~~~, as evidenced by the American Civil War - imagine if the North had lost, it would have been the War of Confederation Independence!
Does anyone else ever explain Wing Commander to people and get a weird look when they first mention Confed or the Confederation, out of curiosity?
That's *Confederate* (from Confederate States of American, or the Confederacy); Wing Commander would be more likely confused with the United States' first constitution, the Articles of Confederation. (Wing Commander does use Confederate as the noun very, very rarely...)
You guys on the 'pedia project need to talk seriously about how to label battles. The Battle for Kilrah, for example, is listed as the battle of Kilrah, but it should really be labeled as the First Battle of Kilrah because the Second Battle of Kilrah would be the Temblor bomb incident, unless that's an engagement instead. BUT on top of that you have to decide if it's the Battle of Kilrah and all of the lead up battles at the various nav points count as individual battles or simply smaller engagements over the course of a battle...
Both defining and naming battles is something done by the participants, and something that will often be contradictory (staying close to the above Civil War discussion, the Confederacy usually named battles after the nearest town while the Union tended to name them after nearby bodies of water... we still use both, frequently -- Antietam/Sharpsburg, Bull Run/Manassas, etc.)
We know that there's a "Second Battle of Kilrah" because the Secret Ops fiction says so... beyond that, it's harder to say what's what. A "battle" is usually something that involves a significant force and an amount of applied strategy; one fighter wing encountering another on patrol is a skirmish and not a battle.
The 'Battle of Kilrah' can probably be called either thing; historians do attach a 'first' to things later on with general impunity (First World War, First Battle of Manassas, etc.)... but no one would have been calling it /First/ Kilrah in 2669*.
* - Unless, of course, the first one is the Tarawa's attack and the second one is the Temblor run... in which case...