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• War of Greek Independence
  the Greeks rebelled against Turkish rule in 1821
• War of the Austrian Succession
  Prussia and Austria fought over Silesia and most of the rest of Europe took sides
• War of the Grand Alliance, War of the League of Augsburg
  an aggressive war waged by Louis XIV against Spain and the Holy Roman Empire and England and Holland and other states (1689-1697)
• War of the Spanish Succession
  a general war in Europe (1701-1714) that broke out when Louis XIV installed his grandson on the throne of Spain
• War of the Roses, Wars of the Roses
  struggle for the English throne (1455-1485) between the house of York (white rose) and the house of Lancaster (red rose) ending with the accession of the Tudor monarch Henry VII
• War of 1812
  a war (1812-1814) between the United States and England which was trying to interfere with American trade with France
• World War I, World War 1, Great War, First World War, War to End War
  a war between the allies (Russia, France, British Empire, Italy, United States, Japan, Rumania, Serbia, Belgium, Greece, Portugal, Montenegro) and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, Bulgaria) from 1914 to 1918
• World War II, World War 2, Second World War
  a war between the Allies (Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Iran, Iraq, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Philippines, Poland, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States, USSR, Yugoslavia) and the Axis (Albania, Bulgaria, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Rumania, Slovakia, Thailand) from 1939 to 1945