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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 6 March 2025. Opposition to fascism An Italian partisan in Florence, 14 August 1944, during the liberation of Italy Part of a series on Anti-fascism Interwar Ethiopia Black Lions Central Europe Arbeiter-Schutzbund Republikanischer Schutzbund Socialist Action Germany Antifaschistische Aktion Black Band ...
The Leader of the Luddites, 1812. Hand-coloured etching. The Luddites were members of a 19th-century movement of English textile workers who opposed the use of certain types of automated machinery due to concerns relating to worker pay and output quality. They often destroyed the machines in organised raids. Members of the group referred to themselves as Luddites, self-described followers of ...
Sortie (also "to sally (forth)"): a sudden attack against a besieging enemy from within a besieged fort or town. Surrender at discretion: unconditional surrender instead of surrendering with terms. Skirmish; Switch position: A defensive position oblique to, and connecting, successive defensive positions paralleling the front. [9]
Another case is the Gigantomachy, the battle fought between the Giants - the children of Gaia - and all the Olympian gods for supremacy of the cosmos. In the Iliad , multiple theomachies occur. One is fought between Diomedes with the direct aid of Athena against Ares and Aphrodite (part of Diomedes ' aristeia in Book 5).
Originally the word came from the kind of terrain in which the armed resistance groups hid, high ground in southeastern France covered with scrub growth called maquis (scrubland). [4] The term maquis signified both the group of fighters and their rural location. [5] Members of those bands were called maquisards.
Guerrilla warfare during the Peninsular War, by Roque Gameiro, depicting a Portuguese guerrilla ambush against French forces. Guerrilla warfare is a form of unconventional warfare in which small groups of irregular military, such as rebels, partisans, paramilitary personnel or armed civilians, including recruited children, use ambushes, sabotage, terrorism, raids, petty warfare or hit-and-run ...
In Greek mythology, the Titanomachy (/ ˌ t aɪ t ə ˈ n ɒ m ə k i /; Ancient Greek: Τιτανομαχία, romanized: Titanomakhía, lit. 'Titan-battle', Latin: Titanomachia) was a ten-year [1] series of battles fought in Ancient Thessaly, consisting of most of the Titans (the older generation of gods, based on Mount Othrys) fighting against the Olympians (the younger generations, who ...
Max Vasmer's etymological dictionary traces the name to the Tatar Turkic word kazak, kozak, in which cosac meant 'free man' but also 'conqueror'. [10] The ethnonym Kazakh is from the same Turkic root. [11] [12] [13] In written sources, the name is first attested in the Codex Cumanicus from the 13th century. [14] [15] In English, Cossack is ...