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At Rorke's Drift, outnumbered British soldiers drive the attackers away after hours of fighting.
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At about 4: 00 pm, Surgeon James Reynolds, Otto Witt-the Swedish missionary who ran the mission at Rorke's Drift-and army chaplain Reverend George Smith came down from the Oscarberg hillside with the news that a body of Zulus were fording the river to the southeast and were " no more than five minutes away ".
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At and outnumbered
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At times the slave population outnumbered the free white population.
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At the start of the battle the English fleet of 56 ships commanded by George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle who also commanded the Red Squadron, was outnumbered by the 84-strong Dutch fleet commanded by Lieutenant-Admiral Michiel de Ruyter.
At this point, however, radical members were still mainly outnumbered in votes by moderate and conservative members.
At this early stage the French mistook the German presence for small screening forces ; in reality the French were heavily outnumbered.
At that time, domestic tourism represented only a small fraction of the tourists but by 2005 domestic tourists outnumbered foreign tourists by a great margin.
At one point in the battle the Romans were outnumbered by the Gauls by four to one.
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At Auerstedt a single French corps defeated the bulk of the Prussian army, despite being heavily outnumbered.
His destiny was sealed after the Battle of Dark Fen: At this battle, a force of vastly outnumbered Nagarythe warriors loyal to Caledor I fought against Morathi's private army.
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At the time the local Chinese outnumbered the Spaniards by twenty to one, and Spanish authorities feared that they would join the invading forces.
At this time, Taylor arrived by train and, unaware that he was outnumbered, proceeded to deploy his brigade for an attack.
At 7: 00 p. m., Stuart's attack routed the vastly outnumbered Rhode Islanders.
At the conclusion of the Richmond – Petersburg Campaign ( also known as the Siege of Petersburg ), Lee's army was outnumbered and exhausted from a winter of trench warfare over a front, numerous battles, disease, and desertion.
At the Battle of Agincourt Henry led his vastly outnumbered men to a famous victory.
At the outbreak of World War I in August 1914, the East Asia Squadron under the command of Vice Admiral Count Spee was at sea, and outnumbered by Allied navies in the region.
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At Issus and Gaugamela, the Thessalians withstood the attack of Persian cavalry forces, though greatly outnumbered.
At and British
At Geneva in 1954, to get the war in Indo-China settled, the British and French gave in to Russian and Communist Chinese demands and agreed to the setting up of a Communist state, North Viet Nam -- which then, predictably, became a base for Communist operations against neighboring South Viet Nam and Laos.
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* 1949 – At midnight 26 Irish counties officially leave the British Commonwealth.
At this time, Lord Sandwich, together with the President of the Royal Society, Sir Joseph Banks, was advocating establishment of a British colony in New South Wales.
* 1868 – At Arogee in Abyssinia, British and Indian forces defeat an army of Emperor Tewodros II.
At the durbar on July 22, 1880, Abdur Rahman was officially recognized as Amir, granted assistance in arms and money, and promised, in case of unprovoked foreign aggression, such further aid as might be necessary to repel it, provided that he align his foreign policy with the British.
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At 19: 00 the identifying lights in the mizenmasts of the British fleet were lit.
* At Consett the closure of the British Steel works in 1980 marked the end of steel production in the Derwent Valley and the decline of the area.
At the centre of the Great Court is the Reading Room vacated by the British Library, its functions now moved to St Pancras.
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At the same time it encouraged Bulgarian aspirations over Thrace, preferring a Bulgarian Thrace to a Russian one, despite the assurances the British had given to the Russians in regard to their expansion there.
At Brigade gave the British Parachute Regiment permission to go in to the Bogside.
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* 1867 – At Tremont Temple in Boston, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States.
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At a conference with them Sir William MacNaghten was killed, but in spite of this, the sirdars ' demands were agreed to by the British and they withdrew.
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