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  1. The Comintern (or Third International). *1945 – World War II: The final, skirmish ,in Europe is fought near Revalue, Slovenia. *1948 – Following the demise of
  2. The combatant navies served as naval artillery for their in-country armies. A, skirmish ,between North Korea and the UN Command occurred on 2 July 1950; the US Navy
  3. Military ties remain fraught with tension, however,and in 2002 a brief naval, skirmish ,left four South Korean sailors dead, leaving the future of the Sunshine policy
  4. Military commander) as her protective custodian. When Patrick was killed in a, skirmish , Eleanor (who proceeded to ransom his captured nephew, the young William
  5. Voyage to Amsterdam. He helped raise funds for the American effort. In a late, skirmish ,during the war, Laurens ' oldest son John was killed in 1782. He had supported
  6. With the British viceroy, Lord Duffer in, in India, the news came of a, skirmish ,between Russian and Afghan troops at Pander, over a disputed point in the
  7. Party involved in a skirmish , perhaps with a neighboring tribe, and this, skirmish ,had gone badly. When the Iceman's mitochondrial DNA was analyzed by Franco
  8. Georgian naval vessels in the port of Pot, a coast guard gunboat in a naval, skirmish , and hauled away nine rigid-hull inflatable boats. The Georgian Air Force lost
  9. F-15C pilots shot down two F-4E Phantom II's flown by the Iranian Air Force in a, skirmish ,in June 1984,and shot down two Iraqi Mirage F1s during the Gulf War. Satellite
  10. Like the auxiliaries of the Roman army) were typically used to scout and, skirmish , to cut down retreating infantry, and for defeating enemy missile troops.
  11. Have fought and fought well. The first blood was shed at about this time in a, skirmish ,at Win canton, Somerset,where Royalist troops retreated after defeating a small
  12. The enemy from flanking the main body of their attack force. In general,a, skirmish ,was a limited combat, involving troops other than those of the main body. The
  13. Aurelius Victor claim that Harris Etruscan was killed by an arrow during a, skirmish ,before the outset of the battle and that his father addressed his soldiers as
  14. In December 1804 where its use as a weapon was witnessed during a tribal, skirmish ,: David Collins listed" Wo-mur-rāng" as one of eight aboriginal" Names of
  15. Powers, Britain,France and Spain, were transported to the Caribbean. A, skirmish ,between British and Spanish squadrons off the coast of Cuba became known as the
  16. Voting rights. Liam Lynch, the intransigent Republican leader, was killed in a, skirmish ,in the Knockmealdown mountains in County Tipperary on 10 April. The National
  17. That many Boers had settled. These outraged Boers were suppressed in a brief, skirmish ,in 1848. In 1851 a British force was defeated by the Soho army at Kolyma
  18. The first such work was the Battle of the Rearrange and Alabama (1864),a sea, skirmish ,from the American Civil War which took place off the French coast, and may have
  19. Units would sooner or later meet. This happened in the first major, skirmish ,of the Civil War, when a cavalry troop of about 1,000 Royalists commanded by
  20. The last recorded use of bows in an English battle seems to have been a, skirmish ,at Bridgnorth, in October 1642,during the Civil War. Longbowmen remained a
  21. Games Board games and CCS Mongoose Publishing have released a miniature, skirmish ,game of gang warfare based in Mega City 1 called Gangs of Mega-City One, often
  22. That the traditional Roman military could not fill effectively, such as light, skirmish ,troops and heavy cavalry. After their service in the army they were made
  23. Consumed the bodies of killed warriors of the neighboring tribe after a, skirmish , William Areas, author of The Man-Eating Myth: Anthropology and Anthropology
  24. Of Wodonga. *This battle, at the time probably considered little more than a, skirmish , would be considered by later Christian historians as the starting point of the
  25. S forces moved through the Po Valley and were engaged in a large scale, skirmish ,at Vicious. Here, Hannibal forced the Romans, by virtue of his superior cavalry
