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Treaty of Amiens
Treaty of Amiens 1802, peace treaty signed by France, Spain, and the Batavian Republic on the one hand and Great Britain on the other. It is generally regarded as marking the end of the French Revolutionary Wars and setting the stage for the Napoleonic Wars (see Napoleon I ). By its terms Engl...
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Henry Pelham
Henry Pelham , 1696-1754, British statesman; brother of Thomas Pelham-Holles, duke of Newcastle . He entered Parliament in 1717 and served Sir Robert Walpole as secretary for war (1724-30) and paymaster-general (1730-43). In 1743 he became head of a Whig ministry that was to last until 1754. His ad...
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French and Indian Wars
French and Indian Wars 1689-1763, the name given by American historians to the North American colonial wars between Great Britain and France in the late 17th and the 18th cent. They were really campaigns in the worldwide struggle for empire and were roughly linked to wars of the European coalitions...
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prisoners of war
prisoners of war in international law, persons captured by a belligerent while fighting in the military. International law includes rules on the treatment of prisoners of war but extends protection only to combatants. This excludes civilians who engage in hostilities (by international law they are ...
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India-Pakistan Wars
India-Pakistan Wars name given to the series of conflicts between India and Pakistan since 1947, when the Indian subcontinent was partitioned and the two countries became independent of Great Britain. The most violent outbreaks came in 1947-48, 1965, and 1971. The roots of the conflicts lie in ...
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Seven Years War
Seven Years War 1756-63, worldwide war fought in Europe, North America, and India between France, Austria, Russia, Saxony, Sweden, and (after 1762) Spain on the one side and Prussia, Great Britain, and Hanover on the other.
Nature of the War
The struggle was complex in its origin and invo...
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World War I
World War I 1914-18, also known as the Great War, conflict, chiefly in Europe, among most of the great Western powers. It was the largest war the world had yet seen.
Causes
World War I was immediately precipitated by the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary by a ...
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Hideki Tojo
Hideki Tojo , 1884-1948, Japanese general and statesman. He became prime minister after he forced Konoye's resignation in Oct., 1941. His accession marked the final triumph of the military faction which advocated war with the United States and Great Britain. As the most powerful leader in the govern...
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conscientious objector
conscientious objector person who, on the grounds of conscience, resists the authority of the state to compel military service. Such resistance, emerging in time of war, may be based on membership in a pacifistic religious sect, such as the Society of Friends (Quakers), the Dukhobors , or Jehov...
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strategy and tactics
strategy and tactics in warfare, related terms referring, respectively, to large-scale and small-scale planning to achieve military success. Strategy may be defined as the general scheme of the conduct of a war, tactics as the planning of means to achieve strategic objectives. Not all theorists of ...
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