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The day Stockton was captured, General William Howe had written a Proclamation offering protection papers and a full and free pardon to those willing to remain in peaceable obedience to the King.
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The Stockton Police obtained a warrant and dug up the body of Lauren Willett around 5 a. m. the following day.
Excavations of the large Roman industrial settlement in the suburbs of modern day Wilderspool and Stockton Heath have unearthed a Roman mask, one of only a handful found in Europe, and the first evidence of this settlement was unearthed during the early excavation of the Bridgewater Canal in Stockton Heath in 1770.
Twelve trains a day run between its southern terminus at Bakersfield and Stockton, where the route splits to Oakland ( four trains each way a day ) or Sacramento ( two trains each way a day ).
When Martin was discharged from duty when the Continental Army disbanded in October 1783, he taught in New York state for a year, and eventually settled on Maine's frontier, becoming one of the founders of the town of Prospect, near modern day Stockton Springs.
The first one was a leak of hexavalent chromium from its ammonium nitrate plant near Stockton that effected 70 households, the second one was the release of Arsenic into the Hunter River at Newcastle, the third was of mercury vapours from its Botany site, the fourth was a leak of ammonia from their site at Kooragang Island the fifth was an ammonium nitrate leak of 20, 000 litres at their Kooragang Island plant, only a day after being allowed to reopen and the sixth incident was a sulphuric acid leak of approximately 3000 to 4000 litres at their Port Kembla site.
Stockton and Kearny stayed on the field overnight and resumed the pursuit the next day, thinking to overwhelm Flores ' troops in the Battle of La Mesa, at the confluence of the San Gabriel and Los Angeles Rivers in present day Vernon.
The San Joaquin operates twelve trains ( six in each direction ) each day between Bakersfield and Stockton.
The A66 is a two lane dual carriageway that runs between Stockton on Tees and Darlington, around 32, 000 vehicles pass through it every day.
The road continued eastward on present day US 67 into Fort Stockton, then followed present-day I-10 through Ozona and Sonora.
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The Gap looming before him -- the place where had confronted Jack English on that day so many years ago -- was his exit from all that had meaning to him.
It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.
That was the day that he had practically mopped up the main street of Big Sands with Aaron McBride, field boss for the Highlands Oil & Gas Company.
While five minutes ago the place had presented a scene of easy revelry, with Gyp Carmer a prominent figure, it was now as somnolent and dull as the day before payday.
For several weeks we eyed one another almost like sparring partners, and then one day Uncle was slightly indisposed and stayed home ; ;
As we expected, on the following day my Uncle was completely recovered and opened the store as usual at 10 in the morning.
Once ( this was on the third day of school ) she kneeled down to pick up some books where they'd dropped on the floor and Jack looked up her dress -- at the bare expanse of incredibly white leg.
Jack walked off alone out the road in the searing midday sun, past Robert Allen's three-room, tarpapered house, toward the field where the other boys were playing ball, thinking of what he would do in order to make Miss Langford have him stay in after school -- because this was the day he had decided when he thought he saw the look in her eyes.
The Rule of Law, historically a principle according everyone his `` day in court '' before an impartial tribunal, was broadened substantively by making it a responsibility of government to promote individual welfare.
My curiosity was sharpened a day or two before the interview by a conversation I had with a well-informed teacher of literature, a Jesuit father, at a conference on religious drama near Paris.
This conference was held despite Stavropoulos' assurance to Adolf Berle, who was leaving the same day for Puerto Rico, that nothing would be done until his return on January 22, except that the Secretary General would probably order the list destroyed.
It was said that the Hetman plotted to take over the entire Hearst newspaper empire one day by means of various coups: the destruction of editors who tried to halt his course, the unfrocking of publishers whose mistakes of judgment might be magnified in secret reports to Mr. Hearst.
One day he assigned me to lay bare a `` plot '' by the Duponts to supply munitions to a wholly fictitious revolution he said was about to occur in Cuba.
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Eight hundred and sixty-five Rebels surrendered within their works and a thousand more were captured or surrendered themselves that night and the next day.
The latter fell after a violent fight, leaving the road open to the major city and provincial capital of Málaga, which he captured after one day.
At the Battle of Jena-Auerstedt on October 14, 1806 – when Napoleon invaded Prussia and defeated the massed Prussian-Saxon army commanded by Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick – he was captured, one of the 25, 000 prisoners captured that day as the Prussian army disintegrated.
In " A Witch Shall be Born ", Conan fights armed men until he is overwhelmed, captured, and crucified, and goes a night and a day without water, but still possesses the strength to pull the nails from his feet, then to hoist himself into a horse's saddle and ride ten miles.
In 17th and 18th century, king Louis XIV of France captured more French-speaking areas in southern Flanders around Lille, referred to as Lilloise Flanders or la Flandre Lilloise, but also Maritime Flanders, where originally Dutch was spoken, and to this day, a Flemish dialect persists in some rural areas near Dunkirk.
By early afternoon, the feature was captured and was then held against a series of Axis counter-attacks throughout the day.
Durrës was captured on 7 April, Tirana the following day, Shkodër and Gjirokastër on 9 April, and almost the entire country by 10 April.
He was nearly captured and lost his signature plumed hat and cloak to pursuing Federals during a raid in August, but in a retaliatory raid at Catlett's Station the following day, managed to overrun Union army commander Maj. Gen. John Pope's headquarters, and not only captured Pope's full uniform, but also intercepted orders that provided Lee with valuable intelligence concerning reinforcements for Pope's army.
On April 17, 1950 ( 25 years to the day before the Khmer Rouge captured Phnom Penh ), the first nationwide congress of the Khmer Issarak groups convened, and the United Issarak Front was established.
* 1836 – Texas Revolution: Battle of the Alamo – After a thirteen day siege by an army of 3, 000 Mexican troops, the 187 Texas volunteers, including frontiersman Davy Crockett and colonel Jim Bowie, defending the Alamo are killed and the fort is captured.
* 1967 – A day after being captured, Marxist revolutionary Ernesto " Che " Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia.
The following day, the Winter Palace ( the seat of the Provisional government located in Petrograd, then capital of Russia ), was captured.
Asmodeus, king of demons, was one day, according to the classical Rabbis, captured by Benaiah using the ring, and was forced to remain in Solomon's service.
General Montgomery's Eighth Army captured Syracuse on the first day of the invasion almost unopposed.
* October 4 – Leaders of the Second Cornish Uprising surrender to the King at Taunton ; the following day, Warbeck, having deserted his army, is captured at Beaulieu Abbey in Hampshire.
Acoli was captured after a 36-hour manhunt — involving 400 people, state police helicopters, and bloodhounds from the Ocean County Sheriff's Department — the following day.
The international force finally captured Tianjin on 14 July under the command of the Japanese Colonel Kuriya, after one day of fighting.
Here the British line had not progressed significantly since the first day of the battle, and the two armies were in echelon, making progress impossible until the villages were captured.
The captured German was alleged to be Sturmbannführer Helmut Kämpfe, commander of the 2nd SS Panzer Reconnaissance Battalion ( another unit of the " Das Reich " division ), who may have been captured by the Maquis the day before.
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