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- Ancient
- Medieval
- Knight?
- Cataphract?
- Condottieri?
- [Horse archer]?
- Pikeman?
- Longbowman?
- Artillery?
- Fyrd?
- Fortification?
- Modern
Famous wars and battles
- Ancient
- Trojan War (c. 1200BC)
- [Persian Wars]? (499-479BC)
- [Peloponnesian War]? (431-404BC)
- [Wars of Alexander the Great]? (334-323BC)
- [Punic Wars]? (264-241BC, 218-202BC, 149-146BC)
- Battle of Pharsalus (48 BCE)
- [Battle of Actium]?
- Medieval
- Crusades? (1096-1291)
- [Hundred Years War]? (1337-1453)
- [Wars of the Roses]? (1455-1485)
- Pike & Shot
- [Dutch Independence]? (1568-1648)
- [Thirty Years War]? (1618-1648)
- [English Civil War]? (1642-1649)
- [Anglo-Dutch Wars]?
- [Great Northern War]? (1700-1721)
- [Queen Anne's War]?
- [War of the Spanish Succession]? (1701-1713)
- [King George's War]?
- [War of Jenkin's Ear]?
- [War of the Austrian Succession]? (1740-1748)
- Seven Years War (1756-1763)
- [French and Indian War]? 1754-1763
- American Revolutionary War (1775-1783)
- [French Revolution]? & [Napoleonic Wars]? (1789-1815)
- Age of Rifles
- [War of 1812]? (1812-1814)
- [Greek Independence]? (1821-1829)
- [Mexican-American War]? (1846-1848)
- [Taiping Rebellion]? (1850-1865)
- [Crimean War]? (1854-1856)
- American Civil War (1861-1865)
- [Austro-Prussian War]? (aka Seven Weeks War) (1866)
- [Franco-Prussian War]? (1870-1871)
- [Russo-Turkish War]? (1877-1878)
- [Chinese-Japanese War]? (1894-1895)
- [Spanish-American War]? (1898)
- [Boer War]? (1899-1902)
- Early 20th Century
- Mid 20th Century
- [First Arab-Israeli War]? (1948-1949)
- Korean War (1950-1953)
- [Vietnam War]? (1950-1975)
- [Second Arab-Israeli War]? (1956)
- Late 20th Century
- [Six-Day War]? (1967)
- [Yom Kippur War]? (1973)
- [Afghan Civil War]? (1979-1989)
- Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988)
- [Operation Just Cause]? (aka The Invasion of Panama) (1989-1990)
- [Persian Gulf War]? (aka Desert Storm) (1991)
This list is inevitably going to be pretty complete, at least with the ancient and medieval stuff...
See Also: Imperialism?, Colonialism?, War, History
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