First, Wright said, he was choked by the smoke, which fortunately kept him from seeing the dreadful town.

Fleeing Iran, he arrived in Kandahar, Afghanistan in 1841 — a town that had been occupied by an Anglo-Indian army in 1839 in the First Anglo-Afghan War.

In 1794, the town was seized by French troops, becoming a part of the First French Empire.

Sometimes in desert warfare, there is no nearby town name to use ; map coordinates gave the name to the Battle of 73 Easting in the First Gulf War.

A plaque in the town commemorates the deaths of ten Mexican citizens who returned to Barcelonnette to fight in the First World War.

First Devon & Cornwall provides local town bus services and links to Totnes, Torquay, Kingsbridge and Plymouth.

First has been the founder, Paul Glover, moving out of town.

First attempts at finding the exact location of the town date back to early sixteenth century.

In a similar vein is First Blood ( 1982 ) which features John Rambo ( Sylvester Stallone in an iconic role ), as a Vietnam vet who comes into conflict with a small town police department.

First of all in 1860 the town schools, hitherto open to " settlers " only on paying high fees, were made accessible to all, next in 1875 ten years ' residence ipso facto conferred the right of burghership, while in 1893 the eleven outlying districts were incorporated with the town proper

* First reference to Khotyn, Ukrainian town and to Nyalka, Hungarian village, as to Chimudi.

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.

During the First Partition of Poland in 1772, the town was annexed by the Kingdom of Prussia.

On April 5, 2063, Vulcans and Humans made official first contact near the town of Bozeman, Montana following the successful test of Earth scientist Zefram Cochrane's first warp-powered starship, as depicted in Star Trek: First Contact.

The interior design of the restaurant at the First Hotel in the Swedish town of Olofström is inspired by the poem.

The town can be divided into four areas: the East Side ( east of First Street ), the West Side ( west of First Street ), Southampton ( the newer suburban neighborhoods north of Interstate 780 ), and the industrial park.

A bus service to the town is provided by First Somerset & Avon.

Though the surviving town was insignificant, the long-hallowed pagan site must have retained significance for Christians given that a Bishop Theodorus of Dodona attended the First Council of Ephesus in 431 CE.

Bilingual Ukrainian-English education programmes have therefore long been established, alongside smaller programmes introducing and implementing French, Icelandic in the town of Gimli, and First Nations ' languages.

A popular variety of pea known as the " Feltham First " is so-named for being first grown in the town.

London Buses routes 222, 331, 427, 607, A10, U1, U2, U3, U4, U5, U7, U9, U10 and N207 serve the area, alongside five non-Transport for London ( TfL ) routes: First Berkshire & The Thames Valley route 58, Green Line route 724 and Carousel Buses routes A30, A40 and 740 also serve the town.

This trend continued throughout the 20th century ; more and more hotels and tourist facilities were built in the town, and Looe grew and prospered, with peaks in fishing and boatbuilding following the First and Second World Wars.

First referred to as " Choctaw ", the town was named after railroad financier and former Union Civil War general, Samuel Thomas, after he donated $ 500 for the construction of Thomasville's first school.

By the start of the First World War, the German Imperial Navy possessed 22 pre-Dreadnoughts, 19 dreadnought battleships and 7 battlecruisers.

He also possessed considerable intelligence and athletic ability, evidenced by his playing cricket for Oxford University while earning a First.

First, you might take possession of something which has never been possessed before.

: if we only possessed Second Thessalonians few scholars would doubt that Paul wrote it ; but when Second Thessalonians is put alongside First Thessalonians then doubts appear.

As such, he and his descendants possessed heirlooms from great heroes and lords of the First Age: the Ring of Barahir, the Axe of Tuor, the Bow of Bregor, and Aranrúth, the sword of Thingol.

" Khayman of the First Brood possessed this level of telepathic power, but had trained himself to hear the multitude of thoughts as " one annoying noise.

Elizabeth Howe, in The First English Actresses, says she was " the most famous Restoration actress of all time, possessed of an extraordinary comic talent.

* Rufus T. Wild /" Buck Wild, Mercenary Man " – First appeared in Icon # 13 " It's Always Christmas " ( May 1994 ); Buck Wild possessed " belief defyin ' strength " and " tungsten hard skin.

The First Core was possessed by the Bentusi: a powerful and enigmatic race of traders who assisted the Exiles during the first game.

" First, a jury might be allowed only to pass on a small part of criminal activity, and then allow the judge to determine the punishment for the full range of conduct the government seeks to punish, as by letting the jury determine whether an accused murderer illegally possessed a firearm and then allowing the judge to impose a life sentence because the defendant had used the firearm to kill someone.

