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Napoleon was largely defeated in the Battle of the Nations outside Leipzig in October 1813, and was overwhelmed by much larger armies during the Six Days Campaign ( February 1814 ), although, the Six Days Campaign is often considered a tactical masterpiece because the allies suffered much higher casualties.
The area had been newly settled mostly by Anglo-American and other Loyalists from the Thirteen Colonies, as well as the Six Nations of the Iroquois, who had been allies during the war.
The Six Nations Championship, known for sponsorship reasons as the RBS 6 Nations, is an annual international rugby union competition involving six European sides: England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales.
The Six Nations is the successor to the Home Nations Championship ( 1883 – 1909 and 1932 – 39 ) and the Five Nations Championship ( 1910 – 31 and 1947 – 99 ).
The winners of the Six Nations Championship are also known as the European Champions.
The locations of the Six Nations participants
Six Nations Championship and Triple Crown Trophies
The winners of the Six Nations are presented with the Championship Trophy.
The Triple Crown may only be awarded to either England, Ireland, Scotland or Wales, and only when one nation wins all three of their matches against the other three, during the Six Nations Championship.
As of the upcoming 2013 competition, Six Nations matches will be held in the following stadia:
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** Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation, includes Seneca people in Southern Ontario
From this usage in the Romanticist Celtic Revival, Samhain is still popularly regarded as the " Celtic New Year " in the contemporary Celtic cultures, both in the Six Celtic Nations and the diaspora.
They were sponsored by the Oneida and accepted as one of the Six Nations in 1722.
Those Tuscarora who allied with the British in the American Revolution resettled with other Iroquois tribes in present-day Ontario, where they are part of the Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation.
* Tuscarora at Six Nations of the Grand River, Ontario, Canada
* Tuscarora and Six Nations Websites
* Six Nations of the Grand River
* Six Nations Of The Grand River Territory

Six and Championship
In the 1997 National League Championship Series, Brown, riddled with the flu, proceeded to pitch a complete game in Game Six, defeating the Atlanta Braves and helping the Marlins reach the World Series, which they eventually won over the Cleveland Indians.
* Grand Slam ( rugby union ), defeating all other teams in the Six Nations Championship ( or its predecessors ) during one year's competition
Six years after the men's nationals were first held, the first official U. S. Women's National Singles Championship was held at the Philadelphia Cricket Club in 1887, won by 17-year-old Philadelphian Ellen Hansell, accompanied by the U. S. Women's National Doubles Championship ( not held for the next two years ) and U. S. Mixed Doubles Championship ( not held in 1899 ).
On December 4, 2008 the Leeds High School Green Wave Football team won the Class 3A AHSAA State Football Championship and finishing the year 15-0, beating the Cordova Blue Devils in the Super Six Tournament at historic Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama.
On December 6, 2010 the Green Wave Football team won the Class 3A AHSAA State Football Championship and finishing the year 15-0, beating the Hamiton raiders in the Super Six Tournament on Pat Dye Field at Jordan Hare Stadium in Auburn, Alabama.
The former three teams compose the sport's elite, and between them have won six out of the seven Rugby World Cups, in addition to maintaining positive win records against all competitors of the Six Nations Championship.
While historically weaker, Argentina's level of play has equaled the stronger half of the Six Nations since the 2000s, and proved their worth in the Rugby Championship with a 16-16 draw to the Springboks in only their second test.
South Africa toured both nations in 1921 but there was never any formal competition between these teams, unlike the Home Nations ( now known as the Six Nations Championship ) in the Northern Hemisphere and the three nations only met sporadically.
The Welsh national rugby union team takes part in the annual Six Nations Championship and has also competed in every Rugby World Cup, hosting the tournament in 1999.
* 110th Six Nations Championship series is won by France who complete the Grand Slam
Six months later, Leonard successfully defended the WBC Super Middleweight Championship with a one-sided decision win over Roberto Duran, who had defeated Iran Barkley in his previous fight to win the WBC Middleweight Championship.
* 107th Six Nations Championship series is won by England

