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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 insurgency
Most of his reign was spent fighting a civil war and resisting rebellion ; Timur was even forced to move his capital from Kandahar to Kabul due to insurgency.
Today the FAE has a personnel of 6, 055 and focuses mainly on border-control but faces also the war on drugs, guerrilla insurgency as well as humanitarian missions.
This large return of Afghans may have helped the nation's economy but the country still remains one of the poorest in the world due to the decades of war, lack of foreign investment, ongoing government corruption and the Pakistani-backed Taliban insurgency.
Iraqi nationalist and Ba ' athist elements ( part of the insurgency ) remained committed to expelling U. S. forces and also seemed to attack Shia populations, presumably, due to the Shia parties ' collaboration with Iran and the United States in making war against their own nation.
The war began when Iraq invaded Iran, launching a simultaneous invasion by air and land 22 September 1980 following a long history of border disputes, and fuelled by fears of Shia Islam insurgency among Iraq's long-suppressed Shia majority influenced by the Iranian Revolution in 1979.
In an effort to curb the Dhofar insurgency, Sultan Qaboos expanded and re-equipped the armed forces and granted amnesty to all surrendering rebels while vigorously prosecuting the war in Dhofar.
However, since the 2001 invasion little success has been accomplished in quelling the Taliban insurgency in the southern parts of the country, many believe the Taliban cannot be defeated as long as it has sanctuary in neighboring Pakistan and that Operation Enduring Freedom has transformed into a continuing full fledged war with no end in sight.
* March 26 – U. S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara delivers an address that reiterates American determination to give South Vietnam increased military and economic aid, in its war against the Communist insurgency.
* Sa ' dah insurgency ( 2004 – present ) – a civil war in the Sa ' dah Governorate of Yemen.
After two years of war and a strong insurgency campaign, Alexander managed to establish little control over Bactria which he was annoyed at.
During the war, communists and anti-war spokesmen insisted the Viet Cong was an insurgency indigenous to the South, while the U. S. and South Vietnamese governments portrayed the group as a tool of Hanoi.
According to historian John Merrill, " the war was preceded by a major insurgency in the South and serious clashes along the thirty-eighth parallel ," and 100, 000 people died in " political disturbances, guerrilla warfare, and border clashes ".
A death squad is an armed military, police, insurgent, or terrorist squad that conducts extrajudicial killings, assassinations, and forced disappearances of persons as part of a war, insurgency or terror campaign.
This war started following Pakistan's Operation Gibraltar, which was designed to infiltrate forces into Jammu and Kashmir to precipitate an insurgency against rule by India.
A blood diamond ( also called a conflict diamond, converted diamond, hot diamond, or war diamond ) is a diamond mined in a war zone and sold to finance an insurgency, invading army's war efforts, or a warlord's activity.
* Occupation era: The collective term usually denoting Iraqi insurgency opposed to the American-led coalition forces and Iraqi Security Forces during the occupation of Iraq that followed the Iraq war on May 1, 2003.
The Iraq War has been a widescale conflict, encompassing a military campaign by a multinational force, led by troops from the United States and the United Kingdom, as well as the Iraqi insurgency and civil war.
The first few years of the war involved a low-level rural insurgency against French authority.
On 13 October 2005 Straw took questions from a public panel of ( mostly anti-war ) individuals in a BBC Newsnight television special on the subject of Iraq, addressing widespread public concerns about the exit strategy for British troops, the Iraqi insurgency and, inevitably, the moral legitimacy of the war.
The insurgency itself was conducted by the CPNLAF, the Cambodian People's National Liberation Armed Forces: they were backed by both the People's Army of Vietnam ( PAVN ) and the National Liberation Front ( NLF, better known as the Viet Cong ), who occupied parts of Cambodia as part of their ongoing war with the South Vietnamese.
His role in as a member of the so-called " eradicator " faction, advocating all out war against the insurgency during the Algerian Civil War that killed more than 150, 000 on both sides, earned him criticism by some Western Human Rights groups.
Kapisa is seen as an important piece of property in the war against insurgency in the country, the province has been called " the gateway to Kabul ", it's viewed as an important area even as small as it is, because it's a transient area for insurgents, transport of weapons and criminal activity.

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