Britain and France both controlled Control colonies on the Indian Subcontinent and when the French National Convention declared Expressing_publicly war on Britain on 1 February 1793 , both sides were prepared GetReady for conflict in India .

News of the outbreak of war took Conquering five months to reach the Indian Ocean but British forces , recently engaged Forming_relationships in the Third Anglo-Mysore War , were mobilised Becoming_a_member in preparation and immediately seized the ports of French India .

After Rossbach ( 5 November ) , the French had refused Agree_or_refuse_to_act to participate Participation further in Austria 's war with Prussia ; and after Leuthen ( 5 December ) , Austria could not continue it by herself .

For a period of over a decade the two had been engaged Forming_relationships in a civil war for power in Castile and León .

In besieging Besieging Bayonne , Alfonso the Battler was perhaps hoping to persuade the Count of Toulouse to switch Change allegiance to him and aid Assistance him in his war in Castile .

The former records how Pedro González de Lara , after he was captured Conquering by Alfonso VII for his part in the rebellion , joined Becoming_a_member the siege of Bayonne `` in order to bring him [ Alfonso the Battler ] back to Castile '' ( `` ut reducere eum in Castellam '' ) because he wanted `` to wage war in Castile '' ( `` facere bellum in Castella '' ) , that is , continue the revolt .

According to the `` Chronica '' , `` during the time when Alfonso was at war with the rebel Hostile_encounter nobles ... the King of Aragon had mobilised sizeable armies of knights and infantrymen ... had traveled Traveling then beyond his own borders to Gascony [ where ] he surrounded Surrounding the city of Bayonne which is located near the Garonne River . ''

in 1965 during the vietnam war , it was the objective of many attacks Attack by us air force and us navy aircraft which would fail Confronting_problem to destroy Destroying the bridge until 1972 , even after hundreds of attacks Attack .

During the civil war in Byzantium in 1320s and 1330s , the Serbs conquered Conquering most of the Bulgarian and Aromanian populated Macedonia from the Byzantines .

Lack of stability was eminent in the southern Balkans as well : in 1341–1347 the Byzantine Empire was shaken Motion by a bloody civil war between John V Palaiologos and John VI Kantakouzenos .

During the civil war in Byzantium both Palaiologos and Kantakouzenos were trying to find external allies and used Using foreign mercenaries .

In 1344 , Momchil , the independent Bulgarian ruler of the Rhodope and Aegean regions , whose army grew Expansion to 2,000 men , took Creating an important role in the Byzantine civil war .

The invasion occurred Coming_to_be as part of a declared war against international terrorism and its sponsors under the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush following the September 11 terrorist attacks .

The Bush administration based its rationale for the war principally on the assertion that Iraq , which had been viewed Perception_active by the U.S. as a rogue state since the 1990–1991 Gulf War , supposedly possessed an active weapons of mass destruction ( WMDs ) program , and that the Iraqi government posed Causation a threat to the United States and its coalition allies .

The Chilcot Report , a British inquiry Scrutiny into its decision to go to war , was published Publishing in 2016 and concluded Process_end military action may have been necessary but was not the last resort at the time and that the consequences of invasion were underestimated Judgment_communication .

since the end of the first sino-japanese war Hostile_encounter in 1895 , japan feared Change_sentiment russian encroachment on its plans to create Creating a sphere of influence in korea and manchuria .

Russia suffered Bodily_harm multiple defeats by Japan , but Tsar Nicholas II was convinced that Russia would win Getting and chose Choosing to remain Presence engaged Participation in the war Hostile_encounter ; at first , to await the outcomes of certain naval battles , and later to preserve Preserving the dignity of Russia by averting Preventing_or_letting a `` humiliating peace '' .

Scholars continue to debate Quarreling the historical significance of the war Hostile_encounter .

The Japanese government perceived Know a Russian threat to their plans Arranging for expansion Expansion into Asia and chose Choosing to go to war .

the war concluded Process_end with the treaty of portsmouth , mediated by us president theodore roosevelt .

This allowed Preventing_or_letting the power vacuum which the civil war Military_operation had fostered Creating in the Caliphate 's provinces to grow Expansion , and several local rulers sprang up in Jazira , Syria and Egypt .

On the first night of the war Military_operation a USAF EF-111A Raven `` Spark Vark '' , flown by pilot Captain James Denton and Electronic Warfare Officer ( EWO ) Captain Brent Brandon , was on an electronic warfare Hostile_encounter mission ahead of a group of jets on a bombing Attack run .

In the opening Openness days of the war , many air-air engagements occurred Presence , where Iraqi interceptors would engage Coalition aircraft .

The first air-air kills of the war occurred Presence when two USAF F-15Cs shot down Use_firearm two Iraqi MiG-29s .

On the first night of the war , two F/A-18s from the carrier were flying Motion outside of Baghdad when two Iraqi MiG-25PDs interceptors from the 96th Squadron engaged them .

On the opening Openness night of the war two Iraqi MiG-29s attempted to engage a flight of USAF F-15Es .

