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The Pennamite–Yankee Wars or Yankee–Pennamite Wars were a series of conflicts consisting of the First Pennamite War (1769–1770), the Second Pennamite War (1774), and the Third Pennamite War (1784), in which settlers from Connecticut and Pennsylvania (Pennamites) disputed for control of the Wyoming Valley along the North Branch of the Susquehanna River.
In the Hellenic Navy, the commissioning pennant ( Greek: Επισείων Πολεμικού Πλοίου, lit. 'Warship Pennant') is blue coloured, has shape of isosceles triangle elongated, bearing a white cross near the base of the triangle. The flag has typically base to length (height of triangle) 1 to 20. The cross has arms width 1/5 base ...
The pennant, which was really the old "pennoncell", was of three colours for the whole of its length, and towards the end left separate in two or three tails, and so continued until the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Now, however the pennant is a long white streamer with the St George's cross in the inner portion close to the mast.
Original release. Network. HBO. Release. February 28, 1998. ( 1998-02-28) The Pentagon Wars is a 1998 HBO comedy film directed by Richard Benjamin based on The Pentagon Wars: Reformers Challenge the Old Guard, a book written by retired United States Air Force Colonel James G. Burton about the development of the Bradley Fighting Vehicle .
First command Flag of the Lord Admiral of England under Henry VIII, Edward VI (1545-1553) when on board a ship. Second command Flag of the Lord Admiral of England (1547-1553) when on board a ship. First command Flag of the Lord Admiral of England (1554-1558) under Mary I and Philip II when on board a ship.
The Sailors of the Imperial Guard ( French: Marins de la Garde Imperiale) were a naval unit within Napoleon's Imperial Guard. The unit's soldiers not only operated as naval infantry but as gunners (after the training they had received in naval gunnery ), sailors and engineers. Napoleon himself stated, "They were good sailors, then they were the ...
The Philadelphia Phillies are an American professional baseball team based in Philadelphia. The Phillies compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member of the National League (NL) East Division. Since 2004, the team's home stadium has been Citizens Bank Park, located in the South Philadelphia Sports Complex. [ 7][ 8][ 9][ 10]
The 1st Polish Light Cavalry Lancers Regiment of the Imperial Guard (French: 1er Régiment de Chevau-Légers Lancier de la Garde impériale (Polonais) / Polish: 1. Pułk Szwoleżerów-Lansjerów Gwardii Cesarskie (Polski)) was a foreign Polish light cavalry lancers regiment which served as part of Napoleon's Imperial Guard during the Napoleonic Wars.