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British casualties in the battle were recorded with some accuracy in the immediate aftermath as 218 killed and approximately 677 wounded, although the number of wounded who subsequently died is not known.
In the immediate aftermath of the battle, Herodotus says that the Persian fleet sailed around Cape Sounion to attack Athens directly.
The Widgery Tribunal, held in the immediate aftermath of the event, largely cleared the soldiers and British authorities of blame — Widgery described the soldiers ' shooting as " bordering on the reckless "— but was criticised as a " whitewash ", including by Jonathan Powell.
In the immediate aftermath of the war, the Government faced the challenge of managing relations with Britain's former war-time ally, Stalin and the Soviet Union.
For this reason, stories about earthquakes generally begin with the disaster and focus on its immediate aftermath, as in Short Walk to Daylight ( 1972 ), The Ragged Edge ( 1968 ) or Aftershock: Earthquake in New York ( 1998 ).
The initial list was formed in late 2001 in the immediate aftermath of the 9 / 11 attacks and contained the names of 22 persons alleged to be terrorists by U. S. authorities.
Most military accidents took place while clearing the minefields in the immediate aftermath of the 1982 conflict or in the process of trying to establish the extent of the minefield perimeters, particularly where no detailed records existed.
In the immediate aftermath of the collapse of the protests at Tiananmen Square, Lin Zhaohua staged a 1990 Hamlet in which the prince was an ordinary individual tortured by a loss of meaning.
In the immediate aftermath of the General Assembly's vote on the Partition plan, the explosions of joy among the Jewish community were counterbalanced by the expression of discontent among the Arab community.
The soldiers were killed either during the attack or in its immediate aftermath.
In the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, a Canadian steamship, the RMS Empress of Australia and her captain, Samuel Robinson achieved international acclaim for stalwart rescue efforts during the immediate aftermath of that disaster.
His close association with the Congress dates from 1919, in the immediate aftermath of World War I.
In the immediate aftermath of WWII, there occurred several armed incidents between Yugoslavia and the Western Allies.
In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, the US Occupation authorities initially encouraged the formation of independent unions.
Parliamentary and more recently municipal elections have been held with fewer irregularities and more popular participation than in the immediate aftermath of the conflict, and Lebanese civil society generally enjoys significantly more freedoms than elsewhere in the Arab world.
Mary understood that the young Lady Jane was essentially a pawn in Dudley's scheme, and Dudley was the only conspirator of rank executed for high treason in the immediate aftermath of the coup.
In the immediate aftermath of the attacks, the station lent transmission time to the other stations who had lost their transmitters until they found suitable backup equipment and locations.
In the immediate aftermath of the attacks, Beamer had a high profile, with more than 200 media appearances in 6 months.
It originally included " the prayer of Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, the Archbishop of Washington in a Mass on September 12, 2001 for our Nation and the victims in the immediate aftermath of the terrorist hijackings and attacks in New York City, Washington, D. C., and Pennsylvania reminds all Americans that ' We must seek the guilty and not strike out against the innocent or we become like them who are without moral guidance or proper direction.
The immediate aftermath of the war in Hollywood avoided the action film and delved into problems experienced by the returning veterans, turning out a number of high quality films that included The Best Years of Our Lives ( 1946 ), Battleground ( 1949 ), Home of the Brave ( 1949 ), Command Decision ( 1948 ), and Twelve O ' Clock High ( 1949 ).
Made in black-and-white with a running time of just under 50 minutes, The War Game depicts the prelude to and the immediate weeks of the aftermath to a Soviet nuclear attack against Britain.
In the immediate aftermath of the 11 September attacks, Navy SEALs quickly dispatched to Camp Doha, and those already aboard US Naval vessels in the Persian Gulf and surrounding waters began conducting VBSS operations against ships suspected of having ties to or even carrying al Qaeda operatives.
Because the duchy of Swabia lost its duke in 1268 and was never restored, all vassals of the duchy became immediate vassals of the Imperial Throne ( as has happened in much of Westphalia when the duchy of Saxons was divided and partially dissolved in aftermath of the defeat of Henry the Lion ).
