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Out in front of our walls the grass was covered with dead and dying men, war shields, lances, blankets and wounded and dead horses.
After the war, Penny had wanted Keith at least to visit her home with her.
Author of the Albany Plan Of Union, which, had it been adopted, might have avoided the Revolution, he fought the colonists' front-line battles in London, negotiated the treaty of alliance with France and the peace that ended the war, headed the state government of Pennsylvania, and exercised an important moderating influence at the Federal Convention.
The active sponsor of Jefferson's measure for religious liberty in Virginia, Madison played the most influential single role in the drafting of the Constitution and in securing its ratification in Virginia, founded the first political party in American history, and, as Jefferson's Secretary of State and his successor in the Presidency, guided the nation through the troubled years of our second war with Britain.
After the war began, he long refused to permit emancipation of the slaves by Union action even in the Border States that stayed with the Union.
The networks for military communications are one of the best examples of networks which not only must be changed with the changes in objectives but also must be changed with the addition of new machines of war.
We will recall that the still confident liberals of the Truman administration gathered with other Western utopians in San Francisco to set up the legal framework, finally and at last, to rationalize war -- to rationalize want and fear -- out of the world: the United Nations.
Then suddenly we found ourselves in the middle of another fight, an irrational, an indecent, an undeclared and immoral war with our strongest ( and some had thought noblest ) ally.
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.
Captain Heard did not communicate with any strange vessels because of the possibility of war between the United States and Britain.
Robbie was a war veteran with battle-shattered knees.
But his concentration on personalities and his categorical assessment of their actions fail to convey the political complexities of a long generation harassed by world-wide war and confronted with the problem of adjustment to an unprecedented industrial and social transformation.
Catherine's first war against the Grand Turk had ended in 1774 with a peace treaty quite favorable to her.
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.
The Walnut Trees Of Altenburg includes not one war but two, and throws in a Turkish revolution along with some guerrilla fighting in the desert for good measure.
But while war still serves as a catalyst for the values that Malraux wishes to express, these values are no longer linked with the triumph or defeat of any cause -- whether that of an individual assertion of the will-to-power, or a collective attempt to escape from the humiliation of oppression -- as their necessary condition.
In a pessimistic assessment of the cold war, Eden declared: `` There must be much closer unity within the West before there can be effective negotiation with the East ''.
There are only two men remaining in Congress who, with Rayburn, voted for the declaration of war against Germany in 1917.
It was on the eve of a momentous U.N. session to come to grips with cold war issues.
The Free Democrats ( 12 per cent of the vote ) believe a nuclear war can be avoided by negotiating with the Soviet Union, and more dealings with the Communist bloc.
Both won a pretty fair-sized war with a modest assist from British strategy.
The war could have continued many years with many thousands killed on both sides.
That is why the United Nations was formed so that intelligent men with good intentions from all countries could meet and solve problems without resorting to war.

war and Ming
Around the dynastic Tang, Song, and early Ming Period, cuirasses and plates ( mingguangjia ) were also used, with more elaborate versions for officers in war.
When the Ming army finally captured Yunnan from Mongols in 1382, thousands of prisoners were killed and, according to the custom in times of war, their young sons – including Zheng He – were castrated.
* The Japanese invasions of Korea ( 1592 – 1598 ) was a full scale war between a Ming dynasty and Joseon coalition and the invading Japanese
Meanwhile, the Ming court reluctantly decided on a military intervention into the Vietnamese civil war, but Mạc Đăng Dung offered ritual submission to the Ming Empire, which was accepted.
The Ming fleet consisted of six large war junks, 57 lighter war galleys and two panokseon given to Chen Lin by Admiral Yi, with 5, 000 Ming soldiers of the Guangdong squadron and 2, 600 Ming marines who fought aboard Joseon ships.
In 1618, he proclaimed Seven Grievances ( nadan amba koro 七大恨 ) against Ming government to Heaven and declared war on the Ming forces.
It suffered another blow in the war at the end of Ming Dynasty-in 1644 the gate was burnt down by rebels led by Li Zicheng.
A major newspaper during the Republican years, it continued to be influential after re-publication by Fei Yi Ming, the subsequent publisher in Hong Kong after 1949, as one of few newspapers that survived foreign invasion and civil war.
Oboi's raise in the Banner hierarchy continued apace with the Manchus ' war with the Ming Dynasty, in 1645 he was promoted to the rank of General.
# Korea will serve for Qing in the war against Ming.
In 1411, the Ming Dynasty fought a war against the Kingdom of Kotte.
In 1360 the Dahan fleet and army began a long war against Wu forces-based at that time in Jiqing ( present-day Nanjing ) and was later renamed " Ming " in 1368.
According, in 1473 he went to war against China, and even succeeded in capturing Hami in 1473 from the Oirat Mongol Henshen and holding it for a while, until Ali was repulsed by the Ming Dynasty into Turfan, but he reoccupied it after Ming left.
When Flash Gordon arrives on Mongo, he finds Prince Barin is leading a guerrilla war against Ming from Arboria.
It effectively declared war against the Ming Dynasty.
The Ming loyalists had lost the war and their leaders and remaining rebels hid among the locals.

