International Organizations, Defence, Books & Authors, World History

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The Heavy Vehicles Factory (HVF) is located at Avadi in Chennai in Tamil Nadu. HVF was set up in 1961 by the Ordinance Factory Board, Government of India. It was set up to manufacture heavy battlefield equipment, including Vijayantas, Kartik BLT, M-46 Catapult and T-72 Ajeya tanks.

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The National Security Guard (NSG) is a special force utilized for counterterrorism activities and was created under the National Security Guard Act in 1986. The task of providing VVIP security for high-risk VVIPs in India is done by the Special Rangers Group (SRG) of the NSG. A special protection group is a special group for the protection of VVIP.

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1791 – 1804 was the period of the event “Haitian Revolution”. The Haitian Revolution was a successful insurrection by self-liberated slaves against French colonial rule in Saint-Domingue, now the sovereign state of Haiti. The revolt began on 22 August 1791 and ended in 1804 with the former colony’s independence.

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Haitian Rebels and France were the belligerents of the “Battle of Vertieres, 1803”. The Battle of Vertieres was the last major battle of the Haitian Revolution, and the final part of the Haitian Revolution under Jean Jacques Dessalines. It was fought on 18 November 1803 between Haitian indigenous army, and Napoleon’s French expeditionary forces, who were openly committed to re-enslave the former enslaved people and regain control of the island.

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Indonesia invaded East Timor through “Operation Lotus”. The Indonesian invasion of East Timor, also known as Operation Lotus, began on 7 December 1975 when the Indonesian military invaded East Timor under the pretext of anti-communism to overthrow the Fretilin regime that had emerged in 1974. The overthrow of the popular and briefly Fretilin-led government sparked a violent quarter-century occupation.

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The Fakeer of Jungheera is a long poem written by Henry Louis Vivian Derozio, first published in 1829. It is notable for being the first long poem written by any Indian in the English language and tells the tragic story of a young woman, who has been brought to her late husband’s funeral pyre to commit sati.

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German dictator Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) advocated Nazism in Germany. led the extreme nationalist and racist Nazi party and served as chancellor-president of Germany from 1933 to 1945. Nazism advocated militant nationalism, war and aggressive imperialism and precipitated the outbreak of the Second World War. Nazism under Hitler led to the extermination of approximately 6 million Jews.

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In 1773, a new Tea Act was passed imposing a tax on import of tea. It was a symbol to show that the British Parliament had the right to tax the colonies. But Americans showed their protest. A group of Americans dressed as Red Indians, climbed on the ships and threw away the tea bundles into the sea at the Boston harbour. This event took place on 16th December 1773 and it was known as the Boston Tea Party. The offenders were punished. In 1774, the British Parliament passed the Intolerable Acts against the Americans in order to prevent such protests.

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The war started in 1775, when the first battle was fought between the British soldiers and the colonial militia at Lexington in Massachusetts. Soon, George Washington assume the command of the army of the American colonies.

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Diderot and D’ Alembert published the Encyclopedia. It contained several essays and articles written by revolutionary thinkers.