In the following months, Hulbert and Spalding organized the National League by enlisting the four major teams in the East and the three other top teams in what was then considered to be the West.

In 1889, the National League and the American Association decreased the number of balls required for a walk to four.

The Boston Red Stockings won four championships in the five seasons of the new National Association, the first professional league.

Despite its on-field success, it was one of the four teams contracted out of existence by the National League after the 1899 season.

The name " Branch Davidian " is most widely known for the Waco Siege of 1993 on their property ( known as the Mount Carmel Center ) near Waco, Texas, by the ATF, FBI, and Texas National Guard, which resulted in the deaths of their leader, David Koresh, as well as 82 other Branch Davidians and four ATF agents.

For four years, Kolingba led the country as head of the Military Committee for National Recovery ( CRMN ).

" The third pillar of internal security, the National Gendarmerie, consisted of a headquarters staff, four legions ( corresponding to the four military regions ) and a professional training academy, the Gendarmerie School ( Ecole de Gendarmerie ).

The United States National Research Council released its latest Assessment of Research Doctorate Programs in 2010, and 23 of the 24 graduate programs of Caltech were ranked within the top four programs in the nation in their size quartile as determined by both the R95 and S95 rankings.

The manuscripts have survived in four codices: two at El Escorial, one at Madrid's National Library, and one in Florence, Italy.

Following the 1899 season, the National League disbanded four teams, including the Cleveland franchise.

He was reelected by the National Assembly as president four times — doing so in 1954, 1960, 1966, and 1972.

Most of the organisms collected were simple, soft-shelled foraminifera ( 432 species according to National Geographic ), with four of the others representing species of the complex, multi-chambered genera Leptohalysis and Reophax.

Lions may have also preyed on the chimpanzees at Mahale Mountains National Park, where at least four chimpanzees could have fallen prey to them.

* Tying Your Own Shoes An animated documentary that provides insight into the lives of four adult artists with Down Syndrome, by National Film Board of Canada

The competition is held at the National Aquatic Centre in Dublin and consists of four different events:

He also established the first 51 Bird Reserves, four Game Preserves, and 150 National Forests, including Shoshone National Forest, the nation's first.

The four remaining players in the backfield ( five in Canadian football ), including the quarterback, are also eligible receivers — except in the National Football League, where a quarterback who takes the snap from " under center " is never eligible.

Torborg's successor, 72-year-old Jack McKeon, improbably led them to the National League's wild card berth in the playoffs ; they defeated the New York Yankees four games to two in the 2003 World Series.

The National Assembly ( Assemblée Nationale ) has 114 members, elected for a four year term, 38 members in single-seat constituencies and 76 members by proportional representation.

Guadeloupe sends four deputies to the French National Assembly and three senators to the French Senate.

One of the four National Assembly constituencies still includes Saint-Martin and Saint-Barthélemy even though they seceded from Guadeloupe in 2007.

It was delivered by Lincoln during the American Civil War, on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863, at the dedication of the Soldiers ' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated those of the Confederacy at the Battle of Gettysburg.

Despite this, by September 1960, following the four-way division of the country, there were four separate armed forces: Mobotu's ANC itself, numbering about 12, 000, the South Kasai Constabulary loyal to Albert Kalonji ( 3, 000 or less ), the Katanga Gendarmerie which were part of Moise Tshombe's regime ( totalling about 10, 000 ), and the Stanleyville dissident ANC loyal to Antoine Gizenga ( numbering about 8, 000 ).

After having been set ashore, Lieutenant MacKinnon and Marine Conway managed to evade capture for four days, but they were betrayed and arrested by the Gendarmerie and handed over to the Germans at La Reole hospital south east of Bordeaux, attempting to make their way to the Spanish border.

It succeeds the former four Écoles supérieures de guerre of the French Army, French Navy, French Air Force and National Gendarmerie, and the Cours supérieur interarmées since 1 September 1993.

As a result, Crete was policed by four independent units of Gendarmerie, which were organised on completely different models.

In January 1899 the Prince called the commanders of the four Gendarmerie units to Chania to hear their proposals on the way the Cretan Gendarmerie should be organized.

Thus, on 24 October 1912 the commander of the Cretan Gendarmerie with four officers, two senior non-commissioned officers and 150 constables left from Chania for Athens and thence to Thessaloniki aboard the steamer Arcadia.

In 1914 a " Battalion of Gendarmerie of the Expeditionary Army " was created, consisting of four companies, mainly reservist gendarmes of the Cretan Gendarmerie.

Panhard purposed in 1977 both the ERC and the VCR vehicles to the French Army, but lost the largest contract to a four wheeled armoured vehicle offered by Saviem with its VAB and the cannon armed reconnaissance vehicle requirement to a vehicle offered by GIAT the AMX 10 RC and also lost a much smaller order for the French Mobile Gendarmerie to the Saviem VBC-90.

