The lack of armed vessels to dispute British naval activities in coastal waters and to facilitate the seizure of commercial and military prizes prompted individual colonies to commission armed vessels, and eventually led the Continental Congress to authorize the creation of a small Continental Navy on October 13, 1775.

Danvers was engaged in mercantile transactions, and in 1624 he learned that the government were contemplating a seizure of the papers of the Virginia Company.

* February 6 – Cuba cuts off the normal water supply to the United States Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, in reprisal for the U. S. seizure 4 days earlier of 4 Cuban fishing boats off the coast of Florida.

Its seizure would, with the expected capture of Naples in the west by the Americans, give the Allies supply points on both Italian coasts.

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The arrival of this fleet prompted the colonial rebels who controlled the Georgia government to arrest the British Royal Governor, James Wright, and to resist the British seizure and removal of supply ships anchored at Savannah.

Some of the supply ships were burned to prevent their seizure, some were recaptured, but most were successfully taken by the British.

Upon the rebels ’ seizure of the government they closed all SPLA training camps in Ethiopia and cut off the SPLA's arms supply, forcing the SPLA to return hundreds of thousands of Sudanese back to South Sudan.

Stuart about their conflicting reports of the battle and who bore primary responsibility for the seizure of the Union supply depot.

In this interval, we find him declining command over Sparta's aggression on Mantineia, and justifying Phoebidas ' seizure of the Theban Cadmea so long as the outcome provided glory to Sparta.

Cameroonian navy sailors prepare to perform a visit, board, search and seizure drill on 21 November 2006 in Douala during a joint exercise with the US military.

Impairments caused by local brain tissue damage on the bleed site are also possible, including seizure, one-sided weakness ( hemiparesis ), a loss of touch sensation on one side of the body and deficits in language processing ( aphasia ).

Since 1997, the ILAE have been working on a new scheme that has five axes: ictal phenomenon, ( pertaining to an epileptic seizure ), seizure type, syndrome, etiology, impairment.

The proper initial response to a generalized tonic-clonic epileptic seizure is to roll the person on the side ( recovery position ) to prevent ingestion of fluids into the lungs, which can result in choking and death.

As of build 1226, released on 30 July 2009, features that have been written and will be included in version 0. 8 include significant security improvements against both attackers acting on the network and physical seizure of the computer running the node.

Fascist propaganda aggrandized this event, known as " March on Rome ", as a " seizure " of power because of Fascists ' heroic exploits.

In January 2010 he was hospitalized after a seizure in Los Angeles, and in February he suffered another seizure on the set of The Insider television program.

The Russian Revolution in 1917 was triggered by a combination of economic breakdown, war weariness, and discontent with the autocratic system of government, and it first brought a coalition of liberals and moderate socialists to power, but their failed policies led to seizure of power by the Communist Bolsheviks on 25 October.

He was an advocate " for the seizure of private homes ", which was an activity seen by the anarchists after the October revolution as direct expropriation on the bourgoise.

Jan and Dean ended with Jan Berry's death on March 26, 2004, after suffering a seizure at the age of 62.

In the United States, Constitutional guarantees such as those included in the Fourth and Fifth amendments to protect an accused from unreasonable search and seizure or from self-incrimination have been referred to as " technicalities " by critics of court decisions based on them, even though they are foundations of the American legal system rather than obscure fine points.

Among its first duties was the forcible seizure of tithes during the " Tithe War " on behalf of the Anglican clergy from the mainly Catholic population as well as the Presbyterian minority.

Nevertheless, on 7 June 1304, Benedict excommunicated Philip IV's implacable minister Guillaume de Nogaret and all the Italians who had played a part in the seizure of Boniface VIII at Anagni.

Symptoms experienced by a person during a seizure depend on where in the brain the disturbance in electrical activity occurs.

Following this disturbance, on 7 October the Governor instructed Coronaro to order the Sultan to surrender ; to intimidate the people he ordered the seizure of all merchant boats in the Alula area.

" Muslim jurists also distinguished between " coastal navigation, or cabotage ," and voyages on the " high seas ", and they also made shippers " liable for freight in most cases except the seizure of both a ship and its cargo.

This attempted seizure, in turn, fostered an intense backlash in Newcastle, with locals passionately rallying behind our " Keep Us on Top!

Named after Henry L. Stimson, United States Secretary of State in the Hoover Administration ( 1929 – 1933 ), the policy followed Japan's unilateral seizure of Manchuria in northeastern China following action by Japanese soldiers at Mukden ( now Shenyang ), on September 18, 1931.

* The seizure of all the possessions of the religious congregations and the abolition of all the bishoprics, which constitute an enormous liability on the Nation and on the privileges of the poor ;

* 1941 – World War II: in response to the Japanese occupation of French Indochina, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the seizure of all Japanese assets in the United States.

** WWII: In response to the Japanese occupation of French Indo-China, U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the seizure of all Japanese assets in the United States.

Cortez delivers this information to the cartel, which orders Jacobs ' assassination as retaliation for the U. S. seizure of cartel money.

* A writ of elegit orders the seizure of a portion of a debtor's lands and all his goods ( except work animals ) towards satisfying a creditor, until the debt is paid off.

It was suppressed by the Prussian government, and orders were issued for the arrest of Görres and the seizure of his papers.

On November 29, 2010, the U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( U. S. ICE ) issued seizure orders against 82 Web sites with. com Internet addresses that were reported to be involved in the illegal sale and distribution of counterfeit goods.

In late 2002 the seizure was ruled illegal by the High and Supreme Courts of Zimbabwe, however the previous owner was unable to effect the court orders and General Mujuru continued living at the farm until his death on 15 August 2011

Anton Piller orders are known in France and Belgium as " saisie-contrefaçon " orders, translated literally " infringement seizure " orders, ( or in Belgium also as " saisie-description " orders, translated literally descriptive seizure orders ).

Napoleon gave orders for the seizure of the duke.

Spasmodic violence broke out around this time ( particularly in Kilkenny, Wexford, and Cork ) when the police entered local fairgrounds to enforce seizure orders on cattle for non payment of tithes.

Order was finally restored by rescinding seizure orders in 1836.

In the interim, the government had adopted several measures asserting its control over the church, such as the reformation of the monastic orders, the seizure of church property, and the exile of one of the Bishops, who had actively opposed independence.

The Irish Criminal Assets Bureau later obtained seizure orders to take possession of euro cash and cheques and sterling cash and cheques, together worth around one million Euros.

In 1831 the government compiled lists of defaulters and issued collection orders for the seizure of goods and chattels ( mostly stock ).

The first clash of the Tithe War took place on 3 March 1831 in Graiguenamanagh, County Kilkenny when a force of 120 yeomanry tried to enforce seizure orders on cattle belonging to a Roman Catholic priest.