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As the battle progressed, Zollicoffer was killed, Crittenden was unable to lead the Confederate force since he was probably intoxicated and the Confederates were turned back and routed by a Union bayonet charge, suffering 533 casualties from their force of 4, 000.
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Ranged volleys at the beginning of the battle would differ markedly from the closer, aimed shots as the battle progressed and the enemy neared.
As the battle progressed, German reinforcements were added.
Here the British line had not progressed significantly since the first day of the battle, and the two armies were in echelon, making progress impossible until the villages were captured.
As the war progressed new combined arms tactics were developed, often described then as the " all arms battle ".
As the battle progressed, the enemy committed their reserves to stabilize the situation, Napoleon would suddenly release the flanking formation to attack the enemy.
As the battle progressed, more and more forces would become available to the Germans.
As the war progressed, the size and role of the Indian Army expanded dramatically, and troops were sent to battle fronts as soon as possible.
Many Senators, fearing for their lives, commandeered bits of the fleet and escaped to their sectors as the battle progressed.
These reserves were committed as the battle progressed resulting in the British gaining a foothold in the Turkish defences but the British commander called off the attack as night fell.
Having failed with this approach once during the first battle did not deter Hunter-Weston, and as the second battle progressed he would remain undeterred.
As the battle progressed, the German command sought a decisive victory against the outnumbered BEF and launched First Ypres ' last major assault on 11 November.
As the fifties progressed, the battle for the coveted Gold Cup intensified.
There were initially only five German Jastas ( fighter squadrons ) in the region, but this rose to eight as the battle progressed ( some 80 or so operational fighter aircraft in total ).
As close quarters battle or unarmed combat training progressed throughout this period, it was added to and refined utilising western fighting principles, eventually becoming referred to in slang as Defendo by Allied soldiers.
He was in charge of the General Staff Branch, responsible for training, intelligence, planning operations and directing the battle as it progressed.
As the battle progressed the fleets turned before the wind, north and then back east south of the island of Langeland.
As the battle progressed, Ashmead-Bartlett's reports became highly critical which left him in disfavour with the British commander-in-chief, General Sir Ian Hamilton.
His second brother Venkatadri formed the Hindu right wing that was opposed by Qutb Shah and Barid Shah, strengthened by Nizam Shah? s auxiliaries as the battle progressed.
The battle progressed into outer space, and though Ivan consistently had the upper hand, he was destroyed when the Ninja Falcon-Megazord kneed him in the groin, which sent him flying into the path of Orion's Comet, which happened to be passing.
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In June, 1940, Sergeant Helion, with a company of reserve troops waiting to go into battle, was sketching the hills south of the Loire River, when the war suddenly rolled in upon him.
As I got off the trolley at Kehl bridge the next morning, I was met by what looked like 5,000 students, some of whom were carrying sticks apparently for the coming `` battle '' with the police.
There was a battle on an average of once every three weeks.
But he was perpetually engaged in a battle to command his own temper.
The eventual prize in this new battle was the public printing contract that Woodruff still held.
It was the first American war in which the death rate from disease was lower than that from battle, due to the provision of trained medical personnel ( of the 200,000 officers, 42,000 were physicians ), compulsory vaccination, rigorous camp sanitation, and adequate hospital facilities.
The news of battle on Breed's Hill had already seeped through, and New York itself was now left in the hands of the local Provincial Congress.
The savage barbarian hordes of red Russian Communism descended on the Athens that was mighty Metronome, sacking and despoiling with their Bolshevistic battle cry of `` Soak the rich '!!
Assonance seems nearly as severe a curb, although in a celebrated passage William of Malmesbury declares that A Song Of Roland was intoned before the battle commenced at Hastings.
Thus at the same time that William Henry Harrison was preparing to pacify the aborigines of Indiana Territory and winning fame at the battle of Tippecanoe, Anglo-Saxon settlement made a great leap into the center of the North American continent to the west of the American agricultural frontier.
