Wars
The wars that took place involving the British East India Company or British India during the Colonial era:
- Anglo-Mysore Wars
- First Anglo-Maratha War
- Second Anglo-Maratha War
- Third Anglo-Maratha War
- First Anglo-Sikh War
- Second Anglo-Sikh War
- Gurkha War
- Burmese Wars
- First Opium War
- Second Opium War
- First Anglo-Afghan War
- Second Anglo-Afghan War
- Third Anglo-Afghan War
- World War I, see List of Indian divisions in World War I, Bombardment of Madras
- World War II
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Famous quotes containing the word wars:
“O how wretched
Is that poor man that hangs on princes’ favors!
There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to,
More pangs and fears than wars or women have;
And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer,
Never to hope again.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
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—J.M. (John Millington)
“Fortunately art is a community effort—a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.”
—Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926)