As the English battalions descended the gentle slope of the Petite Gheete valley, struggling through the boggy stream, they were met by Major General de la Guiche ’ s disciplined Walloon infantry sent forward from around Offus.

Major left school at age 16 in 1959, with three O-levels: History, English Language, and English Literature.

Enlisted soldiers and non-commissioned officers rise through a series of nine ranks, namely ( in English translation ): Private 2nd class, Private 1st class, Corporal, Chief Corporal, Sergeant, Chief Sergeant, Adjutant, Chief Adjutant, Major.

Major domestic competitions include the Top 14 in France, the English Premiership in England, the Currie Cup in South Africa, and the ITM Cup in New Zealand.

* Digital reproduction of the English translation by R. H. Major, 1851-52

Major telephone-equipment manufacturers, such as Nortel, have an option in their programming to denote Canadian English, which in turn instructs the system to say " number sign " to callers instead of " pound sign ".

The Allied soldiers in Italy were so incensed that Major Hamish Henderson of the 51st Highland Division composed a bitingly sarcastic song to the tune of the haunting German song " Lili Marleen " ( popularised in English by Marlene Dietrich ) called " The Ballad Of The D-Day Dodgers ".

Noted fans have included Sir Alec Guinness ( who never travelled without a Trollope novel ), former British Prime Ministers Harold Macmillan and Sir John Major, economist John Kenneth Galbraith, English judge Lord Denning, American novelists Sue Grafton and Dominick Dunne and soap opera writer Harding Lemay.

The second play, " Table Number Seven ", is set about eighteen months after the events of the previous play, and deals with the touching friendship between a repressed spinster and a retired English army officer, Major Pollock.

Major Zach Williams, who was visiting when the town changed its name in 1849, wrote in his journal: " Muscatine in English is Fire Island ," in his list of the meanings of Sioux Indian names.

Schuyler reported his findings to the English and then convinced Major Anthony Brockholst, Samuel Bayard, Samuel Berry, Hendrick and David Mandeville, George Ryerson and John Mead to invest in the purchase of the land he referred to as the Pompton Valley.

Major ancestry groups reported by Homer City residents would include: 18 % German, 17 % Italian, 11 % Irish, 9 % Polish, 7 % Slovak, 7 % English, 5 % Dutch, 3 % Scots-Irish, 3 % Scotch, 2 % Hungarian, 1 % Swedish, 1 % Ukrainian, 1 % French ( except Basque ), 1 % Pennsylvania German, 1 % Croatian, 1 % Welsh, 1 % Russian, 1 % Norwegian, 1 % Slovene, and 1 % Slavic.

Examples include Bill Mazeroski, who is the only player in Major League Baseball history to end a seventh game of the World Series with a walk-off home run ( however, Mazeroski is a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, due primarily to his status as one of the greatest defensive infielders of all time ); Paul Henderson, a Canadian ice hockey player who scored the deciding goal in the 1972 Summit Series ; Mike Jones, who tackled Kevin Dyson at the one-yard line on the final play of Super Bowl XXXIV ; and Jimmy Glass, an English football goalkeeper, who is remembered for scoring a goal in the last seconds of the final day of 1998-99 English Third Division that kept his club in The Football League.

* English Translation and Analysis of Major General Karl Ernst Haushofer's Geopolitics of the Pacific Ocean: Studies on the Relationship between Geography and History ISBN 0-7734-7122-7

Nash returned to translate into English prose and verse The Major Latin Poems of Jacopo Sannazaro, ( Detroit: Wayne State University Press ) 1996.

Major releases this year included Swingers, Independence Day, Fargo, Trainspotting, The Rock, The English Patient, Twister, Mars Attacks !, Jerry Maguire and a version of Evita starring Madonna.

Major options include: African-American Studies, American Studies, Anthropology, Art, Biology, Chemistry, Chemistry-Biochemistry, five options in Classics, Computer Science, East Asian Studies, Economics, Economics-Mathematics, English, Environmental Studies ( Policy ), Environmental Studies ( Science ), French Studies, Geology, Geoscience, German Studies, Government, History, International Studies, Latin American Studies, Mathematics, Mathematical Sciences, Music, Philosophy, Physics, Psychology, Religious Studies, Russian Language and Culture, Science, Technology, and Society, Sociology, Spanish, Theater and Dance, and Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies.

