In 1585, Spanish forces, led by Duke of Parma, took Antwerp after a 14-month siege in the Dutch War of Liberation.
The war veterans' leader is sometimes referred to as Hitler, the nom-de-guerre he is said to have adopted during the war of liberation that ended with Zimbabwean independence 20 years ago.
Their supporters later launched a guerrilla war of liberation.
His priorities now are to attract foreign investment and increase trade while defending his army against allegations of war crimes committed during the final stages of the war against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
Ms Bokova also laid wreaths at Shaheed Minar, a national monument commemorating those killed during the Language Movement demonstrations of 1952, and at the National Memorial honouring the martyrs of the Liberation War of 1971.
For ordinary Chechens the first war was one of liberation, not separation.
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The result looks unlikely to advance a settlement of Sri Lanka's 17-year war against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, who want a separate state in the north-east for the Tamil minority.
Much of our work in this war is less dramatic than the liberation of Afghanistan.
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The photojournalist, the country's first woman to rise to prominence in her field, chronicled India's tumultuous midcentury of liberation, war and independence.
In May 2009, Sri Lankan troops mounted a massive campaign to end the war against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, a separatist group better known as the Tamil Tigers.
One said the blast in the PM's office probably was in direct response to Kumaratunga's public pledge to end the secessionist war with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam by the end of this year.
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The emergency's justification was the long war against the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, who pursued their demand for an independent homeland for Sri Lanka's Tamil minority with total disregard for human life.
The end of the war brought a desperate dash westward to avoid liberation by the Red Army, followed by a blissful period as commander of a Polish stud in Germany.
Inevitably, some of President Bush's critics (possibly on the right, and certainly on the left, once they recover from the electoral-shock trauma) will interpret this finding insidiously: They will assert that the president's conduct of the war on terror and, in particular, his efforts to consolidate the liberation of Iraq do not enjoy the popular mandate accorded to his social conservative agenda.
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The Nbedele and Shona staged a near-constant run of revolts and raids in the latter part of the 19th century, but the war for liberation known as the "Chimurenga" ground to a near-standstill in 1897 when the revolt movement's leaders were captured and hanged.
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Schacter served as an Army chaplain during World War II and was able to participate in the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp.
If anything, that commitment has become broader and more challenging following the liberation of Eastern Europe and the outbreak of a major war on the continent.
And in 2002, he helped start the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq with a purpose of building public support for the war.
It is based on a former miner who was one of the first Allied soldiers to enter Belsen concentration camp on its liberation in World War II.
If the liberation of Iraq proceeds smoothly, the old men, who kept quieter about the war, may regain their credibility in the eyes of the young.
The defendants are two guerrilla groups that have been at war with the Colombian government for decades: the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the National Liberation Army (ELN).
The third anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq has been marked by anti-war demonstrations, polls suggesting evaporating public support for the effort to consolidate that country's liberation and paroxysms of doubt by America 's finger-in-the-wind politicians.
The biggest catch is Ramush Haradinaj, the 36-year-old prime minister of Kosovo, indicted on charges over his time as a commander in the Kosovo Liberation Army during its war with Serbia in 1998-99.
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