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• American Civil War — (1861–1865)    The American Civil War was fought between the military forces of the Federal Government of the United States against those of the Confederate States of American, made up of 11 states who announced their secession from the Union in… …   Encyclopedia of the Age of Imperialism, 1800–1914

• Albania —    A mountainous Balkan country that was part of the Ottoman Empire for more than 450 years. During Ottoman rule, however, Albanian chiefs controlled most local matters and the people were converted to Islam. But after the 1780s, Albania came… …   Encyclopedia of the Age of Imperialism, 1800–1914

• Nesselrode, Count Karl Robert — (1780–1862)    A long serving Russian diplomat and head of the Russian delegation at the Congress of Vienna, Count Nesselrode was thereafter a leading statesman of the Holy Alliance. Born in Lisbon, where his father served as Russian ambassador,… …   Encyclopedia of the Age of Imperialism, 1800–1914

• Peninsular War — (1808–1814)    Known in Spain as the War of Independence, a Napoleonic War fought on the Iberian Peninsula and in southern France between British, Spanish, and Portuguese forces on the one hand and those of France on the other. Napoleon Bonaparte …   Encyclopedia of the Age of Imperialism, 1800–1914

• Roosevelt Corollary —    President Theodore Roosevelt ’s codicil to the 1823 Monroe Doctrine, which ordained that the Western Hemisphere was the domain of the United States and that it would police the area to the exclusion of other powers. The corollary built on the… …   Encyclopedia of the Age of Imperialism, 1800–1914

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• United Kingdom — a kingdom in NW Europe, consisting of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: formerly comprising Great Britain and Ireland 1801 1922. 58,610,182; 94,242 sq. mi. (244,100 sq. km). Cap.: London. Abbr.: U.K. Official name, United Kingdom of Great… …   Universalium

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