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arrival and British
`` Much of the navy's future depends upon her '', an American naval announcement said on the Skipjack's first arrival in British waters in August, 1959, for exhibition to selected high officers at Portland underwater research station.
After his arrival, Hasan Ali Shah wrote to Sir William Macnaghten, discussing his plans to seize and govern Herat on behalf of the British.
Before the arrival of the British, Rajputs, Jats, the Kathats, Cheetas and Rawat Rajputs were land-holders, as well as cultivators.
Although he still wore a standard British officer's cap on arrival in the desert, he briefly wore an Australian broad-brimmed hat before switching to wearing the black beret ( with the badge of the Royal Tank Regiment next to the British General Officer's badge ) for which he became notable.
The Boer quest for independence manifested in a tradition of declaring republics, which predates the arrival of the British ; when the British arrived, Boer republics had already been declared and were in rebellion from the VOC ( Dutch East India Company ).
The fort was partially overrun after a month-long siege, but the attackers were ultimately repelled after the arrival of British reinforcements from Halifax.
On May 14, following the arrival of 100 men recruited by Arnold's captains, and the arrival of a schooner and some bateaux that had been taken at Skenesboro, Arnold and 50 of his men sailed north to raid Fort St. John, on the Richelieu River downstream from the lake, where a small British warship was reported by the prisoners to be anchored.
On the arrival of a British ILP Contingent about three weeks later, Orwell and the other English militiaman, Williams, were sent with them to Monte Oscuro.
He created a storm in the British press soon after his arrival by suggesting that the two countries might find common ground opposing communism's spread: The Führer is convinced that there is only one real danger to Europe and to the British Empire as well, and that is the spreading further of communism, this most terrible of all diseases-terrible because people generally seem to realize its danger only when it is too late.
Imperial Germany set up a protectorate over the Sultan of Zanzibar's coastal possessions in 1885, followed by the arrival of Sir William Mackinnon's British East Africa Company ( BEAC ) in 1888, after the company had received a royal charter and concessionary rights to the Kenya coast from the Sultan of Zanzibar for a 50-year period.
Meanwhile, the investigation into the British Embassy leak was still ongoing, and the stress of it was exacerbated by the arrival in Washington, in October 1950, of Guy Burgess – Philby's unstable, dangerously alcoholic, and flamboyantly homosexual Cambridge colleague and fellow Soviet spy.
The Brahui Khans of Qalat were dominant from the 17th century onwards until the arrival of the British in the 19th century.
* 1776 – American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Fort Cumberland, Nova Scotia comes to an end with the arrival of British reinforcements.
Persian naval forces laid the foundation for a strong Persian maritime presence in Persian Gulf, that started with Darius I and existed until the arrival of the British East India Company, and the Royal Navy by mid-19th century AD.
The arrival of a French fleet forced the British to scuttle their own ships, rather than surrender them to the French.
On arrival in the British Isles, Benaud quickly made an impression with both bat and ball.
Contact with Europeans began in the early 18th century but did not intensify until the arrival of the British.
At this time, the last remaining vestiges of civilization are gone, and Ralph's demise is only prevented by the abrupt and unexpected arrival of a naval officer, who is disappointed by the savage nature of the British boys.
The arrival of the Cold War also emphasised to British military planners the need to modernise UK forces.
* On May 24, 1976, supersonic air travel between Dulles and Europe began with the arrival of a British Airways Concorde from London and an Air France Concorde from Paris.

arrival and immediately
Actually, the Dominican brothers likely began a school immediately after their arrival, as priories were legally schools.
Archaeological evidence shows that Senecio had been rebuilding the defences of Hadrian's Wall and the forts beyond it, and Severus ' arrival in Britain prompted the enemy tribes to sue for peace immediately.
His arrival immediately restored the predominance of the war party, which placed him in command of a combined force of African levies and his mercenaries from Italy.
The importation began almost immediately upon the arrival of Europeans to the region.
Conrad's unexpected arrival encouraged the warriors so much that they wished to attack the enemy immediately.
Upon her arrival in Bath she is without acquaintance, leading her to immediately form a quick friendship with Catherine Morland.
James's support began to dissolve almost immediately upon William's arrival ; Protestant officers defected from the English army ( the most notable of whom was Lord Churchill of Eyemouth, James's most able commander ), and influential noblemen across the country declared their support for the invader.
The French army commanded by Philip VI was unrested and commenced fighting immediately after their arrival, rather than gathering their strength for a battle the next day.
On her arrival she immediately has a confrontation with the hard-boiled construction superintendent, who hadn't realized she was female.
The U. S. Army often recruited Irishmen and other immigrants into military service shortly or sometimes immediately on arrival.
On his arrival in Britain, he immediately turned himself in to British intelligence.
Alas, immediately after his arrival a dead body turns up in the library, the room is sealed off, and Rhodenbarr has to track down the murderer before he can enter the library again and start hunting for the precious book.
While most of the county did not immediately benefit from the railroad, Green River, on the eastern edge of Emery County boomed almost overnight following arrival of the rails.
Snorri continues that, upon arrival in Vanaheimr, Hœnir was immediately made chief and Mímir often gave him good counsel.
In far antiquity the Fir Bolg were the rulers of Ireland ( at the time called Ériu ) immediately before the arrival of the Tuatha Dé Danann, or the Children of Danu, whom many interpret as the Gaelic gods.
They were forced into the position ; in most cases they were inducted immediately upon arrival at the camp, and were not given any advance notice of the tasks they would have to perform.
When the call arrives at the PSAP, special computer software is used to display the location of the caller immediately upon arrival of the call.
However, upon arrival in St. Louis, Santos-Dumont found his airship ’ s gas bag to be irreparably damaged: sabotage, although suspected, was never proven, and Santos-Dumont did not participate in the contest after suspicion of the deed, a repeat of a similar incident in Boston, began to focus somewhat absurdly on Santos-Dumont himself, and he indignantly left the Fair and returned immediately to France.
Almost immediately upon his arrival, Lancelot falls in love with the Queen, and one of his very first adventures is rescuing Guinevere from Arthur's enemy, Meleagant ( however, in Le Morte D ' Arthur, this rescue takes place after the adventures of the Sangreal ).
In Central America intermixing and intermarriages between European men and the indigenous women in Cuzcatlán or what is now El Salvador happened almost immediately after the arrival of the European Spanish led by Pedro de Alvarado.
With the arrival of talkies Pickford immediately took to the new medium, being one of the first major stars to do so.
Following the trial, Iva's husband, who had been arrested and put on parole immediately upon his arrival in the U. S. to be a witness for the defense, was required by law to return to Japan.
On the beach immediately after their arrival, Block encounters Death ( Bengt Ekerot ), personified as a pale, black-cowled figure resembling a monk.
In 1923, shortly after their arrival in Paris, Caresse introduced Harry to her friend Constance Coolidge, also a Boston Brahmin, an American expatriate and French countess, with whom he immediately began an open sexual relationship.

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