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Two small battles occurred in what would become the County during the Revolutionary War between Patriot Militia and Tories ; the area was then primarily frontier and loyalties were badly divided.
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The double editorial on Two Aspects Of `` The U.S. Spirit '' was subtly calculated to suggest a moral sanction for gambles great as well as small, reflecting popular approval of this questionable attitude toward the highest office in the land.
Two of the fluids showed a high-positive normal pressure when undergoing shear, and two showed small negative pressures which were negligible in comparison with the amount of the positive pressures generated by the other two.
Two days after Theodosius arrived in Constantinople, 24 November 380, he expelled the Homoiousian bishop, Demophilus of Constantinople, and surrendered the churches of that city to Gregory Nazianzus, the leader of the rather small Nicene community there, an act which provoked rioting.
Two small sanctuaries, with terracotta votive offerings of Graeco-Phoenician age, lie not far off, but the location of the great shrines of Adonis and Aphrodite have not been identified ( M. Ohnefalsch-Richter, Kypros, i. ch. 1 ).
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.
Two of his earliest film roles include small parts as uniformed police officers in both the 1972 film The Hot Rock and 1974's Death Wish.
Two small companies were detached to procure boats, and Allen took the main contingent north to Hand's Cove in Shoreham to prepare for the crossing.
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Two teams occupy opposite halves of a small swimming pool / field and take turns sending a " raider " into the other half, in order to win points by tackling members of the opposing team ; then the raider tries to return to his own half, holding his breath and chanting the word " Kabaddi " during the whole raid.
Two small groups of achondrites are special, as they are younger and do not appear to come from the asteroid belt.
Two movie cameramen had their film flown out daily in a small plane from a specially prepared airstrip.
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Two small groups speak languages of the Khoisan family peculiar to the Bushman and Khoikhoi peoples.
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Two additional differences that favour banks is that they are more accessible for small and medium companies, and that they have the ability to create money as they lend.
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Two and a half months were needed to reach the city, at the cost of repeated battles against the Dahomean warriors, especially the Amazons of the King.
Two major military battles occurred near the city: in 732, the Battle of Poitiers ( also known as the Battle of Tours ), in which the Franks commanded by Charles Martel halted the expansion of the Umayyad Caliphate, and in 1356, the Battle of Poitiers, a key victory for English forces during the Hundred Years ' War.
Two attempts by the Japanese to continue their strategic initiative and offensively extend their outer defensive perimeter in the south and central Pacific to where they could threaten Australia and Hawaii or the US West Coast were thwarted at the naval battles of Coral Sea and Midway respectively.
Two Civil War battles took place in Rockingham County, one at Cross Keys, just southeast of Harrisonburg, and another at Port Republic, along the South Fork of the Shenandoah River just north of Grottoes.
Two battles in the American Civil War were fought in Cynthiana ; the first on July 17, 1862, was part of a raid into Kentucky by Confederate General John Hunt Morgan ; the second on June 11 and 12, 1864, resulted in defeat of Confederate forces on Morgan's last raid into the state.
Two battles between Union and Confederate forces occurred here, resulting in the destruction of Pensacola.
Two other Revolutionary battles were fought in what is now Barnwell County, the Battle of Morris Ford and the Battle of Red Hill.
Two of the most decisive battles were the Battle of Boyacá and the Vargas Swamp Battle ( 1819 ) won by the patriot forces against the royalists.
Two branches of their descendants left Egypt and Scythia at the time of the Exodus of Moses, and after a period of wandering the shores of the Mediterranean ( including sustained settlements at Miletus and Zancle ) arrived in the Iberian Peninsula, where they settled after several battles.
Two major battles of that war took place in the region: the Battle of Nördlingen ( 1634 ) and the Battle of Nördlingen ( 1645 ).
Georgy Zhukov was the most prominent Soviet military commander during the World War Two, winning several critical battles, such as the Siege of Leningrad, the Battle of Stalingrad, and Battle of Berlin.
Two battles were fought in the town: in November 1643, Royalists caught the garrison unaware and carried away prisoners and booty ; in February 1645, Sir Marmaduke Langdale, commanding a Royalist force of 1, 500 men, inflicted severe losses on the Roundheads.
Two well-known naval battles took place off Lagos, reflecting its strategic location: in the Battle of Lagos ( 1693 ) a French flotilla defeated a combined Anglo-Dutch force, while in the Battle of Lagos ( 1759 ) a British force defeated a French force.
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