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Sections:

Definition of the term Military History
Description of the classification system used on this page
Timeline
Military Eras
Military Units
Famous Military Writers
Famous Military Commanders
Famous Battles and Conflicts

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The main sections, like famous military commanders, should be in their own pages.

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Summary

The history of human warfare.

Military Unit Types

Classified by Era

Antiquity

Medieval (See also: Medieval warfare)
- Knight
- Cataphract
- Condottieri
- Horse archer
- Pikeman
- Longbowman
- Artillery
- Fyrd
- Fortification

Modern
- Musketeer
- Rifleman
- Marine
- Armory
- Conscription
- Aviation

Famous wars and battles

For more complete list of wars you may want to see War

Ancient
- Greek Wars
  - Trojan War (c. 1200 BC)
  - Persian Wars (499-479 BC)
  - 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
  - Battle of Lechfeld (955)
  - Crusades (1096-1291)
  - Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa (1212)
  - Bannockburn (1314)
  - Hundred Years War (1337-1453)
    - Crécy (1346)
    - Battle of Agincourt (1415)
    - Siege of Orleans (1429)
  - Wars of the Roses (1455-1485)
    - Battle of Tewkesbury
    - Battle of Bosworth Field

Pike & Shot
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)
- Second Gulf War (aka Desert Storm) (1991)
- The Kosovo War

You may also want to see List of battles

Famous Commanders

Julius Caesar (Antiquity)
Napoleon Bonaparte (French Emperor)
Mao Zedong (Chinese communist leader)
Hannibal Barca
Alexander the Great (Antiquity, Greek ruler)
El Cid
George Patton (WWII American commander)
Horatio Nelson British Navy Officer (late 1700 to 1805)
Arthur Wellesley, First Duke of Wellington
Erwin Rommel (WWII German commander)
Field Marshall Montgomery (WWII British commander)
Dwight Eisenhower (WWII American commander)

Military Writers

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

See also: Weapons, Imperialism, Colonialism, War, History

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