* 2000 – Second Battle of Elephant Pass: Tamil Tigers capture a strategic Sri Lankan Army base and hold it for 8 years.

Second base is the base most often stolen.

During the Second World War nearby Thorney Island was used as a Royal Air Force base, playing a role in the Battle of Britain.

During the Second World War, Fort William was the home of HMS St Christopher which was a training base for Royal Navy Coastal Forces.

The Foreign Legion has remained an important part of the French Army, surviving three Republics, the Second French Empire, two World Wars, the rise and fall of mass conscript armies, the dismantling of the French colonial empire, and the loss of the Foreign Legion's base, Algeria.

In the Second World War ( 1939 – 45 ) Kenya became an important British military base for successful campaigns against Italy in the Italian Somaliland and Ethiopia.

During the Second World War the Canadian Army built a large military supply base in the city to service the Maritime military establishment.

After the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 AD, additional members of the Sicarii and numerous Jewish families fled Jerusalem and settled on the mountaintop, using it as a base for harassing the Romans.

The main naval base for the British fleet Scapa Flow in both the First and Second World Wars was situated at Lyness in the south-east of the island.

Sedevacantists base their claim to be the remnant Roman Catholic Church on what they see as the presence in them of these four " marks ", absent, they say, in the Church since the Second Vatican Council.

Production of silver coins ceased in 1938, after which a variety of base metals were used to produce 1, 5 and 10 sen coins during the Second World War.

Second, think tanks may base their work or arguments on:

Consequently, the very features that made Bermuda such a prized base for the Royal Navy ( its headquarters in the North Atlantic and West Indies ' til after the Second World War, also meant it was perpetually threatened by US invasion, as the US would have liked to both deny the base to an enemy, and use it as a way to extend its defences hundreds of miles out to sea, which would not happen ' til the Second World War.

In 2003 twelve Carabinieri were killed in a suicide bombing on their base in Nasiriyah, near Basra in southern Iraq, in the largest Italian military loss of life in a single action since the Second World War.

A British Commonwealth Air Training Plan air force base, RCAF Station Vulcan, was located a few kilometres southwest of the town during the Second World War.

A “ Third Red Army " was led by He Long who established his base area in the Hunan-Hubei border ; by 1932 his forces were soundly defeated and in October 1934 merged with the 6th Army Corps led by Xiao Ke to form the Second Red Army.

In 1932 he established a soviet in the Hunan-Kiangsi border area, and in August 1934 received command of the Second Red Army, establishing a base in Hubei.

In the Second World War, the Germans maintained a large U-boat submarine base at Brest.

In Rescue from Gilligan's Island it is stated that the island was a base of operations for the Army Air Corps during the Second World War.

It was home to the Woolwich Dockyard ( founded in 1512 ), the Royal Arsenal ( dating back to 1471 ), the Royal Military Academy ( 1741 ) and the Royal Horse Artillery ( 1793 ); the town still retains an army base at the Royal Artillery Barracks ( although 16RA Royal Artillery left in 2007, Woolwich Barracks still house the Royal Artillery Band and more recently Second Battalion Princess of Wales Royal Regiment and Kings Troop Royal Horse Artillery ), and the Royal Artillery Museum, Firepower.

Second, and more importantly, a result must be reached before the time elapses and the umpire calls " stumps " for the match to have a winner ; otherwise, the match ends with a draw and no winner.

Most notably among them Larry Norman, Barry McGuire, Love Song, Second Chapter of Acts, Randy Stonehill, Randy Matthews, and during the mid-1970s, Keith Green.

Many music groups developed out of this, and some became leaders within the Jesus movement, most notably Barry McGuire, Love Song, Second Chapter of Acts, All Saved Freak Band, Servant, Petra, Resurrection Band, Phil Keaggy, Dion DiMucci, Paul Stookey of Peter, Paul, and Mary ; Randy Stonehill, Randy Matthews, Andraé Crouch ( and the Disciples ), Nancy Honeytree, Keith Green, and Larry Norman.

Several American academics have criticized the United States Constitution for specific shortcomings and have called for a Second Constitutional Convention, including University of Texas constitutional law expert Sanford Levinson, University of Virginia professor Larry Sabato, University of Kentucky professor Richard Labunski, Vanderbilt University professor Dana D. Nelson, and Yale University professor Robert A. Dahl, although professor Dahl believes there is no real hope that such a Convention might ever happen.

In the 1990s, Reilly made guest appearances on The Drew Carey Show, The Larry Sanders Show, Family Matters, Second Noah, and as eccentric writer Jose Chung in the television series The X-Files (" Jose Chung's From Outer Space "), Millennium (" Jose Chung's Doomsday Defense ") and occasionally as the voice of " The Dirty Bubble " in the animated series SpongeBob SquarePants before he was replaced by Tom Kenny.

