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History of terrorism
History of terrorism: from the French Revolution's Terror, through anarchist propaganda by the deed and anti-colonial violence, to post-9/11 jihadist insurgency and today's Sahel-centered, AI-assisted terrorist threat.
History of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict
History of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict: chronology from the British Mandate, 1947 UN partition and 1948 war, through 1967 occupation, Oslo Accords, Gaza blockade, and the October 2023 war.
History of the Peloponnesian War
History of the Peloponnesian War: Thucydides' unfinished account (431–404 BCE) of the war between Athens and Sparta; its 'truest cause' was Spartan fear of growing Athenian power.
Hiwi (volunteer)
Hiwi (Hilfswilliger, "willing helper") was the German designation for Soviet civilians and POWs serving as individual auxiliaries in Wehrmacht units; about one million served, plus Trawniki-trained Hiwi camp guards.
Hizbul Mujahideen
Hizbul Mujahideen (HM), a Kashmiri militant group founded in 1989, mostly indigenous Kashmiri cadre, long dominated the insurgency, designated FTO by the US in 2017 and listed by Canada and India.
Hmong resistance in Laos
Hmong resistance in Laos was armed opposition by Hmong fighters, many former soldiers of General Vang Pao's CIA-supported army, against Laos's communist government from 1975 into the 1990s.
Ho Chi Minh Campaign
The Ho Chi Minh Campaign (Chiến dịch Hồ Chí Minh) was the final strategic offensive of the Vietnam War, fought from 26 to 30 April 1975, ending with Saigon's capture and surrender of South Vietnam.
Ho Chi Minh trail
Ho Chi Minh trail (Đường Trường Sơn): North Vietnam's logistics network of roads, pipelines, and way-stations through Laos and Cambodia, 1959–1975, moved two million people despite US bombing and interdiction.
Hock Lee bus riots
The Hock Lee bus riots were a violent 1955 riot in Singapore, where a strike by Hock Lee bus workers and Chinese students killed four people on 12 May, known as Black Thursday.
Holy Cross dispute
The Holy Cross dispute (2001–2003) was a loyalist protest on Belfast's Ardoyne Road blocking Catholic girls from Holy Cross Primary School, with riot-police escorts, blast bombs, a £3m policing bill, and a January 2003 pipe bomb.
Holy Spirit Movement
The Holy Spirit Movement was a prophetic rebel movement founded in northern Uganda in 1986 by Alice Auma, a spirit medium who fought Yoweri Museveni's government.
Home Army
Armia Krajowa (Home Army, AK), the underground Polish Army of the Polish Underground State, created 14 February 1942 from the ZWZ, peaking near 400,000 soldiers, culminating in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, disbanded 19 January 1945.
Home front during World War II
Home front during World War II: civilian mobilization in total war, 1939-1945. Covers rationing, Victory Gardens, scrap drives, women's war work, civil defense, war finance, and the contrasting US, British, German, and Japanese home fronts.
Home Guard (United Kingdom)
The British Home Guard, originally the Local Defence Volunteers (LDV), was an unpaid volunteer militia raised on 14 May 1940 to defend against German invasion; it peaked near 1.8-2 million men, stood down in December 1944, disbanded in 1945, and was revived 1952-1957.
Honda Point disaster
Honda Point disaster (Point Pedernales): 8 September 1923 wrecking of seven Clemson-class destroyers of Destroyer Squadron 11 in fog at Santa Barbara County, California, killing 23 sailors; largest peacetime loss of U.S. Navy ships, $13,000,000 loss.
Hongi raids
Hongi raids (Dutch hongi-tochten) were armed maritime expeditions in the Moluccas, first a form of indigenous warfare and later the VOC's yearly enforcement of its clove monopoly.
Hongkou Park Incident
The Hongkou Park Incident, also called the Hongkou Park bombing, was a 1932 bomb attack by Korean independence activist Yun Bong-gil at a Japanese ceremony in Shanghai, killing General Shirakawa.
Honnō-ji Incident (本能寺の変)
The Honnō-ji Incident (本能寺の変) of June 21, 1582: Akechi Mitsuhide attacked Honnō-ji temple in Kyoto with about 13,000 troops, forcing Oda Nobunaga's suicide; his heir Nobutada died the same day, and Mitsuhide fell at Yamazaki eleven days later.
Hop-A-Jet Flight 823
Hop-A-Jet Flight 823 (Ace Aviation Services) was a Part 135 charter flight in a Bombardier Challenger 604, N823KD, that lost both GE CF34-3B engines to corrosion-related compressor stalls on approach to Naples, Florida, on February 9, 2024, crash-landed on Interstate 75, and killed both pilots.
Horse Memorial
Horse Memorial, Port Elizabeth (Gqeberha): 1905 bronze and granite monument by Joseph Whitehead honoring horses that died in British service in the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902; Provincial Heritage Site on Cape Road.
Hosay massacre
The Hosay massacre was the killing of Indian indentured laborers by colonial police and soldiers in San Fernando, Trinidad, on 30 October 1884, leaving 17 to 22 dead.
Houla massacre
Houla massacre (الحولة): killing of over 100 civilians, including 49 children and 34 women, in Houla near Homs, Syria, on 25 May 2012; UN inquiry found government forces and Shabbiha militia responsible, which Syria denied.
House of Lancaster
House of Lancaster: Plantagenet cadet branch founded by Edmund Crouchback (earl 1267) and John of Gaunt; kings Henry IV, V, VI; lost throne to York in Wars of the Roses; red rose badge; ended 1471, claim passed to Henry VII.
House of York
The House of York was a cadet branch of the Plantagenets whose kings Edward IV and Richard III ruled England from 1461 to 1485, its emblem the white rose.
Houthi attacks on commercial vessels
Houthi attacks on commercial vessels: Iran-backed Yemeni campaign of missile, drone, and boarding assaults on Red Sea and Gulf of Aden shipping from 19 November 2023 (Galaxy Leader seizure), citing Gaza solidarity, forcing Cape of Good Hope reroutes and prompting US-UK strikes and UN Resolution 2722.
Houthi movement
The Houthi movement, formally known as Ansar Allah, is a Zaydi Shia insurgent movement from northern Yemen that has governed Sana'a and much of western Yemen since taking the capital in 2014.
Houthi takeover in Yemen
The Houthi takeover in Yemen (September 2014) was Ansar Allah's seizure of Sanaa with Saleh-loyalist army units, followed by Hadi's January 2015 resignation, the Saudi-led intervention of March 2015, and a decade of divided rule.
Houthis in the 2026 Iran war
Houthis in the 2026 Iran war: Ansar Allah (Houthis), Yemen's Iran-aligned movement, entered the February 2026 U.S.-Israeli war on Iran on March 28, declared a naval blockade on Saudi Arabia in July, seized Bab el-Mandeb coastline, and struck Riyadh airport and Aramco headquarters in October 2026.
Hualapai War
The Hualapai War, also called the Walapai War, was an 1865 to 1870 conflict between the Hualapai people and the United States Army in northwestern Arizona.
Hukbalahap
Hukbalahap (Hukbo ng Bayan Laban sa Hapon), also called the Huks, was a communist-led Filipino guerrilla army formed 29 March 1942 under Luis Taruc to fight the Japanese occupation, then reactivated in 1946 as the HMB in the Huk rebellion, defeated by 1955 under Magsaysay.