the 1842 | a general strike spread from town to town due to conditions in the town. I ... |
| civil war | Rising tensions in England (that culminated in | ) led to a significant reduction in the number of people and provisions ar ... |
| Generals' putsch | ... en and the highly-decorated 1st Foreign Parachute Regiment took part in the | . Notable operations included the Suez Crisis, the Battle of Algiers and v ... |
| Long March | ... e Kuomintang, especially after the Communists were forced to retreat in the | , until the Xi'an Incident and Japanese aggression forced Chiang to confro ... |
| World War II | During | , portions of the "Car Shops," as they were to come to be known, were conv ... |
| Anglo-Boer War | ... aboard the Lady Kennaway. A large contingent of Irish troops fought in the | on both sides and a few of them stayed in South Africa after the war. Othe ... |
| Second World War | ... ative" connotations of liberalism developed during the Great Depression and | |
| Battle of Bunker Hill | ... and was originally named Warren, in honor of Joseph Warren who fell at the | . The town was surveyed and platted in July 1879, and construction of a de ... |
| civil war in Nepal | Photos from the recent | showed that the government troops were being issued SMLE Mk III/III* rifle ... |
| First Boer War | ... d was independent from 1856 to 1877, then again from 1881 to 1900 after the | , in which the Boers regained their independence from the British Empire |
| Easter Offensive | In 1972, General Vo Nguyen Giap launched the " | ", an all-out attack against South Vietnam from the DMZ. The assault combi ... |
| Second Messenian War | ... pillar (stele) was erected near the altar of Zeus on Mt. Lykaion during the | , a revolt against the Spartans. The inscription supposedly commemorated t ... |
| Cold War | ... holder class entered Royal Navy service from 1990 to 1993 at the end of the | , but were deemed surplus as part of the Peace Dividend and refocus on a n ... |
| World War II | ... s cultural engagement and his martyrdom during the Occupation of Denmark of | . He is commemorated as a martyr in the Calendar of Saints of the Lutheran ... |
| revolution in Germany | ... rnment's efforts to secure an armistice were interrupted by the outbreak of | in early November. Maximilian urged Emperor William II to abdicate. Despit ... |
| Battle of Waterloo | The area took its name from the | . In the 1990s, after Waterloo station was chosen as the British terminus ... |
| Black September crisis | ... part of Jordan and wanted it restored to his kingdom. Moreover, during the | of 1970, a near civil war had broken out between the PLO and the Jordanian ... |
| Indian Rebellion of 1857 | After the | , Delhi came under direct rule of the British crown and was made a distric ... |
| Cold War | The Free World is a | -era term often used to describe states not under the rule of the Soviet U ... |
| Battle of Algiers | ... t in the Generals' putsch. Notable operations included the Suez Crisis, the | and various offensives launched by General Maurice Challe including Operat ... |
| World War II | ... rown Jug". While he was traveling to entertain U.S. troops in France during | , Glenn Miller disappeared in bad weather over the English Channel. The wa ... |
| World War II | ... and oil refining, and for this reason it was bombed by Allied air raids in | . During the war, it was the site of a women's subcamp of the Buchenwald c ... |
| Cold War | ... by Tutsis. Unlike Rwanda, which allied itself with the United States in the | , Burundi after independence became affiliated with China |
| Battle of Cowpens | ... iginal owners, Kate Moore, was a scout for General Daniel Morgan during the | |
| Battle of the Nile | ... from Sir Hans Sloane. After the defeat of the forces under Napoleon at the | in 1801, the Egyptian antiquities collected were confiscated by the Britis ... |
| Hundred Days | ... n September. He was assiduous in his attendance on Queen Hortense until the | brought him into active service again |
| WWII | ... he Treaty of Shimonoseki of 1895 until the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) of | |
| Cabanagem | The | , one of the bloodiest regional wars ever in Brazil, which was chiefly dir ... |
| World War I | ... I-94 was built parallel to it—and also was called Red Arrow Highway after a | army division. The name "U.S. 12" was shifted south to what once was U.S. ... |
| World War II | ... ed to as Sakhalin Koreans, who were forcibly brought by the Japanese during | to work in the coal mines. Most of the population lives in the southern ha ... |
| Illinois campaign | ... hwest Territory. Moore, who had been a member of a George Rogers Clark 1778 | , (he shared this distinction with several other of the early settlers) es ... |
| English Civil War | During the | the arsenal at the Square Tower was surrendered by its royalist commander ... |
| siege in 1808 | ... sular War the Aragonese capital was a site of two fierce sieges. During the | the Spanish under General Palafox defeated a superior French force. In 180 ... |
| World War II | The Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945), a part of | , forced an uneasy alliance between the Kuomintang and the Communists. The ... |
| Black September | ... o British subjects abroad, such as the advice to evacuate Jordan during the | incidents of September 1970. These facilities were privatised in 1997 as M ... |
| attack on Verdun | ... an line which could then be exploited with a decisive blow. With the German | on the River Meuse in February 1916, the Allies were forced to adapt their ... |
| Pilgrimage of Grace | ... s hanged. In 1537, Henry VIII used Tyburn to execute the ringleaders of the | , including Nicholas Tempest, one of the northern leaders of the Pilgrimag ... |
| Battle of Kursk | ... mans recaptured Belgorod, creating the salient that in July 1943 led to the | . The German offensive cost the Red Army an estimated 70,000 casualties bu ... |
| Shaba I | The poor performance of Zaire's military during | gave evidence of chronic weaknesses (which extend to this day). One proble ... |
| Battle of New Orleans | ... 4, though sporadic fighting continued for several months (most notably, the | ). Apart from the seizing of then-Spanish Mobile by the United States, the ... |
| Cold War | ... mphasis on the international cooperation such as the United Nations. In the | , Japan took a part in the Western world's confrontation of the Soviet Uni ... |
