Commission and Regiment: Happy Columbus Day, 2019!?

Monday, October 14, 2019

Happy Columbus Day, 2019!?

...for those of us who are of European descent - yes!

Let's get the heck off this continent - there's over 700 wars coming! [image is from CLICK as "whatever happened to those ships, anyway?"]

Altho one intellectual writer wants us to consider Columbus Day a good reminder of the triumph of Western philosophical Reason and Individualism [CLICK],

...and of course loads of self-loathing liberal ideologues want to emphasize the bad net results of the European age of discovery, especially in the Americas, for Indians [no CLICK...it's just too easy to find everywhere today],

...here, at a wargaming blog, I think it is most obvious to consider today as:

"Get the Heck out of Europe Day".

As a place with many notorious plagues that devastate up to 60% of the population [CLICK] and wars, upon wars, upon wars, Europe is well worth escaping:

Pre-500 Before Christ [BC]

· c. 5000 BC Talheim Death Pit

· c. 1104–900 BC Dorian invasion

· c. 753–351 BC Roman–Etruscan Wars

· c. 753–494 BC Roman–Sabine wars

· 743–724 BC First Messenian War

· 710–650 BC Lelantine War

· circa 700–601 BC Alban war with Rome

· 685–668 BC Second Messenian War

· 669–668 BC Sparta–Argos War

· 600–265 BC Greek–Punic Wars

· 595–585 BC First Sacred War

· 560 BC Second Arcadian War

· 540 BC Battle of Alalia

· 538–522 BC Polycrates wars

500–200 Before Christ

· 509–396 BC Early Italian campaigns

· 500–499 BC Persian invasion of Naxos

· 492–490 BC First Persian invasion of Greece

· 482–479 BC Second Persian invasion of Greece

· 480–307 BC Sicilian Wars

· 460–445 BC First Peloponnesian War

· 449–448 BC Second Sacred War

· 440–439 BC Samian War

· 431–404 BC Second Peloponnesian War

· 395–387 BC Corinthian War

· 390–387 BC Celtic invasion of Italia

· 335 BC Alexander's Balkan campaign

· 323–322 BC Lamian War

· 280–275 BC Pyrrhic War

· 267–261 BC Chremonidean War

· 264–241 BC First Punic War

· 229–228 BC First Illyrian War

· 220–219 BC Second Illyrian War

· 218–201 BC Second Punic War

· 214–205 BC First Macedonian War

200 Before Christ and on

· 200–197 BC Second Macedonian War

· 191–189 BC Aetolian War

· 171–168 BC Third Macedonian War

· 135–132 BC First Servile War

· 113–101 BC Cimbrian War

· 113 BC – CE 439 Germanic Wars

· 104–100 BC Second Servile War

· 91–88 BC Social War

· 88–87 BC Sulla's first civil war

· 85 BC Colchis uprising against Pontus

· 83–72 BC Sertorian War

· 82–81 BC Sulla's second civil war

· 78 BC Marcus Aemilius Lepidus

· 73–71 BC Third Servile War

· 73–63 BC Roman Expansion in Syria & Judea

· 65–63 BC Pompey's campaign in Iberia and Albania

· 63–62 BC Second Catilinarian conspiracy

· 55–54 BC Caesar's invasions of Britain

· 58–51 BC Gallic Wars

· 49–45 BC Caesar's Civil War

· 44–36 BC Sicilian revolt

· 43 BC Battle of Mutina

· 43–42 BC Liberators' civil war

· 41–40 BC Perusine War

· 32–30 BC Final War of the Roman Republic

Anno Domine, Latin for "Year of Our Lord"

Note that such is human nature that the coming of Christ has not lessened our use of organized, large-scale violence to express disagreement amongst ourselves.

