About 80, 000 Indian, United Kingdom and Australian soldiers become prisoners of war, the largest surrender of British-led military personnel in history.

An 1841 local uprising resulted in the loss of the British mission and the subsequent death of 16, 500 British-led Indian forces, which included soldiers and camp followers while retreating from Kabul to Jalalabad.

In 1839, during the First Anglo-Afghan War, British-led Indian forces invaded Afghanistan and initiated a war with the Afghan rulers.

The First Anglo-Afghan War ( also known as Auckland's Folly ) was fought between British India and Afghanistan from 1839 to 1842, which resulted in the deaths of 4, 500 British-led Indian soldiers and 12, 000 of their camp followers by the warring Afghan tribal fighters.

Prince Akbar Khan, victor of the 1837 Battle of Jamrud and a general officer in the First Anglo-Afghan War against the British-led Indian forces.

The weapon served primarily with the Indian Mountain Artillery in the northwest portion of British Indian territory ( on what is now the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan ) and participated in British-led military action in that theatre.

He is prominent for his leadership of the national party in Kabul from 1841 to 1842, and his pursuit of the retreating British-led Indian army from Kabul to Gandamak near Jalalabad in 1842.

In 1963 fighting between Egyptian forces and British-led Saudi-financed guerrillas in the Yemen Arab Republic spread to South Arabia with the formation of the National Liberation Front ( NLF ), who hoped to force the British out of South Arabia.

* September 23 – Battle of Assaye ( India ): British-led troops defeat Maratha forces.

In August 1940, during the Second World War, British Somaliland was conquered and annexed to Italian East Africa, which itself was conquered by British-led forces in the course of 1941.

The division headquarters served as the command element for southern Baghdad until late March 2009, when it displaced to Basrah to replace departing British forces on 31 March 2009 to coordinate security for the Multinational Division-South area of responsibility, a consolidation of the previously Polish-led south central and British-led southeast operational areas.

The Gideon Force was a small British-led African regular force which acted as a Corps d ' Elite amongst the irregular Ethiopian forces fighting the Italian occupation forces in Ethiopia during the East African Campaign of World War II.

On 22 July 1839, in a surprise attack, the British-led forces captured the fortress of Ghazni, which overlooks a plain leading eastward into the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

As the British approached the city of Sokoto, the new Sultan Muhammadu Attahiru I organized a quick defense of the city and fought the advancing British-led forces.

The modern town was founded in the nineteenth century and is chiefly known as the headquarters ( 1895 – 1898 ) of the British-led Egyptian and British forces seeking to defeat the forces of Muhammad Ahmad, the self-proclaimed Mahdi.

During the Italian conquest of British Somaliland the heavily outnumbered British-led forces made their stand at Tug Argan.

In 1941 British-led forces defeated the Vichy French during the Syria-Lebanon campaign, which included a battle over Deir, and they handed administration of the region to the Free French.

After a ceasefire was declared in the Republic of Macedonia between government forces and rebels known as the National Liberation Army, NATO launched a British-led effort ( Operation Essential Harvest ) to collect weapons voluntarily given up by the rebels.

The Sultan's palace, the Kraton Ngayogyakarta Hadiningrat, was besieged and taken by British-led forces in June 1812.

However, the enlarged colony was dismembered only a year later, when in the course of the British-led East African Campaign of June 1940 to November 1941 Italian East Africa was conquered.

The battle, which took place from 9 to 12 April 1917, was part of the opening phase of the British-led Battle of Arras, a diversionary attack for the French Nivelle Offensive.

The Benin Expedition of 1897 was a punitive expedition by a United Kingdom force of 1, 200 under Admiral Sir Harry Rawson in response to the defeat of a previous British-led invasion force under Acting Consul General James Philips ( which had left all but two men dead ).

To the north was the British-led 21st Army Group and, to the south, after their breakout from the Mediterranean coast, was the Sixth United States Army Group.

