Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Moulton, James R. Peter the Great and the Russian Military Campaigns During the Final Years of the Great Northern War, 1719–1721 (University Press of America, 2005). Oakley, Stewart P. War and Peace in the Baltic, 1560–1790 (Routledge, 2005). Sumner, B. H. (1951). Peter the Great and the Emergence of Russia. The English Universities Press Ltd.
Start Finish Name of Conflict Belligerents Victorious party (if applicable) Defeated party (if applicable) 1700 1721 Great Northern War: Tsardom of Russia. Kalmyk Khanate; Cossack Hetmanate Denmark–Norway (1700, 1709–20) Electorate of Saxony (1700–06, 1709–) Poland–Lithuania (1700–04, 1709–)
Furthermore, Spain had begun to exile or jail any person who called for liberal reforms. The Spanish–American War broke out in 1898, in the aftermath of the explosion of USS Maine in Havana Harbor. The U.S. defeated Spain by the end of the year, and won control of Puerto Rico in the ensuing peace treaty.
"Northern Wars" is a term used for a series of wars fought in northern and northeastern Europe from the 16th to the 18th century, [1] primarily between the territorial rivals of the Swedish Empire, Tsardom of Russia, Poland–Lithuania, and Denmark–Norway.
Post-Spanish–American War map of "Greater America", including Cuba and the Philippines Spain had once controlled a vast colonial empire , but by the second half of the 19th century only Cuba , Puerto Rico , the Philippines , and some African possessions remained: Spanish West Africa ( Spanish Sahara ), Spanish Guinea , Spanish Morocco and the ...
The war secured British predominance in Northern America, and saw the end of French-rule in New France. At the war's conclusion, the French were forced to cede all its possessions east of the Mississippi River and Canada to the British; as well as cede its Louisiana territory to the Spanish. The Spanish in turn, ceded Spanish Florida to the ...
When war with France followed the French Revolution, a Royal Naval Dockyard was established at Bermuda in 1795, which was to alternate with Royal Naval Dockyard, Halifax (Bermuda during the summers and Halifax during the winters) as the Royal Navy headquarters and main base for the River St. Lawrence and Coast of America Station (which was to ...
The end of the war was accompanied by a large migration of newly freed people to the cities, [20] where they were relegated to the lowest paying jobs, such as unskilled and service labor. Men worked as rail workers, rolling and lumber mills workers, and hotel workers.