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Few individuals, often rulers, had been powerful, influential, or alternatively, unlucky enough to have entire wars named after them.

Some examples are the Napoleonic Wars, as well as the Hannibalic War (an alternate name for the Second Punic War) and the more unfortunately named War of Jenkin's Ear.

What are other historical examples of wars named after individuals? And what other historical or ahistorical figures could have had wars named after them?
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