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The military history of the Three Kingdoms period encompasses roughly a century's worth of prolonged warfare and disorder in Chinese history. After the assassination of General-in-chief He Jin in September 189, the administrative structures of the Han government became increasingly irrelevant.
A fragment of the biography of Bu Zhi from the Records of the Three Kingdoms, part of the Dunhuang manuscripts. The standard history of the period is the Records of the Three Kingdoms, compiled by the Western Jin historian Chen Shou in the third century AD. The work synthesises the histories of the rival states of Cao Wei, Shu Han and Eastern ...
The Commonwealth was not sympathetic to the company, seeing it as a relic of the Stuart era. The First Anglo-Dutch War severely damaged the fortunes of the company as it had a weaker military presence in the Indian Ocean compared to its rival, the Dutch East India Company. In 1654, the Company lost its monopoly charter.
The Battle of Wuzhang Plains was fought between the contending states of Cao Wei and Shu Han in 234 AD during the Three Kingdoms period of China. The battle was the fifth and last of a series of Northern Expeditions [3] led by Shu's chancellor, Zhuge Liang, to attack Wei. Zhuge Liang fell ill and died during the stalemate and subsequently the ...
The Book of Han and Records of the Three Kingdoms join the original Han-era universal history Records of the Grand Historian to constitute the first three entries in the Twenty-Four Histories canon, with each work cementing the new genre's literary and historiographical qualities as established by Sima Qian.
The following non-military events were connected to the wars of the Three Kingdoms. Short Parliament - Sat for three weeks in 1640, before being dissolved by Charles. Treaty of Ripon - 1640 agreement ceding Northumberland and County Durham to Scottish Covenanter forces, forcing King Charles I to recall Parliament.
The term Wars of the Three Kingdoms first appears in A Brief Chronicle of all the Chief Actions so fatally Falling out in the three Kingdoms by James Heath, published in 1662, [7] but historian Ian Gentles argues "there is no stable, agreed title for the events....which have been variously labelled the Great Rebellion, the Puritan Revolution, the English Civil War, the English Revolution and ...
TheBestEditorInEngland (talk · contribs): Mostly the military engagements of the English Civil war but I may also dabble in anything related to the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. This user is a member of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms task force of WikiProject Military history .