First came the cannon fodder, white-clad civilians being driven into death as a massive human battering ram.

First, it came out after Mr. Cooper's will was settled -- he had died the year before -- that John and his mother weren't rich any more.

After a brief return to his regiment Napoleon was promoted to First Lieutenant and came home again on leave in 1791.

After 1806, the First Lord of the Admiralty was always a civilian, while the professional head of the navy came to be ( and is still today ) known as the First Sea Lord.

After the First Ecumenical Council at Nicea, the church structure was patterned after the administrative divisions of the Roman Empire wherein a metropolitan or bishop of a metropolis came to be the ecclesiastical head of a civil capital of a province or a metropolis.

After decades in opposition the Whigs came to power under Grey in 1830 and carried the First Reform Act in 1832.

First attested in English in the mid-15th century, the word carat came from Middle French carat, in turn from Italian carato, which came from Arabic qīrāṭ ( قيراط ), which came from Greek kerátion ( κεράτιον ) meaning carob seed ( literally " small horn ")

The Christadelphian position on conscientious objection came to the fore with the introduction of conscription during the First World War.

First came oidium and then the phylloxera epidemic would take its toll on the vineyards of Chianti just as they had ravaged vineyards across the rest of Europe.

During the late Old Kingdom and the First Intermediate Period ( c. 2181 – 2055 BC ), the Egyptians gradually came to believe that possession of a ba and the possibility of a paradisiacal afterlife extended to everyone.

His first experience of warfare came in 1849, when he served as a captain in the First War of Schleswig against Denmark.

In Highcliffe, Gardner came across a building describing itself as the " First Rosicrucian Theatre in England.

Accounts vary on who first came up with the idea of the film, but Hawks and Saunders developed the story together and tried to sell it to several studios before First National agreed to produce the film.

In the First Moroccan Crisis of 1905, Germany nearly came to blows with Britain and France when the latter attempted to establish a protectorate over Morocco.

First came epidemics of the childhood diseases of chicken pox, mumps, whooping cough, and, especially, measles.

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Part of this antagonism can be traced to the International Workingmen's Association, the First International, a congress of radical workers, where Mikhail Bakunin, who was fairly representative of anarchist views, and Karl Marx, whom anarchists accused of being an " authoritarian ", came into conflict on various issues.

At the end of the 10th century, much of what is now Republic of Macedonia became the political and cultural center of the First Bulgarian Empire under Tsar Samuil ; while the Byzantine emperor Basil II came to rule the eastern part of the empire ( what is now Bulgaria ), including the then capital Preslav, in 972.

On 22 February 1975, in an ambush in the Lomas de Zamora suburb of Buenos Aires, three policemen ( First Sergeant Nicolás Cardozo, Corporal Roberto Roque Fredes and Constables Eugenio Rodriguez and Abel Pascuzzi ) were killed after their patrol car came under fire from Montoneros guerrillas.

Her first appearance with Ronald Reagan came in one of the latter, Ford Theatre, during a 1953 episode titled " First Born ".

First evidence for this third neutrino type came from the observation of missing energy and momentum in tau decays analogous to the beta decay leading to the discovery of the neutrino.

First attested in English c. 1600, the word " navy " came via Old French navie, " fleet of ships ", from the Latin navigium, " a vessel, a ship, bark, boat ", from navis, " ship " and from Sanskrit " न ा व " ( Nav ), " ship ".

By the middle of the 19th century, industrialisation swept away most of the city's medieval rules of production and commerce, although the entirely corrupt remains of the city's mediæval constitution was kept in place ( compare the famous remarks of Georg Forster in his Ansichten vom Niederrhein ) until 1801, when Aachen became the " chef-lieu du département de la Roer " in Napoléon's First French Empire.

Alfonso XII ( born Alfonso Francisco de Asís Fernando Pío Juan María de la Concepción Gregorio Pelayo ) ( Madrid, 28 November 1857 – El Pardo, 25 November 1885 ) was King of Spain, reigning from 1874 to 1885, after a coup d ' état restored the monarchy and ended the ephemeral First Spanish Republic.

A mitred Adhémar de Monteil carrying the Holy Lance in one of the battles of the First Crusade

Adhemar ( also known as Adémar, Aimar, or Aelarz ) de Monteil ( died 1 August 1098 ), one of the principal figures of the First Crusade, was bishop of Puy-en-Velay from before 1087.

First team regulars Siem de Jong, Urby Emanuelson and Gregory van der Wiel are former youth internationals who made the successful step up to the senior side.

* 1296 – First War of Scottish Independence: John Balliol's Scots army is defeated by an English army commanded by John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey at the Battle of Dunbar.

In 1961, President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy of the United States paid their respects at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, accompanied by French President Charles de Gaulle.

From 1946 through 1985, the army was divided into four numbered armies: the First Army was centered in Rio de Janeiro, the Second Army in São Paulo, the Third Army in Porto Alegre, and the Fourth Army in Recife.

Historically, the First Army was the most politically significant because of Rio de Janeiro's position as the nation's capital through the 1950s.

It commemorates the 1790 Fête de la Fédération, held on the first anniversary of the storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789 ; the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille fortress-prison was seen as a symbol of the uprising of the modern nation, and of the reconciliation of all the French inside the constitutional monarchy which preceded the First Republic, during the French Revolution.

Following the First Chechen War with Russia, Chechnya gained de facto independence as the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria.

First printed edition of 1472 ( by Guntherus Zainer, Augsburg ), title page of book 14 ( de terra et partibus ), illustrated with a T and O map.

Napoleon Bonaparte, who was already First Consul of the French Republic ( Premier Consul de la République française ) for life, declared himself Emperor of the French ( Empereur des Français ) on 18 May 1804, thus creating the Empire of the French ( Empire des Français ).

As First Secretary, Hoxha was de facto head of state and the most powerful man in the country.

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George went on to marry three times: First to Beatrice de Frangepan ( 1480 – c. 1510 ); the marriage produced no children.

This new regime delivered the coup de grâce to the Ottoman state which had been practically wiped away from the world stage following the First World War.

Godfrey of Bouillon | Godefroy de Bouillon, a French knight, leader of the First Crusade and founder of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.

* 1912 – Henrique Mitchell de Paiva Couceiro leads an unsuccessful royalist attack against the First Portuguese Republic in Chaves.

* Santa Maria de la Antigua del Darien – First city in the mainland of the American continent, in the Darién region between Colombia and Panama.

: Le Premier Quartier de la lune ( 1989 ) ( The First Quarter of the Moon )