that the nonconformist minister Ichabod Chauncey was banished from England under the Religion Act 1592 and spent two years in exile in Holland where he published a defence of his actions? that Florence Walton and Maurice Mouvet (pictured) became the first American dancers to appear by command of British royalty when they performed at the 1914 Kenwood House ball?
Several hundred Albanian mercenaries were left as occupiers and kept the Russian flag raised over the town until late January or early February 1774. A bombardment of the town began on 2 August, and it surrendered on 10 October. In 1773, another Russian squadron accepted an offer by the Druze chieftain Yusuf Shihab to pay the Russians a tribute in exchange for their capturing Beirut. It bombarded the town and occupied it from 23 to 28 June. A small Russian squadron helped repel an Ottoman offensive on Sidon, then sailed for Beirut. In 1772 Russia attempted to assist Egypt's autonomous ruler, Ali Bey al-Kabir, who was in rebellion against the Ottoman Empire.
In July 1770 a Russian fleet established naval command of the Mediterranean at the Battle of Chesma (depicted). The Russian occupations of Beirut were two separate military actions by squadrons of the Imperial Russian Navy as part of Russia's Levant campaign during the Russo-Turkish War of 1768–1774.
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