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Although the fort was evacuated in the face of the force of Cornwallis, Morgan and his men did have a chance to take another swing at the redcoats.
-- Matheson highest purity tank chlorine was passed through a tube of resublimed Af into an evacuated Pyrex system where it was condensed with liquid air.
At the time of his appointment, his destination Nashville had been evacuated by the Confederates after the fall of Ft. Donelson, and the government which he was displacing had fled to Memphis.
Concluding that he did not have the numbers to defend the settlement, Suetonius evacuated and abandoned it — Londinium was burnt to the ground, as was Verulamium ( St Albans ).
Londinium was abandoned to the rebels who burnt it down, slaughtering anyone who had not evacuated with Suetonius.
Again an Expeditionary Force was sent to France, only to be hastily evacuated as the German forces swept through the Low Countries and across France in 1940.
Later, when he returned to the front, he was informed that his company had been chosen to hold the final lines when Gallipoli was evacuated.
He was the second to last man to be evacuated from Suvla Bay ( the last being General F. S.
In the course of very accurate quantitative chemical work, he was weighing samples in a partially evacuated chamber to reduce the effect of air currents, and noticed the weighings were disturbed when sunlight shone on the balance.
On the other hand, in World War II, diplomatic immunity was upheld and the embassies of the belligerents evacuated through neutral countries.
In the experiment a sample of radium was enclosed in a thin walled glass envelope sited within an evacuated glass bulb.
During World War II ( 1939 – 1945 ) the Rock was again turned into a fortress and the civilian residents of Gibraltar were evacuated.
U. S. citizens were evacuated, and constitutional government was resumed.
Stephenson in person evacuated the injured Huskisson to Eccles with a train, but the injury was beyond help.
Cartimandua was evacuated, and Venutius was left in control of the north of the country.
Paris fell to the Germans on 14 June 1940, and the French leaders surrendered on 24 June 1940 after the British Expeditionary Force was evacuated from Dunkirk.
Italy occupied Vlorë, and Serbia and Montenegro occupied parts of northern Albania until a Central Powers offensive scattered the Serbian army, which was evacuated by the French to Thessaloniki.
Shortly after Bernard Montgomery had been appointed to command II Corps, Alexander was, while still on the beachhead, placed in command of I Corps, and left the beach on the last destroyer on 3 June after ensuring that all British troops had been evacuated.
Informal discussions did take place with Secretary of State William Seward through Supreme Court Justice John A. Campbell, an Alabamian who had not yet resigned ; Seward hinted that Fort Sumter would be evacuated, but nothing definite was said.
Throughout Justinian's reign, the cities and villages of the East prospered, although Antioch was struck by two earthquakes ( 526, 528 ) and sacked and evacuated by the Persians ( 540 ).
The Chinese Muslim Association was also sponsored by the Kuomintang, and it evacuated from the mainland to Taiwan with the party.
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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.
You see, he lied to us when he said he was leavin alone ''.
He was too old -- when he passed up and through the corridor of pines that lined the trail he could see ahead, he was passing from life.
A bullet tore the earth from beneath his foot when he was a stride or two from safety.
It was a relief when they finally came.
He was riding between two warriors, who held him erect when he started to slump.
Once, pressing him, I learned that his job was only part-time, in the afternoons when nothing went on in the hall.
Now, here was something of obvious importance to me, yet when I reached for the tickets he snatched them away from my hand.
At last, when I put it to him directly, the clerk was forced to admit that the delay in my case was unusual.
The slight flutter that had disturbed the motion of her heart when she entered the forest was gone now, and even the dim groves of trees through which she occasionally passed did not reawaken her fear.
If, when this was all over, she found the words to tell him about it, she wondered if he would ever understand.
How could he comprehend her need when he himself was innocent??
His face was stiff with anger when they let go of his arms.
He was uttering threats in a low but savage voice when they closed and padlocked the door.
No man's name brought more cheers when it was announced in a rodeo.
In the cow camps, Tom Horn was regarded as a hero, as the same kind of champion he was when he entered and invariably won the local rodeos.
Out in the center of the circle the farmer, who was Dan, wasted no time when they came to the line, `` The farmer choose his wife ''.
Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.
Stevens was grunting over the last empty pocket when Russ abruptly rose and lunged toward Carmer's hat, which had tumbled half-a-dozen feet away when he first fell.
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The Sports Complex was designed and founded by resident Steve Johnson and includes one baseball diamond, two softball diamonds, a golf course, a swimming pool, skydiving cliff, snorkeling pools, a geyser, concession stand, and a walking track.
A longer look showed him that the drawing was actually the Old Faithful geyser.
Old Faithful was named in 1870 during the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition and was the first geyser in the park to receive a name.
The first geyser they saw was Old Faithful.
The boat dock was located near the south end of the geyser basin near Lakeside Spring.
It was the first geyser described in a printed source and the first known to modern Europeans.
In 1935 a manmade channel was dug through the silica rim around the edge of the geyser vent.
Strokkur was first mentioned in 1789, after an earthquake unblocked the conduit of the geyser.
The geyser was dormant from 1911 to 1961.
In Florence there was a predilection for having many small thin elegant jets of water, even when there was enough water to have a large geyser.
In 1919, geologists noted a lake covering a large part of the caldera floor, but by 1923 the lake was gone and numerous fumaroles, mud pots, and a large mud geyser had replaced it.
The explosion sent a geyser of water in the air ; the blast was felt as far away as Princeton, New Jersey.
The canyon below the Lower Yellowstone Falls was at one time the site of a geyser basin that was the result of rhyolite lava flows, extensive faulting, and heat beneath the surface ( related to the hot spot ).
No one is sure exactly when the geyser basin was formed in the area, although it was probably present at the time of the last glaciation.
When the old geyser basin was active, the " cooking " of the rock caused chemical alterations in these iron compounds.
A gravely ill Isis saves Adam from Death using her powers to send Death into the sky with a geyser of lava, and tells Adam with her dying breaths that she was wrong to try to change his views on justice, and that he should avenge both her and Osiris.
The geyser was named by the Hayden Geological Survey of 1871.
His attack took so long to charge Diver was able to ruin it with a water geyser.
When the geyser was given this name in 1870, the top edges of the structure resembled the typical profile associated with the modern concept of a castle, having the appearance of a large keep, multiple turrets, and especially because of the crenellation along the top edges of what resembled its towers.
Colter reportedly visited at least one geyser basin, though it is now believed that he most likely was near present-day Cody, Wyoming, which at that time may have had some geothermal activity to the immediate west .< ref name =" NPS ">
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