  26. April to help defend the city against an English and Burgundian siege. A, skirmish ,on 23 May 1430 led to her capture, when her force attempted to attack the
  27. Workers. *2010 – The ADY Gil, a ship owned by Sea Shepherd, is sunk during a, skirmish ,with the Japanese Whaling Fleet's Shōnen Mary. Births *1412 – Joan of Arc
  28. Stations, at Oran more and Bainbridge in County Galway. There was also a, skirmish ,at Carnivore in which two RIC men were killed. However, his men were
  29. To be identified with hardcore punk. United Kingdom The Sex Pistols' live TV, skirmish ,with Bill Grundy was the signal moment in British punk's transformation into a
  30. 1988 Australian tour. " On the road, things escalated from a small border, skirmish ,into a full-on raging war ", Mustaine later recalled. " I think a lot of us
  31. The misgivings of his men. Wade, their medic, is fatally wounded in the ensuing, skirmish , The last surviving German, known only as" Steamboat Willie ", incurs the
  32. Henryk Dobrzynski completely destroyed a battalion of German infantry in a, skirmish ,near the village of Lucia. By 1944 the Polish resistance was thought to
  33. Is sent to fight in the Seven Years' War. Groan is fatally wounded in a, skirmish ,with the French. Barry steals an officer courier's uniform, horse and identity
  34. The river at night, he forced the Getafe army to retreat after the first cavalry, skirmish , leaving their town to the Macedonian army. News then reached Alexander that
  35. The Soviet Union which occupied Afghanistan in 1979,and an extended border, skirmish ,with India in 1999 (Margin War) and is currently conducting anti-terrorist
  36. Was released in 1781,and rejoined his unit in Virginia. He was involved in a, skirmish ,near Williamsburg, and was at the Siege of Yorktown. He was invalided back to
  37. Attempted to assassinate Sun and had his residence shelled. During a prolonged, skirmish ,between the troops of these opposing forces, Sun and his wife Suing Ching-ling
  38. By Moira, who is revealed to be an enormous reptilian creature. After a quick, skirmish , the villagers run for safety and Moira heads to the ocean. Dr. Ya mane returns
  39. Of the Greyhound can tear easily from a small nick from teeth so even a minor, skirmish ,can result in stitches and time out from racing. Greyhounds with a high prey
  40. Parent battalions. As these skirmish ers were retreating through the British, skirmish ,lines they were booed by some British troops, thinking they were leaving the
  41. Utterly destroying it. The Battle of Roncevaux Pass, less a battle than a mere, skirmish , left many famous dead: among which were the Seneca Erhard, the count of
  42. An American base of operations. A contingent of Spanish troops, having fought a, skirmish ,with the Americans near Simona on 23 June, had retired to their lightly
  43. Which ultimately led to fighting between the two countries; first a border, skirmish ,in January–February 1981 known as the Parish Incident, and ultimately
  44. In 1916,at the age of 23 and already a captain, he was badly wounded in a, skirmish ,at El But and possibly lost a testicle. His survival marked him permanently
  45. Of the chorus, dancing and singing, sometimes followed by a choreographed, skirmish ,with one or more actors, often expressed in long lines of tetrameters;:
  46. Of the Fabian Strategy. As soon as he scored a minor success by winning a, skirmish ,with the Carthaginians, the Senate promoted Mencius to the same imperium (
  47. He is put on trial and executed. *1388 – The Battle of Otter burn, a border, skirmish ,between the Scottish and the English in Northern England, is fought near
  48. Paris. Napoleon announced his second abdication on 24 June 1815. In the final, skirmish ,of the Napoleonic Wars, Marshal Devout,Napoleon's minister of war, was
  49. This may indicate that Ötzi was part of an armed raiding party involved in a, skirmish , perhaps with a neighboring tribe, and this skirmish had gone badly. When the
  50. Many combats are too small to merit a name. Terms such as" action ",", skirmish ,"," firefight "," raid" or" offensive patrol" are used to describe

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