Cousin Joshua and some others felt that we should march toward Lexington and take up new positions ahead of the slow-moving British column, but another group maintained that we should stick to this spot and this section of road.

* 1897 – Anglo-Afghan War: The Siege of Malakand ends when a relief column is able to reach the British garrison in the Malakand states adjacent to India's North West Frontier Province.

Under the administration of Félix Éboué, France's first black colonial governor, a military column, commanded by Colonel Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, and including two battalions of Sara troops, moved north from N ' Djamena ( then Fort Lamy ) to engage Axis forces in Libya, where, in partnership with the British Army's Long Range Desert Group, they captured Kufra.

In the early 19th century the basics of modern techniques including pre-heating and reflux were developed, particularly by the French, then in 1830 a British Patent was issued to Aeneas Coffey for a whiskey distillation column, which worked continuously and may be regarded as the archetype of modern petrochemical units.

In Munster, the IRA carried out a significant number of successful actions against British troops, for instance the ambushing and killing of 17 of 18 Auxiliaries by Tom Barry's column at Kilmicheal in West Cork in November 1920, or Liam Lynch's men killing 13 British soldiers near Millstreet early in the next year.

At the Crossbarry Ambush in March 1921, 100 or so of Barry's men fought a sizeable engagement with a British column of 1, 200, escaping from the British encircling manoeuvre.

At Hlobane they caught a British column on the move rather than in the usual fortified position, partially cutting off its retreat and forcing it to withdraw.

Just such a scenario developed with the No. 1 British column, which was penned up static and immobile in garrison for over two months at Eshowe.

Their major victory at the Battle of Isandlwana is well known, but they also forced back a British column at the Battle of Hlobane mountain, deploying fast-moving regiments over a wide area in the rugged ravines and gullies while the British were quickly on the move.

The British writer Tony Barrell is a collector of modern urban legends, many of which he has explored in a long-running column in The Sunday Times.

" In 1888, Captain Baden-Powell was part of a column searching for the Zulu chief Dinizulu, who was leading the Usutu people in revolt against the British colonists.

The column was joined by John Dunn, a white Zulu chief, who led an impi ( army ) of 2000 Zulu warriors to join the British.

When the withdrawal began, some of Montcalm's Indian allies, angered at the lost opportunity for loot, attacked the British column, killing and capturing several hundred men, women, children, and slaves.

A column of 600 armed men ( mainly made up of his Rhodesian and Bechuanaland policemen ) was led by Dr. Leander Starr Jameson ( the Administrator in Rhodesia of the British South Africa Company ( or " Chartered Company ") of which Cecil Rhodes was the Chairman ) over the border from Bechuanaland towards Johannesburg.

In the baggage of the raiding column, to the great embarrassment of the British, the Boers found telegrams from Cecil Rhodes and the other plotters in Johannesburg.

As soon as a British column left a town or district, British control of that area faded away.

These factors, compounded with the presence of the colonial British authorities in India who had overthrown the Muslim Mughal Empire, led Muslims to view the presence of Ahmadis as a fifth column serving the British colonizers, and as a threat to " true " Islam.

This gave the impression that they might form a line and pass along the weather column of the British fleet, exposing the smaller British column to the fire of the larger Spanish division.

Because of his widespread correspondence with others throughout the British Isles, and due to the fact that many of the letters imply that Bede had met his correspondents, it is likely that Bede travelled to some other places, although nothing further about timing or locations can be guessed.

Compare Canadian ( and British ) travelled, counselling, and controllable ( always doubled in British, more often than not in Canadian ) to American traveled, counseling, and controllable ( only doubled when stressed ).

Since then Mullan and Edwards have travelled to Flanders and the site of the World War One Christmas Truce and the legendary football game between British and German soldiers.

The intercepted messages revealed that the British Embassy source ( identified as " Homer ") travelled to New York City to meet his Soviet contact twice a week.

In 1984, he travelled to the United Kingdom, where he met British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

The British polemicist Thomas Gordon " incorporated Cicero into the radical ideological tradition that travelled from the mother country to the colonies in the course of the eighteenth century and decisively shaped early American political culture.

Failing to win the support of the British government, he travelled to Paris, encouraging a number of French naval forces to land in Ireland to help with the planned insurrections.

The leading British genre painter, Sir David Wilkie was 55 when he travelled to Istanbul and Jerusalem in 1840, dying off Gibraltar during the return voyage.

He travelled the world, visited many areas of the British Empire, and served actively until his last command in 1891 – 1892.

The greasy spoon was also the mainstay of British lorry drivers who travelled the major truck roads such as the A1 and the A6 prior to the opening of the motorways, see also Transport café.

Noted fans have included Sir Alec Guinness ( who never travelled without a Trollope novel ), former British Prime Ministers Harold Macmillan and Sir John Major, economist John Kenneth Galbraith, English judge Lord Denning, American novelists Sue Grafton and Dominick Dunne and soap opera writer Harding Lemay.

In 1859, Alexander Tilloch Galt, George-Étienne Cartier and John Ross travelled to Great Britain to present the British Parliament with a project for confederation of the British colonies.

In the foreword to a booklet published to commemorate his visit, he wrote, " I have now travelled over most of Canada and have seen many wonderful things, but I have seen nothing more beautiful and more wonderful than the great park which British Columbia has done me the honour to call by my name ".

Smith travelled to Dublin with the British Association in 1835, and there totally unexpectedly received an honorary Doctorate of Laws ( LL. D.