In the immediate aftermath of the Tiananmen protests, Li took a leading role in a national austerity program, intended to slow economic growth and inflation and re-centralize the economy.

immediate and World
Building on the success British cinema had enjoyed during World War II, the industry hit new heights of creativity in the immediate post-war years.
* German MG 42: the MG 34's immediate successor in Wehrmacht service — and the most versatile and effective machine gun design of the Second World War.
Near the end of the Second World War, Allied forces discovered that the SS had compiled lists of people slated for immediate arrest during the invasion of Britain in the abandoned Operation Sea Lion, and Wells was included in the alphabetical list on the same page of " The Black Book " as Rebecca West.
* 1942 World War II: French resistance coup in Algiers, in which 400 civilian French patriots neutralize Vichyist XIXth Army Corps after 15 hours of fighting, and arrest several Vichyst generals, allowing the immediate success of Operation Torch in Algiers.
However, despite a Woolworths store on its ground floor, a major travel company housed on the floor above, and a restaurant offering fine views over the city on the top floor, the economic situation of the time meant that it would not be followed by more buildings in that vein: no further redevelopment in the immediate vicinity of Potsdamer Platz occurred prior to World War II, and so Columbushaus would always seem out of place in that location.
After that, only two buildings in the immediate vicinity of Potsdamer Platz still stood-one complete, the other in a half-ruined fragmented form: the Weinhaus Huth's steel skeleton had enabled the building to withstand the pounding of World War II virtually undamaged, and it now stood out starkly amid a great levelled wasteland, although now occupied only by groups of squatters.
Clemens made an immediate impact on the Yankees ' staff, anchoring the top of the rotation as the team went on to win a pair of World Series titles in 1999 and 2000.
When the Bolsheviks came to power in Russia in November 1917, they called for Russia's immediate withdrawal as a member of the Allies of World War I.
In the immediate wake of World War II, for example, in the United States it was widely considered that technology was simply " applied science " and that to fund basic science was to reap technological results in due time.
Before the onset of the Second World War, the United Kingdom drew on its First World War experience to prepare legislation that would allow immediate mobilization of the economy for war, should future hostilities break out.
The Decree called " upon all the belligerent nations and their governments to start immediate negotiations for peace " and proposed an immediate withdrawal of Russia from World War I. Leon Trotsky was appointed Commissar of Foreign Affairs in the new Bolshevik government.
RAF Bomber Command ended the Second World War with a policy of using heavy four-piston-engined bombers for massed raids and remained committed to this policy in the immediate post-war period.
A growing number of grassroots global events and celebrations such as International Day of Peace, World Party Day participants, and Peace One Day recommend WFP on radio broadcasts as an immediate reach out action, putting help within reach of anyone with the information that a quarter feeds a child for a day.
In August 1914, soon after the First World War began, Grace wrote a letter to The Sportsman in which he called for the immediate closure of the county cricket season and for all first-class cricketers to set an example and serve their country.
* May 29 The first of approximately 15, 000 World War I veterans arrive in Washington, D. C. demanding the immediate payment of their military bonus, becoming known as the Bonus Army.
The Reedy Creek Improvement District ( RCID ) is the immediate governing jurisdiction for the land of the Walt Disney World Resort.
At that time and until World War II, most newspapers relied on news agencies for stories outside their immediate geographic areas.
In the immediate aftermath of World War II, post-war economic conditions compounded with the then-ongoing Chinese Civil War caused severe inflation across mainland China and in Taiwan, made worse by disastrous currency reforms and corruption.
With the advent of the First World War, Emmeline and Christabel called an immediate halt to militant suffrage activism in support of the British government's stand against the " German Peril.
Historically, there have been three major periods of declaring independence: the years from 1776 to the Revolutions of 1848 in Europe ; the immediate aftermath of the First World War with the breakup of the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian empires ; and the decades from to 1945 to 1979, when seventy newly independent states emerged from the wreckage of the European colonial empires.

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