After the war began, he long refused to permit emancipation of the slaves by Union action even in the Border States that stayed with the Union.

He returned to New York to work for The New Yorker, to edit a Western pulp, to `` duck the war in the OWI '', to write publicity for Paramount Pictures and commentary for a newsreel, then he began his career as critic for various magazines.

`` From time to time since the present war began there have been reports that one or more of the Axis powers were seriously contemplating use of poisonous gas or noxious gases or other inhumane devices of warfare.

When the Korean war began, on June 25, 1950, the anniversary of the day Custer had gone down fighting at the Little Big Horn and the day the regiment had assaulted the beachhead of Leyte during World War 2,, the 7th Cavalry was not in the best fighting condition.

On April 12, 1861, Confederate forces fired on Union troops at Fort Sumter, forcing them to surrender, and began the war.

Reconstruction began during the war, as Lincoln and his associates anticipated questions of how to reintegrate the conquered southern states, and how to determine the fates of Confederate leaders and freed slaves.

After the war, enough British and American anthropologists borrowed ideas and methodological approaches from one another that some began to speak of them collectively as ' sociocultural ' anthropology.

The causes of the Civil War were complex, and have been controversial since the war began.

After the war Poirot became a free agent and began undertaking civilian cases.

The ill-feeling, influenced by the ravages of members of the Order in Poland, culminated in a war which began in December 1519 and devastated Prussia.

In 1329, he began a long war with the Republic of Genoa.

Diogenes Laertius reports the story that he was prosecuted by Cleon for impiety, but Plutarch says that Pericles sent his former tutor, Anaxagoras, to Lampsacus for his own safety after the Athenians began to blame him for the Peloponnesian war.

Early in the war, the Germans began to create makeshift assault guns by mounting their infantry support weapons on the bed of a truck or on obsolete tanks with the turret removed.

His second war with Russia, which began in 1826, ended in a string of costly defeats after which Persia was forced to cede nearly all of its Armenian territories and Nakhchivan.

All officers were recalled from leave in 1792, intervention threatened and war with Austria ( Marie-Antoinette's homeland ) began.

The Siege of Toulon began in September under revolutionary officers mainly untrained in the art of war.

His youth was spent in Tuscany, at Vienna and in the Austrian Netherlands, where he began his career of military service in the war of the French Revolution.

: A scarlet caterpillar, upon which all eyes were at once fixed, began to crawl steadfastly day by day across the map of Europe, dragging the whole war with it.

All in all though, the situation had changed considerably and Louis XIV began to look for ways to end what was fast becoming a ruinous war for France.

As the war progressed, Allied armies began using combined arms formations and deep penetration strategies that Germany had used in the opening years of the war.

The League was loose at best, though secret liaison officers were exchanged between the Greek and the Serbian army after the war began.

As the war began to wind down with Germany's surrender in May 1945, the team parlayed Brown's ties to college football and the military to build its roster.

After the war he began a career as a journalist.

After the war, Beaux began to spend some time in the household of " Willie " and Emily, both proficient musicians.

When the North enthusiastically rallied behind the national flag after the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, Lincoln concentrated on the military and political dimensions of the war effort.

On April 9, Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox and the war was effectively over.

" Despite Gropius's protestations that as a war veteran and a patriot his work had no subversive political intent, the Berlin Bauhaus was pressured to close in April 1933.

On hearing of the rebel defeat in April 1939, Montgomery said, " I shall be sorry to leave Palestine in many ways, as I have enjoyed the war out here ".

Shortly after Marlborough landed in the Dutch Republic on 14 April, news arrived of major Allied setbacks in the wider war.

Territorial changes as a result of the First Balkan war, as of April 1913 showing the prewar agreed line of expansion between Serbia and Bulgaria

After the ending of the war, all refugees were repatriated to Sudan ; the last of the 9, 700 remaining in Central African Republic were evacuated in April 2007.

In April 1982, Edén Pastora ( Comandante Cero ), one of the heroes in the fight against Somoza, organized the Sandinista Revolutionary Front ( FRS ) – embedded in the Democratic Revolutionary Alliance ( ARDE ) – and declared war on the Sandinista government.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt ( or ; January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945 ), also known by his initials, FDR, was the 32nd President of the United States ( 1933 – 1945 ) and a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic depression and total war.

It was taken from Ethiopia by Benito Mussolini's troops in 1937 as a war chest, and returned on 18 April 2005.

France preemptively declared war on Austria ( 20 April 1792 ) and Prussia joined on the Austrian side a few weeks later.

After the Battles of Lexington and Concord near Boston in April 1775, the colonies went to war.

Hawks left Cornell in April 1917 when the United States declared war on Germany and entered World War I.

The bombing of Guernica on the afternoon of 26 April 1937 – a mission used as a testing ground for the German Luftwaffe's Condor Legion – was probably the most infamous event of the war and inspired Picasso's painting.

To concentrate on the war in Europe, Napoleon signed the Louisiana Purchase in April, selling France's North American possessions to the United States.

After the United States entered the war in April 1917, President Woodrow Wilson appointed Hoover to head the U. S. Food Administration.

Under the secret Treaty of London signed in April 1915, Triple Entente powers promised Italy that it would gain Vlorë ( Valona ) and nearby lands and a protectorate over Albania in exchange for entering the war against Austria-Hungary.

Of the approximately 4, 800 Jews who had lived in Hannover 1938, fewer than 100 were still in the city when troops of the United States Army arrived on April 10, 1945 to occupy Hanover at the end of the war.

Political tension became military conflict, with full-scale civil war in April 1975.

In April 1942, after his requests for commissions as a war artist-or even leave to depict war damage in London-had been consistently refused, he suffered a nervous breakdown and was sent to Southport Hospital.

In the European Theater of Operations napalm was used by American forces in the siege of La Rochelle in April 1945 against German soldiers ( and inadvertently French civilians in Royan )-about two weeks before the end of the war.

AFP, reporting on a news story in the Sunday, 3 April 2004, issue of The New Yorker, wrote that retired Army Colonel Hy Rothstein, " who served in the Army Special Forces for more than 20 years, ... commissioned by The Pentagon to examine the war in Afghanistan concluded the conflict created conditions that have given ' warlordism, banditry and opium production a new lease on life ' ...."

Fiji .” In April 1917, the college formed an Army Corps to aid the war effort.