The latter, members of two regiments of Swiss mercenaries transported by Great Britain to Canada to fight the Americans in the War of 1812, had settled in Montreal and Kingston at the close of the war in 1815.

* Weigley, Russell F. A Great Civil War: A Military and Political History, 1861 – 1865.

The idea that the Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic languages are closely related to each other was allegedly first published in 1730 by Philip Johan von Strahlenberg, a Swedish officer who traveled in the eastern Russian Empire while a prisoner of war after the Great Northern War.

In The Double Clue Poirot mentions that he was Chief of Police of Brussels, until " the Great War " ( WWI ) forced him to leave for England.

* 1862 – American Civil War: The Andrews Raid ( the Great Locomotive Chase ) occurred, starting from Big Shanty, Georgia ( now Kennesaw ).

* 1828 – Uruguay is formally proclaimed independent at preliminary peace talks brokered by Great Britain between Brazil and Argentina during the Cisplatine War.

28, 000 men were sent to fight in World War I. Adelaide enjoyed a post-war boom but, with the return of droughts, entered the Great Depression of the 1930s, later returning to prosperity under strong government leadership.

* 1759 – Battle of Lagos Naval battle during the Seven Years ' War between Great Britain and France.

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The reign of Ahmed III, which had lasted for twenty-seven years, although marked by the disasters of the Great Turkish War, was not unsuccessful.

* Ajax ( mythology ), son of Telamon, ruler of Salamis and a hero in the Trojan War, also known as " Ajax the Great "

* 1756 – Frederick the Great attacks Saxony, beginning the Seven Years ' War.

Following evacuation in 1941 during the Great Patriotic War ( World War II ), he graduated in Aşgabat, in today's Turkmenistan.

* Cornwall in the Great Civil War and Interregnum 1642-1660 Mary Coates

Barge and canal systems were nonetheless of great, perhaps even primary, economic importance until after World War I in Europe, particularly in the more developed nations of the Low Countries, France, Germany, Poland, and especially Great Britain which more or less made the system characteristically its own.

This was followed by a second series, Blackadder II ( 1986 ) set during the reign of Elizabeth I, a third series Blackadder the Third ( 1987 ) set during the late 18th and early 19th centuries in the reign of George III, and finally Blackadder Goes Forth ( 1989 ) in 1917, set in the trenches of the Great War.

Following Napoleon Bonaparte's victories over the Austrian Empire in Northern Italy – helping to secure France victory in the War of the First Coalition in 1797 – Great Britain remained the only major European power still at war with the French Republic.

Other areas damaged during World War II bombing included: in September 1940 two unexploded bombs hit the Edward VII galleries, the King's Library received a direct hit from a high explosive bomb, incendiaries fell on the dome of the Round Reading Room but did little damage ; on the night of 10 to 11 May 1941 several incendiaries fell on the south west corner of the Museum, destroying the book stack and 150, 000 books in the courtyard and the galleries around the top of the Great Staircase – this damage was not fully repaired until the early 1960s.

At a War Cabinet meeting, held on 31 October 1917, Balfour suggested that a declaration favorable to Zionist aspirations would allow Great Britain " to carry on extremely useful propaganda both in Russia and America "

The developments that led to the First Balkan War did not go unnoticed by the Great Powers, but although there was an official consensus between the European Powers over the territorial integrity of the Ottoman Empire, which led to a stern warning to the Balkan states, unofficially each of them took a different diplomatic approach due to their conflicting interests in the area.

But it was unaware of the Bulgarian plans over Thrace and Constantinople, territories on which it had long-held ambitions, and on which it had just secured a secret agreement of expansion from its allies France and Britain, as a reward for participating in the upcoming Great War against the Central Powers.

This was a position that inevitably drew her, although unwillingly, into a World War with devastating results for her, since she was less prepared ( both militarily and socially ) for that event than any other Great Power.

He became an enormous draw in Los Angeles, where many of his Texas, Oklahoma and regional fans had also relocated during the Great Depression and World War II in search of jobs.

From the time of the end of the Seven Years ' War in 1763, Great Britain and its successor the United Kingdom has been one of the leading military and economic powers of the world.

The Great Andamanese were originally 10 distinct tribes with 5, 000 people in total ; most of the tribes are extinct, and the survivors, now just 52, speak mostly Hindi.

