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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › WarWar - Wikipedia

    War is an intense armed conflict [a] between states, governments, societies, or paramilitary groups such as mercenaries, insurgents, and militias. [2] It is generally characterized by extreme violence, destruction, and mortality, using regular or irregular military forces.

  2. 17th and 19th centuries. The military history of the United States began with a foreign power on US soil: the British Army during the American Revolutionary War.After the conflict started at Lexington and Concord, the US contended with various land invasions, including the successful capture of Philadelphia, the first capital of the US, and the conquest of regions in Georgia, the Carolinas and ...

  3. North County is a region in the northern area of San Diego County, California. It is the second-most populous region in the county (after San Diego ), with an estimated population of 869,322. North County is well known for its affluence, especially in Encinitas, Carlsbad, Del Mar, Rancho Santa Fe, Poway and Solana Beach, where house prices ...

  4. 15 killed. 11 wounded. 8 killed. 12 wounded. The Lincoln County War was an Old West conflict between rival factions which began in 1878 in Lincoln County, New Mexico Territory, the predecessor of the state of New Mexico, and continued until 1881. [1] The feud became famous because of the participation of William H. Bonney ("Billy the Kid").

    • Revenge killings
    • Regulators were suppressed and both factions collapsed
    • February 18 – July 20, 1878 or July 14, 1881 (when Billy the Kid was killed)
  5. The declaration is a performative speech act (or the public signing of a document) by an authorized party of a national government, in order to create a state of war between two or more states . The legality of who is competent to declare war varies between nations and forms of government. In many nations, that power is given to the head of ...

  6. Russia during World War I – food shortages in the major urban centres, and poor morale due to lost battles and heavy losses sustained, brought about civil unrest which led to the February Revolution, the abdication of the Tsar, and the end of the Russian Empire. Russian Revolution (1917) – end of Imperial Russia. February Revolution –.

  7. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › World_warWorld war - Wikipedia

    A world war is an international conflict that involves most or all of the world's major powers. Conventionally, the term is reserved for two major international conflicts that occurred during the first half of the 20th century, World War I (1914–1918) and World War II (1939–1945), although some historians have also characterised other global conflicts as world wars, such as the Nine Years ...