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The taking of American hostages was seen as an act of war by the United States.
The government avoided a war by successfully resolving the issues through diplomacy.
The country's decision to go to war has caused a major dilemma for its allies.
The disasters of civil war were still fresh in living memory from the Wars of the Roses.
When war with France broke out, he paid for weapons for a company of volunteers, sworn to resist any French invasion.
Research also shows that remittances can lower the risk of civil war in the country of origin.
The attacks against Birmingham took war industries some three months to recover fully.
The following list denotes dates on which nations declared war on Axis powers, or on which an Axis power declared war on them.
According to Lord Moran, during the war years Churchill sought solace in his tumbler of whisky and soda and his cigar.
The electronic war intensified but the Luftwaffe flew major inland missions only on moonlit nights.
Following the Civil War and emancipation of slaves, violence rose in the South as the war was carried on by paramilitary and private groups.
Line and new repair our towns of war With men of courage and with means defendant.
In this phase of the war the West Saxons conquered land by building and holding burhs from which to threaten and dominate Danish territory.
Indian troops were withdrawn by 12 March 1972, three months after the war ended.
On 10 June, Italy invaded France, declaring war on both France and the United Kingdom.
Canada and Newfoundland were two autonomous dominions during the war that made major military contributions to the British war effort.
From 1943 to 1945, the US led and coordinated the Western Allies' war effort in Europe under the leadership of General Dwight Eisenhower.
The invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939, started the war in Europe, and the United Kingdom and France declared war on Germany on 3 September.
He acted as a war correspondent for several London newspapers and wrote his own books about the campaigns.
The war energised Churchill, who was 65 years old when he became Prime Minister.
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We must see to it that our attacks do no more harm to ourselves in the long run than they do to the enemy's war effort.
The eight months of bombing never seriously hampered British production and the war industries continued to operate and expand.
Cameron reiterated calls for an independent investigation into the alleged war crimes during the final stages of the Sri Lankan Civil War.
Public opinion among nationalists had shifted during the war from a demand for home rule to one for full independence.
Soon afterwards, further disagreements plunged England into a civil war known as the First Barons' War.
By now the gauge war was lost and mixed gauge was brought to Paddington in 1861, allowing through passenger trains from London to Chester.
The war years saw great improvements in working conditions and welfare provisions, which paved the way for the postwar welfare state.
It was only in the later part of Edward the Elder's reign that we see a type of war which a twelfth Century soldier would have recognised.
However, in West Pakistan the conflict was described as a civil war as opposed to a war of liberation.
Estimates for those killed throughout the war range between 300,000 and 3 million.
The following month, war broke out again and Nelson prepared to return to sea.
Louis left England as agreed and joined the Albigensian Crusade in the south of France, bringing the war to an end.
The first two allied victories in the war were won by the Serbian army, on the mountains of Cer and Kolubara, in western Serbia.
The Western Allies also began a naval blockade of Germany, which aimed to damage the country's economy and war effort.
The likelihood of war was high, and the question was whether it could be avoided through strategies such as appeasement.
In the lead up to the war between the Soviet Union and Germany, relations between the Soviet Union and Germany underwent several stages.
The war was not going well for the loyalists, but Prince Louis and the rebel barons were also finding it difficult to make further progress.
Units of the Norwegian Armed Forces evacuated from Norway or raised abroad continued participating in the war from exile.
Nelson spent the rest of the war cruising in the West Indies, where he captured a number of French and Spanish prizes.
According to biographer Roy Jenkins, this is one reason why he took an interest in war correspondence.
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This time, although continuing as a war correspondent, he gained a commission in the South African Light Horse.
The same year he published London to Ladysmith via Pretoria and a second volume of Boer war experiences, Ian Hamilton's March.
This immediately affected the Soviet prisoners of war liberated by the Allies, but was also extended to all Eastern European refugees.
They urged the queen to marry or nominate an heir, to prevent a civil war upon her death.
After the war he was appointed as the Colonel in Chief of the 4th Hussars, Queen's Royal Irish Hussars and the Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars.
The bombing failed to demoralise the British into surrender or significantly damage the war economy.
Healthcare prior to the war had been an unsatisfactory mix of private, municipal and charity schemes.
Their appeal was especially effective to housewives, who faced more difficult shopping conditions after the war than during the war.
The decisions that led up to the Iraq war and its subsequent conduct are currently the subject of Sir John Chilcot's Iraq Inquiry.
The war was expected to last only a few weeks but in fact lasted four years.
