Because they knew that they could not defeat the Carthaginians in the traditional tactics of ramming and sinking enemy ships, the Romans added the corvus, an assault bridge, to Roman ships.

The Battle of Stirling Bridge is depicted in the 1995 film Braveheart, but it bears little resemblance to the real battle, there being no bridge ( due mainly to the difficulty of filming around the bridge itself ) and tactics resembling the Battle of Bannockburn.

Although inexperienced in sea battles, the Romans, led by consul Gaius Duilius Nepos, heavily defeat the Carthaginian fleet, mainly due to the innovative use of land tactics in naval warfare ( including the use of the grappling irons and the corvus boarding bridge ).

Much of the tactics of bidding in bridge revolves around the attempt by partners to find a " fit " in one of the major suits that will allow them to easily make a game contract.

* Wendellhead, a trick-based card game, derived from the rules of whist and using tactics similar to that of contract bridge

Towards the end of March 1903 Gotse with his detachment destroyed the railway bridge over Angista river, aiming to test the new guerrilla tactics.

A dispute regarding the tactics between Swedish and Brandenburg officers gave several Polish regiments the opportunity to withdraw towards the bridge.

Ellet, however, persisted with his tactics and snatched the project away from the contractor ; he promoted himself to the bridge company and offered to accept land instead of cash as payment.

The most common game variants of contract bridge are rubber bridge and duplicate bridge ; each has many further variants.

While rubber bridge is played competitively and for stakes, it is most often played socially and with less formality than duplicate bridge.

In duplicate bridge, the cards held by each player in each deal are preserved so that each partnership plays the same set of hands as their East-West or North-South counterparts at other tables and with the scoring based upon relative performance, thus emphasizing skill over chance.

While duplicate is the primary form of higher levels of competitive bridge, it is also played socially.

In duplicate bridge, the hands are shuffled and dealt only once, at the beginning of the session.

If all four players pass in the first round, the deal is not played ; in rubber bridge the deal is not scored and the hand is redealt by the original dealer, while in duplicate the score is recorded as zero for each pair and returned to the board.

* Tournament director in duplicate bridge

When playing the song live Hopwood often used a Rickenbacker guitar with a rag under the bridge to duplicate the sound, which can be seen clearly in old performance clips.

She also was a Senior Life Master duplicate bridge player and died in 2008.

The duplicate bridge was opened in May 2010.

A public open day for the duplicate bridge was held on 16 May and the new bridge was opened to traffic on 22 May 2010, six months ahead of schedule.

The duplicate bridge was completed in May 2010 along with the remaining lanes of the Gateway Motorway deviation.

** Clockhouse Bridge Club meets on Tuesday and Thursday evenings for duplicate bridge

* Howell is the name of a table movement system often used in duplicate bridge

* Mitchell movement, a type of duplicate bridge table movement

Over half of public opinion had mostly favored a duplicate of the first bridge, while the cable-stayed bridge came in second with around 21 %.

The Blue Water Bridge Authority had rejected both designs, due to the duplicate creating a false sense of history, while the cable-stayed option was feared to overshadow the existing bridge.

* Board ( bridge ), a device used in playing duplicate bridge