Astute commanders could, in suitable terrain, manoeuvre squares to mass fire and even trap cavalry, as the French managed against the Ottomans at Mount Tabor ( 1799 ).

Two years after being withdrawn from the country, the deteriorating situation in East Timor ( also known as Timor Leste ) again saw units of the regiment deployed to conduct stabilisation and security operations, this time under the auspices of Operation Astute.

Mikael Sehul ( Tigrinya " Mikael the Astute " – his name at birth was Blatta Mikael ; c. 1691 – 23 June 1779 ) was a Ras or governor of Tigray 1748 – 71 and again from 1772 until his death.

Astute readers learned to infer the general shape of the war from what was said and shown — and not said or shown — in both U. S. and Confederate newspapers, radio broadcasts, and newsreels.

They will be followed by female ratings in 2015, when women should also begin serving on the new Astute class submarine.

* is to be the fifth Astute class submarine, currently under construction.

Astute observers noticed that the radiant, as the point is now called, moved with the stars, staying in the constellation Leo.

Two submarines of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Astute for the characteristic of shrewdness and discernment.

*, laid down in 2001 and launched in 2007, is the lead ship of the Astute class of nuclear-powered attack submarines.

The United States Navy's Virginia-class submarines and the Royal Navy's Astute class submarines instead use photonics masts, pioneered by the Royal Navy's HMS Trenchant, which lift an electronic imaging sensor-set above the water.

Bagge collected his work for Reason expressing his Libertarian views in the book " Everybody is Stupid Except me: and Other Astute Observations.

Astute invoice sellers can use a combination of techniques to cover the range of 1 % to 5 % plus cost of factoring for invoices paid within 50 to 60 days or more.

The diameter of Astute class hulls have therefore been increased to accommodate the PWR2.

In 1997, an order was placed for three units of the Astute class, which was designed as the SSN replacement for the Swiftsure class, with an option for a further two.

In the 2010 Strategic Defence and Security Review, the UK Government reaffirmed its intention to procure 7 Astute '- class submarines.

) The SDR confirmed the purchase an initial batch of three Astute class submarines.

* " Status of Forces Agreements between Timor-Leste and Australia, New Zealand and Portugal " signed prior to the deployment of Operation Astute in East Timor in May 2006.

The ANZAC Battle Group is an active battle group of Australian and New Zealand units deployed to Timor Leste as part of Operation Astute.

Astute politicians in Athens often exploited popular feelings against medism as a means to their own advancement, which once led to a feud between the poets Timocreon of Rhodes and Simonides of Ceos for and against Themistocles.

# Astute Leader – Lt. Col Gurubans Singh Sangha 1965 Indo Pak War

In May 2006, 2, 000 ADF personnel were again deployed to East Timor as part of Operation Astute, following unrest between elements of the Timor Leste Defence Force.

Astute consumers and criminals have been able to exploit weaknesses in credit scoring systems to commit fraud.

The relationship deteriorated over cost over-runs and delays to major procurement projects, for example BAE announced a shock profit warning in December 2002 related to two major projects, the Astute class submarine and the Nimrod MRA4.

He was promoted to lieutenant on 1 October 1949 and subsequently served in the submarines HMS Astute, HMS Aeneas and then HMS Totem.

Astute and intelligent, Theophano had influence with her husband, Romano, an influence resented and likely exaggerated by her rivals in the court.

Most Black legislators were small holders or merchants who held economic and social views diametrically opposed to the interests of the small, wealthy English planter class.

English, Scottish, and Irish merchants settled in the city.

When the demand began to increase rapidly, the English merchants began to kidnap young children and deport them to distant parts of the world, very much against their will.

The English merchants holding plantations in the warm southern parts of America then resorted rather quickly to the slavery of Native Americans and imported Africans in order to cultivate their plantations and sell raw material ( particularly cotton and tobacco ) in Europe.

The English merchants involved in colonization amassed fortunes equal to those of great aristocratic landowners in England, and their money, which fuelled the rise of the middle class, permanently altered the balance of political power.

Jayawikarta is thought to have made trading connections with the English merchants, rivals of the Dutch, by allowing them to build houses directly across from the Dutch buildings in 1615.

Several times the Liberian government borrowed money from English banks on severe terms, and even from local German merchants.

These gifts were intended to cement relations between the two countries, building on the trade agreement signed in 1581 that gave English merchants priority in the Ottoman region.

Most slave ships that transported slaves from Calabar were English, and around 85 % of these ships being from Bristol and Liverpool merchants.

In the summer of 1786, the Empress Catherine, in the context of tense negotiations on a renewed treaty of commerce, had emphasised her control over this vital commodity by asking the merchants who supplied it to restrict sales to English buyers: “ the Empress has contrary to Custom speculated on this Commodity ”, complained the author of a subsequent memorandum to the Home Secretary.

Similar rebuffs awaited him elsewhere, and he travelled with Robert Parker to the Netherlands, helped by English merchants who wished him to controvert the supporters of the English church in Leiden.

* February – English merchants of the East India Company complain that the great troubles and wars in Japan since their arrival have put them to much pains and charges.

The Swedes sought to expand their influence by creating an agricultural ( tobacco ) and fur-trading colony to bypass French and English merchants.

* A group of English merchants gains the right to trade in Ottoman territory in return for supplying the sultan with iron, steel, brass and tin for his war with Persia.

* Edward, heir to the throne of England, seizes £ 10, 000 which had been deposited to the trust of the knights Templars in London by foreign merchants and English magnates.

In 1675, Iversen claimed St. John and placed two men there ; in 1684, Governor Esmit granted it to two English merchants from Barbados but their men were chased off the island by two British sloops sent by Governor Stapleton of the British Leeward Islands.

The individual chosen by the Estates could not be the same person who came to the English throne, unless England granted full freedom of trade to Scottish merchants.

In 1703, the Estates passed a bill that declared that their selection for Queen Anne's successor would not be the same individual as the successor to the English throne, unless England granted full freedom of trade to Scottish merchants in England and its colonies.

Holbein's commissions in the early stages of his second English period included portraits of Lutheran merchants of the Hanseatic League.

Later he visited leading mercantile centres in the Low Countries, living among the English merchants and developing an important network of contacts while learning several languages.

His alliance with Louis of France and his intention to declare war on Burgundy was contrary to the interests of the merchants, as it threatened English trade with Flanders and the Netherlands.

His trade policies, which aimed to expand and protect markets for English commerce, pleased local merchants, who were also won over by the young Yorkist king's personality.

And the on their parts have been and are too much elated with the advantages they supposed they should derive from the restoration of their old Privileges & customs, & indulged themselves in a way of thinking & talking that gave very just offence, as well to their own People as to the English merchants.