Key elements in the " blitzkrieg warfare " at the decisive Battle of Megiddo included concentration, surprise and speed ; success depending on attacking only in favourable terrain, where the terrain favoured the movement of large formations around the battlefield, and tactical improvements in the British artillery and infantry attack.

After defeats such as the Battle of Carrhae, the Romans learned the importance of large cavalry formations from the Parthians.

These single-carrier formations would often be paired or grouped together for certain assignments, most notably the Battle of the Coral Sea and Midway.

Following the decisive victory in the Battle of Moscow in January 1942, the high command began to reintroduce Rifle Corps into its most experienced formations.

It was not uncommon for aggressive pike formations to be composed of dismounted men-at-arms, as at the Battle of Sempach ( 1389 ), where the dismounted Austrian vanguard, using their lances as pikes, had some initial success against their predominantly halberd-equipped Swiss adversaries.

Cavalry charges against deeply regimented infantry formations were also frequently repulsed as exemplified by the Battle of the Golden Spurs in Flanders in 1302.

The Battle of Flodden Field ( 1513 ) was a classic match between Continental-style Pikes formations ( Scots ) and Billmen ( English ).

Several reserve units were also deployed with regular formations and the first Territorial unit to see action on the Western Front was the Glasgow Territorial Signallers Group, Royal Engineers at the First Battle of Ypres on 11 October 1914.

Reactivated in the interwar years, III Corps trained US Army formations for combat before and during World War II, before itself being deployed to the European Theater where it participated in several key engagements, including the Battle of the Bulge where it is known as the force that relieved the surrounded 101st Airborne Division.

The Poles, led by Poniatowski, defeated one of the Russian formations at the Battle of Zieleńce on June 18.

The German military was one of the pioneers of the use of airborne formations, conducting several successful airborne operations during the Battle of France in 1940, including the Battle of Fort Eben-Emael.

It should be noted, however, that this required disorganization of the pike column, and Swiss pike columns which retained good formation were able to heavily defeat Spanish rodeleros formations in battles such as at the Battle of Seminara.

The German military pioneered the use of large-scale airborne formations, first during the Battle of France in 1940 and later in the Battle of Crete in 1941.

At the Battle of Garcia Hernandez, the Dragoons performed the unusual feat of smashing two French square formations in a matter of minutes.

At the outbreak of the First World War, Hood's experience with coastal operations recommended him to serve with a small flotilla of Humber class monitors on the Belgian coast, bombarding German positions and troop formations during the Siege of Antwerp and then the Battle of the Yser, assisting Belgian forces to hold the coastline during the Race for the Sea.

Battle formations became standardized, based on mathematically calculated ideal models.

At one point, after the Battle of the Bulge had highlighted the shortage of infantrymen, the U. S. Army relaxed its embargo on the use of black soldiers in combat formations.

Napoleon also arranged his forces into what we today would call ' Battle Groups ' of combined arms formations to allow faster reaction time to enemy action.

* February – July – Battle of Narva – Soviet Leningrad-Novgorod Strategic Offensive brought to a halt by German forces including Estonian conscript formations

Adrian Goldsworthy, in his article " The Othismos, Myths and Heresies: The nature of Hoplite Battle " argues that the physical pushing match model does not fit with the average casualty figures of hoplite warfare, nor the practical realities of moving large formations of men in battle.

Between 1941-42, the Allies struggled in armoured battles in the North African desert due to improper tactics ; in particular, running armoured formations into opposing anti-tank positions ; however, they achieved some notable successes at Crusader, 1st Alamein and under Montgomery finally achieved decisive victories, in particular at the Second Battle of El Alamein against even the mighty 8. 8 cm flak guns.

Both formations took part in the Battle of the Bulge, the Fifth Panzer Army suffering heavy losses in battles around Bastogne and in the armour battles around Celles and Dinant, the furthest-west points of advance.

