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Names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe
The 660 general names and 128 battle names engraved on the Arc de Triomphe's walls and piers, inscribed 1835-1836 and extended to 1895, commemorating the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars; underlined names mark officers killed in action.
Ñancahuazú Guerrilla
The Ñancahuazú Guerrilla was the 1966–1967 campaign in Bolivia by the National Liberation Army (ELN), built around Che Guevara and crushed with his execution in October 1967.
Nancy Wake
Nancy Wake (1912–2011), 'the White Mouse', New Zealand-born Australian Resistance courier and SOE agent in the Auvergne Maquis, 1944; among the most decorated women of the Second World War.
Nandi resistance
The Nandi resistance was a ten-year armed opposition by the Nandi people of Kenya to British colonial rule from 1895, led by the prophet Koitalel Arap Samoei.
Nanjing Massacre (南京大屠杀)
The Nanjing Massacre (南京大屠杀), or Rape of Nanking, was the mass killing, rape, and looting of Nanjing residents by Japanese troops after the city fell on December 13, 1937; tribunals found over 200,000 and at least 300,000 deaths respectively.
Nanzhao raids on Pyu city-states
Military expeditions of the 8th and 9th centuries in which Nanzhao, a kingdom in Yunnan, attacked the Pyu city-states of Upper Burma, most notably in 832.
Naranjo–Caracol wars
The Naranjo–Caracol wars were a series of conflicts between the Classic Maya cities of Caracol, Belize, and Naranjo, Guatemala, fought mainly in the early 600s under Caracol's ruler K'an II.
Naranjo's conquest of Caracol
Naranjo's conquest of Caracol was a Classic Maya star-war of AD 680 in which Naranjo defeated its rival Caracol, ending roughly fifty years of Caracol domination.
Naroda Patiya massacre
Naroda Patiya massacre: killing of Muslim residents of Naroda Patiya, Ahmedabad, on February 28, 2002, during the post-Godhra Gujarat riots; 2012 trial convicted 31, including Maya Kodnani and Babu Bajrangi; Kodnani acquitted on appeal in 2018.
Naser Jason Abdo
Naser Jason (Jamal) Abdo, also Naser Abdo, is a former U.S. Army private and AWOL soldier from Fort Campbell convicted of plotting a 2011 bombing and shooting attack on Fort Hood soldiers near Killeen, Texas; sentenced to two consecutive life terms plus 60 years.
Natchez revolt
The Natchez revolt was a 1729 uprising by the Natchez people against French colonists at Fort Rosalie, killing more than 200 and leading to the Natchez Wars.
Nathan Bedford Forrest
Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821-1877), Confederate cavalry general and slave trader, rose from private to lieutenant general, led the Fort Pillow massacre of April 1864, and served as the Ku Klux Klan's first Grand Wizard, a leadership role modern scholarship disputes.
Nathu La and Cho La clashes
Nathu La and Cho La clashes: September–October 1967 armed encounters between Indian and Chinese troops on the Sikkim–Tibet border, the deadliest since the 1962 war, triggered by Indian border fencing at Nathu La pass.
National Committee (1848)
The National Committee (Czech: Národní výbor) was the leading political organ of the Czech national movement in Prague during the Revolution of 1848, dissolved after the June uprising was suppressed.
National Committee of the Republic of Estonia
The National Committee of the Republic of Estonia (Estonian: Eesti Vabariigi Rahvuskomitee) was an underground body formed in German-occupied Estonia in 1944 that prepared a constitutional government to restore independence.
National day of mourning
National day of mourning: an officially declared day or period of collective grief for leaders, disaster victims, or fallen workers. Covers US presidential proclamations, European comparative data, Canada's April 28 Workers' Memorial Day, and Australia's 1938 Aboriginal Day of Mourning.
National Museum of the Pacific War
National Museum of the Pacific War (Fredericksburg, Texas), a Smithsonian-affiliated museum of the WWII Pacific Theater opened 1967, centered on Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, with a Bush Gallery, Pacific Combat Zone reenactment site, and oral history archives.
National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day
National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, observed December 7 and designated by Congress in 1994 (36 U.S.C. §129), honors the 2,403 Americans killed in the 1941 Japanese attack, with presidential proclamations, half-staff flags, and ceremonies at Pearl Harbor National Memorial.
National Personnel Records Center fire
The 1973 National Personnel Records Center fire, also called the NPRC fire or St. Louis fire of July 12, 1973, destroyed 16-18 million Army and Air Force personnel files (80% of Army records 1912-1960, 75% of Air Force records 1947-1964) in a sprinkler-less building; cause never determined.
National Resistance Front of Afghanistan
National Resistance Front of Afghanistan (NRF), also Second Resistance, anti-Taliban armed group formed after the fall of Kabul in August 2021, led by Ahmad Massoud and Amrullah Saleh, based in Panjshir, largest resistance group, guerrilla attacks, no territorial control.
National Socialist Council of Nagaland
National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN): Naga nationalist insurgent group founded 1980 from NNC dissidents rejecting the Shillong Accord; split in 1988 into NSCN-IM (Isak, Muivah) and NSCN-K (Khaplang); NSCN-IM signed the 1997 ceasefire and the 2015 Framework Agreement with India.
National Transitional Council (المجلس الوطني الانتقالي)
National Transitional Council (المجلس الوطني الانتقالي), Libya's interim governing body formed in Benghazi in February 2011 during the anti-Gaddafi uprising; chaired by Mustafa Abdul Jalil, it issued the 2011 Constitutional Declaration, won broad international recognition, and dissolved itself after the July 2012 elections handed power to the General National Congress.
Navajo Wars
The Navajo Wars were armed conflicts between the Navajo (Diné) people and Spain, Mexico, and the United States, ending with the Treaty of 1868 that let the Navajo return home.
Naval Battle of Buceo
The Naval Battle of Buceo was a May 1814 naval victory off Montevideo in which Guillermo Brown's squadron destroyed Spanish naval power in the Río de la Plata.
Naval Battle of Casablanca
Naval Battle of Casablanca, 8–10 November 1942: US Task Force 34 under Admiral Hewitt versus Vichy French forces under Admiral Michelier during Operation Torch; Jean Bart duelled USS Massachusetts; over 460 French sailors killed.
Naval Battle of Guadalcanal
Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, 12–15 November 1942: series of U.S.–Japanese night and carrier actions in Ironbottom Sound that defeated Japan's last major effort to reinforce Guadalcanal and seize Henderson Field, sinking the battleship Kirishima.
Naval campaign of the War of the Pacific
The naval campaign of the War of the Pacific was the 1879 struggle for sea control between Chile and Peru, ending with Chile's capture of the Huáscar at Angamos.
Naval campaign of William Brown
The naval campaign of William Brown (Campaña Naval de 1814) was the United Provinces' offensive against Spanish Montevideo, culminating in victory on 17 May 1814.
Naval operations in the Dardanelles campaign
Naval operations in the Dardanelles campaign: British and French attempts, February–March 1915, to force the Dardanelles strait by ships alone; halted on 18 March 1915 after mines sank Bouvet, Irresistible, and Ocean, leading to the Gallipoli landings.
Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
Naxalite–Maoist insurgency: India's long-running communist rebellion led since 2004 by the CPI (Maoist) and its People's Liberation Guerrilla Army, rooted in the 1967 Naxalbari uprising, active in the mineral-rich red corridor and targeted for elimination by March 2026.