Six and Europe
Six weeks before the German invasion of Poland, Heschel left Warsaw for London with the help of Julian Morgenstern, president of Hebrew Union College, who had been working to obtain visas for Jewish scholars in Europe.
Six years into formal colonisation of the East Indies, in Europe the Dutch Republic was occupied by the French forces of Napoleon.
* Rainbow Six ( 1999 – 2000 )-events are based on the Sydney Olympics held in 2000, RAINBOW-an elite counter-terrorist force-is created and engages terrorists across Europe.
Europe after 1815 was on guard against a return of Jacobinism, and even liberal Britain saw the passage of the Six Acts in 1819, which proscribed radical activities.
Six days after the detonation over Nagasaki, on August 15, 1945, Japan announced its surrender to the Allied Powers, signing the Instrument of Surrender on September 2, 1945, officially ending the Pacific War and, therefore, World War II, as Germany had already signed its Instrument of Surrender on May 7, 1945, ending the war in Europe.
The endeavours of French president Charles de Gaulle to subordinate the institutions of the Six to an intergovernmental political structure, could count on strong opposition from Luns: such plans would, in his view, only serve French ambitions of a Europe independent of the United States.
Six Caravelle jetliners were introduced on all medium-haul routes in Europe from February 1961, being flown on most routes alongside the Convair 440s, until the early 1970s.
Because of Whig opposition, as well as calmer conditions in Europe, the Six Acts were eventually dropped.
Six Flags began vigorously expanding, attempting to branch out internationally, acquiring numerous properties across the country and overseas including the Walibi chain and historic Belgian park Bellewaerde in Europe, La Ronde in Canada, and Reino Aventura in Mexico.
Six Flags's nominal expansion into Europe saw a similar refurbishment of the Belgian Walibi attraction, both parks benefiting from the group's rights to use Warner Brothers characters within them, leading to the creation of a Looney Tunes-themed area and a powered-launch coaster themed around popular comic figure Superman, later changed to the Xpress.
The Heineken Cup ( known as the H Cup in France due to restrictions on alcohol sponsorship ) is one of two annual rugby union competitions organised by European Rugby Cup involving leading club, regional and provincial teams from the six International Rugby Board ( IRB ) countries in Europe whose national teams compete in the Six Nations Championship: England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales.
* History of The General or Six Principle Baptists in Europe and America by Richard Knight, ( Smith and Parmenter, 1827 )
* Richard Knight, History of The General or Six Principle Baptists in Europe and America, ( Smith and Parmenter, 1827 )
At the XXIV annual congress of the IWA, which was held in Brazil in December 2009, the first time the congress had been held outside Europe, motions of support were passed for the " Belgrade Six " and FAU while members of the Solidarity Federation temporarily took over duties as Secretariat.
Six cities in Europe are also destroyed ( Petrograd, Paris, Hamburg, London, Brighton, and Norwich ), and Germany and Austria eventually defeat their European adversaries and kill or overthrow their heads of state.
In amongst playing shows worldwide, including Indonesia, Russia, Hungary, Slovenia, Romania, Finland, Germany, Estonia and at the Obscene Extreme Festival in the Czech Republic, ENT recorded their next album, Law of Retaliation which was released in early 2009 by Osmose in Europe, MCR Company in Japan, and Deep Six Records in the US.
Inaugurated by Silviu Brucan's public criticism of the Braşov repression, and inspired by the impact of changes in other Eastern Bloc countries, protests of marginalized PCR activists became notorious after March 1989, when Brucan and Pîrvulescu, together with Gheorghe Apostol, Alexandru Bârlădeanu, Grigore Răceanu and Corneliu Mănescu, sent Ceauşescu their so-called Letter of the Six, publicized over Radio Free Europe.
Six women representing North America and South America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa decided to bring together their experiences in a united effort for peace with justice and equality.
Six composers from Northern Europe, ch.
Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Cossack, after the Cossack people of Eastern Europe, whilst another was begun but was cancelled while building:
Papoulias has been supportive of any step towards détente, peace and disarmament e. g. the " Initiative of the Six " for peace and disarmament, the participation of Greece in the Conference on Disarmament and Peace in Europe and in the Conference for the Abolition of Chemical Weapons, his proposals to create a nuclear-free zone in the Balkans and the promotion of the idea of making the Mediterranean a sea of peace and cooperation.
The so-called " Letter of the Six " was circulated in the Western media and read on Radio Free Europe, where it was described as the manifesto of an underground organisation called the National Salvation Front ( FSN ).
She remained active at the end of the British trad jazz boom, and became particularly popular in Northern Europe, playing with the Ted Easton Jazz Band and The Piccadilly Six.
Presently, the band is signed to Crammed ( Europe, Australasia, South America ) and Six Degrees Records ( North America ).

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