For instance, the County Longford IRA under Seán Mac Eoin carried out a number of well planned ambushes and successfully defended the village of Ballinalee against Black and Tan reprisals in a three-hour gun battle.

In 1863, the fort successfully defended Harrisonburg from the attack of four Union gunboats coming from the Black River to the Ouachita River.

Behind the Hungarians, closer to the Black Sea and the lake, was the Wagenburg, defended by 300 or 600 Czech and Ruthenian mercenaries under hetman Ceyka, along with Poles, Lithuanians and Wallachians.

Darren Aronofsky defended Portman's performance in Black Swan, stating that she had, in fact, performed a majority of her own dancing.

Two of the Censored Eleven directed by Bob Clampett have been defended by some film historians: Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs and Tin Pan Alley Cats.

Both 9th Parachute Battalion and the remnants of the Black Watch defended the Chateau Saint Come but were gradually forced to retreat ; however, after Lieutenant Colonel Otway stated that his battalion would be unable to defend its position for much longer, Brigadier Hill gathered together a number of paratroopers from 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion and led a counter-attack that forced the Germans to withdraw.

Tatchell defended himself by noting that the campaign was at the behest of the Jamaican gay rights group J-Flag, and the UK-based Black Gay Mens Advisory Group, with which he works closely.

Coal Black and De Sebben Dwarfs is often praised and defended by film scholars and animation historians, and has often been included on lists of the greatest animated films ever made.

In his 1972 study of The Ideological Origins of Black Nationalism, historian Sterling Stuckey suggested that Walker's Appeal " would become an ideological foundation … for Black Nationalist theory .” Though some have subsequently suggested that Stuckey overstated the extent to which Walker contributed to the creation of a black nation, Thabiti Asukile, in a 1999 article on " The All-Embracing Black Nationalist Theories of David Walker ’ s Appeal ", defended Stuckey's interpretation.

followed by 1 ... Rxd8 2. Rxd8 + ( note how White's rook defended his queen through the Black rook on d5 ) Qxd8 3. Rxd8 # or 1 ... Qxd8 2. Rxd5 Qf8 3. Rd8 and wins.

Others have defended a later period for the military change, thus Jeremy Black thinks that the key time period was that of 1660 – 1710, which saw an exponential growth in the size of European armies, while Clifford J. Rogers has developed the idea of successive military revolutions at different periods, first an “ infantry revolution ” in the 14th century, secondly an “ artillery revolution ” in the 15th century, thirdly a “ fortifications revolution ” in the 16th, fourth a “ fire weapons ” revolution between 1580 and 1630, and finally a fifth revolution, the increase in size of European armies, between 1650 and 1715.

Later, Foggy is blackmailed by the mysterious Mr. Kline, and is forced by him to prosecute the Black Widow, who is defended by Matt.

With the help of his brother Kęstutis, who defended the western border of the Duchy, he created a vast empire stretching from the Baltics to the Black Sea and reaching within fifty miles of Moscow.

The Black Watch, having stoutly defended their positions, were forced back by the overwhelming Chinese attack.

Hugo Black, a future Justice of the Supreme Court defended Stephenson.

Although Black violates an opening principle (" Don't move the same piece twice in the opening "), his move attacks White's bishop, forcing it to either move again or be defended.

Such a pawn may be weak, since it can no longer be defended by other pawns ; but it grants Black a foothold in the center, and Black's bishops will have unobstructed lines for development.

Most recently Boris Gelfand defended the Black side of this variation in the 2011 candidates matches which eventually he went on to win.

In the Battle of Phu Hoai ( 15 August 1883, the Black Flag Army successfully defended its positions against a French attack launched by General Alexandre-Eugène Bouët, though it took considerably higher casualties than the French.

Together with the Black Sea Cossack Host it defended the Caucasus Fortified Defense Line from the inlet of Terek River to the inlet of Kuban River.

Before the war, Grant also gave land on Jenkins Street for Atlanta's first Black church, Bethel Church ( now Big Bethel Baptist Church ), and defended the church ’ s right to the property after the Civil War.

On December 19, 2009, at Final Battle 2009, ROH's first live pay-per-view, he defended the title by wrestling Tyler Black to a 60 minute time limit draw.

There, along the east bank of the Southern Bug, opposite the hamlet of Zhitzhakli a few miles north of the Black Sea, he arrived at General Headquarters of the Russian Army.

" Approval from Louis arrived on 27 June: Tallard was to reinforce Marsin and the Elector on the Danube via the Black Forest, with 40 battalions and 50 squadrons ; Villeroi was to pin down the Allies defending the Lines of Stollhofen, or, if the Allies should move all their forces to the Danube, he was to join with Marshal Tallard ; and General de Coignies with 8, 000 men, would protect Alsace.

A treaty was signed in 1832 by Sauk Indian tribe chief Keokuk and United States Army General Winfield Scott to end the Black Hawk War.

* 1810 – Jeremiah S. Black, American jurist & statesman ; 24th United States Attorney General ; and 23rd United States Secretary of State ( d. 1883 )

The " Black Pope " is a name that was popularly, but unofficially, given to the Superior General of the Society of Jesus due to the Jesuits ' importance within the Church.

The Black Army, which counted numerous Jews and Ukrainian peasants in its ranks, played a key part in halting General Denikin's White Army offensive towards Moscow during 1919, later ejecting Cossack forces from the Crimea.

Meanwhile, Harrison became a record producer of some note – his résumé includes the Violent Femmes ' The Blind Leading the Naked, the Fine Young Cannibals ' The Raw and the Cooked, General Public's Rub It Better, Crash Test Dummies ' God Shuffled His Feet, Live's Throwing Copper, No Doubt's song " New " from Return of Saturn, and most recently work by The Black and White Years and Kenny Wayne Shepherd.

