the xhosa wars ( also known as the cape frontier wars , or africa 's 100 years war ) were a series of nine wars or unk ( from 1779 to 1879 ) between the xhosa kingdom and european settlers in what is now the eastern cape in south africa .

although 6 rar ultimately prevailed Convincing , the vicious fighting at ap my an was probably the closest the australian army came to Bringing a major defeat during the war .

The battle Hostile_encounter marked Recording the first time since the start of the war that a major Japanese advance had been checked Preventing_or_letting by the Allies .

combat unk was the unk bombing Attack ( gdb ) operation Military_operation of the vietnam war by the united states air force using Using bomb directing centrals and by the united states marine corps using Using course directing centrals ( `` unk and unk ground radars '' ) .

The overturning Process_end of the `` Declaratio Ferdinandei '' and other religious persecution Bodily_harm helped Assistance rekindle Recovering the Thirty Years ' War Hostile_encounter , changing Change it from an internal conflict Hostile_encounter within the Holy Roman Empire into an international religious war Hostile_encounter .

The successful conclusion Coming_to_believe of the war Hostile_encounter consolidated Cause_change_of_strength Wittelsbach authority in northwestern German territories and encouraged Influence a Catholic revival Recovering on the lower Rhine .

The war occurred Presence within the context of the Protestant Reformation Reforming_a_system in Germany and the subsequent Counter-Reformation , and concurrently with the Dutch Revolt Hostile_encounter and the French Wars Hostile_encounter of Religion .

although never officially stated Statement , there is speculation Coming_to_believe that the test intended to determine Deciding the feasibility of using Using nuclear weapons in clearing the jungles of vietnam , at a time of australia 's increasing involvement in the vietnam war starting in 1962 .

after the war , fearing that britain would lose Earnings_and_losses its great power status , the british government resumed Process_start the atomic bomb development effort , now codenamed high explosive research Research .

the attack Attack occurred Coming_to_be 34 years after the korean armistice agreement Agree_or_refuse_to_act that ended Process_end the hostilities of the korean war Military_operation on 27 july 1953 .

Post-war investigations Scrutiny have documented Recording the deaths of a little over 250 civilian of all ethnicities in the Bijeljina municipality during the course of the war .

Many deaths in Bijeljina were not officially listed Writing as civilian war victims and their death Death certificates claim they `` died Death of natural causes Causation . ''

at the end of the war , fewer than 2,700 bosniaks still lived in the municipality from a pre-war population of 30,000 .

during the second world war , britain commenced Process_start a nuclear weapons project , known as tube alloys , but the 1943 quebec agreement merged Cause_to_amalgamate it with the american manhattan project .

Several key British scientists worked Employment on the Manhattan Project , but after the war the Americans ended Process_end cooperation on nuclear weapons .

For England , the principal resistance came from veteran opening Openness batsman John Edrich and David Steele , who received Receiving a maiden international cap after a decade of county cricket for Northants and whose silver-haired , bespectacled appearance led Causation the press to dub Name_conferral him `` the bank clerk who went to Motion war '' .

they were conducted Action by joint army/navy task force one , headed by vice admiral william h. p. blandy rather than by the manhattan project , which had developed Coming_to_be nuclear weapons during world war ii .

The Mozambican Civil War was a civil war fought in Mozambique from 1977 to 1992 .

the war was fought Hostile_encounter between mozambique 's ruling marxist front for the liberation of mozambique ( frelimo ) and anti-communist insurgent forces of the mozambican national resistance ( renamo ) .

Lovas was rebuilt Building after the war , but its population size shrunk Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale by one third compared to its pre-war level .

The Eastern Roman emperor Justinian took this as a pretext to interfere Hindering in Vandal affairs , and after he secured Preventing_or_letting his eastern frontier with Sassanid Persia in 532 , he began Process_start preparing GetReady an expedition under general Belisarius , whose secretary Procopius wrote Writing the main historical narrative of the war .

Truk remained Presence effectively isolated for the remainder of the war , cut off Having_or_lacking_access and surrounded Surrounding by the American island hopping campaign in the Central Pacific , which also bypassed Departing important Japanese garrisons and airfields in the Bismarck Archipelago , the Caroline Islands , the Marshalls , and the Palaus .

The Government 's war policy was opposed Agree_or_refuse_to_act by the British commander , General Duncan Cameron , who clashed Hostile_encounter with Governor Sir George Grey and offered Giving his resignation in February 1865 .

Cameron , who viewed the war as a form of land plunder , had urged Request the Colonial Office to withdraw British troops from New Zealand and from the end of 1865 the Imperial forces began to leave Departing , replaced Change_of_leadership by an expanding New Zealand military force .

The Waitangi Tribunal has argued Quarreling that apart from the attack on Sentry Hill in April 1864 , there was an absence of Māori aggression throughout the entire Second War , and that therefore Māori were never actually at war .

