First, he led the Broncos on a last minute touchdown drive to narrowly defeat the Pittsburgh Steelers, 24 – 23.

* First black pro football placekicker: Gene Mingo ( Denver Broncos, AFL )

* First Grade: Brisbane Broncos

In 1995 Rovers finished 11th in the 16-team First Division but were effectively relegated to make way for London Broncos and Paris Saint-Germain.

Drafted as an offensive guard in the American Football League's first draft by the Denver Broncos in their " First Selection round ", he joined the Oakland Raiders through the allocation draft before the start of the first AFL season.

* First Grade Debut: 2002-Round 4, Cronulla vs Brisbane Broncos at ANZ Stadium, 7 April

* First Grade Debut: 2000-Round 14, Canberra vs Brisbane Broncos at Canberra Stadium, 8 May

" Addressing the faster rate at which defenders could reinforce an area than attackers could penetrate it during the First World War, Guderian wrote that " since reserve forces will now be motorized, the building up of new defensive fronts is easier than it used to be ; the chances of an offensive based on the timetable of artillery and infantry co-operation are, as a result, even slighter today than they were in the last war.

That was followed by the First Treaty of Tirana in 1926 and the Second Treaty of Tirana in 1927, whereby Italy and Albania entered into a defensive alliance.

Mainly as a result of the increasing firepower ( such as machine guns ) available to defensive forces, First World War trench warfare briefly revived a form of siege warfare.

First defensive tackle Alan Page tackled running back Mike Garrett for a 1-yard loss, and then safety Paul Krause intercepted Dawson's pass at the 7-yard line on the next play.

" First, Dolphins defensive back Jake Scott gave his team good field position by returning the opening kickoff 31 yards to the Miami 38-yard line.

First rank with pikes at " charge for horse " static defensive posture, ready to draw swords if needed.

Because the First Crusade was largely concerned with Jerusalem, a city which had not been under Christian dominion for 461 years, and the crusader army refused to return the land to the control of the Byzantine Empire, the status of the First Crusade as defensive or as aggressive in nature remains controversial.

Seizing the initiative in the early afternoon, Gronau's two divisions attacked with light artillery and infantry into the gathering Sixth Army and pushed it back into a defensive posture before the planned allied assault for the following day, but the threat to the French offensive by Kluck's wheeled First Army in this preliminary Battle of the Ourcq () ignored the allied forces advancing against his right flank, and was later reduced both by the arrival of the taxicab reinforcements from Paris and orders for Kluck to retreat to the Aisne River, delivered by Moltke's staff officer, Oberstleutnant Richard Hentsch.

The Middle Kingdom was basically defensive in its military strategy, with fortifications built at the First Cataract of the Nile, in the Delta and across the Sinai Isthmus.

This work was popular in Japan not for its geographical knowledge, but for its analysis of potential defensive military strategy in the face of European imperialism and the Qing's recent defeat in the First Opium War due to European artillery and gunboats.

The First Panzer Army was able to regain a defensive line on the Donets River, and Manstein began to plan subsequent attacks to clear Soviet units west of the Donets.

Recognizing the opportunity, Latour-Marbourg's 2nd Hussars and First Vistula Lancers ( a Polish unit ) to attack the British line before the infantry could form its defensive squares.

In 1917, St. Thomas was purchased ( along with Saint John and Saint Croix ) by the United States for $ 25 million in gold, as part of a defensive strategy to maintain control over the Caribbean and the Panama Canal during the First World War.

* First all-time in defensive rebounds.

By attaching a Spetsnaz unit to the office of the First Chief Directorate, it was hoped that the Soviet Union's defensive capacity against terrorist attack would increase significantly.

By 29 April, the First Chinese Spring Offensive was halted by UN forces at a defensive line north of Seoul, known as the " No-Name Line "; in total a withdrawal of in the US I and IX Corps sectors, and in the US X Corps and South Korean III Corps sectors.

Around the outbreak of the First English Civil War, bout the outbreak of the civil war he preached as a lecturer at Tenterden, Kent, on the lawfulness of a defensive war, and was accused of treason ; but he was acquitted and recovered his costs.

Human Rights First was forced on the defensive for the next several years, trying to hold the line as legal protections for refugees eroded during a time of anti-immigrant sentiment.

The Nine Days are part of a larger period of time known as The Three Weeks, which begin with the public fast day of the Seventeenth of Tammuz — commemorated in Judaism for the time when the forces of Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia finally broke through the defensive walls surrounding Jerusalem, generally accepted as happening in 586 BC — and end with the public fast day of Tisha B ' Av — when the Babylonians finally destroyed the First Temple in 597 BC and when the Second Temple was destroyed by the Romans in 70 AD.

