J. P. Harris and Robert M. Citino point out that the Germans had always had a marked preference for short, decisive campaigns – but were unable to achieve short-order victories in First World War conditions.

The battle of Jutland was the major naval engagement of the First World War and marked a turning point in the naval war.

As for Rome, the end of the First Punic War marked the start of the expansion beyond the Italian Peninsula.

His African adventure, later published in Marc ’ Aurelio as " The First Flight ", marked “ the emergence of a new Fellini, no longer just a screenwriter, working and sketching at his desk, but a filmmaker out in the field ”.

References to the First Quarto and First Folio are marked Hamlet Q1 and Hamlet F1, respectively, and are taken from the Arden Shakespeare " Hamlet: the texts of 1603 and 1623 " ( Thompson and Taylor, 2006b ).

This marked the end of the First English Civil War.

The First Grammarian marked these with a dot above the letter.

Israeli military forces withdraw from the Palestinian territories in compliance with the accord, which marked the end of the First Intifada ( a period of violence between Palestinian Arab militants and Israeli armed forces from 1987 to 1993 ).

First the hydrometer is floated in the reference liquid ( shown in light blue ), and the displacement ( the level of the liquid on the stalk ) is marked ( blue line ).

Liechtenstein gave asylum to approximately five hundred soldiers of the First Russian National Army ( a collaborationist Russian force within the German Wehrmacht ) at the close of World War II ; this is commemorated by a monument at the border town of Hinterschellenberg which is marked on the country's tourist map.

First, the patient is asked to select a nightmare, but for learning purposes the choice would not typically be one that causes a marked degree of distress.

When Belgium was invaded, the citizens of Lille, still marked by the events of the First World War, began to flee the city in large numbers.

Since 1964, the watches of the First Moscow Factory have been marked by the trademark “ Полёт ”, transliterated as “ POLJOT ”, which means “ flight ” in Russian and is a tribute to the many space trips its watches have accomplished.

Fingolfin's reign was marked by warfare against Morgoth and in the year 60 of the First Age after their victory in Dagor Aglareb the Noldor started the Siege of Angband, the great fortress of Morgoth.

The defeat of Morgoth marked the end of the First Age and the start of the Second.

Besides the hints about the Second Age found in The Lord of the Rings, several shorter writings fill in some of the gap between the downfall of Morgoth at the end of the First Age and the first downfall of Sauron which marked the beginning of the Third Age.

The Ante-Nicene Period ( literally meaning " before Nicaea "), or Post-Apostolic Period, of the history of early Christianity spanned the late 1st century to the early 4th century, with the end marked by the First Council of Nicaea in 325 AD.

First released on April 2, 1982 this version of the film marked the first time a film's soundtrack had been digitally re-recorded in its entirety.

The Provincial Congress of Massachusetts, after adjournment from Concord, met from April to July 1775 in the First Parish Church, the site of which is marked by a monument.

The event marked the dedication of the Flight 93 National Memorial and was attended by U. S. President George W. Bush, First Lady Laura Bush, President Bill Clinton, Vice President Joe Biden and Speaker John Boehner.

The battle marked a turning point for the French army which afterwards remained ascendant throughout the rest of the War of the First Coalition.

In the First World War plot, at Section 213, a Screen Wall memorial lists casualties of both World Wars whose graves could not be marked by headstones, besides 5 servicemen who were cremated at Kensal Green Crematorium.

Weil's whole life was marked by an exceptional compassion for the suffering of others ; at the age of six, for instance, she refused to eat sugar after she heard that soldiers fighting in the First World War had to go without.

First he thought of the time he had ridden to Gavin and told him how his cattle were being rustled at the far end of the valley.

First conceived during the Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower as a three-man spacecraft to follow the one-man Project Mercury which put the first Americans in space, Apollo was later dedicated to President John F. Kennedy's national goal of " landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth " by the end of the 1960s, which he proposed in a May 25, 1961 address to Congress.

It has recently been suggested that the regional decline at the end of the Akkadian period ( and First Intermediary Period of the Ancient Egyptian Old Kingdom ) was associated with rapidly increasing aridity, and failing rainfall in the region of the Ancient Near East, caused by a global centennial-scale drought.

This marks the end of the First Sino-Japanese War, and the defeated Qing Empire is forced to renounce its claims on Korea and to concede the southern portion of the Fengtien province, Taiwan and the Pescadores Islands to Japan.

Adoptionism was declared heresy at the end of the 2nd century and was rejected by the First Council of Nicaea, which defined the orthodox doctrine of the Trinity and identified the man Jesus with the eternally begotten Son or Word of God.

* First Battle of Guararapes ( 1648 ): Decisive Brazilian victory that helped end Dutch occupation.

* First and foremost, it governed player contracts that set up mechanisms to end the cross-league raids on rosters and reinforced the power of the hated reserve clause that kept players virtual slaves to their baseball masters.

:* Liège celebrates the Bastille Day each year since the end of the First World War, as Liège was decorated by the Légion d ' Honneur for its unexpected resistance during the Battle of Liège.

Bayonne endured numerous sieges from Plantagenet times until the end of the First French Empire in 1814.

Shortly before the end of the First World War in 1918, the Croatian Parliament severed relations with Austria-Hungary as the Entente armies defeated those of the Habsburgs.

* First quarter: from the beginning of January to the end of March

Early Christendom would close at the end of imperial persecution of Christians after the ascension of Constantine the Great and the Edict of Milan in AD 313 and the First Council of Nicaea in 325.

Despite the move away from the Valley, Charlton were promoted to the First Division as Second Division runners-up at the end of 1985 – 86, and remained at this level for four years ( achieving a highest league finish of 14th ) often with late escapes, most notably against Leeds in 1987, where the Addicks triumphed in extra-time of the play-off final replay to secure their top flight place.

After the end of the First World War, a chalk quarry known as the Swamps was identified as Charlton's new ground, and in the summer of 1919 work began to create the level playing area and remove debris from the site.

Following the northerly retreat of glaciers at the end of the Wisconsin glaciation over ten thousand years ago, human settlement by Native Americans or First Nations began in the Maritimes with Paleo-Indians during the Early Period, ending around six thousand years ago.

Later in the war he succeeded Jellicoe as Commander in Chief of the Grand Fleet, in which capacity he received the surrender of the German High Seas Fleet at the end of hostilities, and then in the 1920s he served a lengthy term as First Sea Lord ( head of the Royal Navy ).

It was the First World War, however, the catalyst that brought about the end of neutrality.

* Michalopoulos, Dimitris, " The First Council of Nicaea: The end of a conflict or beginning of a struggle?

The title of Emperor of Austria and the associated Empire were both abolished at the end of the First World War in 1918, when German Austria became a republic and the other kingdoms and lands represented in the Imperial Council established their independence or adhesion to other states.

: The First Assistant Camera, 1st AC or Focus Puller, is responsible for keeping the camera in focus as it is shooting, as well as building the camera at the beginning of the day and taking it apart at the end.

* 1826 – The signing of the Treaty of Yandaboo marks the end of the First Burmese War.

On 4 August 1789, the National Constituent Assembly abolished feudalism ( although at that point there had been sufficient peasant revolts to almost end feudalism already ), in what is known as the August Decrees, sweeping away both the seigneurial rights of the Second Estate and the tithes gathered by the First Estate.

Rome won the First Punic War after 23 years of conflict and in the end became the dominant naval power of the Mediterranean.