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1 day ago · e. In the United States, abolitionism, the movement that sought to end slavery in the country, was active from the colonial era until the American Civil War, the end of which brought about the abolition of American slavery, except as punishment for a crime, through the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (ratified 1865).
1 day ago · The Cuban Revolution ( Spanish: Revolución cubana) was the military and political effort to overthrow Fulgencio Batista 's dictatorship which reigned as the government of Cuba between 1952 and 1959. It began after the 1952 Cuban coup d'état which saw former president and military general, Fulgencio Batista topple the nascent Cuban democracy ...
23 hours ago · The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of conflicts fought between the First French Empire under Napoleon (1804–1815) and a fluctuating array of European coalitions. The wars originated in political forces arising from the French Revolution (1789–1799) and from the French Revolutionary Wars (1792–1802), and produced a period of ...
3 days ago · The Greek Civil War ( Greek: Eμφύλιος Πόλεμος, romanized : Emfýlios Pólemos) took place from 1946 to 1949. The conflict, which erupted shortly after the end of World War II, consisted of a communist -dominated uprising against the established government of the Kingdom of Greece.
1 day ago · 2 November. On the morning of 2 November 2023, during the 2023 Israel–Hamas war, unknown Palestinian assailants, called terrorists by the Hebrew YNet news, overtook an Israeli vehicle near Beit Lid in the occupied West Bank and shot at the driver, an Israeli settler in IDF uniform.
23 hours ago · American Indian Wars. The American Indian Wars, also known as the American Frontier Wars, and the Indian Wars, [note 1] was a conflict initially fought by European colonial empires, and later on by the Confederate states of America, Republic of Texas, Mexico and the United States of America against various American Indian tribes in North America.
1 day ago · 60,000 Indigenous Americans forcibly relocated to Indian Territory. The Trail of Tears was the forced displacement of approximately 60,000 people of the "Five Civilized Tribes" between 1830 and 1850, and the additional thousands of Native Americans within that were ethnically cleansed by the United States government.
