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Colonial war (in some contexts referred to as small war[1]) is a blanket term relating to the various conflicts that arose as the result of overseas territories being settled by foreign powers creating a colony. The term especially refers to wars fought during the nineteenth century between European armies in Africa and Asia.

  1. ^ Roy 2013, p. 55.

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Colonial war

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Portuguese Colonial War

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French colonial empire

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began with the conquest of Algiers in 1830. On the eve of World War I, France's colonial empire was the second largest in the world after the British Empire...

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Colonialism

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colonial empires spanning 35% of Earth's land by 1800 and peaking at 84% by the beginning of World War I. Modern colonialism developed a coloniality which...

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General Society of Colonial Wars

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Portuguese Empire

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Carnation Revolution

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the Portuguese transition to democracy and the end of the Portuguese Colonial War. The revolution began as a coup organised by the Armed Forces Movement...

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Angolan War of Independence

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(in Portuguese) Guerra Colonial: 1961–1974 – State-supported historical site of the Portuguese Colonial War (Portugal) OnWar timeline U.S. Involvement...

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List of weapons of the Portuguese Colonial War

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The Portuguese Colonial War (Portuguese: Guerra Colonial), also referred to as the Portuguese Overseas War or Overseas War (Portuguese: Guerra do Ultramar)...

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Aceh

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List of Spanish colonial wars in Morocco

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Hispano-Moroccan War (1859–1860) First Melillan campaign (1893–1894) Second Melillan campaign (1909–1910) Kert campaign (1911–1912) Rif War (1920–1926) Ifni War (1957–1958)...

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Colonial wars in Southern Africa

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Colonial wars in Southern Africa may refer to: Portuguese Colonial War (1961–1974) Angolan War of Independence (1961–1974) Mozambican War of Independence...

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Java War

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Colonial history of the United States

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The colonial history of the United States covers the period of European colonization of North America from the early 16th century until the incorporation...

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Colonial Office

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1782. In 1801, colonial affairs were transferred to the War Office in the lead up to the Napoleonic Wars, which became the War and Colonial Office to oversee...

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German colonial empire

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its colonial empire at the beginning of the First World War in 1914, but some German forces held out in German East Africa until the end of the war. After...

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Wars of national liberation

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Madagascar revolt against French colonial rule in 1947. The Algerian War against France (1954–1962). The Portuguese Colonial War in Angola, Guinea-Bissau, and...

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Mozambican War of Independence

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pressure of the international community in relation to the Portuguese Colonial War were the primary causes of the outcome. San hunter and gatherers, ancestors...

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Armed Forces Movement

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Portugal's corporatist New State regime (Estado Novo) and the Portuguese Colonial War, which led to the independence of Portugal's overseas territories in...

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Angolan Civil War

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Ifni War

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la última guerra colonial española" ("Ifni, the last Spanish colonial war"). Historia 16, nº 167 (1990). Analysis of the Ifni war with unpublished documents...

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Colonial Defence Committee

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History of Mozambique

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Colonial War Memorial Hospital

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Decolonisation of Africa

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