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unusual facts about war of independence



Alexandru Candiano-Popescu

In 1877, as the War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire began, Candiano, although he was a deputy in the Romanian Parliament, joined the army to take part in the assault over Grivitsa, being the commander of the 2nd Hunters' Battalion, receiving the Order of St. George from Alexander II, the Emperor of Russia.

Fifth International

More sympathetic Fifth Internationalists appear in Henlein's later The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, where they are one of the assorted groups involved in the war of independence waged by the human-colonised Moon.

Fighting Yank

Bruce Carter III obtained his superhuman powers when the ghost of his ancestor Bruce Carter I, a hero from the American War of Independence, appeared to him and showed him the location of a magical cloak that could give the wearer invulnerability and super strength.

Khan Muhammad Khan

Colonel Khan Muhammad Khan (Urdu: کرنل خان محمد خان)was a prominent soldier and politician in Poonch, serving in the Jammu & Kashmir Legislative Assembly and later as Chairman of the War Council during the 1947 War of Independence.

Mícheál Lally

He has published a book, The Tan War; Ballyovey, South Mayo, the product of ten years' painstaking research instigated by the last wish of his father, Tom, that the events of the War of Independence and subsequent Irish Civil War in South Mayo be recorded.

Mozambican Civil War

The Mozambican Civil War began in 1977, two years after the end of the war of independence.

Rail transport in Israel

During the 1948 War of Independence, much damage was done to the railways in the country, especially the Jezreel Valley railway, which was not rebuilt due to financial constraints and its incompatibility with the rest of the rail network.

Saint-Goustan

The name of this wharf is a tribute to Benjamin Franklin, the famous diplomat, physicist and engineer who landed at Auray on 3 December 1776 to ask for French aid in the War of Independence.

Sir Thomas Gascoigne, 8th Baronet

He supported the cause of American Independence and built a commemorative arch to the American Victory in the War of Independence, thought to be modelled on the Arch of Constantine in Rome, at the entrance to his Parlington Hall estate.

W. T. Cosgrave

In all 77 republicans were executed by the Free State between November 1922 and the end of the war in May 1923, including Robert Erskine Childers, Liam Mellowes and Rory O'Connor, far more than the 14 IRA Volunteers the British executed in the War of Independence.

Yuli Tamir

As Minister of Education, she approved a history textbook for Arab children, wherein Israel's War of Independence is described as the nakba – the disaster.


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A Star Called Henry

Energized by Sinn Féin's victory in the General Election of 1918 and the party's establishment of the independent Irish Republic, Henry participates in the Soloheadbeg Ambush, the first engagement of the Irish War of Independence, as a lookout.

Agia Efthymia

Giannis Skarimpas, a popular writer, was born and raised in Agia Efthymia, descended from a well-known local family which had taken part in the Greek War of Independence.

Aldama

Juan Aldama (1774–1811), insurgent leader in the Mexican War of Independence

Amir Meenai

However, in the British attack on Lucknow in 1856 and the subsequent War of Independence in 1857, the family's homes were all destroyed and Ameer was forced to flee with his family, first to the nearby town of Kakori where he found refuge with the poet Mohsin Kakorvi, and eventually to the state of Rampur, where he found great favor at the court of the ruler, Nawab Yusuf Ali Khan.

Arnošt Lustig

He worked as a journalist in Israel at the time of its War of Independence where he met his future wife, who at the time was a volunteer with the Haganah.

Arthur Sanders

Arthur Sandes (1793-1832), Irishman who fought in the Venezuelan war of Independence

Backstop

Operation Backstop, United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR) military plan during the Croatian War of Independence

Barony of Denboig/Dunbog

Possibly the most famous member of the Balfour family was Major General Nisbet Balfour of Dunbog (1743-1823) who fought in the American war of Independence and in the Napoleonic Wars.

Battle of Cuddalore

Siege of Cuddalore, a 1783 siege that was part of the American War of Independence and the Second Anglo-Mysore War

Battle of Pensacola

Siege of Pensacola a 1781 siege by Spanish forces against a British garrison during the American War of Independence

Battle of the Bahamas

Battle of Nassau, a 1776 American raid during the American War of Independence

Battle of the Saints

Battle of the Saintes, a sea battle during the American War of Independence

Battle of Yorktown

Siege of Yorktown (1781), last major land battle in North America of the American Revolutionary War, also known as the American War of Independence

Bekir Sami Bey

Bekir Sami Günsav (1879-1934), officer of the Ottoman Army and a commander of the Turkish War of Independence

Burdett O'Connor Province

The province is also known as Burdett O'Connor and is named after Francisco Burdett O'Connor, a chronicler of the South American War of Independence and the making of Tarija.

Bush War

The South African Border War, also known as the Angola Bush War or the Namibian War of Independence, a conflict from 1966 to 1989 in South-West Africa (now Namibia) and Angola

Chilmari Upazila

During the war of Independence of Bangladesh in 1971, the famous Chilmari Expedition was conducted here by then BDF Sector 11, Mankarchar Sub-Sector, led by Squadron Leader M. Hamidullah Khan.

Clemente de Lantaño

Returning to the territory held by the rebels, he fought in the Guerra a muerte (War to the Death, or the final phase of the Chilean War of Independence), together with Captain Manuel Bulnes.

