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  • 71United Kingdom — a kingdom in NW Europe, consisting of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: formerly comprising Great Britain and Ireland 1801 1922. 58,610,182; 94,242 sq. mi. (244,100 sq. km). Cap.: London. Abbr.: U.K. Official name, United Kingdom of Great… …

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  • 72Pontiac's War — Pontiac s Rebellion In a famous council on April 27, 1763, Pontiac urged listeners to rise up against the British. (19th century engraving by Alfred Bobbet) …

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  • 73Battle of Rorke's Drift — Part of the Anglo Zulu War The Defence of Rorke s Drift, by Alphonse de Neuville (1882) …

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  • 74Military history of Canada — This article is part of a series Conflicts …

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  • 75Warsaw Uprising (1794) — Infobox Military Conflict conflict=Warsaw Uprising of 1794 partof=the Kościuszko Uprising caption=Fighting on Krakowskie Przedmieście by Juliusz Kossak date=April 17 to April 19, 1794 place=Warsaw, Poland territory= result=Polish victory… …

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  • 76Battle of Lipantitlán — Infobox Military Conflict conflict=Battle of Lipantitlán caption= partof=the Texas Revolution date=November 5, 1835 place= Fort Lipantitlán, Texas result=Texian victory combatant1=Texian insurgents combatant2=Mexican Army commander1=Ira Westover… …

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  • 77France — /frans, frahns/; Fr. /frddahonns/, n. 1. Anatole /ann nann tawl /, (Jacques Anatole Thibault), 1844 1924, French novelist and essayist: Nobel prize 1921. 2. a republic in W Europe. 58,470,421; 212,736 sq. mi. (550,985 sq. km). Cap.: Paris. 3.… …

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  • 78Iraq — /i rak , i rahk /, n. a republic in SW Asia, N of Saudi Arabia and W of Iran, centering in the Tigris Euphrates basin of Mesopotamia. 22,219,289; 172,000 sq. mi. (445,480 sq. km). Cap.: Baghdad. Also, Irak. * * * Iraq Introduction Iraq Background …

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  • 79United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …

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  • 80ancient Greek civilization — ▪ historical region, Eurasia Introduction       the period following Mycenaean civilization, which ended in about 1200 BC, to the death of Alexander the Great, in 323 BC. It was a period of political, philosophical, artistic, and scientific… …

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