The Great War 1914 - 1918
“World War I (also known as the First World War, Great War or War of Wars, abbreviated WWI was a military conflict centered on Europe that began in the summer of 1914. The fighting ended in late 1918. This conflict involved all of the world’s great powers, assembled in two opposing alliances: the Allies (centred around the Triple Entente) and the Central Powers. More than 70 million military personnel, including 60 million Europeans, were mobilized in one of the largest wars in history. More than 9 million combatants were killed, due largely to great technological advances in firepower without corresponding ones in mobility. It was the second deadliest conflict in history.”
From Wikipedia, 2011
Second Boer War 1899 - 1902
“In October 1889 the conflicts between Boer and British interests in South Africa, which had been brewing for almost one hundred years, finally boiled over in all-out war. The Second Boer War or South African War was to prove the greatest conflict in which Britain had been engaged since the Napoleonic Wars. This ‘Last of the Gentleman’s Wars’, which as usual the British public felt sure would be a rapid, lasted nearly three years, cost £222,000,000 and involved 450,000 Imperial troops of whom 22,000 died, just under three-quarters of them from disease”
From ‘The Boer War’ by Christopher Wilkinson-Latham, Osprey Publishing (1977)
Other Conflicts
American War of Independence
Crimean War
The Indian Rebellion
American Civil War