Revolutionary War (disambiguation)
Revolutionary War or Revolutionary Wars may refer to:
- American Revolutionary War, the armed conflict between Great Britain and thirteen of its North American colonies, which had declared themselves the independent United States of America
- French Revolutionary Wars, a series of military conflicts (1792–1802) resulting from the French Revolution
- Spanish Revolutionary War
- Texas Revolutionary War
- Philippine Revolutionary War
- Irish War of Independence, a guerrilla war fought from 1919 to 1921 between the Irish Republican Army (IRA, the army of the Irish Republic) and the British security forces in Ireland
- Revolutionary People's War, a military-political strategy developed by the Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong
- Indonesian Revolutionary War
- Cuban Revolutionary War, an armed revolt conducted by Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement and its allies against the U.S.-backed authoritarian government of Cuban President Fulgencio Batista
Other types of conflicts that can be called "revolutionary wars" include:
- Liberation war, a conflict primarily intended to bring freedom or independence to a nation or group
- War of independence, a conflict occurring over a territory that has declared independence
- War of national liberation, conflicts fought by nationalities to gain independence
- Rebellion, a refusal of obedience or order
See also
- List of revolutions and rebellions
- List of wars of independence
- Restoration War (disambiguation)
- Revolution (disambiguation)
- Revolutions (disambiguation)
- War (disambiguation)
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