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Two hundred ships and thousands of soldiers, an appreciable portion of the city's total manpower, were lost in a single stroke.
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Maple and ash, beech and elm, one hundred to win on Three in the fourth, fifty to win on Six in the third, one hundred to win on Two in the eighth.
Two hundred and nineteen were received from 35 of our 50 United States and 11 came from foreign countries.
Two hundred years later western and central Anatolia came under Roman control, but it continued to be strongly influenced by Hellenistic culture.
Two hundred years before Michell wrote the above, there were no archaeoastronomers and there were no professional archaeologists, but there were astronomers and antiquarians.
In 860, an attack was made on the city by a new principality set up a few years earlier at Kiev by Askold and Dir, two Varangian chiefs: Two hundred small vessels passed through the Bosporus and plundered the monasteries and other properties on the suburban Prince's Islands.
The 1701 broadside song Captain Kid's Farewell to the Seas, or, the Famous Pirate's Lament lists “ Two hundred bars of gold, and rix dollars manifold, we seized uncontrolled ”.
* Rasperger ( Raspergero ), Christopher ( Christophorus, Christoph, Christophoro, Christophe ) Two hundred interpretations of the words: This is my Body, Ingolstadt, 1577 Latin text.
Two hundred managed to get away ; some joined partisan units operating in the area.
Two inlets, Elphinstone ( Khawr ash Shamm ) and Malcom ( Ghubbat al Ghazirah ), cleave the coastline about one third of the distance from the Strait of Hormuz and at one point are separated by only a few hundred meters of land.
* In Aztec mythology, a pantheon of four hundred rabbit gods known as Centzon Totochtin, led by Ometotchtli or Two Rabbit, represented fertility, parties, and drunkenness.
( Two Remans appear in the background in an episode of Star Trek Enterprise which, while set two hundred years before the events of Star Trek: Nemesis, was filmed after the movie's publication.
Two types of star clusters can be distinguished: globular clusters are tight groups of hundreds of thousands of very old stars which are gravitationally bound, while open clusters, more loosely clustered groups of stars, generally contain fewer than a few hundred members, and are often very young.
Two hundred years after the construction of Ptolemy's canal, Cleopatra seems to have had no west-east waterway passage, because the Pelusiac branch of the Nile River, which had fed Ptolemy's west-east canal, had by that time dwindled, being choked with silt.
Two hundred and twelve people were injured, but there were no fatalities.
Two bridges connect the building with the shore, four hundred visitors at a time can enter the building and be within the fog mass.
Two hundred and three boroughs existed in England before the Act.
Two officers and three protesters were injured and more than a hundred people were arrested.
Two hundred blacks were also beaten and killed by white militias and mobs reacting with violence.
Two hundred years later, this became the seat of the local bishop ; but in 1088, this had been removed to Bath.
Two hundred people were gathered together on the U. S. West Coast to work on the project, away from corporate prodding, in an attempt to mirror Cray's off-site lab.
Two hundred and forty zines that R. Seth Friedman donated are in the collection of the San Francisco Public Library.
Two hundred and fifty soldiers who died in the campus hospital were buried in a cemetery on the grounds of the university.
Two hundred years to the day since King Gustav III of Sweden | Gustav III, who founded Dramaten, was assassinated ( 16 March 1792 ), von Sydow attended a meeting there commemorating the date, 16 March 1992 ; this photo was taken in the stage entrance.
Two and ships
Two of the ships were destroyed and the others surrendered to Alfred ’ s forces.
Two battered ships drift in the foreground while smoke and flame boil from a third.
Two other French ships still flew the tricolour, but neither was in a position to either retreat or fight.
Two Panamax ships in the Miraflores ( Panama ) | Miraflores Locks on the Panama Canal, Panama.
Two United States navy ships, USS Centaurus ( AKA-17 ) and USS Centaurus ( AK-264 ), are named after the constellation.
Two Dutch ships and numerous Chinese trading junks are depicted.
* 1903: Two first diesel-powered ships were launched, both for river and canal operations: Petite-Pierre in France, powered by Dyckhoff-built diesels, and Vandal tanker in Russia, powered by Swedish-built diesels with an electrical transmission.
Then NTPF became the Afloat Prepositioning Force ( AFP ) and eventually Maritime Prepositioning ship Squadron Two ( MPSRON 2 ) consisting of 20 deep-water pre-positioned logistics ships anchored in the lagoon.
The atoll shelters the ships of the US Marine Pre-positioning Squadron Two.
Two ships of the United States Navy were named Ethan Allen in his honor, as were two 19th-century fortifications: a Civil War fort in Arlington, Virginia and a cavalry outpost in Colchester and Essex, Vermont.
Two of its ships, financed by merchants from Amsterdam and Enkhuizen, reached Jan Mayen in July 1614.
Two ships of the Prinz Adalbert class were commissioned in 1904, followed by two similar Roon class commissioned in 1905 and 1906, at costs around 17 million GM each.
Two more ships of the class were later laid down, but never completed.
* 1879 – War of the Pacific: Two Chilean ships blocking the harbor of Iquique ( then belonging to Peru ) battle two Peruvian vessels in the Battle of Iquique.
Two ships of the German Imperial Navy ( Kaiserliche Marine ), and the from the World War II – era, were named after him.
Two U-boats that survived Operation Deadlight are today museum ships.
Two ships of the Continental Navy were named Enterprise:
* June – Two ships enter the Bristol Channel bringing the bubonic plague to England.
Two ships of the United States Navy have borne the name USS Salt Lake City, in honor of the city in Utah which has served successively as the capital of the Provisional State of Deseret, the Utah Territory, and the 45th state.
Two of the ships were wrecked off Cyprus, but the ship bearing Joan and Berengaria made it safely to Limassol.
Two ships of the United States Navy have been named after the city, including USS Montgomery ( LCS-8 ).
Two survey ships were named for him, the A. D. Bache of 1871 and its successor in 1901.
Two members of Bouchard's contingent made contact with the garrison soldiers and made their demand for provisions, which was rebuffed with added threats: Lieutenant Argüello replied that if the ships did not sail away the garrison would gladly provide " an immediate supply of shot and shell ".
Two Royal Norwegian Navy ships – King Haakon VII, an escort ship in commission from 1942 to 1951, and Haakon VII, a training ship in commission from 1958 to 1974 — have been named after King Haakon VII.
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