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After a period of guerrilla warfare, Mkwawa was cornered and committed suicide in 1898.
The set-piece period of the war now largely gave way to a mobile guerrilla war, but one final operation remained.
During this period, the Boers also developed guerrilla techniques for use against numerically superior but less mobile bands of natives such as the Zulu who fought in large complex formations.
Mannalargenna, an Aboriginal leader who organised guerrilla attacks against British soldiers in Tasmania during the period known as the Black War, was a Plangermaireener ( one of the 3 bands ) elder, and in 1835 became the first Aborigine in Tasmania to be given a " Christian " burial.
During this period, Hot Springs became the prey of guerrilla bands loosely associated with either Union or Confederate forces.
The Third Republic refers to the period after 1816 in which various patriot guerrilla bands joined under Bolívar's leadership in the Llanos of Venezuela and set up an independent government.
Edward fought alongside Robert throughout his struggle for the Scottish throne, including his desperate period on the run and as a guerrilla.
" The Confederates were not idle during this period and Sheridan's men were plagued by guerrilla raids by partisan ranger Col. John S. Mosby.
During this period, Siquijor was briefly governed by Shunzo Suzuki, a Japanese civilian appointed by the Imperial Japanese Forces until he was assassinated in October 1942 by the guerrilla forces led by Iluminado Jumawanin, of Caipilan, Siquijor.
According to the Catholic Church and most historians of the period he and his followers, in reaction to attacks by Catholic troops, became criminals ( today they would be probably called guerrilla fighters ), who would not hesitate, for their own survival, to plunder and devastate villages, killing any who opposed them, and burning their houses.
Portuguese economic growth in the period 1960 – 73 under the Estado Novo regime ( and even with the effects of an expensive war effort in African territories against independence guerrilla groups ), created an opportunity for real integration with the developed economies of Western Europe.
This period lasted until 1912, when the Balkan countries once again started arming guerrilla bands in Macedonia in order to help them in operations against the Ottoman Army.
It was also around this period that Mao Zedong formulated his theories of rural-based revolution and guerrilla warfare.
Its most famous action in the period was the Araguaia guerrilla ( 1966 – 1974 ).
As time progressed Grivas ' pursuit of enosis through guerrilla tactics with the use of the EOKA B ' paramilitary organisation failed to force Makarios to follow the policy of self-determination-union with Greece and led to a period of armed civil war in Cyprus among the Greek-Cypriot community.
The period from 1969 to 1976 was the stormiest because of a faction struggle over the centrality of guerrilla warfare in Latin America and elsewhere.
It is also during this period that the concept of culture jamming, Spaßguerilla, guerrilla communication and other kinds of non-violent and sometimes simultaneously artistic and political acts become popular as a new form of “ direct action ”.
In a period marked by widespread conflict and unrest, the Gyeongju area became particularly notorious for the level of guerrilla activity in the mountains.
In this period the conventional war that the Province had known gave way to guerrilla warfare, UNITA still controlling most rural areas and randomly striking military or police installations of the Government, and often civilian communities too.
In Albania the term is used to define guerrilla units established by Albanian revolutionaries who fought in Albanian inhabited areas against foreign rule during the period of the Albanian National Awakening and the early 20th century in Kosovo.
During and following the La Violencia civil war that erupted in Colombia from the late 1940s to the mid-1950s, the communists developed organic links to several liberal guerrilla and irregular rural forces, most of whom nominally depended on the official Colombian Liberal Party and eventually demobilized by the end of that period.
The term " guerrilla " came about during this period, due to the influence of the Peninsular War.
According to the Brazilian Army 97 military and civilians were killed by terrorist and guerrilla actions made by leftist groups during the same period.
The period from December 2003 to March 2004 marked a relative lull in guerrilla attacks.

period and warfare
In part this was a consequence of the increasingly specialised forms of warfare practiced in the later period.
The leaders, whose names are recorded as Hengest and Horsa, rebelled, and a long period of warfare ensued.
The disease has a history of use in biological warfare dating back many centuries, and is considered a threat due to its ease of culture and ability to remain in circulation among local rodents for a long period of time.
Others continue to use the word to describe the style of breakthrough warfare practised by the Axis powers of this period, even if it were not a formal doctrine.
Inter-State relations in the pre-Islamic period resulted in clear-cut rules of warfare of a high humanitarian standard, in rules of neutrality, of treaty law, of customary law embodied in religious charters, in exchange of embassies of a temporary or semi-permanent character.
In this period also started the penetration of Western culture, but most Chinese thought that the Westerners were maybe more advanced in technology and warfare, but that China had primacy in moral and intellectual fields.
Cannon also transformed naval warfare in the early modern period, as European navies took advantage of their firepower.
The unease and self-deception that characterized that period of colonial history would be revisited in many forms at political and social moments of crisis ( such as the Salem witch trials, which coincided with frontier warfare and economic competition among Indians and French and other European settlers ) and during lengthy periods of cultural definition ( such as the American Renaissance of the late 18th-and early 19th-century literary, visual, and architectural movements, which sought to capitalize on unique American identities ).
This view has been rejected since, as saltpeter does not appear to have been used in warfare in Europe or the Middle East before the 13th century, and is totally absent from the accounts of the Arabs, the foremost chemists of the Mediterranean world, before the same period.
In the late medieval period, new methods of warfare began to render classical knights in armour obsolete, but the titles remained in many nations.
While their Roman predecessors were well-educated and had been experienced in warfare, the European nobility of the early medieval period were not renowned for their education, however from the 12th century it became more common for them to read.
While it is uncertain to what extent his work was read amongst the warrior class as opposed to the clergy, Vegetius remained prominent in the literature on warfare in the medieval period.
Early in the medieval period, ships in the context of warfare were used primarily for transporting troops.
In the Mediterranean, naval warfare in the medieval period resembled that of the ancient period: fleets of galleys would exchange missile fire and then come alongside for marines to fight on deck.
This mode of naval warfare continued even into the early modern period, as, for example, at the Battle of Lepanto.
On the other hand, many historians now point out that most of the negative social factors popularly associated with the medieval period – poverty, warfare, religious and political persecution, for example – seem to have worsened in this era which saw the rise of Machiavellian politics, the Wars of Religion, the corrupt Borgia Popes, and the intensified witch-hunts of the 16th century.
In a situation of constant conflict, warfare and daily life were strongly interlinked during this period.
During the Renaissance and the Early Modern period, siege warfare dominated the conduct of war in Europe.
The Chinese invention of the hand-held, trigger-mechanism crossbow during this period revolutionized warfare, giving greater emphasis to infantry and cavalry and less to traditional chariot warfare.
The importance of siege warfare in the ancient period should not be underestimated.
During the Renaissance and the Early Modern period, siege warfare continued to dominate the conduct of the European wars.
During this time period warfare broke out again between the two states and Emperor Eskender invaded Dakkar where he was stopped by a large Adalite army who destroyed the Solomonic army to such an extent that no further expeditions were carried out for the remaining of Eskender's reign.
The sword in this time period was the most personal weapon, the most prestigious, and the most versatile for close combat, but it came to decline in military use as technology, such as the crossbow and firearms changed warfare.

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