For he seemed to sense at once that before him was no South Sea, but the solid bulk of the North American continent.

Commercial farming became viable in the area once the grain trade had developed technologies to handle the bulk export of grain, especially hopper cars and grain elevators.

These flows now form the bulk of the Main Range, Little Liverpool Range and Mistake Range and once covered a much wider area that includes both the Lockyer Valley and Fassifern Valley.

The bulk of Latinos live in the city's older, central section and in the area along Ramon Road between Cathedral Canyon Drive and Landau Boulevard and the Mid Valley Parkway, a section once known as " the Square Mile " but now commonly referred to by the city's denizens as " Little Mexico ".

Recently, the American population of the Kwajalein installation has dropped dramatically, and the aluminum-sided trailers that once housed the bulk of the contractor population are systematically being removed from the main island.

Alphonse Picou at least once followed fellow musicians up north to Chicago about 1917-1918 ( and possibly briefly to New York City in the early 1920s ) but said he didn't like it up north and spent the bulk of his career in his home city.

Property developers JJ Gallagher had purchased the bulk of the FH Lloyd site site in 1988 and once mineshafts were filled in, decontamination was completed and the River Tame was diverted, the land was suitable for mass retail development.

As the colonel's personal staff officer, he was once in charge of all the organization, administration and discipline for a battalion or regiment, although now the bulk of administrative work is carried out by the Regimental Administrative Officer ( RAO ).

It was not until 1761, when he was in his eightieth year, that he brought out the great work which, once for all, made pathological anatomy a science, and diverted the course of medicine into new channels of exactness or precision — the De Sedibus et causis morborum per anatomem indagatis, which during the succeeding ten years, notwithstanding its bulk, was reprinted several times ( thrice in four years ) in its original Latin, and was translated into French ( 1765 ), English ( 1769 ), and German ( 1771 ).

New York City saw the bulk of this initial Dominican population growth, and once those first Dominican immigrates got settled in, New York City became the hub of Dominican culture in the US.

However, Alfred naturally favoured his own son, leaving the bulk of his property to Edward in his will, and giving him opportunities for command in battle once he was old enough.

The bulk of their visits to People took place once their collective popularity with kids and pre-teens took off.

The court once again held that a website operators ' transmission of unsolicited bulk emails to customers of an ISP, using the provider's computers and computer network, constituted trespass to chattels.

Management viewed the mobile communications firm as a core asset once the bulk of media assets had been sold off.

The cavalry was not trained to act collectively on command, once dispersed it could not be formed again but since cavalry was the bulk of the army, the object of the Moghal commander was to engage the enemy on an open plain where he could deliver a massed charge of mail clad warriors.

The team would then rehire Earle and Chamberlain but Alan Jenkins was soon fired after refusing to work with Earle, and to make matters worse, Earle and Chamberlain would leave once again along with Team Manager Rheinhardt and the bulk of Onyx's experienced staff.

German planners assumed the area would be captured in mop-up operations once the bulk of the Red Army was destroyed west of the Dnieper river.

The bulk of their art collection was sold at auction in 1929 Two works once in their collection are in the National Gallery, three at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and others at the ( Mellon ) Yale Center for British Art and other museums.

The wheatbelt once had an extensive railway system which transported bulk wheat grain, but it has progressively been run down by lack of funding on maintenance and infrastructure and lack of government support.

A filter sock or filter disk in the pipeline prevents large particulate contaminants from entering the milk bulk tank, but cannot remove bacterial contamination once it has occurred.

Salt potatoes originated in Syracuse and once comprised the bulk of a salt worker's daily diet.

Lake Grace has a population of about 530 and was once considered a typical wheatbelt town with the inevitable grain silos, CBH bulk loading facilities and a pub.

Defeat in detail is a military phrase referring to the tactic of bringing a large portion of one's own force to bear on small enemy units in sequence, rather than engaging the bulk of the enemy force all at once.

The bulk of the population once toiled on the surrounding sugar cane estates, however, the local sugar industry was shut down in 2005, following plummeting world sugar prices and a growing national deficit.

Macedonian and Bulgarian are sharply divergent from the remaining South Slavic languages, Serbo-Croatian and Slovene, and indeed all other Slavic languages, in that they don't use noun cases ( except for the vocative, and apart from some traces of once productive inflections still found scattered throughout the languages ).

* An earthquake destroys the Illyrian ( Macedonian ) city of Scupi ( later Skopje ) in what once was the Roman province of Moesia Superior.