A rigid belief in laissez-faire guided the government response in 1846 – 1849 to the Great Famine in Ireland, during which an estimated 1. 5 million people died.

By 1933, the party had approximately 3. 5 million members but as a result of the Great Purge party membership was cut down to 1. 9 million by 1939.

Casimir III the Great () ( 30 April 1310 – 5 November 1370 ) who reigned in 1333 – 1370, was the last King of Poland from the Piast dynasty, the son of King Władysław I the Elbow-high and Duchess Hedwig of Kalisz.

A diplomatic row with China erupted on 5 May 2005, when President Chen Shui-bian of Taiwan arrived for a private visit and was welcomed at a private function at Suva's Sheraton Resort by Vice-President Ratu Joni Madraiwiwi, Ratu Ovini Bokini ( Chairman of the Great Council of Chiefs ), Senate President Taito Waqavakatoga and several other Senators and MPs, and several judges including Chief Justice Daniel Fatiaki.

It is estimated that 5. 5 million tons of limestone, 8, 000 tons of granite ( imported from Aswan ), and 500, 000 tons of mortar were used in the construction of the Great Pyramid.

Satellite image showing the seven main geographical regions of Hungary ( in parenthesis: major region ): 1., Great Alföld ( Great Alföld ) 2., North Hungarian Mountains ( North Hungarian Mountains ) 3., Transdanubian Mountains ( Transdanubia ) 4., Transdanubia | Transdanubian Hills ( Transdanubia ) 5., Mecsek Mountains ( Transdanubia ) 6., Little Alföld ( Transdanubia ) 7., Alpokalja ( Transdanubia )

In 1665, London was swept by a visitation of the plague, and then, in 1666, the capital was swept by the Great Fire, which raged for 5 days, destroying approximately 15, 000 buildings.

The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 broke the banks and levees of the lower Mississippi River in early 1927, resulting in flooding of millions of acres and leaving 1. 5 million people displaced from their homes.

During the Great War, the Italian Royal Army increased in size from 15, 000 men in 1914 to 160, 000 men in 1918, with 5 million recruits in total entering service during the war.

The Pakistani textbook " Primary Stage English " includes lessons such as " Pakistan My Country ", " Our Flag ", or " Our Great Leader " ( Malik 1993: 5, 6, 7 ) which might well sound jingoistic to Western ears.

* 1960 – An earthquake measuring 9. 5 on the moment magnitude scale, now known as the Great Chilean Earthquake, hits southern Chile.

* 1917 – The Great Atlanta fire of 1917 causes $ 5. 5 million in damages, destroying some 300 acres including 2, 000 homes, businesses and churches, displacing about 10, 000 people and leading to only fatality ( due to heart attack ).

* The Great Maze, The Puzzling World, Wanaka, South Island ( 1. 5 km of passages )

Stalin unleashed the Great Terror campaign against alleged " socially dangerous " and " counterrevolutionary " persons that resulted in the Great Purge of 1936 – 1938 during which 1. 5 million people were arrested from 1937 – 1938 and 681, 692 of those were executed.

A neutron star is so dense that one teaspoon ( 5 milliliters ) of its material would have a mass over, about 900 times the mass of the Great Pyramid of Giza .< ref > The average density of material in a neutron star of radius 10 km is.

The island portion of the province spans 5 degrees of latitude, which is comparable to that of the Great Lakes.

At Mass on Sunday, 5 October 816, Stephen consecrated and anointed Louis as emperor, placing a crown on his head that was claimed to belong to Constantine the Great.

Civil warfare intensified after Lenin dissolved the Russian Constituent Assembly ( 5 – 6 January 1918 ) and the Soviet government signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ( 3 March 1918 ) removing Russia from the Great War.

By 1989 there were signs of a revival of the overseas construction market — the Dong Ah Construction Company signed a US $ 5. 3 billion contract with Libya for the second phase of Libya's Great Man-Made River Project, which, when all five phases were completed, was projected to cost US $ 27 billion.

By 1887, The Met headquarters had expanded from 4 Whitehall Place into several neighbouring addresses, including 3, 5, 21 and 22 Whitehall Place ; 8 and 9 Great Scotland Yard, and several stables.