The Battle of Basra lasted from 21 March to 6 April 2003 and was one of the first battles of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The British 7 Armoured Brigade fought their way into Iraq's second-largest city, Basra, on 6 April coming under constant attack by the Iraqi Army 51st Division and Fedayeen, [3] while elements of the Parachute Regiment cleared Wojtek (1942 – 2 December 1963; Polish pronunciation: [ˈvɔjtɛk]; in English, sometimes phonetically spelled Voytek and pronounced as such) was an Iranian-born Syrian brown bear [1] [2] ( Ursus arctos syriacus) bought, as a young cub, in the mountains of Iran, by Polish II Corps soldiers who had been evacuated from the Soviet Union. On August 25, 1941 Soviet and British troops launched a joint invasion of the country, dubbed Operation Countenance. Public domain The Soviet Union found a legal reason for the invasion, and didn Dec 7, 2023 · Putin would attack a Nato ally, he predicted, and then “we’ll have something that we don’t seek and that we don’t have today: American troops fighting Russian troops,” Biden said. “We Jul 31, 2013 · The reason why Britain didn’t declare war on the Soviet Union is an intriguing one. Unknown to the general public there was a ‘secret protocol’ to the 1939 Anglo-Polish treaty that specifically limited the British obligation to protect Poland to ‘aggression’ from Germany. When people questioned why Britain did nothing when the Red Dec 8, 2023 · An important component of NATO’s deterrence and defence posture is its military presence in the eastern part of Alliance territory. In recent years, Allies have enhanced NATO’s forward presence by establishing multinational battlegroups in Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Slovakia. They have also sent more ships, planes and troops to NATO’s eastern flank First Northern War (1656–1660) The First Northern War (also Second or Little Northern War) was a conflict that took place from 1655 to 1661 between Poland, Sweden and Russia for supremacy in the Baltic states. Brandenburg fought initially on the side of Sweden against Poland, but changed sides, after Poland granted its prince-elector The British Army was called on to fight around the world, starting with campaigns in Europe in 1940. After the Dunkirk evacuation of Allied Forces from France (May–June 1940), the army fought in the Mediterranean and Middle East theatres , and in the Burma Campaign . Oct 15, 2021 · Poland has sent thousands of troops to the border region, erected a razor-wire fence and declared a state of emergency barring non-residents including journalists, aid workers and foreign Dec 2, 2009 · Fighting Breaks Out in Lexington and Concord. At dawn on April 19, some 700 British troops arrived in Lexington and came upon 77 militiamen gathered on the town green. hAGNS.