This coin was struck by Alexios during his war against Robert Guiscard.

However, in the last couple of years the British graffiti scene has been struck by self-titled ' art terrorist ' Banksy, who has revolutionized the style of UK graffiti ( bringing to the forefront stencils to aid the speed of painting ) as well as the content ; making his work largely satirical of the sociological state of cities, or the political climate of war, often using monkeys and rats as motifs.

On 12 September 1942,, carrying some 80 civilians, 268 British Army soldiers, about 1, 800 Italian prisoners of war, and 160 Polish soldiers ( on guard ), was struck and sunk by a torpedo from Kriegsmarine submarine off the coast of west Africa.

The Honorable H. Burton, speaking in London in August 1918 said, " Nothing struck our commanders in the East African field so much as the thorough, methodical and determined training of the German native levies previous to the war.

Vespasian sestertius, struck in 71 to celebrate the victory in the first Jewish-Roman war.

But when comparing Sherman's scorched-earth campaigns to the actions of the British Army during the Second Boer War ( 1899 – 1902 )— another war in which civilians were targeted because of their central role in sustaining an armed resistance — South African historian Hermann Giliomee declares that it " looks as if Sherman struck a better balance than the British commanders between severity and restraint in taking actions proportional to legitimate needs ".

According to this usage, allies become so not when concluding an alliance treaty but when struck by war.

The reason given for the war was that the viceroy of Algeria, angry about French failure to pay its debts stemming from Napoleon's invasion of Egypt, had struck the French ambassador with the handle of his fly swat.

In the negotiations, Tiberius recalled the exploits of his father Tiberius, who had also waged war in Spain but had struck a peace agreement with the Numantines.

The man who had captured her then ran forward with the bow from the Skull bundle and a sacred arrow and shot her through the heart while another man struck her on the head with the war club from the Morning Star bundle.

The men acted out the violence which had allowed the Morning Star to mate with the Evening Star ( by breaking her vaginal teeth ) in their creation story, with a “ meteor stone .” During the Morning Star ceremony, the captive was shot in the heart and a “ man struck her on the head with the war club from the Morning Star bundle .” By having all the men in the village shoot arrows into her body, the village men, embodiments of Morning Star, were symbolically mating with her.

After the war, Hart-Davis was unable to obtain satisfactory terms from Jonathan Cape to return to the company, and in 1946 he struck out on his own, founding Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd, in partnership with David Garnett and Teddy Young and with financial backing from Eric Linklater, Arthur Ransome, H. E. Bates, Geoffrey Keynes, and Celia and Peter Fleming.

The nizam then ostensibly struck a deal with the British Madras Presidency for their support, but apparently did so with the expectation that when Hyder Ali was prepared for war, the deal with the British would be broken.

The 1943 steel cent, also known as a steel war penny or steelie, was a variety of the U. S. one-cent coin which was struck in steel due to wartime shortages of copper.

The war had a significant influence on his life: his only romance ended when his fiancée, a nurse called Lorna, was killed by a bomb which struck her ambulance.

The duration of the pandemic and the war could have also played a role: the disease would usually only affect a certain area for a month before leaving, while the war, which most expected to end quickly, had lasted for four years by the time the pandemic struck.

The first blow was not struck till six months after the declaration of war ; and it was struck by the enemy, who routed the Swedes at Lappeenranta and captured that frontier fortress.

Until 1917, farthings were issued in an artificially toned state so that they would not be confused with the half-sovereign coin, but by the end of the war half-sovereigns were no longer being struck.

Megatron soon struck, and Cybertron became embroiled in civil war.

On the same day two Ringatu war parties struck a Māori settlement, Opape, on the other coast of East Cape, near present-day Opotiki.

The deal was struck because the government of Charles de Gaulle wanted 1. 75 million prisoners of war for forced labor in France.

In 1993, Namco struck back with Ridge Racer, and thus began the polygonal war of driving games.

The RAF was Britain's weapon of attrition, and flying a fighter plane was the way her sons could serve her best at this point in the war.

After the war, Penny had wanted Keith at least to visit her home with her.

Already accidental war is a silent guest at the discussions within the Kennedy Administration about the urgency of disarmament and nearly all other questions of national security.

Author of the Albany Plan Of Union, which, had it been adopted, might have avoided the Revolution, he fought the colonists' front-line battles in London, negotiated the treaty of alliance with France and the peace that ended the war, headed the state government of Pennsylvania, and exercised an important moderating influence at the Federal Convention.

We will recall that the still confident liberals of the Truman administration gathered with other Western utopians in San Francisco to set up the legal framework, finally and at last, to rationalize war -- to rationalize want and fear -- out of the world: the United Nations.

The reasons for the Whig joy on this occasion are found to be their expectation of regaining control of the government, their delight at the prospect of a new war, their hopes of having the Tories hanged, and so on.

A nation may go to war on some trifling pretext, when in reality it may have been guided by an unconscious instinct that its very life was at stake.

The Indochina struggle was a war to stay out of in 1954, when Gen. Ridgway estimated it would take a minimum of 10 to 15 divisions at the outset to win a war the French were losing.

As I see it, if war starts and we survive the initial attack enough to be able to fight back, the nuclear weapons we now have -- at least the bombs -- can inflict all the demage that is necessary.

`` Molotov altogether rejects the line of peaceful coexistence, reducing this concept merely to the state of peace or rather, the absence of war at a given moment, and to a denial of the possibility of averting a world war.

Facing a prosecution which has demanded the death penalty, he said: ' I have participated in the war against Communism in Korea and at Dienbienphu, and I have helped in the evacuation of North Vietnamese to the free world.

At least in Indonesia, Khrushchev found an American proud to be at total war with Communism ''!!

By late afternoon the train inched into the marshaling yards in the railhead at Lublin, which was filled with lines of cars poised to pour the tools of war to the Russian front.

He was brigadier of the club's locker-room light infantry, and at one time or another declared war on Russia, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, and China.

In 1942, however, the nation was at war.

If our national interest lies in being able to fight and win a war rather than committing national suicide, then we must take a much more penetrating look at ballistic missiles.

Our first necessity, at the very outset of war, is post-attack reconnaissance.

During the war it was in constant use by the wagon trains transporting supplies from the railhead at Grafton to the troops operating in the interior.

Stalin declared that he preferred to continue the war a little longer, `` although it costs us blood '', in order to give Poland compensation in the West at the expense of the Germans.

The Communists are adept at utilizing hostilities short of general war and will do so whenever it is to their advantage.

Even though it was known that the Luftwaffe in the north was now being directed by the young and energetic General Peltz, the commander who would conduct the `` Little Blitz '' on London in 1944, a major raid on Bari at this juncture of the war was not to be considered seriously.

With over four million American men away at war, Protestants forced their distinctive theological belief upon the general public.

The latter, members of two regiments of Swiss mercenaries transported by Great Britain to Canada to fight the Americans in the War of 1812, had settled in Montreal and Kingston at the close of the war in 1815.