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To: Prysson
I like your summary. Here's a little research that you inspired:

Most of the history of warfare for the last 1400 years is the history of Islam and their war against the rest of the world.

I have attempted to locate information on conflicts between Islam and other cultures.  I have ignored internal issues within each culture, such as "sultan X dies and is replaced by sultan Y."

  Islam against the world West against Islam Other
610 AD Birth of Islam    
629 Slaughter of Jews in Medina    
630 Conquest of Makkah (Mecca)    
632 Death of Muhammed    
633 Conquest of Arab Peninsula    
637 Conquest of Jeruselam    
642 Conquest of Egypt    
647 Conquest of North Africa    
711 Conquest of Spain    
716 Invasion of Constantinople    
725 Muslims occupy Nimes, France    
732 Battle of Tours    
792 Invasion of South France    
1095   First Crusade  
1099   Crusaders recapture Jerusalem  
1174 Salah ud Din annexes Syria    
1187 Salah ud Din wrests Jerusalem from the Christians Third crusade.  
1194 Occupation of Delhi by the Muslims.    
1199 Conquest of Northern India and Bengal by the Ghurids.    
1245 The Muslims reconquer Jerusalem.    
1258     Mongols sack Baghdad - Mongol II-Khans establish their rule in Iran and Iraq
1266   The eighth crusade. The crusaders invade Tunisia. Failure of the crusade. Death of Berek Khan the first ruler of the Golden Horde to be converted to Islam.
1267 First Muslim state in Indonesia.    
1299     Mongols invade Syria.
1365 In the Ottoman Turks empire, The Turks defeat the Christians at the battle of Matiza, the Byzantine ruler becomes a vassal of the Turks.    
1371 In the Ottoman Turks empire, Invasion of Bulgaria, Bulgarian territory upto the Balkans annexed by the Turks.    
1456 In the Ottoman Turks empire, Annexation of Serbia.    
1461 In the Ottoman Turks empire, Annexation of Bosnia and Herzogovina.    
1462 In the Ottoman Turks empire, Annexation of Albania.    
1473 In the Ottoman Turks empire, War against Persia; Persians defeated.    
1475 In the Ottoman Turks empire, Annexation of Crimea. War against Venice. Tukey became the master of the Aegean Sea.    
1499 In the Ottoman Turks empire, The Turks defeated the Venetian fleet in the battle of Lepanto.    
1507   The Portuguese under d'Albuquerque establish strongholds in the Persian Gulf.  
1511   D'Albuquerque conquers Malacca from the Muslims.  
1517 The Ottoman Sultan Selim Yavuz ("the Grim") defeats the Mamluks and conquers Egypt.    
1526 The Battle of Panipat in India, and the Moghul conquest; Babur makes his capital at Delhi and Agra.    
1528 The Ottomans take Buda in Hungary.    
1529 Unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna.    
1571   The Ottomans are defeated at the naval Battle of Lepanto, and their dominance in the Mediterranean is brought to a close.  
1603 Persia occupies Tabriz, Mesopotamia. Mosul and Diyarbekr    
1683 The Turks lift the siege of Vienna and retreat. Kara Mustafa the Grand Wazir executed for the failure of the expedition.    
1711 War between Turkey and Russia. Russia defeated at the battle of Pruth.    
1718   In the war against Austria, Turkey suffers defeat. By the treaty of Passarowich Turkey loses Hungary.  
1811   British occupied Indonesia.  
1814   Iran executed treaty of alliance with the British known as Definitive Treaty.  
1830   French forces landed near Algiers and occupied Algeria ending 313 years rule of Turks.  
1840   Quadruple Alliance by the European powers to force Egypt to relinquish Syria.  
1857   British captured Delhi and eliminated Mughal rule in India after 332 years. Last Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar was exiled to Rangoon in Burma. This was also the end of 1000 years of Muslim rule over India.  
1879   Treaty of Berlin. Turkey lost 4/5 th of its territory in Europe.  
1881   France invaded Tunisia and the Bey acknowledged supremacy of France as a result of the treaty of Bardo.  
1882   Egypt came under British military occupation.  
1901   French forces occupy Morocco.  
1914     World War I.
1916     Arab revolt against Ottoman (Turkish) rule. Lawrence of Arabia leads attacks on the Hijaz Railway.
1918     Armistice signed with Ottomans on October 30
1918     World War I ends on November 11
1918     Syria and Damascus become a French protectorate
1928 Hasan al-Banna founds the Muslim Brotherhood    
1932     Iraq granted independence by League of Nations
1936     Increased Jewish immigration provokes widespread Arab-Jewish fighting in Palestine
1939     World War II
1941   British and Russian forces invade Iran and Reza Shah is forced to abdicate in favor of his son Mohammad Reza Shah in Iran  
1943     Beginning of Zionist terrorist campaign in Palestine
1945     End of World War II
1946     Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria are granted independence from Britain and France
1947 Creation of Pakistan from Muslim Majority area in India    
1948     Creation of state of Israel. Arab armies suffer defeat in war with Israel

This is mostly from a brief chronology of Muslim history http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/history/chronology/

126 posted on 03/26/2004 5:16:53 PM PST by Phsstpok (often wrong, but never in doubt)
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To: Phsstpok
Nice summary..kind of confused me at first..I was wondering what post you were replying too. I first posted this more than a year ago.

127 posted on 03/27/2004 1:25:04 PM PST by Prysson
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