· 5–41 Iberian-Parthian war

· 49–96 Roman conquest of Britain

· 51 Armenian–Iberian war

· 69 Year of the Four Emperors

· 69–70 Revolt of the Batavi

· 193 Year of the Five Emperors

· 208–210 Roman invasion of Caledoni

· 238 Year of the Six Emperors

· 271–278 Colchis–Roman War

· 284–285 Roman civil war

· 306–324 Civil wars of the Tetrarchy

· 350–351 Roman civil war

· 360–361 Roman civil war

· 367–368 Great Conspiracy

· 376–382 Gothic War

· 387–388 Roman civil war

· 394 Roman civil war of 394 AD

· 482–484 Iberian-Persian War

· 526–532 Iberian War

· 535–554 Gothic War

· 541–562 Lazic War

· 582–602 Maurice's Balkan campaigns

· c. 600–793 Frisian–Frankish wars

· 650–799 Arab–Khazar wars

· 680–1355 Byzantine–Bulgarian wars

· 711–718 Umayyad conquest of Hispania

· 715–718 Frankish Civil War (715–718)

· 722–1492 Reconquista

· 735–737 Georgian-Umayyad Caliphate War

· 772–804 Saxon Wars

· c. 800/862–973 Hungarian invasions of Europe

· 830s Paphlagonian expedition of the Rus'

· 839–1330 Bulgarian–Serbian Wars

· 854–1000 Croatian–Bulgarian wars

· 860 Rus'–Byzantine War

· 865–878 Invasion of the Great Heathen Army

· 907 Rus'–Byzantine War

· 914 Arab-Georgian War

· 939 Battle of Andernach

· 941 Rus'–Byzantine War

· 955 Battle of Recknitz

· 970–971 Sviatoslav's invasion of Bulgaria

· 982 Battle of Stilo

· 983 Great Slav Rising

· 1002–1018 German–Polish War

· 1014–1208 Byzantine–Georgian wars

· 1015–1016 Pisan–Genoese expeditions to Sardinia

· 1015–1016 Cnut's invasion of England

· 1018 Battle of Vlaardingen

· 1024 Battle of Listven

· 1024 Rus'–Byzantine War

· 1043 Rus'–Byzantine War

· 1044 Battle of Ménfő

· 1048–1064 Invasion of Denmark

· 1050–1185 Byzantine–Norman wars

· 1057 Battle of Petroe

· 1060 Battle of the Theben Pass

· 1065–1067 War of the Three Sanchos

· 1066 Norwegian invasion of England

· 1066–1088 Norman conquest of England

· 1067–1194 Norman invasion of Wales

· 1067 Battle on the Nemiga River

· 1068 Battle of the Alta River

· 1073–1075 Saxon Rebellion

· 1075 Revolt of the Earls

· 1077–1088 Great Saxon Revolt

· 1078 Battle of Kalavrye

· 1088 Rebellion of 1088

· 1093 Battle of Schmilau

· 1093 Battle of the Stugna River

· 1097 Battle of Gvozd Mountain

· 1099–1204 Georgian–Seljuk wars

· 1109 Battle of Głogów

· 1115 Battle of Welfesholz

· 1121 Battle of Didgori

· 1126 Battle of Chlumec

· 1130–1240 Civil war era in Norway

· 1135–54 The Anarchy

· 1142–1445 Swedish–Novgorodian Wars

· 1144–1162 Baussenque Wars

· 1159–1345 Wars of the Guelphs and Ghibellines

· 1164 Battle of Verchen

· 1169–1175 Norman invasion of Ireland

· 1173–1174 Revolt of 1173–74

· 1185–1204 Uprising of Asen and Peter

· 1198 Battle of Gisors

· 1198–1290 Livonian Crusade

· 1201 Battle of Stellau

· 1202 Siege of Zadar

· 1202–1214 Anglo–French War

· 1205 Battle of Zawichost

· 1208–1227 Conquest of Estonia

· 1209–1229 Albigensian Crusade

· 1211 Welsh uprising of 1211

· 1215–1217 First Barons' War

· 1216–1222 War of Succession of Champagne

· 1220–1264 Age of the Sturlungs

· 1223–1241 Mongol invasion of Europe

· 1223–1480 Tatar raids in Russia

· 1224 Siege of La Rochelle

· 1227 Battle of Bornhöved

· 1231–1233 Friso-Drentic War

· 1234–1238 Georgian-Mongol War

· 1239–1245 Teltow War

· 1242 Saintonge War

· 1256–1258 War of the Euboeote Succession

· 1256–1381 Venetian–Genoese Wars

· 1256–1422 Friso-Hollandic Wars

· 1260 Battle of Kressenbrunn

· 1262–1266 Scottish–Norwegian War

· 1264–1267 Second Barons' War

· 1265 Battle of Isaszeg

· 1275–1276 The war against Valdemar Birgersson

· 1276–1278 6000-mark war

· 1276 War of Navarra

· 1277–1280 Uprising of Ivaylo

· 1278 Battle on the Marchfeld

· 1282–1302 War of the Sicilian Vespers

· 1283–1289 War of the Limburg Succession

· 1284–1285 Aragonese Crusade

· 1288–1295 War of the Outlaws

· 1296–1357 Wars of Scottish Independence

· 1297–1305 Franco-Flemish War

· 1298 Battle of Göllheim

