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When English raiders arrived in 1808, after sinking or capturing most of the Danish-Norwegian Navy in the Battle of Copenhagen, the amount of gunpowder in Iceland was so small that the governor of Iceland, Count Trampe, could not offer any resistance.
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When he had given the call a few moments thought, he went into the kitchen to ask Mrs. Yamata to prepare tea and sushi for the visitors, using the formal English china and the silver tea service which had been donated to the mission, then he went outside to inspect the grounds.
When the Half Moon put in at Dartmouth, England, in the fall of 1609, word of Hudson's findings leaked out, and English interest in him revived.
:“ When in the autumn the English Eleven went to Australia it was said that they had come to Australia to “ fetch ” the ashes.
Punch had a poem containing the words “ When Ivo comes back with the urn ” and when Ivo Bligh wiped out the defeat Lady Clarke, wife of Sir W. J. Clarke, who entertained the English so lavishly, found a little wooden urn, burnt a bail, put the ashes in the urn, and wrapping it in a red velvet bag, put it into her husband ’ s ( Ivo Bligh ’ s ) hands.
When it comes to the 17th century and anagrams in English or other languages, there is a great deal of documented evidence of learned interest.
His advice has remained in the English language as the saying, " When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
When told they were called " Anglii " ( Angles ), he replied with a Latin pun that translates well into English: “ Bene, nam et angelicam habent faciem, et tales angelorum in caelis decet esse coheredes ” (" It is well, for they have an angelic face, and such people ought to be co-heirs of the angels in heaven ").
When AA was ported to the English Electric KDF9 computer, the character set was changed to ISO and that compiler has been recovered from an old paper tape by the Edinburgh Computer History Project and is available online, as is a high-quality scan of the original Edinburgh version of the Atlas Autocode manual.
When he returns home, Wallace ( Gibson ) falls in love with his childhood sweetheart, Murron MacClannough ( McCormack ), and they marry in secret so that she does not have to spend a night in the bed of the English lord.
When an English soldier tries to rape Murron, Wallace fights off several soldiers and the two attempt to flee.
When Liddell Hart was questioned about this in 1968, and the discrepancy between the English and German editions of Guderian's memoirs, " he gave a conveniently unhelpful though strictly truthful reply.
When the English captured pre-existing colonies they continued to allow the local settlers to keep their civil law.
When the English finally regained control of New Netherland they forced, as a punishment unique in the history of the British Empire, the English common law upon all the colonists, including the Dutch.
When Chicago was incorporated in 1837, it chose the motto Urbs in Horto, a Latin phrase which translates into English as " City in a Garden ".
When the production of Richard Kelly's debut film, Donnie Darko, was threatened, Barrymore stepped forward with financing from Flower Films and took the small role of Karen Pomeroy, the title character's English teacher.
When Defoe visited in the mid 1720s, he claimed that the hostility towards his party was, " because they were English and because of the Union, which they were almost universally exclaimed against ".
When the comic switched to the Tamers series the storylines adhered to continuity more strictly ; sometimes it would expand on subject matter not covered by the original Japanese anime ( such as Mitsuo Yamaki's past ) or the English adaptations of the television shows and movies ( such as Ryo's story or the movies that remained undubbed until 2005 ).
When the Order reached England, many of these attributes were kept, but the English gave the Order additional, specialized characteristics.
When he appeared at the London Palladium music hall in 1948, he " roused the Royal family to shrieks of laughter and was the first of many performers who have turned English variety into an American preserve.
When the demand began to increase rapidly, the English merchants began to kidnap young children and deport them to distant parts of the world, very much against their will.
When he learned English, he realised that verb conjugations were unnecessary, and that grammatical systems could be much simpler than he had expected.
When English explorer John Davis, commander of the Desire, one of the ships belonging to Thomas Cavendish's second expedition to the New World, separated from Cavendish off the coast of what is now southern Argentina, he decided to make for the Strait of Magellan in order to find Cavendish.
When the border between Spain and Gibraltar was eventually closed by the Spanish dictator in 1969, the newspaper changed its ownership and begun to be published in English.
When James inherited the English throne in 1685, he had much support in the ' Loyal Parliament ', which was composed mostly of Tories.
When and raiders
When George was only a week old, George, a sister, and his mother were kidnapped by night raiders from Arkansas.
When the raiders were found to enjoy the spoiled fish, St. Patrick ordered his men to pour lye on the fish, with the hope of poisoning the Vikings.
When Pleasants found out what happened, he grabbed his carbine and started off on foot after the raiders.
When the Lower Creek helped United States forces capture and punish leading raiders, they were punished by the Red Sticks.
