A small detachment of French troops led by Joseph Coulon de Jumonville, was discovered by Tanacharison and a few warriors east of present-day Uniontown, Pennsylvania.

The distal ends of these flakes are only a few molecules thick, are extremely sharp, and indicate a flawless detachment.

Apart from fewer than a hundred Swiss who escaped from the Tuileries, some hidden by sympathetic Parisians, the only survivors of the regiment were a three-hundred-strong detachment which had been sent to Normandy to escort grain convoys a few days before August 10th.

The small detachment, gradually attrited, had a few notable successes:

That its regular winter quarters, under later emperors, were at León, we learn from the Itinerary, Ptolemy, and the Notitiae Imperii, as well as from a few inscriptions ; but there are numerous inscriptions to prove that a strong detachment of it was stationed at Tarraco ( modern Tarragona ), the chief city of the province.

A few days after Hurricane Katrina, Jefferson used a Louisiana National Guard detachment to recover personal effects and belongings from his home.

On the night of 27 February, after a period of intense training and several delays due to poor weather, a small detachment of airborne troops under the command of Major John Frost parachuted into France a few miles from the installation.

A detachment of Croats opened fire on them and Frederick, believing he was up against a small rearguard of the Austrian army, ordered a few infantry battalions to advance.

Just a few months later, on Oct 29th 2008, Detachment 35 was named best mid-sized detachment in the nation, and awarded the prestigious " Right of Line " award.

A few Jewish prisoners were selected from incoming transports to form a forced-labor detachment ( Sonderkommando ) of 50 to 60 men deployed at the forest camp.

However, a few communities such as Ingersoll, Norwich and Tillsonburg are patrolled by the Ontario Provincial Police ( OPP ) Oxford detachment.

Under the Yildirim Army Group were, from west to east: the Ottoman Eighth Army ( Jevad Pasha ) which held the front from the Mediterranean coast to the Judean Hills with five divisions ( one of which had recently arrived at Et Tire, a few miles behind the front lines ), a cavalry division and the German " Pasha II " detachment, equivalent to a regiment ; the Seventh Army ( Mustafa Kemal Pasha ) which held the front in the Judean Hills to the Jordan River with four divisions and a German regiment ; and the Fourth Army ( Jemal Mersinli Pasha ), which was divided into two groups: one faced the bridgeheads which Allenby's forces had seized over the Jordan with two divisions, while the other defended Amman and Ma ' an and the Hejaz Railway against attacks by Arab forces with two divisions, a cavalry division and some miscellaneous detachments.

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Only a single company of these guards was normally on duty at the Tuileries but the remainder of the regiment ( less a detachment of 300 sent to escort grain convoys in Normandy a few days before ) had been brought into central Paris from their barracks during the night of 9 – 10 August.

After treatment patients gradually regain their vision over a period of a few weeks, although the visual acuity may not be as good as it was prior to the detachment, particularly if the macula was involved in the area of the detachment.

For example in January 1951, a detachment of Convair RB-36D Peacemaker intercontinental bombers from the 5th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing at Travis AFB, California arrived for a few days, and various tanker and transport aircraft also made periodic appearances at the base.

According to fellow voice actors, Gōri was diagnosed with diabetes mellitus a few years prior to his death and his vision was affected by retinal detachment as a result of the disease.

Brock originally intended to occupy a fortified position astride Hull's supply line and wait for starvation and bombardment to force the Americans to surrender or come out to fight, but he then learned that on the previous day, Hull had sent a detachment of 400 men under Colonels Cass and McArthur to escort Brush's convoy to Detroit via a backwoods trail some distance from the lake and river, and this detachment was only a few miles from the British rear.

The detachment had the Royal Corps of Transport cap badge for only a few months before the amalgamation of the Royal Corps of Transport into the Royal Logistic Corps.

Battered by the wind and waves, they are largely infertile and uninhabited except for a small military detachment and a few lighthouse keepers.

Over the first few months of life, complete or partial retinal detachment evolves.

Matsui had sent a detachment ( mainly of mixed line-of-communication troops, but also including 138 Battalion of 24 Independent Mixed Brigade ) forward to defend Payagyi, a few miles north of Pegu.

She manages to salvage a few hundred pounds of the crop ( enough to trade for food, perhaps ) but sees her labor rendered useless when a small detachment of Union troops finds the cotton in a slave cabin and sets it ablaze.

On March 9, 1916, on the orders of Mexican revolutionary leader Francisco " Pancho " Villa, ( Colonel ) Francisco Beltrán, ( Colonel ) Candelario Cervantes, ( General ) Nicolás Fernández, ( General ) Pablo López and others led five hundred men in an attack against the town, which was garrisoned by a detachment of the U. S. 13th Cavalry Regiment.

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Instead, Liu Bei had Guan Yu sail ahead down the Han River with a detachment of several hundred ships and take a roundabout route to Jiangling, where they planned to rendezvous.

