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World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all...
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The American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States of America. In response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as...
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World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War...
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The Crusades were a series of religious wars, blessed by the Pope and the Catholic Church with the main goal of restoring Christian access to...
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The Napoleonic Wars were a series of wars declared against Napoleon's French Empire by opposing coalitions that ran from 1803 to 1815. As a continuation...
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The Punic Wars were a series of three wars fought between Rome and Carthage from 264 B.C.E. to 146 B.C.E. At the time, they...
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The American Revolution was the political upheaval during the last half of the 18th century in which thirteen colonies in North America joined together to...
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The Iraq War was a protracted armed conflict that began in 2003 with the invasion of Iraq by a United States-led coalition that overthrew the...
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The Taiping Rebellion was a widespread civil war in southern China from 1850 to 1864, led by heterodox Christian convert Hong Xiuquan, who, having received...
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The Hundred Years' War was a series of separate wars waged from 1337 to 1453 by the House of Valois and the House of Plantagenet,...
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The Greco-Persian Wars were a series of conflicts between the Achaemenid Empire of Persia and city-states of the Hellenic world that started in 499...
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The Seven Years' War was a global military war between 1756 and 1763, involving most of the great powers of the time and affecting Europe,...
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The Battle of Hastings occurred on 14 October 1066 during the Norman conquest of England, between the Norman-French army of Duke William II of Normandy and...
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The First, Second, and Third Samnite Wars, between the early Roman Republic and the tribes of Samnium, extended over half a century, involving almost all...
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The Great Turkish War refers to a series of conflicts between the Ottoman Empire and contemporary European powers, then joined into a Holy League, during...