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Afonso IV was not happy to see his daughter abused, and started a war against Castile.
Before the Civil War he was firmly against secession, but when the war started he nevertheless took the side of the Confederacy.
On 1 September 1939 this unit was one of the many that participated in the attack on Poland that started the war.
Thereafter, Octavian started a propaganda war, denouncing Antony as an enemy of Rome, asserting that he was seeking to establish a personal monarchy over the entire Roman Empire on the behalf of Caesarion, completely circumventing the Roman Senate.
After the war ended local parties started to develop in Chad.
Hot spots in the present civil war. The war started on December 23, 2005, when the government of Chad declared a state of war with Sudan and called for the citizens of Chad to mobilize themselves against the " common enemy ," which the Chadian government sees as the Rally for Democracy and Liberty ( RDL ) militants, Chadian rebels, backed by the Sudanese government, and Sudanese militiamen.
What started as an elitist political movement against their colonial master, finally ended as a full-fledged civil war between pro-Independence Criollos who sought political and economic independence from Spain and royalist Criollos, who supported the continued allegiance to and permanence within the Spanish Empire of the Kingdom of Chile.
His widow published his magnum opus on the philosophy of war in 1832, on which he had started working in 1816, but had not completed.
Even after the war started in 1914, he continued seminars and classes where the works of Albert Einstein and others were followed closely.
The term started to get its modern negative meaning with Cornelius Sulla's ascension to the dictatorship following Sulla's second civil war, making himself the first Dictator in more than a century ( during which the office was ostensibly abolished ) as well as de facto eliminating the time limit and need of senatorial acclamation, although he avoided a major constitutional crisis by resigning the office after about one year due to poor health, dying shortly after.
The made-up embankment which today extends the whole length of the town's riverbank is the result of 19th century land reclamation, started in earnest when the town played host to a large number of prisoners of war from the Napoleonic Wars which formed a captive workforce.
Incorrect spelling and grammatical mistakes are also very frequently the subject of flames, particularly if a flame war has already started.
This was expropriated by the German government, and turned into DECLA when the war started.
However, after the end of the war some of the brighter young directors such as Lubitsch started using a few reverse-angle cuts, mostly in association with Point of View cutting.
Following the October 2001 American invasion and the Bonn Agreement the new government under the leadership of Hamid Karzai started to re-establish diplomatic relationships with many countries who had held close diplomatic relations before the communist coup d ' état and the subsequent civil war.
Nevertheless the Carthaginian faction that opposed the conflict, led by the land-owning aristocrat Hanno the Great, gained power and in 244 BC, and considering the war to be over, started the demobilization of the fleet, giving the Romans a chance to again attain naval superiority.
The Finnish Civil War would probably have started at that point had there been enough weapons in the country to arm the two sides ; instead, there began a race for weapons and a final escalation towards war.
He practiced rigid economy, never started a war, and at his death there was a large surplus in the royal treasury ( which was kept in the cellar of the royal palace ).
Anne Applebaum and Steven Rosefielde estimate that 1. 2 to 1. 5 million people were in Gulag system's prison camps and colonies when the war started.
His son Carloman started a new war against Saxony in 743, because the Saxons gave aid to Duke Odilo of Bavaria.
Britain entered the war on 4 August, and started sending in troops on 7 August.
Hannibal started the war without the full backing of Carthaginian oligarchy.
He started studying mathematics in 1941 in the U. S., but his studies were interrupted by the war, during which he served in the military.

war and obsolete
Early in the war, the Germans began to create makeshift assault guns by mounting their infantry support weapons on the bed of a truck or on obsolete tanks with the turret removed.
Particularly after the Civil War, as the political thrust of the novel which had arguably helped to precipitate that war became obsolete to actual political discourse, popular depictions of the title character recast him within the apologetics of the Lost Cause of the Confederacy.
With the kingdoms uniting Carlisle Castle should have become obsolete as a frontier fortress but in 1642 civil war broke out and the castle was garrisoned for the king in 1642, and endured a long siege, Carlisle ’ s eighth, from October 1644 until June 1645.
Following the war, the Kingman airfield served as one of the largest and best-known reclamation sites for obsolete military aircraft.
The Model 1840 U. S. musket was the last flintlock firearm produced for the U. S. military, although obsolete flintlocks were seeing action in the earliest days of the American Civil War, for example, during the first year of the war, the Army of Tennessee had over 2, 000 flintlock muskets in service.
In the post war period the RNZAF dealt progressively with demobilisation and disposal of its large obsolete fleet, rearmament to support the cold war, some loss of training opportunities with the American suspension of ANZUS Treaty obligations in protest at New Zealand becoming a nuclear free zone, social changes which saw women become combat pilots, and most recently loss of fast jets as part of the continuing funding cuts, that have seen the air force decline from over a thousand aircraft to just fifty.
The concern within higher naval circles was that without ships that could fulfill these requirements and incorporate new technology, their fleet would become obsolete and ineffective should a war at sea arise.
Many potential customers compared the competition between the rival satellite companies to the format war between VHS and Betamax home video recorders and chose to wait and see which company would win outright as opposed to buying potentially obsolete equipment.
The practical importance of this feature is signified by the fact that not only all the further German tank designs inherited it, but also later into the war, most of the Allied tanks ' designs either quickly switched to the three-man turret, or were abandoned as obsolete.
Since 1945, developments in international law such as the United Nations Charter, which prohibits both the threat and use of force in international conflicts, have made declarations of war largely obsolete in international relations.
) The thesis of the book was that the integration of the economies of European countries had grown to such a degree that war between them would be entirely futile, making militarism obsolete.
However, there were plans before the war to build a new Charleston airport, as Wertz Field was already becoming commercially obsolete.
Consequently, at the start of the war, many navies comprised newer ships and obsolete older ones.
After the war, the United States military ordered hundreds of the Grumman Albatross and its variants for a variety of roles, though, like the pure flying boat was made obsolete by helicopters which could operate in sea conditions far beyond what the best seaplane could manage.
American war planners failed to appreciate that technological advances in submarines and naval aviation had made Mahan's doctrine obsolete.
When the U. S. entered the war, the M2 design was obsolete with a 37 mm gun, 32 mm frontal armor, machine gun secondary armament and a very high silhouette.
Declared obsolete in April 1944, the General Lee fought on against Japan until the end of the war.
Germany's defeat rendered its plans for the creation of Eastern European puppet states, including one in Poland, ( Mitteleuropa ) obsolete, and the Russian Empire collapsed, resulting in a revolution and a civil war.
The Royal Air Force had neglected air transport before the war, and the only available aircraft for airborne troops were conversions of obsolete bombers like the Armstrong Whitworth Whitley.
He almost singlehandedly fought to change the obsolete Soviet tactics that were in place in 1941 when the war started.
The BEF dedicated its first weeks in Italy to acquiring the proper equipment to fight on Italian terrain, and to training under American command in as much as the preparation in Brazil, despite the 2 years interval since the declaration of war, had proved obsolete.
Until at least 1992, it was a component in every major war, despite beliefs after World War II that increasingly greater speeds and longer range weapons would make dogfighting obsolete.
By the late 1940s, the B-17 Flying Fortresses and B-24 Liberators used in the European Theater of the war were thoroughly obsolete as combat aircraft and were mostly sent to the smelters.
When the war ended, no plans were made to revive the Single Action Army revolver as the design was seen as obsolete.

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