For instance, Tomás Mac Curtain, the Mayor of Cork, was assassinated in March 1920 by local RIC men and the massacre of 13 civilians at Croke Park on Bloody Sunday was also carried out by the RIC although a small detachment of Auxiliaries were also present.

A detachment of the boys under Seth Warner's command went to nearby Fort Crown Point and captured the small garrison there.

With a small detachment still positioned in Gaul, Scipio made an attempt to intercept Hannibal.

The Trumpler scheme gives a cluster a three part designation, with a Roman numeral from I-IV indicating its concentration and detachment from the surrounding star field ( from strongly to weakly concentrated ), an Arabic numeral from 1 to 3 indicating the range in brightness of members ( from small to large range ), and p, m or r to indication whether the cluster is poor, medium or rich in stars.

It begins in the village of Crow's Bridge, where a small detachment of the Legion has remained behind to guard a bridge at the request of the locals.

In 1714, Peter's galley navy managed to capture a small detachment of the Swedish navy in the first Russian naval victory near Hanko peninsula.

In the latter city he placed a small Berber detachment under a governor, Munuza, whose mission was to consolidate Muslim control over Asturias.

After Pelayo's victory over the Moorish detachment at the Battle of Covadonga, a small territorial independent entity was established in the Asturian mountains that was the origin of the kingdom of Asturias.

On 7 July, Spangberg left with a detachment of 209 men and much of the cargo ; on 27 July apprentice shipbuilder Fyodor Kozlov led a small party to reach Okhotsk ahead of Spangberg, both to prepare food supplies and to start work repairing the Vostok and building a new ship ( the Fortuna ) needed to carry the party across the bay from Okhotsk to the Kamchatka peninsula.

Spangberg left St. Petersburg in February 1733 with the first ( small ) detachment of the second expedition, bound for Okhotsk.

On June 3, 1885, a small detachment of North-West Mounted Police under the command of Major Sam Steele caught up to a band of Cree led by Big Bear who were moving northward after their victory at Frenchman's Butte.

Finding the colony abandoned, Grenville returned to England with the bulk of his force, leaving behind a small detachment both to maintain an English presence and to protect Raleigh's claim to Virginia.

The small group of Puritan horsemen who had pursued them had, upon reaching Hertford, met with Colonel Scroope and his Roundhead troops from their detachment at Colchester.

Late on the evening of 21 January, Durnford was ordered to Isandlwana, as was a small detachment of No. 5 Field Company, Royal Engineers, commanded by Lieutenant John Chard, which had arrived on the 19th to repair the pontoons which bridged the Buffalo.

A four-man dismountable squad was carried, but space was cramped, and in any case a four-man detachment was far too small for any sort of realistic military purpose.

There was a small Luftwaffe detachment providing a manned look-out ( just like the Royal Observer Corps ) for Allied planes which were undertaking operations against the Air Bases of Volkel and Eindhoven.

There was a small Luftwaffe detachment providing a manned look-out ( just like the Royal Observer Corps ) for Allied planes which were undertaking operations against the Air Bases of Volkel and Eindhoven.

At the time, Thrailkill's force arrived Keytesville was defended by a small Union detachment of thirty-five men from the Missouri militia, commanded by Lieutenant Anthony Pleyer.

Post Office Department airmail flights during the 1920s and 1930s ; a small detachment of enlisted men ( detached service ) from Marshall Field and Fort Riley, Kansas, constituted the only military presence on the field between 1935-1940.

At the Battle of Hamel on 4 July 1918, Monash, with the support of the British 4th Army commander Sir Henry Rawlinson commanded the 4th Australian Division, supported by the British 5th Tank Brigade, along with a detachment of US troops, to win a small but operationally significant victory for the Allies.

Raymond led them out to besiege Ma ' arrat al-Numan, although he left a small detachment of his troops in Antioch, where Bohemond also remained.

However, it soon became obvious that the French force was only a small detachment, sent forward to secure a bridgehead.