| Zamość Uprising | Major military and sabotage operations included: the | of 1942-1943, with AK sabotaging German plans for expulsion of Poles under ... |
| War of the Fourth Coalition | ... ussian worries about growing French influence in Central Europe sparked the | in 1806 |
| American Revolutionary War | ... re very wealthy, and his mother's lineage in the United States predated the | |
| broke away from his suzerainty | ... the Horde to the condition of a vassal-state, though in his later years it | . With the other Muslim powers, the Khan of the Crimean Khanate and the su ... |
| Siege of Savannah | ... Counties. It was named in honor of Kazimierz Pułaski who was killed at the | in the Revolutionary War |
| Gallipoli Campaign | ... onvalescing. At around this time his younger brother Hamo was killed in the | . (Rupert Brooke, whom Siegfried had briefly met, died on the way there.) ... |
| World War I | In August 1915, with | raging, the Merton family left Prades for the United States. They settled ... |
| war in Afghanistan | ... cluding the Korean War, the Gulf War, the Kosovo War, and most recently the | . The main exceptions to this were the Canadian government's opposition to ... |
| Battle of Kings Mountain | ... engage, and later defeat, the British Army Loyalist forces and later at the | in North Carolina |
| Battle of Eutaw Springs | Site of the | in 1781 during the American Revolutionary War |
| siege | ... afox defeated a superior French force. In 1809 during a particularly bloody | the Spaniards were overwhelmed by superior enemy forces. In the course of ... |
| Battle of Austerlitz | ... re is a name counterpart in Paris: the Gare d'Austerlitz is named after the | , one of Napolean's greatest victories. However, this station is less impo ... |
| French Revolutionary Wars | Europe had been in turmoil since the start of the | in 1792. In 1797, after five years of war, the French Republic subdued the ... |
| World War I | ... tre star and "Sweetheart of the American Expeditionary Forces" (AEF) during | was a native of Marion County. The Isaly family of Mansfield, Ohio - inven ... |
| World War II | ... northernmost Penrhyn Island, were to be used as bases by the Allies during | . The first aircraft, an American light bomber, landed on November 22, 194 ... |
| World War II | ... Baden, Switzerland. In both World Wars, the town escaped destruction. After | , Baden-Baden became the headquarters of the French forces in Germany |
| Satsuma Rebellion | ... ame convinced that Japan's new policy of modernization was wrong and in the | of 1877, some Satsuma rebels under the leadership of Saigō fought against ... |
| Battle of Verdun | ... he remains of more than 130,000 French and German soldiers that fell at the | during World War I |
| Battle of Leipzig | ... 1813 became general of brigade, aide-de-camp to the emperor, and, after the | , general of division |
| Turkish war | ... d by all except Ludovico Trevisan. It bound the future Pope to continue the | , but he was not to journey outside Rome without the consent of a majority ... |
| American Revolutionary War | ... Clinton was first settled by Scots-Irish immigrants two decades before the | . It incorporated as a town in 1852, and was named after Henry Clinton You ... |
| Wars of the Roses | ... . The first half of his rule was marred by the violence associated with the | , but he overcame the Lancastrian challenge to this throne at Tewkesbury i ... |
| Operation Linebacker | President Richard Nixon dispatched more bombers in | to provide air support for the ARVN when it seemed that South Vietnam was ... |
| military coup | ... of Versailles", a song detailing the French Revolution, The Terror, and the | of Napoléon Bonaparte, from the perspective of "the lonely Palace of Versa ... |
| Philippine Revolution | ... and a Sepoy mutiny also occurred thereafter. Later, it saw the rise of the | which was followed by the arrival of the Americans who made contributions ... |
| East Prussian Offensive | ... y affected by the war until January 1945, when it was devastated during the | . Most of its inhabitants became refugees in bitterly cold weather during ... |
| World War II | The balance of the workforce in America changed during | through the dramatic rise of women’s participation as men left their posit ... |
| World War I | ... ccessfully evaded capture for nearly three years. However, by the time that | opened in Europe, the revolutionary movement in Bengal (and Punjab) had re ... |
| World War II | ... Great Depression temporarily stopped growth in Florida. Before the start of | , the largest industries in Brevard were commercial fishing, citrus, and t ... |
| Moorish invasions | ... ndependent marches and Frankish feudal fiefs. In a bid to stem Frankish and | , a northern alliance of the counties of Aragon, Sobrarbe, Ribagorza, and ... |
| World War I | Shortly after the end of | , Germany's General Staff enthusiastically pursued a recapture of their pr ... |
| World War I | ... 130,000 French and German soldiers that fell at the Battle of Verdun during | |
| World War I | ... ers, technical tradesmen, industrialists, financiers and large land owners. | was the first time Russia went to war against Germany since the Napoleonic ... |
| Russian Civil War | ... ersally recognized outside of Petrograd there followed the struggles of the | (1917–1923) and the creation of the Soviet Union in 1922 |
| Anglo-French War (1627–1629) | During the | , under Charles I, by 1629 the Kirkes took Quebec City, Sir James Stewart ... |
| Second Anglo-Maratha War | ... e Marathas the protector of the Mughal throne at Delhi. In 1803, during the | , the forces of British East India Company defeated the Maratha forces in ... |
| World War II | ... e needs of copper for use in ammunition and other military equipment during | , including windings for massive uranium gas separation magnets as part of ... |
| Earnside | By 1304 he was back in Scotland, and involved in skirmishes at Happrew and | |
| Battle of Friedland | After the | he received the Legion of Honour, and returned to Paris in 1807. He served ... |
| Slovak National Uprising | ... man Slovak state headed by Jozef Tiso. In August 1944, Dubček fought in the | and was wounded. His brother, Július, was killed |
| Russo-Japanese War | ... orto Maltese adventure, La giovinezza (The Early Years), happens during the | . In other albums he experiences the Great War in several locations, parti ... |
| Spanish Civil War | The world-wide view, on the left, of the | , was that the Republicans were fighting to defend, not only a popularly e ... |