During the war he invented the cavity resonance wavemeter to find the first accurate value of the speed of light.
In the wars that lasted beyond 800, he rewarded allies with war booty and command over parcels of land.
After the war and facing a booming world economy, foreign lending to countries such as Brazil, Peru and Chile was a growing market.
The successful outcome of the war had reaffirmed Portsmouth's significance as a naval port and importance to the defence of British interests.
A maintenance backlog developed during the war and the private sector only had two years to deal with this after the war ended.
The advent of the Second World War pushed many struggling enterprises into bankruptcy as labour and materials were diverted to the war effort.
Evacuation during the course of the war also revealed, to more prosperous Britons, the extent of deprivation in society.
Alexander waged war against many foes, like the revitalized Persia and German peoples who invaded Gaul.
In 1315, a Scottish army landed in Ireland as part of Scotland's war against England.
An ethnic civil war in 1971 resulted in the secession of East Pakistan as the new country of Bangladesh.
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Joint logistics and major war games are occasionally carried out by the militaries of China and Turkey.
Denmark also committed themselves to participate in a war against Sweden together with France and Russia.
The war has radicalized an entire generation of young people.
All the emblems of sovereignty including the chhatra were in place on Father's elephant and war was resumed.
The Times originated the practice of sending war correspondents to cover particular conflicts.
The war began with the Austrian attack invasion of Serbia on 28 July 1914, in response to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
Both sides were concerned that a civil war would leave the country open to foreign invasion.
More important to the Allied war effort, however, was the role of the Norwegian Merchant Marine.
When civil war broke out in Spain, Hitler and Mussolini lent military support to the Nationalist rebels, led by General Francisco Franco.
Both Germany and the USSR used this proxy war as an opportunity to test in combat their most advanced weapons and tactics.
Estimates for the total number of casualties in the war vary, because many deaths went unrecorded.
The United States provided war materiel and money all along, and officially joined in December 1941 after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
The soldiers captured in Kalamata were transported by train to prisoner of war camps.
The Soviet Union urged military and cooperation between Soviet China and Nationalist China during China's war against Japan.
This reinforcement of the aristocracy must be seen in conjunction with the war in France, as must the emerging sense of national identity.
Central to Edward III's policy was reliance on the higher nobility for purposes of war and administration.
He had substantial support though from Guala, who intended to win the civil war for Henry and punish the rebels.
It quickly entered World War II, officially declaring war on Germany on 3 September 1939, just hours after Britain.
Intrastate war is now the dominant form of military conflict in international politics.
We started doing tug of war for the banana, and, eventually, the monkey yanked it out of my hands, making me fall down on my back on the ground.
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The rules of military engagement changed as civil war succeeded overseas campaigns.
Although primarily a dynastic conflict, the war gave impetus to ideas of French and English nationalism.
This condition was contested by the Dauphin and the momentum of the war changed.
In a series of rapid victories during the Montenotte Campaign, he knocked Piedmont out of the war in two weeks.
Descriptive accounts include those of chroniclers who wrote about the size of armies, victims of war or famine, participants in an oath.
National feeling that emerged from the war unified both France and England further.
The brief renewal of war after Napoleon's return to power in 1815 did not bring a resumption of naval combat.
After a period of rest and consolidation on both sides, the war restarted in June with an initial struggle at Heilsberg that proved indecisive.
Early in the war French naval squadrons had done considerable damage to English and Dutch commercial convoys.
England's naval organisation was haphazard and the mobilisation of fleets when war broke out was slow.
Philip returned to England from March to July 1557 to persuade Mary to support Spain in a renewed war against France.
That decision brought the Ottoman Empire into a losing war against Russia and Britain.
In 1510, France, with a fragile alliance with the Holy Roman Empire in the League of Cambrai, was winning a war against Venice.
Pope Julius died and his successor, Pope Paul IV, declared war on Philip and recalled Pole to Rome to have him tried as a heretic.
Charles took no action on the proposal, and continued his war plans with his French ally.
The Soviet Union soon after it declared war on Japan in August 1945 annexed the the southern Kuril Islands, which Japan still claims.
Shanghai Kelly has been kicking up dust about the war on the crimps and boardinghouse keepers.
The Commons Chamber was rebuilt after the war under the architect Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, in a simplified version of the old chamber's style.
Washington repeatedly warned that this meant war but the emperor kept this option open, hoping to get Britain as an ally.
He was soon accepted into Prime Minister Asquith's war cabinet, becoming the first Labour Party member to serve in government.
