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    The Convention Army (1777–1783) was an army of British and allied troops captured after the Battles of Saratoga in the American Revolutionary War. On...
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    renounce the convention and suspended it until Great Britain recognized American independence. The Americans ended up holding the Convention Army for the duration...
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    the conference adopted the first Geneva Convention "for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field". Representatives of 12 states...
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    Geneva Convention, officially the Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field (French: Convention pour l'amélioration...
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    the Hudson, most of the army marched south toward Albany on October 18, while other detachments accompanied the "Convention Army" east. Burgoyne and Riedesel...
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    The National Convention (French: Convention nationale) was the constituent assembly of the Kingdom of France for one day and the French First Republic...
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    Convention Army, named after the convention that granted them safe passage back to Europe. However, the Continental Congress revoked the convention,...
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    John Burgoyne (category British Army generals)
    America to re-join the Convention Army and continue negotiations for its return. When Burgoyne refused he was gazetted out of the army with loss of rank;...
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    defeated Victoriano Huerta's Federal Army and forced his resignation and exile in July 1914. The call for the convention was issued on 1 October 1914 by Venustiano...
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    his troops were taken captive as the Convention Army. Although the terms of surrender allowed the Convention Army to give their parole and return to Europe...
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    Burgoyne's surrender, 2,431 Brunswickers were detained as part of the Convention Army until the end of the war. Brunswick sent 5,723 troops to North America...
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  • The Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armies in the Field, consisting of 39 articles in French, was adopted...
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    Surrender of General Burgoyne by John Trumbull. He was then a part of the Convention Army until he was exchanged for American General Benjamin Lincoln in 1780...
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    Continental Army in the late American Revolutionary War (1775–1783) and proponent of a stronger national government, to become President of the convention. The...
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    The Convention of 5 October 1961 Abolishing the Requirement of Legalisation for Foreign Public Documents, also known as the Apostille Convention, is an...
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    PLA Navy, and other branches. Though by convention, irregular military is understood in contrast to regular armies which grew slowly from personal bodyguards...
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    support a state army of 10,000 men. Harrison Gray Otis, who inspired these measures, suggested that the eastern states meet at a convention in Hartford,...
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    Convention Army. Although the terms of surrender allowed the troops to return to Europe, the American Continental Congress cancelled the convention....
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    Geneva Convention, relative to the treatment of prisoners of war, is one of the four treaties of the Geneva Conventions. The Geneva Convention relative...
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  • led a large army into Texas to quell the revolt; the vanguard of this army arrived at San Antonio de Bexar on February 23. The Convention was called to...
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    organised or well-coordinated.: 177  The revolts were put down by the armies of the Convention over the following months. The Reign of Terror was then imposed...
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  • training of the Joseon army. Neither nation would send troops to Joseon without prior notification to the other. The Convention effectively eliminated...
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    battles in the north. Charlottesville served as a prison camp for the Convention Army, Hessian and British soldiers captured at Saratoga. Virginia also sent...
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  • Provisional IRA. In September 1986, the Provisional IRA held a General Army Convention (GAC), the organisation's supreme decision-making body. It was the...
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    a brown horse. Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War Convention Army Weir, pp. 9–10. Architect of the Capitol. Weir, p. 19. Weir, p. 36...
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    the army of the convention. October 10: A decree by the Convention puts the new Constitution on hold. On a proposal from Saint-Just, the Convention declares...
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    The Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War (French: Convention relative à la protection des personnes civiles en temps...
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    James Inglis Hamilton (category British Army generals)
    Farm, commanding the middle column during the latter. He was in the Convention Army, imprisoned in Cambridge, Massachusetts after its surrender following...
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    revolution. In practice, the alliance between Villa and Zapata as the Army of the Convention did not continue to function when the two parted. The Zapatistas...
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    The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), also called the Law of the Sea Convention or the Law of the Sea Treaty, is an international...
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