History is very
interesting ! ~ thought it could leave you confused on how many and why such
conflicts took place as mankind tried eliminating fellow humans !
The
Siege of Trichinopoly took place in early 1741 during an extended series of
conflicts between the Nawab of Arcot and the Maratha Empire for control over
parts of southern India. Raghuji Bhonsle's Maratha army successfully starved
out the town, compelling the surrender of Chanda Sahib on 26 March 1741. The Battle of Plassey was a decisive victory
of the British East India Company over the Nawab of Bengal and his French allies
on 23 June 1757, under the leadership of Robert Clive which was possible due to
the defection of Mir Jafar Ali Khan, who was Siraj-ud-Daulah's commander in
chief. .. .. .. we have read of Indian
Wars – but what surprises is that there were Indian wars which did not take
place in India and no Indian kingdom was involved !! .. then why were they
called Indian wars ?
Queen Anne's War
(1702–1713) was the second in a series of French and Indian
Wars fought in England's Thirteen American Colonies during the reign of
Anne, Queen of Great Britain. It is
viewed in Europe as the American theater of the War of the Spanish Succession;
it is viewed in America as a stand-alone conflict. The belligerents were French colonists and
various Indian tribes versus English colonists and various Indian tribes for
control of the American continent, it is also known as the Third Indian War or
as the Second Intercolonial War in France.
This ended official French
control of the peninsular portion of Acadia (present-day mainland Nova Scotia), although resistance continued until the
end of the war. The American Indian
Wars (also known as the Indian Wars or the First Nations Wars) is the
collective name for the various armed conflicts that were fought by European
governments and colonists, and later by the governments and settlers, against
various American Indian and First Nation tribes. These conflicts occurred in
North America from the time of the earliest colonial settlements in the 17th
century until the early 20th century.
Nova
Scotia is a province in eastern Canada. With a population
of 923,598 as of 2016, it is the most populous of Canada's three Maritime
provinces and the four Atlantic provinces. It is the country's second-most
densely populated province and second-smallest province by area, both after
neighbouring Prince Edward Island. The peninsula that makes up Nova Scotia's
mainland is connected to the rest of North America by the Isthmus of Chignecto,
on which the province's land border with New Brunswick is located.
The land that
comprises what is now Nova Scotia has been inhabited by the indigenous Miꞌkmaq
people for thousands of years. France's first settlement in North America,
Port-Royal, was established in 1605 and intermittently served in various
locations as the capital of the French colony of Acadia for over a hundred
years. The Fortress of Louisbourg was a key focus point in the struggle between
the British and French for control of the area, changing hands numerous times
until France relinquished its claims with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. During
the American Revolutionary War, thousands of Loyalists settled in Nova Scotia.
In 1848, Nova Scotia became the first British colony to achieve responsible
government, and it federated in July 1867 with New Brunswick and the Province
of Canada (now Ontario and Quebec) to form what is now the country of Canada. Nova
Scotia's capital and largest city is Halifax.
Nova Scotia is in
news for wrong reasons !~ no nothing connected to Covid but killing
outrage. A man wearing a police uniform went on a
shooting rampage in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia on Sunday, killing 16
people, in the deadliest such attack in the country's history. Officials said
the suspected shooter, local dentist Gabriel Wortman, 51, was also dead. A
police officer was among the dead. Several bodies were found inside and outside
one home in the small rural town of Portapique, about 100 kilometres north of
Halifax. Overnight, police began advising residents of the town – already on
lockdown because of the coronavirus pandemic – to lock their doors and stay in
their basements. Several homes in the area were set on fire as well.
Authorities said
Wortman disguised himself as a police officer in uniform at one point and made
his car look like a Royal Canadian Mounted Police cruiser. Wortman was arrested
by the police at a gas station in Enfield, just outside the provincial capitol
of Halifax. Police later announced he had died. It was not clear how, and they
did not explain further, although witnesses reporting gunfire from the scene. "This
is one of the most senseless acts of violence in our province's history,"
said Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil.
Mass shootings are
relatively rare in Canada. The country overhauled its gun-control laws after
its worst mass shooting in 1989, when gunman Marc Lepine killed 14 women and
himself at Montreal's Ecole Polytechnique. This weekend's shooting is the
deadliest since then. It is now illegal to possess an unregistered handgun or
any kind of rapid-fire weapon in Canada. The country also requires training, a
personal risk assessment, two references, spousal notification and criminal
record checks to purchase a weapon.
Police have not
provided a motive for the attack, but RCMP Chief Superintendent Chris Leather
said many of the victims did not know the shooter, although he had a connection
to some of the initial victims. "That fact that this individual had a
uniform and a police car at his disposal certainly speaks to it not being a
random act," Leather said. He added that police believed he acted alone. Leather
said they would investigate whether the attack had anything to do with the
coronavirus pandemic, but no link had been found thus far. The dead officer was
identified as Constable Heidi Stevenson, (pictured above) a mother of two and a 23-year veteran
of the force. Another officer was injured. Leather said at a point there was an
exchange of gunfire between the suspect and police. There were half a dozen
police vehicles at the scene of a gas station where the suspect was shot.
Yellow police tape surrounded the gas pumps, and a large silver-coloured SUV
was being investigated.
Gabriel Wortman is
listed as a denturist – a person who makes dentures – in the city of Dartmouth,
near Halifax, according to the Denturist Society of Nova Scotia website. A
suspect photo issued by the RCMP appears to be of the same person seen in video
footage being interviewed about dentures by CTV Atlantic in 2014.
It is
random madness of an individual reminiscent of madness of kingdoms in war.
With regards – S.
Sampathkumar
20.4.2020.
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