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British forces take Cape Town from the VOC
📅 16 September 1795British forces took Cape Town and the Cape government capitulated, beginning the first British occupation. This changed the colonial administrator but not settler claims over Khoikhoi and San land...
Trelawny Town Maroons surrender after the Second Maroon War
📅 6 March 1796Trelawny Town Maroons surrendered after fighting the colonial government. The conflict followed long-standing grievances and a dispute over punishment under the treaty system. British forces used...
The colonial government declares the Second Maroon War over
📅 16 March 1796The Jamaican government officially declared the Second Maroon War over after Trelawny Town Maroons surrendered. The end of organized fighting did not restore the community's position: British...
Capitulation ends rebel control of Gouyave and the west coast
📅 10 June 1796Captain Jossey, representing the French forces in Grenada, signed articles of capitulation at Gouyave with British Major-General Oliver Nicolls. British accounts say the agreement ended rebel...
British assault defeats the remaining rebel forces
📅 19 June 1796British forces captured the remaining rebel strongholds and ended open hostilities in Fédon’s Rebellion. Enslaved and free rebels faced death, capture, execution, or deportation in the repression that...
British forces capture Trinidad from Spain
📅 18 February 1797On 18 February 1797, British forces captured Trinidad after Spanish Governor José María Chacón capitulated at Valsayn. The change of imperial ruler did not free the people held in slavery or dismantle...
Toussaint and Britain agree on evacuation of the remaining occupied positions
📅 31 August 1798After years of costly occupation, British forces negotiated their withdrawal from Saint-Domingue with Toussaint Louverture. An agreement dated 31 August 1798 secured evacuation of the remaining...
Baku Commune leaders executed after British intervention
📅 20 September 1918Twenty-six Baku Commune leaders were executed near Krasnovodsk after the fall of the commune and their transfer into the custody of forces associated with the Transcaspian Government and British...
Soviet forces land at Anzali
📅 18 May 1920Soviet forces landed at Anzali to seize a White Russian fleet sheltered there. Their intervention displaced British forces and opened a new phase in the Iranian Jangali movement.
Ethiopian forces and Allies liberate Addis Ababa
📅 5 May 1941Ethiopian resistance fighters, known as Arbegnoch, and Allied troops entered Addis Ababa on 5 May, ending the Italian occupation of the capital. Haile Selassie returned after years in exile....
Federation forces launch a Radfan operation
📅 January 1964Federation troops, supported by British air power, launched an operation in Radfan. The military campaign sought to reopen the road between Aden and Dhala and restore colonial-federation control....
NLF and FLOSY supporters riot in Aden
📅 January 1967Supporters of the NLF and FLOSY rioted in Aden’s old Arab quarter. The unrest continued into February despite British troop deployment. Rival nationalist mobilization and colonial policing made...