The Legion organises ' The Festival of Remembrance ' on the Saturday before ' Remembrance Sunday ' which is historically derived from the 1918 Western European First World War ' Armistice Day ' ( 11 November ) with the Royal Albert Hall, London, having been involved together with the Monarchy as from the 1920s, it being now called ' The Festival of Remembrance ' but possibly not originally having been intended to hold this sort of general character ( from its origin it possessed a status approaching that of a state event such as Trooping the Colour but originally with particular reference to a particular period of history, the First World War, at a European level ).

The Third Baronet Browne was created First Viscount Kenmare ( Ireland ) on 20 May 1689, by King James II, after his deposition by the English Parliament, but while he still possessed his rights as King of Ireland.

After this initial bang, his sermons appear to have roused no great enthusiasm, as George Ticknor noted in the Christian Examiner, September, 1849: " Mr. Emerson, transplanted to the First Church in Boston six years before Mr. Buckminster's settlement, possessed, on the contrary, a graceful and dignified style of speaking, which was by no means without its attraction, but he lacked the fervor that could rouse the masses, and the original resources that could command the few.

Explosive bolts send Anya and Buffy flying while Willow is briefly possessed by the First Evil.

Throughout the episode, the First again appears to Andrew in the guise of Jonathan, and attempts to get him to kill the potential Slayers staying in the house, using the gun that Willow brought to the house in " The Killer in Me ", while she was possessed by Warren.

His kingdom consisted probably of Egypt only, as far as the First Cataract, but to this he added Cyprus, and his influence was great in Cyrene.

First generation yeast only.

Notably, Barcelonnette is the only subprefecture of France not be served by rail transport ; the Ubaye line which would have linked Chorges to Barcelonnette was never completed as a result of the First World War and the construction of the Serre-Ponçon Dam between 1955 and 1961.

Following Napoleon Bonaparte's victories over the Austrian Empire in Northern Italy – helping to secure France victory in the War of the First Coalition in 1797 – Great Britain remained the only major European power still at war with the French Republic.

The Germans were aware of the error of the First World War, and rejected the concept of orientating its economy geared to fighting only a short war.

When the Greek army entered Thessaloniki in the First Balkan War ahead of the Bulgarian 7th division by only a day, they were asked to allow a Bulgarian battalion to enter the city.

To consider but one example, the First Amendment to the United States Constitution states " Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof "— but interpretation ( that is, determining the fine boundaries, and resolving the tension between the " establishment " and " free exercise " clauses ) of each of the important terms was delegated by Article III of the Constitution to the judicial branch, so that the current legal boundaries of the Constitutional text can only be determined by consulting the common law.

The Fourth Military Region maintained only a Territorial Defense Company headquartered in Korhogo The Fifth Military Region was formerly known as the Western Operational Zone, a temporary command created to respond to the security threat caused by the First Liberian Civil War.

Though the unified reign of the First Qin Emperor lasted only 12 years, he managed to subdue great parts of what constitutes the core of the Han Chinese homeland and to unite them under a tightly centralized Legalist government seated at Xianyang ( close to modern Xi ' an ).

When the full league programme resumed in 1946 – 47 Charlton could finish only 19th in the First Division, just above the relegation spots.

First, the only player on the field who may be legally tackled is the player currently in possession of the football ( the ball carrier ).

First, let T = T ( s ) be the force of tension as a function of s. The chain is flexible so it can only exert a force parallel to itself.

First officially recognised at Limassol in 1993, these events, spanning a longer period than the meeting itself, have, to an extent, preserved the length of the CHOGM: but only in the cultural sphere.

First, he claims only the certainty of his own existence from the first-person point of view — he has not proved the existence of other minds at this point.

* First day that rain is prayed for, notably the only Jewish day which is tied to the civil calendar.

" Churchill – who was himself only thirty-eight years old in 1912 – took to him immediately and he was appointed Private Naval Secretary to the First Lord against the advice of First Sea Lord Sir Arthur Wilson.

Britain was required to scrap most of her vast First World War fleet ( only two new, oddly-shaped, battleships, Rodney and Nelson were built at this time, known colloquially as the ' Cherry Tree Class ' as they had been ' cut down by Washington ').

Thus the Eastern First Council of Constantinople became ecumenical only when its decrees were accepted in the West also.

The Church of the East only accepts the First Council of Nicaea and the First Council of Constantinople.

Its present canon law requires that an ecumenical council be convoked and presided over, either personally or through a delegate, by the Pope, who is also to decide the agenda ; but the church makes no claim that all past ecumenical councils observed these present rules, declaring only that the Pope's confirmation or at least recognition has always been required, and saying that the version of the Nicene Creed adopted at the First Council of Constantinople ( 381 ) was accepted by the Church of Rome only seventy years later, in 451.

At the First Council of Nicaea, 325, he signed the Confession, but only after a long and desperate opposition in which he " subscribe with hand only, not heart " according to ancient sources.