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The invasion was met by an alliance of all the Welsh princes, with Owain as the undisputed leader.
Meanwhile, only an uprising in Ghent prevented a French invasion of southern England.
The invasion was a success, and a number of Irish chieftains submitted to English overlordship.
It is likely there was a Briganti settlement at Isurium before the Roman invasion.
The invasion has the support of the Scottish nobles, who are appalled and frightened by Macbeth's tyrannical and murderous behaviour.
He was listed in the 'Black Book' of prominent subjects to be arrested in the case of a successful invasion of Britain.
He saw Margaret Thatcher's response to the invasion of the Falklands as jingoistic and unnecessary, and dedicated the album to his late father.
Though many of the acts associated with the invasion did not survive its end, many others would become icons of rock music.
Billboard Hot 100 every week from the start of the invasion through the April 20, 2002 edition.
England's final goal was scored by Hurst again, as a celebratory pitch invasion began.
This encouraged Baldwin III of Jerusalem to plan an invasion that was only halted by the payment by Egypt of a tribute of 160,000 gold dinars.
The League condemned the Greek invasion, and called for both Greek withdrawal and compensation to Bulgaria.
In September 1931, a section of the railway was lightly damaged by the Japanese Kwantung Army as a pretext for an invasion of Manchuria.
On 6 April, Germany launched the invasion of Yugoslavia and the battle of Greece.
On 8 April 1941, the United States occupied Greenland to defend it against a possible invasion by Germany.
However, in the course of the war in the Pacific the Japanese were not able to launch an actual invasion of the French islands.
The airport had previously been used for the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, as well as the First Gulf War.
Lord Mountbatten claimed the Queen was opposed to the invasion, though Eden denied it.
On 6 January 1781, a French invasion force of 2,000 men set out to take over the island, but only half of the force arrived and landed.
In return, arms would have been provided to Ireland and British forces would cooperate on a German invasion.
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Again, a new invasion was previously postulated by archaeologists but this now seems to have had only a minor effect on the isles.
Before the Norman invasion of 1169, Gaelic Ireland comprised the whole island.
Before the Norman invasion, it was common for priests and monks to have wives.
This remained mostly unchanged after the Norman invasion, despite protests from bishops and archbishops.
The largely successful nature of the invasion has been attributed to a number of factors.
In early October, he began to strengthen his northern defences against a possible invasion.
In 1346, after more Scottish raids, Philip VI appealed for a counter invasion of England in order to relieve the English stranglehold on Calais.
Two months later, David II of Scotland was captured at the Battle of Neville's Cross, in a botched invasion of Northern England.
These plans never came to any form of action after the French invasion failed to materialise.
In 937, Irish pirates sided with the Scots, Vikings, Picts, and Welsh in their invasion of England.
King James VII of Scotland, who was also King of England and Ireland as James II, attempted to resist the invasion.
An invasion force set sail in 1719 with two frigates to land in Scotland to raise the clans.
Charles was officially informed on 28 February that the invasion had been cancelled.
Living at French expense, he continued to petition ministers for commitment to another invasion, to their increasing irritation.
Charles immediately wrote again to France pleading for a prompt invasion of England.
The French now sent some weapons and funds, and assurances that they would carry out their invasion of England by the end of the year.
There was, however, little support from English Jacobites, and the French invasion fleet was still being assembled.
Carleton then launched his own invasion and defeated Arnold at the Battle of Valcour Island in October.
However, the revolution had thoroughly disorganized the army, and the forces raised were insufficient for the invasion.
On 19 August 1792, the invasion by Brunswick's army commenced, with Brunswick's army easily taking the fortresses of Longwy and Verdun.
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On the Alpine frontier, there was little change, with the French invasion of Piedmont failing.
Napoleon, on the other hand, was completely successful in a daring invasion of Italy.
This prevented the Spanish fleet from rendezvousing with the French, removing a threat of invasion to Britain.
Soon after the beginning of the year, he mounted an invasion of Syria, capturing El Arish and Jaffa.
In July, Turkey, with the help of the British navy, mounted an invasion by sea from Rhodes.
