The Jameson Raid ( 29 December 1895 – 2 January 1896 ) was a botched raid Attack against the South African Republic ( commonly known as the Transvaal ) carried out Action by British colonial statesman Leander Starr Jameson and his Company troops ( `` police '' in the employ Employment of Alfred Beit 's and Cecil Rhodes ' British South Africa Company ) and Bechuanaland policemen over the New Year weekend of 1895–96 .

It was caused Causation when a busy signalman , Alfred Sutton , forgot GiveUp about a pair of light engines waiting Motion at his down ( northbound ) starting Process_start signal to return Arriving to their shed at Carlisle .

It is fortuitous that this was attached Connect at an early date to a very notable manuscript , Asser 's `` Life of King Alfred '' , which undoubtedly assisted Assistance in its survival .

The Oklahoma City bombing was a domestic terrorist truck bombing Attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City , Oklahoma , United States on April 19 , 1995 .

Alfred Smuth has called Name_conferral the battle Military_operation `` the greatest single battle Hostile_encounter in Anglo-Saxon history before Hastings '' .

The Schlieffen Plan ( , ) was a name given , after the First World War , to German war plans , the influence of Field Marshal Alfred von Schlieffen and his thinking on an invasion of France and Belgium which began on 4 August 1914 .

This delayed Change_event_time the US offensive Operation Grenade , the southern pincer and at the same time allowed Preventing_or_letting German forces Military_operation under local German commander , Alfred Schlemm to be concentrated Aiming against the Commonwealth advance Motion .

A telegraph operator , Alfred John `` Jack '' Atherton , was charged Judgment_communication with manslaughter ; the Crown alleged Statement that he was negligent in passing Motion_directional an incomplete message .

King Æthelred of Wessex and Prince Alfred fought Hostile_encounter against the Danes , who were possibly under the leadership of King Halfdan Ragnarsson , who had commanded Control many of the earlier battles that year .

The events were the subject of Alfred , Lord Tennyson 's narrative poem `` The Charge Judgment_communication of the Light Brigade '' ( 1854 ) , published Publishing just six weeks after the event .

Alfred Goodwyn , who had been posted Sending overseas .