Arnold took several hundred men to set up a position at Ridgefield, while Wooster took a smaller detachment to harass the rear of Tryon's column as they returned to the coast.

However that afternoon a detachment of over a hundred SS-Feldgendarmerie entered the camp, mustered over 3, 000 men and marched them out, heading east.

On August 24, 1781, a detachment of one hundred of his men was ambushed near the Ohio River by Indians led by Joseph Brant, a Mohawk leader temporarily in the west.

A second detachment, no more than a hundred horsemen, rode up the mountains, looking down on the Taira fortress from the north, while the remainder attacked alongside Yoshitsune, from the west, along the coast.

A detachment of six men from the 701st Chemical Maintenance Company under First Lt. Howard D. Beckstrom went aboard, followed by Lt. Thomas H. Richardson, the Cargo Security Officer.

For instance, Tomás Mac Curtain, the Mayor of Cork, was assassinated in March 1920 by local RIC men and the massacre of 13 civilians at Croke Park on Bloody Sunday was also carried out by the RIC although a small detachment of Auxiliaries were also present.

A detachment of 30 men made contact with the Navajo and spoke to the Navajo Chief Narbona in mid-October, about the same time that Carson met Gen. Kearny on the trail to California.

Two days later the French withdrew to a position near Guastalla in response to Austrian maneuvers, but one detachment of nearly 3, 000 men was surrounded and captured by the advancing Austrians.

Beginning with a detachment of 11 personnel from UDT 3, UDT participation expanded to three teams with a combined strength of 300 men.

A rebel force of 2, 000 men, primarily composed of New Hampshire and Massachusetts militiamen, led by General John Stark, and reinforced by men led by Colonel Seth Warner and members of the Green Mountain Boys, decisively defeated a detachment of General John Burgoyne's army led by Lieutenant Colonel Friedrich Baum, and supported by additional men under Lieutenant Colonel Heinrich von Breymann.

On August 14 Baum's men encountered a detachment of Stark's men that had been sent out to investigate reports of Indians in the area.

Sun Quan was ecstatic, and appointed Gongsun Yuan the Prince of Yan and granted him the nine bestowments, and further sent a detachment of 10, 000 men by sea north to assist Gongsun Yuan in his campaign against Wei, against the advice of nearly every single one of his high level officials, particularly Zhang Zhao.

On 7 July, Spangberg left with a detachment of 209 men and much of the cargo ; on 27 July apprentice shipbuilder Fyodor Kozlov led a small party to reach Okhotsk ahead of Spangberg, both to prepare food supplies and to start work repairing the Vostok and building a new ship ( the Fortuna ) needed to carry the party across the bay from Okhotsk to the Kamchatka peninsula.

He reached the Loire river at Meung-sur-Loire, which he promptly seized ( a detachment of his men crossed the river then to plunder the abbey of Cléry ).

By dexterous management and large promises he overcame the misgivings of the Greek troops over the length and danger of the war ; a Spartan fleet of thirty-five triremes sent to Cilicia opened the passes of the Amanus into Syria and conveyed to him a Spartan detachment of 700 men under Cheirisophus.

However, the names of the characters are fictional and any similarity to the personal characteristics of the officers and men of the detachment is not intended.

After the fall of Atlanta, a detachment of Sherman's cavalry was sent to raid the county ; but the Confederate Home Guard, made up of men too old for military duty, left the mountains on which Cornelia is situated and met the Yankee raiders at a narrow pass about four miles east of the town.

On 6 February 1922, a detachment of 20 enlisted men from Luke Field, proceeded to Schofield Barracks, under Lieutenant William Agee, to clear the flying field and construct housing for the divisional air service.

At the time, Thrailkill's force arrived Keytesville was defended by a small Union detachment of thirty-five men from the Missouri militia, commanded by Lieutenant Anthony Pleyer.

Post Office Department airmail flights during the 1920s and 1930s ; a small detachment of enlisted men ( detached service ) from Marshall Field and Fort Riley, Kansas, constituted the only military presence on the field between 1935-1940.

Texas Governor don Antonio Cordero dispatched from Nacogdoches a company of 110 men in 1805 to be stationed at Arkokisa above the mouth of the Trinity, near the present town of Liberty, supplementing a detachment of 50 men already there.

Washington staged an attack from Fort Ohio against a French detachment of 40 men that resulted in the death of French diplomat Ensign Joseph Coulon de Jumonville.

Jackson also sent a detachment of men to the west bank of the Mississippi to man two 24-pounders and two 12-pounders from the grounded warship.

The Russians could expect to be reinforced by Anton Wilhelm von L ' Estocq's detachment of 9, 000 Prussians ; the French by Marshal Davout's depleted III Corps — proud victors of Auerstedt but now only 15, 000 strong — and Marshal Ney's 14, 000-strong VI Corps ( making a total of 74, 000 men ), which was shadowing the Prussians.