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Fayez Banihammad
Fayez Banihammad (Fayez Rashid Ahmed Hassan Al Qadi Banihammad), Emirati al Qaeda operative and one of five hijackers of United Airlines Flight 175 on 9/11; the only non-Saudi muscle hijacker and the one who channeled plot funds through UAE bank accounts with facilitator Mustafa al Hawsawi.
February 28 incident (二二八事件)
The February 28 incident (二二八事件), also called the 228 Incident, was a 1947 Taiwanese uprising against Republic of China rule that began with a tobacco-monopoly clash in Taipei and was crushed by military suppression, martial law, and village-cleansing purges.
February Uprising
The February Uprising, also called the February Insurrection or February Rebellion, was an anti-Bolshevik revolt in Soviet Armenia that briefly expelled the Bolsheviks from Yerevan in February 1921.
Federalist–Unitarian conflict
The Federalist–Unitarian conflict was a half-century of political struggle and civil war in Argentina between the centralizing Unitarians and the Federalists, who defended provincial autonomy.
Fenian raids
The Fenian raids (1866–1871) were five armed incursions into Canada by the US-based Fenian Brotherhood, Irish Civil War veterans seeking to seize Canada and trade it to Britain for Irish independence; all failed, but the raids helped push Canadian Confederation.
Ferdinand Foch
Ferdinand Foch (1851–1929), French marshal and military theorist, author of Des principes de la guerre; École de Guerre professor, Marshal of France, and Supreme Allied Commander whose 1918 counteroffensives won World War I.
Fetterman Fight
The Fetterman Fight, also called the Fetterman massacre, was an 1866 battle near Fort Phil Kearny, Wyoming, where Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho warriors killed 81 soldiers.
Fifth Crusade
Fifth Crusade (1217–1221), also called the Damietta Crusade: papal campaign under Innocent III and Honorius III to win Jerusalem by conquering Ayyubid Egypt; took Damietta in 1219, rejected al-Kamil's offer of Jerusalem, and was defeated at Mansourah in 1221.
Fifth Xhosa War
The Fifth Xhosa War, or Fifth Frontier War, was an 1818 to 1819 conflict on the Cape Colony's eastern border, decided by Makhanda's failed attack on Grahamstown.
Filibuster (military)
Filibuster (military): a private, unauthorized armed expedition into foreign territory, from Spanish filibustero (freebooter). Banned by the 1818 U.S. Neutrality Act; targets included Texas, Cuba, Mexico, and Nicaragua; William Walker, its most infamous figure, ruled Nicaragua in 1856 and was executed in 1860.
Filibuster War
The Filibuster War, also called the National Campaign of 1856–1857, was fought between American filibuster William Walker, who ruled Nicaragua, and a coalition of the five Central American states.
Filipe dos Santos Revolt
The Filipe dos Santos Revolt, also known as the Revolt of Vila Rica, was a 1720 uprising in the gold-mining town of Vila Rica, colonial Brazil, against royal taxation.
Filipp Oktyabrsky
Filipp Oktyabrsky (Филипп Сергеевич Октябрьский) was a Soviet admiral and Hero of the Soviet Union who commanded the Black Sea Fleet from 1939 to 1948.
Finnish Civil War
Finnish Civil War (Finnish sisällissota, kansalaissota, vapaussota), January 27 to May 15, 1918 conflict between socialist Reds and conservative Whites after Finland's December 1917 independence; White victory under Mannerheim with German aid, about 36,600 dead.
Fire of Moscow (1812)
Fire of Moscow (1812): September 1812 burning that destroyed almost three-quarters of wooden Moscow during Napoleon's occupation; governor Rostopchin was blamed, denied it in his 1823 La Vérité sur l'incendie de Moscou, and responsibility remains disputed.
First Aceh Expedition
The First Aceh Expedition was a failed 1873 Dutch attack on the Sultanate of Aceh in northern Sumatra, in which its commander, Major-General Köhler, was killed.
First Anglo-Afghan War (جنگ اول افغان و انگلیس)
The First Anglo-Afghan War (جنگ اول افغان و انگلیس), 1839-1842: Britain's East India Company invaded Afghanistan to depose Dost Mohammad and restore Shah Shuja, ending with the destruction of the retreating Kabul garrison, one European survivor, and Dost Mohammad's restoration in 1843.
First Anglo-Burmese War (ပထမအင်္ဂလိပ်-မြန်မာစစ်)
First Anglo-Burmese War (ပထမအင်္ဂလိပ်-မြန်မာစစ်), 1824–1826, first of three Anglo-Burmese wars: East India Company versus Konbaung Burma, ended by Treaty of Yandabo ceding Arakan, Assam, Manipur, Tenasserim and a £1 million indemnity.
First Anglo-Maratha War
First Anglo-Maratha War (1775–1782): first armed conflict between the East India Company and the Maratha Empire, sparked by Raghunathrao's succession bid, marked by the British reverse at Wadgaon (1779) and ended by the Treaty of Salbai (17 May 1782).
First Anglo-Mysore War
First Anglo-Mysore War (1767–1769): East India Company Madras Presidency versus Haidar Ali of Mysore, allied with Nizam and Marathas; ended by Treaty of Madras, a defensive alliance dictated by Haidar after his 1769 cavalry dash to Madras.
First Anglo-Sikh War
The First Anglo-Sikh War, also called the Sutlej War, was an 1845–46 war won by the British East India Company against the Sikh Empire of the Punjab.
First Australian Imperial Force
The First Australian Imperial Force, or First AIF, was the volunteer army Australia raised in 1914 for World War I, fighting at Gallipoli and the Western Front.
First Balkan War
The First Balkan War (1912-1913) pitted the Balkan League of Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece, and Montenegro against the Ottoman Empire, which lost almost all its European territory; it ended with the Treaty of London in May 1913 and led to the Second Balkan War.
First Battle of Amgala
The First Battle of Amgala was a January 1976 engagement in Western Sahara in which Moroccan forces defeated an Algerian army unit, taking over 100 prisoners.
First Battle of Bull Run
The First Battle of Bull Run, also called First Manassas, was the first major land battle of the American Civil War, fought near Manassas, Virginia, on July 21, 1861.
First Battle of Donetsk Airport
The First Battle of Donetsk Airport was an engagement fought on May 26, 2014, in eastern Ukraine. Ukrainian forces repelled pro-Russian militants attempting to seize the airport complex.
First Battle of Dongola
The First Battle of Dongola was a 642 clash between an Arab Rashidun raiding force and the Christian Nubian kingdom of Makuria, which forced the Arabs to withdraw with heavy casualties.
First Battle of El Alamein (معركة العلمين الأولى)
First Battle of El Alamein (معركة العلمين الأولى), 1–27 July 1942: Auchinleck's British Eighth Army halted Rommel's Panzerarmee Afrika at the El Alamein line between the Mediterranean and Qattara Depression, ending a stalemate that preceded Alam Halfa and the Second Battle of El Alamein.
First Battle of Fallujah
First Battle of Fallujah (Operation Vigilant Resolve, April 2004): U.S. Marine offensive into Fallujah, Iraq, after the killing of four Blackwater contractors; halted under political and media pressure, ending with a Marine withdrawal and insurgent control until November 2004.
First Battle of Homs
The First Battle of Homs was fought near Homs, Syria, on 10 December 1260, when local Syrian forces under al-Ashraf Musa defeated a Mongol raiding army of the Ilkhanate.