Border Disputes

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  Conflict over Kashmir 1949–1971

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  Conflict over Kashmir 1949–1971

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  The 1947 partition of the Indian subcontinent was along religious lines, creating tensions within Kashmir, which had a Hindu ruler, but a majority Muslim population. After Kashmir ceded to India, Pakistan sent in soldiers. After a temporary ceasefire in 1949, nearly two-thirds of Kashmir was retained by India and the... More
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  Disputed Territorial Claims in North America 1818–46

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  Disputed Territorial Claims in North America 1818–46

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  Since the region opened to European exploration in the 18th century, the northwest corner of North America had been the subject of rival territorial claims by Russia, Spain, Great Britain and the United States. Disputes arose over fishing and navigation rights and over the exploitation of the increasingly important fur... More
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  The Korean War: The Road to the Armistice 27 July 1953

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  The Korean War: The Road to the Armistice 27 July 1953

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  The second Communist invasion reached its high point on 24 January 1951. From 25 January, however, the UN forces launched a limited counteroffensive, which crept slowly northward reaching the southern outskirts of Seoul by 10 February. Operation Ripper, which began on 7 March, was designed to inflict casualties on the... More
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  The Oregon Country and Columbia District Border dispute 1818-46

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  The Oregon Country and Columbia District Border dispute 1818-46

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  In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, several imperial  powers including Spain, Russia, the United States and Great Britain, claimed North America’s Northwest coast. After 1824, only the United States, Russia and Britain maintained territorial claims in the region. Both Britain and the US claimed everything west of the... More
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  The United States 1850

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  The United States 1850

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  In a busy decade, the northern borders with British territory were resolved by the Webster-Ashburton and Oregon Treaties (1842, 1846), and the Union was expanded by the admission of Florida, and the (consensual) annexation of Texas in 1845. A jingoistic war with Mexico followed over disputed borders. Decisive American victory... More
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  The United States 1860

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  The United States 1860

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  Even as the Union began to realize its ‘manifest destiny’ of dominion ‘from sea to shining sea’, internal contradictions began to threaten disintegration. The Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) abolished the slavery ‘line of demarcation’ proposed by the Missouri Compromise (1830), making the position on slavery in new states a decision for... More
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  The United States 1920

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  The United States 1920

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  The Mexican Revolution (1910–20) produced protracted upheaval along the American border. Streams of refugees fled the fighting, and rebels used the American Southwest desert as their bolthole. The instability helped to prompt admission of Arizona and New Mexico to the Union (1912). Their incorporation did not prevent a series of... More