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9 unusual facts about Indian War


Events leading to the Sino-Indian War

On July 10, 1962, 350 Chinese troops surrounded an Indian post at Chushul, in the Galwan Valley, north of the MacMahon Line.

Indian War

Mexican Indian Wars, name generally used to describe conflicts between the Spanish, or Mexican, colonial or federal government, and the native people of North America.

American Indian Wars, name generally used in the United States to describe conflicts between the colonial or federal government and the native people of North America.

Makum

The Chinatown was closed in 1962, on the outbreak of the Sino-Indian War, as Assam was within close proximity to the border region.

Murgo

In 1962 China and India fought a brief war over Aksai Chin and Arunachal Pradesh, but in 1993 and 1996 the two countries signed agreements to respect the Line of Actual Control.

Sino-Indian War

A Hindi movie Haqeeqat (1964) and a Tamil movie Ratha Thilagam (1963) were based on events of the Sino-Indian war.

This was further triggered by Mao Zedong's views that: "The way to world conquest lies through Havana, Accra, and Calcutta".

However, Calvin also expresses that China, in the past, has been adamant to gain control over regions to which it has a "traditional claim", which triggered the dispute over NEFA and Aksai Chin and indeed Tibet.

Neville Maxwell claimed that the Indian role in international affairs after the border war was also greatly reduced after the war and India's standing in the non-aligned movement suffered.


322d Airlift Division

It also provided airlift support in the following crises: the nationalization of the Suez Canal in 1956; the Hungarian Revolution of 1956; the 1958 Lebanon crisis; support for UN forces in the Congo in 1960–1961; the invasion of India by Communist Chinese forces in 1962–1963; airlift of peacekeeping forces to Cyprus in 1964; and the Middle East crisis of 1967.

Company of Select Marksmen

Captain Alexander Fraser of the 34th Regiment, a veteran of the French and Indian War, commanded what became known as the Company of Select Marksmen during the Burgoyne campaign in 1777.

John Dalvi

In January 1962, he was given the Command on 7th Infantry Brigade in NEFA and fought in the Sino-Indian War

Lowitja O'Donoghue

Due to the nearby Sino-Indian War she was advised by the Australian government to evacuate to Calcutta, from where she would depart for her return to Australia.

Mohave War

Chief Cairook was in the area with about 300 men and the two sides encountered one another in a typical Indian war skirmish.

Tibetan diaspora

However, in 1961, following growing tensions between China and India, India sealed its northern border with Bhutan, prompting Bhutan to arrange an emergency meeting with the Government of India (GOI) and the CTA to deal with the Tibetans stuck in the country.


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Army National Guard and Active Regular Army Units with Colonial Roots

The next action of the 1st Company of Artillery was in the Miami Campaign (1790−1795), an Indian War that was an addendum to the American Revolution.

Burke's Rangers

Toward the close of the French and Indian war, in 1760, he was commissioned a Major by Gov. Thomas Pownall.

Ed Brigadier

He appeared many times on The History Channel, most memorably as Philippe de Rigaud Vaudreuil in the miniseries The War That Made America - The Story of the French and Indian War, and acted on stage in such plays as The Imaginary Invalid, A Servant of Two Masters, and A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Fort Deshler

Fort Deshler, located near Egypt, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, was a French and Indian War era frontier fort established in 1760 to protect settlers from Indian attacks.

General Johnson Saving a Wounded French Officer from the Tomahawk of a North American Indian

At the beginning of the French and Indian War, young George Washington is said to have let Indian chief Tanaghrisson seal their fresh alliance by smashing the skull of Joseph Coulon de Jumonville, a wounded French officer they just took as prisoner, then washing his hands in the man's brain.

Gorton's of Gloucester

William Pew, son of John Pew, picked up fishing after serving as a Colonial soldier in the French and Indian War.

Keowee

During the French and Indian War, Nathaniel Gist urged one hundred Cherokee warriors to attack the Shawnee tribe in the Ohio River region, but only if this fort would be built.

Louis-Joseph de Montcalm

Montcalm High School in Montcalm, West Virginia, although the area is not historically connected to France or the French and Indian War.

Marinus Willett

His role in the French and Indian war receives brief mention in the Newbery Award winning children's book The Matchlock Gun.

New Windsor, New York

Charles Clinton 1690–1773 father of James and George commander of NY Militia French & Indian War (assault on Fort Frontenac).

Ormiston

Col. James Burd, hero of the French and Indian War and local Pennsylvania leader in the leadup to the American Revolution

Red Bird

With an Indian war threatening, the militia was mobilized and federal troops were dispatched to Prairie du Chien from Jefferson Barracks, Mo. To avert a general war, Red Bird and his companions surrendered at Portage on Sept. 2, 1827.

Samuel Baldwin Marks Young

In 1901 his daughter Marjorie married army surgeon John Heysham Gibbon, nephew of fellow Civil and Indian War commander John Gibbon.

Schoyen Collection

MS 4457 (1865-1879 AD), Cheyenne Chief Little Shield's Ledger Book recording the Indian War of the Platte River in 1865.

Seven Year War

Seven Years' War (1756–1763), among European powers and their colonies, encompassing the French and Indian War

Shirleysburg, Pennsylvania

Shirleysburg was originally the site of, and takes its name from Fort Shirley, a French and Indian War fort.

St. Francis Barracks

The Franciscan monks lived at the monastery until the British took possession of Florida in exchange for occupied Havana which they seized from the Spanish in the French and Indian War, in which Spain was an ally of the French.

The Conquest

The Conquest of 1760, where England acquired parts of New France during the French and Indian War or Seven Years War

The Holy Modal Rounders

After leaving the Fugs, the Rounders reformed with Sam Shepard and Lee Crabtree to record their third album (Indian War Whoop), and to appear in Shepard's play Forensic.

The War that Made America

Pontiac's War, which followed the French and Indian War, is also covered in the series.