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1War of aggression — The larger overview and survey article on this topic is War. A war of aggression, sometimes also war of conquest, is a military conflict waged without the justification of self defense usually for territorial gain and subjugation. The phrase is… …
2War Department (United Kingdom) — The War Department was the United Kingdom government department responsible for the supply of equipment to the armed forces of the United Kingdom and the pursuance of military activity. In 1857 it became the War Office. Within the War Office the… …
3World War II — the war between the Axis and the Allies, beginning on September 1, 1939, with the German invasion of Poland and ending with the surrender of Germany on May 8, 1945, and of Japan on August 14, 1945. Abbr.: WWII * * * or Second World War (1939–45)… …
4Irish War of Independence — Infobox Military Conflict conflict=Irish War of Independence, Interwar Period caption= The No.2 3rd Tipperary Brigade Flying Column during the war date=January 21, 1919 July 11, 1921 (though violence continued until July 1922) place=Ireland casus …
5The Thirty Years War — The Thirty Years War † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Thirty Years War The Thirty Years War (1618 48), though pre eminently a German war, was also of great importance for the history of the whole of Europe, not only because nearly all… …
6Timeline of the Irish War of Independence — This is a timeline of the Irish War of Independence (or the Anglo Irish War[1]) of 1919–1921. The Irish War of Independence was a guerrilla conflict and most of the fighting was conducted on a small scale by the standards of conventional warfare …
7Franco-Spanish War (1635) — Infobox Military Conflict conflict=Franco Spanish War caption= date=1635 ndash; 1659 place=Northern, eastern and southern France; northern Spain; the Spanish Netherlands; Italy result=French victory; Treaty of the Pyrenees combatant1= combatant2 …
8Prisoners of war in Islam — The rules and regulations concerning prisoners of war in Islam are covered in manuals of Islamic jurisprudence, based upon Islamic teachings, in both the Qur an and hadith. The historical legal principles governing the treatment of prisoners of… …
9Abraham Lincoln: A War to Preserve the Union — ▪ Primary Source After the surrender of Fort Sumter on April 14, 1861, Lincoln immediately issued a proclamation calling for 75,000 soldiers to suppress the insurrection. At the same time he called for a special session of Congress to… …
10levying war — A term including, not only the act of making war for the purpose of overturning the government, but also any combination forcibly to oppose the execution of any public law of the United States, if accompanied or followed by an act of forcible… …
