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They sailed from Britain and were commanded by Major General Lloyd Fredendall, the naval forces being commanded by Commodore Thomas Troubridge.
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They sailed in three divisions, and probably landed at Richborough in Kent, although some suggest that at least part of the invasion force landed on the south coast, in the Fishbourne area of West Sussex.
They supposedly sailed from Peru to the Polynesian islands on pae-paes — large rafts built from balsa logs, complete with sails and each with a small cottage.
They finally sailed for England after the exhaustion of supplies forced Harold to dismiss his fleet and army and many English ships were wrecked by a storm.
They then sailed to China via Bangkok and Saigon, and toured Canton, Tsingtao, Peking, Tientsin, Hankow and Shanghai before returning to Japan in June.
They sailed their canoes with all their followers from Mua and debated abandoning Tonga and sailing directly to Samoa, the homeland of Ngata ’ s mother.
They sailed south, passing Isfjorden and Bellsund, which were labelled on Barentsz's chart as Grooten Inwyck and Inwyck.
They were led to this island by Elros with the help of his father Eärendil, who sailed the heavens as the bright star of the same name.
They sailed for Havana in an American corvette, but the ship was stopped in the Gulf of Mexico by a British warship.
They sailed via the Bahamas to Nova Scotia where they were received by the Duke of Kent, son of King George III and later father of Queen Victoria.
They sailed from the River Thames aboard the ship Mary and John, first landing in Agawam ( now Ipswich ) in 1634.
They sailed from Devonshire, England, on the ship Desire, arriving in Philadelphia on June 23, 1686.
They sailed to the mouth of the Hai River guarded by the Taku Forts near Tianjin and demanded to continue inland to Beijing.
They sailed westward into the Bay and reached the mouth of Hampton Roads, stopping at a location now known as Old Point Comfort.
They then sailed around Point Roberts and immediately encountered the HMS Chatham, the second ship of Vancouver's expedition.
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They were dirty, their clothes were torn, and the girl was so exhausted that she fell when she was still twenty feet from the front door.
They expected greater things from him, regardless of how trying the circumstances, and they were disappointed.
They got tin cups of coffee from the big pot on the coosie's fire, rolled and lighted brown-paper cigarettes, lounged about.
They would have to go west through the narrow river valley that separated Leyte from Samar and hope that it didn't close in before they returned.
They bought rustled cattle from the outlaw, kept him supplied with guns and ammunition, harbored his men in their houses.
They lay, with the birds hopping from branch to branch above them and the bright sky peeping down at them.
They squatted on their heels with their heads bent far forward, their eyes only a few inches from the ground.
`` They swear that every person smells different and every family smells different from every other.
They fought hard, but they were forgiving to former foes, and sought to prevent vindictive legislatures from confiscating Tory property in violation of the Treaty of 1783.
They may even enroll a colored student or two for show, though he usually turns out to be from Thailand, or any place other than the American South.
While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.
They emerged as interchangeable cogs in a faulty but formidable machine: shaved nearly naked, hair queued, greatcoated, jackbooted, and best of all -- in the opinion of the British professional, Major Semple-Lisle -- `` their minds are not estranged from the paths of obedience by those smatterings of knowledge which only serve to lead to insubordination and mutiny ''.
They even accept the `` double standard '' of sex morality in a double sense, i.e., both sexes agree that standards for men differ from standards for women, and women apply to both sexes a standard different from that held by men.
`` They straggle at such a rate '', he told the commander-in-chief, `` that if the enemy were enterprising, they might get two from us, when we would take one of them, which makes me wish General Howe would go on, lest any incident happen to us ''.
They had risen from humble beginnings by their own diligence and astuteness, they were unfettered by the codes that bound nobles like Othon or even the older generation of clerks like Hotham, and they were working for an end that their opponents had never even visualized.
They had other topics of conversation, besides their news from courts and fairs, which were of interest to Othon, the builder of castles in Wales and churches in his native country.
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