But when a board of inquiry was called to look into the charges of cowardice made against him, the men who had seen Reno leave the battlefield and the officer who had heard Reno suggest that the wounded be left to be tortured by the Sioux, refused to say a harsh word against him.

The stage was set for his address at the Gettysburg battlefield cemetery.

Ares was one of the Twelve Olympians in the archaic tradition represented by the Iliad and Odyssey, but Zeus expresses a recurring Greek revulsion toward the god when Ares returns wounded and complaining from the battlefield at Troy:

It was the only way they could be mounted and survey the overall battlefield with safety from distant musket fire.

An example of the development of tank destroyer technology throughout the war are the Marder III and Hetzer vehicle, that were very different in spite of being based on the same chassis: Marder was straightforwardly an anti-tank gun on tracks whereas Hetzer traded some firepower ( its Pak 39, designed to operate within the confines of a fully-armored fighting compartment, fires the same projectiles from a reduced propellant charge compared to Marder's Pak 40 ) for better armor protection and ease of battlefield concealment.

Some of which are based on Theosophical interpretations and were notably represented by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, who made clear throughout his life and his own commentary on the Gita that it was " an allegory in which the battlefield is the soul and Arjuna, man's higher impulses struggling against evil.

On the battlefield, it is probably fair to say, Charles was comparable in skill and style to Sir Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington-quite conservative and yet exceedingly competent.

When they saw that the centre had broken, the Elector and Marsin decided the battle was lost and, like the remnants of Tallard's army, fled the battlefield ( albeit in better order than Tallard's men ).

With their cavalry support gone, the Cossack wagon-fort, containing the vast bulk of the Cossack army now stood isolated on the battlefield, and in effect was under siege by the Polish army.

Augustus Wylde records when he visited the battlefield months after the battle, the pile of severed hands and feet was still visible, " a rotting heap of ghastly remnants.

The use of mail as battlefield armour was common during the Iron Age and the Middle Ages, becoming less common over the course of the 16th and 17th centuries.

He was born on a battlefield and is the son of a village blacksmith.

Before the Iron Age, the role of cavalry on the battlefield was largely performed by light chariots.

* Dozer: The bulldozer blade was a valuable battlefield tool on the WWII M4 Sherman tank.

It is a predecessor of the post horn from which the cornet evolved and was used like a bugle to signal orders on the battlefield.

It was rumored that the notch's purpose was that, if a soldier found one of his comrades on the battlefield, he could take one tag to the commanding officer and stick the other between the teeth of the soldier to ensure that the tag would remain with the body and be identified.

On March 8, 1916, on the battlefield of Verdun, Wolfgang Husserl was killed in action.

The instrument was used on the battlefield to summon the flanks of an army.

Allied fighters, by gaining air superiority over the European battlefield, played a crucial role in the eventual defeat of the Axis, which Reichmarshal Hermann Göring, commander of the German Luftwaffe summed up when he said: " When I saw Mustangs over Berlin, I knew the jig was up.

He was hit twice in the failed attack and died on the battlefield at the age of twenty eight.

Even so, although the Foreign Legion distinguished itself, it also took a heavy toll during the war: constantly being deployed in operations, it even reached the point that whole units were annihilated in combat, in what was a traditional Foreign Legion battlefield.

Harried by punishing guerrilla raids by the northern tribes and slowed by an unforgiving terrain, Severus was unable to meet the Caledonians on a battlefield.

Heavy rain, however, had turned the battlefield into a thick, muddy morass and as a result transportation and resupply efforts were hampered as were attempts to reposition the supporting artillery and as a consequence when the attack went in at 5: 25 am on 12 October the 9th and 10th Brigades had only limited fire support.

* Tanker boots are normally equipped with steel toe guards, steel or plastic shank / heel guards, and in at least modern variants, steel or other protective metal inserts in portions of the sole as well, as befit a boot intended for an operating environment filled with metal hazards that can be accidentally kicked / dropped / stepped upon / et cetera ( as opposed to the traditional combat boot designed for a sandy or muddy battlefield environment ).

He is rescued mortally wounded from the muddy battlefield, only to die in shamed despair among other shocked French aristocrats.

Final changes in the geography were caused by the intensification of the scene of the Battle of the Pelennor Fields: the distance between Osgiliath and Minas Tirith was reduced by four times ; the northern regions became guarded by " Tol Varad ( the Defended Isle )", later renamed Men Falros " place of foam-spray " and then Cair Andros ;< ref > the inhabitants of the newly introduced Drúadan Forest enabled the Rohirrim to pass freely to Minas Tirith ; and the hills of Emyn Arnen ( originally Haramon " southern hill ") justified creating a bend in Anduin so that the revelation of Aragorn and his reinforcements occurred closer to the battlefield, at the quays of Harlond ( at first Lonnath-ernin " Arnen-havens ").