1302 Battle of the Golden Spurs
1304–1310 The Swedish brother's feud
1307 Battle of Lucka
1311 Battle of Halmyros
1311–1312 Rebellion of mayor Albert
1312 Battle of Rozgony
1321–1322 Despenser War
1321–1328 Byzantine civil war of 1321–28
1322 Battle of Bliska
1323–1328 Peasant revolt in Flanders
1324 War of Saint-Sardos
1326–1332 Polish–Teutonic War
1333–1338 Burke Civil War
1337–1453 Hundred Years' War
1340–1392 Galicia–Volhynia Wars
1340–1396 Bulgarian–Ottoman wars
1341–1347 Byzantine civil war of 1341–47
1342–1350 Zealot's Rebellion
1343–1345 St. George's Night Uprising
1347–1352 Neapolitan campaigns of Louis the Great
1350–1498 Wars of the Vetkopers and Schieringers
1350–1490 Hook and Cod wars
1356–1358 Jacquerie
1356–1375 War of the Two Peters
1362 Battle of Helsingborg
1362–1457 War of the Bands
1366–1369 Castilian Civil War
1366–1526 Ottoman–Hungarian Wars
1369–1370 First Fernandine War
1371–1913 Serbian–Ottoman wars
1371 Battle of Baesweiler
1371–1379 War of the Guelderian Succession
1371–1381 War of Chioggia
1372–1373 Second Fernandine War
1373–1379 Byzantine civil war of 1373–79
1375 Gugler War
1375–1378 War of the Eight Saints
1381 Peasants' Revolt
1381–1382 Third Fernandine War
1381–1384 Lithuanian Civil War (1381–84)
1382 Harelle and Maillotins Revolt
1381–1404 Second Georgian–Mongol War
1383-1385 Invasion of Portugal by Castille – Battle of Aljubarrota, 14 August 1385
1387 Battle of Margate
1389 Battle of Kosovo
1389–1392 Lithuanian Civil War (1389–92)
1395 Battle of Nicopolis
1400–1415 Glyndŵr Rising
1401–1429 Appenzell Wars
1407–1468 Georgian-Turkoman War
1409–1411 Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War
1410–1435 War of Slesvig
1414 Hunger War
1419–1434 Hussite Wars
1422 Gollub War
1422 Battle of Arbedo
1425–1454 Wars in Lombardy
1431–1435 Polish–Teutonic War
1434–1436 Engelbrekt rebellion
1437 Budai Nagy Antal revolt
1438–1556 Russo-Kazan Wars
1440–1446 Old Zürich War
1441 Battle of Samobor
1443–1444 Long campaign
1445 First Battle of Olmedo
1447–1448 Albanian–Venetian War
1449–1450 First Margrave War
1449 Battle of Castione
1449–1453 Revolt of Ghent
1450 Jack Cade's Rebellion
1451–1455 Navarrese Civil War
1453–1454 Morea revolt
1454–1466 Thirteen Years' War
1455–1485 Wars of the Roses
1462–1485 Rebellion of the Remences
1462–1472 Catalan Civil War
1463–1479 Ottoman–Venetian War
1465 Battle of Montlhéry
1465–1468 Wars of Liège
1466–1469 Irmandiño Wars
1467 Second Battle of Olmedo
1467–1479 War of the Priests
1468 Waldshut War
1468–1478 Bohemian War
1470–1471 Dano-Swedish War
1470–1474 Anglo-Hanseatic War
1475–1479 War of the Castilian Succession
1477–1488 Austrian–Hungarian War (1477–88)
1478 Carinthian Peasant Revolt
1478 Battle of Giornico
1479 Battle of Guinegate
1482–1484 War of Ferrara
1484 Battle of Lochmaben Fair
1485–1488 Mad War
1487 Battle of Crevola
1487 War of Rovereto
1488 Battle of Sauchieburn
1492–1583 Muscovite–Lithuanian Wars

