Shop - Page 136 of 211 - The Map Archive

“The Anglo-Norman Invasion 1169-89” has been added to your basket. View basket

Showing 1621–1632 of 2523 results

The Anglo-Norman Invasion 1169-89
$3.95 ADD GO TO MAP
The Anglo-Norman Invasion 1169-89
$3.95
Rory O’ Connor, former High King of Ireland, died in his eighties in peaceful retirement at Cong Abbey (1198). Rory had inadvertently sparked the Norman invasion when he crushed Dermot MacMurragh of Leinster in battle. MacMurragh enlisted Norman support to regain his lands, making Richard Strongbow, Earl of Pembroke his... More
The Anti-Treaty Vote in the General Election 1923
$3.95 ADD GO TO MAP
The Anti-Treaty Vote in the General Election 1923
$3.95
Under the Anglo-Irish treaty, the Irish Free State was established as a semi-independent territory under the British Crown. It comprised 26 of Ireland’s 32 counties, with the remaining six counties (which were predominantly nationalist) part of the United Kingdom. Sinn Féin, the Irish Republicans, wanted full independence and repudiated the... More
The Antietam Campaign 17 September 1862
$3.95 ADD GO TO MAP
The Antietam Campaign 17 September 1862
$3.95
The Battle of Antietam on 17 September 1862 produced the single bloodiest day of the American Civil War with combined casualties of 23,000. On the ground it was indecisive, with the two armies fighting themselves to a standstill. Its repercussions would, however, prove pivotal – the Confederate Commander Robert E.... More
The Approach to Iuka 19 September–3 October 1862
$3.95 ADD GO TO MAP
The Approach to Iuka 19 September–3 October 1862
$3.95
In autumn 1862, General Buell’s Army of the Ohio pursued Braxton Bragg’s Confederate Army into Kentucky. Sterling Price’s Confederate Army of the West was mobilized to block Ulysses S. Grant’s Armies of the Mississippi and Tennessee from reinforcing Buell. Price fixed upon the small town of Iuka to make his... More
The Arab Advance to Israel’s Borders 14–30 May 1967
$3.95 ADD GO TO MAP
The Arab Advance to Israel’s Borders 14–30 May 1967
$3.95
Since the 1956 Suez Crisis, a United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF) had been stationed in Sinai to safeguard the Israeli-Egyptian border zone agreed at the end of the 1948–49 Arab-Israeli War. By spring 1967, tensions were escalating. In response to repeated guerrilla incursions, Israel had clashed with Jordan, killing 18... More
The Arab Invasion 15 May–1 June 1948
$3.95 ADD GO TO MAP
The Arab Invasion 15 May–1 June 1948
$3.95
In November 1947, a United Nations (UN) resolution agreed partition of British Palestine into separate, independent Jewish and Arab states. It was further specified that the area of paramount religious significance – the environs of Jerusalem – would be placed under UN control. Arab states, and the Palestinian Arabs, violently... More
The Arab Revolt April–August 1936
$3.95 ADD GO TO MAP
The Arab Revolt April–August 1936
$3.95
By 1936, disquiet amongst Palestine’s Arab population had reached breaking point. The influx of Jewish settlers was constant and had begun to seriously affect the Arabs’ ability to earn a living as land was bought up by Jewish settlement funds and Arabs were excluded from employment opportunities. On 15 April,... More
The Arab Revolt June 1916–June 1917
$3.95 ADD GO TO MAP
The Arab Revolt June 1916–June 1917
$3.95
As Turkish nationalist factions grew in strength following the Young Turk Revolution in 1908, other ethnic groups in the Ottoman Empire began to be sidelined. The Arabs, who constituted around 60 per cent of the Ottoman Empire’s population, were marginalized by new policies aimed at Turkification. The Arabs had traditionally... More
The Arab Spring 2011
$3.95 ADD GO TO MAP
The Arab Spring 2011
$3.95
Increasing discontent across the Arab world boiled over in early 2011, resulting in a series of uprisings and conflicts across the region against the existing structures of government. The Arab Spring started in Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia, after a street vendor named Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire on 17 December,... More
The Armenian Genocide 1915
$3.95 ADD GO TO MAP
The Armenian Genocide 1915
$3.95
On the eve of World War I, there were 2 million Armenians in the declining Ottoman Empire. By 1922, there were fewer than 400,000. In 1908 the Young Turk movement of discontented junior army officers seized power, determined to modernise and nationalise the Empire. In 1914 they entered World War... More
The Armies August 1914
$3.95 ADD GO TO MAP
The Armies August 1914
$3.95
At the outset of World War I, Germany had seven armies arrayed along the western front supported by five cavalry brigades. Facing them were five French armies, the Belgian Army and, soon, the British Expeditionary Force. The German and French armed forces were well matched numerically (840,000 versus 761,000), but... More
The Armistice 11 November 1918
$3.95 ADD GO TO MAP
The Armistice 11 November 1918
$3.95
The Armistice was designed to achieve an immediate cessation of hostilities between Germany and the Allied Powers; its provisions did not address the disposition of German colonies, Austria-Hungary or the Ottomans. In respect of the western front it stipulated that German troops should immediately withdraw from France, Belgium, Alsace-Lorraine and... More