Background and causes of the war .

Chief among those issues was ( 1 ) the legality of the sale Commerce_sell of a block of land at Waitara , which had sparked Causation the first war , but Māori unrest was exacerbated by ( 2 ) a new land confiscation strategy launched Process_start by the Government and ( 3 ) the emergence of a fiery nationalist religious movement .

the hump was the name given Giving by allied pilots in the second world war to the eastern end of the himalayan mountains over which they flew Motion military transport aircraft from india to china to resupply Supply the chinese war effort of chiang kai-shek and the units of the united states army air forces ( aaf ) based in china .

the hump was the name given Giving by allied pilots in the second world war to the eastern end of the himalayan mountains over which they flew Motion military transport aircraft from india to china to resupply Supply the chinese war effort of chiang kai-shek and the units of the united states army air forces ( aaf ) based in china .

The war Military_operation erupted Process_start soon after Black Hawk and a group of Sauks , Meskwakis , and Kickapoos , known as the `` British Band '' , crossed Motion_directional the Mississippi River , into the U.S. state of Illinois , from Iowa Indian Territory in April 1832 .

The war Military_operation gave Giving impetus to the U.S. policy of Indian removal , in which Native American tribes were pressured Causation to sell Commerce_sell their lands and move Self_motion west of the Mississippi River and stay Temporary_stay there .

Michael VIII sent Sending two large armies in an attempt to turn Change the fortunes of the war , but they were both defeated Conquering by the Bulgarian rebels Hostile_encounter in the Balkan mountains .

The action is the only occasion during the war Military_operation in which a British merchant vessel captured Conquering a large French warship .

This state of stalemate led to Causation the war being labelled Labeling a `` frozen conflict Hostile_encounter '' ; the area stayed Temporary_stay a war zone , with dozens of soldiers and civilians killed Killing each month .

This state of stalemate led to Causation the war being labelled Labeling a `` frozen conflict Hostile_encounter '' ; the area stayed Temporary_stay a war zone , with dozens of soldiers and civilians killed Killing each month .

Overall , the war Hostile_encounter has claimed the lives of up to 300,000 people , with 2.5 million more made homeless since 2003 ( the United States has labeled Labeling the conflict Hostile_encounter in Darfur as genocide , a charge the Sudanese government has rejected Agree_or_refuse_to_act ) .

The war Hostile_encounter has received Receiving widespread criticism and had a dramatic worsening effect on Yemen 's humanitarian situation , that reached Arriving the level of a `` humanitarian disaster '' or `` humanitarian catastrophe Catastrophe '' , and some have labelled Labeling it as a genocide .

the battle Hostile_encounter of the chinese farm took place Process_start during october 15 to october 17 , 1973 between the egyptian army and the israel defense Defending forces ( idf ) , as part of the yom kippur war Hostile_encounter .

The battle Hostile_encounter is remembered Know as one of the most costly and brutal battles Hostile_encounter of the war Hostile_encounter .

Of the 611 men who undertook the raid , 228 returned Motion to Britain , 169 were killed Killing and 215 became Becoming prisoners of war .

After the war , St Nazaire was one of 38 battle honours awarded Award to the Commandos .

The battle Hostile_encounter also marked Recording the first use Using of chlorine bombs by insurgents during the war Military_operation .

The Raid at Cabanatuan ( Filipino : ) , also known as The Great Raid ( Filipino : ) , was a rescue Rescuing of Allied prisoners of war ( POWs ) and civilians from a Japanese camp near Cabanatuan City , in the Philippines .

The rescue Rescuing allowed Preventing_or_letting the prisoners to tell Telling of the death march and prison camp atrocities , which sparked Causation a rush of resolve for the war against Japan .

organised Arranging in french algeria by retired french army generals maurice challe ( former commander-in-chief in french algeria ) , edmond unk ( former inspector general of the french air force ) , UNK zeller ( former chief of staff of the french army ) and raoul salan ( former commander-in-chief in french algeria ) , it took place Process_start from the afternoon of 21 april to 26 april 1961 in the midst of the algerian war Military_operation ( unk ) .

it has been frequently called Name_conferral the `` dress Wearing rehearsal '' for world war Hostile_encounter ii .

The Spanish Civil War ( ) was a civil war in Spain fought Hostile_encounter from 1936 to 1939 .

Due to the international political climate at the time , the war had many facets , and was variously viewed Perception_active as class struggle , a war of religion , a struggle between dictatorship and republican democracy , between revolution Change_of_leadership and counterrevolution , between fascism and communism .

Due to the international political climate at the time , the war had many facets , and was variously viewed Perception_active as class struggle , a war of religion , a struggle between dictatorship and republican democracy , between revolution Change_of_leadership and counterrevolution , between fascism and communism .

The Nationalists won the war , which ended Process_end in early 1939 , and ruled Legal_rulings Spain until Franco 's death Death in November 1975 .