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Finegan and retreat
The battle raged throughout the afternoon until, as Finegan committed the last of his reserves, the Union line broke and began to retreat.

Finegan and .
In 1953, White married Patricia Finegan, whom he met while at West Point.
Others who have accepted the Lederer / Cook explanation of the two methods of dating for the time of Pekah are Thiele in his second edition of Mysterious Numbers and later, Leslie McFall, Francis Andersen and David Noel Freedman in their commentary on Hosea in the Anchor Bible Series, T. C. Mitchell, in the Cambridge Ancient History, and Jack Finegan in his Handbook of Biblical Chronology.
Bill Finegan, an arranger who left Glenn Miller's civilian band, arranged for the Tommy Dorsey band from 1942 to 1950.
Colquitt arrived in time to reinforce Florida troops under the command of Brigadier General Joseph Finegan.
Finegan sent out an infantry brigade to meet Seymour's advance units and lure them into the Confederate entrenchments, but this plan went awry.
Finegan and Seymour both reinforced their engaged units during the afternoon and the battle took place in open pine woods.
* Jack Finegan, Myth and Mystery: An Introduction to the Pagan Religions of the Biblical World, 1989.
However, the exact identity of the " elder John " is wound up in the debate on the authorship of the Gospel of John, and scholars have differing opinions on that, e. g. Jack Finegan states that Eusebius may have misunderstood what Papias wrote, and the elder John may be a different person from the author of the fourth gospel, yet still a disciple of Jesus.
* General Joseph Finegan, who commanded the Confederate Army to victory at the 1864 Battle of Olustee in Florida during the American Civil War, was born at Clones on 17 November 1814.
Boise Street Commissioner, Thomas Finegan, made a comparison showing a savings of $ 2, 716. 77 from the Elgin motorized sweeper when used rather than a horse-drawn sweeper.
Edward Finegan, John Rickford.
File: James Finegan Municipal Hall. jpg | The now demolished James Finegan Municipal Hall, Teesville ,-once home of the Mighty Wurlitzer pipe-organ.

did and exploit
Tanks, introduced on the Western Front by the British in September 1916, had the capacity to achieve such breakthroughs but did not have the reliable range to exploit them.
The only exception is the Jewish American officer, who is shown as both hyper-intelligent and very unscrupulous, which Bartov noted seems to imply that the real tragedy of World War II was the Nazis did not get a chance to exterminate all of the Jews, who have now returned with Germany's defeat to once more exploit the German people.
" Hello world " is also used by computer hackers as a proof of concept that arbitrary code can be executed through an exploit where the system designers did not intend code to be executed — for example, on Sony's PlayStation Portable.
Because the French government did not want to spend too much money on its colony it allowed for the establishment of the so-called Concessionary Companies, monopolies given a free hand to exploit the colony's resources except at a few strategic places, mainly around the Congo River.
The Board did face some allegations regarding the Medway raid, but they were able to exploit the criticism already attracted by the commissioner of Chatham, Peter Pett, to deflect criticism from themselves.
Hertz took this work no further, did not exploit it commercially, and famously did not consider it useful.
The periokoi could exploit these resources for their own enrichment, and did.
In the Cape Midlands, the Boers did not exploit the British defeat at Stormberg, and were prevented from capturing the railway junction at Colesberg.
Nevertheless, all his official acts began with the words: " This being the good pleasure of the Queen, my lady-mother, and I also approving of every opinion that she holdeth, am content and command that ...." Catherine did not hesitate to exploit her new authority.
Norway had huge resources of timber but did not have the means to exploit much of it in the Middle Ages as only hand-tools were available.
Afghanistan and Pashtun nationalists did not exploit Pakistan's vulnerability during the nation's 1965 and 1971 wars with India, and even backed Pakistan against a largely Hindu India.
It also did not exploit electronic computing speeds, being limited by a rotating capacitor drum memory and an input-output system that was intended to write intermediate results to paper cards.
However, despite the discovery of a medicinal well in 1714, and the creation of gardens and a fine room to exploit the water, Kilburn did not attract any significant building until around 1819 in the area near St John's Wood.
Anxious to exploit this source of outside revenue, residents petitioned the Railroad to let them build a real station, which they did as a community project.
The German command was quick to send up reinforcements overnight and was relieved that the British did not manage to fully exploit their early gains.
While this railway was built primarily to exploit the rich coalfield in northern Anhui, it also did much to revive the economy of the Hefei area by taking much of its produce to Wuhu and Nanjing.
Rubinstein chose to write in an early-Romantic Germanic style and did not exploit the native characteristics of Russian music in his work.
Clark did not feel he had the numbers on the southern front to exploit any breakthrough.
The commander, Lieutenant General John P. Lucas, did not exploit as aggressively as he might have done and was relieved for it.
One of the first things Carr did when he became the owner of the Panhandles was to exploit one the railroad's policies.
For Edward did little to exploit his success ; and Scottish resistance, though weak, was never fully extinguished.
Three year later he was defeated in the battle of the Rishki Pass but the Bulgarians did not exploit their success.
The Qin managed to breach the defences once but did not have the strength or equipment to exploit it ; nonetheless, the Qin refused to leave.

