Early in the war, the Germans began to create makeshift assault guns by mounting their infantry support weapons on the bed of a truck or on obsolete tanks with the turret removed.

Early in this war, armed forces under the French East India Company captured the British base of Calcutta in north-eastern India.

Early on he supported the nationalist rhetoric and the war effort, though with some hesitation as he viewed the war as a necessity to fulfill German duty as a leading state power.

Early in World War I, Japan took the opportunity to declare war on Germany and invaded the Northern Marianas, hoping to annex them.

Early civilian authorities called praetors doubled as military leaders during the summer war season.

During the Renaissance and the Early Modern period, siege warfare dominated the conduct of war in Europe.

Early ' modern ' wargaming, as popularised by Grant and Featherstone, usually broke down the history into " Ancients ", usually Biblical and Classical eras, " Horse and Musket ", covering the 18th and 19th centuries, and " Modern ", World war Two onwards.

Early in 1929, the Afghan leader King Amanullah lost power through revolution and civil war to Amir Habibullah II.

Early in 1940, he was trained for a commission after, whilst working in a kitchen, answering the question of an inspecting brigadier with a Greek proverb ; on several occasions, he told colleagues that he expected to be at least a major-general by the end of the war.

Early in his mayoral career, Thompson began to amass a war chest to support an eventual run for the Presidency by charging city drivers and inspectors $ 3 per month.

This gave the city defenses time to organize and repel Early, who arrived at Fort Stevens in Washington at around noon on July 11, two days after defeating Wallace at Monocacy, the northernmost Confederate victory of the war.

Early in his reign, Lucius received a request from prominent members of the town of Lucca to become the suzerain of the castle within the town in order to protect it from the war between Lucca and Pisa.

Early 13th century, Ada, Countess of Holland took refuge here when she was fighting in a civil war against her uncle, William I, Count of Holland.

Early in September, Cromwell also completed a new set of viceregential injunctions declaring open war on " pilgrimages, feigned relics, or images, or any such superstitions ", and commanding that " one book of the whole Bible of the largest volume in English " be set up in every church.

Early Swedish victories at Humlebaek and at the Battle of Narva in 1700 temporarily took both Denmark and Russia out of the war.

* Characters such as 武 ( war, martial arts ) or 屋 ( room, house ), pronounced roughly mwio and uk in Early Middle Chinese, have an initial v phoneme in Hakka, being vu and vuk in Hakka respectively ( Mandarin: wu ).

Early in the war they helped Gen. Taylor attack the fort and supply depot in St. Isabel, now the city of Port Isabel, Texas.

Early in the epic, Paris and Menelaus duel in an attempt to end the war without further bloodshed.

Early in the war, fighting descended into stagnant trench warfare.

Early state flag and war ensign, used until the mid-1600s.

Early devices for lie detection include an 1895 invention of Cesare Lombroso used to measure changes in blood pressure for police cases, a 1904 device by Vittorio Benussi used to measure breathing, and an abandoned project by American William Marston which used blood pressure to examine German prisoners of war ( POWs ).

Early in the war they were most readily available from army troops or gendarmerie who defected or were ambushed.

Early adherents include Woodrow Wilson and Norman Angell, who argued vigorously that states mutually gained from cooperation and that war was so destructive as to be essentially futile.

Early the next morning, a Mexican telephoned Pels that Celso Chavez, one of the posse members, was surrounded by ten Mexicans at his father's home on the upper Vermejo.

Early equipment was very flimsy ; ;

the `` sober opinion '' of his letter to Noyes, written when Hardy was eighty years old, is essentially that of his first `` philosophical '' notebook entry, made when he was twenty-five: `` The world does not despise us: it only neglects us '' ( Early Life, p. 63 ).

It may seem strange that a poet should come to full fruition in his seventies, but we have it on Hardy's own authority that `` he was a child till he was sixteen, a youth till he was five-and-twenty, and a young man till he was nearly fifty '' ( Early Life, p. 42 ).

Early in her life she had discovered that where there were men, there was money, and with the two came luxury and liquor.

Early in 1822 he was at Fort Garry offering to bring in pork, flour, liquor and tobacco.

Instead Sergeant Early was quiet, sharp and confident.

There was no weapon Early could not take apart and reassemble blind-folded.

But for all his erudite confidence, Sergeant Early was right out of the Garryowen mold.

Sergeant Early let the new CO know just how lucky he was to be in the best troop in the best regiment in the United States Army.

Early in the nineteenth century the State of New Hampshire was casting about for a way to found its own state university.

Early Chinese anchoritism was theoretically aimed at a mystic pantheist union with the divine, personal salvation being achieved when the mystical recluse united with divine essence.

" After repeated calls on Grant to defend Washington, Sheridan was appointed and the threat from Early was dispatched.

Early anthropology was divided between proponents of unilinealism, who argued that all societies passed through a single evolutionary process, from the most primitive to the most advanced, and various forms of non-lineal theorists, who tended to subscribe to ideas such as diffusionism.

Early Adelaide was shaped by religious freedom and a commitment to political progressivism and civil liberties, which led to the moniker " City of Churches ".

The Early Church Fathers wrote that Luke was a physician in Antioch and an adherent of the Apostle Paul.

Early guncotton was unstable however, and burned very fast and hot, leading to greatly increased barrel wear.

She was thus a principal agent — almost an embodiment — of the work of the Catholic Church during the Early Middle Ages in the construction of the religion-culture of western Europe.

The Abbey was built over some sixty years using local red sandstone, but gives the impression of a single coherent, mainly ' Early English ' architectural design, though the round-arched processional doorway in the western front looks back to late Norman or transitional work.