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On the eve of battle, he wrote the legendary " A Letter to My Wife " ( 與妻訣別書 ), later to be considered as a masterpiece in Chinese literature.
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On and eve
On the eve of his return to their native Naxos he speaks with his wife of the masterpiece which rises before them in its completed perfection.
On the eve of the `` great debate '' on the proposal to give the President broad powers to make across-the-board tariff concessions which could practically bring us into the Atlantic Community, we should face the alternatives on this proposition.
On the eve of sailing from Aulis he attempted to offer a sacrifice, as Agamemnon had done before the Trojan expedition, but the Thebans intervened to prevent it, an insult for which he never forgave them.
On the eve of trial, the case settled worldwide to the parties ' " mutual satisfaction "; the amount that CBS paid to the Orwell Estate was not disclosed.
On the eve of the election, Davenport citizens acquired the temporary service of Dubuque laborers so they could vote in the election.
On the eve of the National Equality March in Washington, D. C., October 10, 2009, Obama stated in a speech before the Human Rights Campaign that he would end the ban, but he offered no timetable.
On the eve of the First World War in 1914, Beatty was knighted with the KCB, and promoted to acting Vice-Admiral a month later.
On the eve of K .' s thirty-first birthday, two men arrive at his apartment.
On the eve of War, an agreement about rendering the military help for Ethiopia was concluded.
On the eve of World War II, Soviet archives indicate a combined camp and colony population upwards of 1. 6 million in 1939, according to V. P. Kozlov.
On the eve of his death in 1556, the Mughal empire spanned almost one million square kilometers.
On the eve of Yom Kippur, before candles are lit, a prefast meal, the " seuda mafseket ", is eaten.
On the eve of the First World War a growing tension and unease with the social order, already seen in the Russian Revolution of 1905 and the agitation of " radical " parties, also manifested itself in artistic works in every medium which radically simplified or rejected previous practice.
* 1980 – On the eve of presidential elections, Maoist guerrilla group Shining Path attacks a polling location in the town of Chuschi, Ayacucho, starting the Internal conflict in Peru.
On May Day eve, country women won ’ t work in the field as well as in the house to avoid devastating storms and hail coming down on the village.
On the eve of his tour of Pakistan later that year, doubts were cast on his ability to trouble subcontinental batsmen.
On the eve of the marathon, all the entrants of the race except for the Finns, whose positions were known, filed a petition asking Nurmi's entry to be accepted.
On May 17, 1980, the eve of the presidential elections, it burned ballot boxes in the town of Chuschi.
On the eve of the 1st century AD, the settlement was seized by the Romans and became a military camp.
On Valentine ’ s Day, February 14, 2003, on the eve of the Iraqi invasion by the Americans and the British, Ono heard about a romantic couple holding a love-in protest in their tiny bedroom in Addingham, West Yorkshire.
** Internal conflict in Peru: On the eve of presidential elections, Maoist guerrilla group Shining Path attacks a polling location in the town of Chuschi, Ayacucho.
On the eve of his flight, he wrote:
On the eve of the election the Democrats widely published a letter — allegedly over Garfield's signature — which favored Chinese immigration, in an attempt to affect the outcome of the election.
On the eve of perestroika the ECP claimed about 100, 000 members ; less than half were ethnic Estonians and they totalled less than 7 % of the country's population.
On December 31, 2010, on the eve of leaving office, Richardson turned down the pardon request, citing a " lack of conclusiveness and the historical ambiguity " over Wallace's actions.
On and battle
On the second day of battle, most of both armies had assembled.
On the third day of battle, July 3, fighting resumed on Culp's Hill, and cavalry battles raged to the east and south, but the main event was a dramatic infantry assault by 12, 500 Confederates against the center of the Union line on Cemetery Ridge, known as Pickett's Charge.
On the first day of September, he issued an address to his fleet, preparing them for battle.
On the other hand, many writers have pointed out how this battle was a humiliation for the Italian military.
The peace following the battle of Mons Badonicus is attested partly by Gildas, a monk, who wrote De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae or On the Ruin and Conquest of Britain during the middle of the sixth century.
On January 8, 2002, Thomas died at his home in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, after a decade-long battle with Neuroendocrine cancer / Carcinoid cancer that had spread to his liver.
On the morning of 12 September the Christian forces drew up in line of battle on the south-eastern slopes of the Wienerwald, looking down on the massed enemy camp.
On 8 July, Auchinleck ordered the new XXX Corps commander — Lieutenant-General William Ramsden — to capture the low ridges at Tel el Eisa and Tel el Makh Khad and then to push mobile battle groups south toward Deir el Shein and raiding parties west toward the airfields at El Daba.
On their retreat through the northern Italy, they were intercepted by Gallienus ' army near present day Milan and defeated in the battle of Mediolanum.
On 5 November 1854, Russian forces tried to relieve the siege at Sevastopol and tried to defeat the Allied armies in the field in the battle of Inkerman.
On the way to the fort, he defeated three ships of the Royal Navy in the Battle of Hudson's Bay, the largest naval battle in the history of the North American Arctic.
On February 28, a pitched battle took place in La Ceiba between government troops and rebels.
On his way back to Mycenae from Iberia, having obtained the Cattle of Geryon as his tenth labour, Heracles came to Liguria in North-Western Italy where he engaged into battle with two giants, Albion and Bergion or Dercynus, sons of Poseidon.
On the morning of 28 September 1106, exactly 40 years after William had made his way to England, the decisive battle between his two surviving sons, Robert Curthose and Henry Beauclerc, took place in the small village of Tinchebray, in Lower Normandy.
On several more recent occasions, Iceman has also undergone another transformation due to his defeat in battle, or by extreme circumstances involving heat.
* 1743 – War of the Austrian Succession: Battle of Dettingen: On the battlefield in Bavaria, George II personally leads troops into battle.
On 1 May 1941, Tito issued a pamphlet calling on the people to unite in a battle against the occupation.
Gildas ' 6th-century polemic De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae ( On the Ruin and Conquest of Britain ), written within living memory of Mount Badon, mentions the battle but does not mention Arthur.
On September 2, the naval battle of Actium took place.
On Samhain she keeps a tryst with the Dagda before the battle against the Fomorians.
On 21 September 967 the Polish-Bohemian troops prevailed in the decisive battle against the Wolinians led by Wichmann the Younger, which gave Mieszko the control over the mouth of the Odra River.
* On 24 November each year, Lachit Divas is celebrated statewide in Assam, India, to commemorate the heroism of the great general Lachit Borphukan and the victory of the Assamese army over the Mughal army at the battle of Saraighat in 1671.
On 10 November 1444, Murad II defeated the Hungarian, Polish and Wallachian armies under Władysław III of Poland ( also King of Hungary ) and János Hunyadi at the Battle of Varna, which was the final battle of the Crusade of Varna.
" On the ride into battle his spur struck the bridge stone of the Bow Bridge ; legend has it that, as his corpse was being carried from the battle over the back of a horse, his head struck the same stone and was broken open.
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