| French Revolutionary Wars | The English attacked again in 1797, during the | , led by Sir Ralph Abercromby (who had just conquered Trinidad). His army ... |
| Revolutionary War | ... a 1685. New Antrim's location was considered strategically important in the | due to its location near Ramapo Pass. General George Washington and other ... |
| Second World War | In the years prior to the | , Dowding was the commanding officer of RAF Fighter Command, and was perha ... |
| War of the First Coalition | ... tain, the Dutch Republic, and Spain into the war, which became known as the | . Once again, there were initial successes against the disorganized armies ... |
| World War II | ... skull and backbone of a defeated enemy god. This helmet, which resembles a | -era gas mask, is also his sigil in the galleries of the other Endless, as ... |
| Second Northern War | Soon after Sweden opened the | in the Baltic by attacking the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Dutch m ... |
| Battle of Nedao | ... l at least the 16th century. After the collapse of the Hun empire after the | (453), the Ostrogoths under Theodoric the Great first moved to Moesia (c. ... |
| Battle of White Mountain | ... ughter of King James I of England. However, after Frederick's defeat in the | in 1620, 27 Bohemian estates leaders together with Jan Jesenius, rector of ... |
| American Revolutionary War | ... eral Benjamin Smith, who was a special aide to George Washington during the | and was an early benefactor to the university. When the library moved to H ... |
| World War II | After America entered | in December 1941, Johnson, still in Congress, became a commissioned office ... |
| Battle of Marengo | ... ered the army as a volunteer in 1800, and received his commission after the | . He became aide-de-camp to Murat, and was wounded at the Battle of Landba ... |
| World War II | Donegan was evacuated to Cheshire to escape the Blitz in | , and he attended St Ambrose College, initially at the school's original s ... |
| Third Battle of Kharkov | ... harkov from the north, the SS Panzer Corps directly attacked Kharkov in the | on 11 March. This led to four days of house-to-house fighting before Khark ... |
| Megalopolis | ... us attempted to employ the same strategy, but the Spartans were defeated at | |
| American Revolutionary War | ... tirement, Bute was accused by many Americans in the years leading up to the | as having an undue corrupting influence over the British government. He di ... |
| Glorious Revolution | ... was strongest. The modern situation largely dates from 1690, when after the | the majority of Scottish bishops were non-jurors, and in response Presbyte ... |
| World War II | ... Poland. Her mother was a Dutch Protestant who was a prisoner of war during | . Seymour was educated at the Arts Educational School in Tring, Hertfordsh ... |
| American Revolutionary War | ... n County fled to Canada. In 1784, following the peace treaty that ended the | , the name of Tryon County was changed to Montgomery County in honor of th ... |
| World War II | ... derelict for 22 years, before reopening in 1962. Other areas damaged during | bombing included: in September 1940 two unexploded bombs hit the Edward VI ... |
| Russian Civil War | ... bums he experiences the Great War in several locations, participates in the | after the October Revolution, and appears during the early stages of Fasci ... |
| Fall of Constantinople | ... nearly unbroken in the Greek world for almost two thousand years, until the | in 1453 |
| World War II | ... he entered into the military service in 1942 and served in the Army during | . In 1946, Granville was discharged and settled in New York |
| Cold War | In the late 1960s, at the height of the | and Vietnam War, he showed his serious side when at his own expense he int ... |
| Angolan Civil War | During 1975–1976, Mobutu directed the FAZ to intervene in the | assisting the National Liberation Front of Angola (FNLA)'s fight against t ... |
| Thirty Years' War | ... 9, 1620–1637), and King of Hungary (1618–1625). His rule coincided with the | |
| Revolutionary War | As the | approached, both the British and the Americans sought Iroquois support. Th ... |
| U.S.-led war in Afghanistan | After the September 11, 2001 attacks, McCain supported Bush and the | . He and then-Democratic Senator Joe Lieberman wrote the legislation that ... |
| Revolutionary War | West Point was a fortified site during the | . Originally picked due to the abnormal S-curve in the Hudson at this poin ... |
| Great War | In downtown Newport News, the Victory Arch, built to commemorate the | , sits on the downtown waterfront. The "Eternal Flame" under the arch was ... |
| Shaba I | ... facing little resistance from the FAZ. This invasion is sometimes known as | . Mobutu had to request assistance, which was provided by Morocco in the f ... |
| Battle of Delhi | ... the forces of British East India Company defeated the Maratha forces in the | , ending the Maratha rule over the city |
| Hundred Days | ... lands and a number of German states against France. The period known as the | began after Napoleon escaped from Elba and landed at Cannes (1 March 1815) ... |
| American Revolutionary War | ... Its county seat is Washington. Both the county and the city were named for | leader George Washington, later to become the first President of the Unite ... |
| War of Jenkins' Ear | The | (named for a 1731 incident in which a Spanish commander chopped off the ea ... |
| Gulf War | ... onomic growth. However, the end of the Cold War and bitter lessons from the | changed the policy slowly. Japanese government decided to participate in t ... |
| Selma to Montgomery marches | The city is best known for the 1965 Selma Voting Rights Movement and its | , three civil rights marches that began in the city |
| World War II | During | , Cocoa Beach experienced money shortages for employees, and money to fix ... |
| World War II | ... described as relics from the Philippines sent by a cousin who had served in | . Upon investigation by the police, these were determined to be human faci ... |
| World War II | ... the predecessor APN-4 system. The APN-9 and APN-4 systems found wide post- | use on fishing vessels in the U.S. They were cheap, accurate and plentiful ... |
| Second Barons' War | ... 4 to Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester, who later became a leader in the | (1263–67) against the king, using Kenilworth as the centre of his operatio ... |
| Spanish Civil War | ... (The Desert Scorpions) he is described as disappearing in Spain during the | |
