Initially invited by the Liberals in 1855 to join their struggle against the Conservatives, a United States adventurer named William Walker declared himself king in 1856.

Initially invited to arbitrate a succession dispute, Edward claimed feudal suzerainty over the kingdom.

Initially called " Censure and Move On ," it invited visitors to add their names to an online petition stating that " Congress must Immediately Censure President Clinton and Move On to pressing issues facing the country.

Initially, eight men representing various sports and strength disciplines were invited to compete against each other in unique events designed to test each individual to the fullest extent.

Initially, the station transmitted only from 06: 00 until 19: 00, outside of which listeners were invited to tune to Radio Luxembourg.

Initially, Weatherford was invited to FSU as a writer-in-residence, but in 2007, she received the position of associate professor.

Initially, Tim played all the instruments himself but as the project grew, he invited musician friends such as Matt Freeman ( Rancid ), Lars Frederiksen ( Rancid ), and Vic Ruggiero ( The Slackers ) to add to the sound.

Initially using a drum machine for their rhythm section played through computer speakers, Krug later invited Arlen Thompson to the lineup as the drummer ; however, the newly formed trio rehearsed as a full band only the day before their first show.

Initially created for Sierra On-Line by Mark Crowe and Scott Murphy ( who called themselves the " Two Guys from Andromeda "), the games parodied both science fiction properties such as Star Wars and Star Trek ( the theme song itself is a parody of the Star Wars theme ), as well as pop-culture phenomena from McDonald's to Microsoft.

Initially, he worked as the martial arts coordinator for the films The Challenge ( 1982 ) starring Scott Glenn and Toshirô Mifune, and Never Say Never Again ( 1983 ) starring Sean Connery and A View to a Kill.

Initially, Michael O ' Keefe and Scott Colomby's characters were the central characters of the movie.

Initially, this did not appear to be a problem: Borden had long called for the transfer of resource control to the prairie provinces, but when Sifton and Scott raised the issue with the new Prime Minister, little action resulted.

Initially hired to play piano and organ ( and to sing occasional backing vocals ), Wallinger's multi-instrumental and production skills impressed Mike Scott and ensured that he played a far greater role on This Is The Sea than he had on the previous album.

Initially in the third film, Scott exhibits the same seeming animosity and indifference toward his father's ineptitude and lack of socio-cultural awareness as he had in the preceding films.

Initially formed over 130 years ago as Jones, Scott and Co., a supplier of explosives during the Victorian gold rush, the company was bought by Nobel Industries.

Initially, Scott is the most affected as he, in his Green Lantern persona, begins exercising his frustrations upon humanity for the failures of his private life, such as the impending bankruptcy of his station.

Initially, Smith and Scott were stood up by a third girl, and they were desperate for another vocalist to make up the trio, Smith contacted Arnold, whom she knew to be a singer.

Initially, he rejects claims of fellow survivors, such as Rose Nadler ( L. Scott Caldwell ) and John Locke, who believe they are on the Island for a reason and that the Island has mystic properties.

Initially schooled in Newcastle, Scott moved to an all-boys boarding school in Lancaster.

Initially, the October 2010 SDSR outlined a reduction of the Regular British Army by 7, 000 to a trained strength of 95, 000 personnel by 2015.

Initially, the M-19 attracted a degree of attention and sympathy from mainstream Colombians that the FARC and National Liberation Army ( ELN ) had found largely elusive earlier due to extravagant and daring operations, such as stealing a sword that had belonged to Colombia's Independence hero Simon Bolívar.

Initially led by John Haslet, Delaware provided one of the premier regiments in the Continental Army, known as the " Delaware Blues " and nicknamed the " Blue Hen's Chicks.

Initially the company manufactured machine tools, sewing machine parts, gauges and other precision parts, but this changed in 1956 when the company proposed the G3 automatic rifle for the Bundeswehr ( German Federal Army ).

Initially the CMF infantry forces formed the vast bulk of the Australian Army, along with standing artillery and engineer units.

Initially verbal struggles among activist groups became even more violent, especially when activists began to seize weapons from the Army in 1967.

Initially, most of its members were dissidents within Fatah who had been close to Abu Ali Iyad, the commander of Fatah forces in northern Jordan who continued to fight the Jordanian Army after the PLO leadership withdrew.

Initially the county was held by the Anti-Treaty IRA but it was taken for the Irish Free State after seaborne landings by National Army troops at Fenit, Tarbert and Kenmare in August 1922 ..

Initially in support of the Confederacy, soon the community became divided, with the men of Amity leaving to fight in both the Confederate Army and the Union Army.

Initially the Confederate Army had success in their attempts to gain control of New Mexico, but following the Battle of Glorieta Pass Confederate soldiers were forced to retreat.

Initially proposed as a British and Polish operation codenamed Comet, the plan was soon expanded to involve most of the First Allied Airborne Army and a set piece ground advance into the Netherlands, codenamed Market Garden.

Initially FEAF also included aircraft and personnel of the Philippine Army Air Corps.

Initially, Britain and Israel collaborated to develop the United Kingdom's Chieftain tank that had entered British Army service in 1966.

Initially, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester lived in Aldershot, where the Duke was taking the Army staff course.

Initially giving Graziani a deadline of 8 August, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini ordered Graziani to invade Egypt with the 10th Army.

Initially the Army Air Forces wanted to conduct a course to train navigator, bombardier, and radar operator training at the base, but because of problems with sharing the airfield with local civilian interests, the training was shifted to Mather.

Initially, the Red Army was a purely guerilla force without the facilities to imprison POWs.

Initially mostly improvised, with time the Polish Army also adopted two models of factory-made taczankas, as they were called in Poland.

Initially the British, Eighth Army under the command of General Bernard Montgomery, were to land on the south-eastern corner of the island and advance north to the port of Syracuse.

Initially the men hoped to be able to wait for the British 2nd Army to resume their advance and thus relieve them, but when it became clear that the Allies would not cross the Rhine that year the men decided to escape back to Allied territory.

Initially, the Navy Minister, Mitsumasa Yonai, hoped that Toyoda would be able to exert a moderating influence over Army Chief of Staff Yoshijirō Umezu ( since both came from the same district of Japan ).

Initially a solo side project of Chris Carrabba while in Further Seems Forever, Dashboard Confessional's first recording was the 2000 LP The Swiss Army Romance.

Initially a flood control and power generation measure, construction on Bull Shoals Dam began in 1947 by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers.