Activity by British traders and the presence of a colony on the Red prompted the United State War Department in 1819 to send Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Leavenworth from Detroit to put a post 300 miles northwest of Prairie Du Chien, until then the most advanced United States post.

The first ironclad battleship, with iron armour over a wooden hull, La Gloire, was launched by the French Navy in 1859 ; she prompted the British Royal Navy to build a counter.

The British expedition commander, prompted by the loss of the gunboat, decided to abandon Jan Mayen until the following spring and radioed for a rescue ship.

Higher than normal snow packs in the British Columbia Interior prompted municipal governments to start taking emergency measures in the region.

The ongoing commercial success of the original Land Rover series models, and latterly the Range Rover in the 1970s in the midst of BL ’ s well documented business troubles prompted the establishment of a separate Land Rover company but still under the BL umbrella, remaining part of the subsequent Rover Group in 1988 under the ownership of British Aerospace after the remains of British Leyland were broken up and privatised.

This attack, and the Qatari counterattack, prompted the British political agent, Colonel Lewis Pelly, to impose a settlement in 1868.

" Rather than follow, the British hung back, continuing to fire at long range ; this prompted one French officer to write that the British " only engaged from far off and simply in order to be able to say that they had fought.

The continuing British activity in the Ohio territories prompted Longueuil to dispatch another expedition to the area under the command of Charles Michel de Langlade, an officer in the Troupes de la Marine.

Scandals and the bloody rebellion known as the Sepoy Mutiny prompted the British government to intervene in the affairs of the East India Company.

This 1991 advert prompted more than 800 complaints to the British Advertising Standards Authority during 1991 and was featured in the reference book Guinness World Records 2000 as ' Most Controversial Campaign '.

This, and a string of other French victories in 1757, prompted the British to organize a large-scale attack on the fort as part of a multi-campaign strategy against French Canada.

Dalrymple's claim of the existence of an unknown continent aroused widespread interest and prompted the British government in 1769 to order James Cook in HM Bark Endeavour to seek out the Southern Continent to the South and West of Tahiti.

Walpole continued to govern until his resignation in 1742 prompted by the Battle of Cartagena disaster, making his administration the longest in British history.

Jenin was a major player in the 1936-1939 Arab revolt in Palestine, prompted by the death of Izz ad-Din al-Qassam in a fire-fight with British colonial police at the nearby town of Ya ' bad.

The return of Louisbourg to French control by the peace treaty prompted the British to found Halifax in 1749 under Edward Cornwallis.

The late-18th-century quest for cheap, high-energy food sources for British slaves prompted colonial administrators and plantation owners to call for the introduction of this plant to the Caribbean.

Key influences on the group's new direction were the popularity and success of Jimi Hendrix and the British supergroup Cream, which prompted the Airplane ( like many other groups ) to adopt a ' heavier ' sound and to place a greater emphasis on improvisation.

The name was derived from the city's fierce resistance to British occupation during the Revolutionary War, which prompted the British commander, Lord Cornwallis, to refer to it as " a veritable nest of hornets.

This prompted Spain to send expeditions north to assert Spanish ownership, while Captain James Cook and subsequent expeditions by George Vancouver advanced British claims.

The Egyptian nationalisation of the Suez Canal by President Nasser on 26 July 1956 prompted the British government of Anthony Eden and the French government of Guy Mollet to commence plans for invading Egypt, regaining the canal, and toppling Nasser.

" When the Republic of South Africa ( Transvaal ) formally rejected the notion of British suzerainty as allegedly described by the peace treaty of 1881, Chamberlain and Balfour prompted Salisbury to initiate discussions with Portugal regarding Delagoa Bay.

This prompted the establishment of a working group under the auspices of the British Academy, which includes scholars from the UK, Hungary and the US.

The Texians staged a minor revolt against customs duties in June ; these Anahuac Disturbances prompted Mexican President Antonio López de Santa Anna to send additional troops to Texas.

Internal conflicts turned into full-fledged armed fighting between the two communities on the island which prompted the United Nations to send peacekeeping forces in 1964 ; these forces are still in place today.

At the same time, however, the murder of several Russians under Bering's command by native tribesmen prompted him to send armed men to the north, with orders not to use force if it could be avoided.

There he attended the Market Drayton Grammar School, where his unruly behavior ( and improvement in the family's fortunes ) prompted his father to send him to Merchant Taylors ' School in London.

These prompted Andros to send a force to the duke's territory in Maine, where they established a fort at Pemaquid ( present-day Bristol ).

In 2005, a school teacher in California conceived of a project for her class in which they would send out hundreds of drawings of spiders ( each representing Charlotte ’ s child Aranea going out into the world so that she can return and tell Wilbur of what she has seen ) with accompanying letters ; they ended up visiting a large number of parks, monuments and museums, and were hosted by and / or prompted responses from celebrities and politicians such as John Travolta and then-First Lady Laura Bush.

She worked on both serials simultaneously, and later put Earl Cain on hiatus, which prompted some fans to send her letters asking her to resume the serial instead.

More recent send ups have included a " Theatrical Arrest " prompted by remarks made by the former Home Secretary David Blunkett and a spoof campaign call to some young children after the Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg decided send a recorded message to voters in marginal constituencies.

Localized conflicts such as those in Haiti and the Balkans prompted President Bill Clinton to send in U. S. troops as peacekeepers, reviving the Cold-War-era controversy about whether policing the rest of the world was a proper U. S. role.

The arrival of the Mexican reinforcements prompted Travis to send three men, including Davy Crockett, to find Fannin's force, which he still believed to be en route.

His familiarity with horses from helping his stepfather in his blacksmithing business also prompted the Army to assign Austin to the cavalry and send him to Mexico with General John Pershing's Pancho Villa expedition, for which he was awarded the Mexican Service Medal.

This prompted Carp executives to file an injunction against Soriano, and to send letters to MLB teams demanding that they cease all negotiations with him.

In turn, the private business complaints of the UFC prompted the US embassy in Guatemala City to send alarmist political intelligence to Washington, DC — that Guatemalan President Arévalo Bermejo allowed political rights to Guatemalan communists.

The continued influx of Loyalists during the year 1783 into the Seigniory prompted the population to search out a permanent Minister, and so at the end of the year, a petition was sent to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, begging them to send a Minister of the Gospel to reside in the Seigniory.

The actions of the Greek cavalry in countering Carthaginian foragers prompted Hamilcar to send a letter to Selinus requesting them to send their cavalry to Himera on a given date that Hamilcar was to offer a sacrifice to Poseidon – a Greek deity whose worship probably required the presence of Greeks.

The rise of the Nazi party in Germany, with its open anti-Semitism, prompted his parents to send him out of the country.

However, concerns over the Australian bowling attack prompted Woodfull and the senior players to ask the board to send another spinner.

Violent conduct and fighting prompted English referee Arthur Ellis to send off three players during the match.

In the last expedition's deadlock on the Wuzhang Plains, Sima Yi's reluctance to engage in battle prompted Zhuge Liang to send him a woman's dress in one occasion to mock his tactics.

Riots in the city of Narbonne prompted Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau to send the French army to the city.