The senior Luftwaffe officer responsible for the bombing Attack , `` Generaloberst '' Alexander Löhr , was captured Conquering by the Yugoslavs at the end Process_end of the war Hostile_encounter and was tried and executed for war Hostile_encounter crimes , in part for his involvement in the bombing Attack of Belgrade .

The senior Luftwaffe officer responsible for the bombing Attack , `` Generaloberst '' Alexander Löhr , was captured Conquering by the Yugoslavs at the end Process_end of the war Hostile_encounter and was tried and executed for war Hostile_encounter crimes , in part for his involvement in the bombing Attack of Belgrade .

kren was arrested Arrest in 1947 on unrelated charges of war Hostile_encounter crimes stemming from his subsequent service as the head of the air force of the independent state of croatia .

Croatian authorities filed Submitting_documents war crime charges against Dragan Vasiljković , specifically for leading Causation the attack Attack in Glina which resulted in Causation civilian deaths Death , as well as injuring Bodily_harm and killing Killing prisoners of war .

Croatian authorities filed Submitting_documents war crime charges against Dragan Vasiljković , specifically for leading Causation the attack Attack in Glina which resulted in Causation civilian deaths Death , as well as injuring Bodily_harm and killing Killing prisoners of war .

Ljubo Jednak , the only survivor of these killings Killing , went on to testify Testing at the trials of the several prominent figures in the NDH after the war Hostile_encounter .

UNK escaped Escaping yugoslavia after the war and moved Motion to francoist spain , where he was killed Killing by a person generally assumed Choosing to be an agent of the yugoslav state security service Supply .

When the Russian army marched Self_motion into Moldavia and Wallachia in 1806 , the Ottomans declared Expressing_publicly war Hostile_encounter on Russia .

During the Dardanelles Operation Military_operation in September 1806 , Britain pressured Convincing Sultan Selim III to expel Extradition Sebastiani , declare Expressing_publicly war Hostile_encounter on France , cede the Danubian Principalities to Russia , and surrender Surrendering the Ottoman fleet , together with the forts on the Dardanelles , to the Royal Navy .

On 16 March 1807 , 5000 British troops embarked Self_motion on the Alexandria expedition Traveling of 1807 and occupied Control Alexandria in August , although Khedive Muhammad Ali defeated Conquering them heavily and forced them to evacuate Removing five months later after a short siege Besieging ; however , the Ottoman Empire had a little military support Supporting from France in the war Hostile_encounter with Russia .

therefore , on 5 january 1809 , the ottoman government concluded Process_end the treaty of the dardanelles with britain ( being now in war Hostile_encounter with both france and russia ) .

the mau mau uprising Change_of_leadership ( unk ) , also known as the mau mau rebellion , the kenya emergency Emergency , and the mau mau revolt , was a war Hostile_encounter in the british kenya colony ( unk ) between the kenya land and freedom army ( unk ) , also known as `` mau mau '' , and the british colonists .

This included Cause_to_be_included 1,090 executions at the end of the war , the largest wartime use Using of capital punishment by the British Empire .

Origins of the war Hostile_encounter — wars Hostile_encounter in three kingdoms .

In Scotland itself , from 1644–45 a Scottish civil war was fought Hostile_encounter between Scottish Royalists—supporters of Charles I under James Graham , 1st Marquis of Montrose—and the Covenanters , who had controlled Control Scotland since 1639 and allied Collaboration with the English Parliament .

The Scottish uprising Change_of_leadership triggered Causation civil war in Charles ' other two Kingdoms , first in Ireland , then in England .

This in turn sparked Causation civil war in England , because the Long Parliament did not trust Charles with command Control of an army to put down the Irish rebellion , fearing Risk that it would also be used Using against them .

in 1644 , following the signing Sign_agreement of a treaty UNK the solemn league and covenant Commitment UNK with the english parliament , the bulk of the covenanters ' armed forces were sent Sending south to fight Hostile_encounter on the parliamentarian side in the english civil war .

It was a three-way war fought Hostile_encounter between : The war was instigated Causation by Philip of Spain to keep his enemy , France , from interfering Hindering with the Spanish army in the Netherlands and his planned Arranging invasion Attack of England .

It was a three-way war fought Hostile_encounter between : The war was instigated Causation by Philip of Spain to keep his enemy , France , from interfering Hindering with the Spanish army in the Netherlands and his planned Arranging invasion Attack of England .

The war began Process_start when the Catholic League convinced Convincing King Henry III to issue Creating an edict outlawing Protestantism and annulling Henry of Navarre 's right to the throne ; Henry III was possibly influenced Influence by the royal favorite , Anne de Joyeuse .

For the first part of the war , the royalists and the Catholic League were uneasy allies against their common enemy , the Huguenots .

Open war erupted Process_start between the royalists and the Catholic League .

Subsequently , a guerrilla liberation war Military_operation was fought Hostile_encounter against the Axis occupying forces Military_operation and their locally established Building puppet regimes , including the fascist Independent State of Croatia and the Government of National Salvation in the German-occupied territory of Serbia , by the Communist-led republican Yugoslav Partisans .