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Even though the bulk of his army made the trip from Skenesboro to Fort Edward in just five days, the army's lack of adequate transport served to delay the army again, as the supply train, hampered by a lack of draft animals and carts and wagons that were capable of dealing with the rough tracks through the wilderness, took time to follow.
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Even though in most cases the completion of the definitive editions of their writings is still years off, enough documentation has already been assembled to warrant drawing a new composite profile of the leadership which performed the heroic dual feats of winning American independence and founding a new nation.
Even though headquarters actually have been moved into the Chatham building, do they believe that they can make the new name stick??
Even though he would later be resurrected, he was at this moment dead indeed, the expression on his face reflecting what he had gone through on the cross.
Even though I have always had a genius for `` throwing myself '' into every role and `` playing it for all it's worth '', no actress can be expected to do her best work when her fortune, her reputation, her livelihood, her home and her nation itself are all imperilled.
Even though the registers may have an incomplete record of persons present in a particular area or include persons no longer living there, they contain precise information on ages, by date of birth, for some of the persons present ( especially children in relatively stable communities ) and supplementary information ( such as records of marital status ) for many others.
Even though in civil rights legislation in 1957 and 1960 the provision for the Attorney General to act was eliminated, should we nevertheless support such a clause??
Even though we did not see many of your faces, it appears now quite evident that a considerable number of your profession heard, from those whom we had the fortune to encounter, that we had been in your midst.
Even though the bondage of his verse is not so great as the writing poet can manage, it is still great enough for him often to be seriously impeded unless he has aids to facilitate rapid composition.
Even though it was known that the Luftwaffe in the north was now being directed by the young and energetic General Peltz, the commander who would conduct the `` Little Blitz '' on London in 1944, a major raid on Bari at this juncture of the war was not to be considered seriously.
Even though we had walked miles in Kyoto that day, we started out again to see Nara at night.
Even though his theological theses have become, to us, commonplaces, the fundamental interrogation he phrased is very much with us.
Even though the boy could not see them, he knew they were clouded by distance.
Even though this is my rock, you can use it sometimes.
Even though they had the advantage of fighting on the defensive, the Confederate forces had " almost as high a percentage of casualties as the Union forces ".
Even though this may appear similar to a series of animation drawings, there was no way of viewing the images in motion.
Even though it's not up to him / her to make laws ( only to promulgate them and make edicts ), the President is the leader of the winning party.
Even though scientific research is not their main goal, many amateur astronomers make a contribution to astronomy by monitoring variable stars, tracking asteroids and discovering transient objects, such as comets.
Even though they do not compete directly with cultivated plants, sometimes winter annuals are considered a pest in commercial agriculture, because they can be hosts for insect pests or fungal diseases ( ovary smut – Microbotryum sp ) which attack crops being cultivated.
One might say, " Even though the usual ordering of the real numbers does not work, it may be possible to find a different ordering of the real numbers which is a well-ordering.
Even though this element is not abundant, it is found in over 100 mineral species.
Even though this period-known in its earlier part as the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period-in its latter part was fraught with chaos and bloody battles, it is also known as the Golden Age of Chinese philosophy because a broad range of thoughts and ideas were developed and discussed freely.
Even in Athanasius ’ Orations against the Arians, Arius hardly emerges consistently as the creative individual originator of the heresy that bears his name, even though it would have greatly strengthened Athanasius ’ case to present him in that light.
Even touching an alpha source is usually not harmful, though many alpha sources also are accompanied by beta-emitting radio daughters, and alpha emission is also accompanied by gamma photon emission.
Even though the parentheses were rearranged ( the left side requires adding 5 and 2 first, then adding 1 to the result, whereas the right side requires adding 2 and 1 first, then 5 ), the value of the expression was not altered.
Even though the stone had been around centuries and was known to both the Sumerians and the Egyptians, both who used the gem for decoration and for playing important parts in their religious ceremonies, any agate of this color from Sicily, once an ancient Greek colony, is called Greek agate.
Even and bulk
Even for homogeneous " bulk " materials, the free energy functions depend on the composition, as do all the extensive thermodynamic potentials, including the internal energy.
Even for homogeneous " bulk " materials, the free energy functions depend on the ( often suppressed ) composition, as do all proper thermodynamic potentials ( extensive functions ), including the internal energy.
Even within high explosives which build up a supersonic shock front, some build up faster than others, yield higher detonation velocities, and tend more towards controlled shock fronts in bulk, all of which lead to higher brisance.
Even if they are deemed unfit to be sold in Goodwill's retail stores, these items can be sold as bulk lots, and thus can still generate income.
