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20th century. Atlante Internazionale del Touring Club Italiano (Italy, 1927–1978) Atlas Mira (Russia, 1937–present) Geographers' A–Z Street Atlas (United Kingdom, 1938–present) Gran Atlas Aguilar (Spain, 1969/1970) Historical Atlas of China (Taiwan, 1980) The Historical Atlas of China (China, 1982) National Geographic Atlas of the World ...
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During the 17th century, the Mughal empire possessed the largest military on earth, [5] with its strength numbering 911,400-4,039,097 infantry and 342,696 cavalry. [2] Alternatively, according to the census by Abul Fazl , the size of the army was roughly about 4.4 million, with less than half a million trained as cavalry; [ 3 ] [ 6 ] : 89–90 ...
Pages in category "19th-century maps and globes" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. ... War of the Rebellion Atlas; Wyld's Great Globe
Klencke Atlas (1660; one of the world's largest books) Britannia (1675), John Ogilby (1600–1676), first to be printed at a specific scale (1:63,360 or one inch to one mile; 18th century. Atlas Nouveau (Amsterdam, 1742) Britannia Depicta (London, 1720) Cary's New and Correct English Atlas (London, 1787) 19th century:
Military historian Ian Fletcher identifies twenty-four major battles and sieges involving the British Army between 1808 and 1815 with Wellington in command of seventeen. [3] Military historian Mark Adkin commented that "Wellington had fought in some twenty-four battles and sieges prior to Waterloo ". [ 4 ]
Stielers Handatlas 10th Edition Map of India and Asia, printed in Stieler's Atlas Map of Iran and Turan in Qajar dynasty drawn by Adolf Stieler. Stielers Handatlas (after Adolf Stieler, 1775–1836), formally titled Hand-Atlas über alle Theile der Erde und über das Weltgebäude (Handy atlas of all parts of the world and of the universe), was the leading German world atlas of the last three ...
Both of these wars involved Europe's largest states and armies. The industrialisation of Germany, the Empire of Japan, and the United States contributed to the relative decline of British industrial supremacy in the late 19th century. The start of World War I in 1914 marked the end of the Pax Britannica.