* 1296 – First War of Scottish Independence: John Balliol's Scots army is defeated by an English army commanded by John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey at the Battle of Dunbar.

* 1327 – First War of Scottish Independence: James Douglas leads a raid into Weardale and almost kills Edward III of England.

Even so, forces with inferior weapons have still emerged victorious at times, for example in the Wars of Scottish Independence and in the First Italo – Ethiopian War.

Gibson portrays William Wallace, a 13th-century Scottish warrior who led the Scots in the First War of Scottish Independence against King Edward I of England.

Among these actions were the Seven Years ' War, the American Revolutionary War, the Napoleonic Wars, the First and Second Opium Wars, the Boxer Rebellion, the New Zealand land wars, the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857, the First and Second Boer Wars, the Fenian raids, the Irish War of Independence, its serial interventions into Afghanistan ( which were meant to maintain a friendly buffer state between British India and the Russian Empire ), and the Crimean War ( to keep the Russian Empire at a safe distance by coming to Turkey's aid ).

* 1303 – Battle of Roslin, of the First War of Scottish Independence.

* 1314 – First War of Scottish Independence: the Battle of Bannockburn concludes with a decisive victory by Scottish forces led by Robert the Bruce, though England did not recognize Scottish independence until 1328 with the signing of the Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton.

* 1314 – First War of Scottish Independence: The Battle of Bannockburn ( south of Stirling ) begins.

Although the First Battle of Independence in August 1862 resulted in a Confederate victory, the Southerners were unable to follow up their win in any significant fashion, as the City of Kansas was occupied by Union troops and proved too heavily fortified for them to assault.

* 1857 – The British East India Company disbands the 34th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry whose sepoy Mangal Pandey had earlier revolted against the British and is considered to be the First Martyr in the War of Indian Independence.

* Independence Day, commemorates the day of the First Republic in 1918.

* 1821 – Greek War of Independence: First revolutionary act in the monastery of Agia Lavra, Kalavryta.

* Robert the Bruce ( 1274 – 1329 ) King of Scotland, victor in the First War of Scottish Independence against invasion by the Kingdom of England.

* Israel War of Independence ( First Arab-Israeli War )

* Timeline: Israel War of Independence ( First Arab-Israeli War )

* 1286 – March 19 – King Alexander III of Scotland dies in a horse accident with Queen Yolande de Dreux's unborn child and the 3-year-old Margaret, Maid of Norway as heirs ; this sets the stage for the First war of Scottish Independence and increased influence of England over Scotland.

The First Italian War of Independence, started by the Piedmontese king Charles Albert to exploit the favourable circumstances in Milan, turned into a total failure.

For example, in 2001, Sir David Howard was created a Grand Cordon, First Class, of the Order of Independence of Jordan following the state visit of King Abdullah II.

* March 19 – King Alexander III of Scotland dies in a horse accident with only Yolande of Dreux, Queen of Scotland's unborn child and 3-year-old Margaret, Maid of Norway as heirs ; this sets the stage for the First War of Scottish Independence and increased influence of England over Scotland.

The First War of Scottish Independence can be loosely divided into four phases: the initial English invasion and success in 1296 ; the campaigns led by William Wallace, Andrew de Moray and various Scottish Guardians from 1297 until John Comyn negotiated for the general Scottish submission in February 1304 ; the renewed campaigns led by Robert the Bruce following his killing of The Red Comyn in Dumfries in 1306 to his and the Scottish victory at Bannockburn in 1314 ; and a final phase of Scottish diplomatic initiatives and military campaigns in Scotland, Ireland and Northern England from 1314 until the Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton in 1328.

* First War of Scottish Independence

The Battle of Stirling Bridge was a battle of the First War of Scottish Independence.

The city hosted the First Continental Congress before the war ; the Second Continental Congress, which signed the United States Declaration of Independence, during the war ; and the Constitutional Convention ( 1787 ) after the war.

It was one of the decisive battles of the First War of Scottish Independence.

* September 25 – The Mozambican War of Independence is launched by FRELIMO.

