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* 1799 – The entire Dutch fleet is captured by British forces under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell during the Second Coalition of the French Revolutionary Wars.
British explorer David Thompson was the first European to navigate the entire length of the Columbia River in 1811.
Altogether the British Museum showcases on public display less than 1 % of its entire collection, approximately 50, 000 items.
This agenda saw the conference dominated by discussions of creating an even larger union of the entire territory of British North America into a united colony.
Although the Romans inflicted heavy losses on the enemy, two-thirds of the Caledonian army escaped and hid in the Scottish marshes and Highlands, ultimately preventing Agricola from bringing the entire British island under his control.
In April 1966 the British Government bought the entire assets of the Chagos Agalega Company in the BIOT for £ 600, 000 and administered them as a government enterprise while awaiting US funding of the proposed facilities, with an interim objective of paying for the administrative expenses of the new territory.
The boundaries of modern Eritrea and the entire region were established during the European colonial period between Italian, British and French colonialists as well as the lone landlocked African Empire of Abyssinia which found itself surrounded and its boundaries defined by said colonial powers.
The British eventually took the position, which had not been reinforced by the nearby rebel garrison at Boland's Mills, on Thursday but the fighting there inflicted up to two thirds of their casualties for the entire week for a cost of just four dead Volunteers.
In the United Kingdom, at the behest of Neville Chamberlain, ( more famous for his ' peace in our time ' speech ) the entire British aviation industry was retooled, allowing it to change quickly from fabric covered metal framed biplanes to cantilever stressed skin monoplanes in time for the war with Germany.
Dr. Cluny MacPherson of Royal Newfoundland Regiment brought the idea of a mask made of chemical absorbing fabric and which fitted over the entire head to England, and this was developed into the British Hypo Helmet of June 1915.
Thus as a result of the three Carnatic Wars, the British East India Company gained exclusive control over the entire Carnatic region of India.
Brugha at one stage proposed the assassination of the entire British cabinet.
Hardy handing over command of the Kenya Army to Brigadier Joseph Ndolo on 1 December 1966, British influence was underlined with the appointment of Major General Robert Penfold as Chief of General Staff, a new position as senior officer of the entire armed forces.
The entire collection, plus Fanning and Washington islands ( part of the Line Islands ), was made a British colony, also called Gilbert and Ellice Islands, in 1916, as part of the British Western Pacific Territories ( BWPT ).
During the War of 1812, Oliver Hazard Perry captured an entire British fleet in 1813 near Put-in-Bay, Ohio, despite having inferior numbers.
Gandhi and the entire Congress Working Committee were arrested in Bombay by the British on 9 August 1942.
The Nirvana song " Rainbow Chaser " is thought to be the first-ever British recording to feature the audio effect known as phasing or flanging throughout an entire track, as distinct from occasionally within a song such as the Small Faces in " Itchycoo Park ".
Eventually by May 1944 through collaboration between the OSS, British intelligence, Cairo and Washington the entire " Dogwood-chain " was found to be unreliable and dangerous.
This institutional design reflected the conception of how Americans believed the deposed British system of Crown and Parliament ought to have functioned with respect to the royal dominion: a superintending body for matters that concerned the entire empire.
The Council was formerly a supreme court of appeal for the entire British Empire ( other than for the United Kingdom itself ), and continues to hear appeals from the Crown Dependencies, the British Overseas Territories, and a number of Commonwealth member countries.
By then, the entire coastal area was under the British East India Company, as a result of the Treaty of Amiens.
The Kandyan Convention formally ceded the entire country to the British Empire.
The treaty ceded the entire island of St. Kitts to the British.

entire and division
Since accurate base maps are necessary for any planning program, the first step taken by the planning division to implement the long-range state plan has been to prepare two series of base maps -- one at a scale of 1 inch to a mile, and the second a series of 26 sheets at a scale of 1 inch to 2000 feet, covering the entire state.
