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The 7 Years War was a global conflict involving most of the great powers. The war was driven by the antagonism between the British Empire and the Bourbons.
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Australia was under British rule until many years of trying to become independent finally paid off.
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The Haitian Revolution was a time of brutal conflict leading to the elimination of slavery. It also led to the establishment of Haiti being the republic rules by AFrican ancestry.
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Mexico's independence started out as a peasant revolt against colonial authority, which resulted in a full-fledged armed conflict. The battles continued for years until they finally won their independence.
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The Italian Unification is known as the chain of political and military events the produced a united italian peninsuila under the kingdom of Italy.
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Brazil gained its independence with little violence. It was said that in the late 18th century other parts of Brazil wee already contemplating the idea of independence.
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The Battle of Ayacucho was the battle that sealed the independence for Peru and the victory that ensured the independence for the rest of South America.
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The Battle of Navarino was a victory which won Greece independence. It was also a major naval battle.
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The Mexican–American War was an armed conflict between the United States and Mexico from 1846-1848, thus forcing Mexico to sell their northern territories to the U.S.
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The Crimean was was a major loss for Russia. It made them realize that indusrtialization was needed.
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The American Civil War, also known as the war between states, was a war faught in the U.S. 11 southern slave states declared their secession and formed the Confederate States of America.
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At the end of The Civil War, the confederacy surrendered and slavery was outlawed everywhere in the nation. The restoration of the union dealt with issues that remained unsolved for generations.
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The Austro-Prussian War was a war fought in 1866 between the German Confederation under the leadership of the Austrian Empire and its German allies.
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Canada gained it's independence from the British North America Act. It was then officially established as a self-governing entity within the British Empire.
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Canada gained it's independence with the British North America Act. It was then officially established a self-governing entity within the British Empire.
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The Dreyfus affair 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. Sentenced to life imprisonment for allegedly having communicated French military secrets to the German Embassy in Paris
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Northern Ireland is one of the four countries of the United Kingdom. It's 30% of the island's total population and about 3% of the population of the United Kingdom.
