:" For ... outstanding service ... as Chief of Staff to Commander First Carrier Task Force, Pacific, during action against enemy Japanese forces in the Pacific War from 15 December 1944 to 15 May 1945 ... Commodore Burke was in large measure responsible for the efficient control under combat conditions of the tactical disposition, the operation, the security and the explosive offensive power of his task force in its bold and determined execution of measures designed to force the capitulation of the Japanese Empire ... throughout the seizure of bases at lwo Jima and Okinawa, including two carrier strikes on Tokyo, a carrier strike on the Kure Naval Base, and engagement with the Japanese Fleet on 7 April, in which several hostile man-o-war were destroyed by our aircraft ..."

Ryan's tenure as commander of PACAF and Air Force Chief of Staff also engendered controversy when he was described as one of a group that helped destroy General Jack Lavelle's career after Lavelle gave fighter pilots permission to shoot back at bona fide threats, something previously denied them by rules of engagement.

The only eyewitness accounts of this second engagement were provided to the judicial inquiry by Lieutenant Cobban and Sergeant John Lee.

Sergeant Jackson was thrown to the floor during the engagement.

The Qm has a direct subordinate at company level: it is the Company Quartermaster Sergeant ( QMS-the English definition for international engagement and also a new grade insignia = see " Gradstrukturen der Armee XXI_revidiert " since 2001 on Swiss army ranks ).

During an engagement in the harbor of Tripoli August 3, 1805, Sergeant Meredith saved the life of Lieutenant John Trippe of USS Vixen, who with a party of nine men had boarded a Tripolitan ship.

The Polish song and dance company called Mazowsze, after the region of Poland, where it has its headquarters, opened a three-week engagement at the City Center last night.

They accelerated only after May 1926, because of an increase in Polish exports by sea, economic prosperity, the outbreak of the German – Polish trade war which reverted most Polish international trade to sea routes, and also thanks to the personal engagement of Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski, Polish Minister of Industry and Trade, also responsible for construction of Centralny Okręg Przemysłowy.

His heart was later moved to the Polish Museum in Rapperswil through the engagement of Arrigo Boito, composer and librettist to Giuseppe Verdi, both of whom were friends of the Morosini-Negroni family.

Soon after, Blaskowitz's exposed northern flank was attacked by the Polish Poznan Army, leading to the major engagement of the Polish campaign, the Battle of the Bzura.

They were shown the battlefield, the corpses of Polish cavalrymen and their horses, alongside German tanks that had arrived at the field of battle only after the engagement.

The Red Army advance was coordinated with the movement of the German forces and met little resistance from the Polish forces ( such as Battle of Szack fought by the Border Defence Corps or Korpus Ochrony Pogranicza ), who were ordered to avoid engagement into the armed fights with the Soviets although some fighting between Soviet and Polish units took place.

2 February 1863 saw the start of the first major military engagement of the uprising between Polish peasants ( mostly armed with scythe ) and a squadron of Russian hussars near Čysta Būda, near Marijampolė.

The Battle of Zieleńce on June 18 was the first major victorious engagement of the Polish forces since Jan III Sobieski.

Finally the undefeated Polish armies converged on Warsaw and were preparing for a general engagement, when a courier from the capital informed the Commander in Chief that King Stanisław August had acceded to the pro-Russian Targowica Confederation and had pledged the adherence of the Polish Army.

Gustav's efforts in Poland and Lithuania did not secure his Baltic possessions, nor did they solve his kingdom ’ s security issues ; Polish, Lithuanian and English ships continued to prey upon Swedish trade, and Gustav considered his engagement in the Protestant causes in the German states to be part and parcel to securing his own interests in the Baltic.

Though his elder brother William's engagement with the Polish princess Jadwiga had mortifyingly failed, Ernest after the death of his first wife Margaret of Pomerania proceeded to Kraków to court Cymburgis.

It is notable that the battle hymn sung by the Polish troops during the engagement, the Song of the Polish Legions has since then been regarded as the Polish national anthem.

The political and national engagement of the artist also deepened during that time – Szyk regarded himself as a Polish patriot but he was also proud of being Jewish and he often opposed anti-Semitism in his works.

Promoting academic engagement among immigrant adolescents through school-family-community collaboration.

The Burkes, who now live in Kankakee, are telling friends of the engagement.

Francois D'Albert, Hungarian-born violinist who made his New York debut three years ago, played a return engagement last night in Judson Hall.

He fled for refuge to a Nabataean prince, who murdered him and sent his head to Ptolemy Philometor, who had been mortally wounded in the engagement.

: When, after the action had thus occurred, his own men returned to each general, Scipio could adopt no fixed plan of proceeding, except that he should form his measures from the plans and undertakings of the enemy: and Hannibal, uncertain whether he should pursue the march he had commenced into Italy, or fight with the Roman army which had first presented itself, the arrival of ambassadors from the Boii, and of a petty prince called Magalus, diverted from an immediate engagement ; who, declaring that they would be the guides of his journey and the companions of his dangers, gave it as their opinion, that Italy ought to be attacked with the entire force of the war, his strength having been nowhere previously impaired.

The potential of a successful engagement at sea to change the course of history is underscored by the list of French army officers carried aboard the convoy who later formed the core of the generals and marshals under Emperor Napoleon.

" Further, when asked if he felt ideologically closer to his father's engagement with politics or to other evangelicals who have tried to avoid civic involvement, he answered, " The gospel is for individuals.

Douglass later shared a stage at a speaking engagement in Harpers Ferry with Andrew Hunter, the prosecutor who successfully convicted Brown.

