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At the time of the landing on August 6 the British were confronted by three Ottoman battalions under the command of a Bavarian cavalry officer, Major Wilhelm Willmer whose task was to delay the British until reinforcements could arrive from Bulair, 30 miles away.

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* Wesley K. Willmer, J. David Schmidt, Martyn Smith, The Prospering Parachurch: Enlarging the Boundaries of God's Kingdom
* Willmer, P. G..
Quartet veteran Willmer " Little Ax " Broadnax took the position of second lead.
Suvla was defended by three battalions, the " Anafarta Detachment ", under the command of a Bavarian cavalry officer, Major Wilhelm Willmer, whose task was to delay any enemy advance until reinforcements arrived.
Willmer had no machine guns and few field artillery pieces.
Willmer constructed three strong points ; one on Kiretch Tepe to the north, one on Hill 10 in the centre and one on Chocolate Hill, near the southern end of the salt lake that lay behind the beach.
When the attack at Lone Pine commenced, Willmer was ordered to send one battalion as reinforcements so that when 20, 000 British began landing at Suvla, they were opposed by only 1, 500 Ottoman soldiers.
Willmer " Little Ax " M. Broadnax, ( December 28, 1916 – 1994 ) also known as " Little Axe ," " Wilbur ," " Willie ," and " Wilmer ," was an African-American hard gospel quartet singer.
William eventually left for Atlanta, where he joined the Five Trumpets, but Willmer stayed on as lead singer.

House and eighteenth-century
But it soon became clear that the search for eighteenth-century furniture ( which Mrs. Kennedy feels is the proper period for the White House ) must be pursued in places other than government storage rooms.
The Houses of the Oireachtas sit in Leinster House in Dublin, an eighteenth-century ducal palace.
Plans were made to turn Royal Hospital Kilmainham, an eighteenth-century former soldiers ' home in extensive parklands, into a full-time Parliament House.
* White Horse: the sign of the House of Hanover, adopted by many eighteenth-century inns to demonstrate loyalty to the new Royal dynasty.
The grounds also incorporate a folly ruin, built by Nash c. 1797, incorporating some medieval stonework and some material from the eighteenth-century Bath House built by Brown.
He is a specialist in eighteenth-century literature, a member of the Gunroom, a novelist ( his book Stowaway was published by Random House ), and a poet.

House and town
The AID committee's chairman in charge of the redecoration, Mrs. Henry Francis Lenygon, was in town yesterday to consult with White House staff members on the project.
The town was known as Beit Lachama, meaning " House of Lachama.
Delft is primarily known for its typically Dutch town centre ( with canals ); also for the painter Vermeer, Delft Blue pottery ( Delftware ), the Delft University of Technology, and its association with the Dutch royal family, the House of Orange-Nassau.
It hangs in the selectmen's chambers at town hall and in the Great Hall of the Massachusetts State House.
* Elihu Yale is the name given to a JD Wetherspoons Public House in the town of Wrexham.
An immediate dispute broke out between the House of Medina Sidonia ( the Guzmán family ) and the House of Arcos ( the Ponce de León family ) about the possession of the town.
On a small hillock in the town stands the Meeting House and the famous Tree of Guernica.
Hatfield House, the home of the Marquess of Salisbury, is the nucleus of the old town.
And Charles Stuart, eldest son of the late King, being informed of these transactions, left the Spanish territories where he then resided, and by the advise of Monk went to Breda, a town belonging to the States of Holland: from when he sent his letters and a declaration to the two House by Sir John Greenvil ; whereupon the nominal House of Commons, though called by a Commonwealth writ in the name of the Keepers of the Liberties of England, passed a vote about April 25, 1660, ' That the government of the nation should be by a King, Lords and Commons, and that Charles Stuart should be proclamed King of England.
The House of the Nijmegen History is situated in a unique mediaeval chapel ' de Mariënburgkapel '; its mission is to let enjoy people of the history of the town and to be a guide for everybody who wants to visit the oldest city of the Netherlands.
A market town by 1000, Meissen passed to the Kingdom of Poland in 1018 under Boleslaw I the Brave, afterwards into hands of Emperor Conrad II in 1032 and the House of Wettin in 1089.
Her home had been Lichfield House in the centre of town ; it was replaced by a block of flats in 1936, Lichfield Court, now listed.
In the months preceding these events, the media regularly called upon SAS to represent the equal counterpoint to the Million Mom March in print, radio and television, including a two hour televised Good Morning America town hall meeting from the White House on the Saturday before.
The Catalan Gothic style House of Enzio of Sardinia | King Enzio in the medieval district of the town
* Corso Vittorio Emanuele is the main street of the medieval town, surrounded by interesting buildings of different ages, as several examples of Catalan-gothic ( as the so-called House of Re Enzo ), the baroque church of Sant ' Andrea, built by Corsican community, the neoclassic Civic Theatre and Quesada's palace.
The town has broad streets and numerous palaces dating from the 14th century and 15th century, when it hosted the court of the House of Este.
In the mid 14th century, the castle and town came into the possession of the House of Lancaster through the marriage of John of Gaunt to Blanche of Lancaster.
There are numerous public houses in the centre of the town, including the Old Nags Head, the Queen's Head, the Punch House, the Griffin, the Gloucester, the Vinetree, the King's Head ( Wetherspoon ), the Three Horseshoes, the Green Dragon and the Gatehouse.
A small Regimental Museum established in 1989 is housed in Great Castle House, a former town house built on the site of part of Monmouth Castle.
During the heyday of the patricians in the 17th and 18th Centuries, a number of elegant town houses ( Reinert House 1692-93, Palais Besenval 1703-06 ) and summer residences outside the city ( Sommerhaus Vigier 1648-50, Waldegg Castle 1682-86, Steinbrugg Castle 1665-68 and Blumenstein Castle 1725-28 ) were built.
On 14 April 1471 near Barnet, then a small town north of London, Edward led the House of York in a fight against the House of Lancaster, which backed Henry VI for the throne.
" In early 1601, he began to fortify Essex House, his town mansion on the Strand, and gathered his followers.

