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More From Britannica Spain: Celts Although Celtic bands probably had penetrated into northern Italy from earlier times, the year 400 bce is generally accepted as the approximate date for the beginning of the great invasion of migrating Celtic tribes whose names Insubres, Boii, Senones, and Lin...
Gen. Leopoldo Galtieri gave up on long-running negotiations with Britain and instead launched an invasion of the islands. The decision to invade was chiefly political: the junta, which was being criticized for economic mismanagement and human rights abuses, believed that the “recovery” of the ...
Following the Mukden Incident and the wider invasion of Manchuria by Japanese troops in 1931, several fascist-oriented patriotic societies were formed in China; the largest of these groups, the Blue Shirts, formed an alliance with the Kuomintang (National People’s Party) under Chiang Kai-shek. ...
We protest against this disgraceful and unjustifiable invasion of Spain by Fascist Germany and Italy; an invasion in our opinion only made possible by the pro-Franco policy of the Baldwin Government in Britain. We believe that all lovers of freedom and democracy in Britain should now unite in ...
ensure order and the German presence became a permanent occupation. The African colonies that Germany took over were later incorporated intoMittelafrika. However, South Africa managed to occupy and annex the Bechuanaland Protectorate as well as Basutoland and Swaziland. Gibraltar was seized by Spain...
and by the late 18th century coffee rivaled sugar as an export crop. Meanwhile Jamaica’s slave population swelled to 300,000, despite mounting civil unrest, the menace of invasion fromFranceand Spain, and unstable food supplies—notably during the period 1780–87, when about 15,000 slaves st...
India: The government of Lord Wellesley When Wellesley was faced with an invasion byZamān Shah, ruler (1793–1800) ofKabul(Afghanistan), he utilized his envoy, Captain (later Sir) John Malcolm, to induceFatḥ ʿAlī ShahofPersia(ruled 1797–1834) to restrain Zamān Shah and to give Br...
The Nazis controlled the entire coastline from Spain to Norway—their invasion of the United Kingdom was blocked by the English Channel. Controlling Iceland, however, could allow the Nazis to put pressure on England, the United States, and Canada. Photo by dpa picture alliance/Alamy Stock ...
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