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attack and faltered
Advancing North along present day Easton Avenue, Hessian Colonel Donop pushed aside American outposts and arrived 15 minutes after Ewald's attack had faltered.
The English attack, vulnerable from a leeward position, faltered.
The attack was initially successful and the Prussians managed to recapture Saint-Amand-le-Hameau, but the attack faltered and they were counter-attacked by chasseurs of the Imperial Guard west of Saint-Amand and started a disorderly retreat from Saint-Amand-le-Haye.
Caught in the enfilading fire from both sides, the Ostrogothic cavalry sustained high casualties and their attack faltered.
However, as the British attack faltered, the main effort switched to the 9th Division, which punched a massive dent into the German and Italian position over the next five days at great cost, " crumbling " the Afrika Korps in the process, and ultimately forcing Rommel to retreat.
When Montgomery fell, his attack faltered, and the British General Carleton led hundreds of local Quebec militia to encircle the second attack.
The U. S. attack faltered as artillery and food supplies were left behind on the muddy roads.
However, as this new attack faltered, Napoleon led the reserves forward without orders and seized the British fort.
In it, a Polish breakout attack gained initial success but eventually faltered after a concentrated German counterattack.
The Poles knocked out a machine gun nest at the German Schupo and Lt. Leon Pajak opened intense howitzer fire on the advancing Germans who faltered and stopped their attack.
To the south, on the right flank of the attack, where Haig had hoped the hole would be opened in the German lines to allow the cavalry penetration and breakthrough, the attacks faltered.
In May 1915, Horne's division participated in the first British night attack of the war, distinguishing itself at the Battle of Festubert, France ; the attack faltered, partly because the artillery ran out of ammunition.

attack and eight
With Mickey Mantle and Yogi Berra both out of action due to injuries, the American League champs still mounted a 15-hit attack against a parade of eight Cincinnati pitchers, the most ever used by one team in a series game.
In this attack, eight sheep were discovered dead, each with three puncture wounds in the chest area and completely drained of blood.
During the attack on the barracks, an RIC patrol from Slane happened upon the firefight – leading to a five-hour gun battle, in which eight RIC constables were killed and 15 wounded.
The eight queens puzzle is the problem of placing eight chess queens on an 8 × 8 chessboard so that no two queens attack each other.
He was hit twice in the failed attack and died on the battlefield at the age of twenty eight.
The panic reaction was explained by many as resulting from the tension after the attack on the Dutch royal family that killed eight people just over a year before the incident.
Twenty quinqueremes, loaded with 1, 000 soldiers, raided the Aegadian Islands west of Sicily and eight ships intended to attack the Vulcan islands, but were blown off-course in a storm towards the Straits of Messina.
Every six months member countries exchange information on deliveries of conventional arms to non Wassenaar members that fall under eight broad weapons categories: battle tanks, armored combat vehicles ( ACVs ), large-caliber artillery, military aircraft / unmanned aerial vehicles, military and attack helicopters, warships, missiles or missile systems, and small arms and light weapons.
However, he died suddenly of a massive heart attack on March 16, 1971, eight days before his 69th birthday, while vacationing with friend Dwayne Andreas in Miami, Florida, following a round of golf with Boston Red Sox player Carl Yastrzemski.
On September 20, 1863, Longstreet lined up eight brigades in a deep column against a narrow front, an attack very similar to future German tank tactics in World War II.
An attack by indigenous tribe on the camp of sheep herders George and William Faithful became known as the Faithful Massacre and eight settlers were killed in the incident.
To protect some advancing troops from German machine gun fire as they crossed no man's land during the attack, eight specialized mine charges were laid at the end of the subways.
On 1 June 1943, " G-AGBB " again came under attack by a schwarm of eight V / KG40 Ju 88C6 maritime fighters.
The UFF retaliated by carrying out the Greysteel massacre, a random attack on the Rising Sun bar in Greysteel, County Londonderry, in which eight civilians, two of whom were Protestants, were killed.
A brute-force approach for the eight queens puzzle would examine all possible arrangements of 8 pieces on the 64-square chessboard, and, for each arrangement, check whether each ( queen ) piece can attack any other.
While at his vacation home on Martha's Vineyard, Giamatti, a heavy smoker for many years, died suddenly of a massive heart attack at the age of 51, just eight days after banishing Pete Rose and 154 days into his tenure as commissioner.
British, Canadian, Indian armies and the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Forces resisted the Japanese invasion commanded by Sakai Takashi, which began eight hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
On June 27 around eight Egyptian Su-7s and MiG-21s attack Israeli rear areas in Sinai.
On 3 April 1961, a bomb attack on militia barracks in Bayamo killed four militia, and wounded eight more.
About 90 minutes after the eight B-26s had taken off from Puerto Cabezas to attack Cuban airfields, another B-26 departed on a deception flight that took it close to Cuba but headed north towards Florida.
In 1539 a report complained that it was protected by an arsenal of only eight or ten small guns and forty bows, which the castle's new constable, Richard Bulkeley, considered to be completely inadequate for protecting the fortress against a potential Scottish attack.
In comparison, the Minuteman II had a selection of eight targets, any one of which could be quickly selected for attack, but otherwise selecting a target outside this pre-computed list was not something that could be done " on the fly ".
Once they had retraced their steps, Robinson's brigade, led by eight companies of light infantry soon drove the defenders back, and the British had crossed the ford and were preparing to advance, when the orders arrived from Prévost to call off the attack.

