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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 ...
have since been able to realize their criminal projects; they sat down coolly to devise the most regular and effectual mode of making the application of this system the current business of the day, and incorporating it with the general orders of their army; for (will the House believe it?)...
There was a story going around in the New Year that the peasants whose houses the prisoners occupied had been promised them back before planting season; and for once events seemed to bear out the rumour. At the start of February the journalists and diplomats were transferred to a house in a...
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...
Some seventy-five per cent of the students had been born outside England and hoped to follow their fathers in the British Army. They were prepared to become a part of the imperial machine of Britain. At the end of the book Stalky, one of the leading characters of Stalky & Co., is ...
army was standing on the defensive in Portugal, with difficulty holding its own; the nation was trembling for its safety. The dreaded Bonaparte's next movement was uncertain: it was feared that it might be against our own shores. Rumour was busy with alarms. All through the country men ...
Another wing of the Congress Party, which believed in working within the existing system, contested general elections in 1923 and 1937 as the Swaraj (Home Rule) Party, with particular success in the latter year, winning 7 out of 11 provinces. When World War II began in 1939, Britain made ...
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 Persian Gulf region. Al-Baṣrah (Basra) was taken easily in December 1914, and by ...
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...