The latter, members of two regiments of Swiss mercenaries transported by Great Britain to Canada to fight the Americans in the War of 1812, had settled in Montreal and Kingston at the close of the war in 1815.

* Weigley, Russell F. A Great Civil War: A Military and Political History, 1861 – 1865.

The idea that the Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic languages are closely related to each other was allegedly first published in 1730 by Philip Johan von Strahlenberg, a Swedish officer who traveled in the eastern Russian Empire while a prisoner of war after the Great Northern War.

In The Double Clue Poirot mentions that he was Chief of Police of Brussels, until " the Great War " ( WWI ) forced him to leave for England.

* 1862 – American Civil War: The Andrews Raid ( the Great Locomotive Chase ) occurred, starting from Big Shanty, Georgia ( now Kennesaw ).

* 1828 – Uruguay is formally proclaimed independent at preliminary peace talks brokered by Great Britain between Brazil and Argentina during the Cisplatine War.

28, 000 men were sent to fight in World War I. Adelaide enjoyed a post-war boom but, with the return of droughts, entered the Great Depression of the 1930s, later returning to prosperity under strong government leadership.

* 1759 – Battle of Lagos Naval battle during the Seven Years ' War between Great Britain and France.

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The reign of Ahmed III, which had lasted for twenty-seven years, although marked by the disasters of the Great Turkish War, was not unsuccessful.

* Ajax ( mythology ), son of Telamon, ruler of Salamis and a hero in the Trojan War, also known as " Ajax the Great "

* 1756 – Frederick the Great attacks Saxony, beginning the Seven Years ' War.

Following evacuation in 1941 during the Great Patriotic War ( World War II ), he graduated in Aşgabat, in today's Turkmenistan.

* Cornwall in the Great Civil War and Interregnum 1642-1660 Mary Coates

Barge and canal systems were nonetheless of great, perhaps even primary, economic importance until after World War I in Europe, particularly in the more developed nations of the Low Countries, France, Germany, Poland, and especially Great Britain which more or less made the system characteristically its own.

This was followed by a second series, Blackadder II ( 1986 ) set during the reign of Elizabeth I, a third series Blackadder the Third ( 1987 ) set during the late 18th and early 19th centuries in the reign of George III, and finally Blackadder Goes Forth ( 1989 ) in 1917, set in the trenches of the Great War.

Following Napoleon Bonaparte's victories over the Austrian Empire in Northern Italy – helping to secure France victory in the War of the First Coalition in 1797 – Great Britain remained the only major European power still at war with the French Republic.

Other areas damaged during World War II bombing included: in September 1940 two unexploded bombs hit the Edward VII galleries, the King's Library received a direct hit from a high explosive bomb, incendiaries fell on the dome of the Round Reading Room but did little damage ; on the night of 10 to 11 May 1941 several incendiaries fell on the south west corner of the Museum, destroying the book stack and 150, 000 books in the courtyard and the galleries around the top of the Great Staircase – this damage was not fully repaired until the early 1960s.

At a War Cabinet meeting, held on 31 October 1917, Balfour suggested that a declaration favorable to Zionist aspirations would allow Great Britain " to carry on extremely useful propaganda both in Russia and America "

The developments that led to the First Balkan War did not go unnoticed by the Great Powers, but although there was an official consensus between the European Powers over the territorial integrity of the Ottoman Empire, which led to a stern warning to the Balkan states, unofficially each of them took a different diplomatic approach due to their conflicting interests in the area.

But it was unaware of the Bulgarian plans over Thrace and Constantinople, territories on which it had long-held ambitions, and on which it had just secured a secret agreement of expansion from its allies France and Britain, as a reward for participating in the upcoming Great War against the Central Powers.

This was a position that inevitably drew her, although unwillingly, into a World War with devastating results for her, since she was less prepared ( both militarily and socially ) for that event than any other Great Power.

