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Capture of the Bahamas (1782)
The Capture of the Bahamas was a joint Spanish and American expedition that seized Nassau in May 1782, near the end of the American Revolutionary War.
Capture of the Dutch fleet at Den Helder
Capture of the Dutch fleet at Den Helder, January 1795: a Dutch war fleet frozen in the Nieuwediep surrendered to French forces; the famous cavalry-charge story is a Jomini-derived embellishment refuted by de Jonge and de Bas.
Capture of Tunis (1534)
The capture of Tunis (1534) was the seizure of the Hafsid capital by the Ottoman admiral Hayreddin Barbarossa in 1534, ending when Charles V retook the city in 1535.
Capture of Vrnograč
The Capture of Vrnograč, also called Operation Vrnograč '95, was a 1995 offensive in which Serbian and Autonomous Province of Western Bosnia forces took Vrnograč, Bosnia.
Caracazo
The Caracazo was a wave of protest starting in Guarenas, Venezuela, in February 1989. Triggered by austerity measures, it sparked the crisis ending Venezuela's two-party system.
Caracol's victory over Tikal
Caracol's victory over Tikal was a Maya "star war" of A.D. 562 in which Caracol, in present-day Belize, defeated Tikal, then the dominant power of the central Peten.
Carandiru massacre
The Carandiru massacre (Massacre do Carandiru): killing of 111 inmates by São Paulo military police during a riot suppression at the Casa de Detenção on October 2, 1992; condemned by the IACHR in 2000; convictions later annulled and sentences extinguished.
Carapintadas uprisings
The Carapintadas uprisings were four Argentine Army mutinies between 1987 and 1990, against the governments of Raúl Alfonsín and Carlos Menem during the return to democracy.
Caravan of Death
Caravana de la Muerte (Caravan of Death): Pinochet-ordered Chilean Army helicopter delegation led by Sergio Arellano Stark, September-October 1973, executing about 75 political prisoners across provincial Chile; basis of the first prosecution of Pinochet.
Carlos the Jackal
Carlos the Jackal (Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, born 1949), Venezuelan militant of the PFLP who attacked OPEC ministers in Vienna in 1975 and bombed French targets, captured in Sudan in 1994, serving three French life sentences.
Carpathian campaign
The Carpathian campaign, or Carpathian Winter War, was a series of 1915 winter battles between Austria-Hungary and Russia in the Carpathian Mountains, costing each side roughly a million casualties.
Carrollton bus collision
The Carrollton bus collision was a 1988 head-on crash and fire on I-71 in Kentucky in which a drunk wrong-way driver killed 27 people on a church bus.
Carthaginian peace
Carthaginian peace describes settlements that impose very harsh terms, based on Rome's 201 BC treatment of Carthage. John Maynard Keynes popularized the term in 1919.
Casamance conflict
The Casamance conflict is an armed separatist conflict in southern Senegal between the state and the MFDC, which has fought for Casamance's independence since 1982.
Casamance peace process
The Casamance peace process is the sequence of ceasefires and peace deals between Senegal and the separatist MFDC, which has fought the state since 1982 over Casamance.
Case Blue
Case Blue (Fall Blau, later Braunschweig) was Germany's 1942 Eastern Front summer offensive, launched 28 June 1942 to destroy Soviet armies west of the Don and seize Caucasus oil at Maikop, Grozny, and Baku; it ended with the Stalingrad encirclement.
Cassinga raid
The Battle of Cassinga was a South African airborne attack on a SWAPO camp in southern Angola on 4 May 1978, killing more than 600 people.
Caste War of Yucatán
Caste War of Yucatán (Guerra de Castas, also Guerra Social Maya): 1847-1901 Maya uprising in the Yucatán Peninsula against criollos and mestizos, begun at Tepich by Cecilio Chi, centered on the Talking Cross cult at Chan Santa Cruz, ending with the 1901 federal occupation and creation of Quintana Roo.
Castilian War
The Castilian War, known in Malay as Perang Kastila, was a 1578 conflict in which Spanish forces attacked Brunei's capital on Borneo and occupied it for just over two months.
Castle Mountain Internment Camp
Castle Mountain Internment Camp (Banff-Castle Mountain), a WWI Canadian internment camp in Banff National Park, Alberta, 1915-1917, holding mostly Ukrainian enemy aliens; commemorated by the 1995 Why? statue, vandalized in 2026.
Casualties of the 2026 Iran war
Casualties of the 2026 Iran war, also called the US-Israel war on Iran or Operation Epic Fury, killed roughly 7,900 people by August 2026 across Iran, Lebanon, Israel, Gulf states, and US forces, with counts disputed between officials and independent monitors.
Casualties of the Iraq War
Casualties of the Iraq War cover deaths since the 2003 invasion: at minimum 134,000 civilians (Costs of War), 162,000 documented total (Iraq Body Count), survey estimates up to 655,000, and 550,000-580,000 killed in Iraq and Syria by 2023.
Casualties of the Russo-Ukrainian War
Casualties of the Russo-Ukrainian War: military and civilian deaths and injuries since Russia's 2022 full-scale invasion. CSIS estimates ~1.2 million Russian and 500,000-600,000 Ukrainian casualties; OHCHR verifies 16,874+ civilians killed; Mediazona/BBC name 152,142+ Russian dead.
Casualties of the September 11 attacks
Casualties of the September 11 attacks: 2,976 killed overall, 2,753 at the World Trade Center; 21,905 remains recovered, about 1,654 victims identified by 2026, plus long-term illness deaths.
Casualties of the Syrian civil war
Casualties of the Syrian civil war are the deaths caused by the conflict that began in Syria in March 2011, with totals ranging past half a million.
Casualties of the Twelve-Day War
Casualties of the Twelve-Day War, the June 13–24, 2025 Israel–Iran conflict (Operation Rising Lion): Iranian deaths estimated 935 official to 1,190 (HRANA), 28 killed in Israel, plus senior commanders and nuclear scientists killed.
Catalan Company
The Catalan Company (Gran Companyia Catalana) was a 14th-century mercenary force of almogavars led by Roger de Flor, hired by Andronikos II against the Turks, and later ruler of the duchies of Athens and Neopatria from 1311 to 1388.
Catatumbo campaign
Catatumbo campaign: armed conflict for control of the Catatumbo coca region of Norte de Santander, Colombia, on the Venezuelan border; ELN, FARC dissidents and EPL have fought there since the 1970s, and the ELN's 16 January 2025 offensive displaced over 100,000 people.
Catavi massacre
The Catavi massacre (Spanish: Masacre de Catavi) was the killing of striking tin miners and their families by Bolivian Army troops at Catavi, Potosí, Bolivia, on 21 December 1942.
Catherine Dior
Catherine Dior (1917-2008), French Resistance F2 agent and sister of couturier Christian Dior; arrested July 1944, deported to Ravensbrück, liberated May 1945; namesake of the 1947 Miss Dior perfume.