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He then crossed the Dardanelles to Asia with a large army ; but the young Sultan showed in this emergency that he possessed military and political abilities worthy of his best ancestors.
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Old and new briefly crossed paths in the U.S. Senate, then went their respective ways.
Ammianus relates ( xvii. 1. 11 ) that much later the Emperor Julian undertook a punitive expedition against the Alemanni, who by then were in Alsace, and crossed the Main ( Latin Menus ), entering the forest, where the trails were blocked by felled trees.
In the great mixed invasion of 406, the Alemanni appear to have crossed the Rhine river a final time, conquering and then settling what is today Alsace and a large part of the Swiss Plateau.
Alaric then crossed the Gulf of Corinth and marched with the plunder of Greece northward to Epirus.
He crossed the Alps quickly and took Pavia, but then he continued slowly, garnering support among the nobility of Tuscany.
Persian King Darius I the Great, in an attempt to subdue the Scythian horsemen who roamed across the north of the Black Sea, crossed through the Bosphorus, then marched towards the Danube River.
Cniva's main column under the King himself crossed Danube at Oescus then headed eastwards to Novae, where he was repelled by the provincial governor ( and future emperor ) Trebonianus Gallus.
Castling consists of moving the king two squares along the first rank toward a rook ( which is on the player's first rank ) and then placing the rook on the last square the king has just crossed.
They remained only a short time in England and then crossed over to France.
In 82 Agricola crossed an unidentified body of water and defeated peoples unknown to the Romans until then.
He crossed the Susquehanna River by ferry at Havre de Grace, then continued by train to Wilmington, Delaware.
# If two straight lines in a plane are crossed by another straight line ( called the transversal ), and the interior angles between the two lines and the transversal lying on one side of the transversal add up to less than two right angles, then on that side of the transversal, the two lines extended will intersect ( also called the parallel postulate ).
One review described the Godzilla costume as appearing to be " crossed with Kermit the Frog " and another sneeringly compared it to Godzilla vs. Gigan, stating that it did " everything wrong that Gigan did, and then some.
Early on New Year's morning, householders drink and then sprinkle ' magic water ' from ' a dead and living ford ' around the house ( a ' dead and living ford ' refers to a river ford that is routinely crossed by both the living and the dead ).
From there, he journeyed south to Afghanistan, then crossed into India via the mountain passes of the Hindu Kush.
Infuriated by the idea of Kansas becoming a free state, many from the area crossed into Kansas to sway the state towards allowing slavery, at first by ballot box and then by bloodshed.
Thermotropic mesophases are detected and characterized by two major methods, the original method was use of thermal optical microscopy, in which a small sample of the material was placed between two crossed polarizers ; the sample was then heated and cooled.
He was said to have crossed the Limia and then called his soldiers on the other side, one by one, by name.
Mad crossed the two-million mark with an average 1973 circulation of 2, 059, 236, then improved to 2, 132, 655 in 1974.
After dinner, he tells the farm laborers a fictitious tale of himself: He was born in Crete, had led a party of Cretans to fight alongside other Greeks in the Trojan War, and had then spent seven years at the court of the king of Egypt ; finally he had been shipwrecked in Thesprotia and crossed from there to Ithaca.
Pytheas then would either have crossed the Bay of Biscay from the coast of Spain to the mouth of the Loire, or reached it along the coast, crossed the English channel from the vicinity of Brest, France to Cornwall, and traversed the Irish Sea to reach the Orkney Islands.
He then crossed to Argyll and defeated the MacDougalls ( allies of the Comyns ) at the Battle of Pass of Brander and took Dunstaffnage Castle, the last major stronghold of the Comyns.
The Hipopotamo crossed the Guayas on two more occasions, but it was then abandoned because of lack of funding and interest from the government.
then and Dardanelles
The dense Mediterranean water sinks below the Black Sea inflow to a depth of, then flows through the Dardanelles Strait and into the Sea of Marmara at velocities of 5 – 15 cm / s.
This campaign also put a dent in the armour of Winston Churchill, then the First Lord of the Admiralty, who had commissioned the plans to invade the Dardanelles.
The harbour at Moudros was put under the control of British Admiral Rosslyn Wemyss, who was ordered to prepare the then largely unused harbour for operations against the Dardanelles.
Moving east was Fir Tree Spur then Krithia Valley ( also known as Krithia Nullah or Kirte Dere ) then Krithia Spur then Kanli Dere then Kereves Spur then Kereves Dere which flows into the Dardanelles at Morto Bay.
Fraser served in the cruiser HMS Minerva in the Dardanelles and East Indies and then in the battleship HMS Resolution during World War I.
The Goeben finally took refuge in the Dardanelles, waters of the then neutral Ottoman Empire.
Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, had entertained plans of capturing the Dardanelles as early as September 1914.
The battalion was then assigned to the 86th Brigade of the 29th Division ( United Kingdom ), in preparation for the landings at the Dardanelles.
He then successfully eluded British attempts to corner him ( see Pursuit of Goeben and Breslau ), and on 10 August 1914 his small squadron arrived at the Dardanelles.
Finally, on 19 February the ships sailed up the Dardanelles, where they were fired on by the forts at the entrance ( fire was returned by the bombs ), then the castles further up ( fire was returned by the fleet ).
He was involved in operations in the Dardanelles, and then commanded a fleet of naval trawlers undertaking patrols from Crete.
then and Asia
Being somewhat delicate in health, at the age of sixteen he was sent to Southern Europe, for which he at once developed a passion, so that he spent nearly all of the following ten years abroad, at first in Italy, then in Greece, Egypt, Asia Minor, and Palestine.
He then traveled with Xenocrates to the court of his friend Hermias of Atarneus in Asia Minor.
From the neolithic age Asia Minor was the route of the forward-Asiatic cultural stream which moved from the Near East to the west and spread the agriculture to the east coasts of Greece and Crete during the 5th millennium BC and then to the Balkan region and the whole of Europe.
He was next appointed by the Emperor Hadrian as one of the four proconsuls to administer Italia, then greatly increased his reputation by his conduct as proconsul of Asia, probably during 134 – 135.
In 1906, the Aga Khan was a founding member and first president of the All India Muslim League, a political party which pushed for the creation of an independent Muslim nation in the north west regions of South Asia, then under British colonial rule, and later established the country of Pakistan in 1947.
6 – 9 ), then traveling through Syria, Asia Minor, and Europe towards Rome ( chs.
Herodotus, who has been called the ' Father of History ', was born in 484 BC in Halicarnassus, Asia Minor ( then under Persian overlordship ).
On the other hand, the traditional identification with a site in Assyria would then imply the later sense of " Babylonia ", and a few interpreters have additionally tried to identify Abraham's birthplace with Chaldia, a distinct region in Asia Minor on the Black Sea.
Since then, this has become the most common definition of Central Asia.
Since then McLean has performed tours of the UK ( 2007, 2008 ( one appearance ), 2010, 2011 ), Ireland ( 2007, 2010, 2011 ), mainland Europe ( 2008, 2010 ), Australia and New Zealand ( 2008, 2011 ) and South East Asia ( 2011 ).
Germanicus was then sent to Asia, where in 18 he defeated the kingdoms of Cappadocia and Commagene, turning them into Roman provinces.
Meanwhile, Japan ( allied to Germany and Italy since September 1940 ) attacked the British in Southeast Asia and the United States in Hawaii on 7 December 1941 ; Germany then completed its over-extension by declaring war on the United States.
Ireland then became an attractive destination for immigrants from a number of nations, mainly from Central Europe, but also from Africa, Asia and elsewhere.
In Asia, the Red Army had overrun Manchuria in the last month of the war and then also occupied Korea above the 38th parallel north.
Julian studied Neoplatonism in Asia Minor in 351, at first under Aedesius, the philosopher, and then Neoplatonic theurgy from Aedesius ' student, Maximus of Ephesus.
Notwithstanding the opinion to the contrary of many writers, it does not appear improbable that John then went for the first time to Asia Minor and exercised his Apostolic office in various provinces there.
When the Indian Rebellion of 1857 broke out in South Asia, the 21st Native Infantry, then stationed in Karachi, declared allegiance to rebels and joining their numbers on 10 September 1857.
The ancient Aryan tribes, who are hypothesized to have spoken Proto-Indo-Iranian, came down in intermittent waves from Central Asia and Afghanistan and then moved to
The Maldives provided the main source of cowrie shells, then used as a currency throughout Asia and parts of the East African coast.
In terms of fortification, the Middle Ages saw the emergence of the castle in Europe, which then spread to southwestern Asia.
It is assumed that Olea europaea may have arisen from O. chrysophylla in northern tropical Africa and that it was introduced into the countries of the Mediterranean Basin via Egypt and then Crete or Palestine, Syria and Asia Minor.
The general diffusion of Turkish populations over Anatolia, before Osman's time, was in main part a push from the Mongol conquest of Central Asia, Iran and then East Anatolia.
Horses and tapirs both evolved in North America ; rhinoceroses appear to have developed in Asia from tapir-like animals and then recolonised the Americas during the middle Eocene ( about 45 Mya ).
Japan, a country long regarded by the Chinese as little more than an upstart nation of pirates, had convincingly beaten its larger neighbour and in the process annihilated the Qing government's pride and joy — its modernized Beiyang Fleet then deemed to be the strongest naval force in Asia.
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