Roughly 90 % of the battlefield casualties in this war were caused by Minié balls fired from rifles.

* The weapon was very visible on the battlefield which caused operators to become immediately singled out as prominent targets, especially for snipers.

The introduction in 1543 of firearms in the form of the matchlock ( tanegashima ) caused a great decrease in the appearance of the naginata on the battlefield.

The attacks on the flanks proved to be a success and caused many of the Prussian divisions on the flanks to flee the battlefield.

The specific aims were to increase awareness of one's own position on the battlefield and to have a clear sense of the enemy's position, in pursuit of the following goals: ( 1 ) increased lethality, ( 2 ) increased control of the tempo of warfare, ( 3 ) the reduction of instances caused by friendly fire, with improvement in Identification Friend or Foe.

Shardik emerges in a rage, foaming at the mouth and dripping with blood from wounds caused by the cage and immediately strikes down Gel-Ethlin and his second-in-command before ploughing his way up the battlefield, slaughtering all before him.

The first charge caused few casualties, but Ridwan's army followed the crusaders to a narrow battlefield.

Although Crook's force was left in possession of the battlefield and he claimed a victory, the battle caused Crook to return to his base camp at Goose Creek and halted his advance which prevented him from joining up with the 7th Cavalry under George Armstrong Custer.

The first shells from the howitzers caused the Comanche and Kiowa to retire from the battlefield, but they soon returned in even greater numbers and renewed the attack.

After this first time meeting upon the Fort Donelson battlefield, the two quickly learned each possessed the same surname and had commanded their respective states ' 11th regiments, prompting Lew Wallace to muse the coincidence must have caused " great profanity in the army post office ".

supported by the heavy fire of his infantry, caused a huge deal of casualties over Ferraz's horsemen, whose survivors were forced to rashly leave the battlefield.

This final battle against the Gakhars caused their defeated princes to flee the battlefield, each prince into separate towns.

Cannon vary in caliber, range, mobility, rate of fire, angle of fire, and firepower ; different forms of cannon combine and balance these attributes in varying degrees, depending on their intended use on the battlefield.

First used in China, cannon were among the earliest forms of gunpowder artillery, and over time replaced siege engines — among other forms of aging weaponry — on the battlefield.

Originally the term referred to smaller guns that could accompany a field army on the march and when in combat could be moved about the battlefield in response to changing circumstances ( field artillery ), as to opposed guns installed in a fort ( garrison artillery / coastal artillery ), or to siege cannon or mortars which were too large to be moved quickly, and would be used only in a prolonged siege.

In time the successors to muskets and cannon, in the form of rifles and artillery, would become core battlefield technology.

Each side element reflects the equivalent power – castle to church, crown to mitre, cannon to excommunication, weapons to logic, and the battlefield to the religious courts.

Margaret had been with her husband on the battlefield the entire time, and, after witnessing his death, she immediately took his place at the cannon.

However, most of the Maratha cannon, which had inflicted heavy losses on Wellesley's infantry, had been captured or lay abandoned on the battlefield.

Already on 1 December Estienne had proposed to the French GHQ the use of tracked armoured tractors to move infantry, equipment and cannon over the battlefield, having performed some trials with British caterpillar tractors.

The Dragoons overran twenty battalions, took 2, 500 prisoners, capturing 67 flags and standards as well as four cannon in what is considered and celebrated as one of the great cavalry battlefield triumphs.

Although not present on the battlefield himself, Polk was wounded nearby on November 11 when the largest cannon in his army, nicknamed " Lady Polk " in honor of his wife, exploded during demonstration firing.

The Cuartel de López, a museum in Francisco Solano López's former barracks, has three rooms where bullets, cannon, stirrups, spurs, swords, and other battlefield relics are displayed.

They are smaller than typical goblins, and play the role of pets, servants and, on the battlefield, cannon fodder.

In the early 15th century, small " hand cannon " first began to be used, in the Hussite Wars, in combination with Wagenburg tactics, allowing infantry to defeat armored knights on the battlefield.

Another disadvantage was that its 240 mm cannons only held 20 rounds per cannon, limiting the Guncannon's effective operation time on the battlefield.

With the massive proliferation of hand guns ( firearms that could be carried by hand, as opposed to cannon ; not to be confused with handguns ) in the infantry units from the middle of 17th century the battlefield was dominated by linear tactics, according to which the infantry was aligned into long thin lines and fired volleys.

The robots can be controlled in order to move around the battlefield, scan the environment to find enemies and fire at enemies using a cannon.

Designed to allow the Centauri to cause serious damage on the battlefield, the Primus was given a massive array of weapons including ion cannon turrets, battle lasers, missile launchers and others.

A star fort, or trace italienne, is a fortification in the style that evolved during the age of gunpowder, when the cannon came to dominate the battlefield, and was first seen in the mid-15th century in Italy.