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chosen and invasion
The Pas de Calais offered a number of advantages over the chosen invasion site, such as the shortest crossing of the English Channel and the quickest route into Germany.
Leonidas was chosen to lead the combined Greek forces determined to resist the Persian invasion in 481 BC.
During World War II, the island was chosen by the Allied command as the site for training amphibious invasion forces.
Burgoyne's invasion plan from Quebec had two components: he would lead the main force of about 8, 000 men along Lake Champlain towards Albany while a second column of about 2, 000 men ( which Barry St. Leger was chosen to lead ), would move down the Mohawk River valley in a strategic diversion.
Once Normandy had been chosen as the site of the invasion it was decided that a major deception would be employed to mislead the Germans into thinking it a diversionary tactic.
The Pas de Calais offered a number of advantages over the chosen invasion site, such as the shortest crossing of the English Channel and the quickest route into Germany.
Following the appointment of General Bernard Montgomery to the command of the 21st Army Group, the plan underwent a number of further revisions, and on 21 January 1944 a revised Overlord plan was presented to General Dwight D. Eisenhower, who had been chosen as the Supreme Allied Commander for the invasion.
The British 6th Airborne Division, which was under the command of Major-General Richard Gale, was chosen to conduct airborne operations on the eastern flank of the invasion area.
The Spanish garrisons, along with a number of priests and their chosen local people, evacuated and returned to fort Cavite to help defend Manila Intramuros from a threatened invasion by Chinese pirate Koxinga, which never happened.
James Douglas was sworn in as the new colony's first governor in Fort Langley, but New Westminster was chosen as the capital, as Fort Langley was less defensible from an American invasion.
The unit chosen for conversion into the Light Tank Squadron was ' C ' Special Services Squadron, which had seen service as an independent tank unit during Operation Ironclad, the invasion of Madagascar in mid-1942.
The spot was also chosen by allied German and Bulgarian troops for their invasion of Romania.
A staunchly opposed Yi was chosen to lead the invasion ; however, at Wihwa Island on the Amrok River, he made a momentous decision, commonly called " Turning back the army from Wihwa Island ", that would alter the course of Korean history.
During the Dark Reign storyline, Taskmaster is chosen to lead the Shadow Initiative after the Skrull invasion, with their first mission to take down Hardball's HYDRA cell in Madripoor.
Nightwolf debuts in Mortal Kombat 3 as a Native American shaman who is also one of the chosen warriors of Earthrealm during Shao Kahn's invasion.
Strategic sites were chosen protecting possible landing points of an invasion.
An invasion is either randomly chosen or can be summoned by a Toon as a reward for defeating the C. J.
It was transferred to Hawaii and remained there for 1½ years before being chosen by Lt. Gen. Robert C. Richardson, Jr., the U. S. Army Commanding General in the Central Pacific, to take part in the Gilbert Islands invasion.
Also deployed along this portion of the front, though not chosen to participate in the invasion, were five infantry divisions that were under orders to remain in their defensive positions along the border.
Acuña-Soto noticed that previous historians using the same reference works that he used had chosen which accounts to base their results on, so that epidemic illnesses coinciding with the Spanish invasion could, by selectively using resources, look like accounts of European-caused smallpox.
This song cannot be chosen normally, but plays on the jukebox during the alien invasion in the same level.
Scott was chosen to serve under St. Clair as commander of the 1, 000 militiamen who took part in the invasion, about one-third of the total force.
The 13th Brigade was chosen to participate in the invasion of Kiska, comprising, in addition to Le Régiment de Hull, the Canadian Fusiliers, the Winnipeg Grenadiers and the Rocky Mountain Rangers.
Stasey was chosen to star in the movie adaption of the teen novel, Tomorrow, When the War Began as the lead character Ellie Linton, a teenage girl who documents her time with a group of friends fighting the invasion of Australia ( Stewart Jones ).

chosen and sites
From a variety of sites which were offered, Shrum recommended to the provincial government that the summit of Burnaby Mountain, 365 meters above sea level, be chosen for the new university.
After orbiting Mars for more than a month and returning images used for landing site selection, the orbiters and landers detached ; the landers then entered the Martian atmosphere and soft-landed at the sites that had been chosen.
The military approach of the Nizari Ismaili state was largely a defensive one, with strategically chosen sites that appeared to avoid confrontation wherever possible without the loss of life.
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Nizhny Novgorod has also been chosen as one of four sites for building an IT-oriented technology park — a special zone that has an established infrastructure and enjoys a favorable tax and customs policy.
Excavations at nearby Traprain Law, Dunsapie Hill, Duddingston and Inveresk had revealed relatively large settlements and it was supposed that these sites had, for some reason, been chosen in preference to the Castle Rock.
The sites chosen were the Elisha Sharp House ( also known as the Sharp-Wasson-Worth House, c. 1825 ), the Stewart House ( 1830 ), the R. H. Johnson Stable, the Mount Zion church and Cemetery ( 1830 ), Zeigler's Mill ( 1850, previously Gettys Mill ), the Washington Ferry ( 1808 ), the Pisah Church ( 1818 ), the old gymnasium ( c. 1822 ), the old Meigs County Courthouse ( 1904 ), the old Volunteer Electric Cooperative BUilding ( 1935 ), the Ashley House ( 1885 ), and the Sam Eaves Store ( c. 1861 ).
In January 1956, a select committee was formed that examined more than 200 potential sites before Camp Cooke was chosen, essentially for the same characteristics the Army found desirable in 1941.
The site was chosen as part of a design-and-build competition against other sites at Haymarket and Marionville.
As of 1963, sites in the following cities had also been chosen for future temples:
Roost sites are usually chosen close to a dump site or other suitable foraging area.
The military approach of the Nizari Ismaili state was largely a defensive one, with strategically chosen sites that appeared to avoid confrontation wherever possible without the loss of life.
Nesting sites may be chosen near aggressive species such as drongos, shrikes or friarbirds, which confer a degree of protection.
In modern times these sites are sometimes chosen for the water amenity or view, but many such locations are prone to storm damage.
Since prehistory humans have chosen certain spit formations as sites for human habitation.
In some cases such as Chumash Native American prehistorical settlement, these sites have been chosen for proximity to marine resource exploitation ; for example, the Chumash settlement on the Morro Bay sandspit is one such location.
After evaluating possible sites, a location near Butter Point was chosen.
There are a few sites in the brain that can be targeted to achieve differing results, so each patient must be assessed individually, and a site will be chosen based on their needs.
The current site that was chosen for the Baltimore Civic Center was actually not one of the many sites proposed to the Greater Baltimore Committee in 1955.
The sites of Perth and Fremantle were chosen on his recommendation, and he was responsible for laying out the towns.
Others though have chosen to enclose their games in heavily policed copyright or Intellectual Property regimes ( IPR ) and close down sites that they see as infringing their ownership of a game.
Haywood was one of the sites considered in 1792 as a possible location for North Carolina's new capital, although Raleigh was ultimately chosen.
Thirty-three potential sites for the factory were examined, with Burton Latimer in Northamptonshire eventually being chosen, due in part to the offer of a disused flour mill by a Mr. George, who requested shares in the Company and who was subsequently offered a seat on the existing Board of Directors.
The site was chosen due to its remote location, and hence easy access to potential landfill sites which would be undisturbed by the majority of the public.

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