attack and squadrons
In 2007 the AF & ADF consisted of 18, 170 personnel ( two fighter / interceptor bases, four FGA / reconnaissance squadrons, one transport air base, training aircraft, and attack and support helicopters, SAM units ).
There are three squadrons operating the A-1, one of them equipped with the RA-1 variant having a reconnaissance function as its primary role, but retaining all attack capabilities of the A-1.
After rallying his troops near Schwennenbach – well beyond their starting point – Eugene prepared to launch a second attack, led by the second-line squadrons under the Duke of Württemberg-Teck.
Alerted to the situation de Guiscard ordered an immediate attack with 14 squadrons of French dragoons currently stationed in the rear.
As the French ranks wavered, the leading squadrons of Württemberg ’ s Danish horse – now unhampered by enemy fire from either village – were also sent into the attack and fell upon the exposed flank of the Franco-Swiss infantry and dragoons.
At around 15: 30, Overkirk advanced his massed squadrons on the open plain in support of the infantry attack on Ramillies.
Fixed land based ballistic missile sites need many thousands of acres per squadron ( typically ten missiles ); and the squadrons need to be apportioned over many thousands of square miles, so that no single attack could conceivably destroy them all in one strike.
Similarly, squadrons of torpedo boats and torpedo bombers would attack together creating a " fan " of torpedoes across the target's course.
After advancing the bulk of his column to the village of Mittbach, Latour sent two battalions and two squadrons to assist Schwarzenberg's attack and three battalions and an artillery battery to help Kollowrat.
The battle opened with an Austrian cannonade causing an attack by the French right wing on the Austrian left wing under Pál Kray After several attacks against the key position on the Austrian right near the village of Bendorff, the French infantry, aided by several squadrons of chasseurs, were able to dislodge the Austrians from this position.
It seems that Saint-Germain's brigade was left behind in reserve and out of the actual attack, so Bessières took Nansouty's remaining 16 squadrons, some 2, 800 men, including Defrance's 1st and 2nd Carabiniers-à-Cheval and Doumerc's 2nd and 9th Cuirassiers.
This meant that maritime, or " auxiliary " squadrons would be radically reduced to allow the focus on land-based bombers and fighters for air attack and defence in line with the RAF's " non-specialisation policy ".
In addition to the strike group, the exercise also included the nuclear-powered attack submarines,,,, and, as well as land-based P-3 Orion aircraft from Commander Patrol and Reconnaissance Wing 2 and associated patrol squadrons VP-4, VP-9, and VP-47.
The defender then indicates which ships will attack which squadrons.
Aumont soon overcame the League's light horse and their royalist counterparts retreated under the attack of a Walloon ( essentially Belgian ) squadron backed up by two squadrons from the League.
The attack squadrons seen at Azati Prime consisted of two Reptilian ships and two Insectoid ships.
Located on the west and east coasts of Canada, these commands grew to 37 squadrons, and were responsible for protecting Canada's coasts from enemy attack and for protecting allied shipping.
After the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, more squadrons were deployed to the west.
Shorts built the Short Sperrin, a backup jet engine bomber design in case the V bomber projects failed, and the Short Seamew, a cheap to produce anti-submarine reconnaissance and attack aircraft intended for the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve squadrons, but the Sperrin was not needed and the RNVR squadrons disbanded.
28 cavalry squadrons protected the right flank of Cadogan's infantry, which would receive the attack ( which proceeded at about 4 pm ).
" Following the invasion, Leigh-Mallory also had to deal with the V-1 flying bomb threat, deploying bomber units to attack the launch sites in the mission codenamed Operation Crossbow, as well as organising fighter squadrons for home defense of the British Isles.
Instead, the destroyer force was split into two attack squadrons, one squadron with the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd flotillas to attack Port Arthur, and the other squadron, with the 4th and 5th flotillas, to attack the Russian base at Dalny.

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