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Mrs. William Odell, Mrs. Clinton B. King, John Holabird Jr., Norman Boothby, and Actress Maureen O'Sullivan will judge the costumes in the grand march at the Affaire Old Towne Bal Masque tomorrow in the Germania club.
His march northward through the Alps was interrupted by Rudolph, King of Transjurane Burgundy, and it was only with great difficulty that Arnulf crossed the mountain range.
Marlborough wrote an appeal to the Duke of Württemberg, the commander of the Danish contingent – " I send you this express to request your Highness to bring forward by a double march your cavalry so as to join us at the earliest moment …" Additionally, the King in Prussia, Frederick I, had kept his troops in quarters behind the Rhine while his personal disputes with Vienna and the States-General at The Hague remained unresolved.
De Rancon however chose to march further, deciding in concert with the Count of Maurienne ( Louis ´ uncle ) that a nearby plateau would make a better camp: such disobedience was reportedly common in the army, due to the lack of command from the King.
In this year, Purcell also composed a march and quick-step, which became so popular that Lord Wharton adapted the latter to the fatal verses of Lillibullero ; and in or before January 1688, he composed his anthem " Blessed are they that fear the Lord " by express command of the King.
* Pepin was proclaimed King of Aquitaine, his territory including Gascony, the march around Toulouse, and the counties of Carcassonne, Autun, Avallon and Nevers.
* 1965 – Civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King, Jr. successfully complete their 4-day 50-mile march from Selma to the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama.
* 1965 – Martin Luther King, Jr. leads 3, 200 people on the start of the third and finally successful civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
King Prithvi Narayan Shah's victory march began with the conquest of Nuwakot, which lies between Kathmandu and Gorkha, in 1744.
The King and his generals wanted to push on, conquer Bohemia and march to Vienna, but Bismarck, worried that Prussian military luck might change or that France might intervene on Austria's side, enlisted the help of the Crown Prince ( who had opposed the war but had commanded one of the Prussian armies at Königgrätz ) to change his father's mind after stormy meetings.
* 1789 – French Revolution: Women of Paris march to Versailles in the March on Versailles to confront Louis XVI about his refusal to promulgate the decrees on the abolition of feudalism, demand bread, and have the King and his court moved to Paris.
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.
** Martin Luther King Jr. leads a civil rights march in Chicago, during which he is struck by a rock thrown from an angry white mob.
* March 9 – The second attempt to march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, under the leadership of Martin Luther King, Jr., stops at the bridge that was the site of Bloody Sunday, to hold a prayer service and return to Selma, in obedience to a court restraining order.
** Martin Luther King, Jr. leads 3, 200 civil rights activists in the third march from Selma, Alabama to the capitol in Montgomery.
* March 25 – Martin Luther King, Jr. and 25, 000 civil rights activists successfully end the 4-day march from Selma, Alabama, to the capitol in Montgomery.
* March 24 – Taiping Rebellion: Suspecting treachery on the part of East King Yang Xiuqing, Shi Dakai garrisons Anhui and begins his march back to the Heavenly Capital, having defeated a strong Xiang Army detachment.
Because of his mastery of march composition, he is known as " The March King " or the " American March King " due to his British counterpart Kenneth J. Alford also being known as " The March King ".
In the summer of 1708, King Charles ordered him to march southward with most of his force and link up with the main army of 25, 000 men, based in Poland.
Later came The Tempest, King Lear, a funeral march for the final scene in Hamlet, the love scene for Les Troyens ( which, some claim, Berlioz took from The Merchant of Venice ), and Béatrice and Benedict.
# " Merry-Go-Round Music " medley ( traditional )-" Listen to the Mocking Bird " was the only portion of this track that was actually used in the film, along with the second segment of " King Cotton ", a Sousa march, which was not on the album
Following his midnight march to rescue the city of Gibeon from the coalition led by the King of Jebus ( Jerusalem ), Joshua pursued the coalition eastward, down through the descent of Beth-horon, and then southward across the Valley of Aijalon.
