Note 297 — Chapter XXX · THE UNITED STATES AS A WORLD POWER
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From 1815 to 1914 all the great wars were localized. The Crimean War (1854-1855), although five nations took part in it, was confined to the territories around the Black Sea; the War of 1859, in which the French and Italians on the one side fought the Austrians on the other, was settled in Northern Italy. The other important wars were, for the most part, individual duels between two nations or between two sections of a single nation.