JimDuncanUK | 16 May 2016 11:32 a.m. PST |
I am just starting my American holiday (vacation) and I am reading poolside. My choice of reading material, American influenced is on the American War of Independence alternatively known as the American Revolution. My book gave this war another alternative name as the Anglo-American Civil War. This set me thinking about other wars and their alternative names. Let's keep this on or in the United States and also in the Horse and Musket period. So far I have the French & Indian War, no alternatives name. The War of 1812, no alternatives. The American Civil War or the War of Northern Aggression. Any more? |
Inkpaduta | 16 May 2016 11:50 a.m. PST |
Civil War is also been called the War Between the States. Some of the Indian Wars go by different names. |
79thPA | 16 May 2016 11:51 a.m. PST |
The French called the F&IW The War of the Conquest. |
willthepiper | 16 May 2016 1:41 p.m. PST |
War of 1812 may be comically referred to as the Second War of Independence. French and Indian War is the North American part of the Seven Years War, so sometimes goes under that name. To clarify 79thPA, it's the French Canadians who call it la guerre de la conquete (the war of the conquest). Wikipedia has a whole page on alternative names for the ACW: link |
Bismarck | 16 May 2016 1:44 p.m. PST |
I must honor one of my local fellow gamers… his term for the ACW is "the war of Northern aggression" |
ColCampbell | 16 May 2016 1:45 p.m. PST |
And I'm reading a book by Richard Glover (Peninsular Preparation, The Reform of the British Army: 1795-1809) where he refers to the American Revolution as the "American and Bourbon War." The American Civil War is also called the War of the Rebellion, as in The Official Records of the War of the Rebellion. Jim |
William Warner | 16 May 2016 1:46 p.m. PST |
In the North during the 19th century the Civil War was also known as the War of the Rebellion. In 1812 the anti-war faction referred to the war with Britain as Mr. Madison's War. |
tigrifsgt | 16 May 2016 3:50 p.m. PST |
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Rudysnelson | 16 May 2016 4:49 p.m. PST |
In the South the Creek War was the name used for the War of 1812. In Florida it was called the first Seminole War. Some writings from Florida referred to it as the American War of Aggression due to all of the minor expeditions from Georgia and the Tennessee forces into Florida. The Mexican War was called the War of American Expansion. As cited earlier, the various Indian conflicts had different names. |
Frederick | 17 May 2016 8:45 a.m. PST |
I've heard the War of 1812 being called the Second War of Independence – but the US was a sovereign country and they were the ones who declared war – - - |
demiurgex | 17 May 2016 11:42 a.m. PST |
The Late Unpleasantness is my favorite for the ACW. Of course, the War of Northern Agression wasn't used until the end of the Jim Crow era by annoyed segregationists who were saying that the civil rights movement would kick off another war. |
The Gray Ghost | 17 May 2016 2:11 p.m. PST |
Queen Anne's War- The War of the Spanish Succession King George's War- The War of the Austrian Succession King William's War (also known as the Second Indian War, Father Baudoin's War, Castin's War, or the First Intercontinental War in French) was the North American theater of the Nine Years' War, also known as the War of the Grand Alliance or the War of the League of Augsburg |
Atomic Floozy | 19 May 2016 3:39 p.m. PST |
The "Red River War" is the "popular" name of what the government called the "Indian Campaign of 1874," which the Comanche & Kiowa called "The Wrinkled Hand Chase." Some modern historians/revisionists/activists/whatever tend to call it "The War to Save the Buffalo." |