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These were restored at the Treaty of Amiens in 1802, but when war resumed in 1803, the British soon recaptured them.
In the meanwhile, the newly resumed war with Britain by the French, resulted in the British capture of practically all remaining French colonies.
In 1645 Parliament reaffirmed its determination to fight the war to a finish.
Both freedmen and people of color who had been free before the war began to make more advances in education, family stability and jobs.
Strafford himself, hoping to head off the war he saw looming, wrote to the king and asked him to reconsider.
So the victors in the Second Civil War showed little mercy to those who had brought war into the land again.
During the American war of independence and Napoleonic wars, Bank of England notes were legal tender and their value floated relative to gold.
However, the sea change in attitude about war more generally meant that governments began to control and regulate the trade themselves.
As the war escalated into its second year, the concerns for air raids were greater than ever.
We maintain peace by having the ability to make war and that has stood the test of time.
Some historians consider the total civil war to have lasted until 1796 with a toll of 170,000 or 450,000 lives.
After four years on the sidelines, Austria sought another war with France to avenge its recent defeats.
Another of Eisenhower's concerns was the possibility of a wider war with the Soviet Union after it threatened to intervene on the Egyptian side.
The last commercial carrier, narrow gauge line in Britain was the Ashover Light Railway, opened in 1925 using surplus war equipment.
It tried to fight back with submarines, despite the risk of war by the powerful neutral power the United States.
Conservatives across Europe were horrified and monarchies called for war against revolutionary France.
Among the reasons for the Second Punic War was the subsequent war reparations Carthage acquiesced to at the end of the First Punic War.
When Parthia invaded Roman territory, Severus waged war against that country.
He raised taxes to pay for the great war against France and cracked down on radicalism.
But when he left, the guerrilla war against his forces in the countryside continued to tie down great numbers of troops.
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The war ended in defeat for the Irish Gaelic alliance, and brought an end to the independence of the last Irish Gaelic kingdoms.
By 1803, however, war had broken out again between Britain and the new First French Empire under Napoleon.
In 1803, the war resumed but public opinion distrusted Addington to lead the nation in war, and instead favoured Pitt.
This war ended disastrously for Prussia, defeated and occupied within 19 days of the campaign's beginning.
Napoleon was not ready for war and so this was the best time for Britain to stop them.
In August 1806, the Prussian king, Frederick William III, decided to go to war independently of any other great power.
Mark Antony, Caesar's lieutenant, condemned Caesar's assassination, and war broke out between the two factions.
The war then settled into a complex and asymmetric strategic deadlock where all sides struggled to gain the upper hand.
Near the end of his life, Caesar began to prepare for a war against the Parthian Empire.
Napoleon entered the city, assuming its fall would end the war and Alexander would negotiate peace.
However, whilst the discussions had been going on, Philip and John had created war in three different areas of the Angevin Empire.
Cassivellaunus gave hostages, agreed an annual tribute, and undertook not to make war against Mandubracius or the Trinovantes.
Each legion in Britain had a commander who answered to the governor and in time of war probably directly ruled troublesome districts.
Edward I further stimulated the city's economy by using the city as a base for his war in Scotland.
However, a war arose in Kent due to a dispute between Hengest and Vortigern's son.
He burned his boats and supplies to show resolve in continuing operations, but the Sassanids began a war of attrition by burning crops.
With civil war looming, the magnates of the realm met in council to hammer out a compromise.
Throughout the war they sent inspirational radio speeches and supported clandestine military actions in Norway against the Germans.
Henry planned to resume war with France, but was plagued with financial problems, declining health and frequent rebellions.
It was the most widespread war in history, and directly involved more than 100 million people from over 30 countries.
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At the time of war the President is authorized by law to induct persons into the armed forces involuntarily.
The process of demolishing the unauthorised castles from the war continued.
Meanwhile, support for Louis' campaign was diminishing in France, and he concluded that the war in England was lost.
However, when the treaty was broken in 1369, both these English claims and the war resumed.
About 12 million, most of whom were Eastern Europeans, were employed in the German war economy as forced labourers.
The war did not end with Montfort's death, and Edward participated in the continued campaigning.
After the fall of Calais, factors outside of Edward's control forced him to wind down the war effort.
In the war that followed, Charles of Anjou's son, Charles of Salerno, was taken prisoner by the Aragonese.
One source of contention was the king's inactivity, and repeated failure, in the ongoing war with Scotland.
