I got the Emu War
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I can't be the only Ersalrope Wars buff here, right?
and who really can go more than a few hours without thinking about the Koinonian Wars?
All I got was Star Wars
The seven years war is fantastic and is utterly critical to understanding the US Revolution as well as understanding how the Iroquois pulled a power move on the other first nations that worked, but later led to the current situation with first nations in North America.
On the revolution: Namely that corruption was so endemic in the colonies that when the UK actually started to do something about it the revolution happened albeit with a lot of pushing from the upper crust of the colonies.
TIL:
It is now believed that the Ottoman military was able to maintain rough parity with its rivals until the 1760s, falling behind as a consequence of a long period of peace on its western front between 1740 and 1768, when the Ottomans missed out on the advances associated with the Seven Years' War.[66]
Fun couterfactual to consider: how many MPs would "the colonies" have needed to blunt popular support for the revolution?
Probably can't go very high, but maybe one per charter? If not that high (Scotland only had 45, I think), then what would have been enough "representation" to preclude the American elites from making a compelling case, or what paths to personal status would have tempted enough of them that there wouldn't have been a critical mass of will and resources?
The British colonized the Americas, particularly North America, very differently than Spain and France did, but didn't seem to think of the purpose or integration of colonies as any different.
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Huh. "Galactic Civil War" and "War of the Ring."
Neat. Wizards in both!
The seven year war, which is what the rest of the world calls the French Indian war should actually have been called World War One.
It was also started by an incompetent 22 year old George Washington being sent out in his first command who ignored the equivalent of the sergeant put in charge of the new lieutenant advice and executed a French person he shouldn't have.
The taxes that started the revolutionary war? Those were to pay the war debts on the seven year war. Dude literally led an army to avoid paying the consequences of his actions.
EDIT: it's also possible to draw "ALL WARS"
In the Pays d'en Haut Anglo settlers were moving in, French forts were rapidly expanding and militarizing, and both colonial powers were jockeying for Indigenous allies and exclusive trade partners. And in Acadia the oaths issue was still unresolved and considerable swaths of the country that France 'ceded' to Britain was under the control of the French-allied Wabanaki.
Another war was inevitable, Washington just lit the powderkeg.
But which civil war...
Second Sudanese Civil War of course (1983-2005)
Guns 'N' Roses
Civil waooaoaooor!
~~The one about slavery.~~ ~~I mean state rights.~~ I mean Northern Aggression.
The proper term now is War of the Demonic Democrats Against the Party of Lincoln and Trump
Oh, I though they meant Syria or Sudan or something.
"WTF is Granada?"
Some one needs to play some crusader kings or EU4
Yo professor, which Falkland Islands you talking about?
Are you talking 'bout the Malvinas falkland islands?
I got the Cola Wars
Mine just says WW3, should I be concerned?
So much to learn, we don't even know how it ends yet
It's probably just too broad to treat as one war, but I always return to reading the fall of the Roman Republic and the rise of the Empire. So many poetic, cinematic moments that for western civilisation defined our subsequent history. Where are we if Crassus doesn't desperately need a triumph but gets fed molten gold instead? If Marc Anthony and Cleopatra rule the Mediterranean from Alexandria? If a comet doesn't convince half of Rome that Caesar is a literal God?
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I fought in the Cola Wars as a member of Dr Pepper's insurgency
The galactic civil war....
I got The Late Night Wars. I'm on Team Coco, obviously.
There are 64 books in the Horus Heresy.
I got Brood.
You know, I don't think there's a single war I Care about more than any other...
Now technological era, on the other hand.... I'm a sucker for anything from Europe/Mediterranean coast from the 1200s-1500s.
And who doesn't love exploring early human history from Gobekli Tepe to Ur.
Fascinating stuff.
The machine give me the Horus Heresy. I can confirm it was right.
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100 if they can
100 years war
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