Throughout the years Curb has had success with other Gospel music artists such as MercyMe, the Second Chapter of Acts, Degarmo and Key, Patti Cabrera, Michael English, Debby Boone, the Fisk Jubilee Singers, Barlowgirl, pureNRG, Worship Kids, Francesca Battistelli, Big Daddy Weave, Building 429, Fernando Ortega, Downhere, Nicole C. Mullen, Larry Norman, Jonathan Pierce, Plumb, Point of Grace, Group 1 Crew, Salvador, Jamie Slocum, Steller Kart, Jaci Velasquez and Mark Schultz.

Larry Brown was the Most Valuable Player of the inaugural ABA All Star game and led the ABA in assists that season en route to being named Second Team All ABA.

After the Second World War, some artists took a global approach, working and exhibiting abroad, in Paris, and as the decade wore on, relocated gradually in other welcoming cities like Copenhagen, Amsterdam, and Stockholm: Barbara Chase-Riboud, Edward Clark, Harvey Cropper, Beauford Delaney, Herbert Gentry, Bill Hutson, Clifford Jackson, Sam Middleton, Larry Potter, Haywood Bill Rivers, Merton Simpson, and Walter Williams.

Olivia was one of the new artists introduced in the Second Annual Contemporary Reflections 1972-73, of the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield, Conn. Also presented as one of 18 new artists in the " Tenth Anniversary, the Larry Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art 1964-74 " with established artists including Eva Hesse, Agnes Martin, and Frank Stella.

Broussard has been a featured performer on many TV programs including The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, A & E Breakfast with the Arts, Jimmy Kimmel Live !, Late Night with Conan O ' Brien, CBS Saturday Early Show, Larry King Live " Lopez Tonight ", and CBS ’ s Saturday Morning ’ s Second Cup Cafe.

In the Fraser Valley tournament, Jack Tsai and Larry Blyth, both for Walnut Grove, were named the Second and First Team All-Stars respectively.

Second oldest is 16-year-old Larry ( Kyle Sullivan ), an odd misfit given to emotional outbursts ( such as when Vicky denies him permission to see Brian Boitano star as Bilbo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings On Ice ).

The American M8 Light Armored Car was a 6x6 armored car produced by the Ford Motor Company during the Second World War intended initially as a fast wheeled tank destroyer.

Due to the time he needed to devote to the commission, and contrary to a promise MacDonald made to Attlee to induce him to serve on the commission, he was not initially offered a ministerial post in the Second Labour Government.

He joined Chelsea, then in the Second Division, before the 1979 – 80 season, initially as assistant manager to Danny Blanchflower.

In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, the US Occupation authorities initially encouraged the formation of independent unions.

However in 1793, in the Second Partition of Poland, Poznań, came under the control of the Kingdom of Prussia, becoming part of ( and initially the seat of ) the province of South Prussia.

Because of the war he was evacuated together with a large number of other artists, initially to the Caucasus where he composed his Second String Quartet.

The flaming chalice was initially the logo of the Unitarian Service Committee during the Second World War.

Italy initially opposes Germany's aims on Austria but the two countries resolve their differences in 1936 in the aftermath of Italy's diplomatic isolation following the start of the Second Italo-Abyssinian War.

In the United Kingdom group psychotherapy initially developed independently, with pioneers S. H. Foulkes and Wilfred Bion using group therapy as an approach to treating combat fatigue in the Second World War.

Marxists would form mass-based labour and social democratic parties throughout Europe ( initially grouped around the Second International ), with major strongholds in Germany and England.

In 1939, Nazi Germany launched the Second World War ( 1939 – 1945 ) to gain geographic dominance of Eurasia and Africa, initially, by means of empire ( direct control ), then by hegemony ( indirect control ).

However, fierce confrontations in the northeast regions of the Congo between local tribes in the Ituri region, initially uninvolved with the Hutu-Tutsi conflict but drawn into the Second Congo War, still continue.

The Russian Second Army under General Alexander Samsonov was to initially move westward around the Masurian Lakes and then swing north over a hilly area to cut off the Germans, who would by this point be forced into defending the area around Königsberg.

While 26 U. S. soldiers were initially charged with criminal offenses for their actions at Mỹ Lai, only Second Lieutenant William Calley, a platoon leader in Charlie Company, was convicted.

Sheridan ’ s post office had initially been established within a general store on Second Street ( the state road ) east of Main Street.

The Second World War gave Taylor the opportunity to branch out from print journalism, initially into radio and then later television.

He then performed at Chicago's Second City Theatre, initially as part of Second City's touring group.

SCTV initially adapted its comedy from existing sketches and improvisation from the Second City stage show.

Pour une fête de printemps ( 1920 ), initially conceived as the slow movement of his Second Symphony.

Australia entered the Second World War on 3 September 1939 and a special War Cabinet was created after war was declared – initially composed of Prime Minister Menzies and five senior ministers including Billy Hughes.

With the beginning of the Second World War in 1939, the CPGB initially continued to support the struggle on two fronts ( against Chamberlain at home and Nazi fascism abroad ).

Following the outbreak of the Second World War, he joined the British Army, initially as a Private in the Field Security Police.

Hill's division initially formed part of James Longstreet's command, but after an argument between Hill and Longstreet, which nearly resulted in a duel, Hill was transferred to Stonewall Jackson's Second Corps.