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...

renounce the convention and suspended it until Great Britain recognized American independence. The Americans ended up holding the Convention Army for the duration...

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...

Geneva Convention, officially the Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field (French: Convention pour l'amélioration...

the Hudson, most of the army marched south toward Albany on October 18, while other detachments accompanied the "Convention Army" east. Burgoyne and Riedesel...

The National Convention (French: Convention nationale) was the constituent assembly of the Kingdom of France for one day and the French First Republic...

Convention Army, named after the convention that granted them safe passage back to Europe. However, the Continental Congress revoked the convention,...

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;...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Continental Army in the late American Revolutionary War (1775–1783) and proponent of a stronger national government, to become President of the convention. The...

The Convention of 5 October 1961 Abolishing the Requirement of Legalisation for Foreign Public Documents, also known as the Apostille Convention, is an...

PLA Navy, and other branches. Though by convention, irregular military is understood in contrast to regular armies which grew slowly from personal bodyguards...

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,...

Convention Army. Although the terms of surrender allowed the troops to return to Europe, the American Continental Congress cancelled the convention....

Geneva Convention, relative to the treatment of prisoners of war, is one of the four treaties of the Geneva Conventions. The Geneva Convention relative...

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...

training of the Joseon army. Neither nation would send troops to Joseon without prior notification to the other. The Convention effectively eliminated...

battles in the north. Charlottesville served as a prison camp for the Convention Army, Hessian and British soldiers captured at Saratoga. Virginia also sent...

Provisional IRA. In September 1986, the Provisional IRA held a General Army Convention (GAC), the organisation's supreme decision-making body. It was the...

Farm, commanding the middle column during the latter. He was in the Convention Army, imprisoned in Cambridge, Massachusetts after its surrender following...

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...

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...

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...

The Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War (French: Convention relative à la protection des personnes civiles en temps...

The Convention of Klosterzeven (or the Convention of Kloster-Zeven, German: Konvention von Kloster Zeven) was a convention signed on 10 September 1757...

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...