Four times (I'm sure there are many more) in History When People of Color decisively defeated white or white-led powers or nations on the battlefield:
1) Ethiopia over Italy, Battle of Adwa, March 1st, 1896, the culmination of the First Italo-Ethiopian War
2) The Haitian Revolution overthrowing the French colonial power that had ruled the slavery plantation enterprise, 1791-1804
3) The Battle of Pollilur (the one I just learned about and that prompted this post) Sept. 10, 1780, when the forces of the South Asian (current-day southern India) Kingdom of Mysore defeated the forces of the colonizing British East India Company.
4) Little Bighorn, June 25-26, 1876. 'Nuff said.
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