She was the commander of three large US-and British-led prisons in Iraq in 2003, eight battalions, and 3, 400 soldiers from the U. S. Army Reserve.

This was one of the world's first successful combined-arms operations, and one of the most comprehensive British-led victories, in British military history.

During the American Revolution, he was the second ranking officer in the Virginia militia for Kentucky County, taking part in the defense of the settlements against attacks made by British-led Indians.

At one time eighty men were present ; there was a battle between American and British-led gangs and a single cargo of more than 80, 000 skins-one of the greatest ever shipped from Australasia-was on-sold in Canton for one pound sterling a skin, a multi-million dollar return in modern terms.

The easy victory of the Māori over the numerically stronger British-led force gave a powerful impetus to the Pai Mārire movement and confirmed in the minds of many Māori the protection of the Archangel Gabriel, of whom Te Ua was now regarded as a prophet.

The British Army in Germany was also affected, with the British Army of the Rhine replaced by British Forces Germany and personnel numbers being reduced from about 55, 000 to 25, 000 ; the replacement of German-based I Corps by the British-led Headquarters Allied Rapid Reaction Corps also took place.

Hamad maintained a close relationship with the British but there was dissent amongst his subjects over the increasing British control over the country, the British-led army and the abolition of the valuable slave trade.

In 1780, Chouteau played a small role in the Battle of St. Louis, in which the village was defended against a British-led Native American attack.

Operation Condor was the name of a major British-led operation in southeastern Afghanistan.

The Battle of St. Louis ( Spanish San Luis, also known as the Battle of Fort San Carlos ) was an unsuccessful British-led attack on St. Louis ( a French settlement in Spanish Louisiana that had been ceded by France to Spain in 1763 ) on May 26, 1780, during the American Revolutionary War.

Austrian warships had their first military encounters during the Oriental Crisis of 1840 as a part of a British-led fleet which ousted the Viceroy of Egypt, Muhammad Ali, from Ottoman Syria.

is receding into the past "; conspiratorial allegations in the Shakhty show trial of a planned French and British-led coup d ' etat ; the Great Purge involving a series of campaigns of political repression and persecution in which over half a million Soviets were executed ; the Moscow show trials including allegations of British, French, Japanese and German espionage ; the controversial death of 6 – 8 million people in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in the 1932 – 3 Ukrainian famine ; western support of the White Army in the Russian Civil War ; the US refusal to recognize the Soviet Union until 1933 ; and the Soviet entry into the Treaty of Rapallo.

Mitterrand's political view proved prescient in that, as the BBC noted as of 2010, after a progressive rift with the Kagame-led regime that has ruled Rwanda since 1994 ( described in greater detail below ), Rwanda repeatedly broke diplomatic relations with France ; the Rwandan government shut down all French institutions in Rwanda, including schools and cultural organisations, with only some being subsequently reopened ; the language of instruction in Rwandan schools " has even been switched from French to English "; and Rwanda strove to join the British-led Commonwealth, thus becoming one of only two members that were not former British colonies.

In order to control this dissent, the British authorities authorised the sultan to raise a Zanzibari palace bodyguard of 1, 000 men, but these troops were soon involved in clashes with the British-led police.

The battle virtually spelled the destruction of the Fifth Coalition, the Austrian and British-led alliance against France.

The easy victory of the Māori over the numerically stronger British-led force gave a powerful impetus to the Hauhau movement.

In 2007, Ford sold Aston Martin to a British-led Consortium backed by Middle East investors, retaining a small stake in the company and agreeing to continue the supply of components including engines.

He formulated the idea of raising small assault units of British-led Jewish commandos, armed with grenades and light infantry small arms, to combat the Arab revolt.

The ' Dukes ' returned, as part of 4 ( Armoured ) Brigade, to the South-East of Iraq, in October 2004, to join the British-led Multi-National Division ( South-East ), as a fully equipped armoured infantry battalion with Warrior Armoured Personnel Carriers.