War of Independence

In a war of independence , the people of one country try to use force to shake off foreign control by another power and to achieve national sovereignty .

Known Wars of Independence:

• Scottish Wars of Independence (1296-1357)
• Eighty Years War of the Netherlands (1568–1648)
• American War of Independence (1775–1783)
• Spanish War of Independence (1808-1814)
• Mexican War of Independence (1810-1821)
• South American Wars of Independence (1813-1824)
• Greek War of Independence (1821-1829)
• Hungarian War of Independence (1848–1849)
• Italian Wars of Independence
  • First War of Independence (1848)
  • Sardinian War / Second War of Independence (1859)
  • Third Italian War of Independence (1866, alliance with Prussia )
• Cuban Wars of Independence:
  • Ten Years War (1868–1878)
  • Guerra Chiquita (1879-1880)
  • Cuban War of Independence (1895–1898)
• Philippine-American War (1899-1902), the Philippines is this conflict as a war of independence of the first Philippine Republic referred
• Irish War of Independence (1919-1921)
• Turkish National War of Independence and Liberation (1919–1923)
• Indonesian War of Independence (1945 to 1949; ended with Indonesian independence)
• Israeli War of Independence (1947-1949)
• Mau Mau uprising in Kenya (1952–1960)
• Algerian War, Algerian independence struggles (1956–1962)
• 'Portuguese' Wars of Independence:
  • Portuguese Colonial War (1961–1974) in the Portuguese colonies in Africa
  • War of independence / civil war in Angola (1961 / 1974–2002)
  • Mozambican Civil War (1976-1992)
• Eritrean War of Independence (1961–1991)
• Bangladesh War (1971)
• Slovenian War of Independence (1991)
• Georgian-Abkhazian War (1992-1993)
• Kosovo War (1998–1999)
• First (1994–1996) and second Chechnya war (2001–2003)

See also

Wiktionary: War of Independence  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations