First, the Eight Banners were under the direct control of the emperor and hereditary Manchu and Mongol princes, leaving the ministry only with authority over the Green Standard Army.

After capturing Beijing in 1644 and as the Manchu rapidly gained control of large tracts of former Ming territory, the relatively small Banner armies were further augmented by the Green Standard Army, which eventually outnumbered Banner troops three to one.

They maintained their Ming era organization and were led by a mix of Banner and Green Standard officers.

The Banners and Green Standard troops were standing armies, paid for by central government.

Furthermore, after the conquest the military roles played by Han bannermen were quickly subsumed by the Green Standard Army.

In contrast, the Green Standard Army was originally intended to be a professional force.

This was mirrored by a similar decline in the Green Standard Army.

Although the Banners and Green Standard armies lingered on as parasites depleting resources, henceforth the Yongying corps became the Qing government's de facto first-line troops.

Meetings are held on the second Tuesday of each month at 6: 00 p. m. Central Standard Time ( CST ) at Piedmont City Hall, 115 W. Green Street.

In 2 Henry VI, Cade orders them to cut off Saye's head and then go to Cromer's house and kill him, but in The Contention, he tells them to bring Saye to " Standard in Cheapside ", and then go to Cromer's house in " Mile End Green.

Over time, many Chinese banner companies in the provincial garrisons were reclassified as civilian or placed in the Green Standard Army.

* Eugene Green Energy Standard

* Standard 189. 1 – Standard for the Design of High Performance, Green Buildings Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings

The academy was to serve Anhui Army and Green Standard Army officers.

He initially believed that it would be an easy victory against a barbarian tribe, and sent only the Green Standard Army based in Yunnan, which borders Burma.

On this tribute album, Moore played Green's 1959 Les Paul Standard guitar which Green had lent to Moore after leaving Fleetwood Mac.

Stockton College ’ s next green project will be the largest single building project in Stockton ’ s history and shall be built in keeping with the U. S. Green Building Council ’ s LEED Gold Standard in sustainable design.

It was designed and built to meet the US Green Building Council's LEED Silver Standard.

The most urgent reform was to reduce the Green Standard forces to a fraction of its size and to modernize the remainder.

Each examination level has its own colour which the examination is printed on: for example: Intermediate 1 is blue, Intermediate 2 is Green, Standard Grade is Yellow, and Higher is Pink and so on.

* Eugene Green Energy Standard, an international standard to which electricity labelling schemes can be accredited to confirm that they provide genuine environmental benefits

Fender offered a 2009 Limited Edition American Standard Stratocaster featuring a matching headstock, a rosewood fretboard with 22 jumbo frets and a melamine nut ( available in Surf Green, Fiesta Red and Daphne Blue ).

The Ontario Power Authority's Feed-In Tariff ( FIT ) program is now in place as the most generous renewable energy support program in North America ( See Green Energy Act 2009, and Ontario Power Authority " Standard Offer Program " ( SOP ) for Wind Energy Projects ).

" Ballad of the Green Berets " is a patriotic song in the ballad style about the Green Berets, an elite special force in the U. S. Army.

Three are Lighter aboard ships ( LASH ) which carry barges called Lighters that contain Army ammunition to be ferried ashore: MV American Cormorant, SS Green Harbour, ( LASH ), SS Green Valley, ( LASH ), MV Jeb Stuart, ( LASH ).

On June 22, Allen and Seth Warner appeared before Congress in Philadelphia, where they argued for the inclusion of the Green Mountain Boys in the Continental Army.

In at least two incidents, at Jacobs and Stephens Green, the Volunteers and Citizen Army shot dead civilians who were trying to attack them or dismantle their barricades.

Similarly, the rebel position at St Stephen's Green, held by the Citizen Army under Michael Mallin, was made untenable after the British placed snipers and machine guns in the Shelbourne Hotel and surrounding buildings.

* The Roman Army and Navy in Britain, by Peter Green

* 1666 – At least 3000 men of the Scottish Royal Army led by Tam Dalyell of the Binns defeat about 900 Covenanter rebels in the Battle of Rullion Green.

Free from international war, the Red Army confronted an internecine war with a loose alliance of anti-Communist forces, comprising the Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine, the " Black Army " led by Nestor Makhno, the anti-White and anti-Red Green armies, and others.

A Ukrainian nationalist movement known as the Green Army was active in Ukraine in the early part of the war.

In November of that year, the Green March into Western Sahara began when 300, 000 unarmed Moroccans accompanied by the Moroccan Army armed with heavy weapons as SAM and others converged on the southern city of Tarfaya and waited for a signal from King Hassan II of Morocco to cross into Western Sahara.

The Vermont Army version of the Green Mountain Boys faded away after Vermont joined the United States as the 14th U. S. state in 1791, although the Green Mountain Boys mustered for the War of 1812, The Civil War, the Spanish-American War, and following World War I as the Vermont National Guard.