* June 15 – Bud Bagsak Massacre: U. S. troops under General John ' Black Jack ' Pershing kill at least 2, 000 civilians in Bud Bagsak, the Philippines.

* During the Spanish – American War US Army General John J. Pershing's original nickname, Nigger Jack, given to him as an instructor at West Point because of his service with " Buffalo Soldier " units, was euphemized to Black Jack by reporters.

For the task, Prime Minister Stephen Harper convened a special search group — the Governor General Consultation Committee — which consisted of Sheila-Marie Cook, secretary to the Governor General ( the chairperson ); Canadian Secretary to the Queen and Usher of the Black Rod Kevin MacLeod ; Christopher Manfredi, dean of the Faculty of Arts at McGill University ; Rainer Knopff, a political scientist at the University of Calgary ; Father Jacques Monet, of the Canadian Institute of Jesuit Studies ; and Christopher McCreery, historian and private secretary to the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia.

In his last address to the General Assembly on January 9, 1963, ahead of the peaceful admission of the first Black student Harvey Gantt to Clemson University, Hollings declared: " As we meet, South Carolina is running out of courts ... this General Assembly must make clear South Carolina's choice, a government of laws rather than a government of men ... This should be done with dignity.

( Hugo Black, dissenting, Connecticut General Life Insurance Company v. Johnson ( 303 U. S. 77, 1938 ).

Additionally, Patrash Pasha ( Cigars of the Pharaoh ), Sheikh Bab El Ehr ( Land of Black Gold ) and General Tapioca ( referred to in The Broken Ear and appearing later in Tintin and the Picaros ) are all referred to but don't appear.

Rapoport's autobiography Certainties and Doubts: A Philosophy of Life ( Black Rose Books, 2000 ) gives some of the history of the General Semantics movement as he saw it.

These killings were ordered by the officers from Sondergruppe R. Regarding the Femegerichte murders, Ossietzky wrote: " Lieutenant Schulz ( charged with the murder of informers against the Black Reichswehr ) did nothing but carry out the orders given him, and that certainly Colonel von Bock, and probably Colonel von Schleicher and General Seeckt, should be sitting in the dock beside him ".

By the early 1990s, the music associated with this experimentation had gained prominence with releases on a variety of record labels including Warp Records ( 1989 ), Black Dog Productions ( 1989 ), R & S Records ( 1989 ), Carl Craig's Planet E, Rising High Records ( 1991 ), Richard James's Rephlex Records ( 1991 ), Kirk Degiorgio's Applied Rhythmic Technology ( 1991 ), Eevo Lute Muzique ( 1991 ), General Production Recordings ( 1989 ), Soma Quality Recordings ( 1991 ), Peacefrog Records ( 1991 ), and Metamorphic Recordings ( 1992 ).

General Edmund P. Gaines, commander of the Western Department of the United States Army, assembled troops with the hope of intimidating Black Hawk into leaving.

Previously, the Winnebago Prophet had encouraged Black Hawk to come to Prophetstown, arguing that the 1831 agreement made with General Gaines prohibited a return to Saukenuk, but did not forbid the Sauks from moving to Prophetstown.

Beginning in the early 1970s he became a prolific illustrator for many anarchist, radical, alternative and mainstream publications, organisations, groups and individuals including Freedom Press, Undercurrents, Respect for Animals, BIT Newsletter, Arts Lab Newsletter, Idiot International, 1977 Firemans Strike, Libertarian Education, The Idler, Radical Community Medicine, Anarchy Magazine, Black Flag, Anarchy Comix, Common Ground, Industrial Worker, Aberlour Distillery, Country Life, Graphical Paper and Media Union, The Times Saturday Review, Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival, New Scientist, Oxford University Press, Penguin Books, Times Educational Supplement, London Anarchist Bookfair, Public and Commercial Services Union, The Sunday Times Magazine, Catholic Worker, Soil Association, The Bodleian Library, New Statesman, Cienfeugos Anarchist Review, Headline Books, The Financial Times, Resurgence, Scotland on Sunday, Town and Country Planning Association, Movement Against A Monarchy, Nursing Times, John Hegarty, The Listener, Zero, McCallan Whisky, Solidarity, New Society, News from Neasden, House & Garden, The Tablet, Radical Science Journal, Royal Mail, The Co-ops Fairs, Picador Books, Pluto Press, Working Press, Anarchismo, Insurrection, Our Generation, Ogilvy & Mather, Vogue, Radio Times, National Union of Teachers, Faber & Faber, Pimlico, Trades Union Congress, Transport and General Workers Union, Serpents Tale, Compendium Books, Poison Girls, Yale University Press, The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, Elephant Editions, Intelligent Life, Landworker, Zounds, Honey, New Musical Express, Knockabout Comics, Trickett and Webb, The Times, See Sharp Press, Countryside Commission, Industrial Common Ownership Movement, BBC Worldwide, Stop the War Coalition, The Folio Society, Unison, Anarchist Studies, Country Standard, Fitzrovia News, Anarchist Black Cross and many others.

Winters went on to defeat local businessman Charles Black, a Republican, in in the General Election to take the office.

Major General Samuel Holden Parsons, commander in the Continental Army under Gen. Israel Putnam, later chief judge of the Northwest Territory, lived on Black Rock Turnpike.

The Connecticut General Assembly passed the " Black Law " which prohibited the education of black children from out of state, but Crandall persisted in teaching, and was briefly jailed in 1832.