Even while still in frontline service, Nieuports of all types were being used at French and American flight training facilities, with the bulk of production from 1917 onwards going to flying schools.
Even better results can be achieved with targets made of a thin film of a high-absorption high-diffusivity metal ( e. g. titanium ) on a substrate with low hydrogen diffusivity ( e. g. silver ), as the hydrogen is then concentrated on the top layer and can not diffuse away into the bulk of the material.
Even before the appearance of the OASIS nodes, many groups of transmission owners had already turned over operational control of their collective bulk transmission systems to Independent System Operators of various forms.
Even the elephant and rhinoceros, which, by reason of their enormous bulk, and the vast quantity of food and water they daily need, cannot shift to desert and dry places, as the season may require, are obliged to roll themselves in mud and mire ; which, when dry, coats them over like armor, and enables them to stand their ground against this winged assassin.
Even and army
Even so, it adds up to impossible odds, except that the question arises, On whose side would the Mainland Chinese army fight??
Even so, the unpopularity of the union weakened the King's position in the eyes of the army and of the country at large.
Even during a legitimate jihad, which is fought not by a rag-tag army of misguided youth but by the state against identified aggressors, Islam has set certain principles like you can't harm the old, sick, women and children.
Even the army had to cut the rations for soldiers.
Even before news of the defeat at Ticinus had reached Rome, the Senate had ordered the Consul Sempronius Longus to bring his army back from Sicily to meet Scipio and face Hannibal.
Even though Gospatric and Siward's son Waltheof submitted by the end of the year, the arrival of a Danish army under Sweyn Estridsson seemed to ensure that William's position remained weak.
Even though Nobuyuki and his supporters were still at large, Nobunaga decided to bring an army to Mino Province to aid Saitō Dōsan after Dōsan's son, Saitō Yoshitatsu, turned against him.
Even after conscripting every able-bodied man for the front, including children as young as ten, and forcing women to perform all nonmilitary labor, Solano López still could not field an army as large as those of his rivals.
Even when in the end the New Model Army — a regular professional army — developed the original decision-compelling spirit permeated the whole organisation as was seen when pitched against regular professional continental troops the Battle of the Dunes during the Interregnum.
Even though this war was won by a pan-Greek army, credit was given to Sparta, who besides being the protagonist at Thermopylae and Plataea, had been the de facto leader of the entire Greek expedition.
Even more seriously, the generations of students that Durkheim had trained were now being drafted to serve in the army, and many of them perished in the trenches.
Even though Ducrot shrugged off the possibility of an attack by the Germans, MacMahon still tried to warn the other divisions of his army, without success.
Even though Darius did not have the support of the populace, Darius had a loyal army, led by close confidants and nobles ( including the six nobles with whom he removed Gaumata ) with whom he was able to suppress and quell all revolts within a year.
Even as late as 1915, the Caesar cipher was in use: the Russian army employed it as a replacement for more complicated ciphers which had proved to be too difficult for their troops to master ; German and Austrian cryptanalysts had little difficulty in decrypting their messages.
Even after this was done the allied city of Utica defected to Rome, and a Roman army of 80, 000 men gathered there.
Even when France's army did recover, the forces they deployed were about a quarter of that deployed at Crecy ( as shown at Poitiers ).
Even with the military orders on board, Frederick's force was a mere shadow of the army that had amassed when the crusade had originally been called.
Even the army itself became divided, and local military chiefs gained control of some provinces where they ruled like the feudal warlords of past eras.
Even as he oversaw a continued buildup, Clifford preferred to emphasize the points Johnson had made in his March 31, 1968 address: that the South Vietnamese army could take over a greater share of the fighting, that the administration would place an absolute limit on the number of U. S. troops in Vietnam, and that it would take steps, including the bombing restrictions, to reduce the combat level.
Even though the army increased in size considerably, Marius also sought to improve organization among his troops.
Even so the Polytechnic students defended their campuses against the army for more than twelve hours, and the Mexican government never forgave the Polytechnic for presenting such a resistance.
Even granting its enormous size, it was 100 miles away and east of the Gate, and behind the inner mountain ridges of Udûn, so Aragorn's army could not have seen it.
Even Paul ’ s decision to send a Cossack army to take British India, bizarre as it may seem, makes a certain amount of sense: Britain itself was almost impervious to direct attack, being an island nation with a formidable navy, but the British had left India largely unguarded and would have great difficulty staving off a force that came over land to attack it.
Even the most experienced officers shared Hitler's contempt for the Soviet state and army.
Even though the Janissary corps were the " hassa " ( royal ) army, personal royal guards of the sultan, the corps was not the main force of the Ottoman military.
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