The exact nature of the ISA's mission and authority has been questioned by opponents of the Law of the Sea Treaty who are generally skeptical of multilateral engagement by the United States.

When Medea confronted Jason about the engagement and cited all the help she had given him, he retorted that it was not she that he should thank, but Aphrodite who made Medea fall in love with him.

That denouement plus Alden's engagement with rivaling Indians who plotted to kill newcomers is told elaborately in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, The Courtship of Miles Standish.

Whale's last professional engagement was directing Pagan in the Parlour, a farce about two New England spinster sisters who are visited by a Polynesian whom their father, when shipwrecked years earlier, had married.

In 1836 Marx became engaged to Jenny von Westphalen, a beautiful baroness of the Prussian ruling class —" the most desirable young woman in Trier " — who broke off her engagement with a young aristocratic second lieutenant to be with him.

" Parkin observes that much of Cumberland's material " is derived from Roman Stoicism, particularly from the work of Cicero, as " Cumberland deliberately cast his engagement with Hobbes in the mould of Cicero's debate between the Stoics, who believed that nature could provide an objective morality, and Epicureans, who argued that morality was human, conventional and self-interested.

Pro-Israel groups, who had written General Assembly commissioners to express their concerns about a corporate engagement / divestment strategy focused on Israel, praised the new resolution, saying that it reflected the church stepping back from a policy that singled out companies working in Israel.

But the Ravenswoods and the wealthy Ashtons, who now own the former Ravenswood lands, are enemies, and Lucie's mother forces her daughter to break her engagement to Edgar and marry the wealthy Sir Arthur Bucklaw.

While the storylines and production were remembered by children, the adult jokes like those about the Welsh in " Ivor the Engine ," or the fact that the Clangers swore occasionally ; gave them both an instant parent engagement as well as a later revival with children who had grown up and were re-watching their favourite programmes.

Wellington has retreated from Quatre Bras to Waterloo, but Ney returns to Napoleon to deliver his report on the Quatre Bras engagement, which angers Napoleon, who had expected Ney to pursue Wellington, who is now free to choose his own battlefield.

A scientific survey, conducted by researchers at Denver University, of over 1, 000 married men and women in the United States of America found those who moved in with a lover before engagement or marriage reported significantly lower quality marriages and a greater possibility of a separation than other couples.

Until the Great Depression, a man who broke off a marriage engagement could be sued for breach of promise.

Thus, the question of who broke the engagement and why, or who was ' at fault ,' is irrelevant.

The result was that I found myself in the ridiculous position of having made a formal engagement by letter for the next week, only two days before my departure from London.

A little later the district attorney woke up, emerged from under the couch, looked at his watch, and realized he had an engagement that very hour to address a meeting of the Culture Forum on `` The Civic Spirit of the Southland '', in the Byzantine room of the hotel where his wife, as president of the forum, was to preside.

Engages must be loyal to the concessionaires, and must serve until the term provided in the engagement was ended.

Charlie Marble was back and forth on several occasions, first to confer with Andy on the advisability of cancelling the Las Vegas engagement -- they decided it was wise -- and later to announce that a prominent comedian, also an agency client, had agreed to fill the casino's open date.

The engagement was supposed to be all set for the big theater in McCormick Place, which Sol Hurok, ballet booker extraordinary, considers the finest house of its kind in the country -- and of course he doesn't weep at the capacity, either.

And then there was Linda's engagement to Bobbie Evans.

A wedding set for January 1, 1841, was canceled when the two broke off their engagement at Lincoln's initiative.

The only engagement between the rival factions which is told at length is noteworthy, inasmuch as it was preceded by an encounter at Gibeon between twelve chosen men from each side, in which the whole twenty-four seem to have perished ( 2 Samuel 2: 12 ).

In the general engagement which followed, Abner was defeated and put to flight.

However, this situation changed drastically when Alexios ' first son John II Komnenos was born in 1087: Anna's engagement to Constantine was dissolved, and she was moved to the main Palace to live with her mother and grandmother.

The Danish fleet was able to defeat Alfred's fleet which may have been weakened in the previous engagement.

In 1169 the now old Dom Afonso was disabled in an engagement near Badajoz by a fall from his horse, and made prisoner by the soldiers of the king of León, his son-in-law.

With the announcement in 2007 of the engagement of Peter Phillips to Autumn Kelly, a Roman Catholic and a Canadian, discussion about the Act of Settlement was somewhat reinvigorated.

The islands were the scene of the Battle of the Aegates Islands of 241 BC, in which the Carthaginian fleet was defeated by C. Lutatius Catulus ; the engagement ended the First Punic War.

However, Marlborough would have to wait until Eugene was in position before the general engagement could begin.

The Battle of Ramillies (), fought on 23 May 1706, was a major engagement of the War of the Spanish Succession.

The Anglo-Dutch forces gained minor compensation for the failed Moselle campaign with the success at Elixheim and the crossing of the Lines of Brabant in the Spanish Netherlands ( Huy was also retaken on 11 July ), but a chance to bring the French to a decisive engagement had eluded Marlborough.

The accomplished French officer, Colonel de la Colonie, standing on the plain nearby remembered – " this village was the opening of the engagement, and the fighting there was almost as murderous as the rest of the battle put together.

The third British ship into action was HMS Orion under Captain Sir James Saumarez, which rounded the engagement at the head of the battle line and passed between the French main line and the frigates that lay closer inshore.

Zealous by contrast was barely touched: Hood had situated Zealous outside the arc of most of the French ship's broadside and in any case Guerrier was not prepared for an engagement on both sides simultaneously, with its port guns blocked by stores.