After a White House huddle between the President and top lieutenants, the Defense Department reacted sharply to a cry from the pro-Western government of Laos that several battalions of Communist troops had invaded Laos from North Viet Nam.

* 1814 – British troops invade Washington, D. C. and during the Burning of Washington the White House is set ablaze, though not burned to the ground ; as well as several other buildings.

This battle marked the effective end of resistance to the expeditionary force, but the gunboats were called into service to transport troops to Fashoda, south along the White Nile, where a small force of French troops had made a difficult land crossing and staked a claim to the area.

The troops of the Red Guards were not professional soldiers but armed civilians, whose military training and discipline were mostly inadequate to resist the counter-attack of the White Army when it came, still less the onslaught of the German forces who arrived later.

On 30 January 1918 General Mannerheim proclaimed to Russian soldiers in Finland that the White army did not fight against Russia: the goal of the White campaign was to beat the Finnish Red rebels and the Russian troops supporting them.

Representatives of White Finland in Berlin duly requested help on 14 February ; on 13 February the German Imperial Military Council had made the decision to send troops to Finland.

In 1918, Tsaritsyn was besieged by White troops under Ataman Krasnov.

Three assaults by White troops were repulsed.

In 1814, during the War of 1812, the White House was set ablaze by British troops during the Burning of Washington, in retaliation for burning Upper Canada's Parliament Buildings in the Battle of York ; much of Washington was affected by these fires as well.

Of the numerous objects taken from the White House when it was ransacked by British troops, only two have been recovered.

Even so, the practice continued until 1885, when newly elected Grover Cleveland arranged for a presidential review of the troops from a grandstand in front of the White House instead of the traditional open house.

* Kavadh I returns from exile with support of 30, 000 troops from the Hephthalites ( White Huns ) and becomes again king of Persia.

White Hall houses the 365th Training Squadron which train aircraft avionics troops.

He was soon defeated by the forces of Emperor Ferdinand II at the Battle of White Mountain in 1620, and Spanish and Bavarian troops soon occupied the Palatinate itself.

* Timur leads his army against troops of the White Horde which have arrived at Sighnaq.

As a result of earlier mis-landings, and now because of their own mis-landing, the troops of C / 116 found themselves alone at Dog White, with only a handful of tanks from the first wave in sight.

By 09: 00 more than 600 American troops, in groups ranging from company sized to just a few men, had reached the top of the bluff opposite Dog White and were advancing inland.

for this are as follows: Wilfred P. Deac, " Road to the Killing Fields: The Cambodian War of 1970-1975 " ( Texas A & M University Press, 1997 ) pp. 61 – 2 ; Robert Dallek, " Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power ," ( Harper Collins, 2007 ), p. 191 ; Steve Heder " Cambodian Communism and the Vietnamse Model, Volume I: Imitation and Independence, 1930-1975 ," ( White Lotus Press, 2004 ), p. 156.: It seems likely that Lon Nol initially intended to strengthen his position against the North Vietnamese with the ultimate aim of preventing their troops ( and those of the Viet Cong ) from operating within Cambodian borders, and wished to apply pressure on Sihanouk to achieve this.

The deportations and Macmillan's involvement later became a source of controversy because of the harsh treatment meted out to Nazi collaborators and anti-partisans by the receiving countries, and because in the confusion V Corps went beyond the terms agreed at Yalta and Allied Forces Headquarters directives by repatriating 4000 White Russian troops and 11, 000 civilian family members who could not properly be regarded as Soviet citizens.

In response, the Thule organised a citizens ' uprising as White troops entered the city on 1 May.

After sharp fighting, the Union troops entrenched nearby along the Boydton Plank Road and Johnson withdrew to his lines at White Oak Road.

On the right, the vanguard of the war was the Jägers who had been moved to Finland by the end of 1917, and the most active volunteer White Guards of Viipuri province in the southeastern corner of Finland, southwestern Finland, and southern Ostrobothnia.

As the German army seized Helsinki, the White Army shifted its military focus to Viipuri, taking it on 29 April 1918 with a major attack of 18, 500 men, against 15, 000 Red troopers.

During the Finnish Civil War, Kekkonen fought for the White Guard ( Kajaani chapter ), fighting in Kuopio, Varkaus, Mouhu and Viipuri, and taking part in mop-up operations, including leading a firing squad in Hamina.

