She worked as a clerk in the Israeli Air Force during the war of independence.
Yet Irish writer Isaac Eppel still managed to get his influential 1926 narrative film about the War of Independence, Irish Destiny, made.
Even more than in traditional conflicts, the psychological aspect of the War of Independence played a pivotal role in determining its outcome.
Rising powers have always used the state to kick-start growth: think of Japan and South Korea in the 1950s or Germany in the 1870s or even the United States after the war of independence.
After Ireland became free from the British in 1922 (when the War of Independence resulted in the declaration of the Irish Free State), the government, with the support of the Catholic Church, passed the Censorship of Film Act.
The framers, having just experienced the horrors of the Continental currency (which had been used to finance the War of Independence) opted to limit federal monetary powers to coining money, which for legal tender purposes they defined as gold and silver.
Joseph Chinotimba, a veteran of the war of independence who spearheaded the farm evictions and now lives on a farm in Concession, about 55km north of Harare, says there is nothing sacred about the old farmhouses and they should not be celebrated.
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Both countries base their claims to sovereignty over the island on interpretations of unclear historical treaties, beginning with the 1783 Treaty of Paris that ended the American War of Independence.
But then came the Easter Rising, Sinn Fein's victories in the 1918 election, the formation of the First Dail and the War of Irish Independence.
After its costly involvement in the American War of Independence, the French elite decided to change its ways.
In 1775, in the American War of Independence, British forces defeated the Americans at the Battle of Bunker Hill, which took place at Breed's Hill near Boston.
During the American war of independence, Martha's Vineyard was on the side of the revolution.
Less than 20 years ago, the fledgling nation of Croatia was in the throes of the bitter Croatian War of Independence as it declared sovereignty from Yugoslavia.
England went through revolutionary traumas over a century before the American war of independence.
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Most military chiefs in Zimbabwe, who fought with Mr Mugabe in the 1970s war of independence, are publicly hostile to Mr Tsvangirai.
In Hargeisa, where 50, 000 died during the war of re-independence, a Somali MiG jet used to bomb the city sits atop a poignant memorial.
Not the least of which was getting the states to foot the bill for our War of Independence.
More than a century later, the same flicker of freewill sparked the War for Independence and fired up a new nation.
Last month, Mr Weidmann raised the spectre of a global currency war, suggesting the erosion of central bank independence around the world threatened to unleash a race to the bottom as politicians pushed central banks to replace inflation targets with measures that could serve to weaken currencies.
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The Dhaka protesters, backed by influential bloggers, have been calling for the death sentence for Islamist politicians found guilty by a war-crimes tribunal looking into atrocities committed during the country's 1971 war of independence.
Since its formation it has become a decorated regiment, fighting in major battles against the French and the Americans in their War of Independence.
During the independence war of 1971, though, the club suffered badly.
Within months, Nigeria was engulfed in independent Africa's first humanitarian catastrophe: a war for the independence of Mr. Achebe's Igbo homeland that left one million people dead, most of them children who starved.
Observers say the rivalry between the two women is largely due to unsettled issues over Bangladesh's war of independence and the assassinations that followed.
The first skirmishes in America's war of independence were at Concord and Lexington in 1775 and the decisive battle was fought at Yorktown in 1781, six years later (though the articles of peace were not signed until 1783).
Bangladeshi police have fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse Islamist activists protesting at the trial of their leaders for war crimes allegedly committed during the independence war.
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Even in America's war of independence, the revolutionaries printed money to finance their campaign.
Zeevi was a retired army general who fought in Israel's 1948 war of independence, the 1956 Sinai campaign, and the 1967 Mideast war.
But the founders, and more specifically the framers of the Constitution, included men who had fought a war for independence -- the very war celebrated on the "Glorious Fourth" -- against a country in which church and state were essentially one.
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