-
Operation Staunch was
launched in the
spring of 1983 by the
United States State Department to stop the flow of U.S. arms to Iran. The
Iranian Islamic...
- the name HMS
Staunch: HMS
Staunch (1797) was a 12-gun
gunvessel launched in 1797,
purchased later that year, and sold in 1803. HMS
Staunch (1804) was a...
- HMS
Staunch was a
mercantile vessel that the
Royal Navy
purchased in
frame on the
stocks at Kent. She had a brief,
unremarkable career until the Navy...
-
called navigation weirs, on the East
Anglian rivers they were
called staunches,
those on the
River Avon,
Warwickshire were
called water gates, and in...
- HMS
Staunch was one of 20 Acorn-class (later H-class)
destroyers built for the
Royal Navy. The
destroyer served in the
First World War. The
Acorn class...
- The
Staunch Book
Prize is an
award given to
thriller novels that
avoid featuring violence to women.
British writer and
screenwriter Bridget Lawless founded...
- over the country. The
display counter of
these shops challenges even a
staunchly carnivorous stomach not to rumble; the fake meat
products are
almost indistinguishable...
- the war in 1914 and 1915, a
minority of
advanced Irish nationalists had
staunchly opposed taking part. The war
began amid the Home Rule
crisis in Ireland...
- such as
Sultan Selim I,
despite being Safavid Iran's
archrival and a
staunch opposer of Shia Islam. It was a
major literary language in the empire....
-
navigability were made in 1638 and in the
early 18th century, when
locks and
staunches were built.
Special powers to
improve the
river from
Mildenhall to Bury...