The blockade of the Atlantic ports by the Royal Navy throughout the first war ( described in the USA as the Second War of Independence ) was orchestrated from Bermuda, and the task force that burned Washington DC in 1814 was launched from the colony.

Their musket fire, as well as grapeshot fired from ships anchored nearby, intimidated the Americans sufficiently that they never launched an assault on the defensive positions on Mount Independence.

By the late 1950s, in Algeria, the FLN had launched its War of Independence.

In March 1296, Edward I launched an invasion of Scotland, sparking the First War of Scottish Independence.

In 2004 the Menokin Bluegrass Festival was launched in Richmond County at the ruins of Francis Lightfoot Lee's ( a signer of the Declaration of Independence ) ancestral home, Menokin ( later changed to Menokin Music Festival ).

The first bombs delivered to their targets by air were launched on unmanned balloons, carrying a single bomb, by the Austrians against Venice in 1849, during the First Italian War of Independence.

The Kachin insurgency by the Kachin Independence Organisation ( KIO ) had begun earlier in 1961 triggered by U Nu's declaration of Buddhism as the state religion, and the Shan State Army ( SSA ), led by Sao Shwe Thaik's wife Mahadevi and son Chao Tzang Yaunghwe, launched a rebellion in 1964 as a direct consequence of the 1962 military coup.

In 2004, the Menokin Bluegrass Festival was launched in Richmond County at the ruins of Francis Lightfoot Lee's ( a signer of the Declaration of Independence ) ancestral home, Menokin.

Violence escalated, resulting in the rise of the Provisional Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) from the Catholic community, a group reminiscent of those from the War of Independence and the Civil War that occurred in the 1920s that had launched a campaign of violence to end British rule in Northern Ireland.

In the early 1960s, the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde ( PAIGC ) launched an anti-colonial guerrilla war against the Portuguese authorities.

January 1991-As SEACers protested the war in Iraq and at the same time launched the Energy Independence Campaign.

Meanwhile, In the eve of Independence day on July 9, 2011, a digital newspaper called The Upper Nile Times was launched in Malakal to cater news stories on the State and Southern Sudan as whole.

Independence in 1974 launched a Grenadian national identity which was exemplified in the calypso of the time, which tended to be intensely patriotic.

In a very controversial series of missile tests conducted on the occasion of the United States ' Independence Day on July 4, 2006, a Paektusan-2 SLV was launched for the first time according to Jane's Defence Weekly.

The goal is to gain " Independence in Europe ", as the catch phrase of the campaign launched by the SNP goes, and it appears that the EU then becomes instrumental in the " struggle " ( or, rather, passive demand ) for a higher degree of independence ; an accessory for dissociation with Britain.

It was a strategy put to good use by the Scots during the Wars of Independence ; they repeatedly launched raids into northern England, burning much of the countryside until the whole region was transformed.

After annihilating the insurgent air force AUREV, central government troops launched an amphibious and airborne assault on the rebel capital Manado called Operasi Merdeka ( Operation Independence ).

In June 2009, Motley Fool Funds launched its first mutual fund, Motley Fool Independence Fund.

* Independence Day fireworks-The 4th of July weekend on Saturday sports a fireworks display launched from a waterborne platform and synchronized with music played by a local radio station.

Against this proposal of the defence minister, the opposition, led by the Independence Party, launched an endless obstruction under the slogan of " no more soldiers without the introduction of Hungarian as the language service and command ".

They then flew on to the USS Franklin D. Roosevelt southeast of Sicily where they stayed overnight, then continued on to Israel refueling once more from tankers launched from the USS Independence south of Crete.

After Independence, the then chief minister C. N. Annadurai launched a Cooum Improvement Scheme at a cost of 19 million in September 1967, six months after the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam ( DMK ) party came to power for the first time in the state, when M. Karunanidhi was PWD minister.

The situation did not normalize until 1821, when Agustin de Iturbide launched a drive for Mexican Independence.

The Israeli Broadcasting Authority launched regular public transmissions on 2 May 1968, on the occasion of Israeli Independence Day.