Opening the railway from Bombay to Calcutta in March 1870, the Viceroy of India said, "... it may happen that a thousand years hence, Mr. Brereton's ghost may still hover with amxious solicitude over the unbroken piers of the Trowa Viaduct ..."

Although every division commander requested two drops on the first day, Brereton's staff scheduled only one lift based on the need to prepare for the first drop by bombarding German flak positions for half a day and a weather forecast on the afternoon of 16 September ( which soon proved erroneous ) that the area would have clear conditions for four days, so allowing drops during them.

Brereton's break from previous Australian bipartisanship on East Timor policy was an important factor in the Howard Government's eventual decision to change Australian policy and intervene in East Timor in September 1999.

" Brereton's activism on the East Timor issue was strongly opposed by senior Labor political figures, notably former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and former Foreign Minister Gareth Evans and found little support from Federal Labor leader Kim Beazley.

In 1699, a family dispute broke out between these heirs, when Susanna Brereton's daughter Mary, who had married John Levett Esq., a barrister of the Inner Temple, London, petitioned the House of Lords in London on behalf of Edward Ward, 11th Baron Dudley and 3rd Baron Ward, who was an infant when his father died, and whose guardianship had been held by Edward, Earl of Meath, and his wife, who was the aunt of the infant lord.

; Nocturnals: Based on Dan Brereton's Nocturnals comic book series, the setting book was written by Mr. Brereton, with the assistance of Chris Pramas.

Brereton's medals are on display at the Lord Ashcroft Gallery, Imperial War Museum in London.

Although initially sent to a Services of Supply unit, Brereton's JMA rating enabled him to enter advanced flying training at Issoudun, which qualified him to take command of the 12th Aero Squadron on March 1, 1918.

Shortly after word of the attack on Pearl Harbor reached the Philippines on December 8, 1941, Brereton urged immediate air attacks against Japanese bases on Formosa in accordance with the Rainbow 5 war plan and Brereton's own aggressive nature.

Many of the most serious assaults on Brereton's reputation have thus originated from those who have risen to MacArthur's defense.

In six months under Brereton's command, October 16, 1943 to April 16, 1944, the Ninth Air Force expanded from 2, 162 to 163, 312 men.

He joined Brunel's design team, of which Brereton's second cousin R. P.

His superior in Panama was the same Gen. Brown who had rejected him for duty at First Corps Area headquarters, but Brereton's work performance reversed the general's earlier opinions and he received excellent ratings that restored the professional reputation nearly destroyed in 1927.

* Market: airborne forces of Lieutenant General Lewis H. Brereton's First Allied Airborne Army to seize bridges and other terrain, under tactical command of I Airborne Corps under Lieutenant-General Frederick Browning, and

Brereton's experience with tactical air operations judged that flak suppression would be sufficient to permit the troop carriers to operate without prohibitive loss.

In response to Brereton's urgent appeal for reinforcements, the Committee of Both Kingdoms ( the Parliamentarian body responsible for the conduct of the war ) ordered Sir Thomas Fairfax to proceed to Manchester.

White's Toyota crashed into the rear of PC Brereton's police car.

However Beazley was reluctant to challenge the combatative Brereton's handling of the issue and eventually accepted the change in Labor policy.

More Cavaliers entered Cheshire to counter Brereton's forces and in late 1643 he suffered his only major defeat at the Second Battle of Middlewich.

Brereton's second wife was Cicely, daughter of Sir William Skeffington, Baronet, of Staffordshire.

The verse in Brereton's earlier volumes was pleasant but not very distinguished, however Sea and Sky ( 1908 ), contained stronger work.

After an artillery barrage the Royalist cavalry charged the entrenched Parliamentarians, putting Gell's dragoons and his and Brereton's horse to flight.

The family moved to Annapolis, Maryland while Brereton's older brother, William Jr., was a midshipman at the Naval Academy.

Among the missions undertaken in 1943 by the heavy bomber units under Brereton's command was the minimum-altitude bombing of oil refineries at Ploieşti, Romania.

In August 1943, Operation Tidal Wave took place under Brereton's command.

Brereton's command team was rounded out when Brig.

Also in 1942 in preparation for a possible Japanese invasion of India, the British began improvements to the Kodaikanal-Munnar Road to facilitate its use as an evacuation route from Kodaikanal along the southern crest of the Palani Hills to Top Station.

