IMPORTANT BATTLES OF HISTORY

 

IMPORTANT BATTLES

 • Battle of Jhelum was fought b/w Alexandar the Great and Raja Porus in 326 B.C. The latter was defeated.

 • Mahumud Ghaznavi invaded on Somnath in 1025 A.D.

 • Battle of Tarain was fought b/w Mohd: Ghouri and Prithvi Raj in 1192 A.D. The former won the battle.

 • First battle of Panipat was fought b/w Ibrahim Lodhi and Babur in 1526. Babur won the battle.

 • Second battle of Panipat was fought in 1556. Akbar won the battle.

 • Third battle of Panipat was fought b/w Ahmad Shah Abdali and Marahttas in 1760. Ahmed Shah defeated the latter.

 • West Bank was occupied in 1967.

 • Japan attacked Pearl Harbour located in Hawaii on 7 Dec: 1941.

 • Israel occupied Golan Heights from Syria.

 • West Bank is located b/w Isreal & Jordan.

 • West Bank was occupied in 1967.

 • Iran & UAE dispute over Persian Gulf islands, Greater & lesser Tunbs.

 • Sakhalin Island is dispute b/w Russia & Japan.

 • Iran & UAE dispute over Persian Gulf islands, Greater & lesser Tunbs.

 • Sakhalin island is dispute b/w Russia & Japan.

 • In Battle of Sabroan, English defeated Sikhs and captured Lahore.

 • Nickname of Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945 was Little Boy and on Nagasaki=Fat Man.

 • The hundred year war actually lasted for 114 years.

 • Sir William Howard Russell was the first Great War correspondent.

 • Hundred years war fought between France and Britain during 1338-1453.

 • Cease fire between Iran and Iraq took place in 1988, by the intervention of U.N.

 • The place named Normandy became worlds famous due to the D.Day landing during the Second World War on 6th June 1944. Normandy is located in France.

 • Pearl Harbor incident took place on 7th Dec 1941.

 • In 1982 the Falklands war was fought between Britain and Argentina.

 • Civil War of USA lasted from 1861-1865.

 • The famous British Naval commander, who defected the French Naval Fleet at Nile in 1788 and at Trafalgar in 1805 was Horatio Nelson.

 • Doer war fought between South Africa and British.

 • Fighting broke out between Greeks and the Turks in July 1974.

 • At the end of Second World War in 1945, Germany was divided among 4 major powers.

 • In Opium war Britain fought against China.

 • Gulf war Jan 1991 stopped in Feb 28, 1991.

 • Iran-Iraq was started in Sep 1980 and ended in Aug1988.

 • Lloyd George of Great Britain represented in treaty of Versailles.

 • Germany remained in grip of allied occupation from 1994 to 1952.

 • The American general who acted as the supreme commander of Allied forces in Europe during the second world war was D.D Eisenhower.

 • The criminals of the Second World War were trailed in the city of Nuremburg.

 • Break up of Germany occurred on 1945 and merger on Oct 3, 1990.

 • Iraq occupied Kuwait on 2nd Aug 1990.

 • USA dropped an atom bomb on Hiroshima on 6th August 1945.

 • First World War begun on 1914 A.D. and Second World War started in 1939 when Germany attacked on Poland, it is also considered as greatest war.

 • Germans call a WW1 sea fight Battle of Skagerrak what in UK: Battle of Jutland

 • Operation Thunderbolt was the nickname given to which raid Israeli raid on Entebbe

 • In WW2 the Germans launched operation Bernhard - what Counterfeit British Notes

 • In WW2 what was the German codename for invasion of Russia- Barberossa

 • Operation Dracula in WWII freed what city- Rangoon Burma

 • Which 19th century battle UK / USA fought after peace signed- Battle of New Orleans

 • Waterloo is now in... Belgium

 • The Duke of Wellington defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.

 • In Battle of Sabroan, English defeated Sikhs and captured Lahore.

 • Iraq occupied Kuwait in August 1990.

 • North Korea invaded South Korea in 1950.

 • Darfur conflict is in Sudan.