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After an English-speaking settler was executed, a military expedition made up of 400 British regulars and 800 Canadian militiamen was organized to retake the fort. [ 205 ] [ 206 ] Riel and his followers fled to the US before the arrival of the expedition in August 1870.
The European Union is a supranational union composed of 27 member states. The total English-speaking population of the European Union and the United Kingdom combined (2012) is 256,876,220 [70] (out of a total population of 500,000,000, [71] i.e. 51%) including 65,478,252 native speakers and 191,397,968 non-native speakers, and would be ranked 2nd if it were included.
As military forces around the world are constantly changing in size, no definitive list can ever be compiled. All of the 172 countries listed here, especially those with the highest number of total soldiers such as the two Koreas and Vietnam , include a large number of paramilitaries, civilians and policemen in their reserve personnel.
In addition to its core missions, the Canadian Armed Forces also contribute to the conduct of Canadian defence diplomacy through a range of activities, including the deployment of Canadian Defence Attachés, [80] participation in bilateral and multilateral military forums (e.g. the System of Cooperation Among the American Air Forces), ship and ...
This is a list of wars and armed conflicts in and involving Canada in chronological order, from the 11th century to the 21st century. It is divided into two main sections. The first section outlines conflicts that happened in what is now Canada before its confederation in 1867 .
Canada has long been reluctant to participate in military operations that are not sanctioned by the United Nations (UN), [6] [7] such as the Vietnam War or the 2003 invasion of Iraq. [6] [7] Canada has faced controversy over its operations in some foreign countries, notably the 1993 Somalia affair. [8]
Official histories of the RCAF and RCN in the Second World War were also a long time coming, and the book Arms, Men and Government by Charles Perry Stacey (one of the main contributors to the Army history) was published in the 1980s as an "official" history of the war policies of the Canadian government. The performance of Canadian forces in ...
N. Monument aux braves de N.D.G. National Aboriginal Veterans Monument; National Air Force Museum of Canada; National War Memorial (Canada) Naval Operations Branch