When the Russian explorers and raiders arrived to the region in the early 1650 ( notably, during Yerofei Khabarov's 1651 raid ), they would often see the Daur farmers burn their smaller villages and taking refuge in larger towns.
When the raiders ' ship abandons Kari and Olvir, it becomes apparent that the spaceship is actually a transport carrying lazars, sufferers of a leprosy-like disease, to a space station named Terminus.
When the British-allied Cherokee attacked several settlements in the county early in the American War for Independence ( 1776 ), most Tories joined with their Whig neighbors in fighting off the raiders and marching with General Griffith Rutherford in a punitive expedition to devastate the Overhill Cherokee towns across the Blue Ridge Mountains.
When the raiders reached Carlisle they found it held against them by their compatriot, Robert Bruce, lord of Annandale, the son of the recently-deceased Bruce-claimant the Crown.
When the body of Luthor Harkon was unwittingly taken on board the long-boat of Norse raiders and taken to Lustria, he created an undead realm known as the Vampire coast of zombie pirates from shipwrecks that became feared pirates and attacked the Lizardmen of the city of Huatl.
When the raiders had passed on to other regions, a new palace was erected among the ruins of the neighbouring city.
When Caslet sees some of these raiders attacking what he thinks is a Manticore merchant ship he decides to attack the raiders, despite being outnumbered.
When the group is attacked by raiders, Yoren is killed and Arya, Gendry, Hot Pie, and Lommy manage to escape ( Arya also frees three prisoners ).
When Theseus is fourteen, his older friend Diokles is killed by cattle raiders ; Theseus avenges his friend by killing the raider.
When a band of raiders attack Ciran, Joseph uses the ring to summon a Demon of Darkness to save the village.
When and arrived
When the captives arrived in Boston, `` the chaplain ( of their captors ) went to prayers in the open streets, that the people might take notice what they had done in a holy manner, and in the name of the Lord ''.
When I arrived at Viola's I was shown, to my surprise, into the kitchen.
When the police arrived, they found McClellan and the two lawyers sitting and staring silently.
When police arrived the man was still violent, Slate said.
When the latter arrived, he was killed by Seitz von Frauenberg.
When Andronikos arrived he found that his authority was overthrown: Isaac had been proclaimed Emperor.
When D-Day arrived, they had made enough penicillin to treat all the wounded Allied forces.
When the Israelites, led by Joshua toward the Promised Land, arrived at the banks of the River Jordan, the Ark was carried in the lead preceding the people and was the signal for their advance ( Joshua 3: 3, 6 ).
When sitting in review of a decision, the Court will only look at the method in which the decision was arrived at, whereas in an administrative appeal the correctness of the decision itself will be examined, usually by a higher body in the agency.
When Theseus arrived, he did not reveal his true identity.
When Nelson's fleet arrived off Egypt on 1 August and discovered Brueys's dispositions, he ordered an immediate attack, and his ships advanced on the French line.
" When Graham arrived in Greenville, Jones, Jr. emphasized that the basis of the university's position was scriptural and not personal.
When Caliph al-Mu ' izz li Din Allah finally arrived from the old Fatimid capital of Mahdia in Tunisia in 973, he gave the city its present name, al-Qahira (" The Victorious ").
When Beaux arrived in Paris, the Impressionists, a group of artists who had begun their own series of independent exhibitions from the official Salon in 1874, were beginning to lose their solidarity.
When Napoleon arrived, he reorganized the defenses, while realizing that without cannon, the city could not be held.
When the Industrial Revolution arrived, many changes occurred that brought about the food today in its modern form.
When news arrived of Cerialis ' victory over Civilis, Mucianus tactfully dissuaded Domitian from pursuing further military endeavours.
When the invitation arrived, Kaye was busy at work on The Inspector General ( which had a working title of Happy Times for a while ).
When Caraffa's replacement, Count Caprara, was himself transferred in 1694, it seemed that Eugene's chance for command and decisive action had finally arrived.
When the pro-Nestorius Antiochene delegation finally arrived, they decided to convene their own council over which Candidian presided.
When he arrived home, Sullivan learned he would not be able to air the Bergman material from it.
When most of the land army arrived, the King and Queen had a profound dispute.
When the French general Junot arrived in Lisbon, the Portuguese fleet had already left with all the local elite.
When they arrived they found that only 54 of the 193 deportées sent out three years earlier were left ; 11 had escaped, and the rest had died of tropical fevers and other diseases.
When pitcher Roger Clemens arrived in Boston for the first time in 1984, he took a taxi from Logan Airport and was sure the driver had misunderstood his directions when he announced their arrival at the park.
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