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winter and 1776
His son Timur Shah Durrani, after inheriting power, transferred the capital of Afghanistan from Kandahar to Kabul in 1776, and used Peshawar as the winter capital.
* La frascatana nobile ( winter 1776 Naples Teatro Nuovo ) finta frascatana
With the capture of the fort, the Patriot forces obtained a large supply of cannons and other armaments, much of which Henry Knox transported to Boston during the winter of 1775 – 1776.
The expedition got under way in October 1775 and arrived at Mission San Gabriel in January 1776, the colonists having suffered greatly from the winter weather en route. Juan Bautista de Anza, from a portrait in oil by Fray Orsi in 1774
In the winter of 1775 and 1776, the Rhode Island Legislature put militia General William West in charge of rooting out loyalists in Newport, and several notable individuals such as Joseph Wanton and Thomas Vernon were exiled to the northern part of the state.
During the winter of 1776, General Henry Knox passed through the town with cannon from Fort Ticonderoga to end the Siege of Boston.
It was from this building that General Nathanael Greene, commander of George Washington's left wing during the Battle of Trenton, made his headquarters during the winter of 1776.
When orders arrived in November to execute these plans, Howe opted to remain in Boston for the winter and begin the campaign in 1776.
The siege was broken in March 1776 when Continental Army Colonel Henry Knox brought heavy artillery from Fort Ticonderoga to Boston during the winter, and General Washington used them to fortify Dorchester Heights, overlooking Boston and its harbour.
In December 1776, while British and German troops in North America were in winter quarters, General John Burgoyne arrived in London and began meeting with Lord Germain, the British Secretary of State for the Colonies and the government official responsible for managing the war, to discuss military plans for 1777.
Howe soon changed his mind after writing this letter: any reinforcements would probably arrive too late, and the retreat of the Continental Army over the winter of 1776 – 7 made Philadelphia an increasingly vulnerable target.
Another possibility is that it rose from a mispronunciation among Benedict Arnold's forces as they laid siege to Quebec in the winter of 1776.
After refitting and recruiting, the unit was renamed as the 8th Continental regiment and joined Washington's main army in December 1776 at winter quarters near Morristown, New Jersey.
In the winter of 1775 – 1776, Henry Knox directed the transportation of the guns of Ticonderoga to Boston.
In the winter of 1776 Henry Knox passed through Great Barrington while transporting the cannon from Fort Ticonderoga to the Siege of Boston which established an agricultural interest in the area of Great Barrington.
The New York and New Jersey campaign was a series of battles for control of New York City and the state of New Jersey in the American Revolutionary War between British forces under General Sir William Howe and the Continental Army under General George Washington in 1776 and the winter months of 1777.
One of the ships, the HMS Culloden ( 1776 ) ran aground at what is now called Culloden Point in Montauk during a winter storm on January 24, 1781.
During his reign, the Durrani Empire began to shrink, in an attempt to move away from disaffected Pashtun tribes he shifted the capital from Kandahar to Kabul and chose Peshawar as the winter capital in 1776.
The Royal Fusiliers played an active part in saving Canada from invasion by the army of the American Continental Congress during the autumn of 1775 and winter of 1776.
During the winter of 1776 the Blackwater froze from Maldon to Osea island, a distance of some four miles.
By the winter of 1776, the Shawnee were effectively divided into a neutral faction led by Cornstalk, and militant bands led by men such as Blue Jacket.
Arriving in Canada with the Brunswick army in the winter of 1776, Burgoyne detailed Baum with around 600 Brunswickers, British, and Indians from Fort Edward to try to collect provisions, horses, and Loyalist reinforcements for Burgoyne's main force for the march south toward Albany.
Henry's sons carried on his gun business, in Lancaster, in Philadelphia, in Nazareth, Pennsylvania, and then in Boulton, PA. One of his sons, John Joseph Henry, served as a sixteen year old rifleman on Benedict Arnold's march on Quebec in the fall and winter of 1775 ( he was captured and imprisoned for much of 1776 ), and later served as president judge of the second District in Pennsylvania from 1795-1811.
During the winter of 1776, Posey commanded the pickets guarding the Valley Forge encampment and led skirmishes almost daily.

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He went to Key West every fall and winter and was the only man in town who did not know that his title of `` Commodore '' was never used without irony.
He thereupon went to London and spent the winter talking to men of wealth.
* At Patara, in Lycia, there was a seasonal winter oracle of Apollo, said to have been the place where the god went from Delos.
In 1649 he went upriver and built winter quarters at Anadyrsk.
Some of the victorious fleet went in pursuit of him ; but Octavian himself visited Greece and Asia, and spent the winter at Samos ; though he was obliged to go for a short time to Brundisium to settle a mutiny and arrange for assignations of land.
Washington's army of 11, 000 went into winter quarters at Valley Forge north of Philadelphia in December 1777.
The winter festival went underground with the Protestant Reformation and ensuing years, but re-emerged near the end of the 17th century.
According to legend, she went barefoot even in winter, and when she was urged by the Bishop of Wrocław to wear shoes, she carried them in her hands.
In 1775 he was appointed physician to Birmingham General Hospital ( at the suggestion of Erasmus Darwin, a physician and founder member of the Lunar Society ), but in 1783 he diagnosed himself as having pulmonary tuberculosis and went twice to Portugal hoping the better winter climate would improve his health ; it didn't.
Alexandra again looked after her grandchildren when George and Mary went on a second tour, this time to British India, over the winter of 1905 – 1906.
The armies went into winter quarters and the First Corps rejoined the Army of Northern Virginia in the spring.
The Anglo-allied army took Worms, but after several unsuccessful attempts to cross, Prince Charles went into winter quarters.
The tribe went on buffalo hunts in summer and winter.
Another man, Sigi — a son of Odin — went hunting one winter with the thrall.
The number of residents always fluctuated, however, during any given year because migrant farm-workers and winter Texans or " snowbirds " came and went.
As the Army went into winter quarters, Beauregard caused considerable friction with the Confederate high command.
This led to a change in the Fen ’ s hydrology in the early 1960s as it went from a year-round water supply to alternating summer drought and winter floods.
These Native Americans, who stayed during the summer and went inland for winter, were part of the principal Algonquian tribe.
In the winter of 1998 – 99, Hole went on tour to promote Celebrity Skin, and made further appearances at festivals throughout 1999 after an extensive American and European tour.
Over the next winter, he went further, using his new Armed Neutrality coalition with Sweden, Denmark and Prussia to prepare the Baltic against possible British attack, prevent the British from searching neutral merchant vessels, and freeze all British trade in Northern Europe.
Also, Century Blvd went under construction in the winter of 2008.
The Swedes continued to the area around Smorgon and Minsk where the army went into winter quarters.
At the close of the campaign, by which time their numbers were much diminished, they did not rejoin the rest of the English contingent but went into cantonment in and around Amiens for the winter.
When Raymond went north, in the winter of 1099-1100, his first act was one of hostility against Bohemond, capturing Laodicea from ( Bohemond had himself recently taken it from Alexius ).

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