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* 1897 – Franco-Hova Wars: The town of Anosimena is captured by French troops from Menabe defenders in Madagascar.
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* 1897 – Anglo-Afghan War: The Siege of Malakand ends when a relief column is able to reach the British garrison in the Malakand states adjacent to India's North West Frontier Province.
During the Invasion of the Kuril Islands, Akira Nakamura ( b. 1897 ) was captured by the Soviet army and his elder son Takeshi Nakamura ( 1925 – 1945 ) was killed in the battle.
1897 and Wars
He was commander-in-chief of the Hellenic Army during the unsuccessful Greco-Turkish War of 1897 and led the Greek forces during the successful Balkan Wars of 1912 – 1913, in which Greece won Thessaloniki and doubled in area and population.
Like the Model 1897 it came in take-down form, and likewise was issued in trench gun and combat versions during both World Wars, Korea and Vietnam.
In 1809, Eisenstadt was occupied by French troops during the Napoleonic Wars ; in 1897, it was joined to the railway network.
Wars, diseases and large city fires in 1746 and 1865 and the flood disasters of 1552, 1897 and 1927 and 1957 brought again large setbacks to the city.
Lieutenant Colonel Alfred Daniel Wintle MC, better known as A. D. Wintle, ( 30 September 1897 – 11 May 1966 ) was a British military officer in the 1st The Royal Dragoons who served in the First and Second World Wars.
He became an officer in the Hellenic Army, fighting in the Greco-Turkish War of 1897, the Balkan Wars, World War I ( as Lt Colonel ) and later in the Asia Minor Campaign, reaching the rank of Lt General.
He fought in the Greco-Turkish War of 1897 and the Balkan Wars, where he held the rank of Colonel and commanded the 6th Infantry Division.
During the Greco-Turkish War of 1897 three men were killed in the battlefield, while in the Balkan Wars, thrirteen men from Agia Efthymia lost their lives in the lines, two of which had come from the United States where they had previously migrated.
1897 and town
His financial situation improved considerably and in 1897, Munch bought himself a summer house, a small fisherman's cabin built in the late 18th century, in the small town of Åsgårdstrand in Norway.
The first of these was made in France in 1897, and it was followed in the same year by a film of the Passion play staged yearly in the Czech town of Horitz.
Chamberlain was dismayed to learn in 1897 that the French had expanded from Dahomey to Bussa, a town claimed by Goldie.
The town was originally called Needmore, but when it was incorporated in about 1897, the name was changed to Winfield in honor of General Winfield Scott.
Shortly after the 1897 beet campaign, a new town emerged, now commemorated on the National Register of Historic Places as the Henry T. Oxnard Historic District.
A post office was opened in La Crosse in 1881, and La Crosse was incorporated as a town on 17 December 1897.
Original 1897 water tankAs of the census of 2000, there were 1, 323 people, 532 households, and 353 families residing in the town.
As early as the 1830s people settled in the area now known as Hornbeck, but a town didn ’ t begin to form until 1897, when an agent for the Arkansas Town Site Company named F. A.
Westwood was first settled in 1640 and was part of the town of Dedham ( it was originally called ' West Dedham ') until it was officially incorporated in 1897.
* Willa Cather's 1897 short story A Resurrection is set in Brownville, and it includes a description of the town.
According to Nevada Senator Harry Reid, who has written extensively about his hometown, the most likely story as to how the town received its name was that when George Frederick Colton was looking for gold in the area in 1897, he supposedly said that it would take a searchlight to find gold ore there.
In 1897 and 1898, a total of bills from hotels and saloons in town showed that 3000 kegs of beer were consumed in a village with a population of 500.
The town owes its name to the 1897 formation of the Mountain Retreat Association ; the name was shortened to " Montreat " when property was purchased in June of that year.
When a Post Office was established here in 1897, the name of the town was changed to Aristes, a contraction of the name Aristides, a Greek statesman.
The town was the original home of the Tidioute Cutlery Company, a knife manufacturer founded in Tidioute in 1897.
By 1868 the community had built a stone church, and in 1897 the town boasted 200 families mainly from Poland and Germany and their black tenants.
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