When they noticed the presence in the escort of the old battleship, HMS Ramillies, they fled the scene, rather than risk damage from her 15 " guns.

When HMS Beagle called at Cape Town, Captain Robert FitzRoy and the young naturalist Charles Darwin visited Herschel on 3 June 1836.

When HMS Lowestoffe raised its flag as it neared Quebec, Lévis raised the siege and retreated to Montreal, where he surrendered in September to overwhelming British forces that approached the city from three directions.

When the news of the fighting reached the Governor in Wellington, he ordered HMS Driver to take reinforcements to Petone.

When the survey voyage of HMS Beagle visited the Galápagos Islands in September to October 1835, the naturalist Charles Darwin noticed that the mockingbirds Mimus thenca differed from island to island, and were closely allied in appearance to mockingbirds on the South American mainland.

When the preparation of the First Fleet was in progress, he was made second-in-command on HMS Sirius.

When serving on HMS Phaeton, Beaufort was badly wounded leading a cutting-out operation off Malaga in 1800 that resulted in the capture of the 14-gun polacca Calpe.

When Charles Darwin presented his mammal and bird specimens collected during the second voyage of HMS Beagle to the Geological Society of London at their meeting on 4 January 1837, the bird specimens were given to Gould for identification.

When the new King Otto arrived in the Greek capital, Nafplion, in 1832 aboard the British warship HMS Madagascar, the Greek fleet consisted of 1 corvette, 3 brigs, 6 gollettes, 2 gunboats, 2 steamboats and a few more small vessels.

When she was diverted to New Orleans for the forthcoming battle, the body was later shipped on the British ship HMS Royal Oak to Halifax, Nova Scotia, where his body was interred on 29 September 1814 in the Old Burying Ground.

When he threatens to kill Jack too, Jack reveals to Barbossa that he has led the British Royal Navy to the island and he convinces Barbossa to capture the HMS.

When, on 11 May 1749, Commodore Keppel sailed from Plymouth to the Mediterranean, as Commodore commanding the Mediterranean Fleet, ( with his pennant in his old ship HMS Centurion intending to persuade the Dey of Algiers to restrain the piratical operations of his subjects ) Reynolds travelled with him as far as Minorca and there painted the first of his 6 portraits of Keppel, left, along with others of officers of the British garrison there.

When the damage done to the Bon Homme Richard proved irreparable, the Americans boarded the HMS Serapis and departed the scene.

When the survivors of HMS Sheffield, sunk in 1982 in the Falklands War, were awaiting rescue, they were reported to have sung the Monty Python song " Always Look on the Bright Side of Life ".

When men from his flagship HMS Venerable clambered up into the rigging and roared three cheers in a prearranged signal for the revolt to begin on 1 May, Duncan initially threatened to run the ringleader through with his sword.

When news of this decision reached the Admiralty, they recalled Duncan's blockade fleet to Yarmouth for a refit on 1 October, the admiral insisting on sending some of his ships back to the Dutch coast two days later under Captain Henry Trollope in HMS Russell accompanied by HMS Adamant and the small ships HMS Beaulieu, HMS Circe and HMS Martin with the hired lugger Black Joke.

When the destroyer HMS Sheffield was struck by an Exocet cruise missile on May 4, 1982 in the Falklands War, her crew sang it while waiting to be rescued from their sinking ship, as did the crew of HMS Coventry.

When the Second World War started, Ryder was serving as a Lieutenant Commander on HMS Warspite.

When HMS Prince of Wales and Repulse were sunk in December 1941, the Royal Marines survivors joined up with the remnants of the 2nd Battalion, in the defence of Singapore.

When the city fell to the Turks in 1453, the church was demolished to make room for the tomb of Mehmet II the Conqueror.

When the Normans had control of Maine, William the Conqueror was able to invade England successfully ; however in 1069 the citizens revolted and expelled the Normans, which led to Hugh being proclaimed count of Maine.

When James I, the Conqueror, king of Aragon and count of Barcelona, founded the Kingdom of Majorca in 1276, Perpignan became the capital of the mainland territories of the new state.

When Edward died in 1066 he was succeeded by Harold Godwinson, who was defeated and killed in the same year by the Normans under William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings.

When the Hafsid Emir of Tunisia, Muhammad I al-Mustansir, who had put himself under James the Conqueror, died in 1277, Tunisia threw off the yoke of Aragonese suzerainty.

When, in 1069, Malcolm Canmore and William the Conqueror held a conference regarding the claims of Edgar Atheling to the English Crown, they met at Abernithi – a term which in the old British tongue means a port at the mouth of the Nith.

When Edwin's lands were confiscated by the William the Conqueror, the village was granted to Roger de Mowbray who then passed the Manor to his friend, William de Tykhill, a former Warden of Foss Bridge.

When Edwin's lands were confiscated by the William the Conqueror, the village was granted to Roger de Mowbray who then passed the Manor to his friend, William de Tykhill, a former Warden of Foss Bridge.

When William the Conqueror invaded Sussex in September 1066 there were no defenders at Pevensey and the bay provided a safe haven for the invading fleet.

When King Harold was defeated, William the Conqueror gave Oadby to Hugh de Grandmesnil, Governor of Leicestershire, who founded the parish church of Oadby on the site of the present St Peter's Church.

