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In the third and final phase, beginning in March 1900, the Boers launched a protracted hard-fought guerrilla war against the British forces, lasting a further two years, during which the Boers raided targets such as British troop columns, telegraph sites, railways and storage depots.
Dependable generals with the usual military virtue, or careful and exact troop leaders like Soult and Macdonald, are kept under Napoleon's own hand for the final assault which he himself launched ; the long hours of preparatory fighting against odds of two to one, which alone made the final blow possible, he entrusted only to men of extraordinary courage and high capacity for command.
The final sequence depicts a troop of chimpanzees displaying strategy and co-ordination as it successfully pursues colobus monkeys through a forest in the Ivory Coast.
The final Black Buck mission ( XM607 flown by Flight Lieutenant Martin Withers ) was against Argentine troop positions close to Stanley on 12 June, cratering the eastern end of the airfield and causing widespread damage to airfield stores and facilities.
The final legal inquiry into the disaster was held on 4 November 1915 in Dumfries and was an inquiry under the Fatal Accidents Inquiry ( Scotland ) Act 1895 into the deaths of the crew of the troop train.
Some soldiers of this troop had gone to Italy to fetch the final pay to their comrades, and no one knew that the barbarians had slain them on the way.
By crossing the Caen-Bayeux railway line the troop became somewhat fortuitously " the only unit of the allied invasion forces known to reach its final objective on D-Day.

final and withdrawal
His final years were largely spent in deliberate withdrawal.
The formal and final transfer of the Strip from Libya to Chad took place on 30 May, when the sides signed a joint declaration stating that the Libyan withdrawal had been effected.
* 1150 BC: final Egyptian withdrawal from southern Canaan.
* 13 June 1956 — Suez Canal Zone is restored to Egyptian sovereignty, following final British withdrawal and years of negotiations.
The treaty marked Russia's final withdrawal from World War I as an enemy of her co-signatories, on unexpectedly humiliating terms.
Alfred was reduced to taking refuge with a small band of followers in the marshes of the Somerset Levels, but after a few months he was able to gather an army and defeated the Danes at the Battle of Edington, bringing about their final withdrawal from Wessex to settle in East Anglia.
Nasser's final terms were decisive and non-negotiable: “ a plebiscite, the dissolution of parties, and the withdrawal of the army from politics ”.
They focus on the operative phrase calling for " secure and recognized boundaries " and note that the resolution calls for a withdrawal " from territories " rather than " from the territories " or " from all territories ," as the Arabs and others proposed ; the latter two terms were rejected from the final draft of Resolution 242.
It is notable that Sweden reached the final four having won only one match ( as a result of Austria's withdrawal from the first round ): the only time this has happened in a World Cup.
The supposed final withdrawal of Roman forces around 410 is unlikely to have been of military impact on the Damnonii, although the withdrawal of pay from the residual Wall garrison will have had a very considerable economic effect.
The defeat of the superior fleet of Licinius in the Battle of the Hellespont by Crispus, Constantine ’ s eldest son and Caesar, compelled his withdrawal to Bithynia, where a last stand was made ; the Battle of Chrysopolis, near Chalcedon ( September 18 ), resulted in Licinius ' final submission.
After the signing of the Paris Peace Accords — which Thiệu opposed — and the American withdrawal, South Vietnam resisted the communists for another two years until the communists ’ final final push for victory, which saw the South openly invaded by the entire North Vietnamese Army.
The final stages of the war involved increasingly desperate attempts by the Idirans to stave off their defeat, the withdrawal of the Homomdan from the Idiran side ( after suing for a separate peace with the Culture ), and the confinement of the Idirans to limited, carefully watched zones.
With the final withdrawal of U. S. troops, and Aristide's duly elected successor installed in office in February 1996, the Pentagon and the Clinton administration could label the Haïtian operation a success up to that point.
They maintained that Resolution 242 calls for full Israeli withdrawal from these territories, which were captured in the Six-Day War, as part of a final peace settlement, although Israel disputes this interpretation of Resolution 242.
But in 1783 dissensions arose between Knigge and Weishaupt, which resulted in the final withdrawal of the former on 1 July 1784.
In addition to terminating Four Power rights, the treaty mandated the withdrawal of all Soviet forces from Germany by the end of 1994, made clear that the current borders ( especially the Oder-Neisse line ) were viewed as final and definitive, and specified the right of a united Germany to belong to NATO.
It was deactivated in 1954 as part of the demobilisation of forces in Korea in the aftermath of the war, being reduced to a Commonwealth Brigade Group, and from May 1956 until its final withdrawal in August 1957 to a Commonwealth Contingent of battalion strength.
It proposed making a final settlement of the Sino-Japanese War with a partial withdrawal of Japanese troops.
Shinui supported negotiation with the Palestinians concerning the final status and a Palestinian state, which would include removal of Israeli settlements and withdrawal from most of the West Bank and Gaza.
The congress's decisions would eventually lead a few months later to the Vlora War and as a result to the total withdrawal of the Italian army from Albania and the final affirmation of the country's territorial integrity in 1921.
Key players Matthew Pavlich, David Mundy, Nathan Fyfe, Luke McPharlin ( late withdrawal ), Hayden Ballantyne, Adam McPhee, Nick Lower ( suspended ) and Matthew de Boer all missed the final game of the season against the Western Bulldogs, which was Mark Harvey's last game as senior coach of Fremantle.

