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3 hours ago · An invasion is a military offensive in which sizable number of combatants of one geopolitical entity aggressively enter territory controlled by another such entity, generally with the objectives of establishing or re-establishing control, retaliation for real or perceived actions, liberation of previously lost territory, forcing the partition of a country, gaining concessions or access to ...
1 day ago · BP announced it would pause all shipments through the Red Sea. Evergreen Line also suspended operations.; US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin in Bahrain announced the formation of Operation Prosperity Guardian (the successor task force of Combined Task Force 153) comprising the US, UK, Canada, France, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Seychelles, Bahrain, and Spain, to protect vessels in the Red Sea ...
1 day ago · He had owned slaves but joined the bi-racial Readjuster Party after the Civil War. John Lawrence Manning (1816–1889), 65th Governor of South Carolina, in 1860 he kept more than 600 people as slaves. Francis Marion (1732–1795), Revolutionary War general, most of the people he enslaved escaped and fought with the British.
1 day ago · After the World War II years of close military and economic cooperation, President Harry S. Truman said in 1947 that "Canada and the United States have reached the point where we can no longer think of each other as 'foreign' countries." President John F. Kennedy told Parliament in Ottawa in May 1961 that "Geography has made us neighbors ...
3 hours ago · Tamil Nadu (/ ˌ t æ m ɪ l ˈ n ɑː d uː /; Tamil: [ˈtamiɻ ˈnaːɽɯ] ⓘ, abbr. TN) is the southernmost state of India.The tenth largest Indian state by area and the sixth largest by population, Tamil Nadu is the home of the Tamil people, who speak the Tamil language, one of the longest surviving classical languages and serves as its official language.
1 day ago · Brigadier General, commanded 16th Armored Division during World War II Jay T. Robbins: 1940 Former United States Air Force Lieutenant General; fighter ace with 22 aerial victories in the Pacific Ocean theater of World War II: James Earl Rudder: 1932 Former United States Army Major General; 16th president of Texas A&M University
1 day ago · The British began to collect taxes. The British opened trade posts. The British outlawed many Indian traditions. One of the three main goals of the East India Company was to. build up the Indian economy. create a new British colony in Asia. spread British influence and power. establish rulers known as viceroys.
