Once again, Rupert was at his best with swift battlefield movements ; the night before, he had undertaken a forced march and seized the summit of Edgehill, giving the Royalists a superior position.

A swift and secret march in mid-winter from one end of the Vosges to the other took the allies by surprise.

The Protestant army had left Sedan with 25. 000 men, but the swift march had reduced it to 14. 000, many stragglers killed by angry Walloon peasants

Field-Marshal Melchor Aymerich, acting President and commander of the Royalist army took swift action and ordered forces to march on the Urdaneta's army stationed in Ambato.

Soon afterwards the cavalry tactics employed by the State of Zhao forced their enemies in the other Warring States to adopt the same techniques in order to mount any effective attack against their swift movements on the battlefield.

The first attempt at building a larger swift vessel was in America with the Ann McKim, 494 tons OM, built on the enlarged lines of a Baltimore clipper, with sharply raked stem, counter stern and square rig.

This swift current phenomenon can be viewed from the twin bridges ' pedestrian walkways or from the trail leading below the larger south bridge from the parking lot on the Whidbey Island side.

It is labeled as such “ because its success is dependent on a constancy of dissolved oxygen, temperature and flow found in swift water areas ,” which in turn limits it to a narrow spectrum of stream / river choices.

The possession of firearms did little to change Zulu tactics, which continued to rely on a swift approach to the enemy in order to bring him into close combat.

While a few offshore anchorage spots are marked on maps, Jarvis island has no ports or harbors, and swift currents are a hazard.

It promised the protection of church rights, protection from illegal imprisonment, access to swift justice, new taxation only with baronial consent and limitations on scutage and other feudal payments.

The reason for its swift abandonment as an alternative to morphine was due to the adverse effects it had on German soldiers during early trials.

Despite this, the process by which Scots overtook Norn as the primary spoken language on the islands was not a swift one, and most natives of Orkney and Shetland likely spoke Norn as a first language until the late 16th and early-to-mid 17th centuries respectively.

One of the reasons for ragga's swift propagation is that it is generally easier and less expensive to produce than reggae performed on traditional musical instruments.

These shorter rivers carry small volumes of water on an irregular basis, and they have seasonally dry river beds ; however, when they do flow, they often are swift and torrential.

During the August coup in the U. S. S. R., Estonia was able to maintain constant operation and control of its telecommunications facilities, thereby offering the West a clear view into the latest coup developments and serving as a conduit for swift Western support and recognition of Estonia's " confirmation " of independence on August 20, 1991.

The Qin were swift in their assault on the other states.

A series of swift Prussian and German victories in eastern France culminated in the Battle of Sedan, at which Napoleon III was captured with his whole army on 2 September.

Impellitteri ’ s inauguration, held on November 14, 1950, absent either a band or a platform, was both swift and simple.

Minh and his co-conspirators overthrew the government on 1 November 1963 in a swift coup.

The Song Dynasty supported a widespread postal service that was modeled on the earlier Han Dynasty ( 202 BC – AD 220 ) postal system to provide swift communication throughout the empire.

For example, Saturninus ' " How well the tribune speaks to calm my thoughts " ( 1. 1. 46 ); Tamora's vow to slaughter the Andronici at 1. 1. 450 – 455 ( thus absolving Saturninus from any involvement ); Aaron's soliloquy in 2. 1 ; Aaron's " Ay, and as good as Saturninus may " ( 2. 1. 91 ); Aaron's soliloquy in 2. 3 ; Tamora's " Now will I hence to seek my lovely Moor ,/ And let my spleenful sons this trull deflower " ( 2. 3. 190 – 191 ); Aaron's two asides in 3. 1 ( ll. 187 – 190 and 201 – 202 ); Lucius ' " Now will I to the Goths and raise a power ,/ To be revenged on Rome and Saturnine " ( 3. 1. 298 – 299 ); Marcus ' " O, heavens, can you hear a good man groan " speech ( 4. 1. 122 – 129 ); Young Lucius ' asides in 4. 2 ( ll. 6 and 8 – 9 ); Aaron's " Now to the Goths, as swift as swallow flies ,/ There to dispose this treasure in mine arms ,/ And secretly to greet the Empress ' friends " ( 4. 2. 172 – 174 ); and Tamora's " Now will I to that old Andronicus ,/ And temper him with all the art I have ,/ To pluck proud Lucius from the warlike Goths " ( 4. 4. 107 – 109 ).