Today, the Vermont National Guard, composed of the Vermont Army National Guard and Vermont Air National Guard are collectively known as the Green Mountain Boys, even though women have served in both branches since the mid-twentieth century.

* Barry Sadler, United States Army Green Beret and songwriter

As well as his ceremonial roles in the Norwegian Army, he also served as Colonel-in-Chief of the Green Howards ( Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Yorkshire Regiment ), the British regiment named for his grandmother Queen Alexandra.

Green Archaeoastronomy is named after the cover of the book Archaeoastronomy in the Old World.

Although none of the characters from The Beverly Hillbillies ever appeared on Green Acres, an episode of Green Acres was named after The Beverly Hillbillies.

The DC Comics character Boodikka, a member of the Green Lantern Corps, was named after Boudica.

Jen responds to these feelings, and her desire to not submit to a teacher, by turning away from Li Mu Bai when she jumps in the lake after the Green Destiny.

Shortly after 1832 she wrote the novella The Green Dwarf ( 1833 ) using the name Wellesley.

Garrett, Graham's presumed successor, did not play a single game for Cleveland, who traded him to Green Bay, brought him back three years later, then released him for good after he could not overcome a stutter that made calling plays in the huddle difficult.

Chaosium and Greg Stafford are also responsible for Pendragon, an Arthurian RPG now published by White Wolf, Inc .' s ArtHaus imprint after a spell with Green Knight Publishing.

Examples include Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels ( 1998 ) ( wherein the slang is translated via subtitles in one scene ); The Limey ( 1999 ); Sexy Beast ( 2000 ); Snatch ( 2000 ); Ocean's Eleven ( 2001 ); and Austin Powers in Goldmember ( 2002 ); It's All Gone Pete Tong ( 2004 ), after BBC radio disc jockey Pete Tong whose name is used in this context as rhyming slang for " wrong "; Green Street Hooligans ( 2005 ).

As a result, in part, of the popular and commercial resurgence of punk in the late 1980s and after, with the growing popularity of such bands as Sonic Youth, Nirvana, Fugazi, Bikini Kill, Green Day and The Offspring, a number of other punk zines have appeared, such as Punk Planet, Razorcake, Tail Spins, Sobriquet, Profane Existence and Slug and Lettuce.

West Germany started to take action after the Green Party took seats in Parliament in the 1980s.

In the years 1953 – 66 the Colts played in the NFL Western Conference ( also known as division ), but were never known to have a significant rivalry with any of the other franchises in that alignment, seeing as they were the eastern-most team and the rest of the division included the Great Lakes franchises Green Bay, Detroit Lions, Chicago Bears, and after 1961, the Minnesota Vikings.

Party Chairman Dan Boyle and Déirdre de Búrca were nominated by the Taoiseach to Seanad Éireann after the formation of the Fianna Fáil – PD – Green Party government in 2007 and Niall Ó Brolcháin elected in December 2009.

The language was initially called Oak after an oak tree that stood outside Gosling's office ; it went by the name Green later, and was later renamed Java, from Java coffee, said to be consumed in large quantities by the language's creators.

In World War II after initial deployment to France as part of the BEF, the regiment lost two battalions at the Defence of Calais ( 2nd Bn KRRC and 1st Bn the Queen Victoria's Rifles ( TA )) where a Green Jacket Brigade held up the German advance to enable the evacuation of the allied armies at Dunkirk.

After the 23 July show at the Days on the Green festival at the Oakland Coliseum in Oakland, California, Bonham and members of the band's support staff were arrested after a member of promoter Bill Graham's staff had been badly beaten during the band's performance.

Luthor even attempted to send a team of heroes after them under the leadership of Captain Atom-the team consisting of Major Force, Black Lightning, Power Girl, Starfire, Katana and Green Lantern, but this plan failed when Katana and Power Girl quickly sided with Superman and Batman and Major Force was apparently killed, Power Girl noting that Luthor had assumed in his arrogance that the heroes would obey him simply because he was President.

In 2001, after a disappointing 5 – 11 season, the Vikings bought out the contract of Dennis Green, despite his successful coaching tenure with the team.

On August 18, 2009, after months of speculation and negotiations, twice-retired veteran quarterback Brett Favre, who until 2007 played 16 years for division arch rival Green Bay Packers, signed a two-year, $ 25 million deal with the Vikings, starting what many Vikings fans refer to as " The Brett Favre Era ".

The Giants finished 10 – 6, and became NFC Champions after defeating the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Dallas Cowboys, and Green Bay Packers in the NFC Playoffs.

* 1997 – The first supersonic land speed record is set by Andy Green in ThrustSSC ( United Kingdom ), exactly 50 years and 1 day after Chuck Yeager first broke the sound barrier in the Earth's atmosphere.

Beginning in March 1941, Göring's Green Folder laid out details of the Soviet Union's proposed economic disposal after the invasion.

The most recent of these reports was the nearby Blue Creek Mountain track find, which was investigated by journalist John Green, Rene Dahinden, and archaeologist Don Abbott on and after August 28, 1967.