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Russo-Japanese War
	; Clockwise from top: Russian cruiser Pallada under fire at Port Arthur, Russian cavalry at Mukden, Russian cruiser Varyag and gunboat Korietz at Chemulpo Bay, Japanese dead at Port Arthur, Japanese infantry crossing the Yalu River
Date	8 February 1904 – 5 September 1905; (1 year, 6 months and 4 weeks)
Location	Manchuria, Yellow Sea, Korea, Sea of Japan
Result	Japanese victory Treaty of Portsmouth;
Belligerents
Russia;	Japan;
Commanders and leaders
Nicholas II; Aleksey Kuropatkin; Roman Kondratenko †; Anatoly Stessel; Oskar Gripenberg; Yevgeni Alekseyev; Stepan Makarov †; Wilgelm Vitgeft †; Robert Viren; Zinovy Rozhestvensky;	Meiji; Katsura Taro; Ōyama Iwao; Kodama Gentarō; Nogi Maresuke; Kuroki Tamemoto; Oku Yasukata; Itō Sukeyuki; Tōgō Heihachirō;
Strength
1,365,000 (total) 700,000 (peak);	1,200,000 (total) 650,000 (peak);
Casualties and losses
34,000–52,623 killed or died of wounds; 9,300–18,830 died of disease; 146,032 wounded; 74,369 captured; 8 battleships sunk; 2 battleships captured; Total: 43,300–120,000	47,152–47,400 killed; 11,424–11,500 died of wounds; 21,802–27,200 died of disease; 2 battleships sunk; Total: 58,000–86,100

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Introduction

The Battle of Austerlitz by François Gérard.

War is a state of conflict between relatively large groups of people (such as nations, states, organizations, social groups), which is characterized by lethal armed violence between combatants or upon civilians. Other terms for war, which often serve as euphemisms, include armed conflict, hostilities, and police action.

A common look on war is a series of military campaigns between at least two or more opposing sides involving a dispute over sovereignty, territory, resources, ideology, or a host of other issues. A war to liberate an occupied country is sometimes characterized as a "war of liberation", while a war between internal elements of the same state is called a civil war.

Aside from humans and other primates, ants are the only other animals known to exhibit such behavior on a large scale.

A battle is a single engagement fought between two or more parties, wherein each party or aligned group will seek to defeat their opponent. Battles are most often fought during military campaigns and can usually be well defined in time, space and action. Wars are generally the continuum of a related series of battles and are guided by strategy, whereas individual battles are the stage on which tactics are employed.

Military history is the recording and analysis of those events in the history of humanity that fall within the category of organized armed conflict and that relates to the institutions and organizations that prosecute such conflict.

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If you want peace, prepare for war.(Si vis pacem, para bellum)

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— Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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The Battle of Austerlitz was a major engagement in the Napoleonic Wars during the War of the Third Coalition. It was fought on December 2, 1805 about four miles (6.4 km) east of the modern Czech town of Brno, then part of the Austrian Empire. The conflict involved forces of the recently formed First French Empire against the armies of the Russian Empire and the Austrian Empire. After nearly nine hours of fighting, the French troops, commanded by Emperor Napoleon I, managed to score a decisive victory over the Russo-Austrian army, commanded by Czar Alexander I. Despite difficult fighting in many sectors, the battle is often regarded as a tactical masterpiece. Austerlitz effectively brought the Third Coalition to an end.

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An LCVP (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel) from the U.S. Coast Guard-manned USS Samuel Chase disembarks troops of the U.S. Army's First Infantry Division on the morning of June 6, 1944 (D-Day) at Omaha Beach.
Photo credit: U.S. Army's First Division

Location: France , Normandy

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1864 - Battle of Olustee
1944 - World War II: "Big Week" begins with American bomber raids on Nazi aircraft manufacturing centers.
1944 - World War II: The United States takes Eniwetok Island.
1959 - The Avro Arrow programme to design and manufacture supersonic jet fighters in Canada is cancelled by the Diefenbaker government amid much political debate.

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The following are images from various war-related articles on Wikipedia.

Image 1Japanese samurai boarding Mongol ships in 1281 (from Military history)
Image 2Illustration of an "eruptor," a proto-cannon, capable of firing cast-iron bombs filled with gunpowder, from the 14th century Ming Dynasty book Huolongjing (from Military history)
Image 3Horn of Africa circa 1540 during the Ethiopian–Adal War, at the peak of al-Ghazi's expansion.
Adal Sultanate
Ethiopian Empire (Abyssinian/Habesha Kingdom)
(from Religious war)
Image 4A 155 mm M198 howitzer firing a shell (from Military history)
Image 5The St. Bartholomew's Day massacre of French Protestants, 1572 (from Religious war)
Image 6Medieval Indian weapons (from Weapon)
Image 7The Canadian War Museum. (from Military history)
Image 8The Vickers was the successor to the Maxim gun and remained in British military service for 79 consecutive years. (from Weapon)
Image 9Saladin and Guy of Lusignan after the Battle of Hattin of 1187 (from Religious war)
Image 10Eighty Years' War, or Dutch Revolt against Spain, painting by Sebastiaen Vrancx (from Military history)
Image 11A sample scene of the Taiping Rebellion. (from Religious war)
Image 12Battle of Crécy (1346) between the English and French in the Hundred Years' War. (from Military history)
Image 13Infantry were the first military forces in history. This warrior statuette demonstrates that military culture was an important part of historical societies, c.480 BC, Staatliche Antikensammlungen. (from Military history)
Image 14Selection of weapons collected by security officers at an airport (from Weapon)
Image 15A battle of the Reconquista from the Cantigas de Santa Maria (from Religious war)
Image 16A small English Civil War-era cannon (from Military history)
Image 17The victory of the Polish-Lithuanian forces over the Muscovites at the Battle of Orsha in 1514 (from Military history)
Image 18Fulani jihad states of Africa, c. 1830 (from Religious war)
Image 19An array of Neolithic artifacts, including bracelets, axe heads, chisels, and polishing tools (from Weapon)
Image 20A ballswheeled ballista drawn by armored cataphract horses, c. 400 (from Weapon)
Image 21War-damaged buildings in Beirut (from Religious war)
Image 22Ordnance being produced at Pantex in Amarillo, Texas, United States during World War II (from Weapon)
Image 23Relief of Ramses II located in Abu Simbel fighting at the Battle of Kadesh on a chariot. (from Military history)
Image 24Midianite women, children and livestock taken captive by Israelite soldiers after all Midianite men had been killed and their towns burnt. Watercolour by James Tissot (c. 1900) illustrating the War against the Midianites as narrated in Numbers 31. (from Religious war)
Image 25The 3rd-century Great Ludovisi sarcophagus depicts a battle between Romans and Goths. (from Military history)
Image 26A variety of firearms from the World War II and postwar eras on a firearm rack (from Weapon)
Image 27A Greek trireme (from Military history)
Image 28The bayonet is used as both a knife and, when attached to the front of a rifle, a polearm. (from Weapon)
Image 29Ancient Chinese cannon displayed in the Tower of London (from Weapon)
Image 30Franco-Prussian War (from Military history)
Image 31A fatally wounded Israeli school boy in a Hamas attack, 2011 (from Religious war)

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