In April 1941, he became commander of XII Corps responsible for the defence of Kent.

The Attlee government then became instrumental in the creation of the successful NATO defence alliance to protect Western Europe against any Soviet aggression.

In the defence sector, Ecuador became the first country to sign a contract for purchasing the Indian made Dhruv helicopters of which one will be for use by its President.

Finland became a full member of the European Union ( EU ) in January 1995, at the same time acquiring observer status in the EU's defence arm, the Western European Union.

Hong Kong became a Special Administrative Region ( SAR ) of the PRC with a high degree of autonomy in all matters except foreign affairs and defence, which are responsibilities of the PRC government.

The House of Lords asked the judges of the common law courts to answer five questions on insanity as a criminal defence, and the formulation that emerged from their review — that a defendant should not be held responsible for his actions only if, as a result of his mental disease or defect, he ( i ) did not know that his act would be wrong ; or ( ii ) did not understand the nature and quality of his actions — became the basis of the law governing legal responsibility in cases of insanity in England.

In 1788 Reynolds painted the portrait of Lord Heathfield, who became a national hero for his successful defence of Gibraltar during its Great Siege from 1779 to 1783 against the combined forces of France and Spain.

This was because governing power, and defence against Viking, Magyar and Saracen attack, became an essentially local affair which revolved around these new hereditary local lords and their demesnes.

In Norse mythology, Miðgarðr became applied to the wall around the world that the gods constructed from the eyebrows of the giant Ymir as a defence against the Jotuns who lived in Jotunheim, east of Mannheim, " the home of men ," a word used to refer to the entire world.

Murray now became more and more emotional in her defence of her ideas, claiming that anyone who opposed her did so out of religious prejudice.

Jenkins was principal sponsor, in 1959, of the bill which became the liberalising Obscene Publications Act, responsible for establishing the " liable to deprave and corrupt " criterion as a basis for a prosecution of suspect material and for specifying literary merit as a possible defence.

With the invention of gunpowder, cannon and ( in modern times ) mortars and howitzers, the traditional methods of defence became less effective against a determined siege.

* Nicomedia in northwestern Asia Minor ( modern Izmit in Turkey ), a base for defence against invasion from the Balkans and Persia's Sassanids was the capital of Diocletian, the eastern ( and most senior ) Augustus ; in the final reorganisation by Constantine the Great, in 318, the equivalent of his domain, facing the most redoubtable foreign enemy, Sassanid Persia, became the pretorian prefecture Oriens ' the East ', the core of later Byzantium.

Vickers remained independent until 1999 when the then Vickers plc was acquired by Rolls-Royce plc who sold the defence arm to Alvis plc, which became Alvis Vickers.

In 1985, Jaruzelski resigned as prime minister and defence minister and became chairman of the Polish Council of State, a post equivalent to that of president or a dictator, with his power centered on and firmly entrenched in his coterie of " LWP " generals and lower ranks officers of the Polish Communist Army.

The chief leg of the Bermudian economy became defence infrastructure.

Following the Crimean War, the trend was towards reducing military garrisons in colonies like Bermuda, partly for economic reasons, and partly as it became recognised that the Royal Navy's own ships could provide a better defence for the Dockyard, and Bermuda.

It was one of the points occupied and fortified by the former, when preparing for the defence of the Sicilian straits, but was taken by Agrippa after his naval victory at Mylae, and became one of his chief posts, from which he carried on offensive warfare against Pompey.

Defence consolidation became a major issue in 1998, with numerous reports linking various European defence groups — mainly with each other but also with American defence contractors.

However when it became clear that GEC was selling its defence electronics business Marconi Electronic Systems, Evans put the DASA merger on hold in favour of purchasing Marconi.

Between 1945 and GEC's demerger of its defence business in 1999, the company became one of the world's most important defence contractors.

The Germans fortified the island and, in the words of Robert Ensor and as Alexandra had predicted, it " became the keystone of Germany's maritime position for offence as well as for defence ".

A high standard of scholarship was maintained and the severity of the actus Sorbonnicus, or examination for degrees, including the defence of the " thesis Robertina ", became proverbial.

After the end of the war, he was sent as a military attaché to Moscow and Petrograd, and was in Russia at the same time as Takeo Hirose of the Imperial Japanese Navy, with whom he became close friends. Tanaka was fluent in the Russian language, which he learned while attending mass every Sunday at a Russian Orthodox church, which enabled him to practice his Russian at church social events, although it is uncertain if he ever actually converted to Christianity.

Mitchell administered the section until the new head, Lt. Col. George O. Squier, arrived from attaché duties in London, England, where World War I was in progress, then became his permanent assistant.

In 1875, he became the 14th Infantry Regiment's attaché.

After Georgia ’ s declaration of independence in 1918, he became an attaché on Georgia ’ s embassy in Berlin, responsible for repatriation of Georgian World War I prisoners and placing Georgian students in German universities.

In 1876 he was appointed attaché to the German embassy in Paris, attended the Berlin Congress as a secretary and became second secretary to the embassy in 1880.

Principally motivated by a feeling of power, he sold information to the Germans through their attaché Ludwig Carl Moyzisch ( and then through the ambassador Franz von Papen ), in Ankara, Turkey in what became known as the Cicero affair.

He became a favorite of Louis XV, who entrusted him with the collection and arrangement of a cabinet of medals and antique gems for Madame de Pompadour, and subsequently appointed him attaché to the French embassy at St. Petersburg.

At the end of the decade, Commander Mikawa was part of the delegation to the London Naval Conference and shortly thereafter became naval attaché in Paris.

In January 1870, he became military attaché at the Paris embassy of Prussia.

Holstein joined the diplomatic service and in 1860 became an attaché at the Prussian embassy in Saint Petersburg under the authority of Otto von Bismarck and later served as a member of the legations at Rio de Janeiro, London, Washington, Florence, and Copenhagen.

After Horthy became Regent of Hungary, Sztójay was promoted to general and served as a military attaché in Berlin from 1925 to 1933.

When the star requested a duet with Russell Nype playing her lovestruck press attaché, Berlin responded by writing the counterpoint tune " You're Just in Love " and it ultimately became a showstopper at every performance.

The air raids became intolerable to Manning, and she soon moved back to Cairo, where in the winter of 1941 she became press attaché at the United States Legation.

In 1918 when Czechoslovakia became an independent country, Letzel received a post of commercial attaché at the Czechoslovak embassy in Tokyo in 1919.

In November 1946, British forces withdrew and Van der Post became military attaché to the British consulate in Batavia.

In November 1921 he became Polish Military attaché in Bucharest, Romania.

He remained there until December 1919, when he became an assistant military attaché for air at the U. S. Embassy, Paris, France, under Ambassador Myron T. Herrick.

After the war, his mother became the cultural attaché of the Polish embassy in Prague.

Educated at Harrow School, and sent abroad to learn languages, he became in 1816 attaché to the British legation at Stockholm, under Sir Edward Thornton.

On leaving Oxford, Morier at first obtained an appointment in the Education Department, but resigned in 1852, and in the following year became attaché at Vienna.

Durham ’ s father initially worked for the IRS in Washington, D. C., and in 1960 he became a US Department of Treasury attaché at the Paris Embassy and the family went to French schools and learned French.

In 1853 he became second paid attaché at Paris, and in August 1854 he was transferred as first paid attaché to Constantinople, where he served under Lord Stratford de Redcliffe.