Above: Map of Israel and neighboring Countries (click map to enlarge) In 1967 war broke out between Israel and the combined forces of Egypt, Jordan and Syria. The latter group was aided by Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Algeria. Israel came out victorious. The war lasted for 132 hours and 30 minutes - that is a little less than six days. In two of the three fronts the duration was even shorter. Only on the Syrian front did the war last ... Read More

Above: Map of Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905 In the Russo-Japanese War of 1904/05 a victorious Japan forced Russia to give up its policy of expansion towards the Far East. Thus Japan became the first Asian country to humble a European country. Above: Japanese combat canon deployed at Port Arthur The seeds of the war originated from competition between the two countries to dominate Korea and Manchuria. In 1898 China had been forced to grant to Russia a lease for the strategically important ... Read More

The UN Security Council, in the middle of 1948 called upon Israel and Arab states to sit down to talks. Israel forced Egypt to agree by driving its army to El Arish in the Sinai. Britain, recalling an Anglo-Egyptian offered to help Egypt but the latter did not want to undergo this humiliation and agreed to talks at Rhodes. Ralph Bunche of the UN organized the conference with the warning that anybody not cooperating would be blamed for the breakdown. Another reason ... Read More

Above: Injured Israeli Army on the side of the road during YOM KIPPUR WAR The most recent full-scale war in the history of the Middle East is the Yom Kippur War or October War, of 1973. It is so called because it started on the holy day of the Jews - the Day of Atonement or Yom Kippur. The two leaders of Israel and Egypt were Golda Meir and Anwar Saddat respectively. Above: Uncrewed Syrian Tanks left behind at an Israeli ... Read More

• War of the Oranges • First Barbary War • First Kandyan War • Napoleonic Wars • War of the Third Coalition • War of the Fourth Coalition • Peninsular War • War of the Fifth Coalition • Second Anglo-Maratha War • Franco-Russian War • War of the Sixth Coalition • War of the Seventh Coalition also known as the Hundred Days War • Neapolitan War • Serbian Revolt in Ottoman Empire • Fulani War in Nigeria • Russo-Persian War, • Egyptian Revolution • Ashanti-Fante War • Russo-Turkish War, • The Finnish War between Russia and Sweden wherein Sweden cedes Finland ... Read More

Above: Map showing the cities of India involved in the war India has lost its independence to the British. British had money and technology to rule over India. What started as a mere colonies in the Indian subcontinent was now getting costly for the local Indians. There were taxes levied on Indians. Where Indian weavers were considered one of the best in the world, the British had destroyed this industry and made Indians as mere cotton growers for their home industry. There ... Read More

Above: Map showing the location of Chechnya The Chechen war has been fought for a long time. It started even before the Russian Union broke in December 1991; this led to division of the union into many smaller countries. The Chechen Republic was at war ever since September 1991 in order to gain status as an independent state. Chechnya was finally recognized as an independent state in the year 1995. There were two wars the first one from 1991 to 1993, the ... Read More

Above: Map of American Revolutionary War (click map to enlarge) When war broke out in 1775 between America and Britain it seemed that the latter would come out a sure winner. Its well organized army and navy were matchless. There were veterans from the French and Indian wars at the lead. But America had only a motley group of untrained inexperienced conscripts. The small American navy could hardly face up to the royal British fleet consisting of nearly thousand or more ... Read More

In America the idea took roots that she had the divine right to expand her borders from sea to sea - it was called 'manifest destiny'. This notion caused suffering to Mexico and Native Americans. Tension began to grow after Texas became a part of USA following the Texas War of Independence. Frontier disputes began to snowball into armed conflicts. President Polk took these as an excuse to grab large regions from Mexico. America wanted to march towards the Pacific and in so doing ... Read More

Above: Map of Mexico (click map to enlarge) The war on land and sea stretched from 1812 to 1815 along the border with Canada near the Chesapeake Bay region and also along the Mexican Gulf. It ended with a peace treaty being signed in Europe. Above: Map showing the location of Great Lakes The American Revolutionary War of 1783 was over but Britain did not withdraw her forces from the Great Lakes. This was a bone of contention. Neither was Britain willing ... Read More