A long-standing plan of the French had been the concept of an invasion of Great Britain which they hoped would lead to a swift end to the war if it was successful: in 1779 Spain entered the war on the side of France, and the increasingly depleted state of British home forces made an invasion more appealing and Amherst organised Britain's land defences in anticipation of the invasion which never materialised.

Despite, however, their advantage in numbers, the Chinese did not attempt a direct assault on the Legation Quarter although in the words of one of the besieged, " it would have been easy by a strong, swift movement on the part of the numerous Chinese troops to have annihilated the whole body of foreigners ... in an hour.

Military leader and " interim Prime Minister " Voreqe Bainimarama has accused Australia of " bullying " Fiji by applying sanctions and insisting on a swift return to a democratic government.

In the 20th century, mercenaries in conflicts on the continent of Africa have in several cases brought about a swift end to bloody civil war by comprehensively defeating the rebel forces.

In Greek mythology, the Argo ( in Greek: Ἀργώ, meaning ' swift ') was the ship on which Jason and the Argonauts sailed from Iolcos to retrieve the Golden Fleece.

The publication of this work drew a swift response, first with Rights of Man ( 1791-2 ) by Thomas Paine, and then with A Vindication of the Rights of Man ( 1792 ) by Mary Wollstonecraft.

This action drew mixed reactions from the public, some of whom believed he overstepped his boundaries and did not provide Penn State the due process they believed was required ; while others praised his swift action and believed that Penn State's lack of control justified his handling of the situation.

Recovering from his initial surprise, Napoleon beat the Austrian forces in a swift campaign and occupied Vienna at the beginning of May 1809.

The war would be decided on the continent, and the major land operations that sealed the swift French victory involved the Ulm Campaign, a large wheeling manoeuvre by the Grande Armée lasting from late August to mid-October that captured an entire Austrian army, and the decisive French victory over a combined Russo-Austrian force under Tsar Alexander I at the Battle of Austerlitz in early December.

A < s > nationwide </ s > resistance against Austrian occupation was initiated from the city, with gunfire welcoming the troops “ from every house, from every window, from every doorway … even women were taking part .” However, the Austro-Hungarian occupation of the country was swift, and Sarajevo soon found itself part of the Habsburg realms.

The Austrian forces counted on a swift victory over the weaker Sardinian army before French forces could arrive in Piedmont.

However, division in the United States over the war, a lackluster American militia, the incompetence of American military commanders, and swift and decisive action by the British commander, Sir Isaac Brock, kept Upper Canada part of British North America.

However, division in the United States over the war, the incompetence of American military commanders, and swift and decisive action by the British commander, Sir Isaac Brock, keep Upper Canada part of British North America.

Baibars, who was known to be a swift commander, led the vanguard and succeeded in his maneuver and lured the Mongol army to the Ain Jalut where the Egyptian army led by Qutuz waited.

Maximian's swift appointment by Diocletian as Caesar is taken by the writer Stephen Williams and historian Timothy Barnes to mean that the two men were longterm allies, that their respective roles were pre-agreed and that Maximian had probably supported Diocletian during his campaign against Carinus ( r. 283 – 285 ) but there is no direct evidence for this.

The militia together with members of the Compagnie Franches, dressed for woodland travel similarly to their Algonquin Indian allies, and grew to specialize in the swift and mobile brand of warfare termed la petite guerre.

Expecting a swift counterattack from the Senior Partners, Angel directs Connor to leave, then manages to rendezvous with his surviving allies, except, of course, Lorne.

Yongle became frustrated at his inability to catch up with his swift opponents and fell into a deep depression and then into illness ( suffered a series of minor strokes ).

Aed mac Ruaidri had been five years King of Connacht, as the poet said: ' Aed mac Ruaidri of the swift onslaught, five years his rule over the province, till he fell — a loss on every frontier — by the hand of Fedlimid.