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The British sent Parson Sayre, the town's Presbyterian minister, to the town's militia with an entreaty to surrender. A militia Col. Samuel Whiting responded in the negative. Tryon's force captured and began to sack Fairfield, with a westerly detachment doing the same to the village of Greens Farms in present-day Westport .
Map of colonial India, distributed by the British Information Services (1942) British Information Services (BIS) was an overt propaganda organization [1] that was part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office of the government of the United Kingdom. [2] BIS was initially formed in 1941 as an organization to promote British interests in the United ...
The details of the invasion plan were so secret, adherence to the list was rigidly enforced. U.S. military advisor George Elsey tells a story in his memoirs about how a junior officer turned away King George VI from the intelligence centre on the USS Ancon , because, as he explained to a superior officer "...nobody told me he was a Bigot."
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A Universal International Freephone Number (UIFN) is a worldwide toll-free "800 number" issued by the International Telecommunication Union. Like the 800 area code issued for the North American Numbering Plan in the United States and Canada and 0800 numbers in many other countries, the call is free for the caller while the receiver pays the ...
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In the U.S., directory assistance for companies with toll-free "800 numbers" (with area codes 800, 833, 844, 855, 866, 877, and 888) was available from toll-free directory assistance, reachable by dialing 1-800-555-1212, for many decades until it was discontinued in 2020. [citation needed]
The siege of Eshowe took place during the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879. The siege was part of a three-pronged attack on the Zulu Impis of king Cetshwayo at Ulundi.After an incursion as far as Eshowe (then also known as Fort Ekowe or kwaMondi) [1] Colonel Charles Pearson was besieged there for two months by the Zulus.