Under the new King Percy had extensive civil and military responsibility in both the east march and in north Wales, where he found himself under increasing pressure as a result of the rebellion of Owain Glyn Dŵr.

march and army
Apollo's role as the slayer of the Python led to his association with battle and victory ; hence it became the Roman custom for a paean to be sung by an army on the march and before entering into battle, when a fleet left the harbour, and also after a victory had been won.
Cato's army then encountered it along with other serpents on the march.
The Count of Mérode-Westerloo, commander of the Flemish troops in Tallard's army wrote – " One thing is certain: we delayed our march from Alsace for far too long and quite inexplicably.
On 1 July Tallard's army of 35, 000 re-crossed the Rhine at Kehl and began its march.
The English and German troops who had held Schwenningen through the night joined the march, making a ninth column on the left of the army.
With these reverses, the Dutch now refused to contemplate Marlborough ’ s ambitious march to Italy or, indeed, any plan that denuded their borders of the Duke and their army.
The French moved first to Tirlemont, ( as if to threaten Zoutleeuw, abandoned by the French in October 1705 ), before turning southwards, heading for Jodoigne – this line of march took Villeroi ’ s army towards the narrow aperture of dry ground between the Mehaigne and Petite Gheete rivers close to the small villages of Ramillies and Taviers ; but neither commander quite appreciated how far his opponent had travelled.
: When, after the action had thus occurred, his own men returned to each general, Scipio could adopt no fixed plan of proceeding, except that he should form his measures from the plans and undertakings of the enemy: and Hannibal, uncertain whether he should pursue the march he had commenced into Italy, or fight with the Roman army which had first presented itself, the arrival of ambassadors from the Boii, and of a petty prince called Magalus, diverted from an immediate engagement ; who, declaring that they would be the guides of his journey and the companions of his dangers, gave it as their opinion, that Italy ought to be attacked with the entire force of the war, his strength having been nowhere previously impaired.
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.
Pheidippides arrived during the festival of Carneia, a sacrosanct period of peace, and was informed that the Spartan army could not march to war until the full moon rose ; Athens could not expect reinforcement for at least ten days.
The people planned on marching to the Guildhall, but because of army barricades designed to reroute the march it was redirected to Free Derry Corner.
Upon descending the plane on his wheelchair, he stood up and saluted the cheering crowd of supporters, including an army band playing his favorite military march tunes, which was awaiting him at the airport in Santiago.
From Mercia the army went north, stopping at Chester-le-Street, before resuming the march accompanied by a fleet of ships.
An uprising in Jalalabad culminated in a march to the capital, and much of the army deserted rather than resist.
In that year, his son Tupa took over command of the army and began his march northward through the Sierra.
Accordingly, by midafternoon, the rear of the column – believing the day's march to be nearly at an end – was dawdling ; this resulted in the army becoming divided, with some having already crossed the summit and others still approaching it.
From here the army was split by a land march with the royalty taking the sea path to Antioch.
His long march to Jerusalem and back north debilitated his army, but her imprisonment disheartened her knights, and the divided Crusade armies could not overcome the Muslim forces.
In the re-organisation of the army which accompanied the march towards Paris the Crown Prince gained a separate command over the 4th army ( Army of the Meuse ) consisting of the Saxons, the Prussian Guard corps, and the IV ( Prussian Saxony ) corps.
On the march back his army was harassed by Cossacks, and suffered disease and starvation.
His army faced very strong resistance in the Afghan tribal areas where he is said to have commented that Afghanistan is " easy to march into, hard to march out of.
Carthage at the time was in such a poor state that its navy was unable to transport his army to Iberia ( Hispania ); instead, Hamilcar had to march it towards the Pillars of Hercules and transport it across the Strait of Gibraltar ( present-day Morocco / Spain ).

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