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Eras in human history traditionally mirror those of military history, since the use of warfare has such a profound impact on human civilization. However, military eras can also be quite separated, and overlap, as they relate to particular weapon types, tactics, and ways of thinking |
Eras in human history traditionally mirror those of military history, since the use of warfare has such a profound impact on human civilization. However, military eras can also be quite separated, and overlap, as they relate to particular weapon types, tactics, and different ways of thinking about war. |
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Revision as of 19:46, 4 April 2002
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Sections:
- Definition of the term Military History
- Description of the classification system used on this page
- Timeline
- Military Eras
- Military philosophies
- Military Units
- Famous Military Writers
- Famous Military Commanders
- List of Wars
- Famous Battles
Definition
Military history is the recording in writing or otherwise of the events in the history of Man that fall within the category of "conflict". This may range from a dispute between two tribes that come to blow over a plot of land, to a world war.
Military Eras
Eras in human history traditionally mirror those of military history, since the use of warfare has such a profound impact on human civilization. However, military eras can also be quite separated, and overlap, as they relate to particular weapon types, tactics, and different ways of thinking about war.
Military Philosophies
- Chivalry
- Machines of war
- Leadership
- Organization
- Logistics
- Moral justification
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Summary
The history of human warfare.
Military Unit Types
Classified by Era
- Antiquity
- Medieval (See also: Medieval warfare)
Famous wars and battles
For more complete list of wars you may want to see War
- Ancient
- Greek Wars
- Roman Wars
- Punic Wars (264-241 BC, 218-202 BC, 149-146 BC)
- Julius Caesar's campaigns?
- Battle of Pharsalus (48 BC)
- Battle of Actium (31 BC)
- Medieval
- Pike & Shot
- Dutch Independence (1568-1648)
- Defeat of the Spanish Armada 1588
- Thirty Years War (1618-1648)
- English Civil War (1642-1649)
- Anglo-Dutch Wars
- Great Northern War (1700-1721)
- Queen Anne's War
- War of Spanish Succession (1701-1714)
- King George's War
- War of Jenkin's Ear
- War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748)
- Seven Years War (1756-1763)
- French and Indian War (1754-1763)
- American Revolutionary War (1775-1783)
- French Revolution & Napoleonic Wars (1789-1815)
- Age of Rifles
- War of 1812 (1812-1814)
- Greek Independence (1821-1829)
- Mexican-American War (1846-1848)
- Taiping Rebellion (1850-1865)
- Crimean War (1854-1856)
- American Civil War (1861-1865)
- Austro-Prussian War (aka Seven Weeks War) (1866)
- Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871)
- Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878)
- Chinese-Japanese War (1894-1895)
- Spanish-American War (1898)
- Boer War (1899-1902)
- Early 20th Century
- Mid 20th Century
- Late 20th Century
- Six-Day War (1967)
- Yom Kippur War (1973)
- Afghan Civil War (1979-1989)
- Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988)
- Falklands War (1982)
- Operation Just Cause (aka The Invasion of Panama) (1989-1990)
- Second Gulf War (aka Desert Storm) (1991)
- The Kosovo War
You may also want to see List of battles
See also: Weapons, Imperialism, Colonialism, War, History