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  • Thumbnail for Iranian Embassy siege
    evening, they killed a hostage and threw his body out of the embassy. The British Special Air Service (SAS) initiated "Operation Nimrod" to rescue the...
    58 KB (7,347 words) - 14:05, 5 November 2024
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    party was headed by the Duc d'Aiguillon who, in 1771, sent Rohan on a special embassy to find out what was being done in Vienna with regard to the partition...
    9 KB (919 words) - 12:06, 1 September 2024
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    rescue of all but two of the hostages held during the 1980 Iranian Embassy siege. The Special Air Service was a unit of the British Army during the Second World...
    93 KB (8,717 words) - 08:10, 17 November 2024
  • The Special Program for Embassy Augmentation and Response (SPEAR) is an antiterrorism and policing force in select regions around the world, designed...
    8 KB (985 words) - 05:29, 20 January 2023
  • Thumbnail for Ambassadors of the United States
    the highest-ranking diplomats of the U.S. and are usually based at the embassy in the host country. They are under the jurisdiction of the Department...
    98 KB (1,900 words) - 23:31, 19 November 2024
  • government. A minister headed a legation rather than an embassy. After World War II, the embassy became the standard form of diplomatic mission, and the...
    47 KB (5,332 words) - 06:50, 1 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Francis Walsingham
    mediation, a policy that Elizabeth endorsed. Walsingham was sent on a special embassy to the Netherlands in 1578, to sound out a potential peace deal and...
    46 KB (5,867 words) - 00:22, 20 September 2024
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    and Sudan. Embassy in Antananarivo Embassy in Dar es Salaam Embassy in Mbabane Embassy in Libreville Embassy in Lomé Embassy in Nairobi Embassy in Pretoria...
    173 KB (10,106 words) - 19:52, 19 November 2024
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    Diplomatic mission (redirect from Embassy)
    the receiving or host state. In practice, the phrase usually denotes an embassy or high commission, which is the main office of a country's diplomatic...
    22 KB (2,459 words) - 06:58, 14 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for François Leclerc du Tremblay
    arms. He served at the siege of Amiens in 1597 and then accompanied a special embassy to London. On 2 February 1599, he entered the Capuchin Novitiate under...
    6 KB (579 words) - 02:40, 4 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for United States Special Operations Command
    Eagle Claw, the disastrous attempted rescue of hostages at the American embassy in Iran in 1980. The ensuing investigation, chaired by Admiral James L...
    120 KB (11,323 words) - 21:57, 15 November 2024
  • between 1637 and 1881, Korea sent 435 special embassies to the Qing court, or an average of almost 1.5 embassies per year. "Chinese Sui Dynasty annals"...
    79 KB (7,395 words) - 06:42, 6 October 2024
  • John McAleese (category Special Air Service soldiers)
    Special Air Service, he famously had a role in the storming of the Iranian Embassy in London during a hostage taking siege in May 1980. McAleese was born...
    10 KB (944 words) - 08:22, 19 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Embassy of the United States, Moscow
    The Embassy of the United States of America in Moscow (Russian: Посольство Соединенных Штатов Америки, Москва) is the diplomatic mission of the United...
    14 KB (1,473 words) - 17:01, 1 November 2024
  • literature. Since 2017, this 'Kinderboekenambassadeur' has a seat in his special embassy in the Children's Book Museum in The Hague. The Swedish Arts Council...
    11 KB (677 words) - 16:27, 14 October 2024
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    status of the registrant ("ท" for diplomatic agents, "พ" for members of special embassy agencies, "ก" for consular agents, and "อ" for international organizations...
    30 KB (3,206 words) - 12:30, 21 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Marine Security Guard
    nation's diplomatic posts; Marines have served on special missions as couriers, guards for embassies and delegations, and security for U.S. citizens in...
    16 KB (1,493 words) - 13:27, 16 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Henry Wotton
    Hague and, in 1616, he returned to Venice. In 1620 he was sent on a special embassy to Ferdinand II at Vienna, to do what he could on behalf of James's...
    13 KB (1,578 words) - 12:23, 7 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Embassy of Russia, Ottawa
    The Embassy of Russia in Canada is the Russian embassy in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, located at 285 Charlotte Street, at the eastern terminus of Laurier...
    8 KB (841 words) - 10:47, 21 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for HMS Lion (1777)
    Between 1792 and 1794 she carried Lord George Macartney on a special embassy to China. The embassy proceeded to the Bohai Gulf, off the Hai River. The ambassador...
    8 KB (833 words) - 15:39, 17 October 2024
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