General Webb agrees to grant the militia leave if their homes are attacked, in return for their reinforcement of Colonel Edmund Munro ( Maurice Roëves ) at Fort William Henry.

However, with an estimated 5, 000 British regulars and Canadian militia converging on his position, and a U. S. naval detachment blocking any attempts at reinforcement, that night O ' Neill hastily planned his retreat back to New York State.

To undermine the resistance, however, and before the Eritrean reinforcement could arrive, De Vecchi began to instill distrust among the local people by buying the loyalty of some of them.

Cracking of the concrete section is nearly impossible to prevent ; however, the size and location of cracks can be limited and controlled by appropriate reinforcement, control joints, curing methodology and concrete mix design.

Since the 1990s, however, many opera houses have begun using a subtle form of sound reinforcement called acoustic enhancement ( see below ).

By 1953, however, he followed others in thus employing the word punishment, and he re-cast negative reinforcement for the removal of aversive stimuli.

In the middle and late part of the century, however, more research into operant conditioning and positive reinforcement occurred as wild animal shows became more popular.

The concrete used in the Belgian forts was of poor quality, however, and consisted of layers of concrete only, with no steel reinforcement.

This, however, does not mean that Welsh Terriers fail to learn or understand commands, just that they tend to make their own decisions ; thus the need for constant reinforcement.

In addition to problem space search, however, Soar can be used to instantiate reasoning techniques such as reinforcement learning which do not require detailed internal models of the environment.

A comprehensive restoration led by the architect Ivar Tengbom, including the reinforcement of the foundations, the replacement of the windows, and interior lightwells being used for installations, transformed the decayed structure to its present classical shape ; the updated interiors designed by Carl Malmsten, however, making the interior connote the 1940s.

At 17: 20 Smith requested reinforcement, asking Townsend for an airmobile assault ; however, due to the bad weather, poor visibility, time of day and lack of a suitable landing zone this was considered impossible.

On 29 October 2008, a French request for an EU reinforcement of 1, 500 troops was refused by several countries and appeared unlikely to materialize ; however, the UN forces stated they would act to prevent takeovers of population centers.

For five days after, however, the critical supply situation effectively ground the 3rd Army to a halt, allowing previously routed German forces to regroup and the reinforcement of their strongholds in the area.

Ingalls and engineer Henry N. Hooper were convinced, however, that Ernest L. Ransome's system of casting twisted steel bars inside of concrete slabs as reinforcement ( patented in 1884 ) and casting slab, beams and joists as a unit would allow them to create a rigid structure.

There are at least 100 specific application areas for geotextiles that have been developed ; however, the fabric always performs at least one of four discrete functions: separation, reinforcement, filtration, and / or drainage.

There are many specific application areas, however, they function almost exclusively as reinforcement materials.

The town's strategic location on the approaches to Madrid, however, drew repeated attacks by the Spanish Nationalists, and reinforcement by the Republican forces, including various International Brigades.

The 1998 conversion, however, saw the regiments reduced to three squadrons rather than four, with a single Yeomanry regiment for peacetime reinforcement, with the effect that the total number of operational squadrons remained the same.

Encouraged by this promise ( whatever it was worth ) the States-General agreed to release the Danish contingent of seven battalions and 22 squadrons as a reinforcement.

Pheidippides arrived during the festival of Carneia, a sacrosanct period of peace, and was informed that the Spartan army could not march to war until the full moon rose ; Athens could not expect reinforcement for at least ten days.

The condition of the Ottoman railways of the time was primitive, so most reinforcement would have to come by sea through the Aegean Sea.

With minimal police training, their main role was to increase the strength of police posts, where they functioned as sentries, guards, escorts for government agents, reinforcement to the regular police, and crowd control, and mounted a determined counter-insurgency campaign.

However, due to the absence of reinforcement, its tensile strength was far lower than modern reinforced concrete, and its mode of application was also different:

The most famous of the French deists was Voltaire, who acquired a taste for Newtonian science, and reinforcement of deistic inclinations, during a two-year visit to England starting in 1726.

Rules from the past no longer adequately described the structure of the time, and a reinforcement of earlier Landfrieden was urgently called for.

In 1960 the Grand Ducal Guard was again reorganised into four Platoons temporarily grouped into intervention and reinforcement detachments.

In 1964 the Grand Ducal Guard was organized into a HQ, three Platoons, a reinforcement Platoon and the NCO school.

Firing through a moving propeller was solved in a variety of ways, including the interrupter gear, metal reinforcement of the propeller, or simply avoiding the problem with wing-mounted guns or having a pusher propeller.

Rome instructed De Vecchi that he was to receive the reinforcement from Eritrea, but that the commander of the two battalions was to temporarily assume the military command of the operations and De Vecchi was to stay in Mogadishu and confine himself to other colonial matters.

With reinforcement troops from Maj. Gen. Don Carlos Buell and Maj. Gen. Lew Wallace's missing division, Grant succeeded in driving the Confederates back to the road from Corinth ; though he stopped short of capturing Beauregard's army, he was able to stabilize the Army of the Tennessee.

Societal reinforcement of the belief was hypothesized by Davis to confirm for the zombie individual the zombie state, and such individuals were known to hang around in graveyards, exhibiting attitudes of low affect.

The conquest was the only victory of Italy without reinforcement from German troops during World War II against the Allies.

The British government of William Ewart Gladstone had been unwilling to become bemired in a distant war, which required substantial troop reinforcement and expense, for what was at the time perceived to be a minimal return.

The 112th captured Schmidt on 3 November, cutting the German supply route to Monschau, but no American supply, reinforcement or evacuation was possible, as the Kall Trail was blocked.

In the 1910s, certain boots and shoes used canvas duck fabric for the upper or for the insole, and duck tape was sometimes sewn in for reinforcement.

The driver was mounted in a stepvan owned by Tim Maynor but was too powerful for the amount of applied reinforcement and damaged the vehicle.

When Phil Knight started Nike, he was hoping to find a mark as recognizable as the Adidas stripes, which also provided reinforcement to the shoe.

An English reinforcement army rushing from Paris under John Talbot was defeated at the Battle of Patay shortly after ( June 18 ), the first significant field victory for French arms in years.

In 629 Muhammad sent Amr ibn al-A ’ as to Zaat-ul-Sallasal from where he called for reinforcement and Muhammad sent Abu Ubaidah ibn al-Jarrah with reinforcement, serving under him were Abu Bakr and Umar, they attacked and defeated the enemy.

With this reinforcement the Roman front renewed their attack and defeated Hannibal's second line.

In the Battle of Fancheng, Guan Yu defeated the reinforcement force led by Yu Jin and accepted the surrender of several thousand men.

In 1810, the hostilities were renewed by the brothers Nikolay and Sergei Kamensky, who defeated the Ottoman reinforcement heading for Silistria and ousted the Turks from Hacıoğlu Pazarcık ( May 22 ).

At Wesenberg ( Rakvere ), he defeated a Swedish reinforcement force sent in to help Dorpat, which was soon forced to surrender.

Gotō's force was approaching Guadalcanal on October 11, 1942 to bombard Henderson Field in support of a Tokyo Express reinforcement mission when it was surprised and defeated by Scott's force in a confused night battle.

He won the first encounter against the French, but was defeated by a surprise attack of a hidden reinforcement of one thousand French knights under Charles of Anjou.