It was clear that Edward now regarded the struggle not as a war between two nations, but as the suppression of a rebellion of disloyal subjects.
The Parliament would yet give his majesty sufficient caution that the war should be prosecuted.
A young Home Guard officer decides to show his Blimpish superiors that the younger generation is fed up with playing old-fashioned war games.
His account of the means whereby Tolstoy 'bestranges' the romantic idealization of war affords a useful illustration.
In 1369, the French war started anew, and Edward's younger son John of Gaunt was given the responsibility of a military campaign.
Henry's record of involvement in war and politics, even in his youth, disproves this tradition.
His favourite pursuit was the art of war and, in this, he conformed to the medieval notion of good kingship.
This is a society at war with itself and heightens the impression of broken Britain.
The little bones of the ear drum do in straining and relaxing it as the braces of the war drum do in that.
Both bills provide for a new cold war hostile fire pay, similar to wartime combat pay.
The outbreak of war was motivated by a gradual rise in tension between the Kings of France and England about Guyenne, Flanders and Scotland.
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What a foundation for a career! A correspondentship in the next great war might be within my reach.
How could Fox ever win its holiday war now? Surely all would be lost, and the nation would be forced to endure another Chrismahanukwanzakah.
The Hundred Years' War could be considered a lengthy war of succession between the houses of Valois and Plantagenet.
Dafydd ab Owain Gwynedd had usurped the crown from his siblings in a debilitating civil war within Gwynedd.
Power struggles between Bedford, his brother Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, and their uncle Cardinal Beaufort hampered the English war effort.
The war marked both the height of chivalry and its subsequent decline, and the development of strong national identities in both countries.
After that, he expected to be left undisturbed while he made war on Scotland.
The Lords Appellant were able to gain control of the council in 1388 and tried, unsuccessfully, to reignite the war in France.
He urged Edward to start a war to reclaim France and was able to provide extensive intelligence on the French court.
The war became increasingly unpopular with the English public largely due to the high taxes needed to sustain it.
The war in France continued under Bedford's generalship and several battles were won.
The domestic and dynastic difficulties faced by England and France in this period quieted the war for a decade.
After the death of Joan of Arc, the fortunes of war turned dramatically against the English.
When the war ended, England was bereft of its Continental possessions, leaving it with only Calais on the continent.
The practice of Spain hath been, by war and by conditions of treaty, to intermeddle with foreign states.
It was a pleasure to talk to a movie producer who wasn't crying in his beer over what the European war has done to the picture business.
Henry Tudor was unfamiliar with the arts of war and a stranger to the land he was trying to conquer.
During the 15th century civil war raged across England as the Houses of York and Lancaster fought each other for the English throne.
He'd be useless in war. He'd just cower in his bunker until the enemy came in and shot him, or until the war was over.
Among the Blackfeet the capture of a shield, bow, gun, war bonnet, war shirt, or medicine pipe was deemed a coup.
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Henry's war and Somerset's war with France and Scotland cost England huge sums of money.
Dutch airmen flying British aircraft participated in the air war over Germany.
For much of the war this submarine campaign was restricted by prize rules requiring merchant ships to be warned and evacuated before sinking.
The company's post war the nearest, so I jest took down the river in that direcshun.
The debate was not long on policy, as questions about the Affordable Care Act and the war in Syria demonstrated.
Despite having to completely replace its war fleet, the Navy managed to maintain its overwhelming advantage over all potential rivals.
The fact that the war is no longer the main issue in the election points to the dynamism of foreign affairs.
By the end of the war the Royal Navy comprised over 4,800 ships, and was the second largest fleet in the world.
Certainly war with the combined might of the two powers would have been exceedingly difficult.
They were also supported by battlefield artillery and the war wagon, relatively new innovations, and several large and expensive siege guns.
The Habsburgs had been debasing their currency to pay for the war and prices exploded, just as they had in previous years in Austria.
Following a brief war in 1893, Spain expanded its influence south from Melilla.
With her Greek allies facing a major new threat, Rome declared war on Macedonia again, starting the Third Macedonian War.
It is high time to cease sensationalism and war mongering, pause and think twice about where we are heading.
The war revealed to Europe how vulnerable the Spanish defenses and bureaucracy were.
As civil war continues in Iraq, the U.S. president's approval ratings are in freefall.
The war ended with most of the Spanish Netherlands under French occupation, including the important cities of Ghent and Luxembourg.
In the war that followed, the more experienced Spanish forces scored initial successes.
