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* Invasion of Cayenne ( 1809 ) ( 1809 ): Was a combined military operation by an Anglo-Portuguese-Brazilian expeditionary force against Cayenne, capital of the French South American colony of French Guiana in 1809, during the Napoleonic Wars.
* Carnatic Wars, a series of military contests in India during the 18th century
The rapid adoption of the compound crank can be traced in the works of the Anonymous of the Hussite Wars, an unknown German engineer writing on the state of the military technology of his day: first, the connecting-rod, applied to cranks, reappeared, second, double compound cranks also began to be equipped with connecting-rods and third, the flywheel was employed for these cranks to get them over the ' dead-spot '.
The strip has also met controversy over every military conflict it has dealt with, including Vietnam, Grenada, Panama and both Gulf Wars.
It ended all attempts by England in the Anglo-Dutch Wars of the 17th century to subdue the Dutch Republic by military force.
Gygax learned about H. G. Wells ' Little Wars book for play of military miniatures wargames and Fletcher Pratt's Naval Wargame book.
However, Trajan's Dacian Wars may have led to troop reductions in the area or even total withdrawal followed by slighting of the forts by the Picts rather than an unrecorded military defeat.
The background of this revolt lay in the Napoleonic Wars, when a number of well-educated Russian officers traveled in Europe in the course of the military campaigns, where their exposure to the liberalism of Western Europe encouraged them to seek change on their return to autocratic Russia.
With the Gallic Wars concluded, the Senate ordered Caesar to lay down his military command and return to Rome.
The first documented case is that of Marie-Angélique Duchemin ( 1772 – 1859 ), who fought in the Revolutionary Wars, received a military disability pension in 1798, the rank of 2nd lieutenant in 1822, and the Legion of Honor in 1852.
Category: German military personnel of the Napoleonic Wars
He again proved to be a competent military leader in the Gallic Wars, but his personality quirks caused disruption.
Category: French military personnel of the Napoleonic Wars
His son Ludovico ( died January 27, 1534 ) and his nephew Enrico ( died 1528 ) participated in the Italian Wars at the service of both France and Spain, often changing side with the typical ease of the Italian military leaders of the time.
The Pakistani military maintained division and brigade strength presences in some of the Arab countries during the Arab-Israeli Wars, and the first Gulf War to help the Coalition as well as the Somalian and Bosnian conflicts.
Before 1947, most military officers of the newly formed Pakistan Armed Forces had served in the British Indian Army and fought in both World Wars and the numerous Anglo-Afghan Wars.
In the second half of the 17th century and most of the eighteenth, Poznań was severely affected by a series of wars ( and attendant military occupations, lootings and destruction ) – the Second and Third Northern Wars, the War of the Polish Succession, the Seven Years ' War and the Bar Confederation rebellion.
To the present date, total combined American military casualties of the sixty-five years following the end of World War II — including the Korean and Vietnam Wars — have not exceeded that number.
When serving in the Bishops ' Wars, he wrote the sonnet ' To Generall Goring ,' which is a poem of Bacchanalian celebration rather than a glorification of military action.
Category: British military personnel killed in the French Revolutionary Wars
One of these was built by the Russian military engineer Ivan Vyrodkov during the siege of Kazan in 1552 ( as part of the Russo-Kazan Wars ), and could hold ten large-calibre cannon and 50 lighter cannons.
The United Kingdom's army remained a minimal threat to France ; the UK maintained a standing army of just 220, 000 at the height of the Napoleonic Wars, whereas France's army exceeded a million men — in addition to the armies of numerous allies and several hundred thousand national guardsmen that Napoleon could draft into the military if necessary.
Following the end of the Wars and the constitutional reforms of 2003 by which the state was renamed " Serbia and Montenegro ", the military accordingly changed its name to " Military of Serbia and Montenegro ".

Wars and campaigns
The British Army was heavily involved in the Napoleonic Wars in which the army served in multiple campaigns across Europe ( including continuous deployment in the Peninsular War ), the Caribbean, North Africa and later in North America.
The campaigns and insurrections of the Saxon Wars lasted from 772 to 804.
When the Civil War ended, and the Indian Wars campaigns were in a lull, Carson was breveted a General and appointed commandant of Ft. Garland, Colorado, the heart of Ute country.
The line " Rock & Roller Cola Wars " refers to Pepsi and Coke's usage of various musicians in advertising campaigns.
Wars with Carthage, the Parthians and most notably, the campaigns against Pyrrhus of Epirus, illustrate this.
The Saxons long resisted both becoming Christians and being incorporated into the orbit of the Frankish kingdom, but they were decisively conquered by Charlemagne in a long series of annual campaigns, the Saxon Wars ( 772 – 804 ).
The centuries of expanding large-scale warfare with high-tech weaponry ( of the World Wars and nuclear bombs ) were offset by growing peace movements from the United Nations, the Peace Corps, religious campaigns warning against violence, plus doctors and health workers crossing borders to treat injuries and disease and the return of the Olympics as contest without combat.
Albert assisted his father-in-law Sigismund in his campaigns against the Hussites, involving the Austrian duchy in the Hussite Wars.
When Albert V came of age in 1411 and interfered in the Hussite Wars, he repeatedly established new taxes imposed on the Jewish community to finance his campaigns.
The Wars of Scottish Independence were a series of military campaigns fought between the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of England in the late 13th and early 14th centuries.
With the advent of the French Revolutionary Wars, Amherst was recalled as Commander-in-Chief of the Forces in January 1793: however is generally criticised for allowing the armed forces to slide into acute decline, a direct cause of the failure of the early campaigns in the Low Countries: William Pitt said of him " his age, and perhaps his natural temper, are little suited to the activity and the energy which the present moment calls for ".
The Gallic Wars were a series of military campaigns waged by the Roman proconsul Julius Caesar against several Gallic tribes, Galli being the Latin equivalent of Celt.
An important aspect of Italian unification ( Risorgimento ), related minor conflicts and campaigns ( such as the campaigns of the 1860s ) are usually considered part of the Wars of Italian Independence.
The Battle of Engen was fought between France and Austria on May 3, 1800 as a part of the 1800 campaigns of the French Revolutionary Wars.
General Mack thought that Austrian security relied on sealing off the gaps through the mountainous Black Forest area in Southern Germany that had witnessed much fighting during the campaigns of the French Revolutionary Wars.
The treaty marked the victorious conclusion to Napoleon's campaigns in Italy, the collapse of the First Coalition, and the end of the first phase of the French Revolutionary Wars.
* Italian campaigns of the French Revolutionary Wars
As such, between the World Wars, the Gurkha regiments fought in the Third Afghan War in 1919 and then participated in numerous campaigns on the North-West Frontier, mainly in Waziristan, where they were employed as garrison troops defending the frontier, keeping the peace amongst the local populace and keeping the lawless and often openly hostile Pathan tribesmen in check.
In December 1793 Hoche was arrested, probably owing to his colleague's denounciations, and Pichegru became commander-in-chief of the army of the Rhine-and-Moselle, then he was summoned to succeed Jourdan in the army of the North in February 1794, subsequently fighting three major campaigns of one year ( see: French Revolutionary Wars: Campaigns of 1794 ).
The War of 1812 with the United States and the final campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars were fought during Liverpool's premiership.
Military campaigns of the Wars of the Roses.
The 2D animated microseries Star Wars: Clone Wars ( 2003 – 2005 ) and 3D CGI animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars ( 2008 – present ), chronicle some of the war's major campaigns.

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