:" When the thera ( elder ) Moggaliputta, the illuminator of the religion of the Conqueror ( Ashoka ), had brought the ( third ) council to an end … he sent forth theras, one here and one there: … and to Aparantaka ( the " Western countries " corresponding to Gujarat and Sindh ) he sent the Greek ( Yona ) named Dhammarakkhita ... and the thera Maharakkhita he sent into the country of the Yona ".

When William the Conqueror, initiated a census of his conquered land, the " Domesday Book ", as it was called, was interpreted by the many of the English as being the " Book of Life " written of in Revelation.

:" When the thera Moggaliputta, the illuminator of the religion of the Conqueror, had brought the ( third ) council to an end (…) he sent forth theras, one here and one there:

:" When the thera Moggaliputta, the illuminator of the religion of the Conqueror, had brought the ( third ) council to an end (…) he sent forth theras, one here and one there:

When William the Conqueror defeated Harold Godwinson and the English at The Battle of Hastings on 14 October 1066, he continued to face resistance to his rule in the north of England.

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When the Young Avengers tell Iron Lad that this is most likely the event that will lead him down the path to becoming Kang the Conqueror, he states that " I will be better than Kang the Conqueror ", and disappears into the timestream.

Iron Lad's attraction to Stature and identity as a younger version of Kang the Conqueror is referenced in the mc chris song " Nrrrd Grrrl ": " Wanna conquer her like Kang, When you kiss like Cassie Lang.

When Dante overthrows Tsar Vladimir the Conqueror he is imprisoned but escaped and is now on his Father's side again.

When the Christian king Jaime I the Conqueror conquered the city, in spite of the existing pact with the Muslims of the city that prevented destroying any mosque, the king Jaime I took the Great Mosque or Aljamía to consecrate it to the Virgin Mary, since he had the custom to offer a mass to Our Lady whenever he conquered a village.

When he sank on his knees, they had allowed him to char without administering the stroke of mercy.

When it finally sank in, the crowd swarmed onto the field, cheering loudly and chairing Boyle and Spofforth to the pavilion.

When the Greeks left without killing Ajax, despite their sacrifices Athena became so angry that she persuaded Zeus to send a storm that sank many of their ships.

When U-41 surfaced near Baralong, the latter opened fire while continuing to fly the American flag, and sank the U-boat.

When the dummy monster broke loose from the Pisces during filming and sank to the bottom of the loch, Vickers executives capitalised on the loss and ' monster fever ' by allowing the sub to do a bit of exploring.

When in the course of the year the king sank into a condition of mental torpor, Struensee's authority became paramount.

When Ravel awoke from the anaesthesia, he asked for his brother, but quickly sank into a deep coma, from which he never awoke.

When Arnold and his troops, making up the rear guard of the army, abandoned Fort Saint-Jean, they burned or sank all the boats they could not use, and set fire to the sawmill and the fort.

When far out at sea, he removed his heel, and the canoe sank.

When a ship foundered, local wreckers would scavenge what they could of the ship's cargo before it sank, hiding their pilfered rum behind, and sometimes in, the same large sand dunes where the Wright Brothers would later perform glider tests, before flying their first plane from level ground nearby.

When his ship sank, he saved himself from drowning by clinging to a barrel.

When the glaciers of the north of the island of Great Britain melted, the south of England sank slightly, flooding the Solent valley and Southampton Water to form their characteristic rias ( flooded estuaries ).

When the original Tombs building was condemned and demolished at the end of the century, builders sank enormous concrete caissons to bedrock, as much as 140 feet below street level, in order to give its replacement more secure foundations.

When the Israeli missile boats reached the range of their own missiles they fired five Gabriel missiles and sank one Komar and one Osa class missile boat immediately and damaged the second Komar.

When the coconut sank, a drum would be beaten to signal the end of a round.

When he let out a surprised cry, Melusina caught sight of him, and her bath immediately sank into the solid rock, carrying her with it.

When Grand Central Depot was opened in the 1870s, the railroad tracks between 56th and 96th Streets were sank out of sight, and, in 1888, Park Avenue was extended to the Harlem River.

When the Lacey V. Murrow Memorial Bridge sank, it severed the anchor cables of the bridge parallel to it.

When the sank in 1963, SOSUS helped determine its location.

When she washed the blood away, the spindle fell from her hand and sank out of sight.

When sank the 9, 500 ton Norwegian tanker Norness within sight of Long Island in the early hours of 14 January, no warships were dispatched to investigate, allowing the U-123 to sink the 6, 700 ton British tanker Coimbra off Sandy Hook on the following night before proceeding south towards New Jersey.

When the ferry MV Bukoba sank in Lake Victoria in 1996, taking al-Qaeda co-founder Abu Ubaidah al-Banshiri with it, Mohammed was one of the individuals sent to the scene by al-Qaeda, attempting to verify that Abu Ubaidah was dead, and had not in fact defected.

When they eventually decided to depart for England, their ship almost sank in a storm before it reached Margate.

When aircraft from four Japanese carriers attacked Midway Island, the three U. S. carriers, warned by broken Japanese codes and waiting in ambush, attacked and sank three enemy carriers – Akagi, Kaga, Soryu.