| World War II | ... he became an artillery officer and served in several different commands. In | he saw combat in Tunisia, Sicily, France and Germany. He reached the tempo ... |
| Battle of Wagram | ... ent. In the war against Austria, Bernadotte led the Saxon contingent at the | (6 July 1809), on which occasion, on his own initiative, he issued an Orde ... |
| World War I | ... ne of hard work served French economic interests, as addressed below. After | Amadou Bamba was awarded the prestigious French Légion d'honneur for his h ... |
| World War II | ... ssentially mercantilist trade policy that threatened to undermine the post- | international economic structure |
| First Barons' War | ... latter having fervently supported the French invasion of England during the | in May 1216, that she began to actively conspire against King Louis. Isabe ... |
| Second Boer War | The | proved to be a challenging time for the company. Kimberley was besieged as ... |
| Third Italian War of Independence | ... ex Austrian-controlled Venice. King Emmanuel agreed to the alliance and the | began. The victory against Austria allowed Italy to annex Venice. The one ... |
| Falklands War | ... r who opposed a Senate resolution endorsing a pro-British policy during the | , citing the Monroe doctrine, although he did manage to weaken the resolut ... |
| World War II | Hamilton County’s roots are in agriculture. However after | , Indianapolis grew north and the county developed as a suburb. Many farm ... |
| Battle of the Nile | ... l towed Vanguard to Sardinia. Under Nelson’s command, Ball took part in the | , and his ship, the Alexander, was the second British ship to fire on the ... |
| World War II | ... Chamberlain's birth. In October 1942, the Hall suffered minor damage during | bombing but was left mostly untouched as German pilots used the distinctiv ... |
| Xa Loi Pagoda raids | ... las. This most notably occurred on the night of August 21, 1963, during the | conducted by the Special Forces, which caused a death toll estimated to ra ... |
| Roman conquest of Britain | Until the | , Cardiff was part of the territory of the Silures – a Celtic British trib ... |
| Napoleonic Wars | ... tronger monarchies, particularly China and Russia. Britain emerged from the | as the only European nation not ravaged by financial plunder and economic ... |
| Battle of Buxar | ... trative rights over the regions of Bengal, Bihar, and Orissa, following the | in 1765. After the defeat of Tipu Sultan, most of South India came either ... |
| World War I | ... s college days were interrupted by a stint in the United States Army during | . After resuming, and then concluding, his college playing days, he became ... |
| Glorious Revolution | ... general religious tolerance, this was one of the grievances that led to the | that ousted him from the throne |
| World War I | The first major land boom began in the 1920s with the end of | . People flooded into the state of Florida as land prices soared, only to ... |
| Happrew | By 1304 he was back in Scotland, and involved in skirmishes at | and Earnside |
| Thirty Years' War | ... rotestants in Bohemia, the resulting Bohemian Revolt led to outbreak of the | in 1618. Elector Frederick V of the Electorate of the Palatinate, a Protes ... |
| World War II | ... while also stating that Canada as the buyer had to beware. In Canada, many | veterans were outraged by his comments, considering Canada's sacrifice for ... |
| World War I | ... slative power by using an emergency provision which had been enacted during | . Even after this putsch, the socialist party hesitated and tried to resol ... |
| Battle of Sekigahara | ... reestablished by Oda Nobunaga during the Azuchi-Momoyama period. After the | in 1600, central authority fell to Tokugawa Ieyasu who completed this proc ... |
| World War II | Before | , Hefei remained essentially an administrative center and the regional mar ... |
| Battle of Musgrove Mill | ... riot forces engaged and defeated a larger force of British Loyalists at the | near present day Clinton, South Carolina. Fort Watauga later served as the ... |
| World War I | In | returning British sailors would time their departures or returns to the ba ... |
| World War I | The township started to experience major growth after | and World War II as part of a general trend of population movement from ne ... |
| Spanish Civil War | ... ions of February 1936 came the July 1936 armed insurrection that led to the | . The defeat of the initial military rebellion in Catalonia placed Catalon ... |
| King William's War | ... urned in 1676 during King Philip's War, then again in 1689 at the outset of | , and was not resettled until after the 1713 Treaty of Portsmouth. The tow ... |
| Ipsus | ... onsiderable force of 500 war elephants, which would play a decisive role at | (301 BC) |
| Liberation of Paris | ... t that had governed France before the War. The sport was unbanned after the | in August 1944 and the collapse of the Vichy regime, although it was still ... |
| World War II | ... ly soldiers. They were the major beret suppliers to the armed forces during | , including famously Field Marshal Montgomery |
| World War I | The major powers respected Switzerland's neutrality during | , though the Grimm-Hoffmann Affair did come close into calling it into que ... |
| World War II | ... elopment only to have most of those improvements lost in the devastation of | . Since then the city has been rebuilt |
| World War II | ... r. He attended Trenton Slocum Truax High School, served in the U.S. Navy in | , and graduated from the University of Michigan with a Ph.D. in physics. D ... |
| Battle of Boxtel | ... tember Wellesley's unit came under fire just east of Breda, just before the | . For the latter part of the campaign, during the winter, his unit defende ... |
| Battle of Waterloo | Napoleon delayed the start of fighting at the | on the morning of 18 June for several hours while he waited for the ground ... |
| war in Ethiopia | ... persecution of the German Jewish community, and Mussolini's conduct of the | . In 1938 the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published on its front page ... |
| World War II | In the days following Germany's defeat in | , at the age of 12, Hannelore Kohl was raped by Red Army soldiers and subs ... |
| First World War | While at the close of the | the foreign legion's prestige was at a high, the foreign legion itself had ... |
| Gothic War (376–382) | Part of the | , the battle is often considered the start of the final collapse of the We ... |
| invasion of Iraq | ... our of these countries supplied combat forces directly participating in the | : the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, and Poland. Other countrie ... |
| World War I | ... oduced by Studio Ghibli and released in 1992. The story is about an Italian | fighter ace, now living as a freelance bounty hunter chasing "air pirates" ... |
| Cold War | ... Island naval base which placed Stockton in a strategic position during the | |
| Battle of Mohács | After the death of King Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia in the | in 1526, Archduke Ferdinand of Austria became King of Bohemia and the coun ... |
| Battle of Lübeck | ... ving secured 34 cannon in co-operation with Gerhard von Scharnhorst. At the | his force was defeated by two French corps on 6 November. The next day, tr ... |
| Seven Years' War | Some of the first British-sanctioned settlers to the island following the | were Irish, although upon settlement, they merged with local French commun ... |
| Philippine Revolution | ... and a Sepoy mutiny also occurred thereafter. Later, it saw the rise of the | which was followed by the arrival of the Americans who made contributions ... |
| Summer and Winter Sieges of Osaka | ... included lands he gained in that battle and lands gained as a result of the | . By the end of the seventeenth century, the shogun's landholdings had rea ... |
| Battle of Arras (1917) | ... ng the Third Battle of Ypres but was not as severe as the two months of the | (4,076 per day) or the final Hundred Days offensive in 1918 (3,685 per day ... |
| Battle of Fano | ... ttacked the Alamanni camping near the Metaurus River, defeating them in the | , and forcing them to re-cross the Po river; Aurelian finally routed them ... |
| World War II | ... specified for military uses, in the form "RG-#" or "RG-#/U". They date from | and were listed in MIL-HDBK-216 published in 1962. These designations are ... |
| Falklands War | ... y terrified also to Argentine soldiers, most of them conscripts, during the | |
| First Battle of Tembien | ... ced back in places and put on the defensive. However, by early in 1936, the | stopped the progress of the Ethiopian offensive and the Italians were read ... |
| Tambov Rebellion | The Bolsheviks also employed poison gas in 1921 during the | . An order signed by military commander |
| Battle of Kashgar | ... th Division (National Revolutionary Army) led by General Ma Zhancang at the | and Battle of Yarkand. All the Afghan volunteers were killed by the Chines ... |
| 2007–2008 Kenyan crisis | ... rted electoral fraud on Kibaki's side in the 2007 elections resulted in the | |
| Fall of Constantinople | Following the | on May 29, 1453, many Greeks sought better employment and education opport ... |
| World War II | During | , the Hammond Airport (now Hammond Northshore Regional Airport) served as ... |
| First Servile War | ... northern limits of the Roman Empire. The leader of the rebel slaves in the | , a Syrian named Eunus, claimed to receive visions of Atargatis, whom he i ... |
| Battle of Svensksund | ... 88 (the Theater War). After the decisive defeat of the Russian fleet at the | in 1790, the parties signed the Treaty of Värälä (14 August 1790), returni ... |
| Battle of Trafalgar | ... tacular victory was soured by the defeat of the Franco-Spanish fleet at the | the following day, French success on land continued as Vienna fell in Nove ... |
| Spanish Civil War | ... uncle David Guest, a lecturer and Communist Party member, was killed in the | fighting in the International Brigades |
| Battle of Dien Bien Phu | ... not limited to the Battle of Na San (1952), Operation Atlas (1953) and the | (1954) |
| World War II | ... Hull BB-65 was originally to be the first ship of the s, but changes during | resulted in her being reordered as an . Adherence to the Iowa-class layout ... |
| Battle of Lake Erie | The Town is named for Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, the hero of the | |
| Freeman Field Mutiny | The | occurred in 1945, in which African-American members of the 477th Bombardme ... |
| World War II | ... January 29, 1942, in favor of hemispheric unity against the Axis Powers in | favoring Peru with the territory they occupied at the time the war came to ... |
| World War II | ... to survive both the war and the Nuremberg trials. He was also, even during | , described by both sides as one of the few highly intelligent people in t ... |
| Muslim invasions | ... soldiers more mobility to react to the raids of the enemy, particularly the | which reached Europe in 711. So it was that the armies of the Frankish rul ... |
| Easter Rising | The | of 1916, the Irish War of Independence, and the subsequent Irish Civil War ... |
| Battle of Waterloo | ... oleonic wars against the French. They later played an important role in the | in 1815. The Congress of Vienna in 1815 elevated the electorate to the Kin ... |
| mutiny | ... unty when they discovered Aitutaki on April 11, 1789, prior to the infamous | |
| Ypres | ... ring the early stages of the war including the use of poison gas attacks at | . Losses became grave, and the government eventually brought in conscripti ... |
| riots by workers in Poznań | ... er the 20th Soviet Party Congress in Moscow ushered in de-Stalinization and | ensued, there was a shakeup in the communist regime. While retaining most ... |
| Battle of Amba Aradam | ... ollowing the defeat and destruction of the northern Ethiopian armies at the | , the Second Battle of Tembien, and the Battle of Shire, Haile Selassie to ... |
| World War II | ... eattle from the southeast. The neighborhood was mostly developed just after | as affordabale housing for returning veterans. The area remains an afforda ... |
| first world war | ... time, the so called Biennio Rosso took place in the two years following the | in a context of economic crisis, high unemployment and political instabili ... |
| Rebellion of the Seven States | ... questioned. After several insurrections by Han kings—the largest being the | in 154 BCE—the imperial court enacted a series of reforms beginning in 145 ... |
| Siege of St. Augustine | ... vernor Moore organized and led a force against Spanish Florida. In the 1702 | , 500 English soldiers and militia along with 300 Indians captured and bur ... |
| Iraq War | ... ole Clements. This unit has been on several deployments, many involving the | |
| American Revolutionary War | The disfranchisement of British subjects in America led to the | under the rallying cry "No taxation without representation" |
