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Portugal. State of Brazil; Terço Velho Regiment Victory: Portuguese-Omani conflict (1728–1729) Location: Indian Ocean, Southeast Africa. Portuguese Empire. Swahili city-states rebels against Oman Omani Empire. Swahili city-states rebels against Portugal Statu Quo Ante Bellum. End of Portuguese presence on the Swahili coast. Maratha ...
The War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714), when Portugal together with the Duchy of Savoy initially sided with France, but after the Battle of Blenheim reunited with its ally. The Seven Years' War (1756–1763), when Spain invaded Portugal in 1762; Britain intervened as Portugal's ally. Although faced with vastly superior numbers, the ...
Britain did not gain or lose anything from the war and exited the war a year before it had ended due to financial trouble; Russian Allied victory: Tsardom of Russia establishes itself as a new power in Europe. Decline of Swedish Empire and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. 1701 1714 War of the Spanish Succession: England (until 1707)
Ethiopian Empire Congo Free State Egypt Mahdist State: British Allied victory. Britain and Egypt took over Sudan and turned it into a condominium known as the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan; Kassala temporarily occupied by Italy; Third Anglo-Burmese War (1885) United Kingdom: Burmese Empire: British victory. Upper Burma annexed to India. Sikkim ...
Portugal followed suit, thus entering World War I. [203] Early in the war, Portugal was involved mainly in supplying the Allies positioned in France. In 1916, there was only one attack on the Portuguese territory, in Madeira. [204] In 1917, one of the actions taken by Portugal was to assist Britain in its timber industry, imperative to the war ...
The Portuguese denied the Mughals permission to cross their territory to attack the Marathas. [1] Having learned of the Portuguese acts, Matabar khan launched an attack against them, a strong detachment invaded their holdings in Konkan, and he drove the native peasants into the Mughal side and captured many of the enemy families whenever found, the Portuguese attempted to offer a fight but ...
Two new countries entered the war in 1762. Britain declared war against Spain on 4 January 1762; Spain reacted by issuing its own declaration of war against Britain on 18 January. [82] Portugal followed by joining the war on Britain's side. Spain, aided by the French, launched an invasion of Portugal and succeeded in capturing Almeida.
The 1762 Bourbon invasion of Portugal was actually a succession of three military campaigns in different places and times with similar results: "The first object of the allied governments of Spain and France was to invade Portugal, the ancient ally of Great Britain, which was supposed to be wholly incapable of defending itself against so formidable a confederacy...that feeble and defenceless ...