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Royal and Marines
* 1940 – World War II: Royal Marines land in Namsos, Norway in preparation for a larger force to arrive two days later.
In recent times, it has become customary to invite units from France's allies to the parade ; in 2004 during the centenary of the Entente Cordiale, British troops ( the band of the Royal Marines, the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment, Grenadier Guards and King's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery ) led the Bastille Day parade in Paris for the first time, with the Red Arrows flying overhead.
In 2007 the German 26th Airborne Brigade led the march followed by British Royal Marines.
As the bow of Guerrier came within range, Goliath opened fire, inflicting severe damage with a double-shotted raking broadside as the British ship turned to port and passed down the unprepared port side of Guerrier, and Foley's Royal Marines and a company of Austrian grenadiers joined the attack, firing their muskets.
Herbert sent Baralongs twelve Royal Marines, under the command of a Corporal Collins, to find the surviving German sailors aboard Nicosian.
In Herbert's report to the Admiralty, he stated he feared the survivors from the U-boat's crew would board the freighter and scuttle her, so he ordered the Royal Marines on his ship to shoot the survivors.
In contrast to the Royal Navy, Royal Marines and Royal Air Force, the British Army does not include Royal in its title.
In 1982 the British Army, alongside the Royal Marines, helped to recapture the Falkland Islands during the Falklands conflict against Argentina.
A brigade of Dutch Royal Marines and Royal Marines, 1, 800 strong, under the command of Prince George of Hesse-Darmstadt, chief commander of the Alliance Army in Spain, began to besiege Gibraltar, in the name of the Archduke Charles.
In the town, the Marine brigade, still under the command of the British admiral Sir John Leake, and the governor, Prince George of Hesse-Darmstadt ( who had commanded the land forces in August ), and reinforced shortly before by a further 400 Royal Marines, held the fortress against repeated attacks.
The non-legally binding KAA Protocols were developed and mediated between the heads of the Kuwaiti and Iraqi navies by Major David Hammond Royal Marines, the British naval lawyer and legal advisor to Combined Task Force 158.
* Mountain Leader, a rank within the British Royal Marines
* 1664 – The Duke of York and Albany's Maritime Regiment of Foot, later to be known as the Royal Marines, is established.
The operation was carried out by elements of the United States 10th Mountain Division, 101st Airborne Division, the U. S. special forces groups TF 11, TF Bowie, and TF Dagger, British Royal Marines, the Norwegian Forsvarets Spesialkommando ( FSK ), Hærens Jegerkommando and Marinejegerkommandoen, Canada's 3rd Battalion Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, Canada's Joint Task Force 2, the Afghan National Army, the German KSK, and elements of the Australian Special Air Service Regiment and of the New Zealand Special Air Service.
However, whilst the New South Wales Police Force was established in 1862, it was made up from a large number of policing and military units operating within the then Colony of New South Wales and traces its links back to the Royal Marines.
The Hoe also includes a long broad tarmacked promenade ( currently a disabled motorists car park ) which serves as a spectacular military parade ground and which is often used for displays by Plymouth based Royal Navy, Royal Marines, the Army garrison, as well as for funfairs and open-air concerts.
On 17 April 1797, Abercromby, with a force of 7, 000-13, 000 men, which included German mercenary soldiers and Royal Marines and a 60 to 64 ship armada, invaded the island of Puerto Rico.

Royal and continued
Collections continued to be made by the Royal Ontario Museum.
Layard's work was continued by his assistant, Hormuzd Rassam and in 1852 – 1854 he went on to discover the North Palace of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh with many magnificent reliefs, including the famous Royal Lion Hunt scenes.
Jenner continued his research and reported it to the Royal Society, which did not publish the initial paper.
He continued to investigate natural history and in 1823, the last year of his life, he presented his Observations on the Migration of Birds to the Royal Society.
During the next three years, she continued her battle to qualify by studying privately with various professors, including some at the University of St Andrews, the Edinburgh Royal Maternity and the London Hospital Medical School.
The harp was adopted as a symbol of the Kingdom of Ireland on the coinage from 1542, and in the Royal Standard of King James ( VI of Scotland / I of England ) in 1603 and continued to feature on all English and United Kingdom Royal Standards ever since, though the styles of the harps depicted differed in some respects.
However, the first English warship to bear the name Resolution was actually the first rate ( built in 1610 and rebuilt in 1641 ), which was renamed Resolution in 1650 following the inauguration of the Commonwealth, and continued to bear that name until 1660, when the name Prince Royal was restored.
Attacks on remote Royal Irish Constabulary ( RIC ) barracks continued throughout 1919 and 1920, forcing the police to consolidate defensively in the larger towns, effectively placing large areas of the countryside in the hands of the Republicans.
With the outbreak of a Dano-Swedish war, he continued his fight against Sweden in Denmark, from where he " returned across the sea " to fight the invaders alongside the king who was then at the Royal Castle in Poznań.
Despite anti-Polish policies, such Polish-language newspapers as the Pruski Przyjaciel Ludu ( Prussian People's Friend ) or the Kalendarz Królewsko-Pruski Ewangelicki ( Royal Prussian Evangelical Calendar ) or bilingual journals like the Oletzkoer Kreisblatt-Tygodnik Obwodu Oleckiego continued to be published in Masuria.
After the war, CMF units continued to form the bulk of the peacetime army, although the creation of standing infantry units — such as the Royal Australian Regiment — from 1947, meant that the regular army grew in importance.
Royal officials continued to report that Welsh students at Oxford University were leaving their studies to join Owain, and Welsh labourers and craftsmen were abandoning their employers in England and returning to Wales.
There is an imposing series of Victorian terraces to the west of the naval memorial which previously continued to the Grand Hotel and, until it was destroyed by bombing, the grand clubhouse of the Royal Western Yacht Club.
He then attempted to sell extracted lime juice as a medicine, but the lime juice had no effect in treating scurvy, due to the oxidization of vitamin C. Therefore, this solution was not adopted by the Royal Navy until the 1790s, and the idea that any acid would suffice continued in Britain into the late 19th century.
The aristocracy continued to dominate the government, the Army and Royal Navy, and high society.
The U. S. reasons for war included the humiliation in the " Chesapeake incident " of 1807, continued British impressment of American sailors into the Royal Navy, restrictions on trade with France, and arming hostile American Indians in Ohio and the western territories.
Meanwhile, in foreign politics Henry IV continued to try to obtain the subordination of the other Silesian Dukes, which indirectly could bring him the Royal Crown.
This prosperous era continued through the reign of the ninth sultan, Hassan, who is credited with developing an elaborate Royal Court structure, elements of which remain today.
During this year at the Royal Academy, Sullivan continued to sing solos with the Chapel Royal, which provided a small amount of spending money.
She lost the style of Royal Highness but was allowed the style " Diana, Princess of Wales " and continued to be treated as a member of the Royal Family and was accorded the same precedence she enjoyed whilst being married to The Prince of Wales when accompanying her children, The Duke of Cambridge and Prince Harry, second and third in line, respectively, to the throne.
After Lausanne, the brothers were separated ; Albert Victor attended Trinity College, Cambridge, while George continued in the Royal Navy.
The jumpers were arrested shortly after, but continued with jumps in the US from the Golden Gate and Royal Gorge bridges, ( this last jump sponsored by and televised on the American programme That's Incredible ) spreading the concept worldwide.