In the event of another rebellion in India, or of a Russian invasion, the time saved at Suez might be crucial.
The next year, the invasion was repeated but repelled at the Battle of Molodi.
On 11 March, Hitler sent an ultimatum to Schuschnigg demanding that he hand over all power to the Austrian NSDAP or face an invasion.
The invasion conquered a huge area, including the Baltic republics, Belarus, and West Ukraine.
In the week after the invasion there was a spontaneous campaign of civil resistance against the occupation.
In the spring of 1940, the Luftwaffe assisted the Kriegsmarine and Heer in the daring invasion of Norway.
Hitler had already ordered preparations to be made for Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union.
Destruction of the RAF was the first priority, and invasion would be a last resort.
From 4 July the RAF achieved some successes with raids on Channel ports, anticipating the build up for an invasion.
Two days after the German defeat Hitler postponed preparations for the invasion of Britain.
It was not until Hitler's Directive 21 was issued, on 18 December 1940, that the threat to Britain of invasion finally ended.
The loss of Bismarck, Arctic convoys, and the perceived invasion threat to Norway had persuaded Hitler to withdraw.
After much discussion with the other senior commanders, Eisenhower decided that the invasion should go ahead on the 6th.
Roosevelt to postpone the promised invasion as, even with American help, the Allies did not have adequate forces for such an activity.
The Allies then launched the invasion of Sicily in July 1943, and subsequently invaded Italy in September the same year.
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General Bernard Montgomery was named as commander of the 21st Army Group, which comprised all of the land forces involved in the invasion.
The need to acquire or produce extra landing craft for the expanded operation meant that the invasion had to be delayed to June.
The first phase, the amphibious invasion and establishment of a secure foothold, was codenamed Operation Neptune.
He and his meteorological team predicted that the weather would improve enough for the invasion to proceed on 6 June.
As it was expected to be the site of the invasion, the Pas de Calais was heavily defended.
Rommel believed that Germany's best chance was to stop the invasion at the shore.
An increase in radio activity on 5 June was correctly interpreted by German intelligence to mean that an invasion was imminent or underway.
Minesweepers began clearing channels for the invasion fleet shortly after midnight and finished just after dawn without encountering the enemy.
To avoid flying over the invasion fleet, the planes arrived from the west over the Cotentin Peninsula and exited over Utah Beach.
In July 1956, Eden ordered his CIGS, Field Marshal Gerald Templer to begin planning for an invasion of Egypt.
Despite this, General Sir Charles Keightley, the commander of the invasion force, believed that air power alone was sufficient to defeat Egypt.
To support the invasion, large air forces had been deployed to Cyprus and Malta by Britain and France and many aircraft carriers were deployed.
The next day, Mountbatten made a desperate phone call to Eden asking for permission to stop the invasion before it began, only to be refused.
The United States also put financial pressure on the UK to end the invasion.
Reagan promptly agreed, and almost overnight ordered a major invasion of Grenada.
He notified Thatcher a few hours before the invasion, but he did not ask her consent.
Thatcher gave strong support to President Bush in reversing Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990, to which she sent over 45,000 troops.
Thatcher's first foreign policy crisis came with the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
Their efforts built relationships with Afghan leaders that proved essential in the 2001 invasion.
The United States invasion of Afghanistan occurred after the September 11 attacks in late 2001, supported by allies including the United Kingdom.
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Rumsfield and Bush feared that a conventional invasion of Afghanistan could bog down as had happened to the Soviets and the British.
Officials called it the Marines' largest operation since the 2004 invasion of Fallujah, Iraq.
Many protesters consider the bombing and invasion of Afghanistan to be unjustified aggression.
On 1 May, an end of major combat operations was declared, ending the invasion period and beginning the military occupation period.
Americans polled in January 2003 widely favored further diplomacy over an invasion.
It has been argued that the invasion was fully legal because authorization was implied by the United Nations Security Council.
In the latter stages of the invasion, 620 troops of the Iraqi National Congress opposition group were deployed to southern Iraq.
Army Special Forces joint teams and the Kurdish Peshmerga constituted the entire northern force against government forces during the invasion.
The primary bases for the invasion were in Kuwait and other Persian Gulf nations.
