Early in the war it was not uncommon for planters' sons to retain in camp Negro `` body servants '' to perform the menial chores such as cooking, foraging, cleaning the quarters, shining shoes, and laundering clothes.

Early in the war, the Germans began to create makeshift assault guns by mounting their infantry support weapons on the bed of a truck or on obsolete tanks with the turret removed.

Early in this war, armed forces under the French East India Company captured the British base of Calcutta in north-eastern India.

Early on he supported the nationalist rhetoric and the war effort, though with some hesitation as he viewed the war as a necessity to fulfill German duty as a leading state power.

Early in World War I, Japan took the opportunity to declare war on Germany and invaded the Northern Marianas, hoping to annex them.

Early civilian authorities called praetors doubled as military leaders during the summer war season.

During the Renaissance and the Early Modern period, siege warfare dominated the conduct of war in Europe.

Early ' modern ' wargaming, as popularised by Grant and Featherstone, usually broke down the history into " Ancients ", usually Biblical and Classical eras, " Horse and Musket ", covering the 18th and 19th centuries, and " Modern ", World war Two onwards.

Early in 1929, the Afghan leader King Amanullah lost power through revolution and civil war to Amir Habibullah II.

Early in 1940, he was trained for a commission after, whilst working in a kitchen, answering the question of an inspecting brigadier with a Greek proverb ; on several occasions, he told colleagues that he expected to be at least a major-general by the end of the war.

Early in his mayoral career, Thompson began to amass a war chest to support an eventual run for the Presidency by charging city drivers and inspectors $ 3 per month.

This gave the city defenses time to organize and repel Early, who arrived at Fort Stevens in Washington at around noon on July 11, two days after defeating Wallace at Monocacy, the northernmost Confederate victory of the war.

Early in his reign, Lucius received a request from prominent members of the town of Lucca to become the suzerain of the castle within the town in order to protect it from the war between Lucca and Pisa.

Early 13th century, Ada, Countess of Holland took refuge here when she was fighting in a civil war against her uncle, William I, Count of Holland.

Early in September, Cromwell also completed a new set of viceregential injunctions declaring open war on " pilgrimages, feigned relics, or images, or any such superstitions ", and commanding that " one book of the whole Bible of the largest volume in English " be set up in every church.

Early Swedish victories at Humlebaek and at the Battle of Narva in 1700 temporarily took both Denmark and Russia out of the war.

* Characters such as 武 ( war, martial arts ) or 屋 ( room, house ), pronounced roughly mwio and uk in Early Middle Chinese, have an initial v phoneme in Hakka, being vu and vuk in Hakka respectively ( Mandarin: wu ).

Early in the war they helped Gen. Taylor attack the fort and supply depot in St. Isabel, now the city of Port Isabel, Texas.

Early in the epic, Paris and Menelaus duel in an attempt to end the war without further bloodshed.

Early in the war, fighting descended into stagnant trench warfare.

Early state flag and war ensign, used until the mid-1600s.

Early devices for lie detection include an 1895 invention of Cesare Lombroso used to measure changes in blood pressure for police cases, a 1904 device by Vittorio Benussi used to measure breathing, and an abandoned project by American William Marston which used blood pressure to examine German prisoners of war ( POWs ).

Early in the war they were most readily available from army troops or gendarmerie who defected or were ambushed.

Early adherents include Woodrow Wilson and Norman Angell, who argued vigorously that states mutually gained from cooperation and that war was so destructive as to be essentially futile.

2 of The Theology of the Hypostatic Union in the Early 13th c. Toronto: PIMS, 1967.

Union and Empire: The Making of the United Kingdom in 1707 ( Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History ) ( 2007 ) excerpt and text search

Early reports estimated that $ 6 – 20 billion had been spent by the U. S. and Saudi Arabia but more recent reports state that the U. S. and Saudi Arabia provided as much as up to $ 40 billion in cash and weapons, which included over two thousand FIM-92 Stinger surface-to-air missiles, for building up Islamic groups against the Soviet Union.

* 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Kernstown – Confederate General Jubal Early defeats Union troops led by General George Crook in an effort to keep them out of the Shenandoah Valley.

* 1864 – Battle of Cedar Creek – Union Army under Philip Sheridan destroys a Confederate Army under Jubal Early.

Early studies prompted the European Commission in 1999 to ban stevia's use in food in the European Union pending further research.

Early on the Stasi waged a campaign against Jews, who were already subject to widespread discrimination and violence in the Soviet Union.

According to Rabbi Michael J. Cook, Professor of Intertestamental and Early Christian Literature at the Hebrew Union College, there are ten themes in the New Testament that are the greatest sources of anxiety for Jews concerning Christian antisemitism.

* July 24 – American Civil War – The Second Battle of Kernstown: Confederate General Jubal Early defeats Union troops led by General George Crook in an effort to keep the Yankees out of the Shenandoah Valley.

Early commercial installations included one in the Soviet Union in 1951 between Moscow and Kashira, and a 10 – 20 MW system between Gotland and mainland Sweden in 1954.

Early in its ' conception, the Soviet Union strived to achieve harmony among all peoples of all countries.

General Early was given orders to burn the bridge but hoped instead to capture it, while Union forces under the command of Colonel Jacob G. Frick and Major Granville O. Haller, hoping to save the bridge, were forced to burn it.

The dome was successfully adopted for specialized uses, such as the 21 Distant Early Warning Line domes built in Canada in 1956, the 1958 Union Tank Car Company dome near Baton Rouge, Louisiana designed by Thomas C. Howard of Synergetics, Inc. and specialty buildings like the Kaiser Aluminum domes ( constructed in numerous locations across the US, e. g., Virginia Beach, VA ), auditoriums, weather observatories, and storage facilities.

* Fort Early: Named after General Jubal Anderson Early, whose Confederate troops defended the city against invasion by Union General David Hunter.

* Union County Early College

Macon Early College is one of the three high schools in the Macon area, coming into existence after the Franklin High School but before the Union Academy.

Sheridan and Custer, having defeated Early, returned to the main Union Army lines at the Siege of Petersburg, where they spent the winter.

Early in the war, McClellan played an important role in raising a well-trained and organized army for the Union.

Early on the morning of September 20, under a flag of truce, Major Thrailkill demanded the surrender of the Union troops, promising fair treatment.

* Early history of Union and its communities

* Early history of Union

Early during the Shenandoah Valley Campaigns of 1864, but had been sent back to their native North Carolina mountains to engage in guerrilla warfare against the remaining Union forces.

Early in 1864, Colonel William A. Philips set out with some 1500 Union troops from Fort Gibson, Oklahoma, to cut a swath through Confederate Indian Territory ( Oklahoma ).

Early in January, 1869, the bridge was finally completed by the Charles, Kellogg and Maurice Company of Athens, Pennsylvania ( later the Union Bridge Company ).