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:
“... the trouble is that most people in this country think that we can stay out of wars in other parts of the world. Even if we stay out of it and save our own skins, we cannot escape the conditions which will undoubtedly exist in other parts of the world and which will react against us.... We are all of us selfish ... and if we can save our own skins, the rest of the world can go. The best we can do is to realize nobody can save his own skin alone. We must all hang together.”
—Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962)
“O how wretched
Is that poor man that hangs on princes’ favours!
There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to,
That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin,
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)
“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)