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When naval gunfire was brought to bear against the strong-points defending the E-3 draw, a decision was made to try to force this exit with tanks.
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When this news reached England, it confirmed Kidd's reputation as a pirate, and various naval commanders were ordered to " pursue and seize the said Kidd and his accomplices " for the " notorious piracies " they had committed.
When the United States began to expand her navy in the 1930s, she would surpass Britain as the world's premier naval power.
When the army and navy were formed, the uniforms adopted by each service reflected British military and naval tradition.
When asked by his entry in the war diary that seemed to criticise the shootings at Bordeaux, Raeder stated that he was not protesting against the executions per se, but was instead protesting that the shootings had been done by the Kriegsmarine, arguing that the local naval commanders should have handed over the British POWs to the SD to be shot.
When buccaneers raided towns, they did not sail into port and bombard the defenses, as naval forces typically did.
When Vernon had been joined by Sir Chaloner Ogle with massive naval reinforcements and a strong body of troops, an attack was made on Cartagena in what is now Colombia ( 9 March – 24 April 1741 ).
When Númenor grew in naval power, many Númenóreans founded colonies in Middle-earth.
When American and naval military forces decided to occupy California in the late-1840s, representatives of the Mexican Governor Pio Pico broke with the tradition of " granting " land and, instead, sold it, without the usual area limitations to Eulogio de Celis, a native of Spain.
When he possesses a devotee he often pushes himself around the temple on a chair with an oar, shouting naval commands and saluting members of the congregation.
When he is buried, the first Kalo plant springs from his naval.
When war erupts, Chaereas successfully storms the Persian stronghold of Tyre on behalf of the Egyptian rebels, and then wins a naval victory against the Persians, after which the lovers are finally reunited.
When young, he travelled the world extensively as a naval cadet.
When Butch finished his naval aviation training on May 2, 1940, he was assigned to Fighter Squadron Three ( VF-3 ).
When the news of the defeat at the Battle of Hansando reached Toyotomi Hideyoshi, he ordered that the Japanese invasion forces cease all naval operations.
When the Spanish Civil War erupted, Urzaiz was on the pro-fascists nationalist side, becoming a naval commander.
When Godred heard of this he engaged Somerled's forces in the naval Battle of Epiphany in 1156.
When the Peruvian capital of Lima fell after the battles of San Juan and Miraflores, the Peruvian naval officers scuttled the entire fleet to prevent its capture by the Chilean forces.
When steam propulsion began to be applied to warships, naval constructors renewed their interest in armor for their vessels.
When the Free French Forces of Charles de Gaulle liberated the islands of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon south of Newfoundland in December 1941, Hull lodged a very strong protest and even went as far as referring to the Gaullist naval forces as " the so-called Free French.
When the French under Admiral Cécille blockaded Basilan in 1844-45, an island which they called Taguime, intent on establishing a network of naval stations to protect French trade in the area, the Spanish governor protested that Basilan had recognized Spain ’ s sovereignty just the year before, in February 1844.
When the ship was decommissioned, it was decided to restore it as a naval museum rather than to scrap it.
When first discovered on the island of Samothrace ( in Greek, Σαμοθρακη — Samothraki ) and published in 1863 it was suggested that the Victory was erected by the Macedonian general Demetrius I Poliorcetes after his naval victory at Cyprus between 295 and 289 BC.
When Swedish forces took Kronborg in September, they controlled both sides of the Øresund, yet in November a Dutch fleet broke the Swedish naval blockade of Copenhagen in the Battle of the Sound.
When Fish took office he organized the Korean naval expedition and broadened the purposes.
When and gunfire
When the fighting broke out around 3: 00 PM the German position was immediately surrounded by gunfire, which Stark described as " the hottest engagement I have ever witnessed, resembling a continual clap of thunder.
When gunfire disrupts the elderly Baron's story, the importance of saving the city eclipses the show.
When the tug attempted to retrieve the barges at 10: 50 a. m., gunfire drove it off.
When they arrived at Trujillo, however, they heard gunfire, and came upon a battle in progress that had been waged for 55 hours between rebels called Bonillista and Honduran government soldiers at a local fort.
When Dillinger and the man identified as Floyd ( not confirmed ) emerged from the bank with sacks containing $ 28, 000, they brought three hostages with them ( including the bank president ) to deter gunfire from three patrolmen on the scene.
When standing up to move, the men were visible to the Ottoman defenders on the surrounding hills, thereby summoning a hail of gunfire and shrapnel.
When she heard the gunfire, she grabbed the children and pushed them to the floor beneath the bench, where she shielded them with her body.
When trench warfare began, the number of casualties on all sides suffering from severe head wounds ( more often caused by shrapnel than by gunfire ) increased dramatically.
When the monsters are supposed to be wounded or killed by gunfire, Gordon merely tipped the photograph and the grasshoppers slid down it.
When the gunfire subsides, the footage shows Jamal sitting upright, appearing to have been injured, and Muhammad lying over his legs.
" When drunk, Brocius was also known for a mean sense of humor and for such " practical jokes " as using gunfire to make a preacher " dance " during a sermon or forcing Mexicans at a community dance to take off their clothes and dance naked.
When they eventually all meet, mass fighting and gunfire ensue.
When the gunfire died down Mather was still standing.
When and was
When they were closer and he saw that one was a woman, he was more puzzled than ever.
When the meal was ready, he told Jones to wash up, and going into the front room, woke the girl.
When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.
When he regained consciousness he was in Lord's house, in the office of Doctor Lord, the deputy's deceased father.
When it was followed by a second, whining even closer, Cobb swerved sharply aside into a depression.
When the sea was visible ahead of them, the relief was as great as if the sun had come out.
When she appeared at the store to help out for a few hours even my looking at her was surreptitious lest my Uncle notice it.
When our eyes met the air was filled with an unuttered message of `` Me, too ''.
`` When I was in college '', I grinned, `` I remember a poem I had to read in my lit class.
When they got to Shillong, in Assam, he was happy.
`` When I came up, damnit, I thought I was going down.
When he awoke in the mornings, she was in his mind and he could hardly wait to get to school to be near her in the flesh.
When he came back to the schoolhouse, his mind was made up.
When he finally left the sinister mansion on Perdido Street, he was carried out in a coroner's basket.
When he was eight he began violin lessons.
When the possibility that he had not given reconsideration to so weighty a decision seemed to disconcert his questioners, Mr. Eisenhower was known to make his characteristic statement to the press that he was not going to talk about the matter any more.
When he was stripped, deloused and numbered by his guards, his much-thumbed sketchbook was seized and thrown on a pile of prisoners' goods to be confiscated.
When her right hand was incapacitated by the rheumatism, Sadie learned to write with her left hand.
When Harold Arlen returned to California in the winter of 1944, it was to take up again a collaboration with Johnny Mercer, begun some years before.
When he was fifteen John H. Mercer turned out his first song, a jazzy little thing he called `` Sister Susie, Strut Your Stuff ''.
When he heard that Paul Whiteman was looking for singers to replace the Rhythm Boys, Mercer applied and got the job, `` not for my voice, I'm sure, but because I could write songs and material generally ''.
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