did and retreat
Their fighting was tense and they did not retreat when disadvantaged by an advancing opposing force and preferred death over defeat.
At this point, the Austro-Hungarian Empire stepped in, threatening to join the war on Serbia's side if the Bulgarian troops did not retreat.
Only from Spain did Louis XIV receive any good news where Das Minas and Galway had been forced to retreat from Madrid towards Valencia, allowing Philip V to re-enter his capital on 4 October.
When Colonel de Gaulle did organize a counter-attack with superior French tanks, he did not have the air support to gain the upper hand and had to retreat.
In retirement, the former president did not completely retreat from political life ; he spoke at the 1964 Republican National Convention and appeared with Barry Goldwater in a Republican campaign commercial from Gettysburg.
Few dared venture inland from the coast ; those that did, like the Portuguese, often met defeats and had to retreat to the coast.
" I, Themistocles, am come to you, who did your house more harm than any of the Hellenes, when I was compelled to defend myself against your father's invasion-harm, however, far surpassed by the good that I did him during his retreat, which brought no danger for me but much for him.
" When he did finally begin pulling away, British leaders interpreted it as a retreat: " the French van suffered most, because it was obliged to bear away.
He did this with the fear that the Hungarians would follow their plan of retreat on the previous occasions.
That portion of the Jewish population of Bessarabia and Bukovina which did not flee before the retreat of the Soviet troops ( 147, 000 ) was initially gathered into ghettos or concentration camps, and then deported during 1941-1942 in death marches into Romanian-occupied Transnistria, where the " Final Solution " was applied.
In any event the French army did nothing to stop a rather leisurely retreat that took place throughout the night and into the early morning by the Prussians.
While General George Washington's defeat on the battlefield may have cast early doubts on his abilities as a military tactician and leader, he did keep the Continental Army intact with an overnight tactical retreat, across the East River.
State penetration did not retreat under Sadat and Mubarak.
The retreat did not stop until the remnants of the Royal Army reached Cambridge.
Just as the defensive battle had not played out according to the plan, the general retreat did not occur as planned either.
The other units that did not retreat, following the original plan, became the victim of the enemy.
At the time most of the casualties of battles tended to be inflicted in the pursuit of an already-beaten enemy ; this did not happen at the Boyne, as the counter-attacks of the skilled Jacobite cavalry screened the retreat of the rest of their army.
In 1646, Thomas Francis was put in command of the French expedition sent south to take the Tuscan forts, after which he was to advance further south to Naples, drive out the Spanish and put himself on the throne of the kingdom ; but the expedition set off late, and when he besieged Orbetello, the supporting French fleet was defeated by the Spanish and he was forced to raise the siege and conduct a difficult retreat, which he performed so poorly that Cardinal Mazarin subsequently despised his command ability, viewed him as incompetent, and declined to appoint him to the expedition that France sent to support the Naples revolt late in 1647 ( this did not stop Mazarin from considering him as a potential candidate for a French-backed King of Naples, though Paris was so slow to move on this that Henry II, Duke of Guise was adopted by the Neapolitans instead ).
In 1646, Thomas was put in command of the French expedition sent south to take the Tuscan forts, after which he was to advance further south to Naples, drive out the Spanish and put himself on the throne of the kingdom ; but the expedition set off late, and when he besieged Orbetello, the supporting French fleet was defeated by the Spanish and he was forced to raise the siege and conduct a difficult retreat, which he performed so poorly that Cardinal Mazarin subsequently despised his command ability, viewed him as incompetent, and declined to appoint him to the expedition that France sent to support the Naples revolt late in 1647 ( this did not stop Mazarin from considering him as a potential candidate for a French-backed King of Naples, though Paris was so slow to move on this that Henry II, Duke of Guise was adopted by the Neapolitans instead ).
Though he failed to capture it, he did force the convoy to retreat.
Gallia's work did not stop after the 1944 landings in Normandy and Provence ; it provided information to the Allies that allowed for the bombing of military targets in the wake of the retreat of the German armies.
He was authorized to collect as many of the scattered troops as came in his way, and employ them according to his discretion, which he did in a manner so prompt as to effect important aid in the retreat of the army.
The Chartists did manage to enter the building temporarily, but were forced to retreat in disarray: twenty were killed, another fifty wounded.

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