In 1885, at the moment when the Amir was in conference with the British viceroy, Lord Dufferin, in India, the news came of a skirmish between Russian and Afghan troops at Panjdeh, over a disputed point in the demarcation of the northwestern frontier of Afghanistan.

Three types of cavalry became common: light cavalry, whose riders, armed with javelins, could harass and skirmish ; heavy cavalry, whose troopers, using lances, had the ability to close with their opponents ; and finally those whose equipment allowed them to fight either on horseback or foot.

Formations with a central core of pikes and bills were flanked by companies of " shot " made up of a mixture of archers and arquebusiers, sometimes with a skirmish screen of archers and arquebusiers in front.

The Sex Pistols ' live TV skirmish with Bill Grundy was the signal moment in British punk's transformation into a major media phenomenon, even as some stores refused to stock the records and radio airplay was hard to come by.

Post-independence, it has fought three wars against India, several border skirmishes with Afghanistan and against the Soviet Union which occupied Afghanistan in 1979, and an extended border skirmish with India in 1999 ( Kargil War ) and is currently conducting anti-terrorist operations along the border areas of Afghanistan.

This battle was considered by the Muslims as little more than a skirmish, while the Battle of Toulouse ( 721 ), with at death toll of maybe tens of thousands, was mourned for centuries as a large scale tragedy by the Iberian Muslims.

Military ties remain fraught with tension, however, and in 2002 a brief naval skirmish left four South Korean sailors dead, leaving the future of the Sunshine policy uncertain.

A skirmish with smugglers from Finland at the Imperial Russia | Russian border, 1853.

* May 4 – The leading Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary Gotse Delchev is killed in a skirmish with the Turkish army.

* June 2 – Fenian forces skirmish with Canadian militia at Ridgeway and Fort Erie.

Some elite units remain in the field and skirmish with the Goths.

After Vercingetorix's cavalry is defeated in a skirmish with the Romans, he moves his forces to the town of Alesia.

After setting up and ambush and attacking their lightly armoured Humvee vehicles with small arms fire and RPG ’ s the patrol stopped and Macedonian forces and guerrillas exchanged fire in a short skirmish, after soldiers started retreating half of the patrol managed to escape one soldier was shot and 7 others captured and allegedly executed with knives and then their corpses were allegedly burned. News of the massacre sparked local uprisings against Muslim Albanians in several towns and cities across Macedonia, and such revolts included burning and vandalising shops and Mosques.

During a skirmish with the X-Men's first and most deadly foe, Magneto, Phoenix and Beast were separated from the other X-Men, with each group believing the other to have perished.

Once again he developed innovative tactics to deal with difficult terrain, ordering the advance of six brigades by heavy skirmish lines, which allowed his men to deliver a continuous fire into the enemy, while proving to be elusive targets themselves.

Swedish King Charles X Gustav of Sweden | Charles X Gustav in skirmish with Tatars near Warsaw during the Second Northern War.

He led Mexican forces against the French and in a skirmish with the rear guard of the French, Santa Anna was wounded in the leg by French grapeshot.

After Quintus Fabius ' group become involved in a skirmish with the Gauls and kill one of the Gauls ' leaders, the offended Gauls demand that Rome surrender the Fabii members to them.

The attempted rebellion failed after a small skirmish in Ballingary, Co Tipperary, coupled with a few minor incidents elsewhere.

This began in the 19th century with such events as the Panjdeh Incident, a military skirmish that occurred in 1885 when Russian forces seized Afghan territory south of the Oxus River around an oasis at Panjdeh.

During a prolonged skirmish between the troops of these opposing forces, Sun and his wife Soong Ching-ling narrowly evaded heavy machine gun fire and were rescued by gunboats under Chiang's direction.

During these maneuvers, there were no engagements save for a minor skirmish between Khalid's elite light cavalry and the Byzantine advance guard.

Polybius suggests that Laelius was a companion of Scipio from their earliest days in the army together, since Laelius was apparently a witness of Scipio's rescue of his father in a skirmish that was probably the Battle of Ticinus in late 218 BC .< ref >" One of these was Gaius Laelius, who from his youth up to the end had participated in his every word and deed, and who has produced the above impression upon myself, as his account seems both probable on the face of it and in accordance with the actual performances of Scipio .".

The last of these runs resulted in an unsuccessful skirmish for the Americans-one which does not merit a name from naval historians.