However, despite being widely considered the division favourite, the gialloblù spent almost the entire season in last place.
Pope John Paul II repeatedly emphasized his respect for Eastern theology as an enrichment for the whole Church, declaring that, even after the painful division between the Christian East and the See of Rome, that theology has opened up profound thought-provoking prospectives of interest to the entire Church.
The division of the entire Kingdom Animalia into vertebrates ( about 40000 species in part of one phylum ) and invertebrates certainly is convenient in some practical contexts, but to put it into taxonomic perspective, it is roughly on the same scale as dividing the animal kingdom into Gastropoda ( perhaps 60000 species in part of one phylum ) and non-Gastropoda ; worthwhile only in certain constrained contexts.
One entire haploid content of chromosomes is contained in each of the resulting daughter cells ; the first meiotic division therefore reduces the ploidy of the original cell by a factor of 2.
The moment of Arizona's touchdown was actually the first moment the entire season in which the Vikings hadn't led their division.
Schisms within the ruling family were apparent before Ahmad ibn Said's death in 1783 and were later manifest with the division of the family into two main lines, the Sultan ibn Ahmad Al Said ( r. 1792 – 1806 ) line controlling the maritime state, with nominal control over the entire country ; and the Qais branch, with authority over the Al Batinah and Ar Rustaq areas.
Also, in 2007, Paramount sold another one of its " heritage " units, Famous Music, to Sony / ATV Music Publishing ( best known for publishing many songs by The Beatles, and for being co-owned by Michael Jackson ), ending a nearly-eight-decade run as a division of Paramount, being the studio's music publishing arm since the period when the entire company went by the name " Famous Players.
The higher the district magnitude, the more proportional an electoral system becomes-the most proportional being when there is no division into constituencies at all and the entire country is treated as a single constituency.
During the peak of the battle, ARVN had access to only one 105 mm howitzer to provide close support while the enemy attack was backed by an entire artillery division.
The exiled Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Hajj Amin al-Husayni, used hatred of Serbs and Jews to recruit an entire Waffen-SS division of Bosnian Muslims, the 13th SS Division " Handschar " ( Scimitar ).
For simple unicellular organisms such as the amoeba, one cell division is equivalent to reproduction – an entire new organism is created.
No matter who took his place, the encirclement of the town by the enemy had put the entire division in peril.
In 1996, Turner's company, Turner Broadcasting System ( whose Turner Entertainment division oversaw the film library ), was purchased by Time Warner who also owned Warner Bros .. Today, Warner Home Video holds the video rights to the entire Looney Tunes / Merrie Melodies animated output by virtue of Time Warner's ownership of Turner Entertainment — this is why their Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVD box sets include cartoons from both the pre-8 / 48 Turner-owned and post-7 / 48 Warner Bros. owned periods.
With the news of the accounting fraud, Cendant announced its intention to sell off its entire computer entertainment division.
On November 20, 1998, Cendant announced the sale of its entire consumer software division to Paris-based Havas S. A. With this sale, Sierra became a part of Havas Interactive, the interactive entertainment division of the company.
During the invasion of the Netherlands, the Germans threw into battle almost their entire Luftlandekorps, an airborne assault army corps that consisted of one parachute division and one division of airlanding troops plus the necessary transport capacity.
; The average division employee: For this report, the mean, mode, and median scores of every scored data point, for the entire division are used, to create three hypothetical employees.
The campaign occupied the attention of an entire Japanese division for almost a year.
During his entire period of command of the division, Custer encountered considerable friction and near mutiny from the volunteer cavalry regiments who had campaigned along the Gulf coast.
The Menominee Maroons won the state championship in its division for basketball in 1967 and football in 1998, 2006 and 2007. In the 2006 season the Maroons finished unbeaten and only allowed 38 points scored against them but their offense scored 513 point in that entire season.
During this tour, he was recognized by the soldiers of Vandamme's division, and fairly soon the entire army lit candles to celebrate the anniversary of his coronation.

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