To isolate the Danube from any Allied intervention, Marshal Villeroi's 46, 000 troops were expected to pin the 70, 000 Dutch and English troops around Maastricht in the Low Countries, while General de Coigny protected Alsace against surprise with a further corps.

Due to a combination of surprise, superior military forces, and a poorly armed South Korean army, the Northern forces quickly captured Seoul and Syngman Rhee and his government was forced to flee further south.

The Arabs whom he employed in these excavations, to their great surprise, came upon the ruins of a building at the mound of Khorsabad, which, on further exploration, turned out to be the royal palace of Sargon II, which was largely explored for sculptures and other precious relics.

Therefore there was surprise when in 1980 a further series was announced as the third series ended.

He further offered to guard them through the night in case of a surprise attack, or meet the death of a soldier in the defence of the town.

He expected no further move that year from the Protestant army, led by the Swedish king Gustavus Adolphus, since unseasonably wintry weather was making it difficult to camp in the open countryside ; however, Gustavus Adolphus ' army marched out of camp towards Wallenstein's last-known position and attempted to catch him by surprise, but his trap was sprung prematurely on the afternoon of 15 November, by a small force left by Wallenstein at the Rippach stream, about 5 – 6 kilometres south of Lützen.

Confident that the Byzantines could not cross the river, the Bulgarians relaxed their guard, and were taken by surprise when Byzantine scouts discovered a ford further upriver.

The following night, on 8 September, the aggressive French commander General Franchet d ' Esperey and his Fifth Army launched a surprise attack against the German Second Army, serving to further widen the gap between the German First and Second Armies.

On Christmas Day, 800, Pope Leo III crowned Charles as " Emperor of the Romans " in Rome in a ceremony presented as a surprise ( Charlemagne did not wish to be indebted to the bishop of Rome ), a further papal move in the series of symbolic gestures that had been defining the mutual roles of papal auctoritas and imperial potestas.

The rear of the Portuguese position, which was in fact its front in the final battle, was at the top of a narrow slope, which came up to a small village, and was further constricted by a complex series of interlocking trenches and caltrops designed to surprise and trap the enemy cavalry.

In many sectors the Germans, deprived of any surprise as their fuel-starved air force had lost air superiority to the Allies, advanced no further than the French Forward Zone, and nowhere did they break the French Battle ( Second ) Zone.

The battle was a textbook example of good planning and use of deception and surprise, and a further step towards their main objective of Stanley.

My surprise is not to be expressed, when I was shortly after informed from Calcutta, that it had been deemed expedient to employ fifty four lacs of the sum obtained by me in discharging an eight per cent loan, that the remainder was indispensable for current purposes, and it was hoped I should be able to procure from the Nawab Vizier a further aid for the objects of the war.

The detail was not usually something easy to guess like blindfolding or whipped cream, but was usually something that would surprise everyone such as changing a factor of the stunt to make it more difficult ( for example, Collyer would demonstrate throwing a baseball into a barrel but then replace the baseballs with basketballs that would barely fit into the barrel, or moving the contestant much further away from the barrel, etc.

In a surprise career move, despite their strong position and likelihood of promotion, Wise left Leeds in January 2008 to join the newly reshaped management team at Newcastle United in an executive role, tasked with travelling around Europe and further afield identifying young players and developing the academy.

He felt that Roosevelt and his advisors did not heed Secretary of the Navy, Frank Knox ’ s warning that it was “ easily possible that hostilities would be initiated by a surprise attack upon the fleet or the Naval Base at Pearl Harbor .” He further faulted the president for failing to recognize the growing threat of Communism in China.

Since surprise in location was impossible, it was further indicated that Rommel had to depend on achieving surprise in time and speed.

Upon receipt of Scott's " Roger ", Helena — thinking they now had permission — opened fire, quickly followed by Boise, Salt Lake City, and to Scott's further surprise, San Francisco.

Castrillón saw no further fighting until April 21, 1836, when Texas General Sam Houston launched a surprise attack on Mexican forces at the Battle of San Jacinto.

After the Freire expedition, Portales decided to take the offensive and staged a surprise raid to prevent further interference by the Confederation government in Chilean internal affairs.

To the surprise of the diggers, 12 feet below the level of the ground, instead of coming to the end of the post, great roots were found stopping further progress, showing that a living oak had been trimmed and made use of as it stood.

This act of terror was effective for the time being in securing a nominal alliance with the other Gauls but it caused the immediate announcement of his presence throughout Italy rendering further surprise impossible.

Whilst full of variety the programme had one further surprise for its viewers.

The depersonalization continued as the dancer was further metamorphosed by the play of lights upon his figure.

But his own work was evolving further.

`` The case was that Bang-Jensen came up to Shann claiming he had found further errors in the report.

Without further inquiry, Pike jumped to the conclusion that Robinson was guilty, and, following the honorable route that would eventually lead to the dueling ground, sent a message to Robinson through his friends, demanding that he either confirm or deny his complicity.

There was one further step in my religious progress.

In the eyes of those who still cared for such things, it was a reflection on his honor, and it gave further grounds for complaint to his overtaxed subjects, who were already grumbling -- although probably not in Latin -- `` Non est lex sana Quod regi sit mea lana ''.

In 1954 I was drafted and after serving two years honorably on Active Duty I was not required to participate in any further Army Reserve activities.

In order to further refine the management of passenger vehicles, on July 1, 1958, the actual title to every vehicle was transferred, by Executive Order, to the Division of Methods, Research and Office Services.

Counsel for the Government invited Du Pont's views on this proposal before recommending a specific program, but stated that if the court desired, or if counsel for Du Pont thought further discussion would not be profitable, the Government was prepared to submit a plan within thirty days.

He says that he was not permitted to rebut before the hearing officer statements attributed to him by the local board, and, further, that he was denied at trial the right to have the Department of Justice hearing officer's report and the original report of the Federal Bureau of Investigation as to his claim -- all in violation of the Fifth Amendment.

Considering the high cost of the F-108 system -- over $4 billion for the force that had been planned -- and the time period in which it would become operational, it was decided to stop further work on the project.

Referring further to the Foundation's officers, Dr. James F. Mathias, for eleven years our discerning colleague as Associate Secretary, was promoted to be Secretary.

The new work was a boon to the partnership, not only for its own value but particularly for the stimulation it provided to the imagination of J. R. Brown toward yet further developments for production equipment.

Not until the group was satisfied in this area were they willing to venture further to ( 2 ), Specific adjustment areas, such as sex, in-laws, religion, finance, and so on.

Then the fact that the lower channel line was pierced had further forecasting significance.

There was further elimination of all companies that were not accompanied by the name of a responsible company executive.

The prevalent opinion which we encountered in a variety of expressions in your country denied not only the existence of this conflict but it was elaborated even further with an incredible semantic dexterity.

We may carry this sequence one step further and say that at seventy he was a poet at the height of his powers, wanting only the impetus of two tragedies, one personal, the other national, to loose those powers in poetry.

A further example of the incompatible difference in personalities was when two policemen held up a Torrio beer convoy on a West Side street and demanded $300 to let it through.

There was no cleaning or further care, but the wound healed in less than two weeks and showed no scar.

There was another on this side, a little further down.

The jury further said in term-end presentments that the City Executive Committee, which had over-all charge of the election, `` deserves the praise and thanks of the City of Atlanta '' for the manner in which the election was conducted.

But he further said that it was better politics to let others question the wisdom of administration policies first.