Eamonn

Éamon de Valera De Valera was a leader of Ireland's struggle for independence from Britain in the War of Independence and of the anti-Treaty opposition in the ensuing Irish Civil War (1922–1923).

Gediz River

Battle of the Gediz, near the river, during the Turkish War of Independence

George Park

George S. Park (1811–1890), Texas War of Independence hero and founder of Parkville, Missouri, Park University and Manhattan, Kansas

Gertrudis

Gertrudis Bocanegra (1765–1817), woman who fought in the Mexican War of Independence

Giacomo Grosso

From 1901 when he made his first journey to South America he began to receive commissions from Argentina and in 1910, for the International Centenary Exhibition in Buenos Aires, he executed a large commemorative canvas of the Battle of Maipú, an episode in the War of Independence.

Gihren no Yabou

The game's graphics are rendered in 2.5D in line with PSP hardware constrains, Also, unlike its predecessor 'War Of Independence', the game features conflicts from the One Year War (including the events of MS IGLOO) to Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (with some events that occurred during the spinoff manga Advance of Z: Flag of Titans), Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ, and the events that take place during Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack and Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway's Flash.

Gurrane National School

Richard Barrett was and Irish Republican Army brigade staff officer and a commandmant of the West Cork Brigade during the War of Independence.

History of Ecuador

The Spanish founded modern-day Quito and Guayaquil as part of the political administration era, which lasted until the War of Independence, the rise of Gran Colombia, and Simón Bolívar to the final separation of his vision into what is known today as the Republic of Ecuador.

Invasion of Jersey

Battle of Jersey in 1780-81 during the American War of Independence

Irish patrol vessel Muirchú

She was later used to transport the British auxiliary troops known as Black and Tans around the coast when many of the roads in Ireland were rendered impassable by Irish forces in the War of Independence.

Jameson Raid

Seizing on this weakness, and a discontent with the British South Africa Company, the Ndebele revolted during March 1896 in what is now celebrated in Zimbabwe as the First War of Independence, the First Chimurenga, but it is better known to most of the world as the Second Matabele War.

Joseph Hodgkins

The letters have since been featured in several works of non-fiction including Library of America's The American Revolution: Writings from the War of Independence , David McCullough's 1776, and Ray Raphael's A People's History of the American Revolution.

Khademul Bashar

He was among the only two BAF officer's appointed as BDF Sector Commander during Bangladesh War of Independence with Pakistan by C-in-C Colonel M.A.G Osmani who appointed him BDF Commander Sector 6.

Komárno

Klapka Square (named after György Klapka, the Hungarian general who defended Komárno against the Austrians in the War of Independence) and the well preserved remains of the fortification structure are Komárno's main historical monuments symbolizing both the pride and resilience of this historical important town.

László T. Ágoston

Acclaimed novellist, his best-known work is his novel titled "A Két Lenkey" about a group of Hungarian Hussars leaving their post in Poland returning to Hungary to join the war of independence.

MacSwiney

Terence MacSwiney (1879–1920), Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork during the Irish War of Independence, died on hunger strike in British jail

Maharaja Nara Singh

The last battle of the war of independence was fought at Tamu in December and January 1826.

Mehmet Arif

Mehmet Arif Bey: "Ayıcı Arif" (1882-1926) military officer of the Ottoman Army and a commander of the Turkish War of Independence.

Mehmet Arif Şenerim: (1877-1951) military officer of the Ottoman Army and a commander of the Turkish War of Independence.

Operation Winter

Operation Winter '94, battle of the Bosnian War and the Croatian War of Independence

Palestine Railways P class

After the War of Independence and subsequent 1948 Arab–Israeli War, main line services were truncated to the territory within the new State of Israel.

Rauf Orbay

When the War of Independence ended he became the first Prime Minister of the new provisional Government of the Grand National Assembly on 11 August 1922.

Robert Knights

Robert Knights (born in 1941, London, England) is a British film and television director, perhaps best known for his film The Dawning, about the Irish War of Independence, and his work with the British television series The Bill, and the miniseries The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous, based on the hit Jilly Cooper novel.

Sakarya

Battle of Sakarya, one of the major battles in the Turkish War of Independence

Saturnino and Mariano Lora

The War of Independence of Cuba started on 24 February 1895, under the intellectual leadership of the writer and philosopher José Martí, often called Father of the Country in Cuba.

The Sunday Press

'When I open the pages, I duck' was Brendan Behan’s description of reading the Sunday Press, for the habit of published memoirs of veterans (usually those aligned to Fianna Fáil) of the War of Independence.

Thomas Balch

Thomas Balch (Leesburg, Virginia, July 23, 1821 — Philadelphia, March 29, 1877) was an American historian, best known for his work on the American Revolutionary War, originally written in French and later translated into English as The French in America during the War of Independence of the United States, 1777-1783.

Vergennes

Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes (1717-1787), French statesman and diplomat who directed his country during the American War of Independence

Viktor Puskar

At the beginning of the Estonian War of Independence in 1918, Puskar was leader of the Järvamaa Defence League.

Z4

Z-4 plan, a plan that was meant to stop the Croatian War of Independence in 1994

Zvi Kolitz

While living in Israel in the early 1950s, Kolitz was a co-writer and co-producer of Hill 24 Doesn't Answer (1954), an Israeli War of Independence movie, which was Israel's first full-length motion picture.