Although it was at the Battle of The Little Horn, about which more words have been written than any other battle in American history, that the 7th Cavalry first made its mark in history, the regiment was ten years old by then.
That battle scene, ridiculous as it was, remained in my mind.
Georgia's Dick Russell objected politely, and the battle was joined.
By reminding ourselves of these factors in the situation, we should, I am sure, come to a fresh realization, however painful it be, that the battle between Parker and his neighbors was fought in earnest.
After the battle of Actium, which was fought near a sanctuary of Apollo, Augustus enlarged Apollo's temple, dedicated a portion of the spoils to him, and instituted quinquennial games in his honour.
The term allocutio was used by the ancient Romans for the speech made by a commander to his troops, either before a battle or during it, to animate and encourage them.
The battle, as was the tradition, was named after a nearby castle called Azincourt.
Initially the festival was held in October, but due to the inclement weather and local heavy clay soil ( like the battle ) making the festival difficult it was moved to July.
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* 1040 – King Duncan I is killed in battle against his first cousin and rival Macbeth.
During the Invasion of the Kuril Islands, Akira Nakamura ( b. 1897 ) was captured by the Soviet army and his elder son Takeshi Nakamura ( 1925 – 1945 ) was killed in the battle.
As seen in the first books of the Aeneid, Aeneas is one of the few Trojans who were not killed in battle or enslaved when Troy fell.
Category: Ancient Greeks killed in battle
This led to a further revolt near Philippopolis, and the commander of the field army in the west, Gregory Pakourianos, was defeated and killed in the ensuing battle.
In the battle of Antioch on the Maeander in 1211, the sultan was defeated and killed, and Alexios III was captured by Theodore Laskaris.
Yahya ibn Umar was killed in a battle in 1057, but Abdullah ibn Yasin, whose influence as a religious teacher was paramount, named his brother Abu Bakr ibn Umar as chief.
The Berghouata resisted, and it was in battle with them that Abdullah ibn Yasin was killed in 1059, in a village called " Krifla " located near Rommani, Morocco.
In November 1087, Abu Bakr was killed in battle by a poisoned arrow, while fighting in the historic region of the Sudan.
His brother Pedro was killed during the battle.
* Pantariste, who killed Timiades in the battle between the Amazons and Heracles ' troops.
* 1014 – Battle of Clontarf: Brian Boru defeats Viking invaders, but is killed in battle.
King Sebastian of Portugal is killed in the battle, leaving his elderly uncle, Cardinal Henry, as his heir.
* 43 BC – Battle of Mutina: Mark Antony is again defeated in battle by Aulus Hirtius, who is killed.
The Buddha reluctantly replies that if he is killed in battle while his mind is seized with the intention to kill, he will undergo an unpleasant rebirth.
Disagreement arose, turning violent ; in the ensuing battle nearly all Nicoleño men were killed.
This resulted in an urban battle that killed 18 American soldiers, wounded 73 others, and one was taken prisoner.
* The hero's sword shattering in his final battle before he is killed, at the end of the poem-Turnus ' in the Aeneid and Beowulf's in Beowulf.
" Looking on from the House of Lords, the Duke of Argyll wrote that Disraeli " was like a subaltern in a great battle where every superior officer was killed or wounded.
Ottoman authority in Anatolia was indeed seriously threatened during this period, and at one point Bayezid II's grand vizier, Ali Pasha, was killed in battle against rebels.
David joins the Philistines, but continues secretly to champion his own people, until Saul and Jonathan are killed in battle.
At a later point, having been deserted by God on the eve of battle, Saul consults a medium at Endor, only to be condemned for doing so by Samuel's ghost, and told he and his sons will be killed.
During a ferocious battle, Teach and several of his crew were killed by a small force of sailors led by Lieutenant Robert Maynard.
British casualties in the battle were recorded with some accuracy in the immediate aftermath as 218 killed and approximately 677 wounded, although the number of wounded who subsequently died is not known.
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