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4 days ago · The Revolt of 1857 event in Indian History was an important landmark. It is also known as the "first war of Independence". Causes of the revolt: Economic Causes Economic exploitation of the country by the British. Heavy taxation. Socio-Political Causes. Subsidiary Alliance – Lord Wellesley; The doctrine of Lapse – Lord Dalhousie; Religious ...
1 day ago · The American Indian Wars, also known as the American Frontier Wars, and the Indian Wars, was a conflict initially fought by European colonial empires, and later on by the Confederate States of America, Republic of Texas, Mexico and the United States of America against various American Indian tribes in North America. These conflicts occurred from the time of the earliest colonial settlements in the 17th century until the end of the 19th century.
4 days ago · By April 1775, the 13 colonies were fighting a war to gain independence from the Empire. Even as the fighting continued, on July 2, 1776, 12 of the 13 member-states of the Congress “unanimously” observed that the colonies “are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states.” This essentially amounted to a formal vote of ...
5 days ago · In Congress, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and ...
2 days ago · The Irish War of Independence ( Irish: Cogadh na Saoirse) [4] or Anglo-Irish War was a guerrilla war fought in Ireland from 1919 to 1921 between the Irish Republican Army (IRA, the army of the Irish Republic) and British forces: the British Army, along with the quasi-military Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) and its paramilitary forces the ...
1 day ago · As the main battles— Talavera (July 1809) and Vitoria (June 1813)—were fought by Wellington, the guerrillas pinned down French garrisons, intercepted dispatches, and isolated convoys. The term guerrilla, derived from the Spanish guerra (war), was first used during the Spanish War of Independence.
4 days ago · India - Nationalism, British, Resistance: The Indian National Congress (Congress Party) held its first meeting in December 1885 in Bombay city while British Indian troops were still fighting in Upper Burma. Thus, just as the British Indian empire approached its outermost limits of expansion, the institutional seed of the largest of its national successors was sown. Provincial roots of Indian nationalism, however, may be traced to the beginning of the era of crown rule in Bombay, Bengal, and ...