Macedonian police say they found a cache of weapons once again and it might be linked with the NLA, which threatens to ignite a new Balkan civil war.

* The Macedonian king, Perdiccas II, once again betrays the Athenians and sends 1000 troops to support a Spartan assault on Acarnania but they arrive too late to help.

His conduct in supporting the Macedonian cause, yet receiving any bribes that were offered by the opposite party, caused him to be heavily fined more than once ; and he was finally deprived of his civil rights.

Rome once again dispatched its legions into Greece, and thoroughly put down the Macedonian rebellion.

The once subnational public radio and TV stations changed to national but under new names, including: RTV Slovenia, Croatian RTV, RTV Serbia, Macedonian RTV and so on.

The British army at least once attempted to use smallpox as a weapon, when they gave contaminated blankets to the Lenape during Pontiac's War ( 1763 – 66 ).

General Oreste Baratieri, commander of the Italian forces, knew the Ethiopian forces had been living off the land, and once the supplies of the local peasants were exhausted, Emperor Menelik's army would begin to melt away.

Following Bokassa, David Dacko was restored in 1981, only to be overthrown once again by his new army chief of staff, General André Kolingba after only a few months in power.

Clausewitz's father was once a lieutenant in the Prussian army and held a minor post in the Prussian internal revenue service.

With the rise of drilled and trained infantry, the mounted men-at-arms, now sometimes called gendarmes and often part of the standing army themselves, adopted the same role as in the Hellenistic age, that of delivering a decisive blow once the battle was already engaged, either by charging the enemy in the flank or attacking their commander-in-chief.

Domitian then wrote to Cerialis personally, suggesting he hand over command of his army but, once again, he was snubbed.

The docks required an army of workers, chiefly lightermen ( who carried loads between ships and quays aboard small barges called lighters ) and quayside workers, who dealt with the goods once they were ashore.

The British pretense that their troops were merely supporting Shah Shujah's small army in retaking what was once his throne fooled no one.

Its economy was weak, its leadership poor, and the once mighty Prussian army was a hollow shell.

Charles VII ( reigned 1422 – 1461 ) established the first French standing army, the Compagnies d ' ordonnance, and defeated the Plantagenets once at Patay ( 1429 ) and again, using cannons, at Formigny ( 1450 ).

After Lee's army had withdrawn back to Virginia, Stuart performed another of his audacious circumnavigations of the Army of the Potomac — 120 miles in under 60 hours, from Leesburg, Virginia, to as far north as Chambersburg and Mercersburg, Pennsylvania — once again embarrassing his Union opponents and seizing horses and supplies, but at the expense of exhausted men and animals, without gaining much military advantage.

Nevertheless, Parliament was closed once again by military force until such time that the army and leaders of Parliament could effect a resolution.

This made them problematic ; while at war they were considerably more reliable than a standing army, at peacetime they proved a risk to the state itself like the Praetorian Guard had once been.

His army needed over a month to reach the line of the Oder River, and once there, his troops encountered strong resistance led by Mieszko and his father.

The radicales again invaded from Argentina, and when the charismatic Eduardo Schaerer became president, Gondra returned as minister of war to reorganize the army once more.

Although once at the heart of San Marino's army, the Crossbow Corps is now an entirely ceremonial force of about 70 volunteer soldiers.

* α Sge: also known as Sham, this yellow bright giant star of spectral class G1 II ( with 4. 37m ) lies at a distance of 610 light-years and together with β Sge ( also 4. 37m ) forms either the feathers of the shaft or the two-pointed arrow once used in the Roman army.

" He ( Antiochus ) crossed the Caucasus and descended into India ; renewed his friendship with Sophagasenus the king of the Indians ; received more elephants, until he had a hundred and fifty altogether ; and having once more provisioned his troops, set out again personally with his army: leaving Androsthenes of Cyzicus the duty of taking home the treasure which this king had agreed to hand over to him ".

" What are we to make, then, of trader Henry Francis Fynn's statement that once the Zulu army reached hard and stony ground in 1826, Shaka ordered sandals of ox-hide to be made for himself?

However, once there, they were warned by Alexander I of Macedon that the vale could be bypassed by several other passes, and that the army of Xerxes was overwhelmingly large, and the Greeks retreated.

Burgundy's insistence that the French army not attack led Marlborough once again to unite his army with Eugene's, allowing the allied army to crush the French at the Battle of Oudenarde, and then proceeded to capture Lille.

( 2 ) There, once he had described his achievements, he complained mildly about his soldiers ' lot more than his own regarding the fact that after the settlement of the province he had not been permitted to bring his army home.