commence+hostilities
1commence — commence, begin, start 1. Commence is a more formal Latinate word for begin or start. Fowler s advice (1926) was to use begin and its derivatives except when these seem incongruous (which is in fact rare); occasions when commence is more… …
2Hirohito — / Emperor Shōwa 裕仁 / 昭和天皇 Emperor of Japan Reign 25 December 1926 – 7 January 1989 ( 1000000000000006200000062 years, 10000000000 …
3take arms — verb commence hostilities • Syn: ↑go to war, ↑take up arms • Hypernyms: ↑war • Verb Frames: Somebody s Somebody s PP * * * …
4Russo-Japanese War — Infobox Military Conflict conflict=Russo Japanese War partof= caption= date=8 February 1904 ndash; 5 September 1905 place=Manchuria, Yellow Sea casus=Rival ambitions over Manchuria and the Korean peninsula territory= result=Japanese victory;… …
5Battle of Fuzhou — Infobox Military Conflict conflict=Battle of Fuzhou partof=the Sino French War caption=The Battle of Fuzhou, 23 August 1884 (19th century painting) date=23 August, 1884 ndash; 26 August, 1884 place=Mawei Harbour, Fuzhou, China result=Decisive… …
6Texan sloop-of-war Austin — The Texan sloop of war Austin was the flagship of the Second Texas Navy from 1840 1846. Commanded by Commodore Edwin Ward Moore, she led a flotilla in the capture of Villahermosa in 1840. After a period of inaction in port, Austin participated in …
7Fumimaro Konoe — Infobox Politician name = Fumimaro Konoe width =150px height =200px caption =Prime Minister of Japan birth date =birth date|1891|10|12|mf=y birth place =Tokyo, Japan residence = death date =death date and age|1945|12|16|1891|10|12 death place… …
8Third Anglo-Burmese War — Infobox Military Conflict conflict=Third Burmese War caption= date=1885 place=Burma–India result=British victory, Burma annexed into British India casus=Burmese expansion drift combatant1=flagicon|United Kingdom United Kingdom combatant2=Burma… …
9Empire of Japan — This article is about the former absolute constitutional monarchy. For the current limited constitutional monarchy, see Japan. Greater Japanese Empire 大日本帝國 Dai Nippo …
10Pacific War — For other uses, see Pacific War (disambiguation). War in the Pacific redirects here. For the video game, see War in the Pacific (video game). For the war between Chile, Bolivia, and Peru in 1879–84, see War of the Pacific. Pacific War Part of… …
