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New Jersey folk need not be told of the builder's march to the sea, for in a single generation he has parceled and populated miles of our shoreline and presses on to develop the few open spaces that remain.
With the universal list as his weapon, Swadesh has extended his march of conquest farther and farther into the past, eight, ten, twelve millennia back.
One of the sit-in leaders has said: `` Nobody from the top of Heaven to the bottom of Hell can stop the march to freedom.
The Secretary of State himself, in his first speech, gave some idea of the tremendous march of events inside and outside the United States that has preoccupied the new administration in the past four months.
(“ Anyone Can Whistle ”) Meanwhile, the two groups continue to march, and Cora, trying to give a speech, realizes that Hapgood has stolen her limelight.
The first A is an expansive threnody on solo cello ( Schmidt's own instrument ) whose seamless lyricism predates Strauss's Metamorphosen by more than a decade ( its theme is later adjusted to form the scherzo of the symphony ); the B section is an equally expansive funeral march ( deliberately referencing Beethoven's Eroica in its texture ) whose dramatic climax is marked by an orchestral crescendo culminating in a gong and cymbal crash ( again, a clear allusion to similar climaxes in the later symphonies of Bruckner, and followed by what Harold Truscott has brilliantly described as a " reverse climax ", leading back to a repeat of the A section ).
Arthur and his warriors, including Kaius ( Kay ), Beduerus ( Bedivere ) and Gualguanus ( Gawain ), defeat the Roman emperor Lucius Tiberius in Gaul but, as he prepares to march on Rome, Arthur hears that his nephew Modredus ( Mordred )— whom he had left in charge of Britain — has married his wife Guenhuuara ( Guinevere ) and seized the throne.
A Lithuanian name Žygimantas, meaning " wealth of ( military ) campaign ", from Lithuanian žygis " campaign, march " + manta " goods, wealth " has been a substitution of the name Sigismund in the Lithuanian language, from which it was adopted by the Ruthenian language as Жыгімонт ( such are the cases of Sigismund Kestutaitis, Sigismund Korybut, Sigismund I the Old, Sigismund II Augustus ).
They are in fact part of the Prussian Army, for Grouchy, currently near Wavre, has chosen to obey the letter of Napoleon's orders to pursue the Prussians east, rather than the standing instructions to " march to the sound of the guns " and join in any ongoing battle.
He makes no claim to the English Crown, saying only that he has come to save Protestantism and to maintain English liberty, and begins a march on London.
** A United States federal judge rules that SCLC has the lawful right to march to Montgomery, Alabama to petition for ' redress of grievances '.
* 400 BC: After Cyrus has been killed, his Greek mercenaries make their way back to Greece, where Sparta is so impressed with their feats in and march through Persia that they declare war on the Persians.
The country of Moldova has shown particular contempt to marchers, shutting down official requests to hold parades and allowing protesters to intimidate and harm any who try to march anyway.
Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique, a work famous for its innovative orchestration ( Berlioz 2002, xv ) is also a programme work and has both a march and a waltz and five movements instead of the customary four.
Concerto no 5 has the basic rhythm of a Viennese military march.
The myths of the march are difficult to uncover because the Chinese government has prevented independent historians from exploring the topic.
In Oporto, Portuguese LGBT community has a march named Marcha do Orgulho LGBT, which is held since 2006.
In March 2011, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has said that he will not allow city funding for the 2011 Toronto Pride Parade if organizers allow the controversial anti-Israel group Queers Against Israeli Apartheid ( QuAIA ) march again this year.
The Book of Pluscarden describes ' a detestable split and most unworthy difference arising from jealosy ' within the Scottish camp and the historian Michael Brown explains that a contemporary source has James appointing his young and inexperienced cousin Robert Stewart of Atholl as the constable of the host ahead of the experienced march wardens the earls of Douglas and Angus.
The overture has been lost ; the scherzo was later absorbed into the Roma symphony, and the funeral march music was adapted and used in Les pêcheurs de perles.
The peaceful march to democracy has been a steady one.
The Champs-Élysées, because of its size and proximity to several Parisian landmarks such as the Arc de Triomphe, has been the site of several notable military parades, the most infamous being the march of German troops celebrating the Fall of France on 14 June 1940, and the two most famous, the subsequent marches of Free French and American forces after the liberation of the city, respectively, the French 2nd Armored Division on 26 August 1944, and the U. S. 28th Infantry Division on 29 August 1944.
