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On his arrival at Ephesus a three months ' truce was concluded with Tissaphernes, the satrap of Lydia and Caria, but negotiations conducted during that time proved fruitless, and on its termination Agesilaus raided Phrygia, where he easily won immense booty from the satrap Pharnabazus ; Tissaphernes could offer no assistance, as he had concentrated his troops in Caria.
The earliest known sound recording of Advance Australia Fair appears in " The Landing of the Australian Troops in Egypt ", circa 1916, a short commercial recording dramatising arrival of the Australian troops in Egypt en route to Gallipoli.
But on his arrival, all was chaos – " Scarcely had my troops got over when the dragoons and Swiss who had preceded us, came tumbling down upon my battalions in full flight … My own fellows turned about and fled along with them.
The Gibraltar wall was damaged, but French troops refused to go on until the arrival of de Tessé ( who arrived the day after ).
The arrival of the troops of the Kumpany Bahadur in 1839 spawned the foundation of the new section, the military cantonment.
In 1674 discontented settlers and troops seized Richard Keigwin ( 1673 – 1674 ), the next acting governor ; it was only the lucky arrival of an East India Company fleet under the command of Captain William Basse that freed Keigwin.
* " Cortez the Killer ," a song by Neil Young, talks about the arrival of the Cortez's troops and the massacre that ensues.
French and English conscripts were sent to fight in the Aleutian Islands in 1943 – technically North American soil and therefore not " overseas " – but the mix of Canadian volunteers and draftees found that the Japanese troops had fled before their arrival.
Yusuf ibn Tashfin besieges Aledo but is forced to retreat by the arrival on the scene of the troops of King Alfonso of Leon and Castile.
* In Italy, the siege of Brescia by the condottieri troops of Niccolò Piccinino is raised after the arrival of Scaramuccia da Forlì.
* In Italy, the siege of Cremona by the condottieri troops of Francesco Piccinino and Luigi dal Verme is raised after the arrival of Scaramuccia da Forlì.
Finding on arrival that the British troops already in South Africa were under siege, he split his army corps into several widely spread detachments, to relieve the besieged garrisons.
The Tibetan scholar Tsepon W. D. Shakabpa believes that the tradition is in error and that " those histories reporting the arrival of Chinese troops are not correct " and claims that the event is mentioned neither in the Chinese annals nor in the manuscripts of Dunhuang.
At the time of Johanna's arrival, however, Weimar was on the brink of a war against France: French military troops commanded by Napoleon were heading to the city, and combat broke out shortly after Johanna and Adele's arrival.
The arrival of a force of British troops helped Portugal, blocking the Spanish advance and driving them back across the border following the Battle of Valencia de Alcántara.
After November 1942 and the arrival of Italian troops occupying the city, a certain ambivalence remained among the population, many recent immigrants of Italian ancestry.
The Tripartite Pact was subsequently joined by Hungary ( November 20, 1940 ), Romania ( November 23, 1940 ), Slovakia ( November 24, 1940 ), Bulgaria ( March 1, 1941, prior to the arrival of German troops ), Yugoslavia ( March 25, 1941 ), and Croatia ( June 15, 1941 ).
Despite the arrival of UN troops, unrest continued.
In AD 215 Caracalla savagely responded to this insult by slaughtering the deputation of leading citizens who had unsuspectingly assembled before the city to greet his arrival, and then unleashed his troops for several days of looting and plunder in Alexandria.
Among these engravings are a depiction of the arrival of British troops in 1768 ( which he termed " an insolent parade ") and a famous depiction of the March 1770 Boston Massacre ( see illustration ).
Valerian headed south, but was too late: Gallus's own troops had killed him and joined Aemilianus before his arrival.
Major hostilities began with the arrival of a naval squadron under Mahé de la Bourdonnais, carrying troops from France.
With the arrival of a naval squadron under Admiral Boscawen, carrying troops and artillery, the British went on the offensive, laying siege to Pondicherry.

arrival and on
Miriam had not yet goaded him into mentioning her directly, but one can feel the generalized anger in Wright's remarks to reporters when he was asked, one morning on arrival in Chicago, what he thought of the city as a whole.
`` All you have to do, Ilka dear, is to phone on your arrival.
The Government of India agrees to furnish, upon request of the United States of America, information on the progress of the program, particularly with respect to the arrival and condition of commodities and the provisions for the maintenance of usual marketings, and information relating to exports of the same or like commodities.
For those who plan to travel to Europe by one route and return by another some agencies offer a service whereby you can pick up a car in one city on arrival and leave it in another city, or even another country, when you are ready to return home.
It is on them alone that the future of their race depends, for all their relatives ( mothers, husbands, brothers, and unmated sisters ) have perished with the arrival of the cold weather.
The victim Darnell Somerville, Negro, 1, was pronounced dead on arrival at Anne Arundel General Hospital in Annapolis.
`` 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.
But what would give a particular boom, it was the arrival on the music scene such as Hadj Brahim talented performers, said Khaled, Cheb Mami, Cheb Hasni, Faudel, Rachid Taha, Raina Rai, Reda Taliani, Cheb Anouar, Cheb Bilal, Cheb Abdou or even Cheba Djenet and Cheba Zahouania a.
Bragg at least calmed the nerves of Beauregard and Polk who had become agitated by their apparent dire situation in the face of numerically superior forces before the arrival of Johnston on March 24, 1862.
Adelaide's early economy started to get on its feet in 1838 with the arrival of livestock from New South Wales and Tasmania.
After his arrival, Hasan Ali Shah wrote to Sir William Macnaghten, discussing his plans to seize and govern Herat on behalf of the British.
" Biographer Trefousse indicates that Johnson's drinking on the occasion was the result of ill health which began before his arrival in Washington, though the exact nature of the ailment is not specified.
On arrival at the supreme Mongol court — either that on the Imyl river ( near Lake Alakol and the present Russo-Chinese frontier in the Altay ), or more probably at or near Karakorum itself, south-west of Lake Baikal — Andrew found Güyük Khan dead, poisoned, as the envoy supposed, by Batu Khan's agents.
His arrival in Rome, on 28 December 1780, marks a new era in his life.
Paul carries him back to camp on his back, only to discover upon their arrival that a stray splinter had hit Kat in the back of the head and killed him on the way.
The arrival of the Second and Third Fleets placed new pressures on the scarce local resources, but by the time Phillip sailed home in December 1792, the colony was taking shape, with official land-grants and systematic farming and water-supply.
During a storm encountered in the course of the voyage, the convicts assisted in working the ship and, on arrival at Colonia, Phillip recommended that they be rewarded for saving the ship by remission of their sentences.
The Emerson version of the console was essentially considered dead on arrival in the USA.
Many of his half-brothers were imprisoned on their arrival in the capital for the purpose, ironically, of electing a new shah.
By " time-gating " the detector for the arrival of a particular species of interest its crystallographic distribution on the surface, and as a function of depth, can be determined.
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.
For the period prior to Augustine's arrival in 597, Bede drew on earlier writers, including Solinus.

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