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A major conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and its American colonies fought late in the 18th Century, the Revolutionary War included several other European powers and resulted in the establishment of the United States of America as an independent nation.
Considered by some military historians as the second American war for independence, the War of 1812 served to resolve some lingering disputes between Great Britain and the newly established United States of America.
Divided by the issue of slavery, the United States suffered a devastating civil war in the mid-nineteenth century, pitting the Union Army of the north against the newly formed Confederate States of America.