House and house
There was no room for company in the tiny Weaning House ( where the Albright boys always took their brides, till they could get a house and a farm of their own ).
The mantel was found in a recently demolished Salem house and is being fitted over the White House library fireplace.
After the state Republican party convention nominated him for the U. S. Senate in 1858, Lincoln delivered his House Divided Speech, drawing on: " A house divided against itself cannot stand.
It already included a large country house called Larrard House or Muntaner de Dalt House, and was next to a neighborhood of upper class houses called La Salut ( The Health ).
She purchased a house for her sister Anna which had been the last home of Henry David Thoreau, now known as the Thoreau-Alcott House.
In Peru and Rio de la Plata many powerful figures proposed an American Monarchy such as those who wanted an independent Peruvian king of the still alive Inca Royal House, and those who requested a Prince of the Spanish house of Bourbon to come and rule directly in Lima, Mexico City or Bogota, as the Portuguese House of Orleans-Braganza had done in Rio de Janeiro.
Although Ayckbourn continued to move where his career took him, he settled in Scarborough, eventually buying Longwestgate House, the house formerly owned by Stephen Joseph.
Originally used in Baker House to signify the Ivy League university tradition, on his return to Finland Aalto used it in a number of key buildings, in particular, in several of the buildings in the new Helsinki University of Technology campus ( starting in 1950 ), Säynatsalo Town Hall ( 1952 ), Helsinki Pensions Institute ( 1954 ), Helsinki House of Culture ( 1958 ), as well as in his own summer house, the so-called Experimental House in Muuratsalo ( 1957 ).
* Appomattox Court House, a court house in Virginia
` Abdu ' l-Bahá asked Aqa Mirza Aqa to coordinate the work so that the house of the Báb would be restored to the state that it was at the time of the Báb's declaration to Mulla Husayn in 1844 ; he also entrusted the work on the House of Worship to Vakil-u'd-Dawlih.
The Bundesrat (" federal council ", performing the function of an upper house ) is the representation of the Federal States ( Bundesländer ) of Germany and has its seat at the former Prussian House of Lords.
* Since Big Brother 2, the UK series always opens with a twist which have included the public being able to choose the final housemate out of three possibilities ( Big Brother 2 ), the public voting for a housemate to leave during the first week and then the housemates choosing between the two housemates with the least number of votes ( Big Brother 3 ), First Night Nominations ( Big Brother 4 ), Suitcase Nominations ( Big Brother 5 ), Unlucky Housemate 13 ( Big Brother 6 ), Big Brother Hood ( Big Brother 7 ), an all-female House and the first inclusion of twins as contestants ( Big Brother 8 ), the first couple to enter as housemates and set a secret task to hide their real relationship ( Big Brother 9 ), all " housemates " really being " non-housemates " who had to earn their housemate status ( Big Brother 10 ), a mole entering the House with an " Impossible Task " ( Big Brother 11 ), Jackie Stallone entering a house containing her son's ex-wife ( Celebrity Big Brother 3 ), the entrance of a non-celebrity in a celebrity edition ( Celebrity Big Brother 4 ) and Jade Goody's family announced to be visiting.
Another Gate House tradition that no longer occurs is the " stirring the chicken ," a dinner and keg party where house members cook chicken fajitas for hundreds of guests.
Until 2007, Gate House held secretive first-year initiation ceremonies called Traditionals, which involved writing slogans on campus buildings in chalk, singing songs to the all-women's residence ( who would then sing back to them ), and leading first-years around the house blindfolded.
Gate House has three floors which house 28 students, as well as a don and the Victoria College Residence Life Co-ordinator.
The brand launched an online reality TV series called Bud House that followed the lives of 32 international football fans ( one representing each nation in the World Cup ) living together in a house in South Africa.
The Capetian dynasty (), also known as the House of France, is the largest and oldest European royal house, consisting of the descendants of King Hugh Capet of France in the male line.
* Capetian House of Anjou ( initially ruling house of Sicily, then of Naples, became ruling house of Hungary ) ( 1247 – 1382 )
Image: Claude Monet-The Artist's House at Argenteuil. jpg | The Artist's house at Argenteuil, 1873, The Art Institute of Chicago

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