On a military mission for his native Virginia the youthful George Washington touched off the French and Indian War, then guarded his colony's frontier as head of its militia.

On the basis of the long chronicle of military history Funston and his brethren assumed that the issue was insoluble and that anyone interested in a mission like Fosdick's was an impractical idealist or a do-gooder.

On foreign and military policy, Lincoln spoke out against the Mexican – American War, which he attributed to President Polk's desire for " military glory — that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood ".

On February 23, 1861, he arrived in disguise in Washington, D. C., which was placed under substantial military guard.

On April 27, 1978, the PDPA and military units loyal to the PDPA, killed Daoud Khan, his immediate family and bodyguards in a violent coup, and seized control of the capital Kabul.

* On the inner façades of the small arches are engraved the names of the military leaders of the French Revolution and Empire.

Aelian's military treatise in fifty-three chapters on the tactics of the Greeks, titled On tactical arrays of the Greeks (), is dedicated to the Emperor Hadrian, though this is probably a mistake for Trajan, and the date 106 has been assigned to it.

On January 1, 1986, the army was restructured from four numbered armies and two military commands into seven military commands.

On the recent airstrike resolution supporting military action in Libya, Brazil joined fellow BRICS in the Council and abstained.

On April 18, 2011, it was reported that a military mutiny in Burkina Faso had spread to a fourth city, Kaya, after demonstrations in Po and Tenkodogo.

On 14 July 1879, another feast took place, with a semi-official aspect ; the events of the day included a reception in the Chamber of Deputies, organised and presided over by Léon Gambetta, a military review in Longchamp, and a Republican Feast in the Pré Catelan.

On December 21, 1995, Israeli troops withdrew from Bethlehem, and three days later the city came under the complete administration and military control of the Palestinian National Authority in conformance with the Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in 1995.

On 23 October, following the transfer of the wounded to the military hospital and provision of basic supplies, the convoy sailed on towards Lisbon, leaving Bellerophon and Majestic behind for more extensive repairs.

On the other hand, many writers have pointed out how this battle was a humiliation for the Italian military.

On December 1, 1948, President José Figueres Ferrer of Costa Rica abolished the military of Costa Rica after victory in the civil war in that year.

On 28 February 2011 ONUCI consisted of 7, 568 troops, 177 military observers, and numerous international civilians and Police ; the mission had received helicopter and infantry reinforcement from UNMIL during the stand-off since the late 2010 elections which had been won by Alassane Ouattara.

On April 12, 2012, Bir and 30 other officers were taken in custody for their role in the 1997 military memorandum that forced the then Turkish government, led by the Islamist Welfare Party, to step down.

On December 9, 1918, the collegiate ( or presidium ) of VCheKa had decided to form a military section, headed by M. S. Kedrov, to combat counterrevolution in the Army.

On the same day, the US announced a major military exercise in the Caribbean, PHIBRIGLEX-62, which Cuba denounced as a deliberate provocation and proof that the US planned to invade Cuba.

On June 5, 1926, Chiang became Commander-in-Chief of the National Revolutionary Army ( NRA ), and on July 27 he launched a military campaign known as the Northern Expedition in order to defeat the warlords controlling northern China and to unify the country under the KMT.

On display at Morges military museum.

On 4 January 1982, Reagan signed the top secret National Security Decision Directive 17 ( NSDD-17 ), giving the CIA the authority to recruit and support the contras with $ 19 million in military aid.

On October 4, 2011, military and police squads used force late at night to disperse hundreds of angry Coptic demonstrators and their supporters who were attempting to stage a sit-in outside the Maspero TV headquarters in downtown Cairo to protest attacks on a Christian church in Upper Egypt.

On matters of race he was similarly inflexible: `` Most of the modern Latin races seem to have inherited the rigidity of the Roman mind ''.

On other matters, the jury recommended that: ( 1 )

On most matters of legislation, the People ’ s Assembly retains the last word in the event of a disagreement between the two houses.

On becoming Prime Minister Major had promised to keep Britain " at the very heart of Europe ", and claimed to have won " game, set and match for Britain " – by negotiating the social chapter and single currency opt-outs from the Maastricht Treaty, and by ensuring that there was no overt mention of a " Federal " Europe and that foreign and defence policy were kept as matters of inter-governmental cooperation, in separate " pillars " from the supranational European Union.

On the southwestern frontier, problems commenced early when c. 812, Louis the Pious crossed the western Pyrenees ' to settle matters ' in Pamplona.

On this account, impartial ( self-sacrificing ) behavior in particular matters may be motivated by self-interested considerations from a broader perspective.

On occasion the Court was accused of extending its jurisdiction ; strictly speaking only allowed to intervene in matters of international law, the Court became involved in municipal law during the Loans Cases.

" On matters of style, he proposed that the style conform to the subject matter and to the audience, that simple words be employed whenever possible, and that the style should be agreeable.

On the whole, coherence theories have been criticized as lacking justification in their application to other areas of truth, especially with respect to assertions about the natural world, empirical data in general, assertions about practical matters of psychology and society, especially when used without support from the other major theories of truth.

On at least one occasion Adams persuaded senators to vote against legislation that he opposed, and he frequently addressed the Senate on procedural and policy matters.

On April 12, President Harding addressed a joint session of Congress which he had called to address matters that he deemed of national and urgent importance.

On other matters, he was content to wait until legislation reached its final stage in a joint House – Senate conference committee.

On 13 January Gladstone claimed he had strong Conservative instincts and that " In all matters of custom and tradition, even the Tories look upon me as the chief Conservative that is ".

On 13 April 1912, less than two weeks after the creation of the Royal Flying Corps ( which initially consisted of both a naval and a military wing ), an Air Committee was established to act as an intermediary between the Admiralty and the War Office in matters relating to aviation.

On other matters he was less progressive: he did not, for example, favour giving votes to women, although he did suggest that the social reformer Octavia Hill serve on the Commission for Working Class Housing.

On August 31, 1950, O ' Dwyer, pursued by both federal and state investigators, was suddenly appointed by President Harry S. Truman as ambassador to Mexico, where he would be beyond the reach of officials who wanted his public testimony in several matters on which he preferred not to speak.

On December 1, 1937, the Imperial Headquarters, which had just been established as the highest authority on strategic matters in the " China Incident " in late November, finally ordered the CCAA to capture " the capital of the enemy state.

Two major works on tactics come from the late Roman period: Taktike Theoria by Aelianus Tacticus and De Re Militari (" On military matters ") by Vegetius.

On August 5, 1990, 45 foreign ministers of the OIC adopted the Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam to serve as a guidance for the member states in the matters of human rights in as much as they are compatible with the Sharia, or Quranic Law.

On Agricultural matters, now the European Parliament decides together with the Council in a procedure known as the co-decision procedure.

On his return to St. James's Palace, Churchill's attention was drawn towards other matters, and to a fresh face at court.

On hearing this, the Archduke came down post haste from his regiment at Brandeis and sought out his grandmother, Archduchess Maria Theresa, who was also my aunt and the natural confidante in such matters.

To complicate matters further, Aristotle distinguishes between two kinds of intellect or two parts of the intellect .< ref > On the Soul 15-25 </ i ></ ref > These two intellectual powers are traditionally called the " passive intellect " and the " active intellect " or " agent intellect ".

On April 18, 1857 Rivail ( signing himself " Allan Kardec ") published his first book on Spiritism, The Spirits ' Book, comprising a series of 1, 018 answered questions exploring matters concerning the nature of spirits, the spirit world, and the relations between the spirit world and the material world.

On other economic matters they were seen as generally opposed, but found common ground on this one.