| World War II | The township started to experience major growth after World War I and | as part of a general trend of population movement from nearby cities to th ... |
| Battle of Civitate | ... e." Leo IX led the army himself but his forces suffered total defeat at the | on June 15, 1053. Nonetheless, on going out from the city to meet the vict ... |
| Lincoln County War | As governor, Wallace offered amnesty to many men involved in the | . In the process he met with the outlawed William Henry McCarty, also know ... |
| Quatre Bras | ... 's forces going to aid Blücher's Prussians by fighting a blocking action at | . Ney failed to clear the cross-roads and Wellington reinforced the positi ... |
| Revolutionary War | ... Victory Day, which honors the final victory at the Siege of Yorktown in the | |
| Babylonian War | ... or from Babylon; his father was defeated in the autumn. As a result of this | , Antigonus lost almost two thirds of his empire: all eastern satrapies be ... |
| Second Battle of Tembien | ... truction of the northern Ethiopian armies at the Battle of Amba Aradam, the | , and the Battle of Shire, Haile Selassie took the field with the last Eth ... |
| First World War | ... o the rank of Brigadier-General, saw no more operational service during the | |
| War of the Spanish Succession | ... h the queen. While the Duke was out of the country commanding troops in the | , Sarah kept him informed of court intrigue, while he sent her requests an ... |
| Spanish Civil War | ... untries, who traveled to Spain to defend the Second Spanish Republic in the | between 1936 and 1939 |
| Battle of Na San | ... he VNA fought in a wide range of campaigns including but not limited to the | (1952), Operation Atlas (1953) and the Battle of Dien Bien Phu (1954) |
| World War II | ... ere made to build a new presidential palace on the grounds. The outbreak of | saved the building, which had been renamed Áras an Uachtaráin (meaning hou ... |
| Acadia | ... lantic off-shoot, The Somers Isles) and New England, the French colonies of | and Canada, the Swedish colony of New Sweden, and the Dutch New Netherland ... |
| Battle of Điện Biên Phủ | Following their defeat at the | , the French began negotiations to leave Vietnam. As a result of peace acc ... |
| World War II | From 1936 to 1968, Mobil sponsored an economy run each year (except during | ) in which domestic automobiles of various manufacturers in several price ... |
| World War II | Following | , Ruanda-Urundi became a United Nations Trust Territory under Belgian admi ... |
| World War I | ... ingau). From there after, thousands of Germans emigrated to Australia until | . Also, German was the most identified ethnicity behind English and Irish ... |
| First World War | ... the Scottish highlands, Keswick in the English Lake District, and even the | battlefields in Belgium, by way of the Tilbury to Dunkerque ferry service ... |
| Second World War | ... , was launched. German programmes commenced shortly before the start of the | and by the end of 1942 broadcasts were being made in all major European la ... |
| World War II | ... ron Cross was also awarded during the Franco-Prussian War, World War I, and | . The Iron Cross was normally a military decoration only, though there wer ... |
| English Civil War | ... t sects, such as the Quakers and Presbyterians that had flourished with the | . Reinforcement of confidence in the rule of law, which followed establish ... |
| Roman civil wars | ... the Great. The deaths of Pompey (48 BCE), Caesar (44 BCE), and the related | temporarily relaxed Rome's grip on Israel, allowing a very brief Hasmonean ... |
| American Revolutionary War | Prior to the | very little gunpowder had been made in the United States; and, as a Britis ... |
| Gulf War | ... as accomplices. McVeigh, an American militia movement sympathizer who was a | veteran, had detonated an explosive-filled Ryder truck parked in front of ... |
| Seven Years' War | ... cto Prime Minister, and was successful in ending the Whig dominance and the | , but King George began to see through him, and turned against him after b ... |
| World War II | ... was sold to developers who were building homes for veterans returning from | . In 1955 the Richfield Chamber of Commerce was formed and has been deeply ... |
| World War I | ... ational development lasted beyond the divisions that would later occur with | and Billy Hughes' conscription push |
| Russo-Japanese War | ... en Cockerel. Its implied criticism of monarchy, Russian imperialism and the | gave it little chance of passing the censors. The premiere was delayed unt ... |
| First Battle of Sedan | ... emperor Napoleon III was taken prisoner with 100,000 of his soldiers at the | |
| Battle of Shire | ... armies at the Battle of Amba Aradam, the Second Battle of Tembien, and the | , Haile Selassie took the field with the last Ethiopian army on the northe ... |
| Polish–Russian War of 1792 | ... the Targowica Confederation. After defeating Polish loyalist forces in the | and in the Kościuszko Uprising (1794), Russia completed the partitioning o ... |
| Cenepa War | ... r. Each country blamed the other for the onset of hostilities, known as the | . Sixto Durán Ballén, the Ecuadorian president, famously declared that he ... |
| Battle of Germantown | ... ntinental Army were encamped here after their October 4, 1777 defeat at the | , and immediately prior to their march to Valley Forge. From December 5–8, ... |
| Battle of Blood River | ... hen he attacked a group of 470 Voortrekker settlers led by Pretorius at the | . Dingane's half brother Mpande kaSenzangakhona then defected with some 17 ... |
| Montgomery Bus Boycott | ... r, King became a civil rights activist early in his career. He led the 1955 | and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in 19 ... |
| World War II | ... n and had a wide impact on St. Augustine while it was located there. During | it was chosen as the site for training the first blacks in the U. S. Signa ... |
| Operation Bulmus 6 | ... do in Shayetet 13, he was badly wounded and mistakenly declared dead during | - the assault on fortified Green Island, Egypt, in the Gulf of Suez (joint ... |
| Neapolitan War | ... s initial defeat, once again allied with his brother-in-law, triggering the | (March to May, 1815). Hoping to find support among Italian nationalists fe ... |
| Spanish Civil War | ... g name is currently Porco Rosso: The Last Sortie and will be set during the | with Porco also returning, albeit this time as an old pilot, reflecting Mi ... |
