The two regiments of the Foreign Legion took part, as the " Foreign Brigade ", in the battle of Alma ( 20 September 1854 ) and the siege of Sevastopol, during the winter of 1854 – 1855.

The arrival of the railways in 1855 quickly made it redundant, as trains could carry passengers and goods far more rapidly and did not have to shut down with the arrival of winter, which made the canal impassable for five months of the year.

The public who were flocking to Offenbach's theatre in the summer and autumn of 1855 could not be expected to venture there in the depths of a Parisian winter.

Issues of performance in the Crimean War, especially disastrous lack of due provision for operations during the Russian winter of 1854 brought about the Board's demise in 1855. also the reference to Lord Raglan # Notable staff | below. As a result of enquiries made into the breakdown of transport and hospital arrangements during the first winter of the war, the Board of Ordnance, which had been in existence for four hundred years, was abolished, and the Artillery together with the Royal Engineers came directly under the Commander-in-Chief and the War Office like the rest of the Army.

Before treaties of 1854 – 1855, more than fifty named tribes existed, each with one or more winter villages and several summer camps as well as traditionally allocated resource sites.

File: William_Simpson_-_Crimean_War_-_Huts_and_Warm_Clothing_for_the_Army. jpg | British lithograph published March 1855, after a water-colour by William Simpson, shows winter military housing under construction with supplies borne on soldiers ' backs.

During the winter of 1855 – 56, flour and other basic necessities were suddenly very scarce and very costly.

After serving missions for the church in Switzerland and England, he emigrated to the United States during the winter of 1855 – 56.

During the winter months in 1855 the players of Sheffield Cricket Club organised informal football matches in order to retain fitness until the start of the new season.

Clifton was founded in the winter of 1852-53, when the families of Samuel Locker, Monroe Locker, Frank Kell, and T. A. McSpadden settled in the vicinity.

According to Nichols the chapel was granted to Henry Cartwright in 1542, then left abandoned and neglected until 1692 when Samuel Bracebridge settled a yearly sum for the parson of Mancetter to preach there every other Sunday in the winter season

Several troop ships were blown off course and ended up in New York, and Vice Admiral Samuel Graves, commanding the fleet in Boston, refused to release ships to transport troops from there to Quebec because the approaching winter would close the Saint Lawrence River.

In 1604, French explorer Samuel de Champlain and his men spent a winter here.

* Upon reaching the winter of 1717 in the game Empire: Total War the player is presented with a message that the Samuel Bellamy has died.

The Fall of the Roman Empire was one of Samuel Bronston's superproductions in Spain, with Marcus Aurelius's winter camp on the Danube shot in snow in the Sierra de Guadarrama, northern Madrid.

Sunstein was the Samuel Rubin Visiting Professor of Law at Columbia Law School in the fall of 1986 and a visiting professor at Harvard Law School in the spring 1987, winter 2005, and spring 2007 terms.

Soon after Menasseh left London Cromwell granted him a pension, but he died before he could enjoy it, at Middelburg in the Netherlands in the winter of 1657 ( 14 Kislev 5418 ), as he was conveying the body of his son Samuel home for burial.

It is worth noting that keeping the sheep in winter in cotes for lambing time dates back to Biblical days in the Levant ( 1 Samuel 24: 3 KJV “ sheepcotes by the way ;” 2 Chronicles 32: 28 “ and cotes for flocks ”).

The contract negotiations between Ognjenović's agent Zoran Vekić and Real president Lorenzo Sanz ran very long as the club had a surplus of forwards on its roster and had to offload 17-year-old Samuel Eto ' o on a loan spell to RCD Espanyol before signing any new ones ; everything was finally concluded just hours before the Spanish winter transfer window closed and the player joined compatriot Predrag Mijatović at his new club.

To brighten the atmosphere and foster the esprit de corps amongst the sieur de Poutrincourt, lord of Port-Royal's staff members, Samuel de Champlain had the idea to create " the order of Good-Cheer " during the winter 1606-1607.

Jared married Hannah Smithson ( daughter of Samuel Smithson of Brayfield, England ) the following winter, and was minister at the Killingworth church until his death.

Adélie penguins living in the Ross Sea region in Antarctica and migrate an average of about during the year as they follow the sun from their breeding colonies to winter foraging grounds and back again.

Plant fossils found within the Late Cretaceous ( Coniacian and Santonian-early Campanian ) strata of the Hidden Lake and Santa Maria formations, which outcrop within James Ross, Seymour, and adjacent islands, indicate that this emergent volcanic island arc enjoyed warm temperate or subtropical climates with adequate moisture for growth and without extended periods of below freezing winter temperatures.

Poor winter weather affected the side at the start of 2010, the team initially struggled with a fixture pile up but Ross managed to keep the side in the league avoiding relegation.

In late 1848, James Clark Ross, commanding two ships, landed at Port Leopold on the northeast coast to winter.

