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The British general moved his forces north from Philadelphia to Chestnut Hill, near the right wing of the patriot encampment.
For southeastern Louisiana, Mobile was the principal post, and it was to furnish supplies for trade to the north and east, in the region threatened by British traders.
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.
Subsequently, a British leader named Vortigern is supposed to have invited continental mercenaries to help fight the Picts who were attacking from the north.
To one who had been a man of war from his youth, who had won and lost many fights, the rout of a detachment and the forcible seizure of some debatable frontier lands was an untoward incident ; but it was not a sufficient reason for calling upon the British, although they had guaranteed his territory's integrity, to vindicate his rights by hostilities which would certainly bring upon him a Russian invasion from the north, and would compel his British allies to throw an army into Afghanistan from the southeast.
British Columbia is bordered by the Pacific Ocean on the west, by the U. S. state of Alaska on the northwest as well as parts of the west, on the north by the Yukon and the Northwest Territories, on the east by the province of Alberta, and on the south by the U. S. states of Washington, Idaho, and Montana.
Belize ( formerly British Honduras ) is a country located on the north eastern coast of Central America and it is the only country in the area where English is the official language, although Creole and Spanish are more commonly spoken.
In AD 60 or 61, while the current governor, Gaius Suetonius Paulinus, was leading a campaign against the island of Mona ( modern Anglesey ) in the north of Wales, which was a refuge for British rebels and a stronghold of the druids, the Iceni conspired with their neighbours the Trinovantes, amongst others, to revolt.
By 18: 00, the British fleet was again under full sail, Vanguard sixth in the line of ten ships as Culloden trailed behind to the north, and Alexander and Swiftsure hastened to catch up to the west.
In 1799, British ships harassed Bonaparte's army as it marched east and north through Palestine, and played a crucial part in Bonaparte's defeat at the Siege of Acre, when the barges carrying the siege train were captured and the French storming parties were bombarded by British ships anchored offshore.
* Sidas Cone, one of the cinder cones located north on the Mount Edziza plateau in British Columbia, Canada
Under the administration of Félix Éboué, France's first black colonial governor, a military column, commanded by Colonel Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, and including two battalions of Sara troops, moved north from N ' Djamena ( then Fort Lamy ) to engage Axis forces in Libya, where, in partnership with the British Army's Long Range Desert Group, they captured Kufra.
To the north, mostly in British Columbia, the Columbia watershed borders the Fraser River watershed.
Because the British promised slaves of rebels freedom for fighting with them, escaped slaves flocked north to join their lines.
Desmond John Morris FZS, born 24 January 1928 in Purton, north Wiltshire, is a British zoologist and ethologist.
On May 14, following the arrival of 100 men recruited by Arnold's captains, and the arrival of a schooner and some bateaux that had been taken at Skenesboro, Arnold and 50 of his men sailed north to raid Fort St. John, on the Richelieu River downstream from the lake, where a small British warship was reported by the prisoners to be anchored.
The islands are located from the Isla de los Estados in Argentina ( and from the Argentine mainland ); from Chile ; west of the Shag Rocks ( South Georgia ) and north of the British Antarctic Territory ( which overlaps with the Argentine and Chilean claims to Antarctica in that region ).
After 1918, following the defeat of Germany, the League of Nations divided the German colony of Togoland from north to south, a decision that divided the Ewe people among the Gold Coast, British Togoland, and French Togoland.
Greenland is believed by some geologists to have some of the world ’ s largest remaining oil resources: in 2001, the U. S. Geological Survey found that the waters off north-eastern Greenland ( north and south of the arctic circle ) could contain up to of oil and, in 2010, the British petrochemical company Cairns Oil reported " the first firm indications " of commercially viable oil deposits.
The next year, 1793, he returned to British Columbia and proceeded further north, unknowingly missing the overland explorer Alexander Mackenzie by only 48 days.
In September 1854, British and French troops landed on the Crimean peninsula at Eupatoria north of Sevastopol.
During World War II, the British at Bletchley Park ( 40 miles north of London ) achieved a number of successes at breaking encrypted German military communications.
Kapodistrias called on the British and French residents to support him in putting down the rebellion, but this they refused to do, but Admiral Richord ( or Ricord ) took his ships north to Poros.

north and 21st
Gen. Montgomery insisted priority be given to his 21st Army Group's attack being made in the north, while Gens.
By 15: 00, the 3rd Reconnaissance Regiment and part of 21st Panzer Division from the north and 33rd Reconnaissance Regiment and the Baade Group comprising elements from 15th Panzer Division from the south were in place under Lieutenamnt-General ( General der Panzertruppe ) Walther Nehring.