And for those who were lucky enough to escape Europe right away, they missed out on all these wars [altho, granted, they had a tough time with the ferocious and disinclined to share Indians of the Americas…]

· 1493 Battle of Krbava Field

· 1493–1593 Hundred Years' Croatian–Ottoman War

· 1494–1498 Italian War of 1494–98

· 1495–1497 Russo-Swedish War

· 1497 Cornish Rebellion of 1497

· 1497 Battle of Rotebro

· 1499 Swabian War

· 1499–1504 Italian War of 1499–1504 – 20,000 killed in action^[1]

c. 1500–1854 Lekianoba
1501-1512 Dano-Swedish War (1501–12)
1502–1543 Guelders Wars
1503–1505 War of the Succession of Landshut
1508–1516 War of the League of Cambrai – 31,000 killed in action^[1]
1509–1510 Polish–Moldavian War
1514 Poor Conrad's Rebellion
1514 Dózsa rebellion
1514–1517 Saxon feud
1515 Slovene Peasant Revolt
1515–1523 Frisian peasant rebellion
1519–1521 Polish–Teutonic War
1520–1521 Revolt of the Comuneros
1521–1523 Revolt of the Brotherhoods
1521–1523 Swedish War of Liberation
1521–1526 Italian War of 1521–1526 – 30,000 killed in action^[1]
1521–1718 Ottoman–Habsburg wars
1522–1523 Knights' Revolt
1524–1525 German Peasants' War
1526 Revolt of Espadán
1526–1530 War of the League of Cognac – 18,000 killed in action^[1]
1529 First War of Kappel
1531 Second War of Kappel
1531-1532 War of Two Kings
1534 Silken Thomas Rebellion
1534–1535 Münster Rebellion
1534–1536 Count's Feud
1536-1537 Reformation in Norway
1536–1537 Pilgrimage of Grace
1540 Salt War
1542–1546 Italian War of 1542–1546 – 47,000 killed in action^[1]
1542–1543 Dacke War
1543–1550 Rough Wooing
1546–1547 Schmalkaldic War
1549 Kett's Rebellion
1549 Prayer Book Rebellion
1550 Battle of Sauðafell
1551–1559 Italian War of 1551–1559 – 75,000 killed in action^[1]
1552–1555 Second Margrave War
1554 Wyatt's rebellion
1554–1557 Russo-Swedish War
1558–1583 Livonian War
1559–1564 Spanish-Turkish War – 24,000 killed in action^[1]
1560 Siege of Leith
1562–1598 French Wars of Religion
1563–1570 Northern Seven Years' War
1565 Great Siege of Malta
1566 Siege of Szigetvár
1568–1570 Morisco Revolt
1568–1648 Eighty Years' War
1569–1580 Spanish-Turkish War – 48,000 killed in action^[1]
1569–1570 Rising of the North
1569–1573 First Desmond Rebellion
1573 Croatian–Slovene Peasant Revolt
1578 Georgian-Ottoman War
1579–1583 Second Desmond Rebellion
1580–1583 War of the Portuguese Succession
1583–1588 Cologne War
1585–1604 English-Spanish War – 48,000 killed in action^[1]
1588–1654 Dutch–Portuguese War
1587–1588 War of the Polish Succession
1590–1595 Russo-Swedish War
1593 Battle of Sisak
1593–1606 Long Turkish War
1593–1617 Moldavian Magnate Wars
1594–1603 Nine Years' War (Ireland)
1595–1621 Moldavian Magnate Wars
1596–1597 Cudgel War
1598–1599 War against Sigismund
1600–1629 Polish–Swedish War
1602 Savoyard escalade of Geneva
1605–1618 Polish–Muscovite War
1606–1607 Bolotnikov Rebellion
1606–1608 Zebrzydowski Rebellion
1610–1614 Spanish-Turkish War – 15,000 killed in action^[1]
1610–1617 Ingrian War
1611–1613 Kalmar War
1615–1618 Uskok War
1615–1617 Spanish-Savoian War – 2,000 killed in action^[1]
1617–1621 Spanish-Venetian War – 5,000 killed in action^[1]
1618–1619 Spanish-Turkish War – 6,000 killed in action^[1]
1618–1648 Thirty Years' War

