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)
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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
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