He arrived in Hawaii (known then as the Sandwich Islands) right after the murder of Captain Cook; but the very natives who had just dispatched Cook in cold blood proved perfect models of hospitality to Nicol and his crewmen, prompting him to remark that he preferred the Sandwich Islands "to any country I was ever in".
So I was dispatched to a bitterly cold converted church in the East End of London, where Trumpton's creator Gordon Murray was filming a test sequence using stop-motion animation.
On the day between the attacks in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu and the attack in Ottawa, six CF-18 fighter jets from Cold Lake, Alberta, were dispatched to fight against ISIS.
Contractors are regularly dispatched to secure houses against damage from cold weather or to perform so-called "trash outs" in which they empty homes of belongings.
And in case anyone wondered what happened at Lucky's when it wasn't occupied by journalists, City Room dispatched a reporter later on Tuesday in search of a cold beverage.
The Argentine conscript border guards were as charmless a bunch of fellows as you'd expect to find dispatched to a deserted road on top of a freezing cold mountain.
Over the course of the game, you'll manoeuvre your sub around a map, attempting to hunt down and destroy your opponents before they get the chance to dispatch you to the cold, briny depths.
LOST GIRLS (Delacorte, $23.95), an elegantly written debut novel by Andrew Pyper, follows standard procedures for a legal thriller, in that it presents a Toronto defense attorney named Barth Crane with his first homicide case ("dirty, ugly and unwinnable") and dispatches him to the cold North Country ("an interminable expanse of humanlessness") for his comeuppance.
The Romans were dispatched across the Trebbia in pursuit of the Numidians; the hardy Numidian mounts forded the cold river with little difficulty, whereas the Roman infantry assembled on the far banks of the Trebbia soaked and shivering.
Waiting Thursday in the predawn cold in eastern Afghanistan, eight terrified Christian aid workers were not sure who would arrive first, American forces dispatched to rescue them or Taliban soldiers who had held them captive for three months.
