* Major armed conflict in Ireland including Irish War of Independence ( 1919 – 1921 ) resulting in Ireland becoming an independent country in 1922 followed by the Irish Civil War ( 1922 – 23 ).

Colonel assigned to the 4th Commando Brigade and Welshman Taffy Williams served as a Major until the very end of the conflict.

TNT will air Major League Baseball postseason games in the event TBS ' MLB coverage has a scheduling conflict ( e. g. the end of one game overruns into the start time of another game ).

In the conflict, Clive's bravery came to the attention Major Stringer Lawrence, who arrived in 1748 to take command of the British troops at Fort St. David.

Other commanders of units during the conflict included Major Raúl Menéndez Tomassevich, Major Filiberto Olivera Moya, Major René de los Santos, Major Augusto Martínez Sanchez, Major Félix Duque, Major Pedro Miret, Major Flavio Bravo, Major Antonio Lussón, Captain Orlando Pupo Pena, Captain Victor Dreke, Captain Emilio Aragonés, Captain Angel Fernández Vila, Arnaldo Ochoa, Orlando Rodriguez Puerta.

Major themes in Natsume's works include ordinary people fighting against economic hardship, the conflict between duty and desire ( a traditional Japanese theme ; see giri ), loyalty and group mentality versus freedom and individuality, personal isolation and estrangement, the rapid industrialization of Japan and its social consequences, contempt of Japan's aping of Western culture, and a pessimistic view of human nature.

The retreat from Quebec to Fort Ticonderoga also brought Gates into conflict with the authority of Major General Philip Schuyler, commander of the army's Northern Department, which retained jurisdiction over Ticonderoga.

Deeply troubled by the conflict between his pacifism and his training for war, he spoke at length with his company commander, Captain Edward Courtney Bullock Danforth ( 1894 – 1973 ) of Augusta, Georgia and his battalion commander, Major Gonzalo Edward Buxton ( 1880 – 1949 ) of Providence, Rhode Island, a devout Christian himself.

Like John Major and the Foreign Secretary, Douglas Hurd, Rifkind was opposed to military intervention by Britain and the international community as combatants in that conflict.

The bill called for a unified combatant command headed by a four star general for all SOF, an Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict, a coordinating board for low-intensity conflict within the National Security Council, and a new Major Force Program ( MFP-11 ) for SOF ( the so-called " SOF checkbook ").

The 13th Airborne Division was the fifth airborne division to be formed in the United States during World War II, and was officially activated on 13 August 1943 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina under the command of Major General George W. Griner Jr. Only a few months after the activation of the division, however, Major General Griner was ordered to take command of the 98th Infantry Division, and was replaced by Major General Eldridge G. Chapman, who would go on to command the division for the rest of the conflict.

In the late 1820s and early 1830s, there was a conflict between two of these families – the Johnstons ( descended from Major George Johnston who was involved in the Rum Rebellion ) and the Martins – for the ownership and financial control of land which is now known as Weston Creek and Tuggeranong.

The IRA statement said that the ceasefire was ended because " the British government acted in bad faith with Mr Major and the unionist leaders squandering this unprecedented opportunity to resolve the conflict " by refusing to talk with Sinn Féin.

For example, in Major League Baseball, one season lasts approximately from April 1 to October 1 ; in Association football, it is generally from August until May ( although in some countries, especially those in Scandinavia and North America, the season starts in the spring and finishes in the autumn, due either to weather conditions encountered during the winter or to limit conflict with locally more popular football codes ).

Major population growth within Ajaccio occurred between 1945 and 1975, with a doubling of the city's population, caused by a general shift of the population away from rural areas.

In the Major Leagues, the most recent example of a swing at an intentional ball resulting in a hit occurred during a June 22, 2006 game between the Florida Marlins and the Baltimore Orioles.

During its lone Major League season, the team played at Lloyd Street Grounds, between 16th and 18th Streets in Milwaukee.

The decisive colonial battle for Chad was fought on April 22, 1900 at Battle of Kousséri between forces of French Major Amédée-François Lamy and forces of the Sudanese warlord Rabih az-Zubayr.

He ultimately chose the former when a deal between the city, Hamilton County, and Major League Baseball's Cincinnati Reds ( who were seeking a replacement for the obsolete Crosley Field ) was struck that resulted in an agreement to build a multipurpose stadium which could host both baseball and football games.

The ensuing Battle of Mursa Major was one of the largest and most bloody battles between two Roman armies in Roman history.

On September 8, Schuyler sent Allen and Massachusetts Major John Brown, who had also been involved in the capture of Ticonderoga, into the countryside between St. John and Montreal to spread the word of their arrival to the habitants and the Indians.

