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71 matches to Ides of March
Old Ironsides. 1797. US frigate Constitution. Tripolitan War. War of 1812.
Parmenides. 5C BC. Eleatic philosopher. Everything is an illusion. Mind creates the illusion of matter and motion. All is appearance of singular eternal reality.
Poseidonius. c135-51BC. Greek Stoic philosopher. Explained tides 79BC.
Pride’s Purge. 1648. Removal of 143 Presbyterian royalists from Parliament. Rump Parliament.
Regicides. 1649. Those who condemned Charles I. 10 executed 1660.
Rump Parliament. 1648-60. After Pride’s Purge.
Thucydides. 5C BC. Greek historian of Peloponnesian Wars. Objective historical science.
Vanuatu. New Hebrides. 1980 Independent.
Velleda. German druidess, prophet under Vespasian.
Waugh, Evelyn. 1903-66. English satirical writer: Brideshead Revisited 1945.
Aldermaston March. 1958-64. Annual ‘Ban the Bomb’ demonstration of CND.
Bataan Death March. 1942. Japanese force 60 mile march; 54 of 70,000 prisoners arrive.
Beaumarchais, C de. 1732-99. French satirical writer vs nobility. Barber of Seville 1772, Marriage of Figaro 1784.
Bonus Army. 1932. US WWI vets march to demand accelerated bonus payment. Dispersed by force.
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. CND. 1958- Founded by Russell. Aldermaston Marches. The peace symbol, overlaid semaphore ND, was designed for the CND.
Chu Teh. 1886-1976. Commander-in-Chief of Chinese Red Army. Long March.
Civil Rights Movement. 1950-91. US movement to obtain rights for blacks. 1955 Parks. 1963 March on Washington. King speech. 1991 Civil Rights Act.
Coldstream Guards. 1650. Marched to London to restore Charles II.
Fontainebleau, Treaty. 1807. Established Napoleon’s right to march on Portugal through Spain.
Hundred Days. 1815. March 20 to July 8; Napoleon’s escape from Elba to his second abdication. 1933. Began Roosevelt’s administration. New Deal enacted.
Kiangsi Soviet. 1931-4. Chinese Communist Provincial government vs Nationalists under Mao. Long March.
Leclerc, Jacques-Philippe. 1902-47. French WWII resistance leader. Led 1500 mile march to liberate Paris, 1944.
Lexington and Concord, Battle. 1775. First American Revolution battle. British march on Concord supply depot. Established guerilla warfare as colonist strategy. 273 British, 95 Americans killed. Paul Revere.
Long March. 1934-5. 100,000 Chinese Communists march from Kiangsi, 6,000 miles to Shensi. Mao became leader. 50,000 die.
Mao Tse-tung. 1893-1976. Chinese Communist leader 1935-. Long March. Cultural Revolution.