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Battle for Hill 3234, a 1988 battle in the Soviet–Afghan War where Soviet paratroopers repelled Afghan insurgent forces. The battle was dramatized in the 2005 film The 9th Company. Battle of Kamdesh, a 2009 battle 20 miles from Wanat, the bloodiest battle for U.S. forces since the Battle of Wanat. An assault by 300 Taliban fighters resulted ...
English: This is a video recreation of the Combat Action at Wanat, Nuristan Province Afghanistan, on 13 July 2008. The attack resulted in multiple ISAF personnel casualties and disestablishment of COP Kahler.
Battle of Pavia, 1525 Siege of Eger, 1552 St. Bartholomew's Day massacre, 1572 Battle of Haarlemmermeer, 1573 Battle of Gravelines, 1588 A Burned Village, during the Cudgel War, 1596. c. 1500–1854 Lekianoba; 1501–1512 Dano-Swedish War (1501–1512) 1502–1543 Guelders Wars; 1503–1505 War of the Succession of Landshut
This is a list of wars and conflicts in Asia, particularly East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia and Russia.For a list of conflicts in Southwest Asia, Asia Pacific. see List of conflicts in the Near East for historical conflicts and List of conflicts in the Middle East, List of conflicts in Australia (related Asia Pacific) for contemporary conflicts.
Battle on the Nemiga River – 1067; Battle of Ashmyany – 1432 – Lithuanian Civil War (1432–1438); Battle of Mstislavl – 1501 – Muscovite–Lithuanian Wars; Battle of Kletsk – 1506 – Muscovite–Lithuanian Wars and Crimean–Nogai slave raids in Eastern Europe
By the time of the Roman Empire, the Silk Road was firmly established. Eurasia around 200 AD. The history of Eurasia is the collective history of a continental area with several distinct peripheral coastal regions: Southwest Asia, South Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia, and Western Europe, linked by the interior mass of the Eurasian steppe of Central Asia and Eastern Europe.
Kunyu Wanguo Quantu, printed in Ming China at the request of the Wanli Emperor in 1602 by the Italian Catholic missionary Matteo Ricci and Chinese collaborators, the mandarin Zhong Wentao, and the technical translator Li Zhizao, is the earliest known Chinese world map with the style of European maps. [1]
Imperial powers in 1914 Map of Asia for early 20th century. British colonies in East Asia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia: British Burma (1824–1948, merged with India by the British from 1886 to 1937) British Ceylon (1815–1948, now Sri Lanka) British Hong Kong (1842–1997)