* Equateur Province: HQ 4th Gendarmerie Battalion at Coquilhatville, 2nd Instruction Centre at Irebu ( 17 OSO, 1214 GS ), three detached gendarmerie companies, four detached gendarmerie platoons.

* Province Orientale: HQ 3rd Groupement, 5th Infantry Battalion, and 16th Gendarmerie Battalion at Stanleyville, 6th Infantry Battalion at Watsa, 3rd Reconnaissance Squadron at Gombari, three detached gendarmerie companies and four detached gendarmerie platoons.

* Province de Kivu: 3rd Instruction Centre, Lokandu ( 17 OSO and 1194 GS ), 11th Infantry Battalion at Rumangabo, HQ 7th Gendarmerie Battalion at Bukavu, two gendarmerie companies at Bukavu, two detached gendarmerie companies, and four detached gendarmerie platoons.

* 70 – Siege of Jerusalem: Titus, son of emperor Vespasian, surrounds the Jewish capital, with four Roman legions.

In 43, Claudius sent Aulus Plautius with four legions to Britain ( Britannia ) after an appeal from an ousted tribal ally.

With four legions at his disposal, Vespasian commanded a strength of nearly 80, 000 soldiers.

In 262 BC, Rome besieged Agrigentum, an operation that involved both consular armies — a total of four Roman legions — and took several months to resolve.

With the help of political allies, Caesar later overturned this, and was instead appointed to govern Cisalpine Gaul ( northern Italy ) and Illyricum ( southeastern Europe ), with Transalpine Gaul ( southern France ) later added, giving him command of four legions.

Caesar had four legions under his command, two of his provinces bordered on unconquered territory, and parts of Gaul were known to be unstable.

The peregrine praetor ( literally-the traveling judge ) within the next ten days after this law is passed by the people or plebs shall provide for the selection of 450 persons in this State who have or have had a knight's census ... provided that he does not select a person who is or has been plebeian tribune, quaestor, triumvir capitalis, military tribune in any of the first four legions, or triumvir for granting and assigning lands, or who is or has been in the Senate, or who has fought or shall fight as a gladiator for hire ... or who has been condemned by the judicial process and a public trial whereby he cannot be enrolled in the Senate, or who is less than thirty or more than sixty years of age, or who does not have his residence in the city of Rome or within one mile of it, or who is the father, brother, or son of any above-described magistrate, or who is the father, brother, or son of a person who is or has been a member of the Senate, or who is overseas.

Aulus Plautius lands with four legions ( 20, 000 men ) and the same number of auxiliaries at Rutupiae ( modern Richborough, on the east coast of Kent ) and defeats the Britons, led by Caratacus and Togodumnus, in battles on the rivers Medway and Thames.

* Vespasian disbanded four Rhine legions ( I Germanica, IIII Macedonica, XV Primigenia and XVI Gallica ), disgraced for having surrendered or lost their eagles during the revolt of Julius Civilis.

* March – Vibius Pansa set out to link up with Hirtius and Octavian, bringing four legions of recruits, having left one, the legio urbana, to defend Rome.

He led a Roman army ( four legions ) through the mountainous country of Armenia, against the fortress at Volandum, to the southwest of Artaxata.

* Sextus Pompey dispatched Menas with four legions and captured Sardinia, driving out Octavian's governor Marcus Lurius.

After the defeat, he fled into the nearby hills with only about four legions.

Caratacus and his brother Togodumnus led the initial defence of the country against Aulus Plautius's four legions, thought to have been around 40, 000 men, primarily using guerrilla tactics.

* The Governor of Syria, Publius Quintilius Varus, assembles three of his four legions, including Legio X Fretensis, and marched down to Jerusalem from Antioch to restore order.

Rome's siege involves both consular armies – a total of four Roman legions – and takes several months to resolve.

Caesar passed, through a tribune, his own ruling on the matter, and became proconsul of both Gauls ( Gallia Cisalpina and Gallia Transalpina ) and of Illyricum, with command of four legions, for five years ; Caesar's new father-in-law, Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus, was made consul for 58 BC.

He ran for election as one of the twenty-four special military tribunes of the first four legions who were elected ( the rest were appointed by the magistrate who raised the legion ).

Caesar had initially four veteran legions under his direct command: Legio VII, Legio VIII, Legio IX Hispana, and Legio X.

Julius Caesar came first, briefly, in both 55 and 54 BC ; one hundred years later Claudius sent four legions to Britain, where the Romans were to remain for the next four hundred years.

Initially the Romans deployed four legions in Syria, one of which, the Legio VI Ferrata, was likely based in Laodicea.