| Alarcos | ... lmohad Caliphate. After having suffered a great defeat with his own army at | against the Almohads, he led the coalition of Christian princes and foreig ... |
| Napoleonic Wars | ... ck to 1816 when the new Prussian province Rhineland was created. Before the | all of the area belonged to the duchy of Jülich |
| War of the Eight Princes | The Jin Dynasty was severely weakened after the | from 291 to 306 AD. During the reigns of Emperor Huai of Jin and Emperor M ... |
| the first world war | ... given to the smallest home town battalion of volunteers formed to fight in | . The Pals battalions were a peculiarity of the 1914-18 war: Lord Kitchene ... |
| World War II | ... roperty was used in incendiary weapons used in the firebombing of cities in | , the only practical civil defense being to smother a burning flare under ... |
| Great Persecution | ... t by the spring of 303, in time to witness the beginnings of Diocletian's " | ", the most severe persecution of Christians in Roman history. In late 302 ... |
| World War I | ... recommissioned Iron Cross was also awarded during the Franco-Prussian War, | , and World War II. The Iron Cross was normally a military decoration only ... |
| Agacher strip | ... wever, a border dispute between Mali and Burkina Faso over the mineral rich | erupted into a brief war. The UDPM spread its structure to Cercles and Arr ... |
| Vietnamization | Starting in 1969 President Richard Nixon started the process of " | ", pulling out American forces and rendering the ARVN capable of fighting ... |
| Seven Years' War | ... eturned) into an aristocratic family. His father was an aged veteran of the | who died before Vigny's 20th birthday; his mother, twenty years younger, w ... |
| Long War | ... wever, led to frequent conflicts with the Turks, particularly the so-called | of 1593 to 1606 |
| Easter Rising | ... took over a number of key locations in Dublin, in what became known as the | . After its defeat, it was widely described both by British politicians an ... |
| Glorious Revolution | ... establishment of the prototype of constitutional monarchy in Britain in the | of 1688, and the emergence of a stable financial market there based on the ... |
| Revolutionary War | At the start of the | , Hanover consisted of about 500 homes, most of which were built out of lo ... |
| Cold War | ... t became prominent in Western anti-communist political discourse during the | era in order to highlight perceived similarities between Nazi Germany and ... |
| World War II | ... pre-war Oldsmobile rolled off the assembly line on February 5, 1942. During | , Oldsmobile produced numerous kinds of material for the war effort, inclu ... |
| World War II | Paul was once a well-known dancer, but suffered a leg injury in | . He regards the puppet show as far inferior to his old career, which embi ... |
| World War II | During | , when Poland was under Nazi German occupation, the German authorities con ... |
| First World War | ... most fervently accepted by the Muslims of British India. By the eve of the | , the Ottoman state, despite its weakness vis-à-vis Europe, represented th ... |
| World War II | ... cibiades during the Peloponnesian War. A number of additional examples from | show how assassination was used as a military tool at both tactical and st ... |
| uprising | ... f Oaxaca. People had been demonstrating in the city since May as part of an | prompted by a teachers strike. Lizbeth Cana, attorney general of Oaxaca, c ... |
| Battle of Boroughbridge | ... tion to Edward II. War broke out in 1322, and Lancaster was captured at the | and executed. His estates, including Kenilworth, were confiscated by the c ... |
| Battle of Maychew | ... March 1936, he launched a counterattack against the Italians himself at the | in southern Tigray. The emperor's army was defeated and retreated in disar ... |
| World War II | ... hilton (Chief of Staff under Robert E. Lee) was a native of Loudoun County. | general George C. Marshall resided at Dodona Manor in Leesburg. Essayist a ... |
| First World War | The | (1914–1918) was an unexpected development that forced the decision whether ... |
| Thirty Years' War | ... Lorraine. While the central Imperial authority decayed in the coures of the | , Chief Minister Cardinal Richelieu urged the occupation of the duchy in 1 ... |
| World War I | By the start of | , the 77 mm had become the standard German weapon, and came mounted on a l ... |
| an attack | ... a Spanish fleet arrived from Havana. In 1706 Carolina successfully repulsed | on Charles Town by a combined Spanish and French amphibious force sent fro ... |
| Fourth Anglo-Mysore War | ... t of the campaign to extend the rule of the British East India Company, the | broke out in 1798 against the Sultan of Mysore, Tipu Sultan. Arthur's brot ... |
| U.S. plan to invade Iraq | ... ct, the United Kingdom's government remained the strongest supporter of the | albeit originally seeking a UN Mandate. Prime Minister Tony Blair frequent ... |
| Napoleonic Wars | ... lm III of Prussia and first awarded on 10 March 1813 in Breslau, during the | . The recommissioned Iron Cross was also awarded during the Franco-Prussia ... |
| Cold War | ... favorite elements of Hayter's script, but also returned it to the original | setting of the Watchmen comic. Similar to his approach to 300, Snyder used ... |
| American Revolutionary War | When the | started in 1775, Ethan Allen and a troop of his men, along with Connecticu ... |
| Battle of Plassey | ... with the opportunity to seize a firm foothold in Indian politics. After the | in 1757, during which the East India Company's Bengal army under Robert Cl ... |
| World War II | Since the surrender after | and the Treaty of San Francisco, Japanese diplomatic policy has been based ... |
| Russian Civil War | ... nts of socialism and communism, such as the White Armies, who fought in the | against the Bolsheviks after the October Revolution. In Marxist terminolog ... |
| World War II | ... nificant Japanese community. Prior to being sent to internment camps during | , the city's four plant nurseries were owned and operated by Japanese-Amer ... |
| Philippine Sea | ... f Midway, the Eastern Solomons, and the Santa Cruz Islands in 1942, and the | in 1944. Each of these battles was strategically significant, to varying d ... |
| battle | ... 2,000 men (of whom half didn't arrive) landed to take over the island. The | by 9,000 men to defend the Island, although touch-and-go, and decisive, on ... |