final and started
The n-th century started / will start on the year ( 100 × n ) − 99 and ends in 100 × n. A century will only include one year, the centennial year, that starts with the century's number ( e. g. 1900 is the final year in the 19th century ).
In 1960, Harvard University sociologist William Gamson started the " Baseball Seminar " where colleagues would form rosters that earned points on the players ' final standings in batting average, RBI, ERA and wins.
The Finnish Civil War would probably have started at that point had there been enough weapons in the country to arm the two sides ; instead, there began a race for weapons and a final escalation towards war.
As the final against the Germans approached, the media learnt of Greaves ' return to fitness and, while appreciating Hurst's contribution, started to call for the return of England's most prolific centre forward.
Cronje started the ODI series with scores of 112, 97, 45 and 50 * and when Australia played Orange Free State in their final match before the first Test, Cronje hit 251 off 306 balls, 200 of these came on the final day in which 294 runs were added.
The meeting started at 13: 50 and ended at 15: 00, an hour before the declaration was due to be made, and despite ongoing disagreements, with a unanimous vote in favour of the final text.
A few days afterwards, having been encouraged by Ray and New York underground filmmaker Amos Poe and using scholarship funds given by the Louis B. Mayer Foundation to pay for his school tuition, Jarmusch started work on a film for his final project.
Richard appears to have started to recognise John as his legitimate heir in the final years before his death, but the matter was not clear-cut and medieval law gave little guidance as to how the competing claims should be decided.
After becoming player-manager on the retirement of Joe Fagan in the 1985 close season, Dalglish selected himself for just 21 First Division games in 1985 – 86 as Liverpool won the double, but he started the FA Cup final win over Everton.
The Twins and the Red Sox started the weekend tied for 1st place and played against each other in Boston for the final three games of the season.
The first nanoengineering program in the world was started at the University of Toronto within the Engineering Science program as one of the Options of study in the final years.
The 5, 000 m final started in less than two hours, and Nurmi faced a tough challenge from countryman Ville Ritola, who had already won the 3, 000 m steeplechase and the 10, 000 m. Ritola and Edvin Wide figured that Nurmi must be tired and tried to burn him off by running at world-record pace.
The Q3Test started with version 1. 05 and included three levels that would be included in the final release: dm7, dm17, and q3tourney2.
The revolt started out as just a small legion of troops headed by Damar, but during the final assault on The Dominion over Cardassia Prime by the Federation-Klingon-Romulan alliance, Damar managed to get an open revolt started on Cardassia itself.
As the final seconds of the game ticked away Harry Carson, continuing the recent trend started by the Giants, gave head coach Bill Parcells a Gatorade shower, going as far as to take off his jersey and pads and sneak behind Parcells with a Rose Bowl security team shirt on.
At the time the project started on site no design work had been done on the lodge and the final design was only presented to the client in June 1929.
During a break in the final table of the 2005 Main Event on July 16, Harrah's announced that eleven properties — including the recently added Bally's and Caesar's properties — would host 2005 – 06 WSOP Circuit events that started on August 11 in Tunica, Mississippi.
Croatia started off well in the final, scoring the first four goals, but with eight saves more from Denmark's keeper, Kasper Hvidt, Denmark won 24 – 20 and took their first major trophy.
To find the enthalpy change per mole of a substance A in a reaction between two substances A and B, the substances are added to a calorimeter and the initial and final temperatures ( before the reaction started and after it has finished ) are noted.
The final accomplishment of Bruckner's life was to be his Symphony No. 9 in D minor which he started in August 1887, and which he dedicated " To God the Beloved.
Next to the Duomo were the Civic Tower ( existing at least from 1330 and enlarged in 1583 by Pellegrino Tibaldi ): its fall on March 17, 1989, was the final motivating force that started the last decade's efforts to save the Leaning Tower of Pisa from a similar fate.
It is not known just why Newton changed his mind so radically about the final form of what had been a readable narrative in ' De motu corporum, Liber secundus ' of 1685, but he largely started afresh in a new, tighter, and less accessible mathematical style, eventually to produce Book 3 of the ' Principia ' as we know it.
It initiated the negotiations for Sweden's accession to the European Union ( though the work to prepare the ground, at home and versus the EEC / EU, had already started during the final year of the Social Democratic government.

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