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Dummer's War
Dummer's War (1722–1725), also called Father Rale's War or Lovewell's War, was fought between the New England colonies and the Wabanaki Confederacy, allied with New France.
Dunkirk evacuation
Dunkirk evacuation (Operation Dynamo, 26 May–4 June 1940): Ramsay's sea rescue of 338,226 Allied troops from Dunkirk's mole and beaches, with halt-order debate, ship and aircraft losses, and the Dunkirk spirit myth.
Dunmore's War
Dunmore's War was a 1774 conflict in the Ohio Valley between Virginia militia under Lord Dunmore and a Shawnee-led confederation, ending at the Battle of Point Pleasant.
Dutch capture of Curaçao
The Dutch capture of Curaçao in 1634 was the seizure of the Spanish-held island by the Dutch West India Company under Johannes van Walbeeck, completed by 21 August.
Dutch conquest of Bali
The Dutch conquest of Bali was a series of military campaigns between 1846 and 1908 that brought the Balinese kingdoms under Dutch colonial rule, including the Puputan Badung of 1906.
Dutch conquest of Jambi
The Dutch conquest of Jambi was the 1858 Netherlands Indies expedition that bombarded the sultan's palace on Sumatra, deposed Sultan Thaha Saifuddin, and installed a rival sultan.
Dutch expedition against Bone
The Dutch expedition against Bone was a punitive campaign by the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army against the Bugis kingdom of Bone in South Sulawesi in 1824 and 1825.
Dutch expedition to Palembang
The Dutch expedition to Palembang of 1821, also called the Second Expedition to Palembang, captured Sultan Mahmud Badaruddin II's palace and exiled him to Ternate.
Dutch expedition to Valdivia
A 1643 Dutch West India Company expedition commanded by Hendrick Brouwer that occupied the abandoned city of Valdivia in southern Chile, then withdrew after failing to win Mapuche cooperation.
Dutch intervention in Bali (1846–1849)
The Dutch intervention in Bali (1846–1849) was a series of three military expeditions by the Netherlands Indies against the Balinese kingdoms of northern Bali, chiefly Buleleng and Karangasem.
Dwaben War
The Dwaben War, also called the Kumase-Dwaben civil war, was an 1875 conflict in which Kumasi defeated the seceding Asante province of Juaben, whose refugees founded New Juaben.
Dylann Roof
Dylann Storm Roof, American white supremacist mass murderer, self-radicalized online, killed nine Black parishioners at Charleston's Mother Emanuel AME Church on June 17, 2015; federal death sentence.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (Джохар Анзорович Царнаев)
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (Джохар Анзорович Царнаев), born 1993, is the surviving Boston Marathon bomber who with brother Tamerlan detonated pressure-cooker bombs on April 15, 2013, killing three; convicted on 30 counts, sentenced to death in 2015, reinstated by the Supreme Court in 2022.
Dzungar genocide
The Dzungar genocide (1755–1758) was the Qing extermination of the Dzungar Mongols during the conquest of Dzungaria under the Qianlong emperor, killing roughly 70–80 percent of about 600,000 people through warfare, smallpox, famine, and ordered massacre.
Dzungar invasion of Kazakhstan
The Dzungar invasion of Kazakhstan was a series of Dzungar Khanate campaigns against the Kazakh Khanate, culminating in the devastating 1723 invasion known as the Great Disaster.
Dzungar Khanate (Зүүнгарын хаант улс)
Dzungar Khanate (Зүүнгарын хаант улс), also Zunghar or Zünghar Khanate: Oirat Mongol state in Dzungaria (Xinjiang) under Galdan, Tsewang-Rabtan, and Galdan-Tsereng; destroyed by Qing conquest in the 1750s with near-total extermination of the Dzungars.
Early Muslim conquests
Early Muslim conquests (c. 632–750): the Rashidun and Umayyad expansion from Arabia that overran Sasanian Persia and the Byzantine Near East after Yarmuk (636) and Qadisiyya, largely by treaty.
Earp Vendetta Ride
Earp Vendetta Ride (1882): 26-day hunt by Deputy U.S. Marshal Wyatt Earp's federal posse for Cowboys suspected of maiming Virgil and killing Morgan Earp; four killed, Stilwell first, ending in Colorado.
East Aleppo offensive (2024–2025)
East Aleppo offensive (2024–2025): fighting in Aleppo governorate between the Kurdish-led SDF and the Turkish-backed SNA from November 30, 2024 (Operation Dawn of Freedom), later a government offensive that dismantled the SDF position by the January 18, 2026 ceasefire.
East Timorese civil war
The East Timorese civil war was a six-week conflict fought in 1975 between East Timor's UDT and FRETILIN parties during decolonization; FRETILIN won weeks before Indonesia invaded.
Easter Offensive
The Easter Offensive (Nguyen Hue Campaign) was North Vietnam's three-pronged conventional invasion of South Vietnam launched 30 March 1972 across the DMZ, into the Central Highlands, and toward An Loc, halted by US airpower and ARVN resistance.
Eastern Front (World War I)
The Eastern Front of World War I was the theater of war fought 1914 to 1918 between the Baltic and Black Seas, pitting Russia against Germany and Austria-Hungary.
Eastern Front (World War II)
Eastern Front (World War II), also the Great Patriotic War or German-Soviet War 1941-1945: the largest, deadliest WWII theater, opened by Operation Barbarossa on 22 June 1941, ending with Germany's defeat in May 1945, with over 30 million deaths and three quarters of German losses.
Eaton Fire
The Eaton Fire was a January 2025 wildfire in Altadena and Pasadena, California, also called the Eaton Canyon fire; it burned 14,021 acres, destroyed 9,419 structures, killed 19, and was caused by arcing on an idle Southern California Edison tower.
Ecuadorian conflict (2024–present)
Ecuadorian conflict (2024–present), also called Ecuador's internal armed conflict: President Daniel Noboa's January 2024 declaration of war on 22 drug gangs including Los Choneros and Los Lobos, its contested legal status, homicide trends, and human rights record.
Ecuadorian War of Independence
The Ecuadorian War of Independence (Guerra de Independencia de Ecuador) was the conflict by which the Real Audiencia of Quito broke from Spanish rule, from 1809 to 1822.
Ecuadorian–Peruvian War of 1859–1860
The Ecuadorian–Peruvian War of 1859–1860 was an armed conflict between Peru and Ecuador that began with a Peruvian naval blockade and ended with the Treaty of Mapasingue.
Ecuadorian–Peruvian War of 1941
The Ecuadorian–Peruvian War of 1941, known as the Guerra del 41, was an undeclared war over Amazonian territory that Peru won, occupying Ecuador's El Oro province.
Edmond post office shooting
Edmond post office shooting: 20 August 1986 massacre in Edmond, Oklahoma, where USPS letter carrier Patrick Henry Sherrill killed 14 coworkers and wounded six before suicide, origin of the phrase "going postal".
Edna Cintrón
Edna Troche Cintrón (1954–2001), the Waving Woman, a Marsh McLennan administrative assistant killed on the North Tower's 97th floor on 9/11, known from images of a woman waving at the impact gash.