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The war was driven by the antagonism between the british empire and the Bourbons, resulting from overlapping intersts in their colonial and trade empires.
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it was a period of brutal conflict in the french coony of saint-dominque, leading to the elimination of slavery and establishment of haiti as the first republic ruled by people of african ancestry.
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it was an armed conflict between the people of mexico and the spanish colonial authorities which started on 16 september 1810. The movement, which became known as the mexican war of independence, was led by mexican-born spaniards, mestizos and amerindians who sought indepenedence from spain.
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the brazilian independence comprised a series of political events occured in 1821-1823
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this conflict, called also the seven weeks war, was productive of results not to be measured by the duration of the struggle in the field-the total exclusion of austria from political control in germany, and the rise of prussia to a position of primary among the german states.
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The Battle of Ayacucho was a decisive military encounter during the Peruvian War of Independence. It was the battle that sealed the independence of Peru, as well as the victory that ensured independence for the rest of South America.
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was an armed conflict between the united states and mexico. annexation of texas, which mexico considered part of its territory despite the 1836 texas revolution.
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it was fought during the greek war of independence in narvino bay, on the west coast of the peloponnese peninsula in the lonain sea.
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in july 1853 russia occupied territories in the crimea that had previously been controlled by turkey. britain and france was concerned about russian expansion and attempted to achieve a negotiation withdrawal.
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the civil war started in 1861 amd end in 1865. the south had better generals but the north had a larger poplution better transportation greater resourses more factories and railroads
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covers the period from the arrival of paleo-indians thousand of years ago to the present day.
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often referred to in france as the 1870 war was a conflict between the second french empire and the kingdom of prussia. prussia was aided the north german confederation, of which it was a member, and the south german states of beden,
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was the political and social movement that agglomerated differnet states of the italian peninsula into the single state of italy in the 19th century.
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was a political scandal that divided france in the 1890s and the early 1900s. it involved the conviction for treason in november 1894 of captain alfred dreyfus, a young french artillery officer of alsatian jewish descent.
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After European settlement in 1788, Australia was politically organised as a number of separate British colonies, eventually six in all. By the middle of the 19th century, these had achieved virtually complete internal self-government under their own colonial Parliaments, with the "mother country" looking after their defence and such foreign relations as they had, and making only the occasional more direct intervention in their affairs.
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he first known settlement in Ireland began around 8000 BC, when hunter-gatherers arrived from continental Europe, probably via a land bridge.[1] Few archaeological traces remain of this group, but their descendants and later Neolithic arrivals, particularly from the Iberian Peninsula, were responsible for major Neolithic sites such as Newgrange.
