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The August 2008 Russo-Georgian War, also known as the Russian invasion of Georgia, [note 3] was a war waged against Georgia by the Russian Federation and the Russian-backed separatist regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. The fighting took place in the strategically important South Caucasus region. It is regarded as the first European war of ...
Newer estimates place the total death toll at 650,000 to 850,000. [ 88 ] 148 of the Union dead were U.S. Marines. [ 92 ][ 93 ]ca.^Civil War April 2, 2012, Doctor David Hacker after extensive research offered new casualty rates higher by 20%; his work has been accepted by the academic community and is represented here.
Georgian SSR (before 1990) / Georgia (after 1990) The Abkhazia conflict is a territorial dispute over Abkhazia, a region on the eastern coast of the Black Sea in the South Caucasus, at the intersection of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. The conflict involves Georgia, the Russian Federation and the Russian-backed self-proclaimed Republic of ...
7–20 million [10] 1369–1405 Timurid Empire vs. various states in Asia Central Asia, West Asia, and South Asia Russian Civil War: 7–12 million [20] 1917–1922 Multiple sides; Bolsheviks, Anti-Bolshevik left, White Movement, Allied and Central Intervention, as well as various separatists: Russia Thirty Years' War: 4–12 million [21] 1618 ...
842. Battle of Rekha [ ka ][ 13 ] Gori Municipality, Shida Kartli, Georgia. Muhammad ibn Khalid al-Shaybani 's campaign in the Caucasus. Emirate of Tbilisi. Principality of Kakheti [ 13 ] Abbasid Caliphate. Arminiya. Kouropalatate of Tao-Klarjeti.
America’s longest war, the two-decade-long conflict in Afghanistan that started in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, killed tens of thousands of people, dogged four U.S. presidents and ...
The Falklands War (Spanish: Guerra de Malvinas) was a ten-week undeclared war between Argentina and the United Kingdom in 1982 over two British dependent territories in the South Atlantic: the Falkland Islands and its territorial dependency, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. The conflict began on 2 April 1982, when Argentina invaded ...
The US Colored Troops made up 10 percent of the Union death toll—15 percent of Union deaths from disease and less than 3 percent of those killed in battle. [5] Losses among African Americans were high. In the last year and a half and from all reported casualties, approximately 20 percent of all African Americans enrolled in the military died ...