1624–1625 Siege of Breda – Spain vs. Holland, England
1635 Siege of Leuven – Spain vs. Holland, France
1637 Battle off Lizard Point – Spain vs. Holland
1638 Battle of Getaria – France vs. Spain
1639 Battle of the Downs – Spain vs. Holland
1643 Battle of Rocroi – France vs. Spain
1648 Battle of Lens – France vs. Spain

1649-1653 Cromwellian conquest of Ireland

1640–1668 Spanish-Portuguese War – 80,000 killed in action^[1]
1648–1659 Franco-Spanish War – 108,000 killed in action^[1]
1648–1657 Khmelnytsky Uprising
1651 Kostka-Napierski Uprising
1651–1986 Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years' War
1652–1674 Anglo-Dutch Wars
1653 Swiss peasant war of 1653
1654 First Bremian War
1654–1667 Russo–Polish War
1654–1660 English-Spanish War – 15,000 killed in action^[1]
1655–1660 Second Northern War
1656 War of Villmergen
1663–1664 Austro-Turkish War
1666 Second Bremian War
1666–1671 Polish–Cossack–Tatar War
1667–1668 War of Devolution – 4,000 killed in action^[1]
1670–1671 Razin's Rebellion
1672 First Kuruc Uprising
1672–1678 Franco-Dutch War – 342,000 killed in action^[1]
1672–1673 Second Genoese–Savoyard War
1675–1679 Scanian War
1676–1681 Russo-Turkish War
1679 Covenanter Rebellion
1683–1684 War of the Reunions – 5,000 killed in action^[1]
1683–1699 Great Turkish War – 384,000 killed in action^[1]
1685 Monmouth Rebellion
1688–1697 Nine Years' War – 680,000 killed in action^[1]
1689–1692 First Jacobite Rising
1700 Lithuanian Civil War
1700–1721 Great Northern War – 30,000 Russians killed in action^[2]
1701–1713 War of the Spanish Succession – 1,251,000 killed in action^[1]
1703–1711 Rákóczi's War of Independence
1707–1708 Bulavin Rebellion
1712 Toggenburg War
1714–1718 Ottoman-Venetian War
1715–1716 Jacobite rising of 1715
1716–1718 Austro-Turkish War
1718–1720 War of the Quadruple Alliance – 25,000 killed in action^[1]
1722–1723 Russo-Persian War
1727–1729 British-Spanish War – 15,000 killed in action^[1]
1733–1738 War of the Polish Succession – 88,000 killed in action^[1]
1735–1739 Russo-Turkish War
1737–1739 Austro-Turkish War
1740–1748 War of the Austrian Succession – 359,000 killed in action^[1]
1740–1763 Silesian Wars
1741–1743 Russo-Swedish War
1745–1746 Jacobite rising of 1745
1756–1763 Seven Years' War – 992,000 killed in action^[1]
1757 Georgian-Ottoman Battle
1763–1864 Russo-Circassian War
1768–1772 War of the Bar Confederation
1768–1774 Russo-Turkish War
1770 Georgian–Ottoman Battle
1770 Orlov Revolt
1774–1775 Pugachev's Rebellion
1775–1783 American Revolutionary War
1778–1779 War of the Bavarian Succession
1784 Kettle War
1784–1785 Revolt of Horea, Cloșca and Crișan
1785 Battle of the Sunja
1787 Dutch Patriot Revolt
1787–1792 Russo-Turkish War
1788–1791 Austro-Turkish War
1788–1790 Russo-Swedish War
1790 Saxon Peasants' Revolt
1792 Polish–Russian War of 1792
1792–1802 French Revolutionary Wars – 663,000 killed in action^[1]
1794 Kościuszko Uprising
1795 Battle of Krtsanisi
1798 Irish Rebellion of 1798
1798 Peasants' War
1803 Irish Rebellion of 1803
1803 Souliote War
1803–1815 Napoleonic Wars
1804–1813 First Serbian Uprising
1804–1813 Russo-Persian War
1806–1812 Russo-Turkish War
1808–1809 Finnish War
1809 Polish–Austrian War
1815–1817 Second Serbian Uprising
1817–1864 Russian conquest of the Caucasus
1821–1832 Greek War of Independence
1821 Wallachian uprising
1823 French invasion of Spain
1826–1828 Russo-Persian War
1827 War of the Malcontents
1828–1829 Russo-Turkish War
1828–1834 Liberal Wars
1830 Ten Days' Campaign (following the Belgian Revolution)
1830–1831 November Uprising
1831 Canut revolts
1831–1832 Bosnian Uprising
1831–1836 Tithe War
1832 War in the Vendée and Chouannerie of 1832
1832 June Rebellion
1833–1839 First Carlist War
1833–1839 Albanian Revolts of 1833–39
1843–1844 Albanian Revolt of 1843–44
1846 Galician slaughter
1846–1849 Second Carlist War
1847 Albanian Revolt of 1847
1847 Sonderbund War
1848–1849 Hungarian Revolution and War of Independence
1848–1851 First Schleswig War
1848–1849 First Italian War of Independence
1853–1856 Crimean War
1854 Epirus Revolt of 1854
1858 Mahtra War
1859 Second Italian War of Independence
1861–62 Montenegrin–Ottoman War (1861–62)
1863–1864 January Uprising
1864 Second Schleswig War
1866 Austro-Prussian War
1866–1869 Cretan Revolt
1866 Third Italian War of Independence
1867 Fenian Rising
1870–1871 Franco-Prussian War
1872–1876 Third Carlist War
1873–1874 Cantonal Revolution
1875–77 Herzegovina Uprising (1875–77)
1876–78 Serbian–Ottoman War (1876–78)
1876–78 Montenegrin–Ottoman War (1876–78)
1877–1878 Russo-Turkish War
1878 Epirus Revolt of 1878
1885 Serbo-Bulgarian War
1897 Greco-Turkish War
1903 Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising
1904–1908 Macedonian Struggle
1904–1905 Russo-Japanese War
1905 Łódź insurrection
1905 Revolution of 1905
1906–1908 Theriso revolt
1907 1907 Romanian Peasants' Revolt
1910 Albanian Revolt of 1910
1910 5 October 1910 revolution
1910 Portuguese Monarchist Civil War
1911 Albanian Revolt of 1911
1911–1912 Italo-Turkish War
1912–1913 Balkan Wars

