The Polygar Wars or Palaiyakkarar Wars were wars fought between the Polygars (Palaiyakkarars) of the former Tirunelveli Kingdom in Tamil Nadu, India and...
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Veerapandiya Kattabomman (category Polygar Wars)
inherited his father's position as the polygar of Panchalankurichi when he turned 30, becoming the 47th polygar of the village. To acquire the support...
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War (1746–1748) Second Carnatic War (1749–1754) Polygar Wars(1750-1805) Third Carnatic War (1756–1763) Bengal War (1756–1765) First Anglo-Mysore War (1767–1769)...
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The Carnatic wars were a series of military conflicts in the middle of the 18th century in India's coastal Carnatic region, a dependency of Hyderabad State...
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The Anglo-Mysore Wars were a series of four wars fought during the last three decades of the 18th century between the Sultanate of Mysore on the one hand...
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The Opium Wars (simplified Chinese: 鸦片战争; traditional Chinese: 鴉片戰爭; pinyin: Yāpiàn zhànzhēng) were two conflicts waged between China and Western powers...
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Polygar Wars. He was the younger brother of Veerapandiya Kattabomman. Oomathurai was an active participant in the Polygar Wars, and in the first war,...
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American Indian Wars, 1607–1890: A Political, Social, and Military History [3 volumes]". The Encyclopedia of North American Indian Wars, 1607–1890: A Political...
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which led to constant conflicts with the Palaiyakkarars known as the Polygar Wars. Puli Thevar was one of the earliest opponents, joined later by Rani...
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Sultan in 1799. Coimbatore was taken by the Polygars in 1800 and was an important stronghold in the Polygar Wars. It was made capital of Coimbatore district...
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Rajapalayam dog (redirect from Polygar Hound)
The Rajapalayam Hound, also known as the Polygar Hound or Indian Ghost Hound, is a southern Indian dog breed. The breed is named after Rajapalayam, a...
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Teredo Books, ISBN 978-0-903662-10-9. Hernon, Ian (2003), Britain's Forgotten Wars: Colonial Campaigns of the 19th Century, Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton...
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aggression. The New Zealand Wars were previously referred to as the Land Wars or the Māori Wars, and an earlier Māori-language name for the conflict was Te riri...
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The Anglo–Powhatan Wars were three wars fought between settlers of the Colony of Virginia and the Powhatan People of Tsenacommacah in the early 17th century...
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Maveeran Alagumuthu Kone (category Polygar Wars)
Thoothukudi District. He was an Indian polygar who revolted against the British presence. In Tamil Nadu, he waged a war against the Presidency armies in 1750–1759...
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The Xhosa Wars (also known as the Cape Frontier Wars or the Kaffir Wars) were a series of nine wars (from 1779 to 1879) between the Xhosa Kingdom and...
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The Second Anglo-Maratha War (from 1803 –1805) was a large conflict within the Maratha Confederacy involving the British East India Company. It resulted...
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Mysore, following a series of wars with the Nayaks. After the defeat of Tipu Sultan in the Anglo-Mysore Wars and the Polygar Wars, the British East India Company...
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causes of the war included the decline of the Ottoman Empire (the "Eastern Question"), the expansion of Russia in the preceding Russo-Turkish Wars, and the...
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The Anglo-Ashanti wars were a series of five conflicts that took place between 1824 and 1900 between the Ashanti Empire—in the Akan interior of the Gold...
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1899, war broke out between Transvaal and the British Empire. List of wars between democracies Military history of South Africa Transvaal civil war, 1854...
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The Falklands War (Spanish: Guerra de Malvinas) was a ten-week undeclared war between Argentina and the United Kingdom in 1982 over two British dependent...
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Indian independence movement (section First World War)
Kattabomman was an eighteenth-century Polygar and chieftain from Panchalankurichi in Tamil Nadu, India who waged the Polygar war against the East India Company...
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fought by Oomaithurai was involved in the Polygar Wars against the East India Company. In the first Poligar war, he was captured and imprisoned in Palayamkottai...
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Vidyapeeth. His wife died on 9 September 1962, a month before Indo-China War. He was subsequently honoured with Bharat Ratna, the nation's highest civilian...
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Colonial India (section Wars)
1857 (First War of Independence, Sepoy Mutiny) Polygar Wars World War I: see Indian Army during World War I, Bombardment of Madras World War II: see Indian...
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