The Assyrians fought successfully against overwhelming numbers for a time, until their Russian allies left the war and the Armenian line broke.

The line would enable Russian oil arriving at the Bulgarian oil port of Burgas to reach Greece ’ s Mediterranean port at Alexandroupolis.

In 1882 the Imperial Russian Army converted all its line hussar and lancer regiments to dragoons, with an emphasis on mounted infantry training.

While Belarusian and Southern Russian form a continuous area, making it virtually impossible to draw a line between two languages.

Johnson also noted: " There's two elements in the music — an American funk line and a Russian line.

When the British again refused to accept the 49th parallel boundary proposal, Polk broke off negotiations and returned to the Democratic platform " All Oregon " demand ( which called for all of Oregon up to the 54-40 line that marked the southern boundary of Russian Alaska ).

Lesser Poland's territory was divided along the Vistula river line between Austrian Empire and Russian Empire during the Partitions of Poland.

Thus followed the line of Lomonosov and the contributions of the Russian school became more frequent through his disciples, and in the nineteenth century we have great geographers as Vasily Dokuchaev who performed works of great importance as a " principle of comprehensive analysis of the territory " and " Russian Chernozem " latter being the most important where introduces the geographical concept of soil, as distinct from a simple geological strata, and thus founding a new geographic area of study: the Pedology.

The state railway administration AFE has announced that starting January, 2010, 419 km of track will be renewed on the Pintado-Rivera section of the central main line and part of the international branch from Rivera to Santana do Livramento, using north of Chamberlain Russian rail given in lieu of a debt.

* October 24 – Napoleonic Wars – Battle of Maloyaroslavets: An inconclusive encounter between the French vanguard and a Russian force leads Napoleon to decide to retreat along the same line as his advance, with disastrous results.

The Russian style of dance emphasized extended line and speed, rather than difficult rhythmic footwork.

Fight for the flag between French line infantry and Imperial Guard ( Russia ) | Russian Guard cuirassier s at the battle of Austerlitz ( 1805 ).

Karol Skowroński, renamed Karel Samuilovich Skavronsky, was created a Count of the Russian Empire on 5 January 1727 and made a Chamberlain of the Imperial Court ; he had married Maria Ivanovna, a Russian woman, by whom he had descendants who became extinct in the male line in 1793.

It is also narrated from Meursault's first-person perspective and includes ( in Russian ) the line, " The cries of hate will be my reward / Upon my death, I will not be alone.

In order to generate business for his railroad, Hill encouraged European immigrants to settle along his line, often paying for Russian and Scandinavian settlers to travel from Europe.

In the Season One episode " The Carriers ," one of the villains reads a book whose title is the ( incorrect ) Russian Na Voina ( About War ); police vehicles are often labelled as such with words such as " poliiçia ", and " poIiia ", and a gas line or tank would be labelled " Gaz " which is a Romanian translation.

Besides the main network run by the Russian Railways, until December 2006 the local oil company ( Sakhalinmorneftegaz ) operated a corporate narrow-gauge ( 750 mm ) line extending for from Nogliki further north to Okha ( Узкоколейная железная дорога Оха — Ноглики ).

Guessing that the Russian armies would continue to operate separately, Hoffmann proposed moving almost all German forces not already in Königsberg's eastern defense line to the southwest, moving I Corps by train to the left of Samsonov's line, a distance of over.

Other Russian units were scattered back along the line to Königsberg, leaving the First Army itself in a dangerously spread-out position.

Eugène's son Maximilian de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg married into the Russian Imperial family, was granted the style of Imperial Highness and founded the Russian line of the Beauharnais family, while Eugene ` s daughter Joséphine, married King Oscar I of Sweden, the son of Napoléon's one-time fiancée, Désirée Clary.

To consolidate what her Navy had won, the Czarina was fortunate that, for the first time in Russian history, her land forces enjoyed absolute unity of command under her favorite Giaour.

Some people thought he lacked both ability and character, but most agreed that he was noble in appearance and, for a Russian, humane.

England contributed a young subaltern named Newton and the naval architect Samuel Bentham, brother to the economist, who for his colonel's commission was proving a godsend to the Russian fleet.

It was probably at this period that Littlepage got his first good look at the ordinary Russian soldier.

There was, it seems to me, enough in the openly declared principles and intentions of Russian leaders to alienate honorable men without their having to wait to see how it would turn out.

The reason was to speed up domestic production in the USSR, which Khrushchev promised upon grabbing power, and try to end the permanent recession in Russian living standards.

His visit to Warsaw, Poland, after the Russian journey in the summer of 1959 was expected to win the Polish vote which, in several cities, is substantial.

The weekly loss is partly counterbalanced by 500 arrivals each week from West Germany, but the hard truth, says Crossman, is that `` The closing off of East Berlin without interference from the West and with the use only of East German, as distinct from Russian, troops was a major Communist victory, which dealt West Berlin a deadly, possibly a fatal, blow.

By late afternoon the train inched into the marshaling yards in the railhead at Lublin, which was filled with lines of cars poised to pour the tools of war to the Russian front.

Once the full extent of this Russian military penetration of Cuba was clear, President Kennedy announced we would take whatever action was appropriate to prevent this, even if we had to go it alone.

