WebThe British Army during the Napoleonic Wars experienced a time of rapid change. At the beginning of the French Revolutionary Wars in 1793, the army was a small, awkwardly administered force of barely 40,000 men. By the end of the period, the numbers had vastly increased. At its peak, in 1813, the regular army contained over 250,000 men. The British …

WebThis is a list of known wars, conflicts, battles/sieges, missions and operations involving former kingdoms and states in the Indian subcontinent and the modern day Republic of India and it's predecessors. Ancient India (c. 15th to 1st century BCE) Name of conflict ... First Anglo-Maratha War

WebThe Carnatic Wars were a series of military conflicts in the middle of the 18th century in India's coastal Carnatic region, a dependency of Hyderabad State, India.Three Carnatic Wars were fought between 1746 and 1763. The conflicts involved numerous nominally independent rulers and their vassals, struggles for succession and territory; and included …

WebThe Battle of Assaye was a major battle of the Second Anglo-Maratha War fought between the Maratha Empire and the British East India Company.It occurred on 23 September 1803 near Assaye in western India.An outnumbered Indian and British force, under the command of Major General Arthur Wellesley (who later became the Duke of …

WebQueen Victoria's Little Wars. London: Allen Lane. ISBN 0713904577. Hanna, Henry Bathurst (1904). The Second Afghan War, 1878-79-80: Its Causes, Its Conduct and Its Consequences. Vol. 2. Archibald Constable & Co. Johnson, Robert (2011). The Afghan Way of War: How and Why They Fight. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199912568.

WebNomenclature. In British America, wars were often named after the sitting British monarch, such as King William's War or Queen Anne's War.There had already been a King George's War in the 1740s during the reign of King George II, so British colonists named this conflict after their opponents, and it became known as the French and Indian War. This …

WebBaji Rao was the son of the former Peshwa Raghunathrao and his wife Anandibai.Raghunathrao had defected to the English, causing the First Anglo-Maratha War, which ended with the Treaty of Salbai. [citation needed] Baji Rao was born in 1775, when both his parents were kept in imprisonment by the then Peshwa's cabinet.Until the …

WebIn an effort to negate this threat, the British made numerous attempts at imposing their will upon Kabul, and over the course of the 19th century fought two wars: the First Anglo-Afghan War (1839–1842) and the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878–1880).

Web1777–1818 Anglo-Maratha Wars. 1777–1783 First Anglo-Maratha War; 1803–1805 Second Anglo-Maratha War; 1817–1818 Third Anglo-Maratha War; 1799–1802 Polygar Wars; 1814–1816 Gurkha War; 1816–1826 Burmese invasions of Assam; 1845–1849 British Empire conflicts 1845 Battle of Mudki; 1845 Battle of Ferozeshah; 1846 Battle of Aliwal

WebThe Second Boer War (Afrikaans: Tweede Vryheidsoorlog, lit. 'Second Freedom War', 11 October 1899 – 31 May 1902), also known as the Boer War, the Anglo–Boer War, or the South African War, was a conflict fought between the British Empire and the two Boer Republics (the South African Republic and the Orange Free State) over the Empire's …