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Revolutionary War or Revolutionary Wars may refer to:

• American Revolutionary War, the armed conflict between Great Britain and thirteen of its North American colonies, which had declared themselves the independent United States of America
• French Revolutionary Wars, a series of military conflicts (1792–1802) resulting from the French Revolution
• Spanish Revolutionary War
• Texas Revolutionary War
• Philippine Revolutionary War
• Irish War of Independence, a guerrilla war fought from 1919 to 1921 between the Irish Republican Army (IRA, the army of the Irish Republic) and the British security forces in Ireland
• Revolutionary People's War, a military-political strategy developed by the Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong
• Indonesian Revolutionary War
• Cuban Revolutionary War, an armed revolt conducted by Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement and its allies against the U.S.-backed authoritarian government of Cuban President Fulgencio Batista

Other types of conflicts that can be called "revolutionary wars" include:

• Liberation war, a conflict primarily intended to bring freedom or independence to a nation or group
• War of independence, a conflict occurring over a territory that has declared independence
• War of national liberation, conflicts fought by nationalities to gain independence
• Rebellion, a refusal of obedience or order

See also

• List of revolutions and rebellions
• List of wars of independence
• Restoration War (disambiguation)
• Revolution (disambiguation)
• Revolutions (disambiguation)
• War (disambiguation)

• Disambiguation pages