Examples of Great Northern War in the following topics:
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- The Russo–Turkish War of 1686–1700 followed as part of the joint
European effort to confront the Ottoman Empire (the larger European conflict
was known as the Great Turkish War).
- The Russo-Ottoman War of 1710–11,
also known as the Pruth River Campaign, erupted as a consequence of the defeat
of Sweden by the Russian Empire in the Battle of Poltava (1709)
during the ongoing Great Northern War.
- In the Russo-Persian War
(1722-1723), Russia had managed to conquer swaths of Safavid Irans territories
in the North Caucasus, Transcaucasia, and northern mainland Iran, while
the Ottoman Turks had invaded and conquered all Iranian territories in the west.
- Soon Augustus unsuccessfully wanted
to terminate his participation in the Great Northern War and free himself from
his dependence on Peter.
- Nystad manifested the decisive shift in the European balance of power which the Great Northern War had brought about: the Swedish imperial era ended and Sweden entered the Age of Liberty, while Russia emerged as a new empire.
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- Over the course of the war
in colonies, Great Britain gained enormous areas of land and influence.
- In India, the British retained the Northern Circars, but returned all the French trading ports.
- Prussia emerged from the war as a great power whose importance could no longer be challenged.
- Russia, on the other hand, made one great invisible gain from the war: the elimination of French influence in Poland.
- Swedish historiography uses the Pomeranian War, as Swedish involvement was limited to Pomerania in northern central Germany.
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- But the Sioux of the Northern Plains and the Apache of the Southwest provided the most celebrated opposition to encroachment on tribal lands.
- The Great Sioux War of 1876, also known as the Black Hills War, was a series of battles and negotiations which occurred between 1876 and 1877, involving the Lakota and Northern Cheyenne, against the United States.
- The Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868, signed with the US by Lakota and Northern Cheyenne leaders following Red Cloud's War, set aside a portion of the Lakota territory as the Great Sioux Reservation.
- The Great Sioux War of 1876–77 had begun.
- One of the great American Indian leaders during the American Indian Wars.
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- The Dynasty followed the Warring States Period and resulted in the unification of China, ending 15 years later at the introduction of the Han Dynasty.
- Architecture from the previous Warring States Period had several definitive aspects which carried into the Qin Dynasty.
- This allowed for the construction of ambitious projects, such as a wall on the northern border, now known as the Great Wall of China.
- Qin Shihuang, the first self-proclaimed emperor of the Qin Dynasty, developed plans to fortify his northern border in order to protect against the nomadic Mongols.
- The initial construction of what would become the Great Wall of China began under Qin Shihuang during the Qin Dynasty.
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- Also in January, militia pressure led British General Cornwallis to withdraw most of the northern troops to the shores of the Hudson.
- The British were forced to import many supplies from Europe, at great cost and risk to the Royal Navy.
- Northern and coastal New Jersey continued to be the site of skirmishing and raiding by the British forces that occupied New York City for the rest of the war.
- This is a detail from an 1806 map showing the area where many of the skirmishes of the Forage War took place.
- Describe the series of small skirmishes in early 1777 known as the Forage War
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- Coterminously with the outbreak of conflict with Mexico, Polk and the Democrats began to threaten war with Great Britain over a dispute on the U.S.
- -British boundary in Oregon.However, rather than go to war with both Mexico and Britain, Polk opted for a diplomatic compromise to divide the Oregon territory at the 49th parallel.The compromise was made official by the Oregon Treaty in 1846.This allowed Polk to concentrate on the conflict with Mexico and gave the U.S. present-day Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Wyoming.However, the Oregon Treaty also angered war-hungry northern Democrats who criticized Polk for prioritizing southern expansion over northern expansion.
- Whigs who had opposed the war from the start.
- Map of the Mexican-American War, with routes of both Taylor and Scott's campaigns.
- Examine the role that the Mexican American War played in increasing sectional tension
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- As U.S. expansion continued, American Indians resisted settlers' encroachment in several regions of the new nation, from the Northwest to the Southeast and into the West, as settlers encountered the tribes of the Great Plains.
- Tecumseh's War is viewed by some academic historians as being the final conflict of a longer-term military struggle for control of the Great Lakes region of North America; it encompassed a number of wars over several generations and was referred to as the "Sixty Years' War."
- The Creek War, also known as the "Red Stick War" and the "Creek Civil War," was a regional war among opposing Creek factions, European empires, and the United States, taking place largely in Alabama and along the Gulf Coast.
- The First Seminole War (1816–1819) arose out of tensions relating to General Andrew Jackson's invasions into northern Spanish Florida and offensives against the Seminoles beginning in 1816.
- According to the Treaty of Moultrie Creek of 1823, the Seminoles were required to leave northern Florida and were confined to a large reservation in the center of the Florida peninsula.
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- The War of 1812's primary theater on land was along the northern border of the United States.
- The seizure of American ships and sailors, combined with the British support of American Indian resistance, led to strident calls for war against Great Britain.
- The War of 1812's primary theater on land was along the northern border of the United States.
- A decisive use of naval power came on the Great Lakes and depended on a contest of building ships.
- Name the key battles in the northern campaigns of the War of 1812
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- The North had a more highly-developed industrial economy that led to military success during the Civil War and sustained economic growth after the war.
- These advantages widened rapidly during the war, as the Northern economy grew, and the Confederate territory shrank and its economy weakened.
- The Union grew rich fighting the war, as the Confederate economy was destroyed.
- The Republicans in control in Washington had a vision of an industrial nation, with great cities, efficient factories, productive farms, national banks, and high-speed rail links.
- The more industrialized economy of the North continued to prosper in the years following the war, with men like Cornelius Vanderbilt building their fortunes on transportation systems needed to sustain Northern trade.
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- As the battle with the largest number of casualties in the American Civil War, it is often described as the war's turning point.
- Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, ending Lee's invasion of the North.
- With his army in high spirits, Lee intended to shift the focus of the summer campaign from war-ravaged northern Virginia and hoped to influence Northern politicians to give up their prosecution of the war by penetrating as far as Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, or even Philadelphia.
- The invasion would allow the Confederates to live off the bounty of rich Northern farms while giving war-ravaged Virginia a much-needed rest.
- The charge was repulsed by Union rifle and artillery fire at great losses to the Confederate army.