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  2. List of wars involving the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Inconclusive for Great Britain. Britain did not gain or lose anything from the war and had exited the war a year before it ended due to financial trouble. Russian–allied victory: Tsardom of Russia establishes itself as a new power in Europe. Decline of Swedish Empire and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. The War of the Spanish Succession

  3. Frédéric Chopin - Wikipedia

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    Chopin's successes as a composer and performer opened the door to western Europe for him, and on 2 November 1830, he set out, in the words of Zdzisław Jachimecki, "into the wide world, with no very clearly defined aim, forever". [42] With Woyciechowski, he headed for Austria again, intending to go on to Italy.

  4. List of wars involving England - Wikipedia

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    Britain did not gain or lose anything from the war and exited the war a year before it had ended due to financial trouble; Russian Allied victory: Tsardom of Russia establishes itself as a new power in Europe. Decline of Swedish Empire and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. 1701 1714 War of the Spanish Succession: England (until 1707)

  5. British entry into World War I - Wikipedia

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    HMS Dreadnought.The 1902, 1904 and 1907 agreements with Japan, France and Russia allowed Britain to refocus resources during the Anglo-German naval arms race. In explaining why Britain went to war with Germany, British historian Paul Kennedy (1980) argued that a critical factor was the British realisation that Germany was rapidly becoming economically more powerful than Britain.

  6. Napoleonic Wars - Wikipedia

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    During Europe's major pre-revolutionary war, the Seven Years' War of 1756–1763, few armies ever numbered more than 200,000 with field forces often numbering less than 30,000. The French innovations of separate corps (allowing a single commander to efficiently command more than the traditional command span of 30,000 men) and living off the ...

  7. Declarations of war during World War II - Wikipedia

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    As for Bahrain, given its status as a protected state of the United Kingdom, it was technically at war as of Britain's declaration, this is an acknowledgement of the declaration of war by Britain (due to coercion by an advisor), Oman, under British influence, is coerced to participate in the war effort Declaration. Declaration. Declaration ...

  8. British Army during the Second World War - Wikipedia

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    During the course of the war, eight men would be promoted to the rank of Field Marshal, the army's highest rank. By the end of the Second World War in September 1945, over 3.5 million men and women had served in the British Army, which had suffered around 720,000 casualties throughout the conflict.

  9. Anglo-Russian War (1807–1812) - Wikipedia

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    The Anglo-Russian War was a war between the United Kingdom and the Russian Empire which lasted from 2 September 1807 to 18 July 1812 during the Napoleonic Wars. It began after Russia signed the Treaty of Tilsit with the First French Empire , which ended hostilities between the two nations.