war and Dynasty
Taking advantage of civil war in the Jin Dynasty, the contemporary non-Han Chinese ( Wu Hu ) ethnic groups controlled much of the country in the early 4th century and provoked large-scale Han Chinese migrations to south of the Yangtze River.
The Jurchen-founded Jin Dynasty was defeated by the Mongols, who then proceeded to defeat the Southern Song in a long and bloody war, the first war in which firearms played an important role.
* 971 – In China, the war elephant corps of the Southern Han are soundly defeated at Shao by crossbow fire from Song Dynasty troops.
In ancient China, large naval battles were known since the Qin Dynasty ( also see Battle of Red Cliffs, 208 ), employing the war junk during the Han Dynasty.
The culture of war in China: empire and the military under the Qing Dynasty.
The death of Ivan's sons marked the end of the ancient Rurik Dynasty in 1598, and in combination with the famine of 1601 – 03 led to the civil war, the rule of pretenders and foreign intervention during the Time of Troubles in the early 17th century.
In China, there was a triangular affair of continued war and peace settlements between the Song Dynasty, the Tanguts-led Western Xia in the northwest, and the Khitans of the Liao Dynasty in the northeast.
* 1075 – 1077: the Song Dynasty of China and theDynasty of Vietnam fight a border war, with Vietnamese forces striking first on land and with their navy, and afterwards Song armies advancing as far as modern-day Hanoi, the capital, but withdraw after Lý makes peace overtures ; in 1082, both sides exchange the territories that they had captured during the war, and later a border agreement is reached.
* 206 BC – 202 BC: Civil war of the Chu-Han contention in China after the fall of the Qin Dynasty.
* The Northern Wei Dynasty ends: The northern region of China is during a civil war split into the Eastern Wei and the Western Wei.
This war weakened the Jin Dynasty, and it soon fell to the kingdom of Han Zhao.
Kublai gains a preliminary victory and war booty of 146 captured Song Dynasty naval ships.
* Emperor Chandragupta II, ruler of the Gupta Empire, begins a war against the Shaka Dynasty in West India.
Buddhism created a unifying cultural force that uplifted the people out of war and into the Sui Dynasty.
In contrast, during the Zhou Dynasty and the ensuing Warring States Period, the prevalent philosophy had dictated war as a gentleman's activity ; military commanders were instructed to respect what they perceived to be Heaven's laws in battle.
* War of the Eight Princes: After the death of Emperor Sima Yan ( Jin Wudi ) a civil war breaks out among the princes and dukes of the Jin Dynasty.
Under his successor Samsu-iluna ( 1749-1712 BC ) the far south of Mesopotamia was lost to a native Akkadian king called Ilum-ma-ili and became The Sealand Dynasty, remaining free of Babylon for the next 272 years, and both the Babylonians and Amorites were driven from Assyria to the north by an Assyrian governor named Puzur-Sin, and after a civil war, a native king named Adasi seized power.
* January 23 – In China, the war elephant corps of the Southern Han are soundly defeated at Shao by crossbow fire from Song Dynasty troops.

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