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culminating in an invasion of the convention by an insurrectionist mob on 20 May. On 22 May the Convention struck back, having troops under Pichegru surround the

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 17

defeated French were allowed to evacuate their troops from Portugal without further conflict. The convention was signed at the Palace of Queluz, in Queluz

The Geneva Conventions are international humanitarian laws consisting of four treaties and three additional protocols that establish international legal

but they were increasingly challenged by the right. On 5 October, Convention troops led by Napoleon put down a royalist rising in Paris; when the first

instance, was a violation of Convention (V) of 1907, which states that belligerents must not violate neutral territory and move troops across said territory

was refused the advantages of the Convention in the course of the Second World War comprised German and Japanese troops who fell into enemy hands on the

Infantry, commanded by convention delegate Col. William S. Dilworth. Delegate Arthur J.T. Wright was an officer. After Bragg's troops left for Tennessee,

agree about the fate of 5,900 prisoners. In the Convention of Saratoga, the terms stipulated that the troops would be returned to Europe, never to wage war

The 2000 Republican National Convention convened at the First Union Center (now the Xfinity Mobile Arena) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from July 31 to