The invasion was swift, leading to the collapse of the Iraqi government and the military of Iraq in about three weeks.
Despite the rapid advance of the invasion forces, some 44 oil wells were destroyed and set ablaze by Iraqi explosives or by incidental fire.
Estimates on the number of casualties during the invasion in Iraq vary widely.
Ted Turner, founder of CNN, charged that Rupert Murdoch was using Fox News to advocate an invasion.
This strategy eventually led to an invasion of Scotland by Haakon Haakonsson, King of Norway.
The threat of invasion by Napoleon prompted many defensive structures to be built at the end of that century.
After the Soviet Union's invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, the CPGB became to divide between Stalinists and Eurocommunists.
A more serious disagreement came in 1983 when Washington did not consult with London on the invasion of Grenada.
The Second World War broke out in September 1939 with the German Army's invasion of Poland.
In 2003 the United Kingdom was a major contributor to the invasion of Iraq, sending a force of over 46,000 military personnel.
In 2003, Qatar served as the US Central Command headquarters and one of the main launching sites of the invasion of Iraq.
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Britain's main weapon was the Royal Navy, which could control the seas and bring as many invasion troops as were needed.
It marked the end of his final attempt to launch a major invasion of Austrian territory.
Spain, aided by the French, launched an invasion of Portugal and succeeded in capturing Almeida.
The United Kingdom and France agreed on the invasion of the Crimean peninsula as the first step.
In April 1855, they supported an invasion of Kerch and operated against Taganrog in the Sea of Azov.
The invasion sparked intense protests from Yugoslavia, Romania, China, and from Western European communist parties.
Soon after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, president Carter began massively building up the United States military.
Unlike the invasion period, by then there was a substantial presence from many nations other than America, Britain, Australia and Poland.
Following the invasion on 2 April, after an emergency meeting of the cabinet, approval was given to form a task force to retake the islands.
The German invasion of Romania in 1916 saw 17 percent of the group's worldwide production destroyed.
After the invasion of the Netherlands by Germany in 1940, the head office of the Dutch companies was moved to Curacao.
Following the Saxon invasion of Britain, Leicester was occupied by the Middle Angles and subsequently administered by the kingdom of Mercia.
The Soviet invasion of Poland started on 17 September and Poland fell soon thereafter.
This combined with a threatened invasion of the Netherlands by France spurred Britain to declare war.
Traditionalists grumbled about the American cultural invasion, but the permanent impact was minor.
A few days before the invasion of Poland, Hitler personally granted Mischling status to the Wittgenstein siblings.
However, Saudi Arabia condemned the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990 and asked the US to intervene.
In 1991, Saudi Arabian forces were involved both in bombing raids on Iraq and in the land invasion that helped to liberate Kuwait.
Some historians believe that the Mongol invasion destroyed much of the irrigation infrastructure that had sustained Mesopotamia for millennia.
Following the invasion, the United States established the Coalition Provisional Authority to govern Iraq.
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The National Theatre of Iraq was looted during the 2003 invasion, but efforts are underway to restore it.
For instance, the Turkana people of northwest Kenya use fire to prevent the invasion of the savanna by woody plant species.
The invasion was condemned by the League of Nations, but little was done to stop it or to liberate occupied Ethiopia.
The accidental invasion ended when the unit realized their mistake and turned back.
Mexico attempted to create a buffer zone at the border that would prevent possible invasion from the North.
Air Force for strikes in Pakistan to avoid breaching sovereignty through military invasion.
The city would later be used as a springboard for Operation Veritable, the invasion across the Rhine River by Allied Troops.
A nightmare vision of invasion by millions of Chinese made the Soviet leaders almost frantic.
Despite conspiracies and more attempts at invasion, James was able to regain power.
In the first four decades after the invasion of 43, four legions were stationed in Britannia.
Haakon rejected the claim, and in the following year responded with a formidable invasion.
Walter Guisborough's chronicle, which contains a detailed account of this invasion, makes it clear that it was led by Wallace.
The main task facing the Guardian was to gather a national army to meet an invasion by Edward, anxious to reverse the victory of Stirling Bridge.