In Melbourne, Major von Tempsky made vigorous approaches to lead the proposed Trans-Continental Exploring Expedition, but his suite was ill-favoured by the committee, in the main because of the English prejudice of leading members, who chose Robert O ' Hara Burke to lead in von Tempsky's stead.

Phyllis Nan Sortain Pechey ( 26 February 1909 – 27 December 1994 ), better known as Fanny Cradock, was an English restaurant critic, television cook and writer frequently appearing on television, at cookery demonstrations and in print with Major Johnnie Cradock who played the part of a slightly bumbling husband.

The London bookseller Moses Pitt attempted publication of the Atlas Major in English, but ran out of resources after the fourth volume in 1683.

The Quebec Major Junior Hockey League ( French: la Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec, abbreviated QMJHL in English, LHJMQ in French ) is one of the three major junior ice hockey leagues which constitute the Canadian Hockey League.

" Brussels was indeed a superb place for the observation of half-pay officers, such as Major Monsoon ( Commissioner Meade ), Captain Bubbleton and the like, who terrorized the taverns of the place with their endless peninsular stories, and of English society a little damaged, which it became the specialty of Lever to depict.

Dr. Gordon N. Ray, Provost, Vice-President and Professor of English in the University of Illinois, was appointed Associate Secretary General.

Later General Baptists such as John Griffith, Samuel Loveday, and Thomas Grantham defended a Reformed Arminian theology that reflected more the Arminianism of Arminius than that of the later Remonstrants or the English Arminianism of Arminian Puritans like John Goodwin or Anglican Arminians such as Jeremy Taylor and Henry Hammond.

Interestingly, the London Confession of 1689 was later used by Calvinistic Baptists in America ( called the Philadelphia Baptist Confession ), whereas the Standard Confession of 1660 was used by the American heirs of the English General Baptists, who soon came to be known as Free Will Baptists.

The Captainship General of Cuba, encompassing Cuba and the governorships of Florida ( safe the English occupation between 1763 – 83 ), Santo Domingo ( until 1795 ), Puerto Rico, and the entire Louisiana Territory ( 1763 – 1803 )

* 1953 – Horace Panter, English bass player ( The Specials and General Public )

* 1849 – The Governor General of Canada, Lord Elgin, signs the Rebellion Losses Bill, outraging Montreal's English population and triggering the Montreal Riots.

To isolate the Danube from any Allied intervention, Marshal Villeroi's 46, 000 troops were expected to pin the 70, 000 Dutch and English troops around Maastricht in the Low Countries, while General de Coigny protected Alsace against surprise with a further corps.

The army ( assembled by the Duke's brother, General Charles Churchill ) consisted of 66 squadrons, 31 battalions and 38 guns and mortars totalling 21, 000 men ( 16, 000 of whom were English troops ).

It was presented in Ogden's book Basic English: A General Introduction with Rules and Grammar ( 1930 ).

His General Introduction says " There are no ' verbs ' in Basic English ", with the underlying assumption that, as noun use in English is very straightforward but verb use / conjugation is not, the elimination of verbs would be a welcome simplification.

* Charles Kay Ogden, Basic English: A General Introduction with Rules and Grammar, London: Paul Treber

The Anglican Church of Canada developed its first Book of Common Prayer separately from the English version in 1918, which received final authorization from General Synod in 1922.

In the province of Quebec, even when speaking in English, colleges are called Cégeps for Collège d ' enseignement général et professionnel, meaning " College of General and Vocational Education ".

He attended West Derby Comprehensive School followed by Childwall Hall College of Further Education, and studied A-levels in History, Government and Politics, English Literature and General Studies.

This pronunciation is also common in Australian English, but not in General American English or British English.

The General Conference on Weights and Measures is the English name of the Conférence générale des poids et mesures ( CGPM ).

Following the takeover of English football club Aston Villa by MBNA Chairman Randy Lerner in August 2006 and as of September 19, 2006, General Krulak joined the board of Aston Villa as non-executive director, where he quickly earned the approval of the fans by taking the time to post on various Aston Villa messageboards.

A plaque commemorating the Easter Rising at the General Post Office ( Dublin ) | General Post Office, Dublin, with the Irish text in Gaelic type | Gaelic script, and the English text in regular Latin script

* 1956 – Dave Wakeling, English musician ( The ( English ) Beat and General Public )