British forces used airpower to shock the Afghans, and the King's home was directly attacked in what is the first case of aerial bombardment in Afghanistan's history.

Throughout the war, the King and Queen provided morale-boosting visits throughout the United Kingdom, visiting bomb sites and munitions factories, and in the King's case visiting military forces abroad.

The Queen returned to England with a small mercenary army in 1326 ; moving rapidly across England, the King's forces deserted him.

The origins of the present Ugandan armed forces can be traced back to 1902, when the Uganda Battalion of the King's African Rifles was formed.

On 14 March 1074 at the Battle of Mogyoród, the King's forces were decisively defeated by his cousins and their allies, the Dukes of Poland and Bohemia.

Taking advantage of the King's precarious situation, Mieszko II's brothers Bezprym and Otto turned against him and allied themselves with the Emperor Conrad II, whose forces attacked the country, regaining Lusatia.

* With the support of the Persian King Artaxerxes II, King Agesilaus II of Sparta concludes " the King's Peace " ( or the Peace of Antalcidas, after the Spartan envoy and commander ) with Greek allied forces in a manner favourable to Sparta.

In 1639, in response to Charles ' attempts to reform the Scottish Church, civil war broke out between the King's forces and the Presbyterian Covenanters.

The ford developed into first a wooden then a stone bridge, and in 1497 saw the Battle of Deptford Bridge, in which rebels from Cornwall, led by Michael An Gof, marched on London protesting against punitive taxes, but were soundly beaten by the King's forces.

He took a force of almost unarmed men, and fought for and held the City of Norwich for six weeks until defeated by the King's forces.

However, Prince Rupert of the Rhine, who had recently been appointed General of the Army and therefore the King's chief military adviser, proposed instead to march north to recover the North of England and join forces with the Royalists in Scotland under Montrose.

As the King's forces moved southwards, taking Oxford, Reading and Windsor, the garrison commander at Farnham ( and noted poet ), Captain George Wither, decided to evacuate the castle ; the new High Sheriff of Surrey ( John Denham, a Royalist sympathiser and another noted poet ) then occupied the vacant castle with 100 armed supporters.

The King's forces after the battle numbered less than a thousand men, probably not more than seven or eight hundred.

During King Charles I reign it came into the ownership of the Craven family and was used as a supply base for the King's forces in the area, based in strength at nearby Ludlow Castle in the early stages of the English Civil War.

The next day the King's forces crossed the River Severn at Uffington, about a mile to the east of Shrewsbury endeavouring to cut Percy's line of retreat on Chester.

The King's forces sustained greater losses than the rebels, in fact Henry IV very nearly lost both his life and his throne.

In the Siege of Hull, the Parliamentarian garrison defied the King's authority and drove his forces away from the city.

When the Pilgrimage of Grace broke out in Lincolnshire and the northern counties late in 1536, Norfolk shared command of the King's forces with the Earl of Shrewsbury, persuading the rebels to disperse by promising them a pardon and that Parliament would consider their grievances.

Many of the same forces who were at King's Mountain also came to Cowpens.

Joining with Butler's Rangers and the King's Royal Regiment of New York, Brant's forces were part of a third major raid on the Mohawk Valley, where they destroyed settlers ' homes and crops.

Personnel from the King's African Rifles ( KAR ) collect weapons surrendered by Italian Fascism | Italian forces at Wolchefit Pass, Ethiopia, following the end of the East African Campaign ( World War II ) | East African Campaign.

Soon afterwards, at the suggestion of George Wharton, a leading astrologer with strong court connections, Ashmole was given a military post at Oxford, where he served as an ordnance officer for the King's forces.

As a result, the Cornish rebels were beaten by the King's forces at the Battle of Deptford Bridge on 17 June 1497 on a site adjacent to the River Ravensbourne.

No longer supported with an army against the King's new representative, Gonzalo Pizarro surrendered and was beheaded by the royal forces at field of battle, being the last of the Pizarro brothers to die a violent death ( with Hernando dying of old age in Spain some three or six decades later ).

All these emotions were screwed up to new heights when, after acceptance and the first rehearsals, there ensued such a buzz of excitement among Parisian music lovers that Duclos had to come running to Rousseau to inform him that the news had reached the superintendent of the King's amusements, and that he was now demanding that the work be offered first at the royal summer palace of Fontainebleau.

The construction commenced around the courtyard with the East Wing ( The King's Library ) in 1823 – 1828, followed by the North Wing in 1833 – 1838, which originally housed among other galleries a reading room, now the Wellcome Gallery.

The former " King's County " and " Queen's County " were exceptions ; these are now County Offaly and County Laois, respectively.

Having finished his apprenticeship with Hammond, Keats registered as a medical student at Guy's Hospital ( now part of King's College London ) and began studying there in October 1815.

The play's brevity and certain aspects of its staging ( for instance, the large proportion of night-time scenes and the unusually large number of off-stage sounds ) have been taken as suggesting that the text now extant was revised for production indoors, perhaps at the Blackfriars Theatre, which the King's Men acquired in 1608.

Other buildings that have been destroyed include the house of Khadijah, the wife of Muhammad, demolished to make way for public lavatories ; the house of Abu Bakr, Muhammad's companion, now the site of the local Hilton hotel ; the house of Ali-Oraid, the grandson of Muhammad, and the Mosque of abu-Qubais, now the location of the King's palace in Mecca ; Muhammad's birthplace, demolished to make way for a library ; and the Abraj Al Bait Towers, built after demolishing the Ottoman-era Ajyad Fortress.

A replica of the Rosetta Stone as it would have appeared to early 19th-century visitors — without a case and free to touch — is now available in the King's Library of the British Museum.

The unfinished epistolary novel is still available from King's official site, now free.

He only spent about two years in formal schooling, first at King's College School in London ( then located in Somerset House ) and then, for a few months, at Warwick Grammar School ( now Warwick School ).

The college grew from God's House, an institution founded in 1437 on land now occupied by King's College Chapel.

Before the members of both houses returned home on 30 March, they were required to swear an oath accepting the Act of Succession, and all the King's subjects were now required to swear to the legitimacy of the marriage and, by implication, to acceptance of the King's new powers and the break from Rome.

DeWitt Clinton was the second son born to James Clinton and his wife Mary DeWitt ( 1737 – 1795, aunt of Simeon De Witt ), and was educated at King's College, what is now Columbia University.

The 21 Alta California missions were established along the northernmost section of California's El Camino Real ( Spanish for " The Royal Highway ", though often referred to as " The King's Highway "), christened in honor of King Charles III ), much of which is now U. S. Route 101 and several Mission Streets.

The university was established by Royal Charter in 1836, which brought together in federation London University ( now University College London ) and King's College ( now King's College London ).

The monitoring was conducted through newly formed centralised faculties and Boards of Studies, and King's and UCL now became constituent parts of the University of London.

In comparison to King's prior works, the narrative of The Body is complicated in that it is told in first person point of view by the now forty-something novelist Gordon Lachance.

The Boston Barracudas raced in the British League Division Two, ( now the Premier League ) and in 1973 completed a clean sweap winning the League, Knock-out Cup, and Arthur Price won the League Individual Championship, after the New Hammond Beck Road Stadium was sold for re-development in 1988 attempts to secure a new venue failed in the 1990s a team, known as Boston, raced in the Conference League out of King's Lynn

After her son won the crown at the Battle of Bosworth Field, the Countess was now referred to in court as " My Lady the King's Mother ".

The route, built by cut-and-cover, was mostly via the then New Road, now Marylebone Road and Euston Road, thereby also connecting the other railway termini to the north of the centre of London, namely Euston and King's Cross.