After Caerlaverock eventually succumbed, Edward passed through Dumfries again as he crossed the Nith to take his invasion into Galloway.
The defeat of the English opened up the north of England to Scottish raids and allowed the Scottish invasion of Ireland.
Edward's invasion fleet also mustered there, having received calls to assemble as far back as the previous month.
The subsequent invasion by the Scots met defeat when James was killed on 9 September 1513 at the Battle of Flodden in Northumberland.
Henry VIII had already organised an army and artillery in the north of England to counter the expected invasion.
On hearing of the invasion on 3 September, she ordered Thomas Lovell to raise an army in the Midland counties.
In 1777, the British launched an invasion from Quebec under John Burgoyne, intending to isolate New England.
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On June 7, an invasion of 6,000 men under Hessian general Wilhelm von Knyphausen met stiff resistance from the local militia.
For a while Somerled took control of Mann and the Hebrides in toto, but he met his death in 1164 during an invasion of the Scottish mainland.
This strategy eventually led to an invasion by Haakon Haakonarson, King of Norway.
The province of Ulaidh would survive restricted to the east of modern Ulster until the Norman invasion in the late 12th century.
The regiment deployed to Iraq for Operation Telic, the British element of the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
The government promoted active diplomacy in Africa and opposed the invasion of Iraq.
This was just over three years before the Norman invasion of England, which led to a drastic change of fortune for Wales.
By 1070, the Normans had already seen successes in their invasion of Wales with Gwent fallen and Deheubarth plundered.
Theatrical performances are thought to have begun after the Roman invasion of Britain.
Following the Norman invasion, the administrative machinery of government extended only slowly into northern England.
The Ordovices were one of the Celtic tribes living in Great Britain before the Roman invasion.
Only during particularly trying times, such as the invasion of Caesar, could the Gauls unite under a single leader like Vercingetorix.
The invasion left a lasting impact on Gruffudd, who by 1116 was in his 60s and with failing eyesight.
According to Sir John Edward Lloyd, the challenges of campaigning in Wales were exposed during the 20 year Norman invasion of Wales.
The fleet accompanying the invasion made a landing on Anglesey where it was defeated.
During the Seven Years' War, France attempted to launch an invasion of Britain.
The Prime Minister could count on the support of a hawkish majority in Parliament to support the invasion.
During 1759, with a planned French invasion imminent, a large force of soldiers was stationed there.
By the help of these discoveries, Angle culture in the age preceding the invasion of Britannia can be pieced together.
Herd immunity is also viewed as the resistance a population has to the invasion and spread of an infectious disease.
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In 1092, William II led an invasion of Strathclyde, a Celtic kingdom in what is now southwest Scotland and Cumbria.
Impetus for this incorporating union came almost entirely from King William, who feared leaving Scotland open to a French invasion.
Both of these rulers were killed during the year that followed, as Cadwallon continued his devastating invasion of Northumbria.
Ambitious plans for an invasion of Great Britain in 1779 had to be abandoned.
Although Alexander did give papal approval to the conquest after it succeeded, no other source claims papal support before the invasion.
An example can be seen in the entry for 829, which describes Egbert's invasion of Northumbria.
Following the Norman invasion in the 12th century, England claimed sovereignty over Ireland.
The invasion, which coincided with a period of renewed Norman expansion, was at the invitation of Dermot Mac Murrough, the king of Leinster.
Historically speaking, the Iron Age in Southern Great Britain ended with the Roman invasion.
However, despite being outdated, Celtic chariot tactics were able to repel the invasion of Britain attempted by Julius Caesar.
The Roman invasion of Gaul brought a great deal of Celtic peoples into the Roman Empire.
Clodius also passed a bill that forced Cato to lead the invasion of Cyprus which would keep him away from Rome for some years.
By then, ambassadors from some of the British states, warned by merchants of the impending invasion, had arrived promising their submission.
Shortly before Julius Caesar's invasion of Britain in 55 and 54 BC, the Trinovantes were considered the most powerful tribe in Britain.
Certainly this invasion attempt readied the troops and facilities that would make Claudius' invasion possible three years later.