Between these the player must take enough nearby territories in skirmish battles, variations on the theme of building a base and killing everyone.

Some of these " Buffalo Soldiers ," as they were nicknamed, did participate in a border skirmish with Mexican troops accompanied by German military advisors near Nogales ; see Buffalo Soldiers for more information.

The Battle of Warbonnet Creek was a skirmish characterized by a duel between " Buffalo Bill " Cody and a Cheyenne young warrior named Heova ' ehe or Yellow Hair ( often incorrectly translated as ' Yellow Hand ').

The village was the location of a well-known skirmish in the early 16th century between the followers of the Earl of Ormonde and those of the FitzGeralds, the Earls of Kildare, in which 17 men and women were slaughtered.

The women skirmish with Children of the Light before entering one of the villages at the end of a bridge leading to Tar Valon.

The story centers on Abigail Kane, who journeys to America from her native England with her son Andy in search of her preacher husband, who allegedly had gone to the States to participate in the skirmish between North and South.

Additionally, a skirmish between British and Spanish naval squadrons occurred near Havana in 1748.

The skirmish known as the battle of La Bolsa occurred on February 4, 1860, in El Zacatal, south of Progreso in southeast Hidalgo County.

The charge at Krojanty, battle at Krojanty or skirmish of Krojanty was a cavalry charge that occurred during the Invasion of Poland in the Second World War.

During the American Revolutionary War, a small but important skirmish occurred in East Amwell when local militia under Capt.

A Revolutionary War skirmish that occurred along a ridge in the center of the township was the only engagement of that war in the township.

A skirmish between small forces of American and British troops occurred near Socastee Creek in 1781.

On December 24, 1863, at the height of the American Civil War, a skirmish occurred at Dandridge as Confederate General James Longstreet and Union General Ambrose Burnside struggled for control of Knoxville.

Other surviving evidence however, strongly suggests that the advance was unplanned and occurred as the result of an undisciplined skirmish which Marshals Soult and Murat should have acted to quell but did not.

A small skirmish occurred around Worksop during the Wars of the Roses on 16 December 1460, commonly known as the Battle of Worksop.

Initially Marshal Humières commanded French forces in this theatre but in 1689, while the French concentrated on the Rhine, it produced little more than a stand-off – the most significant engagement occurred when William's second-in-command, the Prince of Waldeck, defeated Humières in a skirmish at the Battle of Walcourt on 25 August.

After this skirmish, no engagement occurred for a month.

Military wrecks that were caused by a skirmish at sea are studied to find details about the historic event and reveal much about the battle that occurred.

October 1686 a skirmish between local Serb insurgence under Habsburg command and a smaller Ottoman force occurred.

With its great impact on the city, a skirmish occurred in which one colonist was wounded following the Assembly's refusal to provide quartering.

The first skirmish between Spanish / Puerto Rican and American armed forces was fought in that barrio between the Puerto Rican militia and twenty-eight sailors and Marines, under the command of Lieutenants H. P. Huse and Wood, departed from the SS Gloucester on rafts and landed on the beach, occurred when Lt. Méndez López and his men attacked and opened fire on the Americans.

In July 1781 occurred the skirmish Francisco's Fight between Peter Francisco and several of Tarleton's Raiders.

Another skirmish occurred on November 30 of that year, when a band of Confederate guerillas unsuccessfully ambushed a detachment of the U. S. First Tennessee Cavalry at Yankeetown.

In 1642 the first major skirmish of the Civil War, the Battle of Powick Bridge, on the River Teme close to Worcester, occurred when a cavalry troop of about 1, 000 Royalists commanded by Prince Rupert, a German nephew of the King and one of the outstanding cavalry commanders of the war, defeated a Parliamentary cavalry detachment under the command of Colonel John Brown Worcestershire was again the focus of the Civil War when it was effectively ended by Cromwell's victory at the Battle of Worcester on 3 September 1651

Lyman participated in the Battle of Crooked River, a skirmish between Latter Day Saints and a Missouri militia unit from Ray County, which occurred on 25 October 1838.

The corps was engaged during the skirmish at Appomattox that occurred just prior to Lee's surrender.

A minor cavalry skirmish occurred.

Legend has it that a minor Civil War skirmish occurred on the rim.

This skirmish occurred about one mile northwest of Pichaco Pass Station.