During the Civil War in Finland ( 1918 ), Airo served in the artillery on the White side, taking part in battles near Viipuri.

White forces headed by General Carl Mannerheim controlled the northernmost five-sixths of Finland, while the Reds controlled the Southernmost region, containing approximately half of the country's population and including the cities of Pori, Turku, Tampere, Riihimäki, Helsinki, Kotka, and Viipuri.

At 4 p.m. the President left the White House to welcome the young musicians, students from the ages of 12 to 18 who spend six weeks at the Brevard Music Center summer camp, and to greet the 325 crippled, cardiac and blind children from the District area who were special guests at the concert.

This area of Manhattan is often called the Theater District or the Great White Way, a nickname originating in the headline " Found on the Great White Way " in the February 3, 1902 edition of the New York Evening Telegram.

This area would be the location of many new hominin fossils particularly those uncovered by the teams of Tim White in the 1990s, such as Ardipithecus ramidus.

White corn is planted heavily in the area both for use in fattening the ducks and geese for foie gras and for the production of millas, a cornmeal porridge.

In recent years, the agency began undertaking a large-scale effort to consolidate its operations in the Washington Metropolitan Area from its main headquarters in Rockville and several fragmented office buildings in the vicinity to the former site of the Naval Ordnance Laboratory in the White Oak area of Silver Spring, Maryland.

The White Army controlled the area to the north, which was predominantly agrarian with small or medium-sized farms and tenant farmers, and where crofters were few, or held a better social position than in the south.

Enclaves of the opposing forces existed on both sides of the front line: within the White area lay the industrial towns of Varkaus, Kuopio, Oulu, Raahe, Kemi and Tornio ; within the Red area lay Porvoo, Kirkkonummi and Uusikaupunki.

This report led to more intensive searches in the area and in the White River National Wildlife Refuge, undertaken in secrecy for fear of a stampede of bird-watchers, by experienced observers over the next fourteen months.

It is possible that especially the Przemyśl area, inhibated by the Lendians and the White Croats, belonged at that time to Bohemia, which supposedly extended up to the Bug River and Styr River.

New Hampshire's major regions are the Great North Woods, the White Mountains, the Lakes Region, the Seacoast, the Merrimack Valley, the Monadnock Region, and the Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee area.

White ones tend to come from the Broome area of Australia while golden ones are from the Philippines.

The five largest White ethnic groups in the city of Pittsburgh are German ( 19. 7 %), Irish ( 15. 8 %), Italian ( 11. 8 %), Polish ( 8. 4 %), and English ( 4. 6 %), while the metropolitan area is approximately 22 % German, and 16 % Italian, and 12 % Irish.

OMA Rotterdam: the head office is working on a master plan for the White City area of London ; a harbour redevelopment and contemporary art Museum in Riga, the Cordoba Congress Centre in Spain ; the redevelopment of the Mercati Generali in Rome, an architectural centre, offices and housing in Copenhagen, the new head office of Rothschild Bank in London and multi-use towers in Rotterdam and The Hague.

Alworth, Mix, Hadl, Joiner, Coryell, Gillman, Garrison, Fouts, White, Winslow, Faison, Benirschke, Lincoln, Washington, Humphries, Ladd and Wilkerson are also members of the San Diego Hall of Champions, which is open to athletes from the San Diego area as well as those who played for San Diego-based professional and collegiate teams.

His influence has extended over a wide area of musicians, including Robert Johnson, John Hammond, Alan Wilson ( of Canned Heat ), Bonnie Raitt, The White Stripes, and John Mooney.

Prior to its inclusion within the fenced compound that now includes the Old Executive Office Building to the west and the Treasury Building to the east, this sidewalk served as a queuing area for the daily public tours of the White House.

If restarted, mining at White Cliffs would occur in the same area it originally proliferated on Great Barrier.

The federal government quickly acquired the land under its eminent domain authority and relocated some 1, 500 residents of Hanford, White Bluffs, and nearby settlements, as well as the Wanapum and other tribes using the area.

The application of the idea to the area of second language acquisition ( SLA ) is represented mainly by the McGill linguist Lydia White.

On April 6, 1812 a band of Winnebago Indians murdered Liberty White, an American, and John B. Cardin, a French Canadian, at a farm called Hardscrabble that was located on the South Branch of the Chicago River in the area now called Bridgeport.