A few days later it was learned that General Howe was planning an attack upon the American camp.

`` They straggle at such a rate '', he told the commander-in-chief, `` that if the enemy were enterprising, they might get two from us, when we would take one of them, which makes me wish General Howe would go on, lest any incident happen to us ''.

* 1776 – The Battle of Long Island: in what is now Brooklyn, New York, British forces under General William Howe defeat Americans under General George Washington.

" In August 1777, General Sir William Howe led a British army through Delaware on his way to a victory at the Battle of Brandywine and capture of the city of Philadelphia.

In August 1776, British General William Howe launched a massive naval and land campaign designed to seize New York.

General Howe in New York took his army south to Philadelphia instead of going up the Hudson River to join with Burgoyne near Albany.

The western pincer, under the command of Barry St. Leger, was repulsed when the Siege of Fort Stanwix failed, and the southern pincer, which was to progress up the Hudson valley from New York City, never started since General William Howe decided instead to capture Philadelphia.

Abercromby's second-in-command, Brigadier General George Howe, had been killed when his column encountered a French reconnaissance troop.

While Lee had been held prisoner by the British General Sir William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe in March, 1777, Lee drafted a plan for British military operations against the Americans.

Among those who attended were Governor General Adrienne Clarkson, Lieutenant Governor of Quebec Lise Thibault, various politicians ( including then Prime Minister of Canada, Jean Chrétien, and then Premier of Quebec Lucien Bouchard ), Gordie Howe, Jean Béliveau, and then Canadiens team captain Saku Koivu.

In the spring of 1777, the British Commander-in-Chief, North America General William Howe, in New York City, ordered William Tryon to interrupt the flow of supplies from Connecticut that were reaching the Continental Army.

Control of the upper Hudson would enable the British to link their forces in Quebec with those in New York, recently captured in the New York campaign by Major General William Howe.

Mary Lindley Murray is credited with delaying William Howe and his army during General Washington's retreat from New York following the British landing at Kip's Bay, 15 September 1776.

In August, 1777, the town was bombarded as a diversionary tactic while General Sir William Howe ’ s troops sailed up the Elk River to effect a landing.

When the Northern Pacific Railway's transcontinental rail line arrived in 1881, the town was renamed for Alfred Howe Terry, a General in the Union Army who commanded an 1876 expedition in connection with George Armstrong Custer ’ s campaign against Native Americans, specifically in the west.

On October 22 of that year, in what is known as the Battle of Red Bank, an attack by 900 Hessian troops, serving under British Major General William Howe, who then occupied Philadelphia, was repelled, with heavy losses on the Hessian side ( including the death of their commander, Colonel Carl Emil Kurt von Donop ) by the 600 Continental defenders under Colonel Christopher Greene.

Bloomingdale's Federal Hill was the site of the 1781 Pompton Mutiny, a winter revolt of Continental Army troops that was crushed by General Robert Howe on direct orders by General George Washington.

General Robert Howe was stationed across the river in Fort Johnson.

They were preparing for a September 16, 1777, encounter with British General William Howe.

It is the home of Grove City College, a private conservative Christian liberal arts college ; General Electric ; Instron ; USIS ; George G. Howe Co .; and a number of small businesses.

Hubert Howe Bancroft relates ( 1888 ) how one of the columns was led by general Leiva ( no relation to Cajemé ) and General Marcos Carillo, and traveled west towards the Yaqui River Valley, carrying two mitrailleuse ( the first machine gun used in major combat ).

New Turkish forces landed at Bulair and Şarköy but after heavy fighting they were crushed and overthrown by the newly formed 4th Bulgarian army under the command of General Stiliyan Kovachev.

General Halder rejected this, saying, " From the army's point of view I regard it as complete suicide, I might just as well put the troops that have landed straight through the sausage machine.

In November 1942, Major General Patton commanded the Western Task Force of the U. S. Army, which landed on the coast of Vichy French-held Morocco in Operation Torch for the North African Campaign.

On 15 August 1944, two months after the Allied landings in Normandy ( Operation Overlord ), the Seventh United States Army under General Alexander Patch, with a Free French corps under General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, landed on the coast of the Var between St. Raphael and Cavalaire ( Operation Dragoon ).

I am sorry to transmit to Your Lordship the disagreeable account of a disagreeable Business, some time in the Beginning of this Month, upon news of the Rebel Army approaching, General Carleton set out for Montreal in great Haste ; the 7th instant the Rebels landed in the Woods near St. John's, and beat back to their Boats by a Party of Savages incamped at that Place ; in this Action the Savages behaved with great Spirit and Resolution, and had they remained firm to our Interests, probably the Province would have been safe for this Year, but finding the Canadians in General averse to the taking up Arms for the Defence of their Country, they withdrew, and made their Peace.

In this battle, a British army of 5, 000 under General Ralph Abercromby landed to dislodge a French army of 2, 000 under General Louis Friant.

The landed troops pushed quickly inland and General Juin surrendered the city to the Allies at 18: 00.

The Battle of Roanoke Island ( February 7 – 8, 1862 ) was an incident in the Union North Carolina Expedition of January to July 1862, when Brigadier General Ambrose E. Burnside landed an amphibious force and took Confederate forts on the island.

The Free French 2nd Armored Division, under General Philippe Leclerc, landed in Normandy, and, in the waning days of summer 1944, they led the drive towards Paris.

The liberation of most of the southwest, central France, and the southeast was finally completed with the progression of the 1st French Army of General de Lattre de Tassigny, which landed in Provence in August 1944 and was assisted by over 25, 000 maquis.

