Start
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Finish
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Name of Conflict
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Belligerents (excluding Belgium)
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Outcome
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Verbündete
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Enemies
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1789
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1790
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Brabant Revolution
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United Belgian States
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Habsburg Austria
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Austrian victory
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1830
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1839
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Belgian Revolution
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Belgian rebels
Frankreich
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United Kingdom of the Netherlands
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Treaty of London:
- Recognition by the European powers of the independence and neutrality of Belgium
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1839
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1839
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Cotton Riot [nl]
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Protesting cotton labourers Orangists
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Belgian Government
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Belgian Government victory
- Riot suppressed by government soldiers
- Some protectionist measures
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1832
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1834
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Liberal Wars
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Portugal
Vereinigtes Königreich
Frankreich
Spanien
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Miguelites
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Liberal victory, Constitutional monarchy is restored
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1856
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1857
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Labour riots in Ghent and Tournai[1]
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Protesting labourers
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Belgian Government
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Belgian Government victory
- Riots suppressed by government soldiers
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1861
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1867
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French intervention in Mexico
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Mexican Empire
Frankreich
Austrian Empire Spanien Vereinigtes Königreich Egypt Eyalet Polish Revolutionaries
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United Mexican States
United States of America (entered in 1865)
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French withdrawal, Republican victory
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1881
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1899
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Mahdist War
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British Empire Kingdom of Italy Congo Free State Ethiopian Empire
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Mahdist Sudanese
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Anglo-Egyptian victory
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1891
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1892
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Stairs Expedition to Katanga
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Congo Free State supported by: Belgien
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Yeke state of Msiri
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Congo Free State victory
- Msiri killed, Mukanda-Bantu becomes vassal prince
- Belgium acquires the colony of Katanga
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1892
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1894
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Belgo-Arab War
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Congo Free State
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Zanzibari slave traders
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Congo Free State victory
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1895
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1895
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Luba rebellion
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Congo Free State supported by: Belgien
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Luba rebels
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Congo Free State victory
- Many Luba men had to perform forced labour in the Katanga mines[2]
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1895
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1908
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Batetela Rebellions
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Congo Free State
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Batetela people
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Congo Free State victory
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1905
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1917
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Kasongo Nyembo rebellion[2]
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Congo Free State (until 1908) Belgien
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Luba rebels led by Kasongo Nyembo
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Belgian victory
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1914
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1918
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World War I
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Verbündete:
Frankreich
British Empire
Russian Empire (1914–17)
Vereinigte Staaten (1917–18)
and others
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Central Powers
German Empire
Austria-Hungary
Ottoman Empire
Kingdom of Bulgaria (1915–18)
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Allied victory
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1914
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1918
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East African campaign (part of World War I)
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Verbündete:
Vereinigtes Königreich
Belgien
Portugal
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Central Powers
German Empire
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Allied victory
- Allied conquest and partition of German East Africa
- Belgium acquires Ruanda-Urundi from German East Africa
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10 May 1940
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28 May 1940
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Battle of Belgium
(part of World War II)
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Belgien Frankreich
British Empire
Niederlande
Luxemburg
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Nazi Germany
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Belgian surrender and German occupation of Belgium
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1940
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1945
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World War II
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Verbündete
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Axis powers
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Allied victory
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1950
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1953
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Korean War
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United Nations (UN Resolution 84)
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North Korea
China
Soviet Union
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Ceasefire
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1959
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1962
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Rwandan Revolution
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|
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Independence of the Republic of Rwanda Independence of the Kingdom of Burundi
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1960
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1966
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Congo Crisis
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Katanga
South Kasai
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Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville)
United Nations (United Nations Operation in the Congo)
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Withdrawal of Belgian Armed Forces
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1972
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1973
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Second Cod War
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Vereinigtes Königreich Dänemark West Germany Belgien
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Island
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Icelandic victory
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1975
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1976
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Third Cod War
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Vereinigtes Königreich West Germany Belgien
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Island
|
Icelandic victory
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May 1978
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June 1978
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Shaba II
|
Zaire
Frankreich
Vereinigte Staaten
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Front for the National Liberation of the Congo
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Franco-Belgian victory
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1990
|
1991
|
Gulf War
|
Coalition forces
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Ba'athist Iraq
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Coalition victory
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1991
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2003
|
Iraqi no-fly zones
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Vereinigte Staaten Vereinigtes Königreich Frankreich (1991–1998) Australien Niederlande Saudi-Arabien Türkei Italien
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Ba'athist Iraq
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Coalition victory
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1992
|
1995
|
Somali Civil War
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Vereinigte Staaten Vereinigtes Königreich Spanien Saudi-Arabien Malaysia Pakistan Italien Indien Griechenland Deutschland Frankreich Kanada Botswana Australien
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United Somali Congress
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Victory
- UN humanitarian mandate fulfilled.
- About 100,000 lives were saved by outside resistance.
- Civil war is ongoing.
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1998
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1999
|
Kosovo War
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Kosovo Liberation Army
Albanien
NATO force
|
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
|
NATO victory
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2001
|
ongoing
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War in Afghanistan
|
Afghanistan
Vereinigte Staaten
ISAF
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Taliban
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Fall of Taliban régime
Ongoing Taliban insurgency
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2011
|
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2011 military intervention in Libya
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National Transitional Council
NATO forces
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Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
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Fall of Gaddafi régime
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2014
|
ongoing
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2014 military intervention against ISIS
|
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Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
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Ongoing
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