Royal and use
`` This year, coach Royal told me if I'd work on my place-kicking he thought he could use me '', said Moritz.
* The Mackenzie building, and the use of the Mackenzie tartan by the bands at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario.
* 1958 – Final run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D. C., to New York City after 68 years, the first U. S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
In 1851, the Admiralty decided to use Welsh steam coal in ships of the Royal Navy, and this decision boosted the reputation of Aberdare's product and launched a huge international export market.
In 1796, during the French Revolution and three years after the declaration of war between France and Great Britain, Étienne-Gaspard Robert met with the French government and proposed the use of mirrors to burn the invading ships of the British Royal Navy.
* The Royal Netherlands Army's Korps Commandotroepen ( KCT ) use the original lyrics.
The council or trustees may apply for an Order in Council or Royal Licence to use the former borough coat of arms.
< http :// www. oed. com / view / Entry / 39766 >; accessed 20 March 2012 .</ ref > Other sources pre-date this use by nearly four decades to at least 1871, where it is used in The Journal of Mental Science reporting on a conference of the Fifth Quarterly Meeting of the Medico-Psychological Association ( now the Royal College of Psychiatrists ), held on Thursday, January 27th, 1870:
Thus, texts like the Annals will often state whether the calendar they use ( the calendar of Lu ) is in phase with the Royal calendar ( used by the Zhou kings ).
Because Guest's children are adopted, they cannot inherit the family barony under the terms of the letters patent that created it, though a 2004 Royal Warrant addressing the style of a peer's adopted children states that they can use courtesy titles.
In 1822, Charles Babbage proposed the use of such a machine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society on 14 June entitled " Note on the application of machinery to the computation of astronomical and mathematical tables ".
In contrast to other academic titles ( Professor, Associate Professor and Assistance Professor ), the use of Doctor as a title has not been recognized by the Royal Institute of Thailand.
There, he found people ready to use their influence for him, and he was made a member of the Royal Academy.
* HMS Enterprise, any of fifteen ships of the British Royal Navy ( four others did not use the HMS prefix )
File: Royal Coat of Arms of Greece. svg | Hercules as heraldic supporters in the royal arms of Greece, in use 1863 – 1973.
The system is somewhat analogous to a system of pennant numbers the Royal Navy and some European and Commonwealth navies ( 19 in total ) use.
The counties remain in use for some purposes, including the three-letter coding of vehicle number plates, the Royal Mail postcode address file ( which records counties in all addresses although they are no longer required for postcoded mail ) and Lord Lieutenancies ( for which the former county boroughs are also used ).
* 1895 – The inaugural run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D. C., to New York, New York, the first U. S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
The sailors of the Royal Canadian Navy also use the term ' kippers ' as a slang for members of the Royal Navy.
The Royal Americans represented an attempt to produce a more able soldier who was encouraged to use his initiative while retaining the discipline that was noticeably lacking in the irregular units of colonial Rangers that were being raised at the same time.
In accordance with the Constitution, the King ( as Supreme Commander ) used to " operate and use " the " Royal Nepal Army on the recommendation " of this council.
In 1930, Cecil George Paine, a pathologist at the Royal Infirmary in Sheffield, attempted to use penicillin to treat sycosis barbae, eruptions in beard follicles, but was unsuccessful, probably because the drug did not penetrate the skin deeply enough.
Plastic explosive is commonly used for the demolition of obstacles and fortifications by engineers and combat engineers, an early use being the warhead of the British Armoured Vehicle Royal Engineers's ( AVRE )' s ' Petard ' demolition mortar, used to destroy concrete fortifications encountered during Operation Overlord ( D-Day ).
In addition to ships of the Royal Navy, large commercial vessels, including ferries to France and Spain use the Sound from Millbay Docks.

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