He became an enormous draw in Los Angeles, where many of his Texas, Oklahoma and regional fans had also relocated during the Great Depression and World War II in search of jobs.

From the time of the end of the Seven Years ' War in 1763, Great Britain and its successor the United Kingdom has been one of the leading military and economic powers of the world.

After his death Frederick the Great, who several times needed Algarotti writing texts in Latin, sent in a text for a monument to his memory on the Campo Santo in Pisa, Italy.

The monument to Catherine the Great | Catherine II in Saint Petersburg

Vladimir the Great on the Millennium of Russia monument in Novgorod

Among many of his remarkable designs at this time, the monument ( 1671 – 76 ) commemorating the Great Fire also involved Robert Hooke, but Wren was in control of the final design, the Royal Observatory ( 1675 – 76 ), and the library at Trinity College, Cambridge ( 1676 – 84 ) were the most important ones.

Another example of this " Great Forgetting " may be found on the boardwalk of Blankenberge, a popular coastal resort, where a monument shows a colonialist bringing " civilization " to the black child at his feet.

A plain stone monument to her was erected in St. Cuthbert ’ s Chapel on Great Farne Island in 1848.

A great monument of China to this day, the Great Wall still stands, open to the public to challenge its million steps.

Leeds is home to a Great War ( World War I ) monument that was constructed by the American War Mothers.

The August 4, 1921 issue of the Leeds News announced that on August 7, 1921 the monument would be given its official dedication at 3 o ' clock by the Great Northern right of way near the depot.

McComb Union Cemetery features a small Civil War monument to remember McComb's Civil War heroes, including the graves of two of the first Medal of Honor recipients, who were involved in the Great Locomotive Chase.

There are two approaches to the palace's grand entrance, one from the long straight drive through wrought iron gates directly into the Great Court, while the other, equally if not more impressive, betrays Vanbrugh's true vision: the palace as a bastion or strong citadel, the true monument and home to a great warrior.

A monument dedicated to him was destroyed in the Great Fire in 1666.

This is the earliest recorded star-war event, and is the cause of the archaeologically and epigraphically demonstrated Tikal mid-Classic hiatus, which saw a decline in Tikal's population, a cessation of monument erection, and the destruction of certain monuments in the Great Plaza.

Great Zimbabwe has since been adopted as a national monument by the Zimbabwean government, with the modern state being named after it.

Ten years after the death of Frederick the Great, the Berlin Akademie initiated a competition for a monument to the king that would promote " morality and patriotism.

This was also the time when work on the Great Pyramid began, along with another monument called the Edificio Rojo.

Further south from here is another Middle Eastern inspired monument by the Independent Order of Odd Fellows dedicated to the fallen Sydneysiders of the Great War.

The monument also offers trails through the high Great Basin xeric shrubland desert landscape and the volcanic fields.

Reptile species found in the monument include: northern sagebrush lizard ( Sceloporus graciosus graciosus ), Great Basin fence lizard ( Sceloporus occidentalis biseriatus ), western skink ( Eumeces skiltonianus skiltonianus ), Rocky Mountain rubber boa ( Charina bottae utahensis ), gopher snake ( Pituophis melanoleucus ), desert night snake ( Hypsiglena torquata deserticola ), western rattlesnake ( Crotalus viridis ).

The Stephen the Great Monument is a prominent monument in Chişinău, opposite the main government building.

Mildmay died at Hackney on 31 May 1589, and is buried beside his wife in the church of St Bartholomew the Great in London, where an elaborate monument still exists to his memory.

A magnificent monument to him stood at the high altar of Old St Paul's: ' towering above it-an outrage to the susceptibilities of the devout but an object of marvel to London sightseers-until the Great Fire of 1666 dethroned and destroyed it '.

At length, in 1830, Rauch began, along with the architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel, the models for a colossal equestrian monument at Berlin to honor King Frederick II of Prussia ( Frederick the Great ).

Lighthouse and the Peter the Great monument