Three other men of appropriate rank to command legions are known from the sources to have been involved in the invasion.
The invasion force in AD 43 was led by Aulus Plautius, but it is unclear how many legions were sent.
An invasion in 288 failed to unseat him and an uneasy peace ensued, with Carausius issuing coins and inviting official recognition.
Julius Asclepiodotus landed an invasion fleet near Southampton and defeated Allectus in a land battle.
Dio tells us that, by this stage, Cunobelinus was dead, and Togodumnus and Caratacus led the initial resistance to the invasion in Kent.
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Before the Roman invasion Caratacus is associated with the expansion of his tribe's territory.
His apparent success led to Roman invasion, nominally in support of his defeated enemies.
Tacitus records that the Iceni were not conquered in the Claudian invasion of AD 43, but had come to a voluntary alliance with the Romans.
However, in 405, Stilicho was distracted by a fresh invasion of Northern Italia.
In 413 he led an invasion of Italia, lost to a subordinate of Constantius, and fled back to Africa where he was murdered by Constantius's agents.
Marcellinus rapidly drove the Vandals from Sardinia and Sicily, and a land invasion evicted them from Tripolitania.
In 476, Orestes refused to grant Odoacer and the Heruli federated status, prompting an invasion.
The heavily forested Weald made expansion difficult but also provided some protection from invasion by neighbouring kingdoms.
Given the ongoing Danish invasion and the youth of his nephews, Alfred's accession probably went uncontested.
Under Ivar the Boneless, the Danes continued their invasion in 869 by defeating King Edmund of East Anglia at Hoxne and conquering East Anglia.
The invasion force was to engage in often close and grisly warfare with the English for the next fourteen months.
At the time of the invasion, Norway had the 4th largest merchant marine fleet in the world.
King Magnus I of Norway aspired to the English throne, and in 1045 and 1046, fearing an invasion, Edward took command of the fleet at Sandwich.
Both sides were concerned that a civil war would leave the country open to foreign invasion.
William's army assembled during the summer while an invasion fleet in Normandy was constructed.
William would have preferred to delay the invasion until he could make an unopposed landing.
The Norman invasion had little impact on placenames, which had changed significantly after earlier Scandinavian invasions.
Within a century of the invasion, intermarriage between the native English and the Norman immigrants had become common.
In February 1054 the king and the Norman rebels launched a double invasion of the duchy.
Henry and Geoffrey led another invasion of Normandy in 1057 but were defeated by William at the Battle of Varaville.
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The last claimant was William of Normandy, against whose anticipated invasion King Harold Godwinson made most of his preparations.
William of Poitiers also relates that the duke obtained the consent of Pope Alexander II for the invasion, along with a papal banner.
Although Alexander did give papal approval to the conquest after it succeeded, no other source claims papal support prior to the invasion.
To deal with Norman affairs, William put the government of Normandy into the hands of his wife for the duration of the invasion.
Throughout the summer, William assembled an army and an invasion fleet in Normandy.
Ecclesiastical offices continued to be held by the same bishops as before the invasion, including the uncanonical Stigand.
Orderic also related that Odo had attempted to persuade some of William's vassals to join Odo on an invasion of southern Italy.
Another consequence of William's invasion was the sundering of the formerly close ties between England and Scandinavia.
The prospective Flemish invasion forced Henry to return to England in early July.
Henry then undertook a fourth invasion in 1164, this time with a massive army.
Wales would remain safe for a while, but the invasion of Ireland in 1171 pressured Henry II to end the issue through negotiations with Lord Rhys.
Although Philip threatened invasion, Eleanor of Aquitaine intervened in stopping her son, John, from promising to concede the land.
The opera Riccardo Primo by George Frideric Handel is based on Richard's invasion of Cyprus.
In 1154 he defeated an English and Powysian invasion, but was forced to give up some territory bordering the River Dee.
Many of Llywelyn's Welsh allies had abandoned him during England's invasion of Gwynedd, preferring an overlord far away rather than one nearby.
Being attainted, only by a successful invasion could the Yorkists recover their lands and titles.
He was welcomed by the French, who readily supplied him with troops and equipment for a second invasion.