Japan's question time was closely modeled after that of the UK, and many Diet members travelled to the House of Commons to study the British application of the concept.

He thus became a leading figure of the British opposition to the War on Iraq, and in February 2003 he travelled to Baghdad to meet Saddam Hussein.

As the United Kingdom's Special Trade Representative, The Duke of York travelled the world to promote British businesses.

Unity and Diana Mitford travelled to Germany as part of the British delegation from the British Union of Fascists, to the 1933 Nuremberg Rally, seeing Hitler for the first time.

The railway was also featured in an episode of Coronation Street ( transmitted on August Bank Holiday 2010 ) when Hayley and Roy Cropper travelled to their wedding aboard an ELR train of Mark 1 coaches hauled by LMS " Black 5 " No. 44871, and in the BBC television film Eric and Ernie, aired on New Year's Day 2011, about the early career of the British comedy act Morecambe and Wise.

From 1841, Millerite evangelists appeared in Great Britain, also, though he never travelled there himself. In addition to the nearly $ 1000 that Miller and Himes spent supplying literature to enquirers and evangelists in Great Britain ; “ there is evidence that Liverpool, Bristol, and other ports local Millerite pioneers borrowed copies of Miller ’ s works and Adventist magazines from visiting American sea captains and merchants .” As well as utilizing imported American literature, two Millerite papers were published locally in Great Britain: the Second Advent Harbinger in Bristol, and the British Midnight Cry in Liverpool.

He earned a high international profile when, in the aftermath of the killing of fourteen unarmed civilians in Derry by British Paratroopers ( known as " Bloody Sunday "), he travelled to the UN in New York to demand UN involvement in peace-keeping on the streets of Northern Ireland.

On December 7, 2002, Zakayev returned to the UK but the British authorities arrested him briefly at London Heathrow Airport ; he was released on 50, 000 GBP bail, which was paid by British actress Vanessa Redgrave, his friend who had travelled with him from Denmark.

This work was largely completed by May 1781, but it delayed his departure to Virginia, where he had been sent to assist the Marquis de Lafayette against British forces operating there.

From the lawn of this house, in May 1781, General Lafayette — with cannon behind a boxwood hedge that still fringes the hill — shelled Petersburg, then occupied by British troops under Major-General William Phillips ( who died of typhoid during this bombardment ).

Also contained within the boundaries of this community is Washington Rock State Park, which commemorates the spot where George Washington and Marquis de Lafayette watched the movement of the British soldiers during the American Revolutionary War, mainly the months of May and June 1777.

Other claims regarding the crack in the bell include stories that it was damaged while welcoming Lafayette on his return to the United States in 1824, that it cracked announcing the passing of the British Catholic Relief Act 1829, and that some boys had been invited to ring the bell, and inadvertently damaged it.

The king officially forbade him to leave after British spies discovered his plan, and issued an order for Lafayette to join his father-in-law's regiment in Marseille, disobedience of which would be punishable by imprisonment.

The British ambassador ordered the seizure of the ship Lafayette was fitting out at Bordeaux, and Lafayette was threatened with arrest.

After the British outflanked the Americans, Washington sent Lafayette to join General John Sullivan.

In face of the British and Hessian superiority, Lafayette was shot in the leg.

The next day, the British heard that Lafayette had made camp nearby and sent 5, 000 men to capture him.

The flank scattered, and Lafayette organized a retreat while the British remained indecisive.

To feign numerical superiority, Lafayette ordered men to appear from the woods on an outcropping known as Barren Hill ( now Lafayette Hill ) and to fire upon the British periodically.

Unable to trap Lafayette, the British resumed their march north from Philadelphia to New York ; the Continental Army, including Lafayette, followed and finally attacked at the Monmouth Courthouse in New Jersey.

Louis XVI, pleased with the soldier after Lafayette proposed schemes for attacking the British, restored his position in the dragoons.

By August, Cornwallis had established the British at Yorktown, and Lafayette took up position on Malvern Hill.

Lafayette then helped prepare for a combined French and Spanish expedition against the British West Indies.

They hired as agent a multilingual young physician from the British Electorate of Hanover, Justus Erich Bollmann, who established contact with Lafayette in prison and acquired an assistant, a South Carolinian medical student named Francis Kinloch Huger.

Richmond was about to suffer the same fate, but Lafayette arrived, and the British, not wanting to engage in a major battle, withdrew to Petersburg on May 10.

Ten months of negotiations for the treaty were held largely at the Ashburton House, home of the British legation on Lafayette Square in Washington, D. C.

For instance, Marquis Lafayette proposed a combination of the American and British systems, introducing a bicameral parliament, with the king having the suspensive veto power in the legislature, modeled to the authority then recently vested in the President of the United States.

Prior to general decampment from Valley Forge in the spring of 1778, George Washington dispatched an estimated 2200 troops under the command of Marquis de Lafayette to act as a defensive screen and to conduct reconnaissance of the British army, which had garrisoned in Philadelphia for the winter.

( Two members of this same lodge, Washington and James Monroe, would later become American Presidents, and at least eight members were generals of the American Revolution ( Washington, Mercer, George Weedon, William Woodford, Fielding Lewis, Thomas Posey, Gustavus Wallace, and the Marquis de Lafayette ( honorary in 1824 ) – far more than any other group, institution or organization save the pre-Revolution British Army.