`` For other sieges with this name , see Siege of Pondicherry ( disambiguation ) '' The Siege of Pondicherry was a colonial military operation Military_operation in the early stages of the French Revolutionary Wars .

The incident took place Process_start admidst the East Indies campaign of the French Revolutionary Wars repeated French attempts to disrupt Hindering the highly valuable British trade routes with British India and Qing Dynasty China .

The Action of 9 September 1796 was an inconclusive minor naval engagement Hostile_encounter between small French Navy and British Royal Navy squadrons off northeastern Sumatra , near Banda Aceh , during the French Revolutionary Wars Hostile_encounter .

The Raid Military_operation on Genoa was a minor naval engagement fought Hostile_encounter in the harbour of the Italian city of Genoa during the first year of the French Revolutionary Wars .

Former Commander-in-Chief of the Petrograd military okrug , Colonel Georgi Polkovnikov , pronounced Statement himself as commander of the so-called `` Salvation Army '' ( войска спасения ) and ordered Arranging his garrison not to execute orders issued by the Petrograd Military Revolutionary Committee ( PMRC ) , arrest Arrest its commissars , and send Sending representatives from all military units to Nikolayevskoye School of Engineers ( a.k.a .

Major General Charles Grey raided Attack the Massachusetts communities of New Bedford , Fairhaven , and Martha 's Vineyard in September 1778 as part of British operations in the American Revolutionary War .

The siege took place Process_start during the War of the Pyrenees which was part of the French Revolutionary Wars .

Bird 's invasion Attack of Kentucky during the American Revolutionary War Military_operation was one phase of an extensive planned Arranging series of operations Military_operation planned Arranging by the British in 1780 , whereby the entire West , from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico , was to be swept Body_movement clear of both Spanish and colonial resistance .

The official justification for the arms shipments was that they were part of an operation to free seven American hostages being held Hold in Lebanon by Hezbollah , a paramilitary group with Iranian ties connected Connect to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps .

The Action of 24 June 1801 was a minor naval engagement Hostile_encounter during the French Revolutionary Wars Hostile_encounter .

The Action of 4 August 1800 was a highly unusual naval engagement Hostile_encounter that took place Process_start off the Brazilian coast during the French Revolutionary Wars Hostile_encounter .

The Action of 6 November 1794 ( Known in French as the Combat du 16 Brumaire an III ) was a naval engagement Hostile_encounter during the French Revolutionary Wars Hostile_encounter .

Opposition groups also reported Reporting thousands more were arrested Arrest and tortured Bodily_harm in prisons around the country , with former inmates alleging Statement mass rape Violence of men , women and children by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards , in prisons such as Kahrizak and Evin .

By late 1980 , the Iranian regular forces and the Revolutionary Guard ousted Change_of_leadership the Kurdish militants from their strongholds , but groups of Kurdish militants kept executing sporadic attacks Attack against Iranian militias .

The Action of 28 February 1799 was a minor naval engagement Hostile_encounter of the French Revolutionary Wars , fought Hostile_encounter off the mouth of the Hooghly River in the Bay of Bengal between the French frigate `` Forte '' and the Royal Navy frigate HMS `` Sybille '' .

The Capture of Savannah , or sometimes the First Battle of Savannah ( because of a siege in 1779 ) , was an American Revolutionary War battle fought Hostile_encounter on December 29 , 1778 pitting local American Patriot militia and Continental Army units , holding the city , against a British invasion force under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell .

A week earlier , on 27 June , an Air France Airbus A300 with 248 passengers had been hijacked Kidnapping by two members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – External Operations ( PFLP-EO ) under orders Arranging of Wadie Haddad ( who had earlier broken Bodily_harm away from the PFLP of George Habash ) , and two members of the German Revolutionary Cells .

The Burning Destroying of Washington marks Recording the only time since the American Revolutionary War Military_operation that a foreign power has captured Conquering and occupied Control the United States capital .

American Revolutionary War veteran Daniel Shays led four thousand rebels ( called Shaysites ) in a protest against economic and civil rights injustices .

Shays was a farmhand from Massachusetts at the beginning of the Revolutionary War ; he joined Participation the Continental Army , saw action at the Battles of Lexington and Concord , Battle of Bunker Hill , and Battles of Saratoga , and was eventually wounded in action .

The Burning Bodily_harm of Norfolk was an incident that occurred Presence on January 1 , 1776 , during the American Revolutionary War .

The town , whose significantly Tory ( Loyalist ) population had fled Escaping , was occupied Control by Whig ( Revolutionary ) forces from Virginia and North Carolina .

The Sierra Leone Civil War ( 1991–2002 ) was a civil war in Sierra Leone that began Process_start on 23 March 1991 when the Revolutionary United Front ( RUF ) , with support Supporting from the special forces of Charles Taylor ’ s National Patriotic Front of Liberia ( NPFL ) , intervened in Sierra Leone in an attempt to overthrow Change_of_leadership the Joseph Momoh government .

The Action of 18 August 1798 was a minor naval engagement of the French Revolutionary Wars Hostile_encounter , fought Hostile_encounter between the British fourth rate ship HMS `` Leander '' and the French ship of the line `` Généreux '' .