Since 22 June 1485 Richard had been aware of Henry's impending invasion, and had ordered his lords to maintain a high level of readiness.
In 1495 the Italian Renaissance arrived in France, imported by King Charles VIII after his invasion of Italy.
The Spanish still controlled the southern provinces of the Netherlands, and the threat of invasion remained.
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Her memory was also revived during the Napoleonic Wars, when the nation again found itself on the brink of invasion.
The King was supported by Pope Sixtus V, who treated the invasion as a crusade, with the promise of a subsidy should the Armada make land.
Parma was uneasy about mounting such an invasion without any possibility of surprise.
His new subjects flocked to see him, relieved that the succession had triggered neither unrest nor invasion.
Far to the North, Bermuda's regiment of Militia and its coastal batteries prepared to resist an invasion that never came.
For the first two years of the Commonwealth, the Rump faced economic depression and the risk of invasion from Scotland and Ireland.
Preparations for an invasion of Ireland occupied Cromwell in the subsequent months.
Before his invasion, Parliamentarian forces held only outposts in Dublin and Derry.
This resulted in the invasion of Jamaica, which then became an English colony.
Shortly before the invasion, when fast delivery and secrecy was essential, fast yachts and small vessels were used for special courier services.
On 26 September the powerful city council of Amsterdam decided to officially support the invasion.
William's successful invasion with a Dutch fleet and army led to James fleeing to France.
Fears were as high as ever among the traumatised fire victims, fear of foreign arsonists and of a French and Dutch invasion.
Eisenhower, by his lack of consultation, and Eisenhower refused to back the invasion.
An invasion of England by Napoleon seemed imminent, and a massive volunteer movement arose to defend England against the French.
In response, Napoleon seriously considered an invasion of Great Britain, and massed 180,000 troops at Boulogne.
Napoleon never again had the opportunity to challenge the British at sea, nor to threaten an invasion.
The next phase of the campaign featured the French invasion of the Habsburg heartlands.
Back in Egypt on 25 July, Bonaparte defeated an Ottoman amphibious invasion at Abukir.
By 1812, advisers to Alexander suggested the possibility of an invasion of the French Empire and the recapture of Poland.
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Contrary to what many think, the invasion was called off before the Battle of Trafalgar ended any threat of an invasion.
D'Estaing instead headed north, and the anticipated invasion never materialised.
Hinchinbrook sailed from Jamaica in February 1780, as an escort for Dalling's invasion force.
In 1793, the Duke of York was sent to Flanders in command of the British contingent of an allied force destined for the invasion of France.
The baffled and starving French invasion forces retreated after six months.
The war began with the Austrian attack invasion of Serbia on 28 July 1914, in response to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
That same day British forces landed in Iceland and the Faroes to preempt a possible German invasion of the islands.
On 18 December 1940, Hitler issued the directive to prepare for an invasion of the Soviet Union.
From the German invasion of North Europe to the Balkan Campaign, Netherlands, Belgium, Greece and Yugoslavia joined the Allies.
Another was repelling a Japanese invasion of Port Moresby in New Guinea during the Battle of the Coral Sea.
The invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939, started the war in Europe, and the United Kingdom and France declared war on Germany on 3 September.
Romania had initially been a member of the Axis powers but switched allegiance upon facing invasion by the Soviet Union.
Fighting there continued until June when the Allies evacuated, ceding Norway to Germany in response to the German invasion of France.
Half a million Soviet citizens, for example, died from German bombing during the invasion and occupation of Russia.
From July until September 1940 the Luftwaffe attacked RAF Fighter Command to gain air superiority as a prelude to invasion.
Destroying RAF Fighter Command would allow the Germans to gain control of the skies over the invasion area.
By now, the imminent threat of invasion had all but passed as the Luftwaffe had failed to gain the prerequisite air superiority.
Hitler now had his sights set on Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union in June and the Blitz came to end.
Godwinson successfully repelled the invasion by Hardrada, but ultimately lost the throne of England in the Norman conquest of England.
Henry's support of a disastrous papal invasion of Sicily was the last straw.
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At the time of the Roman invasion, the inhabitants of the entire area spoke a Brythonic Celtic language.
