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Sep 12, 2015 · The Battle of Saragarhi took place in September 1897 and was the first time that the 36th Sikhs, a British Indian regiment created specifically for service on the frontier, saw action. The Sikhs, led by Lieutenant Colonel John Haughton, was dispatched to the Samana at the beginning of that year and occupied various forts and picquets during a ...
Sep 12, 2017 · Saragarhi: The True Story reveals, for the first time on film, the fate of the 21 Sikh soldiers of the 36th (Sikh) Regiment of Bengal Infantry who on 12th September 1897 found themselves surrounded by 10,000 Pathan tribesmen during an uprising on the North West Frontier between colonial India and Afghanistan (now located in Pakistan).
Sep 21, 2016 · However, the Deccan sultanates continued to be a threat to Krishnadevaraya’s realm, and the culmination of his action was the Battle of Raichur in 1520, a turning point in southern Indian history. An army of 700,000 foot soldiers, 33,000 cavalry and 550 elephants descended on the city of Raichur to fight the King of Bijapur, Ismail Adil Shah, and his 140,000 horse and foot soldiers. After an ...
Apr 13, 2015 · Norway was occupied by the Nazis in World War Two and provided the Third Reich with many ports into the North Sea as well as a rich iron ore supply. As early as 1940, the British sought to end German rule in the country. The Royal Navy was dispatched north and one of the battles took place in Narvik between 10-13 April 1940. The route to Narvik.
Aug 15, 2017 · The Battle of Cambrai rumbles to life. The attack began at 6.20am on 20 November as the artillery began shelling. With this stunning overture, the tanks advanced into the fog. The gentle incline made things very easy for the drivers, while the infantry marvelled at the ease with which the tanks rolled over the barbed wire as they followed them ...
Jan 11, 2018 · The Battle of Edington took place between 6 and 12 May 878. It may be the single most important clash in English history. A victory for Guthrum would have ended the last Anglo-Saxon kingdom. Today, we would most likely be speaking a derivative of Old Norse, and England, the land of the Angles, would never have come into existence.
Feb 21, 2014 · The battle came about as a result of German Chief of General Staff, von Falkenhayn, who wanted to “bleed France white” by launching a huge German attack on a narrow stretch of land that had historic sentiment for the French – Verdun. The area around Verdun contained twenty major forts and forty smaller ones that had historically protected the eastern border of France and had been ...
Feb 5, 2014 · On this day in 1865, the Battle of Hatcher’s Run, also known as Dabney’s Mill, began during the American Civil War as one in a series of Union offensives during the siege of Petersburg. The American Civil War was a civil war fought between 1861 and 1865 after several southern slave states declared their secession and formed the Confederate ...
Jan 22, 2014 · The battle took place at a small mission in Zululand a few hours after one of the biggest disasters in colonial history, as British military commanders underestimated the well-disciplined Zulu fighters as “savages with pointed sticks” whose only tactic was to rush headlong at the enemy. More than 600 heavily-armed red coat British soldiers were slaughtered with clubs and spears at ...
Jan 2, 2018 · The Battle of Cynwit in 878 in North Devon is really interesting because Alfred is in deep trouble in Athelney and the main Viking army is in North Wiltshire. Instead, the ealdorman of Devon, Odda, has raised a force from the shire. It’s not a royal army but the Vikings suffer 800 dead so it’s a sizeable force. Odda was able to marshal a shire army that included enough people who in their ...
