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  • ...nited States in the second war, successfully defeating the Chinese in both wars. The Second Opium War (1856-1860), as it was called, was the most critical, ...f the Qing court held reservations given their bitter defeats in the Opium Wars.<ref>Esherick, Joseph W. 1987. <i>The Origins of the Boxer Uprising</i>. Be
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  • ...st Edward I, see: Traquair, P. (1998). <i>Freedom’s sword: Scottland’s wars of Independence</i>. London: HarperCollins. </ref>
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  • ...ions of northern Texas as part of his beat-down of Spain in the Napoleonic Wars. But there was hardly time to ship famous French Tricolours to the region b
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  • Logistics win wars. Logistics is the coordination of complex operations such as moving, housin
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  • ...kCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=dbb7f8cf47e68e9f567313f57c42a1f8 Stalin's Wars]''. Yale: Yale University Press, 2006. Pages 121-133.</ref>
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  • Additionally, the two sides were locked in a series of crises and wars across the globe. The Soviet Union began construction on the infamous Berli
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  • ...inning, slaves were often captured by other Africans in their inter-tribal wars. However, the New World presented itself as a vast area that needed a lot o
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  • ...the early years of his reign were fraught with problems with the nobility, wars with the low countries, conspiracies, and ongoing conflict between Catholic ...rsailles also became a drain on the treasury.<ref>For more on Louis' early wars and finances, see: Young, William. 2004. <i>International Politics and Warf
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  • ...garnered acclaim for their bravery, skill, and tenacity during the Indian Wars of the 19th Century. ...ng decade proved to be even more bloody and destructive as the vile Indian Wars continued in the American West.
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  • ...American Revolution (1776), the Haitian Revolution (1791), and the Spanish Wars of Independence (1810s & 1820s). Langley justifies his choice of revolution ...nts, and unanticipated patterns of violence )that shaped the course of the wars, and the subsequent state-formation and the political cultures that develo
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  • ...ll developed historical interpretation of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars, the philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Immanual Kant and others, and the ...of popular mobilization of the Terror and the repression of the Napoleonic Wars, Chamisso focuses less on ideas of equality and more on manifestations of l
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  • ...most nations were still using gold to back their currencies. But the world wars changed the world’s economic order and how the leaders of nations would c
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  • ...ed him to order the massive bombing of North Vietnam and to conduct covert wars in Laos and Cambodia. There are those who argued against Stone’s view, in
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  • ...history of Europe, 1945-2000: recovery and transformation after two World Wars </i>. 1st ed. New York, Berghahn Books. Europe's experience in World War II
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  • ...wers and actions presidents have taken. Perhaps an example of this are the wars and conflicts the United States has fought over the last 70 years without f ...s been harder to define and the public's expectation has shifted where the wars were harder to argue as being part of the nation's interest. Conflicts have
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  • ...wers and actions presidents have taken. Perhaps an example of this are the wars and conflicts the United States has fought over the last 70 years without f ...s been harder to define and the public's expectation has shifted where the wars were harder to argue as being part of the nation's interest. Conflicts have
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  • ...ced to the United States. For instance, the Civil War was one of the first wars in world history where rifles were used extensively. The telegraph was used ...e nineteenth century, Sweden was still a superpower and often embroiled in wars that many of the commoners believed benefited them little, which was enough
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  • Among all the Indian Wars fought between the United States and the hundreds of American Indian tribes
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  • ...unt of currency allowed in circulation. <ref> Rickards, James. <i>Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis.</i> (New York: Penguin, 2012), p. 43 ...ed government leaders to reassess their fiscal policies. Since most modern wars are paid for by debt, the United States government left the gold standard a
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  • ...ode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=7e4161c63153b4728e621eab7f8e3f79 The Voting Wars: From Florida 2000 to the Next Election Meltdown] (Yale Univ. Press, 2012)
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