A Brief History of War

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A Brief History of War:

Menes Unification Wars - c. 3400 B.C. (Upper Vs. Lower Egypt)

Akkadian Wars - c. 2750 B.C. (First Babylonian Empire Vs. Syria and Persia)

Elamic Wars - c. 2350 B.C. ( Elam Vs. and defeats Akkad )

Urite Wars - c. 2200 B.C. ( Ur defeats Elam)

City States Wars c. 2100 B.C. (Rival cities compete for Babylonian Rule)

Hammurabic Victory begins 2nd Babylonian Period - c 2050 B.C.

Hittite Wars c. 2000 B.C.

Assyrian Wars c. 1900 B.C.

Hyksos Wars c. 1800 B.C. (Hyksos defeat Egyptians)

T'ang Wars found Shang Dynasty in China c. 1766 B.C.

Kassite Wars c. 1750 B.C. Kassites defeat Babylonians

Wars of Crete c. 1700 B.C.

Egyptian Wars c. 1580 B.C. (Egyptians drive out Hyksos)

Hindu Wars c. 1450 B.C. (Aryans subdue native Indians)

Assyrian Wars c. 1280 Shalmaneser 1 revives Assyria

Hebrews Vs. Egyptians c. 1250 -1200 B.C.

Trojan War - c.1200 B.C.  (Greeks Vs. Trojans)

Messsenian Wars- 700-466 B.C. (Spartans Vs. Messenians)

Persian Wars - 500 -479 B.C. (Persians Vs. Greeks)

a. First Persian expedition 493 B.C.

b. Second Persian Expedition 490 B.C.

c. Third Persian Expedition 481-480 B.C.

d. Fourth Persian Expedition 479 B.C.

Peloponnesian War 431-404 (Greeks Vs. Spartans)

a. First period 431-421 B.C.

b. Second period (Decelean War) 413 -404 B.C.

Gual"s Invasion of Italy 390 B.C. ( Guals Vs. Romans)

Greek Sacred War 339-338 B.C. (Macedonians Vs. Athenians, Thebans

Sammite Wars 343-290 B.C. (Romans Vs. Sammites)

a. First Samite War 343-341 B.C.

b.Second or Great Sammite War 327-304 B.C.

c. Third Sammite War 298-290 B.C.

Wars of Alexander the Great in Asia 334-328 B.C.

Greeks Vs.

a. Persians

b. Egyptians

c. Bactrians

d. Hindus

Roman War 282-272 B.C. (Romans Vs. Tarentum and Epirus)

First Punic War 262-241 B.C. (Romans Vs. Carthage)

Second Punic War 218-201 B.C. (Rome Vs. Carthage)

Greco - Roman War 214 - 146 B.C. (Greeks Vs. Romans)

Third Punic War 149-146 B.C. ( Rome Vs. Carthage)

Jugurthine War 111 - 105 B.C. (Romans Vs. Jugurtha of Numidia)

Marsian War 90 -88 B.C. (Romans Vs. Italian Allies)

Three Mithridatic Wars 88 - 63 B.C. (Romans Vs. Pontines and Armenians)

Gallic War 58 - 51 B.C. (Romans Vs. the Tribes of Gaul)

Second Roman Civil War 49-31 B.C. 

1.(Caesar Vs. Pompey)

2. (2nd Triumvirate Vs. Caesar's Assassains)

3. (Octavius Vs. Antony)

Jewish War A.D. 66 - 70 (Revolt of Jews against Rome)

Dacian Wars 86 - 107 (Romans Vs. The Dacians)

Barbarian Invasions and Fall of Rome 375 - 493

Romans Vs.

1. Teutons and Huns

2. Visgoths

3. Vandals,

4. Suevi

5. Franks

6. Burgundians

7. Ostrogoths

8.  Alemanni

9. Jutes

10. Saxons

11. Lombards

Mohammedan Wars 709 - 1492 (Saracens Vs. Christian Nations of Europe)

1. 1st Crusade 1096 -1291

2. 2nd Crusade 1147 - 1149

3. 3rd Crusade 1189 -1192

4. 4th Crusade 1201 - 1204 (Crusaders Vs. The Eastern Empire)

5. 5th Crusade 1228 -1229

6. 6th Crusade 1248 -1254

7. 7th Crusade 1270 - 1291

Hundred Years War 1337 -1453 (English Vs. The French)

Austro-Swiss War 1386-1388 (Hapsburgs Vs. The Swiss  Confederation)

War of the Roses 1455 -1485 (House of York Vs. House of Lancaster [Red]).

French Civil Wars 1562 1598 (Catholics Vs. Huguenots)

War of Liberation of the Netherlands 1565 - 1609 (Spain Vs. Netherlands)

Thirty Years War 1618 - 1648 (Protestants Vs. Catholics: England, Sweden, Holland and France Vs. Germany, Spain and Italy)

English Civil War 1642 - 1649 (Cavaliers Vs. Roundheads)

War of Spanish Succession (Queen Anne's War, 1701 -1714)

Northern War 1700 - 1721 ( Sweden Vs. Russian, Poland, Denmark)

War of Austrian Succession  1740 -1748 (Austria Vs. Prussia)

French and Indian War 1756 -1763 (England Vs. France)

American Revolutionary War 1775 -1783 (Colonists Vs. England)

 

and we're just getting warmed up...

 

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