Not willing to have a war with the United States, Napoleon III decided at the beginning of 1866 to withdraw French troops from Mexico.
He should have stayed away from the war wound fuckwittedness, the being cute.
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The war took place on Indian soil, between the company troops and the French forces.
Because of the continuing war with Spain, White was unable to mount another resupply attempt for an additional three years.
Protoculture supply was dwindling, the galaxywide war running down like clockwork as both sides' resources and infrastructures declined.
Britain, which was at war with France, soon moved to occupy Dutch colonies in Asia, South Africa and the Caribbean.
For the German occupying authorities war thus appears to offer the most appropriate occasion for carrying out their policy of genocide.
This policy of French colonial leaders determining France's African war aims can be seen throughout much of France's empire.
In the absence of compensation or a satisfactory reply, he declared war on England in June.
However, the war left the UK severely weakened and depending financially on the Marshall Plan.
This war is between the democracies of the free world and radical Islamics.
Ireland had known continuous war since the rebellion of 1641, with most of the island controlled by the Irish Confederates.
There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
The war in all these countries are known as the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
Indeed, the war brought with it deep social, cultural, economic, and political dislocations.
However, war with England continued for several decades after the death of Bruce.
In a war fought mostly by amateurs, these strengths were significant and are likely to have contributed to the discipline of his cavalry.
They typically had little interest in politics and sought conciliation rather than war or they withheld judgment from both sides.
The indecisive outcome of the Second Battle of Newbury in October meant that by the end of 1644 the war still showed no signs of ending.
The gold standard was suspended at the outbreak of the war in 1914, with Bank of England and Treasury notes becoming legal tender.
In 1937 officials at the Exchange used their experiences from the First World War to draw up plans on how to handle a new war situation.
Many of the Scottish prisoners of war taken in the campaigns died of disease, and others were sent as indentured labourers to the colonies.
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The EEC and America jaw-jawed their way to the brink of an all-out war over limiting European steel exports to the United States.
This XK engine had been designed at night during the war when they would be on fire watch in the factory.
The waters around Britain were declared a war zone where any ship, neutral or otherwise, was a target.
The unanimity and difficult issues treated under the CFSP sometimes lead to disagreements, such as those which occurred over the war in Iraq.
The new war in Sicily against Carthage, a great naval power, forced Rome to quickly build a fleet and train sailors.
Louis XIV of France, believing the war was over, began negotiations to extract as large a sum of money from the Dutch as possible.
Charles II accepted the nomination of Joseph Ferdinand as his heir, and war appeared to be averted.
Britain's fears of war with Germany were realised in 1914 with the outbreak of the First World War.
All soon declared war on Germany, but the Irish Free State chose to remain legally neutral throughout the war.
The Irish Republican Army simultaneously began a guerrilla war against the British administration.
The war was over by the time the plant opened and it had to be adapted to new manufacturing.
The standing army was mainly employed in the suppression of Covenanter rebellions and the guerilla war undertaken by the Cameronians in the East.
This led to a price war between the two canal companies and the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, who had previously cooperated on rates.
England was at war with France and hence did not want to offend Spain, which claimed the territory as part of New Granada.
After reaching Italy, Aeneas, who wanted to marry Lavinia, was forced to wage war with her former suitor, Turnus.
The war had been costly in human rights and was widely criticised by Liberals in Britain and worldwide.
The politics of the period inevitably drove France towards war with Austria and its allies.
After the king's execution in January 1793, these powers, along with Spain and most other European states, joined the war against France.
De Valera abolished the Oath of Allegiance and embarked on an economic war with Britain.
The war saw land battles in Sicily early on, but the theatre shifted to naval battles around Sicily and Africa.
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Opposition to the costly war was increasing, and in June 1780 contributed to disturbances in London known as the Gordon Riots.
The United States entered the war alongside the Allies in 1917, and provided the needed manpower, money and supplies to keep them going.
The conflict is beginning to look like a holy war between Sunnis and Shias.
His greatness came in the war with France, with the adversary setting the pace.
Losing the war and the thirteen colonies was a shock to the British system.
The war with France was extremely expensive, straining Great Britain's finances.
Had war broken out, the Polish navy was prepared to invade the Danish isles.
The Romans and Gauls continued to war intermittently in Italy for more than two centuries.
Within several decades, Heraclius completed a holy war against the Persians by taking their capital and having a Sassanid monarch assassinated.
By 1805, they had managed to convince the Austrians and the Russians to wage another war against France.