1912–1913 First Balkan War
1913 Second Balkan War

1913 Tikveš Uprising

1913 Ohrid–Debar Uprising
1914 Peasant Revolt in Albania
1914–1918 World War I - 19,174,335 deaths

1916 Easter Rising
1917 Russian Revolution

1917 Junker mutiny

1917 Kerensky–Krasnov uprising

1917–1921 Russian Civil War

1917–1918 Soviet-Turkish War (1917–1918)
1917–1921 Ukrainian War of Independence

1917–1921 Ukrainian–Soviet War
1918–1919 Polish–Ukrainian War

1918–1924 Left-wing uprisings against the Bolsheviks

1918 Left SR uprising
1921 Kronstadt rebellion

1918–1922 Heimosodat

1918 Viena expedition
1918 Aunus expedition
1918–1920 Petsamo expeditions
1918–1920 National revolt of Ingrian Finns
1921–1922 East Karelian Uprising

1918–1920 Estonian War of Independence
1918–1925 Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War

1918–1920 North Russia Intervention
1918–1922 Siberian Intervention

1918 Georgian–Armenian War
1918–1920 Georgian–Ossetian conflict (1918–20)
1918–1919 Georgian-Russian conflict over Sochi
1918–1920 Armenian–Azerbaijani War
1918–1920 Latvian War of Independence
1918–1920 Lithuanian Wars of Independence

1918–1919 Lithuanian–Soviet War
1919 Lithuanian War of Independence (War against the Bermontians)
1920 Polish–Lithuanian War

1919–1921 Polish–Soviet War
1921 Georgian–Russian War
1924 Georgian Uprising against Soviet Union

1919–1920 Revolutions and interventions in Hungary (1918–20)

1918–1919 Hungarian–Romanian War

1919 Sejny Uprising
1919 Khotin Uprising
1918 Georgian–Turkish War
1918–1919 Austro-Slovene conflict in Carinthia
1918–1958 Polish–Czechoslovak border conflicts

1919 Polish-Czech war for Teschen Silesia

1919–1922 Greco-Turkish War
1918–1921 Franco-Turkish War
1920 Turkish–Armenian War
1919–1923 Royalist and separatist revolts

1919–1922 Irish War of Independence
1920 Husino rebellion
1920 Vlora War
1920 Kapp Putsch
1920 Ruhr Uprising
1920 Slutsk Defence Action
1920–1924 Biennio Rosso
1921 Uprising in West Hungary
1921 February Uprising
1922–1923 Irish Civil War
1923 Corfu incident
1923 September Uprising
1923 Klaipėda Revolt
1923 Leonardopoulos–Gargalidis coup d'état attempt
1924 1924 Estonian coup d'état attempt
1924 August Uprising
1925 Incident at Petrich
1932 Mäntsälä rebellion
1933 Casas Viejas incident
1933 Anarchist uprising in Spain (1933)
1934 Asturian miners' strike of 1934
1934 Austrian Civil War
1935 1935 Greek coup d'état attempt
1936–1939 Spanish Civil War
1938 1938 Greek coup d'état attempt
1939 Hungarian Invasion of the Carpatho-Ukraine
1939–1965 Spanish Maquis
1939-1940 S-Plan
1939–1945 World War II

1939 Nazi German invasion of Poland
1939 Soviet invasion of Poland
1939–1940 Winter War (Soviet invasion of Finland)
1940 Battle of the Netherlands
1940 Battle of Belgium
1940 Battle of France
1940 Italian invasion of France
1940 Soviet invasion of the Baltic States
1940 Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina
1940 Battle of Britain
1940–1941 Greco-Italian War
1941–1945 Soviet–German War
1941–1944 Continuation War
1942-1944 Northern Campaign
1942–1956 Ukrainian Insurgent Army
1943 Italian Campaign
1944 Slovak National Uprising
1944 Warsaw Uprising
1945 Western Allied invasion of Germany
1945 Battle of Berlin

