The American Civil War , also known as the War Between the States and several other names, was a civil war in the United States of America. Eleven Southern slave states declared their...
The Battle of Stalingrad is a commonly used name in English sources for several large operations by Germany and its allies and Soviet forces conducted with the purpose of ensuring possession...
The Falklands War , also called the Falklands Conflict/Crisis, was fought in 1982 between Argentina and the United Kingdom over the disputed...
The Korean War refers to a period of military conflict between North Korea and South Korea regimes, with major...
The Quasi-War was an undeclared war fought entirely at sea between the United States and France from 1798 to 1800. In the United States, the conflict is sometimes also referred to as the...
The Thirty Years' War was a religious war principally fought in Germany, where it involved most of the European powers. The conflict began between Protestants and Catholics in the Holy...
The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, or the Vietnam Conflict, occurred in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia from 1959 to April 30, 1975. The war was fought between the communist...
World War II, or the Second World War, was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including all of the great powers, organized into...
In the War of the Spanish Succession several European powers combined to stop French succession to the Spanish throne and what would likely have been a resulting shift in the European...
The War of 1812 was fought between the United States of America and the British Empire, particularly Great Britain and her North American colonies of Upper Canada , Lower Canada , Nova...
The Second Boer War (Dutch: Tweede Boerenoorlog, Afrikaans: Tweede Boereoorlog), commonly referred to as The Boer War and also known as the South African War (outside of South Africa), the...
The Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War, often referred to in France as the 1870 War (19 July 1870—10 May 1871) was a conflict between France and Prussia. Prussia was aided by the North...
The Mexican–American War was an armed conflict between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848 in the wake of the 1845 U.S. annexation of Texas. Mexico claimed ownership of Texas as a...
The Battle of the Little Bighorn—also known as Custer's Last Stand, and, in the parlance of the relevant Native Americans, the Battle of Greasy Grass Creek—was an armed engagement between a...
The Mexican Revolution (Spanish: Revolución mexicana) was a major armed struggle that started in 1910 with an uprising led by Francisco I. Madero against longtime autocrat Porfirio Díaz. The...
The Battle of Thermopylae [thər móppəlee] , detailed primarily by Herodotus, was fought in August 480 BC, between an alliance of Greek city-states and the invading Persian Empire of...
The Irish War of Independence (Irish: Cogadh na Saoirse, also known as the Anglo-Irish War or Tan War) was a guerrilla war mounted against the British government in Ireland by the Irish...
The Persian Gulf War or Gulf War Ar: ام المعارك in Iraq was a conflict between Iraq and a coalition force from...
The Bay of Pigs Invasion , was an unsuccessful attempt by a U.S.-trained force of Cuban exiles to invade south-west Cuba and overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro. The invasion...
The Tet Offensive was a military campaign conducted between 30 January and 23 September 1968, by forces of the Vietcong, or National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam, and the North...
The Polish-Soviet War was an armed conflict of Soviet Russia and Soviet Ukraine against the Second Polish Republic and the short-lived Ukrainian People's Republic, four states...
The Pequot War was an armed conflict in 1636-1637 between an alliance of Massachusetts Bay and Plymouth colonies, with Native American allies , against the Pequot tribe....
The Battle of Vouillé or Campus Vogladensis was fought in the northern marches of Visigothic territory, at a small place near Poitiers , in the spring of 507 between the Franks commanded by...
World War I was a global war which took place primarily in Europe from 1914 to 1918. Over 40...
The Iraq War, also known as the Second Gulf War, the Occupation of Iraq, or the War in Iraq, is an ongoing military campaign which began on March 20, 2003 with the 2003 invasion of Iraq by a...