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On the Vercors plateau, a Maquis group fought about 8, 000 soldiers under General Karl Pflaum and was defeated with 600 casualties.
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On and Vercors
On the 23 December 1995, 16 bodies were discovered in a star-formation in the Vercors region in France.
On and plateau
On the 5, 000 m high plateau, air temperature hovers around in the winter and reaches near freezing in summer with the median temperature for the year around.
On 14 February 1917 Colonel Macmullen of the GHQ staff, proposed that the plateau be taken by a mass tank attack, reducing the need for artillery ; in April a reconnaissance by Captain G. le Q Martel found that the area was unsuitable for tanks.
On 9 February General Rawlinson, commander of the Fourth Army suggested that Messines Ridge could be taken in one day and that the capture of the Gheluvelt plateau should be fundamental to the attack further north.
On the east and southeast this range is flanked by the great plateau of Mongolia, the transition being effected gradually by means of several minor plateaus, such as Ukok 2380 m with Pazyryk Valley, Chuya 1, 830 m, Kendykty 2, 500 m, Kak 2, 520 m, Suok 2, 590 m, and Juvlu-kul 2, 410 m.
On the continent's far western side is another mountain range called " The Hellers " and a high elevation cold desert plateau called " The Dry Towns.
On August 13, 1979, Brock became the fourteenth player in Major League Baseball history to reach the 3, 000 hits plateau against the team that traded him, the Chicago Cubs.
On 16 October after a long fight, the French army managed to win the plateau and forced Coburg to lift the siege of Maubeuge and retire to the east.
On the west side is a plateau, while the north and south coasts feature ice shelves.
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On Jan. 19, 2011, Shirley eclipsed the 600-win plateau as his Lady Rams defeated Chestnut Hill College 76-60.
On the plateau, Bedouins tend sheep and goats.
On 4 April 1799, his superior and friend André Masséna transferred him to the Army of the Danube, at that time located in the northeastern Swiss plateau.
On the central plateau, the ridge connecting Hat Mountain with Crater Butte served as a divide between ice flowing northward to Badger Flat and Hat Creek and that moving southward to Corral Meadows, Kings Creek and Warner Valley.
On 27 March, he recorded an assist in a 5 – 1 win against the Phoenix Coyotes for his 100th point of the season, becoming the third Canuck to reach the plateau after Pavel Bure and Alexander Mogilny.
On arrival on a plateau from El Magruntein the Warwickshire Yeomanry, 5th Mounted Yeomanry Brigade, was ordered to attack the B1 and B2 redoubts while the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars, 5th Mounted Yeomanry Brigade, attacked the right of A1 redoubt, the most westerly entrenchment.
On the Zambian side of the Luapula, an outbreak of sleeping sickness made the British colonial authorities move their Fort Rosebery boma out of the valley onto the plateau at Mansa, while fears of malaria in the Luapula Swamps made them establish the next on the plateau at Kawambwa.
On the plateau, it consists of the village of Cossonay-ville and the hamlets of Allens.
On the western side of Ingleborough is a large limestone plateau appropriately known as White Scars, below which runs the White Scar Caves, the entrance series of which has been developed as a show cave.
On the southern side ( to the west of the Clapham path ) is a similar plateau, this one containing potholes such as Fluted Hole and Pillar Hole.
On the last day of the Tigers ' season at Yankee Stadium, Fielder hit his 50th and 51st home runs to become the 11th player in ML history – and only the second in the previous 25 years – to reach the 50-HR plateau.
On the acropolis and in a plain to the east, Tre Breci, is a site continuously occupied from the Neolithic to the Iron Age, in addition to the remains of Etruscan Luni ( which was then in Etruria ) on a higher plateau nearby.
On the plateau, if the monastery driving a memorial stone at the fallen there Cossacks.
On the plateau of Popayán, groups of farmers play stringed instruments, composed of three guitars and maracas which have incorporated into their repertoire paseos, merengues, pasillos and boleros in vocal and instrumental form.
