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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.
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In 1846 Matthew B. Goodwin, jeweler and watchmaker, became the town's first telegrapher in a dwelling he built for himself and his business `` two doors north of the Equinox House '' or `` one door north of the Bank, Manchester, Vermont ''.
After finding that its coasts led nowhere, however, he turned north again, toward the main, ice-filled passageway -- and the crew, at first uneasy, then frightened, rebelled.
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.
Speakers of the Akkadian language seem to have already been present in Mesopotamia at the dawn of the historical period, and soon achieved preeminence with the first Dynasty of Kish and numerous localities to the north of Sumer, where rulers with Akkadian names had already established themselves by the 3rd millennium BC.
* 1809 – Two Austrian army corps are driven from Landshut by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon I of France as two French corps to the north hold off the main Austrian army on the first day of the Battle of Eckmühl.
Both statements are true, the first in the south, and the second to the north.
The Pals ' first day of action, Saturday 1 July 1916, took place in Serre in the north of France.
The second, named Fatih Sultan Mehmet ( Bosphorus II ) Bridge, is long, and was completed in 1988 about north of the first bridge.
They first appear in history in connection with the Gallic invasion of north Italy, 390 BC, when they made the Etruscan city of Felsina their new capital, Bononia ( Bologna ).
Traveling north to south, the first neighborhood, the " North Residential Neighborhood ", has high-rise residential buildings, a large hotel, Stuyvesant High School, a movie theater and a modern branch of the New York Public Library.
Much of the scholarship of the 1800s assumes that Galatia was a province to the north of the first missionary journey churches started through Paul and Barnabas ' ministry as described in Acts 13-14.
It is the oldest north – south main thoroughfare in New York City, dating to the first New Amsterdam settlement.
John's part in the general strategy was carried out at first, but the allies in the north moved slowly.
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.
* Bakheng Style ( 889-923 ): Bakheng was the first temple mountain constructed in the area of Angkor proper north of Siem Reap.
This would be the first of many population migrations from north to south in Chinese history.
The Spanish settled along the north coast of today's Colombia in the early 16th century, but their first permanent settlement, at Santa Marta, was not established until 1525.
Before its coastline was first explored by Europeans in the 16th century, Delaware was inhabited by several groups of Native Americans, including the Lenape in the north and Nanticoke in the south.
In 1715 the French established their first permanent settlements in Dominica following a revolt of " poor white " smallholders in the north of Martinique, known as La Gaoulé, which caused an exodus of them to southern Dominica.
The first such prehistoric lake is named " Lake Amora ", which was a freshwater or brackish lake that extended at least south of the current southern end of the Dead Sea and north, well above the present Hula Depression.
The first plant was on the north shore of the Dead Sea at Kalya and produced potash by solar evaporation of the brine.
The crossing from south to north is known as the vernal equinox, also known as the first point of Aries and the ascending node of the ecliptic on the celestial equator.
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.
In the first years of the 1st century, Roman legions conducted a long campaign in Germania, the area north of the Upper Danube and east of the Rhine, in an attempt to expand the Empire's frontiers and shorten its frontier line.
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Historians consider it unlikely that Catherine's father, Sir Thomas, would take his pregnant wife on an arduous two week journey north over execrable roads to give birth in a crumbling castle in which neither of them seemed to spend much time.
After five weeks of attacking, the Canadian 4th Division finally took the formidable Regina Trench north of Courcelette on 11 November, and Desire Trench 400 yards beyond a week later.
It would be many years before television programs originated in the north without the help of the south, starting with one half-hour per week in the 1980s with Focus North and graduating to a daily half-hour newscast, Northbeat, in the late 1990s.
January is the hottest month with an average maximum temperature of 33. 6 ° C, but temperatures above 40. 0 ° C occur nearly once a week when hot, dry, north to northeasterly winds arrive.
The final engagement, the battle of Abrittus, in which the Goths fought with the courage of despair, under the command of Cniva, took place during the second week of June 251 on swampy ground in the Ludogorie ( region in northeastern Bulgaria which merges with Dobruja plateau and the Danube Plain to the north ) near the small settlement of Abrittus or Forum Terebronii ( modern Razgrad ).
A rider brought the mail from Vincennes, Ind., made a stop in Newton once a week and then continued delivering mail on his route north of Newton.
A week earlier, however, a group of farmers residing two miles north of Shelbyville had made the railroad an offer of their own.
A week earlier, however, a group of farmers residing two miles north of Shelbyville had made the railroad an offer of their own.
The north span of the Three Nations Crossing, seen from Cornwall's east end. With a fleet of 24 buses, Cornwall Transit serves the community 6 days per week ( excluding holidays ) on fixed routes and supplementary " rush hour " routes.
In the 1968 franchise round, Granada's contract was changed from weekdays across the northern England region to the whole week in the north west from Winter Hill transmitting station.
The creek now ends at Stonehouse Bridge ( for many years a toll bridge ) and to the north east the wide river bed which led up past Millbridge to Pennycomequick and beyond to the bottom of Ford Park Cemetery, has been reclaimed and infilled to provide the playing fields of Victoria Park, rugby pitches for Devonport High School for Boys, and nearest the bridge a large hardstanding used several days a week for Plymouth's biggest car boot sales.
At elementary and high school levels, the week depends on the north / middle / south division also used around the summer holidays.
During the next week, as Burgoyne dug in, Morgan and his men moved to his north.
After Doby had completed eighth grade, he moved north to Paterson at the age of 14 to be reunited with his mother, although he would be living full-time with a friend of his mother's and visit his mother once per week.
Its eight days of competitions and performances, entirely in the Welsh language, are staged annually in the first week of August, usually alternating between north and south Wales.
Over the next week, he explored the area around the Bay, first at Corio Bay, near the present site of Geelong, and later moving up the Yarra and Maribyrnong rivers at the north of the Bay.
The king himself led an enormous Castilian army that invaded Portugal in the second week of June through the central north, from Celorico da Beira to Coimbra and Leiria.
The week after this defeat Wrexham travelled north to play Hartlepool and managed to get their revenge by beating them 1 – 0 in a hard-earned victory.
The Johnsmas Foy festivities on the Shetland Isles ( north of Scotland ), where the people are still proud of their Nordic roots also take place in the week building up to the 23 / 24 June.
The U. S. Seventh Army counter-attacked in the last week of January, 1945, and VI Corps recaptured lost ground north of Strasbourg until its attacks were halted by flooded ground near the Rhine River in mid-February, 1945.
During the week of January 17, 2011, tritium was detected at a level of 9, 200 picocuries per liter ( below the federally-required reporting level ) in an area 150 – 200 feet north of the location where it was detected a year earlier.
Within a week of the start of Plunder, the Allies had taken 30, 000 prisoners of war north of the Ruhr.
In the northernmost tropical areas of Brazil, the school year starts the first week of September and ends the last week of June, following the practice of countries further north.
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