Among Alexander's most notable built works are the Eishin Campus near Tokyo ( the building process of which is soon to be outlined in his forthcoming book Battle ); the West Dean Visitors Centre in West Sussex, England ; the Julian Street Inn ( a homeless shelter ) in San Jose, California ( both described in Nature of Order ); the Martinez House ( an experimental house in Martinez, California made of lightweight concrete ); the low-cost housing in Mexicali, Mexico ( described in The Production of Houses ); and several private houses ( described and illustrated in " The Nature of Order ").

Crick began a Ph. D. research project on measuring viscosity of water at high temperatures ( which he later described as " the dullest problem imaginable ") in the laboratory of physicist Edward Neville da Costa Andrade at University College, London, but with the outbreak of World War II ( in particular, an incident during the Battle of Britain when a bomb fell through the roof of the laboratory and destroyed his experimental apparatus ), Crick was deflected from a possible career in physics.

His maternal grandfather was General Peter Gansevoort, a hero of the Battle of Saratoga ; in his gold-laced uniform, the general sat for a portrait painted by Gilbert Stuart, which is described in Melville's 1852 novel, Pierre, for Melville wrote out of his familial as well as his nautical background.

Before unveiling the logo Bob McNair described the colors as " Deep Steel Blue ", " Battle Red " and " Liberty White ".

Archery was described by contemporaries as ineffective against plate armour in the Battle of Neville's Cross ( 1346 ), the siege of Bergerac ( 1345 ), and the Battle of Poitiers ( 1356 ); such armour became available to European knights of fairly modest means by the late 14th century, though never to all soldiers in any army.

He further appears in the medieval tale Breuddwyd Rhonabwy, in which he fights alongside Arthur at the Battle of Badon and is described as one of the king's chief advisors.

At the Battle of Baltimore in 1814, the rockets fired on Fort McHenry by the rocket vessel HMS Erebus were the source of the rockets ' red glare described by Francis Scott Key in The Star-Spangled Banner.

Battle of Saint Kitts, 1782, as described by an observer in a French engraving titled " Attaque de Brimstomhill ".

Battle of St. Kitts, 1782, as described by an observer in a French engraving titled " Attaque de Brimstomhill ".

Similarities to the works of other writers who faced the Great War are seen in The Hobbit, including portraying warfare as anti-pastoral: in " The Desolation of Smaug ", both the area under the influence of Smaug before his demise and the setting for The Battle of the Five Armies later are described as barren, damaged landscapes.

Use and results of a thermobaric weapon at the Battle of Yonkers are described in Max Brooks ' World War Z.

The 1994 PlayStation launch title Battle Arena Toshinden is credited for taking the genre into " true 3-D " due to its introduction of the sidestep maneuver, which IGN described as " one little move " that " changed the fighter forever.

The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest (, Hermannsschlacht or Varusschlacht ), described as clades Variana ( the Varian disaster ) by Roman historians, took place in 9 CE, when an alliance of Germanic tribes led by Arminius of the Cherusci ambushed and decisively destroyed three Roman legions, along with their auxiliaries, led by Publius Quinctilius Varus.

Early historians described him as a military genius, but by the 20th century his tactical acumen was reconsidered ; Philip Haigh suspects that the earl largely owed some of his victories, such as the First Battle of St Albans, to being in the right place at the right time.

* May – Caesar defeats Pharnaces II of Pontus, king of the Bosporus, in the Battle of Zela ( this is the war that Caesar tersely described veni, vidi, vici ).

* The Swedish bestselling historical novel The Long Ships ( Red Orm ) includes a long fictionalised account of the Battle of Maldon, described from the Scandinavian side.

Another, Captain von Hentig, described the Battle of the Somme as " the muddy grave of the German Field Army ".

The fief was expected to have sent around two thousand warriors to Minas Tirith before the Battle of the Pelennor Fields, but because of the threat of the Corsairs of Umbar a far smaller number arrived ; these are described in the text as " well-armed and bearing great battle-axes ".

It has been described as " probably the only Battle in history in which the English forces were commanded by a Frenchman, the French by an Englishman.

On 22 October, in what was described as " the biggest clash since the Battle of Stiklestad ".

While living in Harrisburg, Lewis also published the popular poem, " St. Clair's Defeat ," which described the defeat of Arthur St. Clair by the tribes of the Western Confederacy during the Battle of the Wabash.