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Military history of the Indian Ocean

  • Francis Drake's circumnavigationIn 1567, a fleet led by the English privateer Sir John Hawkins conducted a slave trading voyage across the Atlantic to sell enslaved Africans in Spanish and…
  • Carnatic warsThe Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb died in 1707. His death triggered a general decline in central control over the empire during the tenure of Jahandar Shah and…
  • Burma campaignIn January 1942, the Japanese Fifteenth Army under Lieutenant General Shōjirō Iida moved into northern Thailand and launched an attack over jungle-clad…
  • Second Italo-Ethiopian WarOn the 23rd of November 1934, an Anglo-Ethiopian boundary commission arrived at the Welwel oasis in the Ogaden region. The party included Ethiopian and…