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Shortly after midnight on 18 June 1996, the Death Eaters lured Harry and five other Dumbledore's Army members into the deserted Ministry. A battle broke out over the prophecy concerning Harry and the Dark Lord. The D.A. members did well holding the Death Eaters at bay until help could ...
These trials also concluded that the UST25 Lightweight Rifleand the developmental T65 7.6 2mm (.30 calibre) round submitted for testing were ‘not suitable for Army Field Forces use because of its excessive recoil, blast, flash and smoke’, and nonetheless concluded that ‘of the basic types ...
The army’s most ambitious, though ill-managed, campaign was fought in Mesopotamia. In October 1914, before Turkey joined forces with the Central Powers, the government of India launched an army to the mouth of the Shatt al-Arab to further Viceroy Curzon’s policy of control over the ...
Usually, however, it provided about half of British India’s gross annual revenue, or roughly the money needed to support the army. The second most lucrative source of revenue at that time was the government’s continued monopoly over the flourishing opium trade to China; the third was the ...
But a war with Gwalior in December 1843, designed to keep its large army out of hostile hands, frustrated these plans, and the directors, exasperated by Ellenborough’s arrogant self-will, resolved in April 1844 to recall him. On his return he was created an earl and viscount. Ellenborough...