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At the Battle of Red Cliffs in 208, Huang Gai suggested to Zhou Yu that a fire attack would be the best strategy to use in order to defeat Cao Cao's gigantic fleet and overwhelming numbers.
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At the same time further expansion in the Red Bridge Subdivision required the construction of additional sewage treatment facilities.
At the beginning of the war, a discontinuous front line ran through southern Finland from west to east, dividing the country into White Finland and Red Finland.
At least a third of the Red terror and perhaps most of the White terror was centrally led.
At the beginning of the war the governments of White Finland and Red Finland officially opposed acts of terror, but such operational decisions were made at the military level.
At the end of the war, with Berlin surrounded by the Red Army, Göring sent a telegram to Hitler suggesting he take over leadership of the Reich.
At that time, a Bolshevik revolt took place in the Menshevik-controlled Democratic Republic of Georgia, and the Red Army subsequently invaded.
At the same time, Davis recruited the players for a formation that became known as his " first great quintet ": John Coltrane on tenor saxophone, Red Garland on piano, Paul Chambers on bass, and Philly Joe Jones on drums.
At this time, several Polish territorial acquisitions of his father were lost: Upper Lusatia ( also known as Milsko ), part of Lower Lusatia, Red Ruthenia, western and central part of Upper Hungary ( now Slovakia ) and probably Moravia.
At war's start, the Red Army comprised 299 infantry regiments.
At the Civil War's start, ex-Tsarists comprised 75 per cent of the Red Army officer corps, who were employed as voenspetsy ( military specialists ), whose loyalty was occasionally ascertained with hostage families.
At war's end in 1922, ex-Tsarists constituted 83 per cent of the Red Army's divisional and corps commanders.
At the beginning of its existence, the Red Army functioned as a voluntary formation, without ranks or insignia.
At the urging of Leonard Chess at Chess Records, Chuck Berry had reworked a country fiddle tune with a long history, entitled " Ida Red ".
At the start of the war, three quarters of the Red Army officer corps was composed of former Tsarist officers.
* At the Red River Zoo in Fargo, North Dakota, twins were born in 2008 and triplets in 2009.
At the New Orleans slave market, Burch's partner Thomas Freeman sold Northup under the name of Platt to William Ford, a planter on Bayou Boeuf of the Red River ( Mississippi ) in Louisiana.
At the end of the book they are associated with the Red Queen and the White Queen respectively in the looking-glass world.
At 8: 30am ( 3: 30am in Washington, D. C .) on 26 May, Attack Warning Red is transmitted, sending the emergency operations team into frantic action.
At the end of 1944 an additional 30, 000-60, 000 Poles were moved into the city after Nazis crushed the Warsaw Uprising In February 1945 the Soviet Red Army approached the city.
At the international level, the Communist International organized various international front organizations ( linking national mass organizations with each other ), such as the Young Communist International, Profintern, Krestintern, International Red Aid, Sportintern, etc ..
At the time of his death Bolesław I left Poland larger than the land he had inherited: he had added to his domains the long-contested marches of Lusatia and Sorbian Meissen as well as Red Ruthenia and possibly Lesser Poland.
At the same time, Dodge also introduced its first V8 engine – the Red Ram Hemi, a smaller version of the original design of the famed Hemi.
At the beginning of the Franco-Prussian War, in 1870, she assisted the grand duchess of Baden in the preparation of military hospitals, and gave the Red Cross society much aid during the war.
At the time, this was virtually monopolized by the Republic of Venice, who operated overland routes via Levantine and Egyptian ports, through the Red Sea across to the spice markets of India.
At the same time, many large and prominent Red Guard organizations rose in protest against other Red Guard organizations who ran dissimilar revolutionary messages, further complicating the situation and exacerbating the chaos.
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