India annexed by force
of arms two of these and Kashmir's Hindu prince joined India as well.
As a result, a war broke between the two countries in 1948.
http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/gthursby/pak/history.htm
http://www.pak.gov.pk/public/govt/history.html
Parachute
The word "parachute" means, in French, "fall-preventing".
"Paratroopers" means parachute troopers. The Chinese used parachutes
for entertainment purposes or attached them in the 11th and 12th
centuries to prisoners and forced them off steep cliffs. Drawings of
clumsy, square, parachutes can be found in Leonardo da Vinci's
notebooks from 1483. The Thai king's tumblers vaulted from trees armed
with umbrellas as late as 1687.
A Venetian, Fausto Veranzino, leaped, using a parachute from a tower.
Louis-S?bastien Lenormand jumped from a tree with two parasols in
1783.
Another French Jean Pierre Blanchard parachuted a dog from a balloon
in 1785. A more intrepid inventor, Andr?-Jacque Garnerin, sprang, on
October 22, 1797, from a hot air balloon over Parc Monceau in Paris,
dangling from a cloth canopy. In 1802, in England, he jumped from 2.
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