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Wagram
- a battle in the Napoleonic campaigns (1809); Napoleon defeated the Austrians
- a town in northeastern Austria
Waterloo
- the battle on 18 June 1815 in which Prussian and British forces under Blucher and the Duke of Wellington routed the French forces under Napoleon
- a final crushing defeat; "he met his waterloo"
- a town in central Belgium where in 1815 Napoleon met his final defeat
Wilderness Campaign
- American Civil War; a series of indecisive battles in Grant's campaign (1864) against Lee in which both armies suffered terrible losses
War Between The States
- civil war in the United States between the North and the South; 1861-1865
War Of American Independence
- the revolution of the American Colonies against Great Britain; 1775-1783
War Of Greek Independence
- the Greeks rebelled against Turkish rule in 1821; with the support of England and France and Russia they won independence in 1828 at Navarino (although the country included only half its present size)
War Of The Austrian Succession
- Prussia and Austria fought over Silesia and most of the rest of Europe took sides; 1740-1748
War Of The Grand Alliance
- an aggressive war waged by Louis XIV against Spain and the Holy Roman Empire and England and Holland and other states (1689-1697)
War Of The League Of Augsburg
- an aggressive war waged by Louis XIV against Spain and the Holy Roman Empire and England and Holland and other states (1689-1697)
War Of The Spanish Succession
- a general war in Europe (1701-1714) that broke out when Louis XIV installed his grandson on the throne of Spain; England and Holland hoped to limit Louis' power