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Capture of Tarentum (212 BC)
The capture of Tarentum was Hannibal's seizure of the southern Italian city by treachery in 212 BC during the Second Punic War, though the Roman garrison held the citadel.
Capture of Tehran (1909)
The Capture of Tehran (فتح تهران) was the taking of the Qajar capital by constitutionalist forces in July 1909, ending with Mohammad Ali Shah deposed and the constitution restored.
Capture of Thang Long (1592)
The Capture of Thang Long (Trận Thăng Long 1592) was the storming of the Mac capital by Trinh Tung's restored Le army in early 1592.
Capture of the Bahamas (1782)
The Capture of the Bahamas was a joint Spanish and American expedition that seized Nassau in May 1782, near the end of the American Revolutionary War.
Capture of the Dutch fleet at Den Helder
Capture of the Dutch fleet at Den Helder, January 1795: a Dutch war fleet frozen in the Nieuwediep surrendered to French forces; the famous cavalry-charge story is a Jomini-derived embellishment refuted by de Jonge and de Bas.
Capture of the Grand Mughal Fleet
Capture of the Grand Mughal Fleet: Henry Every's 7 September 1695 pirate ambush that took the pilgrim treasure ships Ganj-i-Sawai and Fateh Muhammed near the Red Sea strait, seizing up to £600,000 and triggering a diplomatic crisis with the East India Company.
Capture of Tunis (1534)
The capture of Tunis (1534) was the seizure of the Hafsid capital by the Ottoman admiral Hayreddin Barbarossa in 1534, ending when Charles V retook the city in 1535.
Capture of Tzympe
The Capture of Tzympe (Chimbi Kalesi'nin Fethi) was the Ottoman acquisition of the Byzantine fortress of Tzympe in 1352 or 1353, giving the Ottomans their first foothold in Europe.
Capture of Udayagiri
The Capture of Udayagiri was the taking of the Udayagiri hill-fort by the Vijayanagara emperor Krishnadevaraya from the Gajapati king Prataparudra Deva after a year-and-a-half siege ending in 1514.
Capture of Valerian
The Capture of Valerian (اسیر شدن والرین) was the taking prisoner of Roman emperor Valerian by the Sasanian king Shapur I at Edessa in 260.
Capture of Vijaydurg
The Capture of Vijaydurg (विजयदुर्ग), known to the British as Gheriah, was a February 1756 assault in which British forces stormed Tulaji Angre's west-coast sea fortress and burnt his fleet.
Capture of Vrnograč
The Capture of Vrnograč, also called Operation Vrnograč '95, was a 1995 offensive in which Serbian and Autonomous Province of Western Bosnia forces took Vrnograč, Bosnia.
Capture of Zaragoza (1118)
The capture of Zaragoza (سقوط سرقسطة) was the surrender of the Muslim city of Saraqusta to Alfonso I of Aragon on 18 December 1118, after a seven-month siege.
Capuan bust of Hannibal
The Capuan bust of Hannibal is an ancient marble bust found at Capua, Italy, reputedly a portrait of the Carthaginian general Hannibal Barca, now in Naples.
Capuchin Crypt
The Capuchin Crypt is an underground ossuary beneath the church of Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini in Rome, decorated with the bones of about 4,000 people.
Capuchin mission in Kongo and Angola
The Capuchin mission in Kongo and Angola (Missione dei Cappuccini) was an Italian Capuchin Catholic mission, requested by Kongo's kings and active from 1645 until its suppression in 1834.
Capussa
Capussa, also spelled Capusa, was a king of the Massylii in ancient Numidia who succeeded his father Oezalces and was killed within months by Mazaetullus.
Car Allowance Rebate System
The Car Allowance Rebate System, known as Cash for Clunkers, was a 2009 US program paying $3,500 or $4,500 to trade in older cars for fuel-efficient ones.
Car and Driver
Car and Driver is an American automotive enthusiast magazine founded in 1955 as Sports Cars Illustrated and renamed in April 1961, now Hearst-owned, bimonthly, testing roughly 400 vehicles a year with a 1-to-10 rating scale.
CAR Inc. (神州租车)
CAR Inc. (神州租车), known in Chinese as Shenzhou Zuche, is a Chinese car rental company founded in Beijing in 2007, which built China's largest rental fleet.
Car rental
Car rental, also known as car hire, rents automobiles for periods from hours to weeks. In 2023 the global industry generated roughly $87 billion in sales.
Car Talk
Car Talk, NPR's weekly car-advice comedy show with brothers Tom and Ray Magliozzi, "Click and Clack the Tappet Brothers," began on WBUR in 1977, ran nationally from 1987 to 2012, and continues as podcast reruns plus CarTalk+ bonus episodes.
Car-free movement
Car-free movement: advocacy and policy to reduce or exclude private cars from urban streets. Includes World Carfree Day (22 September), Oslo's Livability Programme, Paris's traffic reduction, and measured air, traffic and retail effects.
Carabao Group
Carabao Group is a Bangkok-based, Stock Exchange of Thailand–listed holding company best known for Carabao Dang, which overtook Red Bull as Thailand's second-largest energy drink brand.
Carabineros de Chile
Carabineros de Chile is Chile's national police, created 27 April 1927 by DFL 2.484 fusing police services, governed by Ley 18.961, of military character, under the Ministry of Public Security since 2025.
Carabinier
Carabinier: soldier armed with a carbine; first carbine-armed picked cavalry companies (Turnhout 1597, Henry IV's France), then the French Royal Carabiniers (1693), British Carabiniers (6th Dragoon Guards), Napoleonic heavy cavalry regiments, and Italy's Carabinieri gendarmerie.
Carabinieri
Carabinieri: Italy's national gendarmerie (Arma dei Carabinieri), founded 13 July 1814 by Vittorio Emanuele I; since 2000 a fourth armed force under the Defense Ministry while policing civilians for the Interior Ministry, with 4,500 stations and specialized heritage, environmental, labor, and health units.
Caracalla
Caracalla, born Lucius Septimius Bassianus, was a Roman emperor of the Severan dynasty who ruled from 211 to 217, after 212 alone; he is known for the Constitutio Antoniniana and the Baths of Caracalla.
Caracazo
The Caracazo was a wave of protest starting in Guarenas, Venezuela, in February 1989. Triggered by austerity measures, it sparked the crisis ending Venezuela's two-party system.
Caracol's victory over Tikal
Caracol's victory over Tikal was a Maya "star war" of A.D. 562 in which Caracol, in present-day Belize, defeated Tikal, then the dominant power of the central Peten.