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Hace 2 días · While participating in the Napoleonic Wars in the Western hemisphere, the Portuguese Navy was also engaged in operations in the waters of Southeast Asia. Between November 1809 and February 1810, the Portuguese naval forces based in Macau conducted a campaign against Chinese pirates, defeating them in a series of naval actions in Bocca Tigris.
Hace 2 días · In 1802, amidst the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, concerns about French interest in Australia drove an expansion of the British colony. French explorers had been encountered in the Pacific and in order to secure any strategic locations within the southern station of the Pacific Ocean which might have been of use to France, King dispatched an expedition to settle Van Diemen's Land. [121]
Hace 2 días · This force numbered upwards of 6,000 men – the majority of whom were composed of veterans of the Napoleonic Wars.: 217–220 In combat their greatest achievements were at Boyacá (1819), Carabobo (1821), Pichincha (1822) and Ayacucho (1824) which secured independence for Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador and Peru from Spanish rule respectively.
Hace 2 días · The Papal States ( / ˈpeɪpəl / PAY-pəl; Italian: Stato Pontificio; Latin: Dicio Pontificia ), officially the State of the Church (Italian: Stato della Chiesa [ˈstaːto della ˈkjɛːza]; Latin: Status Ecclesiasticus ), [7] were a conglomeration of territories on the Apennine Peninsula under the direct sovereign rule of the Pope from 756 ...
Hace 2 días · Peter transformed the tsardom into an empire, and fought numerous wars that turned a vast realm into a major European power. He moved the Russian capital from Moscow to the new model city of Saint Petersburg , which marked the birth of the imperial era, and led a cultural revolution that introduced a modern, scientific, rationalist, and Western-oriented system.
Hace 2 días · The Napoleonic Wars exacerbated Anglo-American tensions, as the UK's naval blockade of France and the impressment of American sailors the British claimed were deserters, aggravated the US. As the US lacked a navy capable of challenging the UK, an invasion of Canada was proposed as a feasible option for attacking the British.
Hace 2 días · In the battles was not a Greek State, but a large army of Greek mercenaries that helped the Cyrus the Younger. Xenophon wrote about this army of Greek mercenaries, in his work Anabasis . Battle of Cunaxa. 401 BCE. Battles between the Ten Thousand and the Persian army during their route back to Greece. 401 - 399 BCE.
