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As the war was badly prepared and without the expected initial success, anger rose against the king within the military ranks deployed to Finland, where the memory of the harsh Russian occupations of 1713 – 21 ( the " Greater Wrath ") ( Isoviha in Finnish ) and 1741 – 43 ( the " Lesser Wrath ") ( Pikkuviha in Finnish ) remained vivid.
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`` But that was war '', I said.
Out in front of our walls the grass was covered with dead and dying men, war shields, lances, blankets and wounded and dead horses.
The war captain had been badly wounded and was fighting to hold his seat.
Keith Sterling had looked down on the Brahmaputra more times than he could remember, during the war days when he flew over the Hump of the world, thinking it high adventure in those times before man was guiding himself through outer space.
But `` after the war '' was a luxury of a phrase he did not permit himself.
The RAF was Britain's weapon of attrition, and flying a fighter plane was the way her sons could serve her best at this point in the war.
It was a war of nerves, of stamina, of dogged endurance in which the stupid insistence of the British on their right to their own country became ultimately an unsurmountable obstacle to the Nazis, who were better organized and technically superior.
He had a war reputation, but this was the kind of man women like even without medals.
In every war of the United States since the Civil War the South was more belligerent than the rest of the country.
what they feared most was war or political instability in their own country.
One is tempted to say that, on the difference between the concepts of sovereignty in these two preambles, the worst war of the Nineteenth century was fought.
To my knowledge, Lincoln remains the only Head of State and Commander-in-Chief who, while fighting a fearful war whose issue was in doubt, proved man enough to say this publicly -- to give his foe the benefit of the fact that in all human truth there is some error, and in all our error, some truth.
And by the time the war ended, liberal leadership in this country was spiritually Marxist.
`` I hated the war '', he said, `` but thought I ought to go because I was, perhaps, one of those who hadn't done enough to prevent it ''.
In June, 1940, Sergeant Helion, with a company of reserve troops waiting to go into battle, was sketching the hills south of the Loire River, when the war suddenly rolled in upon him.
`` It was then I knew that they were making war against Man, the individual within!!
Robbie was a war veteran with battle-shattered knees.
Mama had told her how Emmett's lungs had been affected when he was gassed in the war.
A popular belief grew up after the war that the only time during the Civil War that Thomas ever put his horse to a gallop was when he went to hurry up Stanley for this assault.
It was the hard way to fight a war but Thomas did it without making any disastrous mistakes.
At headquarters -- sufficiently far from the firing line to make you forget occasionally that you were in a war -- Lewis found that the Commander in Chief's only desk was his knees ( and his only comb, his fingers ).
It was not merely a hunger for `` money, gold and precious objects '' that delayed the papal pronouncement that could have brought the war to an end ; ;
In spite of the armistice negotiated by Amadee two years earlier, the war between Bishop Guillaume of Lausanne and Louis of Savoy was still going on, and although little is known about it, that little proves that it was yet another phase of the struggle against French expansion and was closely interwoven with the larger conflict.
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When war went badly, prices rose and the sans-culottes — poor labourers and radical Jacobins – rioted ; counter-revolutionary activities began in some regions.
The war is going badly for the Confederacy.
The war went badly.
The war went very badly, and when the British burned the capitol building on August 24, 1814, Madison removed John Armstrong as Secretary of War and turned to Monroe for help, appointing him Secretary of War on September 27.
He helped to invent the payroll withholding tax system, since the federal government badly needed money in order to fight the war.
It is suggested that their war with the Rutan Host is going badly at this point, hence the need for reinforcements.
An important reason, regardless of perspective, was that after a decade of the U. S. backed war and embargo, Nicaragua's economy and infrastructure were badly damaged and the United States obviously supported only parties in opposition to the Sandinista.
Occupation of the ceded territories by Germany required large amounts of manpower and trucks, yet yielded little in the way of foodstuffs or other war material, even as the Germans were transferring hundreds of thousands of veteran troops to the Western Front as rapidly as they could, where they began a series of spring offensives that badly shocked the Allies.
With the threat of Japan imminent and with the Australian army suffering badly in the Greek and Crete campaigns, Menzies re-organised his ministry and announced multiple multi-party committees to advise on war and economic policy.
The game opens in the seventeenth year of the Province's war against the Fallen Lords, a war humanity is losing badly.
At this time the Liberal Party was badly split as Herbert Henry Asquith, Richard Burdon Haldane and others were supporters of the war and formed the Liberal Imperial League.
The war went badly for Greece, and the Turks made large gains.
More recently, writing in the Encyclopedia of Prisoners of War and Internment, S. P. MacKenzie states, " That German prisoners were treated very badly in the months immediately after the war ... is beyond dispute.
By the end of the war nearly a quarter of the buildings in the area had been destroyed or badly damaged.
On 7 September 1944, with the war going badly for the Japanese, Prime Minister Koiso promised independence for Indonesia, but no date was set.
The war with Brazil, moreover, went badly.
To make matters worse, agriculture had been the main economic activity before the war, and its infrastructure had been badly damaged.
Stilicho also fought a war in Britain in this time period, likely in the year 398, though a critical analysis of Claudian strongly suggests that it went badly.
Factories, badly damaged by civil war and capital depreciation, were far less productive.
The war had been going badly for Masseria, and Luciano saw an opportunity to switch allegiance.
The British were petrified at the idea of a Russian invasion of their crown colony of India, though Russia – badly defeated by Japan in the Russo-Japanese war and weakened by internal rebellion – could not realistically afford a showdown against Britain there.
On their return a few years later, Andrew saw service in the Greco-Turkish War ( 1919 – 1922 ), but the war went badly for Greece, and Andrew was blamed, in part, for the loss of Greek territory.
The war started badly for the US and UN.
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