Galston found that excessive usage of the compound caused catastrophic defoliation — a finding later used by his colleague Ian Sussex to develop the family of herbicides used in Operation Ranch Hand.

Minor battles were fought, sometimes at night, between gangs of smugglers, such as the Hawkhurst Gang and the Revenue, supported by the army and local militias in the South, Kent and the West, Sussex.

Distributist ideas were put into practice by The Guild of St Joseph and St Dominic, a group of artists and craftsmen who established a community in Ditchling, Sussex, England, in 1920, with the motto ' Men rich in virtue studying beautifulness living in peace in their houses '.

In some areas, particularly in Sussex, there are extensive processions, large bonfires and firework displays organised by local bonfire societies, the most elaborate of which take place in Lewes.

The kingdom was probably a sub-kingdom, the object of a disputed overlordship by the two powerful neighbouring kingdoms: when King Wihtred of Kent settled a dispute with King Ine of Sussex & Wessex in 694, it is probable that he seceded the overlordship of Haestingas to Ine as part of the treaty.

Hastings was shown as a borough by the time of the Domesday Book ( 1086 ); it had also given its name to the Rape of Hastings, one of the six administrative divisions of Sussex.

However, they spared Vortigern, who ransomed himself by giving the Saxons Essex, Sussex, Middlesex, and other unnamed districts.

* Natubhai Shah, Jainism: The World of Conquerors, Published by Sussex Academic Press, 1998, ISBN 1-898723-97-4, ISBN 978-1-898723-97-4

He died of mesothelioma, sitting in a high-backed chair, surrounded by books — at his home in Lewes, East Sussex on April 19, 2004.

The following year, the first full-scale one-day competition between first-class teams was played, the knock-out Gillette Cup, won by Sussex.

In " His Last Bow ", Holmes has retired to a small farm on the Sussex Downs in 1903 – 1904, as chronicled by Watson in his preface to the series of stories entitled " His Last Bow.

# South Saxons: led by Aelle, created the Kingdom of Sussex

The South Saxons were first evangelised extensively under Anglian influence ; Aethelwalh of Sussex was converted by Wulfhere, King of Mercia, and allowed Wilfrid, Archbishop of York, to evangelise his people beginning in 681.

These included a grand piano salvaged from a demolition and apparently played every morning by Paul McCartney, a neighbour in Rye in East Sussex.

* The Badger is the Union ’ s weekly newspaper and is written and designed entirely by Sussex students.

An International Foundation Year offered by the ISC offers routes directly to Sussex degrees.

In 825 or 826 he overturned the political order of England by decisively defeating King Beornwulf of Mercia at Ellendun and seizing control of Surrey, Sussex, Kent and Essex from the Mercians, while with his help East Anglia broke away from Mercian control.

* July – The Reverend Thomas Baker, a Wesleyan Methodist missionary ( born in Playden, East Sussex, England ) is cooked and eaten by Navatusila tribespeople at Nabutautau on Fiji, together with eight of his local followers, the last missionary in that country to suffer cannibalism.

* Possible date for the Battle of Mons Badonicus: Romano-British and Celts defeat an Anglo-Saxon army that may have been led by the bretwalda Aelle of Sussex or possibly Cerdic of Wessex ( approximate date ; suggested dates range from 490 to 517 ).

Map of south-eastern England showing places visit by king Aelle of Sussex | Aelle ( 477 )

* Sussex attacks Kent, supporting Eadric's claim to the throne held by Hlothhere.

* Wilfrid of York is expelled from Northumbria by Ecgfrith, and retires into Sussex.

The concert was deemed a stunning success by Sussex Police, Fatboy Slim, and the crowd.

Several traditional counties, including Essex, Sussex and Kent, predate the unification of England by Alfred the Great, and originally existed as independent kingdoms.

* Short videos demonstrating of States of Matter, solids, liquids and gases by Prof. J M Murrell, University of Sussex

* Kingston by Sea, West Sussex

The Anglo-Saxons held the present counties of Kent, Sussex, Norfolk, Suffolk, and around the Humber ; it is clear that the native British controlled everything west of a line drawn from the mouth of the Wiltshire Avon at Christchurch north to the river Trent, then along the Trent to where it joined the Humber, then north along the river Derwent and east to the North Sea, and also controlled a salient to the north and west of London, and south of Verulamium, that stretched west to join their main territory.

The Sea Colony condos whose mailing address is South BethanySouth Bethany is an incorporated town in Sussex County, Delaware, United States.

Fanny and Johnnie Cradock spent their final years living at Bexhill on Sea, East Sussex.

He received several grants from Canada, Italy and France for his innovative work as composer-performer of period music and as founding-director of the Festivals: Rendez-vous con Hendrik Bouman ( Italy ) 1992, Halifax 1749 Baroque ( Canada ) 1999, Baroque by the Sea ( Maritimes Canada ) 1999 & 2005, the Baroque SaMuse Concert Series ( Montréal, Canada ) 2006-2007, as well as a sponsorship from Berkeley Homes, United Kingdom for his Baroque by the Sea Concert Series ( Sussex, United Kingdom ) 2009 ; concert series predominantly dedicated to the performance of his baroque and classical compositions, period improvisations, as well as historical repertoire and his transcriptions thereof.

Amplified music was banned during football matches ( except for the traditional " Sussex by the Sea "), and matchday parking restrictions were imposed within a one-mile radius of the ground.

By the late 1960s the engines had been removed from the glen and Polar Bear was restored as an operating exhibit at Amberley Working Museum, West Sussex and Sea Lion was taken to Loughborough where it remained until 1987 when it was finally restored and returned to service on the restored line.

He was the son of Col. J. Moutray Read of Cheltenham and Mrs. E. Moutray Read of St. Leonards on Sea, East Sussex.

The " East Beach Café " is a building on Littlehampton Sea Front, West Sussex, UK.

He is noted for his books Sea Room ( about the Shiant Isles, a group of uninhabited islands in the Hebrides ); Power and Glory: the making of the King James Bible ; Men of Honour ( about Admiral Nelson and the Battle of Trafalgar ); Earls of Paradise ( an exploration of Arcadianism in 16th and 17th century England ); The Smell of Summer Grass ( describing his struggles with a small Sussex farm ); and Sissinghurst: an Unfinished History ( describing his attachment to his family home and his plans to transform the landscape there ).

It is located in Bexhill on Sea, East Sussex, on the south coast of England.

Bexhill and Sussex in general were vulnerable if the Germans decided to mount an invasion ( Operation Sea Lion ).

Owing to the political climate in France at the time, the school relocated to St. Leonard ’ s on Sea, East Sussex, where de Lubac studied before being drafted to the French army in 1914.

Goring-by-Sea railway station is in Goring by Sea in the county of West Sussex.

* From the Sea End-Official History of Sussex CCC ( 1989 )

He was the eldest brother of Decimus Burton the architect, both being the sons of James Burton the famous London Builder, and founder of St Leonards on Sea, East Sussex.