In his book he listed the expedition's main achievements: proof that an expedition could live on Victoria Land over winter ; a year's continuous magnetic and meteorological observations ; an estimate of the current position of the South Magnetic Pole ; discoveries of new species of insects and shallow-water fauna ; coastal mapping and the discovery of new islands ; the first landing on Ross Island and, finally, the scaling of the Great Ice Barrier and the sledging to 78 ° 50 ' S, " the furthest south ever reached by man ".

A key factor is the polar winds that can drive the sound ’ s pack ice into the Ross Sea summer or winter.

Since the Morrill was laid up for the winter, this gave him time to concentrate on his campaign to succeed Worth G. Ross as Captain-Commandant of the USRCS.

Ross was walking north from Washington's winter camp in Morristown, New Jersey, on his way home to Linebrook, Massachusetts, when he fell ill and was nursed to health by Bathsheba Spooner before heading on to his home.

Ross retired during the winter of 2009.

In the winter of 2004 / 2005, Smith toured again with Nader in a series of rallies against the Iraq War and called for the impeachment of George W. Bush.

But the events at The Oval had a subscript during the following winter when W. G.

Otto Nordenskiöld theorized that winter conditions also play a role: His formula is W = 9 − 0. 1 C, where W is the average temperature in the warmest month and C the average of the coldest month, both in degrees Celsius ( this would mean, for example, that if a particular location had an average temperature of in its coldest month, the warmest month would need to average or higher for trees to be able to survive there ).

Although the episodes themselves are not in chronological order ( a single episode may have one story that takes place in the winter and another that takes place in the summer ), many episodes are rife with references to past events within the series ' continuity, in particular D. W .' s missing snowball for which she blames Arthur or Buster's cat saving incident ; these are often intended to amuse long-time viewers.

The first destination winter resort in the U. S. was developed by W. Averell Harriman, the chairman of the Union Pacific Railroad, primarily to increase ridership on U. P.

Over the years Aiken became a winter home for many famous and notable people including George H. Bostwick, James B. Eustis, Madeleine Astor, William Kissam Vanderbilt, Eugene Grace president of Bethlehem Steel, Allan Pinkerton, W. Averell Harriman and many others.

In the winter of 1907 / 8, the chief designer F. W.

The numbers 0, 5, 10, 15 and 25 are suffixed with the letter W, designating their " winter " ( not " weight ") or cold-start viscosity, at lower temperature.

Salt Lake City photographer Charles W. Carter came during the winter of 1866-67 and his former mentor, Charles Savage, visited a number of times between 1866 and the early 1870s.

: W Europe and Mediterranean region to Central Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and Madagascar, South and Southeast Asia ; localized breeder in East Asia ( e. g. Taiwan ) but more widespread during winter ; has become a regular migrant to the Marianas and Saipan and sometimes is seen on other islands in western Micronesia ( e. g. Koror, Ngeriungs Islet and Peleliu of Palau ) since the late 20th-century.

The first winter ascent was made on 23 January 1874, by Meta Brevoort and W. A.

; Winter ( W ): In some Volvo, Mercedes-Benz, BMW and General Motors Europe models, a winter mode can be engaged so that second gear is selected instead of first when pulling away from stationary, to reduce the likelihood of loss of traction due to wheelspin on snow or ice.

Young birds resemble winter adults, but have a dark " W " pattern on the wings in flight, like young Little Gulls.

In 1799 Muffling contributed to a military dictionary edited by Lieutenant W. von Leipziger, and in the winter of 1802-1803, being then a subaltern, he was appointed to the newly-formed general staff as quartermaster-lieutenant.

Approximately 95 % of Gray Bats hibernate in 11 winter hibernacula, with 31 % hibernating in a single cave located in northern Alabama .< ref > Mitchell, W. A.

The southern winter of 1903 was spent at Laurie Island in the South Orkney Islands, and in March – April 1904 the party discovered of previously unknown coastline of the Antarctic continent, reaching a farthest south of 74 ° 01 ′ S, 22 ° 00 ′ W.

Eells tried several tactics to try to recover his health, such as spending the winter of 1840 in Cuba, but nevertheless, he died in 1842 in Cincinnati at the home of his friend S. W. Pomeroy, wracked with arthritis and tuberculosis.

The Charles River, viewed at night in winter from the John W. Weeks Bridge | Weeks footbridge, with Allston to the right and Cambridge, Massachusetts to the left.

Services were first held in the early winter of 1913 and were conducted by a lay minister, F. W. Therrien.

Gen. William W. Averell's Union cavalry division crossed the Rappahannock to attack the Confederate cavalry that had been harassing them that winter.

He received numerous entreaties from President Abraham Lincoln, Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, and General-in-Chief Henry W. Halleck to resume campaigning against Bragg, but rebuffed them through the winter and spring.

Leaving in early January, Meek and George W. Ebbert made the difficult winter trip, arriving in Saint Joseph, Missouri on May 11 and proceeding to Washington by steamboat and then by rail.

He is the leading Scottish winter mountaineer of the generation following W. H. Murray.