Death of a Hero is the story of a young English artist named George Winterbourne who enlists in the army at the outbreak of World War I.

The English outbreak is thought to have spread from the Netherlands, where the bubonic plague had been occurring intermittently since 1599, with the initial contagion arriving with Dutch trading ships carrying bales of cotton from Amsterdam.

English Salukis ( chiefly descendants of Sarona Kelb ) were exported to many countries, but by the mid-1930s, interest slackened, and with the outbreak of World War II, breeding and show activities almost entirely stopped.

By the late 18th century Lyme Regis had become a popular seaside resort, especially after 1792 when the outbreak of the French Revolutionary Wars made travel to the European mainland dangerous for the English gentry, and increasing numbers of wealthy and middle class tourists were arriving there.

* July 30 – Only Continental outbreak of English sweating sickness reaches Lübeck, spreading from there into Schleswig-Holstein in next few months.

According to this book at the time of the outbreak of the Crimean War many English industrialists and inventors became interested in military technology and Bessemer himself developed a method for grooving artillery projectiles so that they could spin without the use of rifling in the bore of the gun.

Following a hurricane and a renewed outbreak of disease, the colony collapsed, with the English departing for the nearby French colony on Sainte-Croix, the Danes fleeing to Saint Christopher and home, and the Dutch assisting their countrymen on Ter Tholen in stealing everything of value, particularly the remaining Danish guns and ammunition.

The outbreak that followed, between 1577 to 1579, killed about 10 % of the English population.

Two years earlier, the colony had been seized by Protestants following the execution of King Charles I of England and the outbreak of the English Civil War.

He left England for a period on loan as a result of the outbreak of the Falklands War in 1982, thus missing most of the 1982 – 83 English season.

The same year, an outbreak of plague forced the closing of the theatres in London, and James I assumed the English throne.

As happened in the previous conflict, even before the formal outbreak of war, the English tried to intercept the Dutch Smyrna Fleet, a yearly convoy of Dutch merchants from the Levant sailing with a flotilla to protect them from the Barbary Corsairs.

The Parliamentary Army garrisoned the town upon the outbreak of the English Civil War in 1642 and later established their headquarters there in June 1647 on a line from Staines to Watford, although the King passed through Uxbridge in April 1946, resting at the Red Lion public house for several hours.

But at the outbreak of the English Civil War, although most of South Wales sided with the King, Pembroke declared for Parliament.

Trevor-Roper was a leading player in the so-called " storm over the gentry " ( also known as the " gentry controversy "), a dispute with Christian Socialist R. H. Tawney and Stone about whether the English gentry were, economically, on the way down or up in the century before the English Civil War, and whether this had anything to do with the outbreak of that war in 1642.

Inigo Jones's career effectively ended with the outbreak of the English Civil War in 1642 and the seizure of the King's houses in 1643.

Henry Veale, an English Royal Artillery surgeon, described an outbreak in India.

Salmacida Spolia was the last masque performed at the English Court before the outbreak of the English Civil War.

To raise the necessary funds Charles had to call the Long Parliament, thus setting in motion a process that would lead to the outbreak of the English Civil War two years later.

Following the outbreak of the English Civil War in 1642, the castle was held by forces loyal to Charles I, holding out until 1646 when it surrendered to the Parliamentary armies.

Following the outbreak of the English Civil War in 1642, the castle was held by forces loyal to Charles I, holding out until 1647 when it became the last fortification to surrender to the Parliamentary armies.

Following the outbreak of the English Civil War in 1642, the castle was held by forces loyal to Charles I, holding out until 1646 when it surrendered to the Parliamentary armies.

On the outbreak of the First English Civil War, Baxter blamed both parties and recommended the Protestation ; but Worcestershire was a Royalist county, and he was exposed to annoyance and danger in Kidderminster.

At the outbreak of the Civil War, Johnston was the commander of the U. S. Army Department of the Pacific in California.

Some of the earliest Delta settlers came from the vicinity of New Orleans, where drumming was never actively discouraged for very long and homemade drums were used to accompany public dancing until the outbreak of the Civil War.

* 1861 – Mississippi becomes the second state to secede from the Union before the outbreak of the American Civil War.

Beirut became a prime location for institutions of international commerce and finance, as well as wealthy tourists, and enjoyed a reputation as the " Paris of the Middle East " until the outbreak of the Lebanese Civil War.

During the secession crisis, but prior to the outbreak of the Civil War, the majority of slavery-related bills had protected slavery.

With the outbreak of the Civil War in the U. S., many black refugees enlisted in the Union Army and, while some later returned to Canada, many remained in the United States.

The outbreak of the Civil War saw the desire to uphold white supremacy cited as a cause for state secession and the formation of the Confederate States of America.

The United States presidential election of 1860 was a quadrennial election held on November 6, 1860, for the office of President of the United States and the immediate impetus for the outbreak of the American Civil War.

In her " capitalism peace theory ," Ayn Rand held that the major wars of history were started by the more controlled economies of the time against the freer ones and that capitalism gave mankind the longest period of peace in history — a period during which there were no wars involving the entire civilized world — from the end of the Napoleonic wars in 1815 to the outbreak of World War I in 1914, with the exceptions of the Franco-Prussian War ( 1870 ), the Spanish-American War ( 1898 ), and the American Civil War ( 1860-1863 ), which, notably, occurred in perhaps the most liberal economy in the world at the peak of the industrial revolution.

According to his son, Sherman attended the Catholic Church until the outbreak of the Civil War but not thereafter.

Whitney's gin revolutionised the cotton industry in the United States, but also led to the growth of slavery in the American South, and has been identified as a contributing factor to the outbreak of the American Civil War.

Following the outbreak of the Civil War, Pinkerton served as head of the Union Intelligence Service in 1861 – 1862 and foiled an alleged assassination plot in Baltimore, Maryland, while guarding Abraham Lincoln on his way to his inauguration.

By the outbreak of the Civil War, the population of Baton Rouge was 5, 500.

He refused to swear loyalty to the Confederacy when Texas seceded from the Union in 1861 with the outbreak of the American Civil War, and was removed from office.

After the outbreak of the Civil War in Lebanon and the Israeli invasion into Southern Lebanon ( March 1978 ), the United Nations established the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon ( UNIFIL ).

Until the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, Miró habitually returned to Spain in the summers.

Stead also became involved with the writer, broker and Marxist political economist William J. Blake, with whom she travelled to Spain ( leaving at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War ) and to the USA.

With the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, classes were interrupted when the entire student body and many faculty from Ole Miss enlisted in the Confederate army.

Soon after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, he decided to travel to Spain.

" When President Abraham Lincoln requested that Ohio raise ten regiments at the outbreak of the Civil War, the state responded by raising a total of 23 volunteer infantry regiments for three months of service.

At the outbreak of the Civil Wars it was deemed by Julius Caesar of sufficient importance to be secured with a garrison of Gaulish and Spanish horse ; and it was there that M. Coelius was put to death, after a vain attempt to excite an insurrection in this part of Italy.

The outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in July 1936, a mere three months after the end of the season saw football halted until the 1939 – 40 season.

Between the end of the Spanish Civil War and the outbreak of the Second World War, the fortnightly Spain And The World briefly became Revolt!

The Spanish Revolution was a workers ' social revolution that began during the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936 and resulted in the widespread implementation of anarchist and more broadly libertarian socialist organizational principles throughout various portions of the country for two to three years, primarily Catalonia, Aragon, Andalusia, and parts of the Levante.