On and Maquis
On 1 January 1942, he was landed at Miramar in France by submarine to supply and evaluate the Carte circuit of the Maquis and French Resistance, returning to England through Spain on 14 February.
On one of the Maquis worlds, Sakonna attempts to establish a Vulcan mind meld with Dukat, who openly mocks his captors.
On and group
On July 20, the first drawing of numbers occurred in the Senate Office Building before a distinguished group of congressmen and high Army officers.
On the other hand, the women class members appeared to reach a far greater understanding than have women members in other sections that it is more natural for males as a group to view sex as sex rather than always associating it with love as most women seem to do.
On the right is the Brumidi Liberty group, as it looked after cleaning operations, which had not yet come around to the other end ; ;
On February 27, 1860, New York party leaders invited Lincoln to give a speech at Cooper Union to a group of powerful Republicans.
On June 6, 2008, a bi-partisan, non-binding resolution was approved by the Japanese Diet calling upon the government to recognize the Ainu people as indigenous to Japan, and urging an end to discrimination against the group.
On March 9, 1995, Colangelo's group was awarded a franchise to begin play for the 1998 season.
On December 16, 1773, after officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor.
In USA in July 1943, as a result of the American Federation of Musicians boycott of US recording studios, the a cappella vocal group The Song Spinners had a best-seller with " Comin ' In On A Wing And A Prayer ".
On July 14, 2005, Tom Biscardi, a long-time Bigfoot enthusiast and CEO of Searching for Bigfoot Inc., appeared on the Coast to Coast AM paranormal radio show and announced that he was " 98 % sure that his group will be able to capture a Bigfoot which they have been tracking in the Happy Camp, California area.
On September 19, 1974, however, the consortium was shaken by the kidnapping of siblings Jorge and Juan Born by the far-left terrorist group, Montoneros.
On November 1918 the large group of Palestinian Arab dignitaries and representatives of political associations addressed a petition to the British authorities in which they denounced the declaration.
On 15 August 1909 the Military League, a group of Greek officers, took action against the government to reform their country's national government and reorganize the army.
On July 19, 2007, the Iles Eparses entry and redirects for each island were dropped due to the group becoming a district of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands in February.
On the same day, a separate rebel group Rally of Democratic Forces had captured Biltine.
On April 13, 2007 ( Friday the 13th ), a group of students from The California Tech, Caltech's campus newspaper, arrived and distributed fake copies of The Tech, MIT's campus newspaper, while prospective students were visiting for their Campus Preview Weekend.
On September 28, 1995 Bob Denard and a group of mercenaries took over the Comoros islands in a coup ( named operation Kaskari by the mercenaries ) against President Djohar.
On the map of Ptolemy, the " Kimbroi " are placed on the northernmost part of the peninsula of Jutland., i. e. in the modern landscape of Himmerland south of Limfjorden ( since Vendsyssel-Thy north of the fjord was at that time a group of islands ).
On the 1963 Aldermaston march, a clandestine group calling itself Spies for Peace distributed leaflets about a secret government establishment, RSG 6, that the march was passing.
* On Higher Ground: Selections From the Walter O. Evans Collection, group show, 2001, Henry Ford Museum, Michigan
On this issue, Trotsky said, " as this regime becomes consolidated all affairs are concentrated in the hands of a small group, sometimes only of a secretary who appoints, removes, gives the instructions, inflicts the penalties, etc.
On August 19, 1991, a day before the New Union Treaty was to be signed devolving power to the republics, a group calling itself the " State Emergency Committee " seized power in Moscow declaring that Gorbachev was ill and therefore relieved of his position as president.
On the return trip to Spain, the two brethren met with a group of papal legates who were determined to triumph over the Manichean menace.
On September 22 a clash took place between a rebel group from Kogo and a loyal detachment from Bata.
On 16 June 1953 the Common Assembly passed a resolution enabling the official formation of political groups, and on 23 June 1953 the constituent declaration of the group was published and the group was officially formed.
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