The revolutionary forces then divided between Carranza's followers and those of his chief rival and most colorful general, Pancho Villa, and civil war raged for another year.
The Army responded with characteristic fury, and the war raged for nearly two years before the insurgency was effectively suppressed, at terrible cost to the civilians caught in the middle of it, who were accused of collaboration by both sides.
Incredibly, with warring raging for two weeks, the US has again managed to gain yet more time for Israel by delaying the diplomatic process.
During the so-called crypto wars that raged for most of the 1990s, the government wanted to keep secure encryption technologies all to itself, arguing that their widespread use would empower drug traffickers and terrorists.
The final government offensive in 2009 to bring an end to a civil war that raged for more than 25 years has been dogged by war crimes allegations, with both sides accused of atrocities.
The International Organisation for Migration does not facilitate repatriation to Syria, where civil war has raged for three years.
Cynics remember that victory was also regularly declared in the Chechen war, which raged for two years till Russia's defeat in 1996.
Their convoy's exit marked the end of a bitterly divisive war that raged for nearly nine years and left Iraq shattered, with troubling questions lingering over whether the Arab nation will remain a steadfast US ally.
Eight centuries after the Culture fought off its greatest challenge, a war that raged for 50 years and destroyed entire solar systems, the glow from one of the exploding stars has just reached Masaq'.
In central Africa, a genocidal war has raged for nearly a decade, costing more than four million lives in Rwanda, Burundi and Congo and precipitating the worst humanitarian crisis in more than half a century.