1944–1956 Guerrilla war in the Baltic states
1945–1949 Greek Civil War
1947–1962 Romanian anti-communist resistance movement
1953 Uprising in East Germany
1956 Uprising in Poznań
1956 Hungarian Revolution
1956–1962 Operation Harvest
1958 Opération Corse
1958 First Cod War
1959–2011 Basque conflict
1961–1967 South Tyrol insurgency
1966-1969 Northern Ireland Civil Rights Protests and IRA re-emergents
1967 Greek coup d'état
1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia
1968–1998 The Troubles
1970–1984 Unrest in Italy
1972 Bugojno group
1972–1973 Second Cod War
1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus
1974 Carnation Revolution
1975–1976 Third Cod War
1975 Portuguese coup d'état attempt
1976–present Corsican Insurgency
1981 Spanish coup d'état attempt
1988–1994 Nagorno-Karabakh War
1989 Romanian Revolution
1990–1991 Soviet attacks on Lithuanian border posts
1991 January Events
1991 The Barricades
1991 Ten-Day War (Slovenia)
1991–1992 Georgian war against Russo-Ossetian alliance
1991–1993 Georgian Civil War
1991–1995 Croatian War of Independence
1992 Transnistria War
1992 East Prigorodny Conflict
1992–1993 War in Abkhazia
1992–1995 Bosnian War
1993 Cherbourg incident
1993 Russian constitutional crisis
1994–1996 First Chechen War
1995–1996 Imia/Kardak military crisis
1997–1998 Cyprus Missile Crisis
1997 Albanian civil war of 1997
1998–1999 Kosovo War
1997–present Dissident Irish Republican campaign
1998 Six-Day War of Abkhazia
1999 War of Dagestan
1999–2009 Second Chechen War
1999–2001 Insurgency in the Preševo Valley
2001 Georgia, Kodori crisis
2001 Insurgency in the Republic of Macedonia
2004–2013 Unrest in Kosovo

2004 Georgia, Adjara crisis
2004 Georgia, South Ossetia skirmishes
2006 Georgia, Kodori crisis
2007–2015 Civil war in Ingushetia
2008 Mardakert skirmishes
2008 Russia–Georgia war
2009–2017 Insurgency in the North Caucasus
2013–2014 Euromaidan and pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine

2014 Crimean crisis
2014–present War in Donbass

[have to give wikipedia credit for the list, altho they can't figure out how to date things properly, so oh well, no click for you wiki!]

Note that there are over 700 conflicts. The big winners for "man's inhumanity towards man" in terms of numbers would have to be WWI thru WWII, with an estimated 100 million people killed [give or take several million]. A breakdown by nations is given HERE, but unsurprisingly, The Soviet Union and China are in the lead with around 20 million each.

Today, Europe has been tamed by its horrific past and seems a pretty benevolent realm of Socialist sloths who have great museums and ruins. Still, it is worth remembering that many of the ruins were not merely ravaged by Emit Flesti and Satan's obvious handymen - and handywomen - but due to the evil that lurks in us all.

As a wargame blog, this site doesn't promote war as an ideal or even a GOOD solution to human problems. It is unfortunately a necessary solution that should be used as a last resort, and not just because it is perceived as faster and easier than other more peaceful solutions [which is usually incorrect, anyway].

As for the Indians, well, it is trendy to focus on the losers of history these days; BUT it is worth considering that if they had had any chance to conquer Eruope and Asia, we would all be living on reservations, oppressed by Iroquois [etc], and worshiping the Great Spirit who put this world on the back of a Turtle.

And may the Lord have mercy on us all.