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Wars that redrew the map
25 wars from the Peloponnesian War to today, each told event by event with the sides, front lines and casualties.
- Peloponnesian War 431 BCE – April 404 BCE
- Second Punic War Spring 218 BCE – spring 201 BCE
- First Crusade 1096 – 12 August 1099
- Third Crusade May 1189 – 9 October 1192
- Mongol conquests (1206–1260) 1206 – 3 September 1260
- Hundred Years' War May 1337 – 19 October 1453
- Wars of the Roses 22 May 1455 – 16 June 1487
- Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire February 1519 – 13 August 1521
- Imjin War (Japanese invasions of Korea) 23 May 1592 – 16 December 1598
- Thirty Years' War 23 May 1618 – 24 October 1648
- Seven Years' War 17 May 1756 – 15 February 1763
- American Revolutionary War 19 April 1775 – 3 September 1783
- Napoleonic Wars 18 May 1803 – 20 November 1815
- Taiping Rebellion December 1850 – July 1864
- American Civil War 12 April 1861 – 26 May 1865
- Paraguayan War (War of the Triple Alliance) 12 November 1864 – 1 March 1870
- First Italo-Ethiopian War January 1895 – 26 October 1896
- First World War 28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918
- Second World War 1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945
- 1948 Arab–Israeli War November 1947 – 20 July 1949
- Korean War 25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953
- Vietnam War 1955 – 30 April 1975
- Soviet–Afghan War 24 December 1979 – 15 February 1989
- War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) 7 October 2001 – 30 August 2021
- Russian invasion of Ukraine 24 February 2022 – ongoing (shown to 2024)