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FAMOUS WARS AND BATTLES

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Static GK is an integral part of the general awareness section. Questions related to various Wars and
Battles are common in the General Awareness section of various Government exams like UPSC, SSC
CGL, SSC CHSL and more.

Here’s a Sample Question:

UPSC History Question:

Ques. Arrange the following battles fought by Britishers in chronological order.

1. Anglo Gurkha War

2. First Anglo-Sikh War
3. Second Anglo-Maratha War
4. Fourth Anglo-Mysore War

Options:

A. 4-3-1-2
B. 2-1-3-4
C. 1-2-4-3
D. 3-4-1-2

Answer: Option A – 4-3-1-2

Solution:

• Fourth Anglo-Mysore War (1798–1799)

• Second Anglo-Maratha War (1803–1805)
• Anglo-Gorkha war (1814–1816)
• First Anglo-Sikh War (1845-1846)

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The list of names of all the important Wars and Battles of India and the World are given in a tabular
format in the following pages of this Free Static GK E-book.
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Famous Wars and Battles of India

Battle/War Year Fought Between
First Battle of Tarain 1191 Prithviraj Chauhan and
Mahmud Ghuri
Second Battle of Tarain 1192 Prithviraj Chauhan and
Mahmud Ghuri
Battle of Chandawar 1194 Ghurid Empire and Gahadavala
Dynasty
Portuguese conquest of 1510 Portuguese Empire and Bijapur
Goa Sultanate
Battle of Panipat 21 April 1526 Babur and Ibrahim Lodhi
Battle of Khanwa 17 March 1527 Babur and Rana Sanga
Battle of Chanderi 1528 Babur and Medini Rai
Battle of Ghaghra 1529 Babur and Afghans
Battle of Chausal 1539 Sher Shah and Mughal emperor
Humayun
Battle of Kanauj 1540 Sher Shah Suri and Mughal
emperor Humayun
Battle of Panipat 1556 Bairam Khan (For Akbar) and
Hem Chandra Vikramaditya
(Hemu)
Battle of Talikota 1565 Unified Army of the five Deccan
Sultanates and Vijayanagara
Army
Battle of Haldighati 1576 Akbar and Rana of Mewar
Pratap
Battle of Pratapgad 1659 Maratha Empire and Adilshahi
Dynasty
Battle of Kolhapur 1659 Maratha Empire and Adilshahi
Dynasty
Battle of Pavan Khind 1660 Maratha Empire and Adilshahi
Dynasty
Battle of Surat 1664 Maratha Empire and Mughal
Empire
Battle of Purandar 1665 Maratha Empire and Mughal
Empire
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Battle of Sinhagad 1670 Maratha Empire and Mughal

Empire
Battle of Colachel 1741 Kingdom of Travancore and
Dutch East India Company
Siege of Trichinopoly 1741 Maratha Empire and Mughal
Empire
Battle of Madras 1746 French East India Company and
British East India Company
Siege of Arcot 1751 British East India Company and
Nawab of Arcot, French East
India Company
Second Carnatic War 1752 Chanda Sahib, Muzaffar Jung,
French and Nawab of Ambur
Battle of Seringham 1753 British East India Company and
French East India
Company troops and Chanda
Sahib
Battle of Plassey 1757 Robert Clive and Siraj Ud-
Daulah
Third Battle of Panipat 1761 Ahmad Shah Abdali and
Marathas
Battle of Wandiwash 1761 British East India Company and
French East India Company
Battle of Buxar 1764 Hector Munro and Combined
armies of Nawab Mir
Qasim(Bengal), Nawab Shuja-
ud-daulah(Awadh)& Mughal
emperor Shah Alam
First Anglo-Mysore War 1766–1769 British and Mysore (Haider Ali)
First Anglo-Maratha 1775-1782 British and Marathas
War
Second Anglo-Mysore 1780–1784 British and Mysore (Haider Ali)
War
Third Anglo-Mysore 1789–1792 British and Mysore (Tipu Sultan)
War
Fourth Anglo-Mysore 1798–1799 British and Mysore (Tipu Sultan)
War
Second Anglo-Maratha 1803–1805 British and Marathas
War
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Anglo-Gorkha war 1814–1816 British and Gorkhas

Third Anglo-Maratha 1817–1818 British and Marathas
War
First Anglo-Sikh War 1845-1846 British and Sikhs
Second Anglo-Sikh War 1848-1849 British and Sikhs
Indian Rebellion Of 1857 British Troops and Indian
1857 / First War of Sepoys
Independence
War of Independence / 1947 India and Pakistan
Indo-Pakistani War
Sino-Indian War 1962 India and China
Indo-Pakistani War 1965 India and Pakistan
Kargil War 1999 India and Pakistan

Important Wars and Battles of the World

Year Battle / War

1815 Battle of Waterloo
1817 Liberation of Chile
1817 Mexican War of Independence
1817 British-Kandyan War
1821 Sardinian Revolt
1821 Greek Independence War
1823 First British-Burmese War
1824 Liberation of Peru
1831 First Syrian War
1832 First Mexican War
1834 Egypt-Palestinian Anti-Conscription Revolt
1836 First Bosnian War
1839 Second Syrian War Phase 1
1839 First Opium War
1840 Lebanon Insurgency
1840 First Colombian War
Famous Wars and Battles Fought in the World Free Static GK e-book

1840 Second Syrian War Phase 2

1841 Second Bosnian War
1843 British-Sind War
1844 Franco-Moroccan War
1852 Second British-Burmese War
1853 Crimean War
1856 Second Opium War
1856 Anglo-Persian War
1859 Netherlands-Bone War
1859 War of Italian Unification
1860 Neapolitan War
1865 British-Bhutanese War
1879 War of the Pacific
1880 Gun War
1882 Conquest of Egypt
1883 Haitian Civil War
1884 Sino-French War
1894 First Sino-Japanese War
1898 Spanish-American War
1900 Sino-Russian War
1904 Russo-Japanese War
1912 Balkans War
1914 World War I
1917 Russian Civil War
1918 Second Sino-Tibetan War
1920 Conquest of Mongolia
1920 Italian Fascist War
1936 British-Palestinian War
1937 Third Sino-Japanese War
1939 World War II
1946 French-Indochina War
1947 Taiwan Revolt
1947 Paraguay War
1947 Palestine War
1950 Korean War
1955 Vietnam War
1956 Suez Crisis, or the Second Arab–Israeli War
Famous Wars and Battles Fought in the World Free Static GK e-book

1957 French-Cameroon War

1958 First Lebanese War
1958 Cuban Revolution
1971 Pakistan-Bengal War
1990 Gulf War
1991 Croatian Independence War
2001 America Afghanistan War
2003 Second Gulf/Iraq War
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