Annexation: Facts

HMS Vidal, the ship sent to annexe Rockall, was named after Alexander Vidal, the first man to properly survey the islet?
Arthur Fonjallaz was expelled from the Heimatwehr, a fascist organization in Switzerland, because he advocated an annexation by Italy?
Chey Chettha II's cooperation with the Nguyễn Lords of Vietnam led to the Vietnamese annexation of the Mekong Delta, including the town Vietnamese settlers referred to as Sài Gòn?

Facts on topics related to Annexation

Colorado state representative Joe Rice (pictured) resigned from the Glendale city council in 2003 when called up to serve in the U.S. Army in Iraq, where he advised the Baghdad city council?
Iraqi poet Nazik Al-Malaika was the first person to write in free verse in Arabic?
Iraqi refugee Wafaa Bilal was shot by more than 60,000 paintballs in a month-long performance art piece in Chicago?
Iraqi lawyer Dheyaa al-Saadi was elected president of the Iraqi Bar Association in 2006, but his election was annulled because he was once a member of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party?
Major-General Tim Cross was one of the most senior British military officers involved in the reconstruction of Iraq after the 2003 invasion?
Palestinian nationalist poet Ibrahim Touqan wrote the poem Mawtini, which has been the national anthem of Iraq since 2003?
private military companies operating in Iraq use the Mamba armoured personnel carrier because it appears "less aggressive"?
United States Marine Sergeant Aubrey McDade (pictured) was awarded the Navy Cross for his actions in Iraq in 2004?
U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has expanded the Human Terrain Team program to match anthropologists with every brigade in Iraq and Afghanistan?
Azerbaijanis live in Iran, Georgia, Turkey, Iraq and the United States, as well as Azerbaijan?

"A-Ba-Ni-Bi", Israel's entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1978, was performed partly in the Hebrew equivalent of Pig Latin?
20th-century medieval scholar Erika Cheetham interpreted Nostradamus' writings as prophecies of Napoleon, Hitler, and the establishment of modern Israel?
39% of Israeli schoolchildren watch the educational television program Bli Sodot in their classroom?
archaeologist Francis Turville-Petre, discoverer of Neanderthal remains in Israel, was portrayed in works by authors W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood?
Ariel Sharon named his former party, Shlomtzion, after the newly born daughter of Amos Keinan, co-founder of the Israeli–Palestinian Council?
fallow deer bones found in the Qesem Cave, Israel, show evidence that humans 400,000 to 200,000 years ago butchered animals to share and cook?
Israel and China were cultivating military cooperation well before the establishment of diplomatic relations in 1992?
Israel has the highest solar energy use per capita in the world?
Israel is the world's largest recipient of United States overseas military assistance?
Israel's deadliest traffic accident took place in December 2008 when a tourists' coach en route to the resort town of Eilat plunged into a ravine?

Indian wicketkeeper Dinesh Karthik learnt to play cricket in Kuwait?
James Bond author Ian Fleming suggested that Dame Violet Dickson should write her autobiography while he was researching a book on Kuwait, and that her autobiographical book was eventually published but his never was?
incidents of violent crime against foreign citizens are rare in Kuwait?
in 1901, Emir of Kuwait Mubarak Al-Sabah asked the Russian Empire for protection, only two years after his country became a British protectorate?
in Kuwait, the freedom of the press is restricted mostly by self-censorship rather than active government action?
the Law Library of Congress created the Global legal information network in 1993 to provide free access to an online searchable full text database of international legal documents, judicial decisions, legislation, statutes and other laws, from many countries, including Brazil, Costa Rica, Kuwait, Peru, and Romania?

the 1910 American cargo ship SS El Oriente was chartered by the Red Cross and was one of fourteen ships that sailed under the Swiss flag during World War II?

Moroccan Elarbi Khattabi won five medals in team competitions at the World Cross Country Championships, including Morocco's first such medal, the silver in 1994?
Moroccan alligator wrestler and circus strongman Tahar Douis set a world record by lifting 12 men weighing a total of 1,700 pounds on his shoulders?
mellah is a walled Jewish quarter of a city in Morocco, an analogue of the European ghetto?
Mohammed bin Hadou was a Moroccan ambassador to the court of Charles II in England in 1681–82?
Lawrence of Arabia and Gladiator were both filmed in the ksar Aït Benhaddou in Morocco?
Alanqa is a newly described pterosaur from Morocco which had a wingspan of up to six metres?
US abolitionist Robert Purvis had two grandparents who were English, a grandmother kidnapped at twelve from Morocco and enslaved in Charleston, and a grandfather who was German Jewish?
an Anglo-Moroccan alliance, developed between Elizabeth I of England and the Moroccan Sultan Ahmad al-Mansur, had an influence on at least two of Shakespeare's plays?
despite being a widely-used garden plant on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, Salvia interrupta can only be found in nature in the Atlas Mountains in the African country of Morocco?
during the mid-20th century, wine from Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia accounted for nearly two-thirds of all internationally traded wine?

Richard Nolte was appointed as U.S. ambassador to the United Arab Republic for three weeks in 1967 but never served due to the outbreak of the Six-Day War?
Yitzhak Tabenkin, one of the founders of the socialist Kibbutz Movement, joined the Movement for Greater Israel after the Six-Day War?
after Egypt was defeated by Israel during the Six-Day War the Egyptian government issued copies of the Hope paintings to its troops?
during the Six-Day War, the Golani Brigade participated in the battle of Tel Faher, where it lost 23 of its soldiers?
the city of Quneitra in Syria was captured on the last day of the Six-Day War, was later destroyed and never rebuilt, and is today preserved as a memorial to the Arab-Israeli wars?