Gouverneur Morris played a critical role in financing and supplying the Revolutionary War.

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Regional support units and base support units have been created across the country with the mission of supplying their own war fighters.

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Maturin was involved in wartime espionage and there is a strong suggestion that O'Brian's notorious secrecy derived from his own experience working for the Political Intelligence Department during the Second World War, supplying 'black' propaganda to undermine German morale.

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Recently, Russia has accused the Ukrainians of supplying arms to Georgia during the war in August and said it would take this into account when forming its policy.

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American entrepreneur Malcolm McLean invented the shipping container in 1956, but it took a decade for its stunning effectiveness to be revealed as it went to use supplying the military during the Vietnam War.

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But the best hope for ending the war lies in the difficulty of supplying troops.

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His father was a successful industrialist from Alsace (which had fallen to the Germans after the Franco-Prussian war in 1870-71), supplying him with an unusually handsome income for a man of his rank.

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He is making limited large-format editions of selected images, including four additional sets of the 800 prints he's supplying to Dartmouth and 28 each of two portfolios containing 20 World War II prints.

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At the height of its fortunes in the early 14th century, Ravenser Odd was a town of national importance, regularly supplying the king with two fully equipped ships and armed men for his war with the Scots.

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