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Cape Frontier Wars
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French Revolutionary War
Title given to the hostilities between France and one or more European powers between 1792 and 1799. It thus comprises the first seven years of the period of warfare that was continued through the Napoleonic Wars until Napoleon’s abdication in 1814, with a year of interruption under the peace of Amiens -
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War of the Oranges
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Tripolitan War
Conflict between the United States and Tripoli (now in Libya), incited by American refusal to continue payment of tribute to the piratical rulers of the North African Barbary States of Algiers, Tunis, Morocco, and Tripoli -
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Thomas Jefferson
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Second Maratha War
The second war (1803–05) was caused by the peshwa Baji Rao II’s defeat by the Holkars (one of the leading Maratha clans) and his acceptance of British protection by the Treaty of Bassein in December 1802. -
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Black War
Term applied to hostilities between Aborigines and white European soldiers and settlers on the Australian island of Tasmania (then called Van Diemen’s Land), which resulted in the virtual extermination of the original Aboriginal population of the island. -
Robert Fulton
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Peninsular War
That part of the Napoleonic Wars fought in the Iberian Peninsula, where the French were opposed by British, Spanish, and Portuguese forces. -
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James Madison
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War of 1812
Conflict fought between the United States and Great Britain over British violations of U.S. maritime rights. It ended with the exchange of ratifications of the Treaty of Ghent. -
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Creek War
War that resulted in U.S. victory over Creek Indians, who were British allies during the War of 1812, resulting in vast cession of their lands in Alabama and Georgia. -
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Third Maratha War
The third war (1817–18) was the result of an invasion of Maratha territory in the course of operations against Pindari robber bands by the British governor-general, Lord Hastings. -
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James Monroe
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War of Greek Independence
Rebellion of Greeks within the Ottoman Empire, a struggle which resulted in the establishment of an independent kingdom of Greece. -
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Padri War
Armed conflict in Minangkabau (Sumatra) between reformist Muslims, known as Padris, and local chieftains assisted by the Dutch. -
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John Quincy Adams
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Andrew Jackson
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George Stephenson
George Stephenson begins rail service between Liverpool and London. -
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Naning War
Disastrous attempt by the British to exact tribute from the Minangkabau people of the Malay state of Naning, near Malacca. -
Telegraph
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Martin Van Buren
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Pastry War
Brief and minor conflict between Mexico and France, arising from the claim of a French pastry cook living in Tacubaya, near Mexico City, that some Mexican army officers had damaged his restaurant. -
William Henry Harrison
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John Tyler
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James K. Polk
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Mexican-American War
War between the United States and Mexico (April 1846–February 1848) stemming from the United States’ annexation of Texas in 1845 and from a dispute over whether Texas ended at the Nueces River (Mexican claim) or the Rio Grande (U.S. claim). -
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Zachary Taylor
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Millard Fillmore
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Franklin Pierce
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Crimean War
War fought mainly on the Crimean Peninsula between the Russians and the British, French, and Ottoman Turkish, with support from January 1855 by the army of Sardinia-Piedmont. The war arose from the conflict of great powers in the Middle East and was more directly caused by Russian demands to exercise protection over the Orthodox subjects of the Ottoman sultan. -
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Bleeding Kansas
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James Buchanan
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Oil Well
The first commercial oil well is drilled in Pennsylvania. -
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American Civil War
Between the United States and 11 Southern states that seceded from the Union and formed the Confederate States of America. -
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Abraham Lincoln
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War of Triple Alliance
The bloodiest conflict in Latin American history, fought between Paraguay and the allied countries of Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay. -
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Andrew Johnson
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Seven Weeks War
War between Prussia on the one side and Austria, Bavaria, Saxony, Hanover, and certain minor German states on the other. -
Sieman Brothers
The Siemens brothers improve steelmaking by developing the open hearth furnace. -
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Selangor Civil War
Series of conflicts initially between Malay chiefs but later involving Chinese secret societies for control of tin-rich districts in Selangor. -
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Ulysses S. Grant
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Franco-German War
War in which a coalition of German states led by Prussia defeated France. The war marked the end of French hegemony in continental Europe and resulted in the creation of a unified Germany. -
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Acehnese War
An armed conflict between the Netherlands and the Muslim sultanate of Aceh (also spelled Acheh, or Atjeh) in northern Sumatra that resulted in Dutch conquest of the Acehnese and, ultimately, in Dutch domination of the entire region. -
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Red River Indian War
Uprising of warriors from several Indian tribes thought to be peacefully settled on Oklahoma and Texas reservations, ending in the crushing of the Indian dissidents by the United States -
Telephone
Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone. -
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Serbo-Turkish War
Military conflict in which Serbia and Montenegro fought the Ottoman Turks in support of an uprising in Bosnia and Herzegovina and, in the process, intensified the Balkan crisis that culminated in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78.
