Ultimately, the French army and nation collapsed after barely two months of mobile operations, in contrast to the four years of trench warfare of the First World War.

" A contrary view has been published by historian Eric J. Wittenberg, who notes that of four major strategic raids ( Richmond, Trevilian, Wilson-Kautz, and First Deep Bottom ) and thirteen major cavalry engagements of the Overland and Richmond – Petersburg campaigns, only Yellow Tavern can be considered a Union victory, with Haw's Shop, Trevilian Station, Meadow Bridge, Samaria Church, and Wilson-Kautz defeats in which some of Sheridan's forces barely avoided destruction.

Major events on Earth included first contact with the Vulcans ( Star Trek: First Contact ), barely averted attacks by the Borg ( in " The Best of Both Worlds " and Star Trek: First Contact ), Founder infiltration (" Homefront "), and numerous attempted coups.

By mediation of the Federal Tagsatzung, bloodshed in what was known as the First War of Kappel was barely avoided.

He was the director of the National Insurance Administration from 1997 to 2004, but barely attended to the position because he was a government minister in Bondevik's First Cabinet from 1997 to 2000 and Bondevik's First Cabinet from 2001 to 2005.

It managed to barely survive the First Mongol Invasion, and allied to the Golden Horde and adopted Islam afterwards.

On 9 February 2000, after barely eight months in office, Michael resigned in an attempt to avoid a vote of " no confidence " over the availability of Objective 1 funding from the European Union: an issue over which the First Secretary had no control, but which provided a focus for all three other parties to unite in an attempt to destabilize the minority government which he led.

" His first popular photographs of the conflict were at the First Battle of Bull Run, in which he got so close to the action that he barely avoided capture.

He returned to the UK and tried to resurrect his playing career, joining Manchester City on 23 October 1989, and played twice in the First Division, but on 20 November, barely a month after joining the club, he moved to West Ham United, later having a trial with Ipswich Town.

In January 1891, upon the death of Yixuan, a barely eight years old Zaifeng immediately inherited his father's title of " Prince Chun of the First Rank " ( 醇親王 ).

By mediation of the other cantons, open war ( known as the First War of Kappel ) was barely avoided, but the peace agreement ( Erster Landfriede ) was not exactly favourable for the Catholic party, who had to dissolve its alliance with the Austrian Habsburgs.

In its first and second seasons, the young club barely averted relegation to the new First Division – failing to win a single game at home in Flower Lodge and avoiding relegation only on goal difference.

One thousand years ago the Shadows returned, and were barely defeated by the Vorlons and First Ones, led by the Minbari with the help of Valen.

First published in 2003 by Oni Press, it tells the coming-of-age story of shy 18-year old Raleigh, who believes her soul was stolen by a cat, and the road trip she makes across the United States with several kids from her school that she barely knows.

Their absence was barely noticed, as First Student, the company in charge of Council Rock's buses, filled the routes with temporary workers.

His first major work of this period is his history of the First Crusade called Dei gesta per Francos (" God's deeds through the Franks "), finished in 1108 and touched up in 1121.

First base, or 1B, is the first of four stations on a baseball diamond which must be touched in succession by a baserunner in order to score a run for that player's team.

First base is the first of four bases that must be touched by a player on the batting team in order to score a run.

His experiences at the front – touched upon in his memoir ' 4. 5 Howitzer Gunner ' – shifted the direction of his work, and significant pieces from his wartime output, such as the powerful Canadian commission The First German Gas Attack at Ypres ( 1918 ), dramatically depict the horror of war and are possibly the most acerbic produced by any of the British artists employed under the government ’ s schemes.

The call for the First Crusade touched off new persecutions of Jews in which peasant crusaders from France and Germany attacked Jewish communities.

* At the start of the 1946 Sherlock Holmes film Terror by Night, the narrator speaks of a famous diamond " First touched by the fingers of the humble kaffir ..." while a black man is shown picking up a stone from the ground.

Following the merger, the new club took the bumps positions of First Trinity's crews, since they were placed higher than those of Third Trinity, but the new club used Third Trinity's black blades for a number of years, before switching to the current blade colours.

: A new mold of Arcee, smaller and slightly more detailed than the First Edition Arcee, with a lighter paint scheme, and with an attachable blade and blaster.

First, the attachment of the voulge blade to the shaft was usually done by binding the lower two thirds of the blade to the side of the pole ; the glaive would often have a socket built into the blade itself and was mounted on top of the pole.

When combined, they make the First Key and take the form of a sword which bears some resemblance to the clock hands, having a silver and golden blade.

The geometry of the blade can be categorised according to the following three factors: First according to the shape of the profile of the point of the razor, second according to the type of grinding method used for the blade ; the degree of curvature, and therefore hollowness ( or thinness ), of the sides of the cross section of the razor blade depends on the grinding method.

First known to be used by humans in the knife to separate animal tissue, the blade allowed humans to separate meat, fibers, and other plant and animal materials, with much less force than it would take to tear them by simply pulling them apart.

First, the monarch lays the side of the sword's blade onto the accolade's right shoulder.

He added that he also stresses the works of these favorite masters on tour, especially Mahler's First and Fourth symphonies, and Das Lied Von der Erde, and Bruckner's Sixth -- which is rarely played -- and Seventh.

A third Thomas Bushell ( 1594-1674 ), `` much loved '' by Bacon, called himself `` The Superlative Prodigall '' in The First Part of Youths Errors ( 1628 ) and became an expert on silver mines and on the art of running into debt.

First and foremost, they depend on the inhuman idiocies of the Communist regime.

First, we can encourage responsibility by establishing as conditions for assistance on a substantial and sustained scale the definition of objectives and the assessment of costs.

and overhead projector transparency sets on the subjects of Military Sanitation: First Aid For Soldiers ; ;

First on my own list would be two arms -- a rifle and a handgun -- that qualify as new in the strictest sense.

First was a 1958 cut of more than 50% on that portion of the load in excess of 40,000 lb ; ;

First of all, the six figures of the Buddha you heisted -- four Siamese heads, a black obsidian statuette in the earth-touching position, and a large brass figure of the Dying Buddha on a teakwood base.

First of all, as we had surmised, the highly compulsive children in the structured setting score significantly better ( Af ) on achievement than do similar children in the unstructured schools.

First, it appears to be based on the fact that on its title page Utopia is described as `` festivus '', `` gay ''.

First, the student trains on his hapless parents the heavy artillery of his newly acquired psychological and sociological insights.

Already the President and the First Lady have deputized him to advise on matters ranging from the furnishing of the White House to the renovation of Lafayette Square.

Curtis Allen Huff, 41, of 1630 Lake Av., Wilmette, was arrested yesterday on a suppressed federal warrant charging him with embezzling an undetermined amount of money from the First Federal Savings and Loan association, 1 S. Dearborn St., where he formerly was employed as an attorney.

One of the most interested `` students '' on the tour which the Brevard group took at the National Gallery yesterday following their concert at the White House, was Letitia Baldrige, social secretary to First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy.

First plutonium-239 nitrate (< sup > 239 </ sup > PuNO < sub > 3 </ sub >) solution was coated on a platinum foil of about 0. 5 cm < sup > 2 </ sup > area, the solution was evaporated and the residue was converted into plutonium dioxide ( PuO < sub > 2 </ sub >) by annealing.

* Easter, or Resurrection Day ( Christians )-celebrated the First Sunday after the first full moon on or after the Spring Equinox, near March 21st ( between March 22 and April 25 )

* The Philippines celebrates National Heroes Day in commemoration of the First Cry of the Philippine Revolution on August 23, 1896.

* 1914 – World War I: First Battle of the Atlantic – two days after the United Kingdom had declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea.

The 1894 – 95 series began in sensational fashion when England won the First Test at Sydney by just 10 runs having followed on.

In the First Test ( the first played at Edgbaston ), after scoring 376 England bowled out Australia for 36 ( Wilfred Rhodes 7 / 17 ) and reduced them to 46 – 2 when they followed on.

First conceived during the Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower as a three-man spacecraft to follow the one-man Project Mercury which put the first Americans in space, Apollo was later dedicated to President John F. Kennedy's national goal of " landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth " by the end of the 1960s, which he proposed in a May 25, 1961 address to Congress.

* 1869 – Chinese and Irish laborers for the Central Pacific Railroad working on the First Transcontinental Railroad lay 10 miles of track in one day, a feat which has never been matched.