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15 hours ago · Armoured units followed from Havana. After street fighting throughout the afternoon and night the last of the rebels, holding out in the police headquarters, were overwhelmed. Approximately 70 mutineers and rebel supporters were executed and reprisals against civilians added to the estimated total death toll of 300 men.
- Cuba
15 hours ago · About 16,000 troops – 11,000 from the US and 5,000 from the Philippines – will be participating in the drills, along with hundreds of soldiers from France and Australia, a treaty ally of ...
15 hours ago · Peninsular War. The Peninsular War (1807–1814) was the military conflict fought in the Iberian Peninsula by Spain, Portugal, and the United Kingdom against the invading and occupying forces of the First French Empire during the Napoleonic Wars. In Spain, it is considered to overlap with the Spanish War of Independence.
- 2 May 1808 (sometimes 27 October 1807) – 17 April 1814, (5 years, 11 months, 2 weeks and 1 day)
15 hours ago · The Indonesian National Revolution ( Indonesian: Revolusi Nasional Indonesia, Dutch: Indonesische Onafhankelijkheidsoorlog) also known as the Indonesian War of Independence, was an armed conflict and diplomatic struggle between the Republic of Indonesia and the Dutch Empire and an internal social revolution during postwar and postcolonial ...
- 17 August 1945 – 27 December 1949, (4 years, 4 months, 1 week and 3 days)
15 hours ago · Map of military operations since 1950. 1950–1953: Korean War: The United States responded to the North Korean invasion of South Korea by going to its assistance, pursuant to United Nations Security Council resolutions. U.S. forces deployed in Korea exceeded 300,000 during the last year of the active conflict (1953).
15 hours ago · Luxembourg is a representative democracy headed by a constitutional monarch, Grand Duke Henri, making it the world's only remaining sovereign grand duchy . Luxembourg is a developed country with an advanced economy and one of the world's highest GDP (PPP) per capita as per IMF and World Bank estimates.
15 hours ago · United Kingdom portal. v. t. e. The history of the United Kingdom began in the early eighteenth century with the Treaty of Union and Acts of Union. The core of the United Kingdom as a unified state came into being in 1707 with the political union of the kingdoms of England and Scotland, [1] into a new unitary state called Great Britain.
