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3 hours ago · Field Marshal Sir Archibald Wavell, the commander in chief of British forces in Burma during World War II, highlighted the stark reality that losses due to malaria and preventable diseases among allied forces in the China-Burma-India theatre surpassed casualties from enemy action.
3 hours ago · Simultaneously and in the after-glow of the Second World War, during which Kenyan soldiers had served in the allied military forces (particularly in East Asia, in the jungles of Burma, the modern-day Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, Singapore and other East Asian colonies, helping the British wrest back control from the Japanese ...
3 hours ago · The 68 years of British colonial rule were of some import to Kenya, just as the 60 years have been, and hopefully, the next years to 2063 will shake out be. The first 68 shaped the country—or perhaps more accurately, invented it—literally from scratch, and eventually created a theoretically cohesive unit resolutely opposed to foreign rule ...
3 hours ago · The other British overseas colonies in Asia acquired in the 19 th century include Singapore (1819), Malaca (1824), Hong Kong (1842), Natal (1843), Labuan (1846), Lower Burma (1852), Lagos (1861), and Sarawak (1888). All of them were, in fact, strategic points on the sea routes important for British trade, especially regarding the route to ...
3 hours ago · The Second World War is a history of the period from the end of the First World War to July 1945, written by Winston Churchill. Churchill labelled the "moral of the work" as follows: "In War: Resolution, In Defeat: Defiance, In Victory: Magnanimity, In Peace: Goodwill". [2] These had been the words which he had suggested for the First World War ...
- Winston Churchill
- 1948
1 day ago · According to the British historian Rosie Llewellyn-Jones, "The Bengal Presidency, an administrative jurisdiction introduced by the East India Company, would later include not only the whole of northern India up to the Khyber Pass on the north-west frontier with Afghanistan, but would spread eastwards to Burma and Singapore as well".
1 day ago · The history of Canada during World War II begins with the German invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939. While the Canadian Armed Forces were eventually active in nearly every theatre of war, most combat was centred in Italy, [1] Northwestern Europe, [2] and the North Atlantic. In all, some 1.1 million Canadians served in the Canadian Army ...
