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Battle on Buka Street is a 2022 Nigerian comedy drama film directed by Funke Akindele and Tobi Makinde. [2] The film is jointly produced as a collaboration between Funke Ayotunde Akindele Network (FAAN) and FilmOne Studios. [3] The film had its theatrical release on 16 December 2022 and opened to extremely positive reviews from critics.
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The news of the siege only reached Lisbon in the end of 1698, at the same time that the city surrendered. [5] Alarmed, King Peter II of Portugal immediately ordered to organize a relief squadron, which was constituted by two ships of the line and three frigates, with a terço of 950 soldiers embarked.
The English carrack Jesus of Lübeck, captured by the Spanish during the battle, as depicted in the Anthony Roll. San Juan's port facilities were extremely small and rudimentary, consisting of a mooring wall built by the Spanish on "a little yland of stones, not past three feet aboue water in the highest place, and not past a bow-shotte ouer any way at the most, and it standeth from the maine ...
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On 17 October 2019, a convoy consisting of 35 police officers and soldiers drove up to Ovidio's house in the Tres Ríos neighborhood of Culiacán, Sinaloa. [7] Initial government reports claimed that this convoy was doing a routine patrol of the area at the time and only approached the house after being fired upon, [8] [9] but after the battle, authorities admitted that the arrest was a pre ...
The battle was the turning point of the Battle of Kohima which was the watershed of the Burma Campaign. Earl Louis Mountbatten, the Supreme Allied Commander in the theatre, described Kohima as probably one of the greatest battles in history... in effect the Battle of Burma... naked unparalleled heroism... the British/Indian Thermopylae. [29]
Battle Jr and associate Julio Acuña attempted to appeal the decision but failed, with Battle Jr sentenced to more than 15 years in federal prison and ordered to forfeit $642 million and Acuña sentenced to life and a $1.4 billion judgment. [12] On May 6, 2006, Battle pleaded guilty to the racketeering charges due to his health.