The defection of these peoples in the year 89 during Domitian's war against the Dacians modified the whole frontier policy of the Empire.
But the war woke me up, I began to move left, and recent events have accelerated that move until it is now a hurtle.
The duchy was divided in 1180 when Duke Henry the Lion refused to follow his cousin, Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, into war in Lombardy.
Unlike its many coalition partners, Britain remained at war throughout the period of the Napoleonic Wars.
The aftermath of the war institutionalised British national commemoration through Remembrance Sunday and the Poppy Appeal.
After Germany declared war on Russia, France with its alliance with Russia prepared a general mobilization in expectation of war.
Ninus being esteemed no man of war at all, but altogether feminine, and subject to ease and delicacy.
His refusal to participate in the war increased his popularity among his people, and strengthened his power base in the West.
However, civil war flared again when the Second Triumvirate of Octavian, Lepidus and Mark Antony failed.
This chaos reached a climax in January of 52 BC, when Clodius was murdered in a gang war by Milo.
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Eventually, Jugurtha renewed his offensive, leading to a long and inconclusive war with Rome.
Marius invaded Numidia and brought the war to a quick end, capturing Jugurtha in the process.
During the civil war that followed, as many as a thousand ships were either constructed or pressed into service from Greek cities.
Modern historians have used this to determine the nature of his politics and of the aborted chapters of his civil war history.
He urged Trebatius to capture him a war chariot, and asked Quintus to write him a description of the island.
Cassivellaunus, a warlord from north of the Thames, had previously been at war with most of the British tribes.
Cassius Dio relates that he brought war elephants and heavy armaments which would have overawed any remaining native resistance.
As civil war raged in Rome, weak governors were unable to control the legions in Britain, and Venutius of the Brigantes seized his chance.
After his capture, Caratacus was sent to Rome as a war prize, presumably to be killed after a triumphal parade.
While Spinola and the Spanish army were focused on the Netherlands, the war seemed to go in Spain's favor.
When the war began many people were caught up in a wave of jingoism.
The country's citizens were asked to support the war effort.
Eusebius is vague about when and where these events took place, but it enters his narrative before the war against Maxentius begins.
He won a victory in the war and extended his control over the region, as remains of camps and fortifications in the region indicate.
The local story distracted attention from news of the war overseas.
He was apparently accepted as king by some or all of the Danes in England and in 903 he induced the East Anglian Danes to wage war on Edward.
The quiet years of Alfred's life were coming to a close, and war was on the horizon.
In the aftermath of Sweden's secession from the Kalmar Union, civil war broke out in Denmark and Norway.
The alliance between the Western Allies and the Soviet Union had begun to deteriorate even before the war was over.
The offensive in the Rhine river valley area started on 7 September, four days after France declared war on Germany.
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The immediate consequence of William's death was a war between his sons Robert and William over control of England and Normandy.
The following table shows the timeline of the several declarations of war among the belligerent powers.
A war broke out when the colonists demanded their independence.
After years of war and pestilence, few people remained in the city.
The war ended many of the privileges of the Phanariot Greeks of Constantinople.
By the late 1140s the active phase of the civil war was over, barring the occasional outbreak of fighting.
A war elephant described rampaging through Tenochtitlan in a novel about the Aztec Empire would be an anatopism.
For Edward, it became a war of conquest rather than simply a punitive expedition, like the former campaign.
The farmer's field was a civil war battleground, and relics such a minnie bullets were frequently found while plowing.
Both the thrusters and the cautionaries thought the war would end with a massive naval battle involving the battleships of both fleets.
In the war that followed, the Scots persevered, even though the English seemed victorious at several points.
Many of these deaths were caused by war crimes committed by German and Japanese forces in occupied territories.
Henry of Almain would remain a close companion of the prince, both through the civil war that followed, and later during the crusade.
When war broke out again in 1282, it was an entirely different undertaking.
Eyes atwinkle at age 71, he boasts skills rare in the Republican Party for waging guerrilla war with help from the news media.
As long as Scotland and France were in an alliance, the English were faced with the prospect of fighting a war on two fronts.
A birdchief, bluestreaked and feathered in war panoply with his assegai, striding through a crackling canebrake over beechmast and acorns.
On the other hand, the theory of the avoidability of war held by the Soviets manifests an important change in Leninism.
When the war with France broke out, the French king confiscated the Riccardi's assets, and the bank went bankrupt.
A lengthy war of attrition, conducted on his behalf by his younger brother Ferdinand, continued for the rest of Charles's reign.

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