The First Anglo-Burmese War arose from friction between Arakan in western Burma and British-held Chittagong to the north.
Their destruction, as by British planners after the war, arises from some Orwellian yearning to deny the past and engineer a new society, usually to make someone money.
The war arose from the conflict of great powers in the Middle East and was more directly caused by Russian demands to exercise protection over the Orthodox subjects of the Ottoman sultan.
Second, "the principal risk of nuclear war arises from the uncontrollable" events that take place during genuine crises – such as simple mistakes or errors of perception – and not from the risk that rational human beings will intend war as a matter of policy.
To those whose sense of history derives, as mine does, from the thumb-nail sketch offered in high school, the First World War arose from a tinderbox of overcommitted alliances that was ignited by the striking of a political match — the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand by the Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip.
The war arose from the failure of the Truce of Nice, which ended the Italian War of 1536 1538, to resolve the long-standing conflict between Charles and Francis particularly their conflicting claims to the Duchy of Milan.
Given the uniqueness of that situation, and that every war arises from different historical and political circumstances, 46 47 it is important to consider what lessons can be learned from the experiences of the Finnish children that may be relevant for contemporary child protection policies, particularly because of the scarcity of long term follow-up studies of young people exposed to war.
The Opium Wars arose from China's attempts to suppress the opium trade.
According to Helen Castor, a historian at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, the wars arose from the slow breakdown of English government under Henry VI, a man who was prone to bouts of mental illness and "curiously incapable" even when well.
