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  2. List of wars: 1800–1899 - Wikipedia

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    This article provides a list of wars occurring between 1800 and 1899.Conflicts of this era include the Napoleonic Wars in Europe, the American Civil War in North America, the Taiping Rebellion in Asia, the Paraguayan War in South America, the Zulu War in Africa, and the Australian frontier wars in Oceania.

  3. List of conflicts in Europe - Wikipedia

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    Republican International Brigadiers on a Soviet T-26 tank at the Battle of Belchite, 1937 German Stuka dive bombers in the Eastern Front (World War II) 1941–45 A Soviet IS-2 tank in Leipzig during the 1953 East Germany Uprising Icelandic patrol ship ICGV Odinn and British frigate HMS Scylla clash during the Second Cod War A "Sniper at work ...

  4. Napoleonic Wars - Wikipedia

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    The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of conflicts fought between the First French Empire under Napoleon Bonaparte (1804–1815) and a fluctuating array of European coalitions. The wars originated in political forces arising from the French Revolution (1789–1799) and from the French Revolutionary Wars (1792–1802) and produced a ...

  5. List of revolutions and rebellions - Wikipedia

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    1879: Little War (Cuba) or Small War, second of three conflicts between Cuban rebels and Spain. It started on 26 August 1879 and ended in rebel defeat in September 1880. 1879–1882: The Urabi Revolt: an uprising in Egypt on 11 June 1882 against the Khedive and European influence in the country. It was led by and named after Colonel Ahmed Urabi.

  6. Military history of Europe - Wikipedia

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    World War II was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies led by the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union, versus the Axis powers led by Nazi Germany and Japan. The war involved the mobilisation of ...

  7. Events preceding World War II in Europe - Wikipedia

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    The events preceding World War II in Europe are closely tied to the bellicosity of Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, Francoist Spain, Imperial Japan, and the Soviet Union, as well as the Great Depression. The peace movement led to appeasement and disarmament.

  8. List of invasions - Wikipedia

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    An invasion is a military offensive in which sizable number of combatants of one geopolitical entity aggressively enter territory controlled by another such entity, generally with the objectives of establishing or re-establishing control, retaliation for real or perceived actions, liberation of previously lost territory, forcing the partition of a country, gaining concessions or access to ...

  9. French Revolutionary Wars - Wikipedia

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    When the French Revolution started at the end of the 18th century the European continent had five great powers, these being Great Britain, France, Austria, Russia, and Prussia. Weak European states included Sweden, Spain, Poland, Holland, and Turkey. Western Germany was divided into hundreds of tiny principalities, cities, and minor states ...