Except for an abortive royal colony established under Major Claus Paarss between 1728 and 1730, colonial Greenland was administered by companies under royal charter until 1908.

Major sources for Gothic history include Ammianus Marcellinus ' Res gestae, which mentions Gothic involvement in the civil war between emperors Procopius and Valens of 365 and recounts the Gothic refugee crisis and revolt of 376 – 82, and Procopius ' de bello gothico, which describes the Gothic war of 535 – 52.

On 1 April 1923, Shaikh Ahmad al-Sabah wrote the British Political Agent in Kuwait, Major John More, " I still do not know what the border between Iraq and Kuwait is, I shall be glad if you will kindly give me this information.

The non-legally binding KAA Protocols were developed and mediated between the heads of the Kuwaiti and Iraqi navies by Major David Hammond Royal Marines, the British naval lawyer and legal advisor to Combined Task Force 158.

Major differences between KornShell and the traditional Bourne shell include:

Major withdrawal symptoms peak between 48 and 96 hours after the last dose and subside after about 8 to 12 days.

He also noted a region of nebulosity between the constellations Ursa Major and Leo that was not associated with any star.

Major improvements were made to key highway links, notably between the coast and the highlands, to provide international standard port facilities at Port Moresby and Lae, and in lesser ports, for international and domestic airport upgradings, and for the regulation and management of transport services.

Major differences between software engineering and other engineering disciplines, according to some researchers, result from the costs of fabrication.

The Subway Series is a series of Major League Baseball games played between teams based in New York City.

In an episode that spoofed the contest between the Champion and Earth's strongest superheroes from the Champion's first appearance in Marvel Two-in-One Annual # 7, the villain Rasslor ( voiced by professional wrestler " Macho Man " Randy Savage ) challenges and easily defeats Earth's superheroes ( consisting of Valhallen, Major Glory, Sam-R-I, Phan Tone, Krunk, White Tiger, Capital G, and Living Bullet ) in single combat until Monkey was the sole remaining challenger, having been dismissed as being unworthy of Rasslor repeatedly throughout the event.

The traditional border between the counties of Berkshire and Hampshire, showing the buffer zone north of Silchester which is thought to be evidence that Hampshire was created whilst Silchester was still inhabited by Britons, according to Albany F. Major ( 1912 ).

Major engagements between France and Austria, the main participants, unfolded over much of Central Europe from April to July, with very high casualty rates.

* May 24 – The first nighttime Major League Baseball game is played between the Cincinnati Reds and Philadelphia Phillies at Crosley Field in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Under the Constitution of the United Kingdom, the Prime Minister's role has evolved, based often on the individual's personal appeal and strength of character, as contrasted between, for example, Winston Churchill as against Clement Attlee, Margaret Thatcher as against John Major.

Although there were several challenges to Major League Baseball's primacy in the sport between the 1870s and the Federal League in 1916, the last such challenge was the aborted Continental League in 1960.

The race was wide open, and soon the convention deadlocked between Major General Leonard Wood and Governor Frank Orren Lowden of Illinois.

Her real name was Ruth Werner – a German communist and a Major in Soviet Military Intelligence.

After seizing power in 1972 Major Mathieu Kérékou declared Dahomey a Marxist-Leninist state and sought financial support from communist governments in Eastern Europe and Asia.

Major protests concerning other political issues made international news, such as the March 1968 protests in Poland against their communist government, and the campus uprisings of May 1968 in France.

After Poland regained its independence in 1918, Zamość witnessed the outbreak of a communist revolt, suppressed by the Polish troops under the command of Major Leopold Lis-Kula.

Toward the end of the struggles against the communists, Du correctly guessed that Major General Guo Rugui ( 郭汝瑰 ), one of Chiang's most trusted staff officers, was a communist agent but the only evidence he came up with was that unlike most corrupted nationalist cadres and officers, the suspected communist spy was clean.

The Somali Democratic Republic (, ) was the name that the communist regime of former President of Somalia Major General Mohamed Siad Barre gave to Somalia during its reign, after having seized power in a bloodless 1969 coup d ' état.

This led Major von Schleicher to conceive an alternative to using Reichswehr units to quell " red " ( socialist or communist ) uprisings.

" The Republican retreat towards Bilbao did pass through Guernica, before and after the bombing, and, as Beevor points out, " At Guernica the communist Rosa Luxemburg Battalion under Major Cristobal held back the nationalists for a time ".

Later, Ursa Major followed Vanguard into the employ of General Tskarov, a communist sympathizer who wanted to undermine American business along the East coast.