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At Vitoria, his regiment was part of the force, under Sir Thomas Graham, that blocked the French retreat towards Bayonne.
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At its center stands a monument commemorating the Battle of Vitoria.
At the Battle of Vitoria ( 21 June 1813 ) an allied British, Portuguese, and Spanish army under General the Marquess of Wellington broke the French army under Joseph Bonaparte and Marshal Jean-Baptiste Jourdan near Vitoria in Spain, leading to eventual victory in the Peninsular War.
At the Battle of Vitoria, Picton led his division across a key bridge under heavy fire.
At the Battle of Vitoria, 21 June, the 65, 000 French under Joseph were routed by 53, 000 British, 27, 000 Portuguese and 19, 000 Spaniards.
At Vitoria he was delayed because he “ had found difficulty in marching through the broken country ”, though Picton arrived early enough and attacked in his stead when the 7th Division failed to appear
At Vitoria and in Wellington's invasion of southern France, Hill corps usually consisted of William Stewart's 2nd Division, the Portuguese Division ( under John Hamilton, Francisco Silveira or Carlos Le Cor ) and Pablo Morillo's Spanish Division.
At the Battle of Vitoria, on 21 June 1813, the French under the personal command of King Joseph were again defeated, and were subsequently forced as far back as the Pyrenees in early July.
At the Battle of Vitoria in June 1813, he led a light cavalry division in Maj-Gen Honoré Reille's Army of Portugal.
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At the age of 6, he was given his own regiment of children to drill as cadets, and a year later, he was given a miniature arsenal.
At the end of the war, the regiment had claimed 273 enemy aircraft shot down, 37 probables, and lost 87 aircraft and 52 pilots in return.
At 16: 30 on 24 February, infantrymen from three companies of the German 24th ( Brandenburg ) regiment entered the centrepiece of the French fortification system: Fort Douaumont.
At the time of Operation Market-Garden, the 10th SS Panzer Division had an approximate strength of 3, 000 men ; an armoured infantry regiment, divisional reconnaissance battalion, two artillery battalions and an engineer battalion, all partially motorized.
At the Second Battle of Bull Run, the 5th New York, along with another Zouave regiment, the 10th New York " National Zouaves ", held off the flanking attack of James Longstreet's Corps for ten crucial minutes before it was overrun.
At this time the fort was garrisoned by a 500 strong cavalry regiment, the ala Gallorum Sebosiana.
At age sixteen, Millet entered the Massachusetts regiment, first as a drummer boy and then a surgical assistant ( helping his father, a surgeon ) in the American Civil War.
At the last minute, as the Royalists began to advance, Cromwell sent a regiment of dragoons under Colonel John Okey into the Sulby Hedges, where they could fire into the flank of Rupert's cavalry.
At the age of sixteen, he entered the regiment of Languedoc as a " gentleman cadet ".
At that time, regiments usually were named after their commanding colonels, and disbanded at the end of the campaign or war ; the colonel and his regiment might recruit from and serve several monarchs or countries.
At the Second Siege of Saragossa, he won further promotion to the rank of captain, and in 1809-1810 found opportunities for winning distinction under Suchet in the eastern theatre of the Peninsular War, in which he rose to the rank of major and the command of a full regiment.
At the age of 17 in 1713 he commanded his own regiment.
At the outbreak of the Irish rebellion ( 1641 ) Monck became colonel of Lord Leicester's regiment under the command of Ormonde.
At the outbreak of the Spanish-American War, Wood, with Roosevelt, organized the 1st Volunteer Cavalry regiment, popularly known as the Rough Riders.
At the outbreak of the Civil War, having succeeded his father in the earldom in November 1642, Manchester commanded a regiment in the army of Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, and in August 1643 he was appointed Major-General of the parliamentary forces in the eastern counties ( the Eastern Association ), with Cromwell as his second in command.
At Marston Moor ( 2 July 1644 ) Lambert's own regiment was routed by the charge of Goring's horse ; but he cut his way through with a few troops and joined Oliver Cromwell on the other side of the field.
