A war fought to gain independence for a country or to free it from oppression.
veterans of the 1970s liberation war
Example sentencesExamples
- We would not have been in the state we are now if there were no liberation wars.
- We have forgotten those great names who led us to victory in our liberation war.
- The president gave a eulogy at the funeral of a liberation war veteran.
- Davidson also wrote extensively about the complex roots of the anticolonial struggles and liberation wars in Angola, Guinea-Bissau, and Mozambique.
- Their proposal to put up a memorial plaque to Turkish soldiers who died during the Russian-Turkish liberation war (1877-1878) caused a monumental controversy.