On the western tip of Long Island protruded Brooklyn Heights.

On the other we have the flag-wavers and the national sentimentalists who have been willing to use any patriotic, `` frontier western '' or colonial material willy-nilly.

It was especially important for preserving in its libraries manuscripts of Greek and Latin authors throughout a period when instability and disorder caused their mass-destruction in western Europe and north Africa: On the city's fall, thousands of these were brought by refugees to Italy, and played a key part in stimulating the Renaissance, and the transition to the modern world.

On April 6, 1830, in western New York, Smith organized the religion's first legal church entity, the Church of Christ.

On the western portion of Lake Cadillac, where M-55 intersects M-115, is what is locally referred to as Cadillac West.

On 939 Æthelstan, the " pillar of the dignity of the western world " in the words of the Annals of Ulster, died at Malmesbury.

On the Western Front, no Allied army had penetrated the western German frontier, and on the Eastern Front, Germany had already won the war against Russia, concluded with the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.

On Diego Garcia, the main plantations were located at East Point, the main settlement on the eastern rim of the atoll ; Minni Minni, north of East Point ; and Pointe Marianne, on the western rim, all located on the lagoon side of the atoll rim.

On the oil front, the new government in Ecuador has reversed the earlier revenue-sharing arrangements with western oil companies and is now keen on striking new partnerships with state-owned ONGC Videsh of India.

On 30 August 2012 it was announced that British firm Nyota Minerals was about to become the first foreign company to receive a mining licence to extract gold from an estimated resource of 52 tonnes in western Ethiopia.

On his second visit early in the following year, he remained at Ephesus " three years ," for he found it was the key to the western provinces of Asia Minor.

On the left, the initial attempt to clear the western end of Ruweisat failed but at 08: 00 a renewed attack by the reserve battalion succeeded.

On the night of December 25, 1776, Washington staged a comeback with a surprise attack on a Hessian outpost in western New Jersey.

On the evening of 28 April, the BBC broadcast a Reuters news report about Himmler's attempted negotiations with the western Allies.

On the other hand the Galicia region in western Ukraine and southern Poland, economically and socially backward, but under the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy rule increasingly allowed limited autonomy, experienced gradual relaxation of authoritarian policies and even a Polish cultural revival.

On 5 November, Major Spyros Spyromilios led a revolt in the coastal area of Himarë and expelled the Ottoman garrison without facing significant resistance, while on 20 November Greek troops from western Macedonia entered Korçë.

On September 27, 2009, Ismail Khan survived a suicide blast that killed 4 of his bodyguards in Herat, in western Afghanistan.

On this goto, one would push down buttons above the metal strings like the western autoharp.

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

On the western border are two spiral galaxies and the Wolf-Rayet planetary nebula IC 4406, containing some of the hottest stars in existence.

On the western side is a worthy bed, on the ground, a stone chimney, a wardrobe and a certain other small chamber ; at the eastern end is a pantry and a buttery.

On March 5, 1940, in what would later be known as the Katyn massacre, orders were signed to execute 25, 700 Polish POWs, labeled " nationalists and counterrevolutionaries ", kept at camps and prisons in occupied western Ukraine and Belarus.

On 23 August 1986, tens of thousands of demonstrators in 21 western cities including New York, London, Stockholm, Toronto, Seattle, and Perth participated in Black Ribbon Day Rallies to draw attention to the secret protocols.

On September 20, 1805, near the western end of the Lolo Trail, he found a small camp at the edge of the camas-digging ground that is now called Weippe Prairie.

On the western plain, looking south south west towards Charlestown.

On the French side of the stream the ground rises to Offus, the village which, together with Autre-Eglise farther north, anchored Villeroi ’ s left flank.

On Overkirk ’ s right flank, close to Ramillies, ten of his squadrons suddenly broke ranks and were scattered, riding headlong to the rear to recover their order, leaving the left flank of the Allied assault on Ramillies dangerously exposed.

On November 24, Maj. Gen. Sherman and four divisions of the Army of the Tennessee assaulted Bragg's right flank.

On November 25, Sherman continued his attack on Bragg's right flank on the northern section of Missionary Ridge.

On May 21, Grant disengaged from the Confederate Army and started southeast on another maneuver to turn Lee's right flank, as the Overland Campaign continued toward the Battle of North Anna.

On May 31, as Grant's army once again swung around the right flank of Lee's army, Union cavalry seized the crossroads of Old Cold Harbor, about 10 miles northeast of the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, holding it against Confederate attacks until the Union infantry arrived.

On 1 July, after a week of heavy rain, British divisions in Picardy launched an attack around the river Somme, supported by five French divisions on their right flank.

On the battlefield, he favoured pragmatism over chivalry in the massed use of infantry strongholds, dismounted men at arms, longbowmen, and flank attacks ( a revolutionary practice in a chivalric age ).

On the left flank, the Canadian 2nd Division particularly with the efforts of the French Canadian 22nd Battalion ( the ' Van Doos ') and the 25th Battalion ( the Nova Scotia Rifles ) captured the village of Courcelette after heavy fighting, with some assistance from two tanks.

On the Allied left flank the Prince of Orange led his Dutch infantry in desperate charges only to have it cut to pieces.

On the other flank, Eugene attacked and suffered almost as severely.

On IV Corps ' front, the 51st ( Highland ) Division stalled at Flesquières, its first objective and this left the attacking divisions on each flank exposed to enfilade fire.

On the eastern flank of the British salient, Gruppe Caudry attacked from Bantouzelle to Rumilly and aimed for Marcoing.

On the morning of the battle at around 07: 30, patrols of Don Cossacks from Matvei Platov's pulk had discovered a ford across the Kolocha river, on the extreme Russian right ( northern ) flank.

On 20 May, General Howe led a further 6, 000 soldiers and ordered an attack on Lafayette's left flank.

On 28 June, Lee moved against the British flank ; however, soon after fighting began, he began acting strangely.

On either flank the British cavalry closed in to form a screen for the infantry – the Royal Horse Guards to the fore especially distinguished themselves.

On 24 August, Charles struck the French right flank while Wartensleben attacked frontally.

On the western flank, Augereau sent troops under Generals of Brigade Jean Joseph Guieu and Guillaume Mirabel to push Mendinueta's cavalry back to Céret.

On the threatened British-Portuguese right flank, the elite Light Division, well supported by cavalry and artillery, made a textbook fighting withdrawal.

On the far north flank, FML Archduke Ferdinand's division began coming into action against Legrand near the town of Harthofen.

On the left flank Landrin came up against severe resistance at Wormhoute.

York writes of Freytag: " On the 6th of September, the day of the first attack upon the Field Marshal's Corps, He never would believe that the Enemy had forced the post on His left flank in spite of repeated reports that were sent to Him, nor was it till six in the evening, that he consented to retreat, which he did in two Columns.

On November 5 the Russians launched a heavy attack on the allied right flank east of the city.