Existing roads then continued to Munnar and down to Cochin where British ships would be available for evacuation out of India.

Medical abortion regimens using mifepristone in combination with a prostaglandin analog are the most common methods used to induce second-trimester abortions in Canada, most of Europe, China and India ; in contrast to the United States where 96 % of second-trimester abortions are performed surgically by dilation and evacuation.

After evacuation from Dunkirk, he continued to command the brigade in Britain until he was summoned to return to India in March 1941.

After Blackwill ordered the evacuation of embassy staff members, an event that was seen as a pressure tactic and partly credited for drawing India back from war, Blackwill encouraged India to resume dialogue with Pakistan.

Along with the fertilizer plant, Al-Qaim was also the site of a cement plant, which was run under a lease by Associated Cement Companies of India for a few years till the Gulf War forced evacuation in 1990.

The British evacuation of Afghanistan was settled on the terms proposed, and in 1881, the British troops also handed over Kandahar to the new Amir.

A distinguishing feature of most Compactrons is the placement of the evacuation tip on the bottom end, rather than the top end as was customary with " miniature " tubes, and a characteristic 3 / 4 " diameter circle pin pattern.

In May 1985, the vessel was instrumental for ' Operation Exodus ', the evacuation of about 300 Rongelap Atoll islanders whose home had been contaminated with nuclear fallout from a US nuclear test two decades ago which had never been cleaned up and was still having severe health effects on the locals.

Notified of the evacuation on October 22, evacuees were told to pack one suitcase per family member, to bring evacuation and immunization cards, to tie pets in the yard, to leave the keys to the house on the dining table, and to wait in front of the house for buses.

They are often designed to injure rather than kill in order to increase the logistical support ( evacuation, medical ) burden on the opposing force.

The first train departed on February 17 with 525 people enroute to Thuringia ( including Bleicherode, Sangerhausen ( district ), and Bad Sachsa ) and the evacuation was complete in mid-March.

Following the death of her parents when she was very young, she lived with her grandmother, Felisa Howard on Arvada III, a colony planet until a great moon collision caused the planet to flood, forcing its evacuation.

Michael Powell made The Edge of the World in 1937, a dramatisation based on the true story of the evacuation of the last 36 inhabitants of the remote island of St Kilda on 29 August 1930.

Afterwards, casualties are given an evacuation priority based on need:

* Zinnie Harris's play Further Than the Furthest Thing ( 2000 ) is inspired by events on the island, notably the 1961 volcanic eruption and evacuation of the islanders.

De Forest's device was not a hard vacuum tube, as he erroneously believed that it depended on the presence of residual gas remaining after evacuation.

Hanke finally lifted a ban on the evacuation of women and children when it was almost too late.

** A massive eruption of the Soufrière Hills volcano on the island of Montserrat leads to evacuation and eventual abandonment of the capital, Plymouth.

During World War II, Judge Louis E. Goodman dismissed the case against native Californian Masaaki Kuwabara and 25 other draft resisters from Tule Lake Segregation Center on due process grounds. His decision for the defense was unique among the Japanese-American draft resistance cases, and foreshadowed the cases on the Japanese evacuation and California's anti-Japanese Alien Land Law yet to be tried before the Supreme Court:

Heald oversaw the evacuation, but on August 15 the evacuees were ambushed by about 500 Potawatomi Indians in the Fort Dearborn Massacre.

General Order No. 11 is the title of a Union Army decree issued during the American Civil War on 25 August 1863, forcing the evacuation of rural areas in four counties in western Missouri.

The 112th captured Schmidt on 3 November, cutting the German supply route to Monschau, but no American supply, reinforcement or evacuation was possible, as the Kall Trail was blocked.

The Allied fleet now sailed from Artemisium to Salamis to assist with the final evacuation of Athens ; en route Themistocles left inscriptions addressed to the Ionian Greek crews of the Persian fleet on all springs of water that they might stop at, asking them to defect to the Allied cause.

The UN Security Council was called into session on 7 December 1960 to consider Soviet demands that the UN seek Lumumba's immediate release, the immediate restoration of Lumumba as head of the Congo government, the disarming of the forces of Mobutu, and the immediate evacuation of Belgians from the Congo.

When the Empire discovers the Rebel base on Hoth, Luke leads his squadron to cover the evacuation.