Aware that his garrison could not withstand Defending an attack Attack by such a large force , Travis wrote Writing multiple letters pleading Request for more men and supplies Supply from Texas and from the United States , but the Texians were reinforced Cause_change_of_strength by fewer than 100 men because the United States had a treaty with Mexico , and supplying Supply men and weapons would have been an overt act of war Hostile_encounter .

These actions were against the terms of their treaty oaths and amounted Causation to a declaration Expressing_publicly of war Hostile_encounter .

The forces Causation of Athens and Thebes were destroyed Destroying , and continued resistance Defending was impossible ; the war Hostile_encounter therefore came to an abrupt end Process_end .

In turn , Philip was voted Choosing as `` strategos '' ( general ) for a pan-Hellenic war Hostile_encounter against the Achaemenid Empire , which he had long planned Arranging .

However , before he was able to take charge of the campaign Military_operation , Philip was assassinated Killing , and the Kingdom of Macedon and responsibility for the war Hostile_encounter with Persia passed Giving instead to his son Alexander .

The death Death of Yamamoto reportedly damaged Damaging the morale of Japanese naval personnel , raised Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale the morale of the Allied forces , and was intended as revenge Revenge by U.S. leaders who blamed Judgment_communication Yamamoto for the attack Attack on Pearl Harbor that initiated Process_start the formal state Statement of war between Imperial Japan and the United States .

In 1378 Manuel II Palaiologos promised Commitment to hand over Giving the city of Philadelphia to the Turks in return for the Ottoman sultan 's aid Assistance in a disastrous Catastrophe Byzantine civil war .

However , Manuel seems to have retracted Agree_or_refuse_to_act his promise Commitment , since it was not until 1390 that Bayezid summoned Request the two leaders of the civil war , John VII and Manuel II , and ordered Arranging them to accompany Motion the besieging Besieging force .

The Phoney period began Process_start with the declaration of war by the United Kingdom and France against Nazi Germany on 3 September 1939 , and ended Process_end with the German invasion Attack of France and the Low Countries on 10 May 1940 .

They created Creating elaborate plans for numerous large-scale operations designed Creating to swiftly and decisively cripple the German war effort .

The failure of Operation Market Garden to form Coming_to_be a foothold over the Rhine ended Process_end Allied hopes of finishing the war by Christmas 1944 .

In essence , the Battle Hostile_encounter of the Atlantic was a tonnage war Hostile_encounter : the Allied struggle Resolve_problem to supply Supply Britain and the Axis attempt to stem Preventing_or_letting the flow of merchant shipping Sending that enabled Preventing_or_letting Britain to keep Temporary_stay fighting Hostile_encounter .

The Germans were joined Becoming_a_member by submarines of the Italian Royal Navy ( `` Regia Marina '' ) after their Axis ally Italy entered Arriving the war Hostile_encounter on June 10 , 1940 .

Of the U-boats , 519 were sunk Motion by British , Canadian , or other allied forces Causation , while 175 were destroyed Destroying by American forces Causation ; 15 were destroyed Destroying by Soviets and 73 were scuttled Destroying by their crews before the end Process_end of the war Hostile_encounter for various causes .

The situation changed Change constantly , with one side or the other gaining Getting advantage , as participating Participation countries surrendered Surrendering , joined Becoming_a_member and even changed Change sides in the war Hostile_encounter , and as new weapons , tactics , counter-measures and equipment Supply were developed Coming_to_be by both sides .

The Allies gradually gained Getting the upper hand , overcoming Conquering German surface raiders by the end Process_end of 1942 and defeating Conquering the U-boats by mid-1943 , though losses Earnings_and_losses due to U-boats continued until the war Hostile_encounter 's end Process_end .

At its core was the Allied naval blockade Besieging of Germany , announced Expressing_publicly the day after the declaration Expressing_publicly of war Hostile_encounter , and Germany 's subsequent counter-blockade .

the first libyan civil war , also referred Name_conferral to as the libyan revolution or 17 february revolution , was an armed conflict Hostile_encounter in 2011 in the north african country of libya fought between forces loyal to colonel muammar gaddafi and those seeking to oust his government .

The war was preceded Process_start by protests in Zawiya on 8 August 2009 and finally ignited by protests in Benghazi beginning on Tuesday , 15 February 2011 , which led to Causation clashes with security forces that fired Use_firearm on the crowd .

The National Transitional Council `` declared Expressing_publicly the liberation of Libya '' and the official end Process_end of the war on 23 October 2011 .

In the aftermath of the civil war , a low-level insurgency by former Gaddafi loyalists continued .

A much greater issue has been the role of militias which fought Hostile_encounter in the civil war and their role in the new Libya .

These unresolved issues led Causation directly to a second civil war in Libya .

The Williamite War in Ireland ( 1688–1691 ) ( , `` war of the two kings '' ) , was a conflict Hostile_encounter between Jacobite supporters of King James II and Williamite supporters of Prince William of Orange .

the proximate cause Causation of the war was the glorious revolution of 1688 , in which james , a catholic , was overthrown Change_of_leadership as king of the three kingdoms of england , ireland and scotland and replaced Change_of_leadership by his protestant daughter mary and nephew and son-in-law william , ruling as joint monarchs .

