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Division of the Mongol Empire
The Division of the Mongol Empire was the process by which Genghis Khan's unified empire, founded in 1206, split in the 1260s into four khanates: the Golden Horde, Chagatai Khanate, Ilkhanate, and Yuan dynasty.
Dixie (song)
Dixie, also Dixie's Land or I Wish I Was in Dixie's Land, is an 1859 blackface minstrel song by Daniel Decatur Emmett, written in New York for Bryant's Minstrels and later adopted as the Confederacy's unofficial Civil War anthem.
Djiboutian Civil War
The Djiboutian Civil War, also known as the Afar Insurgency, was a conflict from 1991 to 1994 between Djibouti's Issa-dominated government and the Afar rebel group FRUD.
Djiboutian–Eritrean border conflict
The Djiboutian–Eritrean border conflict is a territorial dispute between Djibouti and Eritrea over the Ras Doumeira area, which led to armed clashes in June 2008.
Dmitry Pavlov
Dmitry Pavlov, born Dmitry Grigoryevich Pavlov (Дмитрий Григорьевич Павлов), was a Soviet general who led the Red Army's armored forces and commanded the Western Front in 1941.
Dobruja campaign
The Dobruja campaign was the 1916 fighting between Romania, with Russian and Serbian allies, and the Central Powers for control of Dobruja, occupied until November 1918.
Dog Soldiers
The Dog Soldiers (Hotamétaneo'o, Dog Men) were one of six Cheyenne military societies that from the late 1830s became a dominant militaristic band resisting US expansion, led by Tall Bull until Summit Springs in 1869.
Dokka Umarov (Доку Хаматович Умаров)
Dokka Umarov (Доку Хаматович Умаров), also Doku Umarov, Chechen militant commander, last president of Ichkeria and emir of the Caucasus Emirate from 2007; threatened the 2014 Sochi Olympics, UN-sanctioned 2011, reported dead March 2014.
Domestic military deployments by the second Trump administration
Domestic military deployments by the second Trump administration: National Guard and active-duty troops sent to Los Angeles, Washington DC, Portland, Chicago, Memphis, and New Orleans from June 2025, facing Posse Comitatus Act litigation and a Supreme Court ruling against federalization.
Domestic terrorism in the United States
Domestic terrorism in the United States: ideologically driven violence defined by 18 U.S.C. § 2331(5), with no standalone federal charging statute. FBI/DHS track DVE threats (REMVE, AGAAVE, and others); lone offenders are the primary threat, and investigations doubled after 2020.
Dominican Civil War
Dominican Civil War (Guerra de Abril, April Revolution), 1965 conflict in Santo Domingo between Bosch's Constitutionalists and Loyalists, followed by the U.S. Operation Power Pack intervention and the OAS Inter-American Peace Force.
Dominican War of Independence
Dominican War of Independence (1844-1856): the conflict in which Dominicans led by Juan Pablo Duarte's La Trinitaria separated Santo Domingo from Haitian rule under Boyer, winning battles such as Azua and Santiago and repelling Soulouque's invasions until 1856.
Donald DeFreeze
Donald David DeFreeze, alias General Field Marshal Cinque, was the escaped-convict leader of the Symbionese Liberation Army, responsible for the Marcus Foster murder and Patty Hearst kidnapping; he died in the 1974 Los Angeles police siege.
Donetsk fortress belt
Donetsk fortress belt: fortified line of Kostyantynivka, Druzhkivka, Kramatorsk, and Slovyansk along the H-20 highway, Ukraine's main Donetsk defense since 2014, over 380,000 pre-war residents, target of Russia's 2026 offensive.
Dorothea Dix
Dorothea Dix (1802–1887), American reformer and Union Superintendent of Army Nurses whose investigations of jails and poorhouses led to 32 institutions for the mentally ill in the United States.
Double Tenth incident
The Double Tenth incident was a wave of arrests and torture by the Japanese Kempeitai in Singapore from October 1943, after the Allied Operation Jaywick raid.
Doughboy
Doughboy is the informal nickname for a U.S. infantryman, especially Pershing's American Expeditionary Forces troops in World War I; origin theories include adobe dust, uniform buttons, and clay piping, and it survives in Viquesney statues and the Doughboy Foundation.
Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig (1861-1928), British field marshal, Commander-in-Chief of the BEF in France and Flanders 1915-1918; directed the Somme and Passchendaele offensives and the 1918 Hundred Days victories; later Royal British Legion president.
Douglas MacArthur's escape from the Philippines
Douglas MacArthur's escape from the Philippines (March 1942): Roosevelt-ordered evacuation from Corregidor by Bulkeley's PT-41 to Mindanao, then B-17 to Australia, leaving 90,000 troops and prompting "I shall return."
Douma chemical attack
Douma chemical attack: 7 April 2018 chlorine attack on rebel-held Douma, Syria, killing 43. OPCW's IIT attributed it to a Syrian Arab Air Force Mi-8/17 helicopter; findings disputed by Russia and leaked dissenting assessments.
Dózsa rebellion
The Dózsa rebellion (Dózsa-féle parasztháború) was a 1514 peasant uprising in the Kingdom of Hungary, led by György Dózsa and suppressed by János Zápolya within three months.
Draft evasion in the Vietnam War
Draft evasion in the Vietnam War, known as draft dodging, was the refusal of American men to comply with the draft from 1964 to 1973, by deferring, emigrating, or resisting.
Drake's raid on Cartagena de Indias
Drake's raid on Cartagena de Indias was the capture, plundering, and six-week occupation of the Spanish colonial port in present-day Colombia by Sir Francis Drake in 1586.
Drake's raid on Santo Domingo
Drake's raid on Santo Domingo was the capture, sack, and ransoming of the Spanish colonial capital of Santo Domingo by Sir Francis Drake in January and February 1586.
Dries Riphagen
Dries Riphagen (Bernardus Andreas Riphagen, 1909-1973), nicknamed the 'Al Capone of Amsterdam', was a Dutch underworld criminal and Nazi collaborator who hunted Jews in hiding for the Sicherheitsdienst and Bureau Joodsche Zaken, extorted and stole their property, betrayed over 200 Jews, then escaped to Argentina with intelligence-service help and died in Switzerland.
Dual monarchy of England and France
Dual monarchy of England and France, or Lancastrian dual monarchy: political order created by the Treaty of Troyes (21 May 1420) making Henry V and his heirs kings of both kingdoms, each keeping its own laws; it collapsed with the fall of Paris in 1436.
Duékoué massacre
The Duékoué massacre was the killing of hundreds of civilians, mostly from the Guéré ethnic group, by forces loyal to Alassane Ouattara in Duékoué, western Côte d'Ivoire, in March 2011.
Duff massacre
The Duff massacre was the killing of three London Missionary Society missionaries on Tongatapu, Tonga, in 1799 during civil war, ending the first Christian mission in Western Polynesia.
Dulce et Decorum est
Dulce et Decorum est is Wilfred Owen's 1917 antiwar poem, published posthumously in Poems (1920), quoting Horace's tag pro patria mori and refuting it as "the old Lie" through a gas-attack narrative.
Dull Knife Fight
The Dull Knife Fight, also called the Red Fork Battle, was a surprise U.S. Army attack on a Northern Cheyenne village in Wyoming Territory on November 25, 1876.