On February 21, 1862, General Pope landed here with 140 troops, but when he left a week later his force consisted of 26, 153 men.

900 Free French paratroopers landed as part of the British Special Air Service ( SAS ) Brigade ; the Free French 2nd Armored Division — under General Leclerc — landed at Utah Beach in Normandy on 1 August 1944, and eventually led the drive toward Paris, while the divisions which had been fighting in Italy became part of the French First Army — under General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny — and joined the U. S. 7th Army in Operation Dragoon.

The Battle of Bergen, also called the Battle of Bergen-Binnen, was fought on 19 September 1799, and resulted in a French-Dutch victory under General Brune and General Daendels against the Russians and British under the Duke of York who had landed in North Holland.

In late July 1777, after a distressing 34-day journey from Sandy Hook on the coast of New Jersey, a Royal Navy fleet of more than 260 ships carrying some 17, 000 British troops under the command of British General Sir William Howe landed at the head of the Elk River, on the northern end of the Chesapeake Bay near present-day Elkton, Maryland ( then known as Head of Elk ), approximately 40 – 50 miles ( 60 – 80 km ) southwest of Philadelphia.

The American General Douglas MacArthur's army landed on Leyte on 20 October 1944, and they were all welcomed as liberators, along with Philippine Commonwealth troops when other amphibious landings soon followed.

When the first flight landed at London, a Kuwaiti lawyer had the General Director, Kifah Hassan's documents and passport seized as well as the plane seized too, this however failed as the plane is owned by Swedish company, Tor Air.

Brigadier General Truman Seymour, in command of the expedition, landed troops at Jacksonville, in an area already seized by the Union in March 1862.

There are approximately 1. 5 million voters registered in the General Electoral Roll for the election of Representatives in the Assembly of the Republic of Macedonia, assigned in 85 constituencies, in 2. 973 polling stations.

It has approximately 10, 000 chapters in twenty countries and approximately 500, 000 members under its General Grand Chapter.

While his own equity in the team was a small one ( approximately 1 %), he was named Managing General Partner of the new ownership group.

Sternberg publishes the General Catalog of Variable Stars ( GCVS ), which is periodically ( approximately once every two years ) amended by the publication of a new " Name-List " of variable stars.

Some historians extend the scope of the General Crisis to encompass the globe, as with the demographic collapse of the Ming Dynasty, China lost approximately 30 % of its population.

In one of the most bloody single incidents of violence in Cold War Southeast Asia, General Suharto seized power in Indonesia in 1965 and initiated a massacre of approximately 500, 000 alleged members of the Indonesian Communist Party ( PKI ).

On April 14, one of the approximately two thousand men who were accompanying General Braddock through wrote the following: " we marched to larance Owings or Owings Oardianary, a Single House, it being 18 miles and very dirty.

General estimates show approximately 10 % of the world's coral reefs are dead.

In the period between 27 November and 13 December 1950, 30, 000 United Nations ( UN ) troops ( nicknamed " The Chosin Few ") under the command of Major General Edward Almond were encircled by approximately 67, 000 Chinese troops under the command of Song Shi-Lun.

The transition got off to a shaky start because, contrary to SWAPO President Sam Nujoma's written assurances to the UN Secretary General to abide by a cease-fire and repatriate only unarmed Namibians, it was alleged that approximately 2, 000 armed members of the People's Liberation Army of Namibia ( PLAN ) SWAPO's military wing, crossed the border from Angola in an apparent attempt to establish a military presence in northern Namibia.

Under a settlement with New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo, the firm agreed to repurchase approximately $ 4. 5 billion worth of auction rate securities.

General estimates show approximately 10 % of the world's coral reefs are dead.

The school system ’ s General Purpose School Fund budget during the 2006 to 2007 school year was approximately $ 158 million.

Located approximately < span style =" white-space: nowrap "> 12 miles ( 19 km )</ span > east of downtown Fort Worth and < span style =" white-space: nowrap "> 20 miles ( 32 km )</ span > west of downtown Dallas, Arlington is home to the University of Texas at Arlington, a doctoral-granting institution, and a General Motors assembly plant.

General aviation airports include Camarillo Airport, which is approximately to the west of the city, and Van Nuys Airport, which is east of the city

Overtime the settlement grew and in 1860 approximately 275 citizens of Clinch County petitioned the Georgia General Assembly to move the county seat of the county from the nearby Magnolia to Mattox ’ s settlement.

A publicly-owned mansion, the Hostess House, is used for social functions, and Marion General Hospital has been nationally-accredited for approximately a half-century.

Wethersfield has 35 General Electric wind-power turbines atop a hill at approximately 2060 feet above sea level, which can be seen from NY Route 78 ( Cattaraugus Road ), Perry Road ( CR 9 ), Pee Dee Road, and Poplar Tree Road.

Lordstown is best known for Lordstown Assembly, a General Motors plant which started production in 1966, and is now the Youngstown-Warren-Boardman MSA's largest industrial employer with approximately 6, 500 employees ( nearly 3, 000 more people work at the plant than live in the village in which it is located ).

The facility was to be built approximately 12 miles outside of Inola, Oklahoma, and encompass the use of two General Electric ( GE ) Boiling Water Reactors.

The school system ’ s General Purpose School Fund budget during the 2006 – 07 school year was approximately $ 153. 5 million.

Following his victory at the Battle of Fisher's Hill Union general Philip Sheridan sent approximately 6, 000 troopers under Brigadier General Alfred Torbert into the Luray Valley.

Torbett's men engaged approximately 1, 200 Confederate cavalry under Brigadier General Williams Wickham.