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Griffith and Paddy
* Griffith, Paddy.
* Paddy Griffith Napoleonic Wargaming For Fun, Ward Lock Ltd, London, 1980, reprinted 2008 by the History of Wargaming Project link
* Paddy Griffith Sprawling Wargames multiplayer Wargaming, Ward Lock Ltd, London, 1980, reprinted 2009 by the History of Wargaming Project link
Paddy Griffith wrote that the bite and hold system kept moving until November ; the BEF had developed a workable system of offensive tactics against which the Germans ultimately had no answer.
Griffith, Paddy.
* Griffith, P., ( 1995 ) The Battle of Blore Heath, 1459, Paddy Griffiths Associates, UK.
* Griffith, Paddy ( 1991 ).
* Griffith, Paddy ( 1996 ).
Paddy Griffith, among modern historians, claims the British infantry's discipline and willingness to attack were equally important.
* Paddy Griffith, Battle Tactics of the Western Front: The British Army's Art of Attack 1916-18, New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1994 ( ISBN 0-300-05910-8 ).
Paddy Griffith was the proponent of an almost exactly countervailing view ; he contended that lack of discipline among Civil war volunteers on both sides meant that potentially successful shock actions failed due to lack of commitment ; rather than pressing assaults home, troops routinely went to ground at about sixty yards from the enemy line or entrenchment and engaged in short range firefights.
Tudor was a professional and forward-looking artilleryman: historian Paddy Griffith has described him as an " expert tactician.

Griffith and History
Griffith Hughes, who described specimens from Barbados in The Natural History of Barbados.
* Margonitho-Syriac Orthodox Resources ( see Churches & Monasteries, History and the Rev Stephen Griffith Reports from Tur Abdin )
* Griffith Park History
The area is known as Jamieson's Special Survey in cadastral surveys. The survey extended east as far as Bulldog Creek Rd. Henry Dunn had leased the Survey from 1846 until 1851 and was succeeded by tenants such as the Griffith, Eaton, Peatey, McLear, Clydesdale, Wilson, Cottier and Gibson families, which were involved with the History of Dromana, and in the case of William Cottier, the establishment of the first of three Rye Hotels, in Dromana.
The Reverend Griffith Hughes ( 1707 c. 1758 ) from the parish of Tywyn is best known as the author of The Natural History of Barbados, a book that contains the first description of the grapefruit.
* TVR Griffith Owners Register, History, Mods and Maintenance, V8 ECU / Engine Upgrades

Griffith and War
Griffith applied all the ideas for film staging that he had worked out in his Biograph films to a bigoted white southerner's epic view of the Civil War and its aftermath.
Extracted from The Art of War ( UNESCO Collection of Representative Works ), Samuel B. Griffith http :// www. kw. igs. net /~ tacit / artofwar / suntzu. htm.
His next role, in War Brides opposite Nazimova, attracted the attention of legendary director D. W. Griffith, who offered him several important roles, finally casting him opposite Lillian Gish in Broken Blossoms ( 1919 ) and Way Down East ( 1920 ).
Lloyd George presided over the Government of Ireland Act 1920 which established Northern Ireland in May 1921, during the Anglo-Irish War, which led to the negotiation of the Anglo-Irish Treaty in December 1921 with Arthur Griffith and Michael Collins and the formation of the Irish Free State.
It was named for Griffith Rutherford, leader of an expedition against the Cherokee in 1776 and a general in the American Revolutionary War.
* Richard Griffith ( 1814 1862 ), Brigadier General in the Confederacy during the Civil War
Although Griffith was in the middle of the Great Depression and World War II had broken out in Europe, optimistic views were still present throughout the town.
Griffith and Collins died in August 1922 during the early stages of the Irish Civil War, leaving Cosgrave to lead the pro-treaty faction and the Provisional Government in the run-up to the formal establishment of the Irish Free State.
Therefore as the Irish Civil War began the country had two leaders, Arthur Griffith as President of Dáil Éireann, and Michael Collins as Chairman of the Provisional Government.
During World War I ( 1913-18 ), the local government board's laboratory was assumed by the national government, namely UK government, and became the Ministry of Health's Pathological Laboratory — where Griffith was medical officer.
The first Griffith Memorial Lecture indicates that Fred Griffith died on the night of 17 April 1941 — though the fourth lecture indicates that he died in his apartment in February 1941 — alongside friend and colleague William M. Scott amid an air raid during World War II's London Blitz.
In a particular irony, Sinn Féin, which as a republican party fought for Irish independence during the Anglo-Irish War, was founded by a man, Arthur Griffith, who sought to restore the King, Lords and Commons of Ireland and the 1782 constitution to the centre of Irish governance, and the College Green Houses of Parliament to its position as the home of an Irish parliament.
Directed by D. W. Griffith, it glorified the Ku Klux Klan and portrayed a racist view of blacks and of their role in the American Civil War and Reconstruction in the South.
When the British-allied Cherokee attacked several settlements in the county early in the American War for Independence ( 1776 ), most Tories joined with their Whig neighbors in fighting off the raiders and marching with General Griffith Rutherford in a punitive expedition to devastate the Overhill Cherokee towns across the Blue Ridge Mountains.
G. T Griffith has written that Achaean War was a hopeless enterprise for the Achaeans, badly led and backed by no adequate reserves of money or men.
In the earliest days of Hollywood, the original score for D. W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation ( 1915 ), compiled by Joseph Carl Breil and Griffith, used the music in the climactic scene of the third act, when " The former enemies of North and South are united again in defense of their Aryan birthright " against liberated former black slaves after the end of the American Civil War.
Griffith Stadium was located in the Shaw Neighborhood of Washington, D. C., a historically black area since the Civil War.
* Sun, Tzu, The Art of War, Translated by Sam B. Griffith ( 2006 ), Blue Heron Books, ISBN 1-897035-35-7.
* Griffith Rutherford ( c. 1721-1805 ), American Revolutionary War officer and politician
Hugh Griffith, who gained acclaim in the post-World War II era in Ealing Studios comedies, was cast as the comical Sheik Ilderim.
After the success of Admiral Philip H. Colomb's The Great War of 1892 ( itself a version of the more famous The Battle of Dorking ), Griffith, then on the staff of Pearson's Magazine as a clerk addressing envelopes and mailing labels, submitted a synopsis for a story entitled The Angel of the Revolution.
Griffith volunteered for service with the Royal Air Force in 1939 before the outbreak of World War II.

Griffith and Modern
The acclaimed television drama was honored a decade later when the kinescope of the production was selected for showing at the Museum of Modern Art on February 17 20, 1963, as part of Television USA: Thirteen Seasons, described by MoMA Film Library curator Richard Griffith as " a grand retrospective of the best that has been done in American television.
* Griffith ; Ernest S. The Modern Development of the City in the United Kingdom and the United States ( 1927 )
In 1935, New York's Museum of Modern Art began one of the earliest institutional attempts to collect and preserve motion pictures, obtaining original negatives of the Biograph and Edison companies, and the world's largest collection of D. W. Griffith films.
His fiction, essays and reviews have appeared in the New Yorker, Harpers, Review of Contemporary Fiction, London Magazine, Gangway, Granta, Stand, Bananas, Overland, Meanjin, Southerly, Quadrant, London Review of Books, San Francisco Review of Books, New Statesman, Essays in Criticism, Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Oxford Review, Modern Language Review, Griffith Review, Nation Review, National Times, the Australian, the Bulletin, the Sydney Morning Herald & c.
* The Old Griffith Park Zoo on Modern Day Ruins

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