During the Roman invasion the invaders were attracted to Derbyshire because of the lead ore in the limestone hills of the area.
He abandoned his invasion at Swarkestone Bridge on the River Trent just a few miles south of Derby.
Special Palmerston Forts were built in 1859 in anticipation of another invasion from continental Europe.
John summoned his earls, barons, and military advisers to the town to plan an invasion of Normandy.
In 1539, Henry VIII built Southsea Castle, financed by the Dissolution of the Monasteries, in anticipation of a French invasion.
When war with France broke out, he paid for weapons for a company of volunteers, sworn to resist any French invasion.
The tracks laid for the systems of semantical linguistics were among the first evidences of the scientific invasion of linguistic terrain.
The last recorded Bishop of Malta before the invasion of the islands was a Greek named Manas, who was subsequently incarcerated at Palermo.
The 54 invasion was probably an attempt to conquer at least the southeast of Britain but failed.
The last centuries before the Roman invasion saw increasing sophistication in British life.
The Norman invasion of Ireland took place in stages during the late 12th century.
In subsequent centuries, the area suffered repeated Danish invasion, and fortresses were built at Bridgnorth and Chirbury.
The Norman invasion of Wales finally brought Welsh dioceses under England's control.
In connection with the Allied invasion of Sicily, 500 American aircraft bombed Rome on 19 July 1943, aiming particularly at the railway hub.
Meanwhile, Anselm publicly supported Henry against the claims and threatened invasion of his brother Robert Curthose.
Governor Eden was certainly embarrassed by Spotswood's invasion of North Carolina, while Spotswood disavowed himself of any part of the seizure.
By criticising Eden, Spotswood intended to bolster the legitimacy of his invasion.
And the proliferation, clonability, migration, invasion and cell cycle of ovarian cancer cells are significantly correlated with the expression of clusterin.
The Evzones not only halted the invasion, but drove the Italians out of Greece and, by the onset of winter, occupied the southern quarter of Albania.
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In conclusion, initial surgery approach, tumor size, extrathyroid invasion, lymph node metastases, and pathological type may be related to PTC recurrence.
After the Norman conquest in 1066 various Castles in England were created so law lords could uphold their authority and in the north to protect from invasion.
In the 1930s, he travelled extensively, often as a special newspaper correspondent in which capacity he reported from Abyssinia at the time of the 1935 Italian invasion.
Nevertheless, the nobles' bankruptcy, along with the threat of an English invasion, played a leading role in convincing the Scots elite to back a union with England.
Mountbatten's views led to clash of personalities with the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, General Gerald Templer who supported the invasion.
The French called off their invasion following the Battle of Quiberon Bay.
However, after the German invasion of Greece in April 1941, German forces managed to occupy mainland Greece and, a month later, the island of Crete.
According to sources such as the History of Bede, after the invasion of Britannia, the Angles split up and founded the kingdoms of Northumbria, East Anglia, and Mercia.
The Princess Irene Brigade, formed from escapees from the German invasion, took part in several actions in 1944 in Arromanches and in 1945 in the Netherlands.
It has been seen as the last successful invasion of England.
The reign of the Viking kings came to an end with the last king Eric Bloodaxe dying in battle in 954 after the invasion and conquest by the Kingdom of England from the south.
The planned invasion was eventually abandoned following British victory at the Battle of Quiberon Bay in November 1759 which dramatically weakened the French navy.
He was convinced that France would launch an invasion of England as well.
This personal union somewhat assuaged constant English fears of Scottish cooperation with France, especially in a hypothetical French invasion of Great Britain.
They repulsed an American revolutionary invasion in 1776, but in 1777 a British invasion army was captured in New York, encouraging France to enter the war.
Viking raids and invasion were no less dramatic for the north.
After Belize achieved independence in 1981 the United Kingdom maintained the deterrent British Forces Belize in the country to protect it from invasion by Guatemala.
Arnold fell back to Fort Ticonderoga, where the invasion had begun.
They were among the few British tribes that resisted the Roman invasion.
By May 1941, the threat of an invasion of Britain had ended, and Hitler's attention turned to Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union.

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