The Action of 24 October 1793 was a minor naval engagement Hostile_encounter during the first year of the French Revolutionary Wars Hostile_encounter .

The Glorious First of June ( also known as the Fourth Battle of Ushant or , in France , as the ' or ' ) of 1794 was the first and largest fleet action of the naval conflict Hostile_encounter between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the First French Republic during the French Revolutionary Wars .

The Glorious First of June demonstrated Protest a number of the major problems inherent in the French and British navies at the start of the Revolutionary Wars .

In the broader military Military_operation context , this battle Hostile_encounter constitutes a keystone in the first campaign Military_operation in southwestern Germany during the Wars Hostile_encounter of the Second Coalition , part of the French Revolutionary Wars Hostile_encounter .

The Ambush of Geary was a skirmish Hostile_encounter of the American Revolutionary War Military_operation fought Hostile_encounter on 14 December 1776 near Ringoes in Amwell Township , Hunterdon County , New Jersey .

In 1794 , early in the French Revolutionary Wars , the army of the French Republic overran Conquering the Dutch Republic which then became Becoming a French client state , the Batavian Republic .

The Action of 18 June 1793 was the first decisive and one of the most celebrated encounters Hostile_encounter between British and French frigates during the French Revolutionary Wars Hostile_encounter .

The Raid on Manila of January 1798 was a Royal Navy false flag military operation during the French Revolutionary Wars intended to scout Scrutiny the strength of the defences of Manila , capital of the Spanish Philippines , capture Conquering a Manila galleon and assess the condition of the Spanish Navy squadron maintained in the port .

The Dutch Republic had been a British ally during the French Revolutionary Wars , but was overrun by the French Republic in the winter of 1794 and reformed Reforming_a_system into the client state Statement of the Batavian Republic .

On 25 December 1978 , 150,000 Vietnamese troops invaded Attack Democratic Kampuchea and overran Destroying the Kampuchean Revolutionary Army in just two weeks , thereby ending Process_end the excesses of Pol Pot 's regime , which had been responsible for the deaths Death of almost a quarter of all Cambodians between 1975 and December 1978 .

The Armenian Revolutionary Federation members saw Self_motion its seizure as their best attempt to bring Bringing full attention to their plight .

The Ethiopian Civil War ended Process_end on 4 June 1991 when the Ethiopian People 's Revolutionary Democratic Front ( EPRDF ) , a coalition of left-wing ethnic rebel groups , entered Arriving the capital Addis Ababa and overthrew Change_of_leadership the WEP .

The Whiskey Rebellion ( also known as the Whiskey Insurrection ) was a tax protest in the United States beginning Process_start in 1791 and ending Process_end in 1794 during the presidency of George Washington , ultimately under the command Control of American Revolutionary war veteran Major James McFarlane .

It became Becoming law in 1791 , and was intended to generate Creating revenue for the war debt incurred Causation during the Revolutionary War .

The Action of 31 March 1800 was a naval engagement of the French Revolutionary Wars fought Hostile_encounter between a Royal Navy squadron and a French Navy ship of the line off Malta in the Mediterranean Sea .

On 5 June 2018 , the ruling Legal_rulings coalition Collaboration of Ethiopia ( Ethiopian People 's Revolutionary Democratic Front ) , headed Motion by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed , agreed Agree_or_refuse_to_act to fully implement Action the peace treaty signed Sign_agreement with Eritrea in 2000 , with peace declared Expressing_publicly by both parties in July 2018 .

The Action of 22 August 1795 was a minor naval engagement Hostile_encounter during the French Revolutionary Wars Hostile_encounter between a squadron of four British Royal Navy frigates and two frigates and a cutter from the Batavian Navy .

The Action of 30 May 1798 was a minor naval engagement Hostile_encounter between a small British squadron and a small French squadron off the coast of Normandy , France during the French Revolutionary Wars Hostile_encounter .

The Action of 19 February 1801 was a minor naval battle Hostile_encounter fought Hostile_encounter off Ceuta in Spanish North Africa in February 1801 between frigates of the French and Royal Navies during the French Revolutionary Wars Hostile_encounter .

The incident took place Process_start in the context of the East Indies campaign of the French Revolutionary Wars , the allied squadron attempting to disrupt a valuable British merchant convoy due Causation to sail from Qing Dynasty China .

The crisis Catastrophe escalated Cause_change_of_strength , and the American Revolutionary War Military_operation began Process_start near Boston in 1775 .

Following the Seven Years ' War and the American Revolutionary War , the French government was deeply in debt .

The Revolutionary Wars beginning Process_start in 1792 ultimately featured French victories that facilitated Cause_to_make_progress the conquest of the Italian Peninsula , the Low Countries and most territories west of the Rhine – achievements that had eluded Escaping previous French governments for centuries .

The Yorktown or Virginia campaign was a series of military maneuvers and battles Hostile_encounter during the American Revolutionary War that culminated Process_end in the decisive Siege of Yorktown in October 1781 .

The Battle Hostile_encounter of Machias ( August 13–14 , 1777 ) was an amphibious assault Attack on the Massachusetts town of Machias ( in present-day eastern Maine ) by British forces Causation during the American Revolutionary War .

Specifically , U.S. officials say Statement that members of Iran 's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps `` helped Assistance plan and direct Action the assault Attack on the camp ...