While the war 's Irish name emphasises its aspect as a domestic conflict between James and William , some contemporaries and many modern commentators have viewed Perception_active it as part of a wider European conflict known as the Nine Years ' War or War of the Grand Alliance in which William , as Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic , led a multi-national coalition against France under Louis XIV .

William ’ s deposition of James was partly driven Motion by his need to control Control and mobilise English military and commercial power , while Louis provided Supply limited material support Supporting to the Jacobites : both sides were aware Know of the Irish war 's potential to divert military resources from the Continent .

The war began Process_start with a series of skirmishes between James ’ s Irish Army , which had stayed Temporary_stay loyal in 1688 , and militia forces raised Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale by Irish Protestants : they culminated Process_end in the Siege of Derry , where the Jacobites failed Earnings_and_losses to regain Control control of one of the north ’ s key towns .

A contemporary witness , George Story , calculated that the war had claimed Statement 100,000 lives through sickness , famine , and in battle .

Subsequent Jacobite risings were confined Hindering to Scotland and England , but the war was to have a lasting effect on the political and cultural landscape of Ireland , confirming Check British and Protestant rule over the country for over two centuries .

while the treaty of limerick had offered Supply a series of guarantees to catholics , subsequent extension of the penal laws , particularly during the war of the spanish succession , would further erode Cause_change_of_strength their civic rights .

The Riffian insurgency of the 1920s can be interpreted Communication as a precursor to the Algerian war Military_operation of independence , which took place Process_start three decades later .

After a short hand-to-hand fight Hostile_encounter ( the Polish unit had only two pieces of firearms and was mostly equipped Supply with sabres , war scythes and improvised weapons ) , the Russian commander was killed Killing and his unit dispersed Dispersal .

it began Process_start with a soviet invasion Attack of finland on 30 november 1939 , three months after the outbreak of world war ii , and ended Process_end three and a half months later with the moscow peace treaty on 13 march 1940 .

In 1275 , the emperor ordered Arranging the Yunnan government to secure Preventing_or_letting the borderlands in order to block an escape Escaping path for the Song , and permitted Preventing_or_letting a limited Limiting border war if Pagan contested Quarreling .

The Jin resumed Process_start war and again besieged Besieging Kaifeng in 1127 .

The Song generals regained Recovering some territories but retreated Escaping on the orders Arranging of Southern Song emperor Gaozong , who supported Supporting a peaceful resolution to the war .

A war against the Song begun Process_start by 4th Jin emperor , Wanyan Liang , was unsuccessful .

However , the operation ended Process_end in controversy due Causation to the skirmish with United Nations peacekeepers and accusations Judgment_communication of serious Croatian war crimes Committing_crime against local Serb civilians .

It was a major turning Change point of the war , the Protestant cause , previously on the verge of defeat Conquering , won several major victories and changed Change the direction of the War .

Forced to make Manufacturing concession to his Hungarian subjects in order to appease them for his indecisive war with the Ottoman Empire , Rudolf ceded Surrendering his Hungarian , Austrian and Moravian holdings to his brother , Matthias .

This led to Causation a war Military_operation between King Robert and King Edward I as well as with the Comyns and their allies .

By mid-1790 , Habsburg Austria ended Process_end its war Military_operation with the Ottoman Empire and prepared GetReady to suppress Hindering the Brabant revolutionaries Change_of_leadership .

some historians suggest Convincing that although they were not as directly successful or as large , that the rebellions in 1837 should be viewed Perception_active in the wider context of the late 18th and early 19th century atlantic revolutions Change_of_leadership including the american revolutionary war in 1776 , the french revolution Change_of_leadership of unk , the haitian revolution Change_of_leadership of unk , the irish rebellion of 1798 , and the independence struggles Hostile_encounter of spanish america ( unk ) .

The nuclei of the armed bands that terrorized parts of France under aristocratic leaders during this period had been hardened Cause_change_of_strength in a generation of war Hostile_encounter in Germany , where troops still tended to operate Being_in_operation autonomously .

A strategy of attrition Hostile_encounter ( ) would make Causation the cost Cost of the war Hostile_encounter too great for the Allies , until one made a separate peace .

The Yom Kippur War , Ramadan War , or October War ( , ' , or מלחמת יום כיפור '' , `` ; , ' , or , ' ) , also known as the 1973 Arab–Israeli War , was a war fought from October 6 to 25 , 1973 , by a coalition of Arab states led by Egypt and Syria against Israel .

The war took place Process_start mostly in Sinai and the Golan—occupied by Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War—with some fighting in African Egypt and northern Israel .

Egypt 's initial war objective was to use Using its military to seize a foothold on the east bank of the Suez Canal and use this to negotiate the return of the rest of Sinai .

The war began Process_start when the Arab coalition launched a joint surprise attack on Israeli positions , on Yom Kippur , the holiest day in Judaism , which also occurred that year during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan .