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Using the civil unrest in India as an excuse to move troops to the Durand Line, Afghan troops crossed the border at the western end of the Khyber Pass on 3 May 1919 and occupied the village of Bagh, the scene of an earlier uprising in April.
* 1978 – The first UNIFIL troops arrived in Lebanon for peacekeeping mission along the Blue Line.
The Maginot Line was impervious to most forms of attack, and had state-of-the-art living conditions for garrisoned troops, including air conditioning, comfortable eating areas and underground railways.
** On the middle front of the Gothic Line, Brazilian troops control the Serchio valley region after 10 days of fighting.
* January – American troops cross the Siegfried Line into Germany.
He was convinced that airborne troops would be used in this offensive but was unsure where they would be deployed, suspecting areas along the Siegfried Line north of Aachen or possibly even near the Saar.
Articles VII and VIII of the Egypt-Israel GAA established a Demilitarized Zone ( DMZ ) centred on El-Auja and forbade the presence of armed forces it also prohibited Egypt from maintaining positions in an adjoining area west of the Demilitarized Zone, and limited the arms and troops in the Defensive Areas on both sides of the Line.
Japanese troops broke Chinese defenses at Kunshan on November 10, broke through the Wufu Line on the 19th, and Xicheng Line on the 26th.
Kunshan was lost in only two days, and the remaining troops began moving toward the Wufu Line fortifications on November 13.
In addition, once they arrived at Wufu Line, the Chinese troops discovered that some of the civilian officials were not there to receive them as they had already fled and had taken the keys with them.
The Wufu Line was penetrated on November 19, and the Chinese troops then moved toward Xicheng Line, which they were forced to give up on November 26 in the midst of the onslaught.
The Battalion, however, clashed with Dutch troops while crossing Mount Slamet, and the Dutch believed it was part of a systematic troop movement across the Renville Line.
To permit the troops time to consolidate the Blue Line, the advance halted and the barrage remained stationary for 90 minutes while machine guns were brought forward.
The Water Line was inundated and formed a barrier to the advancing French troops.
At the end of World War II, as the Line of contact between Soviet and other Allied forces formed, Ludwigslust was captured by British troops initially and then soon handed over to American troops.
Pakistani troops along with Kashmiri insurgents infiltrated across the Line of Control ( LoC ) and occupied Indian territory mostly in the Kargil district.
When the British troops withdrew, the Americans began construction of artillery batteries to protect the earthworks, which were then christened Line Jackson.
Drouet led his troops north to the highway, where the 8th Line still battled Liechtenstein's cavalry.
Unable to storm the position with Frère's division, Oudinot launched a flanking attack to the right of the village, with some of his best troops: the 57th Line regiment ( styled " the Terrible ") and the 10th Light regiment, both from Grandjean's division.

Line and militia
With him was a body of North Carolina militia, plus reinforcements from Virginia, consisting of 3, 000 Virginia militia, a Virginia State regiment, a corps of Virginian eighteen-month men and recruits for the Maryland Line, totaling between 4, 000-5, 000 men.
After Monmouth, most of the Virginia Line was sent to the far south, while General Muhlenberg was assigned to head up the defense of Virginia using mainly militia units.
During the Revolutionary War, he first served as a lieutenant on the Continental Line and later attained the rank of colonel in the Virginia militia.
He was a major in the North Carolina militia and also saw service in the North Carolina Line between 1775 and 1783.
A native of Buckingham Township in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Lacey was a member of local militia unit which was incorporated into the Pennsylvania Line of the Continental Army.

Line and were
Such were the incongruities of the situation that the very police assigned to check up on me were drafted into driving me to the Strasbourg Hospital while World Citizen Jean Babel waved adieu from the `` Line ''!!
Operating in 1887 was the `` Valley Telegraph Line '', officers of which were E. C. Orvis, president ; ;
There also were reports of a collection at the County Line Elementary School, 3505o Dequindre, which has been attended this year by four of the Kowalski children including Christine.
The European / Australian PAL ( Phase Alternation Line rate ) and the French-Former Soviet Union SECAM ( Séquentiel Couleur Avec Mémoire ) standard were developed later and attempt to cure certain defects of the NTSC system.
The downtown area through which the tunnels were to be dug was largely landfill, and included existing Red Line and Blue Line subway tunnels as well as innumerable pipes and utility lines that would have to be replaced or moved.
Ben Nevis was the name of a White Star Line packet ship which in 1854 carried the group of immigrants who were to become the Wends of Texas.
Line printers were the fastest of all impact printers and were used for bulk printing in large computer centres.
There were indications that he regarded the Durand Line as a delimitation of separate areas of political responsibility, not a permanent international frontier, and that he did not explicitly cede control over certain parts ( such as Kurram and Chitral ) that were already in British control under the Treaty of Gandamak.
These were the sole immigration records for entering the country and were prepared not by the U. S. Bureau of Immigration but by steamship companies such as the Cunard Line, the White Star Line, the North German Lloyd Line, the Hamburg-Amerika Line, the Italian Steam Navigation Company, the Red Star Line, the Holland America Line, and the Austro-American Line.

Line and brought
Jones, whose work had been nominated eight times over his career for an Oscar ( winning thrice: For Scent-imental Reasons, So Much for So Little, and The Dot and the Line ), received an Honorary Academy Award in 1996 by the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, for " the creation of classic cartoons and cartoon characters whose animated lives have brought joy to our real ones for more than half a century.
The growth brought to Docklands enabled the Jubilee Line to be extended in 1999 to east London by a more southerly route than originally proposed, through Surrey Quays, Canary Wharf and the Greenwich Peninsula ( which was the next regeneration area ) to Stratford.
In this documentary, Morris brought to a pinnacle the revolutionary technique that he had first introduced to the world in his 1988 The Thin Blue Line: the use of re-enactments in a documentary film — a technique ( re-enactments ) which had previously been thought to be inappropriate for use in a " documentary " film.
The settlement was named Itascatown after the USCGC Itasca that brought the colonists to Howland and made regular cruises between the other Line Islands during that era.
Today Sardinia is a phasing-in EU region, featured by a diversified economy, mainly focused on tourism and the tertiary, the economic efforts of last twenty years have reduced the handicap of insularity, for example with low cost air companies and information and informatic technologies, thanks to the CRS4 ( Center for Advanced Studies, Research and Development in Sardinia ), which developed the first Italian website, and invented the webmail, in 1995, that brought to the birth of several telecommunication companies and internet service providers based on the island, as Video On Line, in 1993, Tiscali, in 1998 and Andala UMTS, in 1999.
In the late 1990s, the show was brought to the attention of Drew Carey, who worked with regular Whose Line?
The agreement brought together the Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals, Inc. and Main Line Health under one corporate parent.
The result of this effort was the construction of the Wilson Short Cut Railroad, which later became part of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, and which brought greater prosperity to the area by directly linking Dillon County to the national network of railroads.
After the UERL and the Metropolitan Railway ( MR ) were brought under public control in the form of the London Passenger Transport Board ( LPTB ) in 1933, the MR's subsidiary, the Great Northern & City Railway, which ran from Moorgate to Finsbury Park, became part of the Underground as the Northern City Line.
The London Overground East London Railway brought services from West Croydon to the Docklands and Shoreditch through Penge West to connect with the North London Line in summer 2010.
) Both communities developed as a result of their locations adjacent to the Baltimore and Annapolis Short Line railroad which brought commuters to the original truck farming community.
The 1880s also brought Soo Line, originally to transport grain from nearby Minneapolis to Sault Ste.
This brought him to the attention of Hamburg America Line, who hired him in 1886, and made him general director in 1899.
The first production model of the Stick was shipped in 1974-on October 10 of the same year, Chapman brought his instrument to public attention by demonstrating it on the game show What's My Line?
In September, the Wehrmacht high command's reinforcement of the Siegfried Line brought total troop strength up to an estimated 230, 000 soldiers, including 100, 000 fresh personnel.
Subsequent extensions to Porter station and Davis station on December 8, 1984, and to Alewife station on March 30, 1985 brought the Red Line to its current terminus.
Instead, it ran past the signal ; the points settings beyond this brought it in under 600 metres onto the Up Main Line ; at about 8: 09 as it was entering this it collided nearly head-on and at a combined speed of about with the 06: 03 First Great Western train from Cheltenham to Paddington.
The southern bay was brought back into use in May 2010 as part of the East London Line development.
Ventnor railway station was the terminus of the Isle of Wight Railway ( later called the Island Line ) from Ryde through Sandown and Shanklin, and it brought many visitors to the town.
The two platforms were connected by temporary structures bridging the unused two tracks between them ; the centre tracks will be brought into use on March 16, 2013, when through services to the Tōkyū Tōyoko Line start.
Unlike other independent studios such as Orion Pictures, Carolco Pictures, or Cannon Films, New Line Cinema grew and prospered to become one of Hollywood's major film studios, culminating in the hit Lord of the Rings film trilogy that brought commercial success to the studio.
In Korea, the ' Dukes ' desperate defence of the Hook position halted the last major Chinese attempt to break the United Nations Line before the truce, in July 1953, brought the war to an end.
The extension to Paldang Station on December 27, 2007 also brought the official renaming of the service to Jungang Line, although the commuter railway actually incorporates parts of both Gyeongwon and Jungang Lines.

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