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Cambodian Civil War
Cambodian Civil War (1970–1975): conflict between Lon Nol's US-backed Khmer Republic and the Khmer Rouge allied with Sihanouk and North Vietnam; ended with the fall of Phnom Penh on 17 April 1975.
Cambodian genocide
The Cambodian genocide, also called the Khmer Rouge genocide, was the killing of about 1.7 million Cambodians by the Khmer Rouge from 1975 to 1979.
Cambodian–Thai border dispute
Cambodian–Thai border dispute: long-running Thailand–Cambodia conflict over the 800-plus-kilometer land border, Preah Vihear temple (ICJ 1962), and Gulf of Thailand maritime claims; 2025 fighting, December 2025 ceasefire, and 2026 UNCLOS conciliation.
Cambodian–Vietnamese War
The Cambodian–Vietnamese War (1975–1989): escalating Khmer Rouge border attacks on Vietnam, Vietnam's December 1978 invasion that toppled Pol Pot's regime on 7 January 1979, the decade-long occupation, PRK, CGDK, and Sino-Soviet proxy dynamics.
Cambyses II
Cambyses II (Old Persian Kambujiya), son of Cyrus the Great, Achaemenid king 530–522 BCE; conquered Egypt at Pelusium in 525 BCE, ruled as pharaoh, and died in 522 during Bardiya's revolt.
Camilo Cienfuegos
Camilo Cienfuegos Gorriarán (1932–1959), Cuban Rebel Army comandante, Granma survivor, Hero of Yaguajay, and army chief of staff, who disappeared on a flight from Camagüey to Havana in October 1959.
Camp Chapman attack
Camp Chapman attack: December 30, 2009 suicide bombing at FOB Chapman, Khost, Afghanistan, by Jordanian triple agent Humam Khalil al-Balawi, killing seven CIA personnel and one Jordanian officer, the CIA's second-deadliest day.
Camp Grant massacre
The Camp Grant massacre was a dawn attack on April 30, 1871, near Camp Grant, Arizona Territory, killing 85 to 144 Apache, almost all women and children.
Camp Speicher massacre
Camp Speicher massacre: ISIS mass killing of about 1,700 Iraqi cadets and soldiers captured fleeing the Tikrit Air Academy on 12 June 2014; UNITAD found genocidal intent, and Iraqi mass trials drew due-process criticism.
Cần Vương movement
The Cần Vương movement (Phong trào Cần Vương, "Aid the King") was a nationwide armed resistance to French rule in Vietnam from 1885 to 1896, launched by emperor Hàm Nghi's edict.
Canada and the 2026 Iran war
Canada and the 2026 Iran war: after US-Israeli strikes on Iran began February 28, 2026, killing Ayatollah Khamenei, Canada declined military participation, ran consular departures for thousands of Canadians, sanctioned Iranian officials, and backed the June ceasefire diplomacy.
Canadian Expeditionary Force
Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF), Canada's overseas force of the First World War, authorized 6 August 1914; over 620,000 served, its Canadian Corps fought at Vimy Ridge and Passchendaele, disbanded 1919.
Canek rebellion
The Canek rebellion was a Maya uprising at Cisteil, Yucatán, in November 1761, led by Jacinto Canek, who was crowned king, abolished tribute, and was executed that December.
Cantemir's revolt
Cantemir's revolt was the 1711 defection of Moldavia's ruler, Dimitrie Cantemir, from Ottoman rule to an anti-Ottoman alliance with Tsar Peter I of Russia, sealed during the Pruth campaign.
Canton Operation
The Canton Operation was an Imperial Japanese Army and Navy offensive in October 1938 that captured Guangzhou (Canton), severing a key overseas supply route to Chiang Kai-shek.
Caprivi conflict
The Caprivi conflict was an armed secessionist struggle in northeastern Namibia, climaxed by the Caprivi Liberation Army's attack on Katima Mulilo on 2 August 1999.
Capture and execution of José María Morelos
The capture and execution of José María Morelos were the November and December 1815 events in which royalist forces seized the leading commander of the Mexican War of Independence and shot him.
Capture of Ambon (1605)
The capture of Ambon in February 1605 was the seizure of the Portuguese fort on Ambon by VOC Admiral Steven van der Haghen, allied with Hitu, giving the VOC its first territorial possession.
Capture of Colonia del Sacramento (1777)
The Capture of Colonia del Sacramento (Colônia do Sacramento) was the surrender of the Portuguese city to Spanish forces under Pedro de Cevallos on 3 June 1777.
Capture of Erivan
The Capture of Erivan, Russian Взятие Эривани, was the storming of the Erivan fortress (modern Yerevan) by Russian troops under General Paskevich on 1 October 1827.
Capture of Fort Ticonderoga
Capture of Fort Ticonderoga, May 10, 1775: Ethan Allen's Green Mountain Boys with Benedict Arnold seized the British fort on Lake Champlain bloodlessly, also taking Crown Point; its cannon went to Boston via Knox. Distinguished from the 1777 British recapture.
Capture of Guadeloupe (1759)
The Capture of Guadeloupe in 1759 was a British amphibious conquest of France's richest Caribbean island during the Seven Years' War, completed by May 1759.
Capture of Gungunhana
The Capture of Gungunhana was the seizure of Ngungunyane, the last emperor of the Gaza Empire in southern Mozambique, by a Portuguese column under Mouzinho de Albuquerque at Chaimite in 1895.
Capture of Martinique (1762)
The Capture of Martinique in 1762 was a British amphibious operation of the Seven Years' War in which forces under Monckton took the rich French sugar island.
Capture of Oaxaca
The Capture of Oaxaca was the taking of the city of Antequera, today Oaxaca de Juárez, by José María Morelos's insurgent army on 25 November 1812, during the Mexican War of Independence.
Capture of Pyongyang
The capture of Pyongyang was the seizure of North Korea's capital by UN and South Korean forces on 19 October 1950, five weeks after the Inchon landing.
Capture of Saddam Hussein
The capture of Saddam Hussein was his bloodless seizure by US forces at a farm near Tikrit, Iraq, on December 13, 2003, in Operation Red Dawn.
Capture of Shamil
The capture of Shamil (Şeyh Şâmil) was the surrender of the leader of the Caucasian Imamate to the Russian army at Gunib, Dagestan, in 1859.
Capture of Sint Eustatius
The Capture of Sint Eustatius was the seizure of the Dutch Caribbean island by British forces under General John Vaughan and Admiral George Rodney on 3 February 1781.
Capture of Southern Naval Base
Capture of Southern Naval Base: Russia's March 2014 seizure of Ukraine's Southern Naval Base on Lake Donuzlav, Crimea, sealed by scuttling the Ochakov and three support vessels across the channel, trapping the Ukrainian ships stationed there.