In 1756, a war broke out between Britain, Prussia and their allies on one side, and the French, the Russians and theirs on the other, that would expand across the Americas and europe, and even into parts of Africa and Asia.
As if the challenge of pulling a 320-ton boat wasn't enough to deal with, the production was plagued by heavy rains, casting problems -- lead actor Jason Robards had to be replaced by Klaus Kinski due to illness, while Mick Jagger dropped out due to a Rolling Stones concert -- and a border war that broke out between Peru and Ecuador.
But on the Palestinian side, a war of words broke out after officials accused the BBC of banning its journalists from referring to Israel's targeted killings of Palestinian as "assassinations".
He was sent to Tomsk in Siberia to interview an out-of-work ballistics missiles expert, was ambushed in a field outside Osijek, Croatia when war broke out in Yugoslavia and undercover in Russia, tried to buy a MiG fighter jet from an arms dealer.
The 2, 200-passenger liner also was meant to double as a troop transport ship if war broke out.
He was three years old the first time Orville Wright took the first ever flight in an airplane and barely a teenager when World War I broke out.
The idea was originally proposed in 1913 by Camille Flammarion, a French astronomer, but was postponed when war broke out.
When World War II broke out, he declared himself a pacifist, and even fled to America.
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He was a welcome guest at the Roosevelt White House, and after war broke out in 1939 he worked tirelessly to promote British interests in America.
He won a scholarship to Pontypridd Boys' Grammar School, and became a teacher in London before joining the Welch Regiment when World War II broke out.
William took over when war broke out and troops had to be managed in real time at a tactical level.
When war with Britain broke out in 1812, the Treasury began issuing Treasury Notes, a paper banknote, to finance expenditures.
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Born in Italy to a circus family of French origin, Mr Caroli was performing in Blackpool when the Second World War broke out and never left the resort.
The elder von Kleist famously traveled to England in 1938, the year before World War II broke out, to try and determine whether other Western nations would support a coup attempt against Hitler, but failed to get the British government to change its policy of appeasement.
When war broke out in 1939, Freeborn temporarily gave up his fledgling career to train as a fighter pilot, only to almost lose his life to Asian flu and haemophilia.
But when war broke out Michael left college to join the Army, only to get wounded and return home a hero.
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