At the time of the Fenian Raids in 1866, Mulock received training at the Royal Military School and was enlisted in the regiment for three weeks, but never saw action.
At the outbreak of the Second Boer War, Allenby was returned to his regiment, and the Inniskillings were embarked at Queenstown before landing at Cape Town, South Africa, on 11 December 1899 during the ‘ Black Week ’ in which the British Army suffered reverses at Colenso, Magersfontein and Stormberg.
At 18: 00 Marshal Ney, heavily supported by artillery and some cavalry, took personal command of an infantry regiment ( 13th Legere ) and a company of engineers and captured La Haye Sainte with a furious assault.
At the Battle of Shiloh Major Lowry commanded the Sixth Mississippi regiment which suffered very heavy casualties and he was wounded himself.
At the age of 19 he was drafted to a Hessian cavalry regiment in Swedish service.
At the age of 19, he joined the 17th Lancers, the regiment of his maternal uncle, HRH The Duke of Cambridge, who was the commander-in-chief of the British Army from 1856-1895.
At the outbreak of the Mexican-American War, Roane was made a lieutenant colonel in Archibald Yell's Arkansas infantry regiment and succeeded to command of the regiment when Colonel Yell was mortally wounded repelling the charge of the Mexican lancers at the Battle of Buena Vista.
At its formation, the Black Army consisted of about 15, 000 armed troops, including infantry and cavalry ( both regular and irregular ) brigades ; artillery detachments were incorporated into each regiment.
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At the same moment Wheeler Fiske fired the rifle Mike had given him and another guerrilla was hit.
At last, when I put it to him directly, the clerk was forced to admit that the delay in my case was unusual.
At one and the same time, she was within it but still searching for the drawbridge that would give her entry.
At once my ears were drowned by a flow of what I took to be Spanish, but -- the driver's white teeth flashing at me, the road wildly veering beyond his glistening hair, beyond his gesticulating bottle -- it could have been the purest Oxford English I was half hearing ; ;
At the pool's far end was the little cabana Joyce had mentioned, and on the water's surface floated scattered lavender patches of limp-looking lather.
At first, I thought he was out of his head, talking wildly like this.
At the same time, all suggestions that some sort of societal responsibility existed for the welfare of the people within the territorial state was strongly resisted.
At the heart of all of this was the square, which one such traveler declared to be `` as spacious, as pleasant and aromatick a Market as any in the Universe ''.
At the moment he was excited about his son's having received the Prix De Rome in archaeology and was looking forward to being present this summer at the excavation of an Etruscan tomb.
At first glance this appears strange: of all people, was not America founded by rugged individualists who established a new way of life still inspiring `` undeveloped '' societies abroad??
At this period the thirty-year old Helion was ranked `` as one of the mature leaders of the modern movement '', according to Herbert Read, `` and in the direct line of descent from Cezanne, Seurat, Gris and Leger ''.
At Stettin the university-educated artist, who had studied German, was chosen to serve as interpreter and clerk in the office of the Stalag commander.
At last they concluded that the heavy, full feeling in their stomachs was due to lack of exercise.
At this time Harriet wrote in a letter which after their finally landing in India was sent to her mother:
At this, the students let out a yell, knowing full well the actual frontier was beyond the town of Kehl.
At no time does he seem to have proposed marriage, and Mrs. King was evidently torn between a concern for her daughter's emotions and the desire to believe that the friendship might be continued without harm to her reputation.
At headquarters -- sufficiently far from the firing line to make you forget occasionally that you were in a war -- Lewis found that the Commander in Chief's only desk was his knees ( and his only comb, his fingers ).
At this moment Mando came hurrying up to announce that the problem was solved and all Norton had to do was to sign a sheaf of papers.
At Sounion there is a group of beautiful columns, the ruins of a temple to Poseidon, of particular interest at that time, as active reconstruction was in progress.
At the trial which took place later, the Pomham matter was completely omitted.
At Camp Taylor in Kentucky a barracks was built in an hour and a half from timber that had been standing in Mississippi forests one week before.
At the end of World War 2,, free Europe was ready for a new beginning.
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