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- The Gurkha War was fought between Nepal and the British East India Company between 1814 and 1816. It is sometimes called the Gorkha War or the ...18 KB (2,814 words) - 08:38, 8 January 2024
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- The Gurkha War was fought between Nepal and the British East India Company between 1814 and 1816. It is sometimes called the Gorkha War or the ...18 KB (2,814 words) - 08:38, 8 January 2024
- The Battle of Kandahar, September 1, 1880, represents the last major conflict of the Second Anglo-Afghan War. The battle in southern Afghanistan ...22 KB (3,333 words) - 10:03, 22 September 2023
- centuries, became the base of the Gurkha Kingdom in 1768, then ruled by the Rana dynasty after the Kot Massacre in 1846, to be succeeded by an ...24 KB (3,331 words) - 17:13, 5 October 2022
- the temporary rank of major in the 6th Gurkha Rifles on November 2, 1918 ... given command of the 2nd Battalion, 7th Gurkha Rifles. In 1939, he was briefly ...24 KB (3,728 words) - 18:26, 17 April 2023
- to the region during the time of the reign of the Gurkha kings in Nepal to escape the tyranny of the Gurkha kings. Indigenous ethnic groups include ...23 KB (3,408 words) - 02:28, 5 October 2022
- [[Image:Singapore Gurkha 01.jpg|thumb|400px|The Gurkha Contingent ... the government budget annually. The Gurkha Contingent, which is part ...31 KB (4,282 words) - 00:11, 29 December 2023
- In 1889, Younghusband was dispatched with a small escort of Gurkha soldiers to survey an uncharted region of the Hunza valley and the Khunjerab ...12 KB (1,836 words) - 04:49, 9 April 2024
- [[Image:5th Gurkha Rifles, Japan 1946.jpg|thumb|The 2nd Battalion, 5th Royal Gurkha Rifles marching through [[Kure, Hiroshima|Kure]] soon after ...33 KB (4,957 words) - 10:14, 11 March 2023
- India Company to attack Nepal, resulting in the Gurkha War of 1814. Treaties signed between Sikkim and Nepal—the Sugauli Treaty—and Sikkim and ...35 KB (5,094 words) - 20:10, 21 April 2023
- of mainstream Indian society. Three Gurkha and five of six Sikh infantry ... The combined force (which included two Gurkha units serving in the Bengal ...41 KB (6,196 words) - 18:35, 4 March 2024
- under John Nicholson and elements of the Gurkha Brigade. ... loyal to the British were retained, and Gurkha units, which had been crucial ...43 KB (6,818 words) - 17:25, 28 March 2024
- The Dalai Lama (meaning "Ocean of Wisdom") is an institution of great importance in Tibetan Buddhism, whose incumbent is considered ...29 KB (4,223 words) - 17:37, 24 January 2024
- The Qianlong Emperor (乾隆帝) (born Hongli, September 25, 1711 – February 7, 1799) was the fifth emperor of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and ...28 KB (4,243 words) - 00:03, 15 April 2023
- about their memories of the great mountaineer. Gurkha soldiers from Nepal, a country Sir Edmund Hillary held much affection for, stood guard outside ...37 KB (5,516 words) - 18:14, 12 February 2024
- Shimla shortly after the first Anglo-Gurkha war. By the 1830s, Shimla had already developed as a major base for the British. It became the Summer ...33 KB (4,994 words) - 17:47, 10 November 2022
- men went absent from duty due to illness, while a Gurkha battalion was reduced from 750 men to 500. Rooney, 77. Many of the men were replaced ...43 KB (6,762 words) - 01:10, 18 November 2022
- $50 million a year through the highly esteemed Gurkha soldiers who serve in the Indian and British armies. Agriculture is the mainstay of the ...47 KB (6,833 words) - 16:19, 11 November 2022
- Suharto, also spelled Soeharto (June 8, 1921 – January 27, 2008) was an Indonesian military leader, and from 1967 to 1998 the second President ...58 KB (8,552 words) - 13:46, 28 April 2023
