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Spartacus. -71BC. Leader of slaves revolt against Rome 73BC. Defeated and killed by Crassus. Servile War.
St-Germain, Treaty. 1570 French Wars of Religion. 1919 Created Republic of Austria.
Straits Convention. 1841-1923. Banned warships from Dardanelles in peacetime.
Sully, duc de. 1560-1641. French Finance minister to Henry IV. Helped rebuild France after Wars of Religion.
Syracuse, Battle. 480BC Carthage repelled. 415-413BC Critical Athenian defeat in Peloponnesian War. 396, 392 Carthage defeated. 382-75 Defeated by Carthage. 214-211 BC Rome conquers, sacks city.
Syrian Wars. 274-200BC. Egypt vs Seleucid Empire.
Third Coalition, War. 1805. England, Austria, Russia, Sweden beaten by France, Spain despite Trafalgar victory. Ulm. Austerlitz. Coalition.
Three Henrys War. 1585-89. French War of Religion. Henri de Guise fails to depose Henry III. Executed. Henry III murdered. Henry of Navarre takes throne.
Thucydides. 5C BC. Greek historian of Peloponnesian Wars. Objective historical science.
Tilsit, Treaties. 1807. Russia, Prussia join Continental System. Russia free to attack Finland. Prussia surrenders to Napoleon, reduced in size. France controls Central Europe. Creates Warsaw Duchy, Westphalia.
Tipu Sahib. 1753-99. Indian Sultan of Mysore. Killed in Mysore War.
Tong Wars. 1850-1930. US Chinese criminal feuds.
Treaty Ports. Japan, China forced by west to open ports to foreign trade. Opium Wars.
Turckheim, Battle. 1675. French recapture Alsace from Austria in Dutch War.
Utraquists. 15C. Moderate Bohemian Hussite sect; most re-absorbed by Roman Catholic Church 1620. Moravian Church.
Vasa. 1628. Swedish warship sank in harbour before maiden voyage.
Vendée, Wars. French Royalist uprisings of 1793,4,9, 1815,32.
Vergara, Convention. 1839. Ends first Carlist War vs Isabella II.
Vervins, Treaty. 1598. Spain withdraws support of French Catholic League. Ends Franco-Spanish War. Spanish acquisitions returned to France.
Victory, HMS. Oldest commissioned British warship. Launched 1765. Nelson’s flagship 1797-1805. Trafalgar.
Wairau Affray. 1843. Maori kill 22 English Settlers in New Zealand. Maori Wars.
Walking Purchase. 1737. Americans cheat Indians in buying Delaware land by running instead of walking to determine land size. French-Indian Wars 1754-63.
Warsaw. 1596 Polish capital. 1655 Sweden destroys. 1795 Prussia. 1807 Napoleon creates Duchy. 1813 Russia. 1815 Kingdom of Poland. 1939-45 Germany occupies.
Warsaw Pact. 1955-91. USSR, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, E Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania. Treaty for the combined defence of Eastern Europe under Soviet supreme command.
Warsaw Uprising. 1830-1. Czartoryski attempt to oust Russians crushed. 1944. Polish underground army defeats Germans but Soviet delay allows German reinforcements to defeat Poles, destroying potential opposition to later Soviet control.