Patriotic War may refer to one of the following wars.
- Patriotic War of 1812, Napoleon's invasion of Russia
- Great Patriotic War, the war between Nazi Germany and its allies against the Soviet Union during World War II
- Croatian War of Independence, armed conflict between newly independent Croatia and Republic of Serbian Krajina forces supported by Yugoslav People's Army; this term is used only in Croatia
Famous quotes containing the words patriotic and/or war:
“Gold is good in its place; but living, brave, patriotic men, are better than gold.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“It was the most ungrateful and unjust act ever perpetrated by a republic upon a class of citizens who had worked and sacrificed and suffered as did the women of this nation in the struggle of the Civil War only to be rewarded at its close by such unspeakable degradation as to be reduced to the plane of subjects to enfranchised slaves.”
—Anna Howard Shaw (1847–1919)