what countries fought in the battle of yorktown?
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The Siege of Yorktown, also known as the Battle of Yorktown, the surrender at Yorktown, or the German Battle, ending on October 19, 1781, at Yorktown, Virginia, was a decisive victory by a combined force of American Continental Army troops led by General George Washington and French Army troops led by the Comte de ...
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What countries fought in World War II? The main combatants were the Axis powers (Germany, Italy, and Japan) and the Allies (France, Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and, to a lesser extent, China).
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['Lexington and Concord, April 1775. ... ', 'Bunker Hill, June 1775. ... ', 'Quebec, December 1775. ... ', 'Charleston, June 1776. ... ', 'Trenton, December 1776. ... ', 'Saratoga, October 1777. ... ', 'Rhode Island, August 1778. ... ', 'Kings Mountain, October 1780.']
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The Battle of Lake Erie, sometimes called the Battle of Put-in-Bay, was fought on 10 September 1813, on Lake Erie off the coast of Ohio during the War of 1812. Nine vessels of the United States Navy defeated and captured six vessels of the British Royal Navy.
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During the conflict, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire (the Central Powers) fought against Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Romania, Japan and the United States (the Allied Powers).
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The Gallipoli campaign was a costly failure for the Allies, with an estimated 27,000 French, and 115,000 British and dominion troops (Great Britain and Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, India, and Newfoundland) killed or wounded. Over half these casualties (73,485) were British and Irish troops.
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The Spanish–American War was a conflict fought between Spain and the United States in 1898. Hostilities began in the aftermath of sinking of the USS Maine in Havana harbor, leading to American intervention in the Cuban War of Independence.
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U.S. Entered World War I. On April 6, 1917, the U.S. joined its allies--Britain, France, and Russia--to fight in World War I. Under the command of Major General John J. Pershing, more than 2 million U.S. soldiers fought on battlefields in France.
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['France.', 'United States.', 'China.', 'Soviet Union.', 'Laos.', 'Cambodia.', 'South Korea and Other U.S. Allies.', 'Vietnam.']
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['United States.', 'Philippines.', 'Cuba.', 'Katipunan.', 'Guam.', 'Puerto Rico.']
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The main ally for the British during the war was Germany. Britain hired German mercenaries called Hessians to fight for them against the colonists. One of the key generals in the Continental Army was the Frenchman Marquis de Lafayette.
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The Spanish-American War was fought in 1898 and was an imperial conflict. The major combatants were the United States and Spain. The war was fought on two fronts: Cuba and the Philippines. The war was instigated by Cuba and the Philippines in an effort to gain their independence from Spain.
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U.S. Declares War on Great Britain, June 18, 1812. The United States declared war against Great Britain on this day in 1812, not quite 30 years after the young nation had won its freedom from the English. Although Congress ultimately voted for war, both the House and the Senate were divided.
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Battle of the Thames, also called Battle of Moraviantown, (Oct. 5, 1813), in the War of 1812, decisive U.S. victory over British and Indian forces in Ontario, Canada, enabling the United States to consolidate its control over the Northwest.
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['June 28 Assassination of Archduke of Austria-Hungary Franz Ferdinand.', 'July 28 Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia.', 'August 1–4 Germany, Austria-Hungary, France, Russia, and Britain all commit to war.', 'August 4 Germany invades Belgium; United States declares its neutrality.', 'On "RED CROSS"']
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“The American Revolution: A World War” demonstrates with new scholarship how the 18th-century fight for independence fit into a larger, international conflict that involved Great Britain, France, Spain, the Dutch Republic, Jamaica, Gibraltar and even India.
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The Battle of Lake Erie. In the first unqualified defeat of a British naval squadron in history, U.S. Captain Oliver Hazard Perry leads a fleet of nine American ships to victory over a squadron of six British warships at the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812.