The Chilean Army and Chilean Navy defeated the combined forces of Bolivia and Peru, and Chile took over Bolivia's only province on the Pacific Coast, some land from Peru, also-that was returned to Peru decades later.

Another school of thought argues that the worst of the abuses took place decades ago, and that the current leaders were not only unconnected with them, but were actually victims of that era.

Bruce Schneier observed that " It took the academic community two decades to figure out that the NSA ' tweaks ' actually improved the security of DES.

Nonetheless, decades later, in Cinéma I and Cinema II ( 1983 – 1985 ), the philosopher Gilles Deleuze took Matter and Memory as the basis of his philosophy of film and revisited Bergson's concepts, combining them with the semiotics of Charles Sanders Peirce.

However, it took a few more decades until the new regulation was universally accepted and the new court actually began to function ; only in 1512 would the Imperial Circles be finalised.

His approach to the encyclopedia took two decades of preliminaries, and was an effort of integration of tools and theories to hand.

In the " Devonshire declaration " of 1923 the Colonial Office declared that the interests of the Africans ( comprising over 95 % of the population ) must be paramount — achieving that goal took four decades.

By 1974, Joseph A. Scirrotto Jr. designed the silver wings took on a white outline, and this style on a kelly green helmet became standard for over two decades.

Even fundamental issues, such as Max Born's basic rules concerning probability amplitudes and probability distributions took decades to be appreciated by society and many leading scientists.

Bearden grew as an artist not by learning how to create new techniques and mediums, but by his life experiences, and the different decades he created art and the different events that took place completely reshaped his vision of art.

In 1985, after waiting decades for a new penetrating manned bomber, SAC took delivery of its first B-1B Lancer, while concurrent development of the black project that would eventually result in the Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit also continued until that aircraft was officially unveiled to the public in late 1988.

The rebuilding of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem took several decades.

The Socialist People's Republic of Albania took the Chinese party's side in the Sino-Soviet Split and remained committed, at least theoretically, to Hoxhaism, its brand of Stalinism, for decades thereafter, under the leadership of Enver Hoxha.

Others have called limited nuclear war " global nuclear holocaust in slow motion "-arguing that once such a war took place, others would be sure to follow over a period of decades, effectively rendering the planet uninhabitable in the same way that a " full-scale nuclear war " between superpowers would, only taking a much longer ( and arguably more agonizing ) path to the same result.

The idealization of Tamar was further accentuated by the events that took place under her immediate successors ; within two decades of Tamar's death, the Khwarezmian and Mongol invasions brought the Georgian ascendancy to an abrupt end.

The restoration of the authority of the central administration took decades of work.

Through Wright's recommendation, Quinn took acting lessons as a form of post-operative speech therapy, which led to an acting career that spanned over six decades.

The black population of South Carolina had decreased markedly in the early decades of the twentieth century, as tens of thousands took part in the Great Migration to northern and midwestern cities for work.

The Westminster chronicler claimed that Gaveston had led Edward to reject the sweet embraces of his wife ; while the Meaux Chronicle ( written several decades later ) took concern further and complained that, Edward took too much delight in sodomy.

However, France's constant warfare with the combined forces of the other major powers of Europe for over two decades finally took its toll.

The Printing Revolution in the fifteenth century: Within several decades around 270 European towns took up movable type printing.

Over the next several decades, the Jurchen, took control over most of Manchuria.

The title Côtes de Provence was already in use in 1848, but production was nearly destroyed by phylloxera later in that century, and took decades to recover.

In the main, this course took the following directional high roads.

One of the most interested `` students '' on the tour which the Brevard group took at the National Gallery yesterday following their concert at the White House, was Letitia Baldrige, social secretary to First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy.

The crowd staged its own mad scene in salvos of cheers and applause and finally a standing ovation as Miss Sutherland took curtain call after curtain call following a fantastic `` Mad Scene '' created on her own and with the help of the composer and the other performers.

Her husband, then Ivo Bligh, took a team to Australia in the following year.

) His men were routed when they encountered Maj. Gen. James Longstreet's corps, but by the following day, August 30, he took command of the division when Hatch was wounded, and he led his men to cover the retreat of the Union Army.

In the following year, he spent five months assisting mentally ill women, before he took an office in the city mental asylum in Frankfurt am Main: the Städtische Anstalt für Irre und Epileptische ( Asylum for Lunatics and Epileptics ).

The following ESFs took place in Paris ( 2003 ), London ( 2004 ), Athens ( 2006 ), and Malmö ( 2008 ).

The sale was completed in November 1851, the price being £ 32, 000, and Prince Albert formally took possession the following autumn.

After a communist uprising took control over Bavaria in the years following World War I, the state government fled to Bamberg and stayed there for almost two years before the Bavarian capital of Munich was retaken by Freikorps units ( see Bavarian Soviet Republic ).

They feel that the Western-Cape based Afrikaners — whose ancestors did not trek eastwards or northwards — took advantage of the republican Boers ' destitution following the Anglo-Boer War and later attempted to assimilate the Boers into a new politically based cultural label as " Afrikaners ".

* Costa Rica has bilateral free trade agreements with the following countries and blocs which took effect on ( see date ):

France and Comoros signed a mutual security treaty in 1978 ; following the mercenary coup against Abdallah in 1989, French troops restored order and took responsibility for reorganizing and training the Comorian army.

as it took place following a popular uprising that began on Tuesday, 25 January 2011 and is still continuing as of February 2012.

The uprising took place in Cairo, Alexandria, and in other cities in Egypt, following the Tunisian revolution that resulted in the overthrow of the long-time Tunisian president.

The first Icelandic census took place in 1703, following upon the first Danish census of 1700 – 1701.

Under Lenin the party ruled through the government, for instance, the only political office held by Lenin was Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars, but following Lenin's health the party took control of government activities.

The following personalities took up a residence in Carson City at some point in their lives.

Chelsea took their first European honour, a UEFA Cup Winners ' Cup triumph, the following year, with another replayed win, this time over Real Madrid in Athens.

In its prologue, the author gratuitously insulted Cervantes, who not surprisingly took offense and responded ; the last half of Chapter LIX and most of the following chapters of Cervantes ' Segunda Parte lend some insight into the effects upon him ; Cervantes manages to work in some subtle digs at Avellaneda's own work, and in his preface to Part II, comes very near to criticizing Avellaneda directly.

In 1348, the Black Death, a lethal plague which had ravaged Europe, took hold in Dublin and killed thousands over the following decade.

In the years immediately following the First Anglo-Afghan War, and especially after the Indian rebellion of 1857 against the British in India, Liberal Party governments in London took a political view of Afghanistan as a buffer state.

The Italians took advantage of disorder in northern Ethiopia following the death of Emperor Yohannes IV in 1889 to occupy the highlands and established their new colony, henceforth known as Eritrea, and received recognition from Menelik II, Ethiopia's new Emperor.

In the following years a bitter rivalry between Tesla and Edison, known as the " War of Currents ", took place over the preferred method of distribution.

In County Wexford, some 100 Volunteers led by Robert Brennan, Seamus Doyle and J R Etchingham took over Enniscorthy on Thursday 27 April until the following Sunday.