During First Sino-Japanese War ( 1894 – 95 ), Dewa served as a staff officer of " Western Seas Fleet ", a defensive force patrolling home waters.

First, many games have units which out-range defensive buildings ( catapults, artillery, etc.

Griffin was waived by the Fire during the 2007 pre-season, and signed by USL First Division side Portland Timbers, joining former UCLA teammate and fellow defensive standout Scot Thompson.

First, the sameness or difference of offensive weapons compared with defensive weapons does not impact the offense-defense balance itself.

The First Test at Lord's was convincingly won by Australia, but in the remaining four matches the teams were evenly matched and England fought back to win the Second Test by 2 runs, the smallest victory by a runs margin in Ashes history, and the second-closest such victory in all Tests.

First, the player must turn their back to their opponents, restricting their view of them and the court.

The appearance of the aircraft and tank in the First World War, often hailed as a revolution in military affairs ( RMA ), offered the German military a chance to get back to the traditional war of movement as practiced by Moltke the Elder.

First, since a note has no intrinsic value, there was nothing to stop issuing authorities from printing more of it than they had specie to back it with.

Caricature of the Third Estate carrying the First Estate ( clergy ) and the Second Estate ( nobility ) on its back.

First activities were linked to irrigation and flood control, as demonstrated by traces of dykes, dams, and canals dating back to at least 2000 BCE that were found in ancient Egypt, ancient Mesopotamia and the Fertile Crescent, as well as around the early settlements of Mohenjo Daro and Harappa in the Indus valley.

The country secured some boundary revisions from 1938 to 1941: In 1938 the First Vienna Award gave back territory from Czechoslovakia, in 1939 Hungary occupied Carpatho-Ukraine.

The Archimedes ' screw underpins modern hydroengineering, and his machines of war helped to hold back the armies of Rome in the First Punic War.

The outbreak of the First World War with the necessity to bring back the troops to Italy, the proclamation of the Holy War by the Ottomans, the uprising of the Libyans in Tripolitania and Fezzan and the partisan war led by the Senussi in Cyrenaica forced the Italians to abandon all the occupied territory and to entrench themselves in Tripoli, Derna and the coast of Cyrenaica.

First, he wanted to suppress all armed resistance out in the provinces, and thus bring order back to the empire.

However, the Turks were driven back from the Aegean coast by the First Crusade, and the island reverted to Byzantine rule.

St-Laurent's government was modestly progressive and fiscally conservative, taking taxation surpluses no longer needed by the wartime military and paying back in full Canada's debts accrued during the First World War, the Great Depression and World War II.

The club was promoted back into the First Division in 1962 and won it in 1964, for the first time in 17 years.

American troops in the War of 1812 invaded Upper Canada across the Niagara River and the Detroit River, but were defeated and pushed back by British regulars, Canadian fencibles and militias, and First Nations warriors.

First one pulls out a portion of the middle of the stack and places it back on top of the deck ; one then performs a regular cut described earlier.

Papyrus is first known to have been used in ancient Egypt ( at least as far back as the First Dynasty ), but it was also used throughout the Mediterranean region.

The Purple Heart, however, is retroactive to 1917 meaning that it may be presented to veterans as far back as the First World War.

The diplomatic service of the Holy See can be traced back to the First Council of Nicaea when Pope Sylvester I sent legates to represent him during the discussions of the council.

In the past ninety years since Star Trek: First Contact, the Vulcans have been mentoring humanity to what they see as an appropriate level of civilization, routinely holding back scientific knowledge in an effort to keep humans stranded close to home, believing them to be too irrational and emotionally-dominated to function properly in an interstellar community.

Their interest is such that they would go back in time, causing the alteration of the events of Star Trek: First Contact, and then encountering the Crew of the NX-01 Enterprise during " Regeneration ", and enabling the Borg of the 24th Century to become aware of Earth in the first place.

When the ship travels back in time to the 21st century, he works alongside Dr. Zefram Cochrane and helps him successfully launch Earth's first warp-capable vessel and achieve first contact with the Vulcans ( Star Trek: First Contact ).

It has been suggested that the concept of state capitalism can be traced back to Mikhail Bakunin's critique during the First International of the potential for state exploitation under Marxism, or to Jan Waclav Machajski's argument in The Intellectual Worker ( 1905 ) that socialism was a movement of the intelligentsia as a class, resulting in a new type of society he termed state capitalism.