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By now, the legions escorting the baggage, having received a report of the action, had come on at double pace and the enemy could see them coming over the hill above the camp.
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By now, the war is nearing its end and the German Army is retreating.
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By and legions
By the end of his reign, Diocletian had secured the entire length of the Danube, provided it with forts, bridgeheads, highways, and walled towns, and sent fifteen or more legions to patrol the region ; an inscription at Sexaginta Prista on the Lower Danube extolled restored tranquilitas at the region.
By the afternoon of 20 December Vitellius was dead, his armies having been defeated by the Flavian legions.
By 64 BC, Julius Caesar's legions had established their occupation, and the Romans had thus unified all three regions of Libya ( Tripolitania, Cyrenaica and northern Fezzan ) in one single new province called Africa proconsularis ( later Cyrenaica was separated administratively ).
By the 1st century BC the threat of the legions under a demagogue was recognized.
By Thy legions, the ages of time!
By 280 BC, the Senate had assumed total control of state taxation, expenditure, declarations of war, treaties, raising of legions, establishing colonies and religious affairs.
By the end of Augustus ' reign, the imperial army numbered some 250, 000 men, equally split between legionaries and auxiliaries 25 legions and c. 250 auxiliary regiments ).
Part of the inscription reads " By the loving hands of their families, pupils of their singing schools, and legions of singers and friends.
Part of the inscription reads " By the loving hands of their families, pupils of their singing schools, and legions of singers and friends.
By the fourth Harry Potter book, the legions of Harry Potter fans had grown so large that considerable security measures were taken to ensure that no book was purchased before the official release date.
By April 70, Jerusalem was under siege by four legions, and even after the city walls were overcome, the defenders held out in the Temple.
By 67, the province was secure enough to allow Legio XIV Gemina to be withdrawn, but inactivity, and the lack of opportunities for booty, led to mutinies among the legions that remained.
By 311 BC the people acquired the right to elect sixteen tribunes of the soldiers, that is, four out of the six tribunes assigned to each of the four legions that formed the Roman Army.
By Roman times many tiles were being made under the auspices of various Roman legions, and were imprinted with a stamp of the legion's insignia.
By and escorting
By this time, Hood and Prince of Wales, with escorting destroyers, were en route to the Denmark Strait, where two cruisers, Norfolk and Suffolk were already patrolling.
By the time Chaser returns to Scapa Flow on March 9 after escorting the returning Convoy RA 57, her aircraft have sunk or assisted in the sinking of three German submarines, with only one merchant ship lost.
By and baggage
By means of belts and rollers an operator can maneuver the ULD from the dolly cart, up to the aircraft baggage hold door, and into the aircraft.
By the time the final reckoning arrived even those funds had run out, and their landlord, ignoring the offers of pieces of art, confiscated all their baggage in lieu of payment.
By the end of the decade, the construction of American Airlines ' baggage sorting facility between Concourses C and D saw the closure of all gates on the west side of the concourse, with Gate C1 following soon afterward.
By 1905, over 2, 000, 000 freight, passenger, mail, baggage and express railroad cars and 89, 000 locomotives in the United States were equipped with the Westinghouse Automatic Brake.
By midnight, the plan was complete, with the baggage on its way to Burlington and the guns wrapped in heavy cloth to stifle noise and prevent the British from learning of the evacuation.
By the close of the 1960s the airport had doubled its baggage claim area and added a terminal, a tower, a lobby, a hotel, parking meters, and a second runway.
For the BBC Learning project " Off By Heart Shakespeare ", Omid played Lord Capulet from Romeo and Juliet and delivered the speech " Hang thee, young baggage, disobedient wretch!
By limiting the free baggage allowance and restricting passengers, the company used the weight saved to carry additional fuel, increasing range.
By 1862, the passenger depot in Syracuse was located at the New York Central Railroad passenger depot where the baggage master was Arthur Hughes.
By the 19th he had disappeared from the hotel, leaving his substantial and expensive baggage behind.
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