The small detachment, gradually attrited, had a few notable successes:

The word is derived from the 17th-century French peloton, meaning a small detachment of soldiers.

There was only one hitch: the small town of Kehl, on the other side of the Rhine, was still under French jurisdiction.

Alarmed by this display of weapons, I looked toward the bridge and there saw, stretched across the near side, a cordon of policemen, their bicycles forming a roadblock before which stood several French officers in uniform and a small waspish man in a brown derby.

There is a fairly wide selection of models of English, German and French manufacture from which you can choose from the very small Austin 7, Citroen 2 CV, Volkswagens, Renaults to the 6-passenger Simca Beaulieu.

there had been lessons in French from a small Polish nobleman with a really profound distaste for his pupils ; ;

She closed her eyes, remembering the small French cemetery, enclosed by stone walls.

The French Revolution ( 1787 – 99 ) that began during his youth was also influential: Ampère ’ s father was called into public service by the new revolutionary government, becoming a justice of the peace in a small town near Lyon.

* On the inner façades of the small arches are engraved the names of the military leaders of the French Revolution and Empire.

A small stream, the Nebel, ( the ground either side of which was soft and marshy and only fordable intermittently ), fronted the French line.

The French moved first to Tirlemont, ( as if to threaten Zoutleeuw, abandoned by the French in October 1705 ), before turning southwards, heading for Jodoigne – this line of march took Villeroi ’ s army towards the narrow aperture of dry ground between the Mehaigne and Petite Gheete rivers close to the small villages of Ramillies and Taviers ; but neither commander quite appreciated how far his opponent had travelled.

The 20 French and Bavarian battalions in Ramillies, supported by Irish dragoons and a small brigade of Cologne and Bavarian Guards under the Marquis de Maffei, put up a determined defence, initially driving back the attackers with severe losses.

Bark " small ship " is attested from 1420, from Old French barque, from Vulgar Latin barca ( 400 ).

It was not until 21: 00, when Hood sent a small boat to Guerrier with a boarding party, that the French ship finally surrendered.

The Tonnant, its decks crowded with 1, 600 survivors from other French vessels, surrendered as the British ships approached while Timoléon was set on fire by her remaining crew who then escaped to the shore in small boats.

The battle closed with the celebrated stand of Reginald of Boulogne, a former vassal of King Philip, who formed a ring of seven hundred Brabançon pikemen, and not only defied every attack of the French cavalry, but himself made repeated charges or sorties with his small force of knights.

The next thirty years were marked by small scale revolts against French rule and the development of a plantation-style economy.

Only a small part of the population has more than an elemental knowledge of French, the official language.

The Comorian Security Force ( French Armée nationale de développement ) consist of a small standing army and a 500-member police force, as well as a 500-member defense force.

Captain Kidd and the Blessed William became part of a small fleet assembled by Codrington to defend Nevis from the French, with whom the English were at war.

Some small improvements were made to law and court procedure, for example all court proceedings were now conducted in English rather than in Law French or Latin.

First attested in English in the mid-15th century, the word carat came from Middle French carat, in turn from Italian carato, which came from Arabic qīrāṭ ( قيراط ), which came from Greek kerátion ( κεράτιον ) meaning carob seed ( literally " small horn ")

The War of the Austrian Succession saw Britain and France in conflict with each other, and in 1745 several warships and a small contingent of troops were sent from Boston, first to the Nova Scotian fishing port of Canso, and on to Louisbourg where they laid siege to the fortress until the French surrendered and were evacuated.

They were small, rarely exceeding 200 tons OM, and modelled after French luggers.

The port of Djibouti functions as a small French naval facility, and the United States also has stationed hundreds of troops in Djibouti, its only African base, in an effort to counter terrorism in the region.

A die ( plural dice, from Old French dé, from Latin datum " something which is given or played ") is a small throwable object with multiple resting positions, used for generating random numbers.