In layman's terms, a cut-time march has a strong " oom-pah " sound to it.
* Instead of a breakstrain after the trio, a regimental march has a completely new strain ( D ), which still uses the modulated key.

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In 1797 he was sent to arrest the victorious march of General Bonaparte in Italy, and he conducted the retreat of the over-matched Austrians with the highest skill.
At the same time, Athens's greatest runner, Pheidippides ( or Philippides in some accounts ) had been sent to Sparta to request that the Spartan army march to the aid of Athens.
Plautius halted at the Thames and sent for Claudius, who arrived with reinforcements, including artillery and elephants, for the final march to the Catuvellaunian capital, Camulodunum ( Colchester ).
Parliament ordered the regiments of Col. Morley and Col. Moss to march to Westminster for their security, and sent for the rest of the troops that were about the London to draw down to them also with all speed.
In 1143, Innocent refused to recognise the Treaty of Mignano with Roger of Sicily, who sent Robert of Selby to march on papal Benevento.
The celebrated march of 1781 to Yorktown, Virginia that ended with the defeat of the British at the Siege of Yorktown and the Battle of the Chesapeake began in Newport, Rhode Island under the joint command of General George Washington who led American troops and the Comte de Rochambeau who led French soldiers sent by King Louis XVI.
Even so, Valens sent two legions to march on Procopius, who easily persuaded them to desert to him.
In the far north, the English on several occasions sent fleets to raid French settlements and destroy fishing stages on Newfoundland, but suffered the loss of St. John's in 1708 / 9 after the French made an overland march from Plaisance.
Possibly, a Persian army had been sent to march against the Isthmus in order to test the nerve of the fleet.
After a night's march, the tired officer sent with the scouts could see neither, and when Custer joined them, he was also unable to make the sighting.
Later Aragorn, on his march to the Black Gate, sent a small group of soldiers to retake the island.
On his Route Napoléon, most troops sent to stop his march, including some that were nominally royalist, felt more inclined to join the former Emperor than to stop him.
However, when Philip IV of Spain sent two invasion forces from Genoa and Como, Charles Emmanuel declared himself neutral, and in 1630 Richelieu ordered a French army to march into Savoy to force him to obey the pacts.
The following year Justinian sent his general Narses with a force of 35, 000 Lombards, Gepids and Heruli to Italy in a march around the Adriatic to approach Ravenna from the north.
He initially sent Dagalaifus to fight the Alamanni while he himself made preparations to march east and help Valens.
In 1130, the Duchy of Amalfi revolted and in 1131, Roger sent John of Palermo across the Strait of Messina to join up with a royal troop from Apulia and Calabria and march on Amalfi by land while George of Antioch blockaded the town by sea and set up a base on Capri.
Immediately following the failure of the peace talks, orders were sent out from Sparta to the Spartan king Cleombrotus, who was at the head of an army in Phocis, commanding him to march directly to Boeotia.
After an abortive attack on Corinth and the arrival of a task force sent by Dionysius of Syracuse to aid Sparta, the Thebans decided to march home.
According to Herodotus " The Spartans sent the men with Leonidas on ahead so that the rest of the allies would see them and march with no fear of defeat, instead of medizing like the others if they learned that the Spartans were delaying.
Following an Entmoot, the rest of the Ents agreed to march against Isengard, taking Merry and Pippin with them, and sent Huorns to Helm's Deep to deal with the Orcs there.
In 1622, the Governor of Yucatán sent a force of 20 Spaniards and 140 Christian Indian allies to march on Tayasal, but the Itza quickly killed them.
Marshal Ney, unaware of Napoleon's instructions, sent an order to d ' Erlon to immediately turn around and march back towards Quatre Bras.
Le Marchant hurriedly reformed his troopers and sent them at the next French division, which was winded from a rapid march.
In October 2002, FAIR's Action Alert citing the underestimate of the size of a massive anti-Iraq War rally led to a National Public Radio apology to its listeners and a followup article in The New York Times that Editor & Publisher suggested was written " in response to many organized protest letters sent to the Times since the paper's weak, and inaccurate, initial article about the march on Sunday.

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