Following the Gutian period, there is a brief Sumerian renaissance in the 21st century, cut short in the 20th century BC by Amorite invasions, a Semitic people from the north east Levant who founded Babylon as an independent state in 1894 BC.
In the north, in the first week of September, the British 21st Army Group, under Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, sent its British Second Army commanded by Lieutenant-General Sir Miles Dempsey advancing on a line running from Antwerp to the northern border of Belgium while its First Canadian Army, under Lieutenant-General Harry Crerar, was pursuing its task of recapturing the ports of Dieppe, Le Havre and Boulogne-sur-Mer.
Much of the city is zoned for commercial development, particularly along the state highway on 1900 West ( directly north of the larger community of Roy, Utah, for which 1900 West is the primary north / south main street ), and around the 21st Street / Wilson Lane I-15 exit for Ogden and West Haven.
* France-Italy Italy was to own what lies north of a line from the intersection of the Tropic of Cancer and the 17th meridian to the intersection of the 15th parallel and 21st meridian.
He was to have 10th and 21st Panzer Divisions transferred from von Arnim ’ s 5th Panzer Army to his command and attack through the Kasserine and Sbiba passes toward Thala and Le Kef to the north, clearing the Western Dorsale and threatening the 1st Army ′ s flank.
The Mariana Islands ( also the Marianas ; up to the early 20th century sometimes called Ladrones Islands, from Spanish Islas de los Ladrones meaning " Islands of Thieves ") are an arc-shaped archipelago made up by the summits of fifteen volcanic mountains in the north-western Pacific Ocean between the 12th and 21st parallels north and along the 145th meridian east.
On the same day the officers commanding the two armies of Army Group Vistula north of Berlin, ( General Kurt von Tippelskirch commander of the German 21st Army and General Hasso von Manteuffel commander of Third Panzer Army ) surrendered to the Western Allies.
The 14th century door on the north side was formerly blocked but now serves as the entrance to the new parish rooms which were built at the start of the 21st century on the north side of the church.
However, the headquarters of U. S. 12th Army Group lay to the south, and so Eisenhower decided to place American forces north of the " Bulge " salient under 21st Army Group.
The California volunteers, 21st Infantry, and F Troop advanced behind the Stronghold, and were within 50 yards ( 50 m ) north of the Stronghold when they were pinned down on the shore by overwhelming Modoc fire.
The Q became the weekday Brighton Express and was rerouted via the north side of the bridge and the IND Sixth Avenue Line to 57th Street, Midtown Manhattan ( and to 21st Street – Queensbridge, Long Island City, beginning in 1989 ).
The next day, he personally led the attack by the 10th Panzer Division, lent to him from von Arnim's Fifth Panzer Army to the north, hoping to take the supply dumps, while the German 21st Panzer Division, also detached from the Fifth Panzer Army, continued attacking northward through the Sbiba gap.
To the north was the British-led 21st Army Group and, to the south, after their breakout from the Mediterranean coast, was the Sixth United States Army Group.
While 1 SA and 50th Divisions were preparing for their withdrawal on the Via Balbia, Axis forces were wreaking havoc on the escarpment amongst Allied forces and Rommel dictated his 170mm guns to open fire from the escarpment down onto the Via Balbia as the South Africans and British were destroying their ammunition dumps in the Gazala Line Rommel tasked 15th and 21st Panzer with breaking north and severing the Via Balbia close to Elwet et Tamar, cutting off the two Divisions to the west.
The line runs east on street level right-of-way just north of and parallel to Cermak Road from the terminal to about a quarter-mile ( 400 m ) east of Cicero Avenue, then diagonals northeast until it reaches a corridor parallel and adjacent to 21st Street at Kostner Avenue.
The 21st Brigade returned for the Battle of Buna-Gona in late 1942, in which Australian and US forces suffered very high casualties, while capturing the main Japanese beachheads on the north coast of Papua.
This will calm traffic while improving the intersection at the south end of the former one-way pair, which the RT Light Rail now crosses 21st Street just to the north of.
As the cachet of the Clintonville neighborhood grew towards the turn of the 21st century, real estate agents began to label homes north of Cooke Road as being in Clintonville, leading to the apparent absorption of Beechwold and nearby neighborhoods south of Worthington.
Outside fare control, there is a token booth and one staircase going up to the north side of 49th / Hunters Point Avenue with 21st Street several hundred yards to the west.
The IWC quoted her efforts to drag the European wine industry into the 21st century, saying that " family vineyards might have been pulled up and the family winemaking tradition lost had it not been for the intrepid heroine from the north.

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