Military History

• Ancient
  • Infantry
  • Cavalry
  • Chariotry?
  • Archery
  • Slingman
  • Hoplite
  • Macedonian phalanx
  • Roman legion
    • [Marius' army]?
    • auxiliaries?
  • Greek fire

• Medieval (See also: Medieval warfare)
  • Knight
  • Cataphract?
  • Condottieri?
  • [Horse archer]?
  • Pikeman?
  • Longbowman?
  • Artillery
  • Fyrd?
  • Fortification?
• Modern
  • Musketeer?
  • Rifleman?
  • Marine
  • Armory?
  • conscription

Famous wars and battles

• Ancient
  • Greek Wars
    • Trojan War (c. 1200 BC)
    • [Persian Wars]? (499-479 BC)
      • Battle of Marathon (490 BC)
      • [Battle of Salamis]?
      • [Battle of Thermopylae]?
    • Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC)
    • [Wars of Alexander the Great]? (334-323 BC)
  • Roman Wars
    • Punic Wars (264-241 BC, 218-202 BC, 149-146 BC)
    • Julius Caesar's campaigns?
    • Battle of Pharsalus (48 BC)
    • Battle of Actium (31 BC)
• Medieval
  • European
    • Battle of Poitiers
    • Crusades (1096?-1291?)
    • [Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa]? (1212?)
    • Bannockburn? (1314?)
    • [Hundred Years War]? (1337?-1453)
      • Crécy? (1346)
      • Battle of Agincourt (1415)
    • Wars of the Roses (1455?-1485?)
      • [Battle of Tewkesbury]?
      • Battle of Bosworth Field

• Pike & Shot
  • [Dutch Independence]? (1568-1648)
  • [Defeat of the Spanish Armada]? 1588
  • Thirty Years War (1618-1648)
  • English Civil War (1642-1649)
  • [Anglo-Dutch Wars]?
  • [Great Northern War]? (1700?-1721)
  • [Queen Anne's War]?
  • War of Spanish Succession (1701?-1714?)
  • [King George's War]?
  • [War of Jenkin's Ear]?
  • [War of the Austrian Succession]? (1740-1748)
  • Seven Years War (1756-1763)
  • [French and Indian War]? (1754-1763)
  • American Revolutionary War (1775-1783)
  • French Revolution & [Napoleonic Wars]? (1789-1815)
    • [Battle of Trafalgar]? 1797?
    • Battle of Waterloo 1815
• Age of Rifles
  • [War of 1812]? (1812-1814)
  • [Greek Independence]? (1821-1829)
  • [Mexican-American War]? (1846-1848)
  • [Taiping Rebellion]? (1850-1865)
  • [Crimean War]? (1854-1856)
  • American Civil War (1861-1865)
  • [Austro-Prussian War]? (aka Seven Weeks War) (1866)
  • [Franco-Prussian War]? (1870-1871)
  • [Russo-Turkish War]? (1877-1878)
  • [Chinese-Japanese War]? (1894-1895)
  • Spanish-American War (1898)
  • [Boer War]? (1899-1902)
• Early 20th Century
  • [Russo-Japanese War]? (1904-1905)
  • Balkan Wars (1912-1913)
  • World War I (1914-1918)
  • Russian Revolution (1917-1918)
  • [Chinese Revolution]? (1926?-1949)
  • Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)
  • World War II (1939-1945)
• Mid 20th Century
  • First Arab-Israeli War (1948-1949)
  • Korean War (1950-1953)
  • Vietnam War (1950-1975)
  • [Second Arab-Israeli War]? (1956)
• Late 20th Century
  • [Six-Day War]? (1967)
  • Yom Kippur War (1973)
  • [Afghan Civil War]? (1979-1989)
  • Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988)
  • Falklands War (1982)
  • [Operation Just Cause]? (aka The Invasion of Panama) (1989-1990)
  • [Persian Gulf War]? (aka Desert Storm) (1991)
  • [The Kosovo War]?

Famous Commanders

• Julius Caesar
• Napoleon Bonaparte
• Mao Zedong
• Hannibal Barca
• Alexander the Great
• El Cid
• [George Patton]?
• Horatio Nelson
• Arthur Wellesley, First Duke of Wellington

Military Writers

• Clauswitz (spelling?)
• [Sun Tzu]?
• Julius Caesar
• Jomini
• Mao Zedong

This list is inevitably going to be pretty complete, at least with the ancient and medieval stuff...

See Also: Imperialism, Colonialism, War, History

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