| World War I | ... n 1917. With Coventry's industrial base continuing to soar after the end of | a year later, numerous private and council housing developments took place ... |
| Battles of Villmergen | ... rope. The confessional tensions remained, however, and erupted again in the | in 1656 and 1712 |
| Fenian efforts to use the U.S. as a base to attack Canada. | ... angry at British support for the Confederacy. One result was toleration of | More serious was the demand for a huge payment to cover the damages caused ... |
| Saxon Wars | ... Viking Age, with the sack of Lindisfarne, also coincided with Charlemagne's | , or Christian wars with pagans in Saxony. Historians Rudolf Simek and Bru ... |
| World War II | ... needed to source food and other materials from local vendors. Beginning in | , U.S. military installations also were located in Bermuda (see "Military" ... |
| French Revolutionary Wars | During the | , French armies enveloped Switzerland during their battles against Austria ... |
| World War I | ... tember 1914 to 22 January 1922. His pontificate was largely overshadowed by | and its political, social and humanitarian consequences in Europe |
| World War II | ... cing 75 percent of the world's supply of white canvas shoes. However, after | the shoe industry began to decline, and between 1957 and 1961 the largest ... |
| World War II | The main burial ground was also severely damaged by German bombing during | , necessitating an expansion of the public park area in 1960, such that cl ... |
| Spanish Civil War | ... Aravaca, in lands handed over by the King Alfonso XIII to this purpose. The | turned the "Ciudad Universitaria" into a war zone, causing the destruction ... |
| Appenzell Wars | ... ) is located, built in 1343. In 1407 both castles were destroyed during the | and rebuilt shortly afterwards. Burg Neu-Ems is still intact today and in ... |
| Glorious Revolution | ... as Anne's agent after the latter's father, James II, was deposed during the | ; and she promoted her interests during the rule of James's successors, Wi ... |
| Acadia | ... urg after a siege of six weeks. In retaliation, the Wabanaki Confederacy of | launched the Northeast Coast Campaign (1745) against the British settlemen ... |
| Spanish Civil War | ... Far East (1934), the Mediterranean, Soviet Union and Moscow (1935), and the | (1936–1937). Saint-Exupéry additionally wrote a number of shorter pieces, ... |
| Battle of Stirling Bridge | Along with Andrew Moray, Wallace defeated an English army at the | in 1297, and was Guardian of Scotland, serving until his defeat at the Bat ... |
| Conquest of Acadia | ... va Scotia and Acadia were Mi'kmaq, Maliseet and Acadian. Before the British | in 1710, these militias fought the New Englanders in King William's War an ... |
| Great Purge | ... of Sergei Kirov on December 1, 1934, which served as one of the triggers to | of the Communist Party, Zinoviev, Kamenev, and their closest associates we ... |
| Operation Ajax | ... mmunism in poorer countries; the CIA in part deposed the leaders of Iran in | , of Guatemala through Operation Pbsuccess, and possibly the newly indepen ... |
| Battle of Cowpens | ... e. During January 1781, the Overmountain Men also fought the British at the | in South Carolina |
| World War II | ... nia, was renamed Stuart. The British Army named two models of American-made | tanks, the M3 and M5, the Stuart tank in General Stuart's honor. A high sc ... |
| Battle of Balaclava | ... d the blunders that led to the loss of life for 360 British soldiers at the | . Imprisonment—both literal and figurative—is a major theme of the novel, ... |
| Thirty Years' War | ... Defenestration of Prague of 22 May 1618 is considered the first step of the | |
| Gulf War | Kuwait expelled 500,000 Palestinian Arabs after the | because of their alleged support for Iraq's incursion. |
| World War I | ... thnic and religious tension throughout the northern United States following | , and Niles proved to be no exception to this trend. In the 1920s, regiona ... |
| Battle of Monte Cassino | ... the scripts, is the question of violence. Milligan had been blown up at the | during the war, and weekly he would blow up either Bluebottle, Eccles, or ... |
| Second World War | ... es its ancestry to turnips sowed in Westport shortly after 1876. During the | , a coastal defense installation was raised on Gooseberry Island. The town ... |
| Battle of Leipzig | ... Ney in September at the Battles of Grossbeeren and Dennewitz; but after the | he went his own way, determined at all hazards to cripple Denmark and to s ... |
| Russian Civil War | ... had experience of dealing with corps of international volunteers during the | . The idea was initially opposed by Largo Caballero, but after the first s ... |
| World War I | ... last large scale military use of catapults was during the trench warfare of | . During the early stages of the war, catapults were used to throw hand gr ... |
| World War II | ... es Navy operated a Naval Auxiliary Air Facility for blimps at Eureka during | |
| invade Iraq | ... ted in. Canada and Mexico did not support the United States's later move to | |
| Battle of White Marsh | ... ediately prior to their march to Valley Forge. From December 5–8, 1777, the | was fought here between British and American forces. Throughout the encamp ... |
| World War II | During | , Popponesset Island was used for amphibious assaults and training |
| Spanish–American War | In 1898, after Spain's defeat in the | , Vieques, along with mainland Puerto Rico, was ceded to the United States |
| land offensive | ... the sea, forcing Japan to try to take Port Moresby by land. Japan began its | towards Port Moresby along the Kokoda Track on 21 July from Buna and Gona. ... |
| Second Italo-Abyssinian War | ... 1935, Fascist Italy used mustard gas during the invasion of Ethiopia in the | . Ignoring the Geneva Protocol, which it signed seven years earlier, the I ... |
| World War I | ... cating their desire for another long-lasting pontificate at the outbreak of | , which he labeled “the suicide of civilized Europe.” The war and its cons ... |
| Dummer's War | ... Woolwich, Phippsburg and Bath (which included West Bath). Abandoned during | and beleaguered during the French and Indian Wars, the region resettled sl ... |
| War of the Spanish Succession | ... utat de Mallorca (English: City of Majorca) and Ciutat were used before the | and are still used by people in Majorca. However, the official name was Ma ... |
| World War II | ... on a two-year cycle, apart from 1939 to 1945, when it was cancelled due to | |