Wars Flashcards
Battle of Thermopylae, which can be translated from ancient Greek to English as “hot gates”. who fought ?
The Hot Gates are famous for being the place where Leonidas I made his last stand against the Persian army under Xerxes I.
The Second Battle of Tarain was fought in 1192 . The battle ended in decisive victory for invading _____ and their successful penetration in north Indian plain.
Ghurid forces of Muhammad Ghuri and the Rajput Confederacy of Prithviraj Chauhan. It took place near Tarain (modern Taraori), which is 110 km north of Delhi. The battle ended in decisive victory for invading Ghurids and their successful penetration in north Indian plain.
What ancient naval battle, which took place in 208 and 209 CE, gave southern warlords
Sun Quan and Liu Bei control over the Yanghtze River? The battle took place near to
the modern-day city in Hubei after which it is sometimes known.
Battle of the Red Cliffs or Battle of Chibi
Japan employed gunboat diplomacy to press Korea to sign this unequal treaty. The pact opened up Korea, as Commodore Matthew Perry’s fleet of Black Ships had opened up Japan in 1853.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan%E2%80%93Korea_Treaty_of_1876
1876 Ganghwa treaty -ended korean isolation Ganghwa island
A mission station of the Church of Sweden, and the former trading post of James ____ , a merchant from the eastern cape of Irish descent. It was located near a ___, or ford, on the Buffalo (Mzinyathi) River, which at the time formed the border between the British colony of Natal and the Zulu Kingdom. a large contingent of Zulu warriors broke off from their main force during the final hour of the British defeat at the day-long Battle of Isandlwana on 22 January 1879, diverting 6 miles to attack _____ later that day and continuing into the following day.
Battle of Rorke’s Drift (1879), also known as the Defence of Rorke’s Drift, was an engagement in the Anglo-Zulu War. The successful British defence of the mission station of Rorke’s Drift
The Defence of Rorke’s Drift is an 1880 painting by Elizabeth Thompson, Lady Butler depicting the 1879 Battle of Rorke’s Drift which took place during the Anglo-Zulu War of 1877 to 1879. The battle and the men who fought in it were made famous in the 1964 film Zulu
The term ____ _____was coined by British diplomat Arthur Conolly in 1840, but the 1901 novel Kim by Rudyard Kipling made the term popular, and increased its association with great power rivalry. It became even more popular after the 1979 advent of the Soviet–Afghan War
Great game. Executed at bukhara on suspicion of being a spy. travelled in disguise as “Khan Ali”
