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1845
British troops based in NSW were sent to New Zealand to suppress an uprising by Māori’s, unhappy about the expanding European settlement on the North Island.
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1917
Australian and New Zealand troops of the 1st (ANZAC) Wireless Signal Squadron, attached to Lieutenant General Stanley Maude’s force in Mesopotamia, provide communications through mobile transmitting stations and capture the city of Baghdad.
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1989
The first contingent of Australian Army soldiers arrives in Namibia as part of the United Nations Transition Assistance Group, or UNTAG.