Nevertheless, Prokofieff was much influenced by Paris during the Twenties: the Paris which was the artistic center of the Western World -- the social Paris to which Russian aristocracy migrated -- the chic Paris which attracted the tourist dollars of rich America -- the avant-garde Paris of Diaghileff, Stravinsky, Koussevitzky, Cocteau, Picasso -- the laissez-faire Paris of Dadaism and ultramodern art -- the Paris sympathique which took young composers to her bosom with such quick and easy enthusiasms.

The savage barbarian hordes of red Russian Communism descended on the Athens that was mighty Metronome, sacking and despoiling with their Bolshevistic battle cry of `` Soak the rich '!!

She did not go so far as to say, as was done on other occasions, that Abstraction as well as Impressionism were a Russian invention that had been discarded as unwanted by the people of the U.S.S.R.

To everyone's astonishment he seemed no more like the run-of-the-mine Russian ambassador than George Babbitt was like Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov.

At the State Department, hard-bitten Russian experts complained that the Capitol was out of its wits.

Russian tanks and artillery parading through the streets of Havana, Russian intrigue in the Congo, and Russian arms drops in Laos ( using the same Ilyushin transports that were used to carry Communist agents to the Congo ) made it plain once more that the cold war was all of a piece in space and time.

Since Russian was being spoken instead of Spanish, there is no violation of artistry or logic here.

The second half of her program was devoted to Russian composers of this century.

The name " Alaska " ( Аляска ) was already introduced in the Russian colonial period, when it was used only for the peninsula and is derived from the Aleut alaxsxaq, meaning " the mainland " or, more literally, " the object towards which the action of the sea is directed ".

As a simple, cheap and reliable device, the Russian abacus was in use in all shops and markets throughout the former Soviet Union, and the usage of it was taught in most schools until the 1990s.

Disposal of waste by simply dumping it at the shoreline such as here at the Russian Bellingshausen Island | Bellingshausen base is no longer permitted by the Protocol on Environmental Protection

It was crossed as well with the Russian Laika specifically and singularly to add resistance against Northern cold and a longer and thicker coat than the Southern sighthounds were equipped with.

In the Imperial Russian Army, due to the availability of the cossack troops, the dragoons were retained in their original role for much longer.

However, in the 1850s Bismarck correctly foresaw that by failing to support Russia ( after Russian help in crushing the Hungarian Revolt in 1849, and at Olmütz in 1850, the Austrian leader Schwarzenberg had said that " Austria would astonish the world by the depth of her ingratitude ") Austria could no longer count on Russian support in Italy and Germany, and had thus exposed herself to attack by France and Prussia.

According to its architect, Secretary of Defense Harold Brown, " countervailing strategy " stressed that the planned response to a Soviet attack was no longer to bomb Russian population centers and cities primarily, but first to kill the Soviet leadership, then attack military targets, in the hope of a Russian surrender before total destruction of the USSR ( and the United States ).

The Russian reaction was strong, and the Russian Foreign Ministry announced that Bildt was no longer considered welcome in Moscow.

By July 1729 the two vessels were back at Okhotsk, where they were moored alongside the Vostok ; the party, no longer needing to carry shipbuilding materials made good time on the return journey from Okhotsk, and by 28 February 1730 Bering was back in the Russian capital.

Then, however, the Darwaz extension northwards was exchanged for the Russian Pamir extension westwards, and the river throughout became the boundary between Russian and Afghan territory ; the political boundaries of those provinces and those of Wakhan were no longer coincident with their geographical limits.

The Arctic Bridge shipping route is hoped to link North America to market s in Europe and Asia using ice-free routes across the Arctic OceanThe longer periods of ice-free navigation and the reduction of Arctic Ocean ice coverage have led to Russian and Canadian interest in the potential for commercial trade routes across the Arctic and into Hudson Bay.

The Russian bandy skates have an even longer blade and a very low cut shoe.

At the beginning of 1998 the business was bought by private Russian interests and it is no longer a State Company.

The Second Overture on Russian Themes shows an increased sophistication as Balakirev utilizes Beethoven's technique of deriving short motifs from longer themes so that those motifs can be combined into a convincing contrapuntal fabric.

" In short, the Tsar no longer had the support of the military, the nobility or the Duma ( collectively the élites ), at the same time as the legitimacy of the monarchy with the Russian people was at a low ebb.

Russian army and interior ministry troops no longer occupy the streets.

Since no Kalmuks lived there any longer the Soviet authorities changed the names of towns and villages from Kalmyk names to Russian names.

* Black Eagle tank ( prototype: cancelled ): Several Russian prototypes shown at trade shows, with a longer chassis and extra pair of road wheels, and very large turret with separate ammunition compartment.

The law is an attempt to amend a situation where up to a third of the ethnic Abkhaz population are no longer capable of speaking their own language, and even more are unable to read or write it ; instead, Russian is the language most commonly used in public life at present.

It was slightly bigger in aperture and several metres longer than the new ( 1895 ) 30 inch at Pulkovo observatory in the Russian Empire.

For six years longer the Russian Orthodoxy remained without a patriarch.