Alboin first distinguished himself on the battlefield in a clash with the Gepids.

* The Lockheed MQM-105 Aquila, the U. S. Army's first battlefield reconnaissance drone

The first documented battlefield use of fire lances took place in 1132 when Chen Gui used them to defend De ' an from attack by the Jurchen Jin.

Since the establishment of the first shogunate in 1192, the Emperors of Japan have rarely taken on a role as supreme battlefield commander, unlike many Western monarchs.

The instances of recorded first aid were provided by religious knights, such as the Knights Hospitaller, formed in the 11th century, providing care to pilgrims and knights, and training other knights in how to treat common battlefield injuries.

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The Duke of Marlborough won a series of brilliant victories over the French, England's first major battlefield successes on the Continent since the Hundred Years War.

At the same time, the troops are spotted emerging onto the battlefield from the woods on the east-it is unclear at first whether they are French ( Grouchy's force ) or Prussians ( Blücher's army ).

Although the first few Worms games used darker, more authentic battlefield sounds for its ambient music, all of the games included a large number of high-pitched catchphrases shouted by the worms during the course of battle, such as " I'll get you!

The first Worms game featured darker tones than later Worms games, with more realistic effects for weapons rather than cartoon-style effects, and the ambient sound of a battlefield. It subsequently evolved into a full commercial game, renamed Worms, available initially only for the Commodore Amiga computer.

* February 14 – Battle of Uedahara: Firearms are used for the first time on the battlefield in Japan, and Takeda Shingen is defeated by Murakami Yoshikiyo.

The battle of Wörth was the first major battle of the Franco-German war, with more than 100, 000 troops in the battlefield.

Ambroise Paré ( sometimes spelled " Ambrose ") pioneered the treatment of gunshot wounds, and the first modern surgeons were battlefield doctors in the Napoleonic Wars.

Ahead of his troops he arrived on the battlefield late in the afternoon of the first day, July 1, 1863.

The final phase of the battle of the Somme saw the first use of the tank on the battlefield.

Nasser's first experience on the battlefield was in Palestine during the 1948 Arab – Israeli War.

Launched on April 13, 1984, this military operation was unique as it was the first assault launched in the world's highest battlefield.

Forcing the knights to fight on foot had several advantages: it prevented them from starting a premature charge, ensured protection for the archers should the French manage to close the distance, and ensured that the archers and supporting infantry stayed on the battlefield rather than running at the first opportunity ( a common occurrence in medieval warfare ).

Final changes in the geography were caused by the intensification of the scene of the Battle of the Pelennor Fields: the distance between Osgiliath and Minas Tirith was reduced by four times ; the northern regions became guarded by " Tol Varad ( the Defended Isle )", later renamed Men Falros " place of foam-spray " and then Cair Andros ;< ref > the inhabitants of the newly introduced Drúadan Forest enabled the Rohirrim to pass freely to Minas Tirith ; and the hills of Emyn Arnen ( originally Haramon " southern hill ") justified creating a bend in Anduin so that the revelation of Aragorn and his reinforcements occurred closer to the battlefield, at the quays of Harlond ( at first Lonnath-ernin " Arnen-havens ").

Li Hongzhang refused on the grounds that Taiwan had never been a battlefield during the first Sino-Japan War between 1894 and 1895.

One of the first indications of a formal process for managing injured people dates from the Imperial Legions of Rome, where aging Centurions, no longer able to fight, were given the task of organizing the removal of the wounded from the battlefield and providing some form of care.

It is named for the first battlefield victory in the Mexican-American War.

The first weapons of this kind to be delivered were the tactical FROG-series, capable of carrying either a conventional or WMD warhead for battlefield usage.

HMS Rainbow, one of the two scouts who had first spotted the Dutch fleet, got isolated and fled to neutral Ostend, chased by twelve ships from Tromp's squadron while the other, the Kent, left the battlefield in search of Rupert's squadron.

In the first instance, `` mimesis '' is here used to mean the recalling of experience in terms of vivid images rather than in terms of abstract ideas or conventional designations.

Mr. Truman has only to recall the `` hopeless '' campaign of 1948 to remember what a loyal partisan he was and the first experience of Mr. Kennedy with Congress would have been sadder than it was had not Mr. Sam been there.

So our innate generosity of spirit prompts us to share our trials, errors and solutions with any who are taking the pool plunge for the first time -- in the pious hope that some may profit from our experience.

`` Speed in painting a picture is valid only when it imparts spontaneity and crispness, but unless the artist has lots of experience so that he can control rapid execution, he would do well to take these first sketches and soberly reorder their design to achieve a unified composition.

He felt certain for the first time in his teaching experience that the men in the class understood that orgasm, as a criterion, is not nearly so essential for a satisfying female sexual experience as most males might think.

She then described her experience as one in which she first had difficulty accepting for herself a state of being in which she relinquished control.

They were able to experience at first, in terms of past conventionality.

So with all this experience, Bob Fogg was a natural choice to receive the first Emergency Air Mail Star Route contract.

The accumulated information on this point shows that first intercourse, even when it is achieved with minimum pain or difficulty, is seldom an overwhelming sexual experience to a woman.

Only under rare circumstances would a bride experience an orgasm during her first intercourse.

In a long commentary which he has inserted in the published text of the first act of the play, he says at one point: `` However, that experience never raised a doubt in his mind as to the reality of the underworld or the existence of Lucifer's many-faced lieutenants.

For most of them, it will be their first experience in membership training, since this is a recent development in many churches.

How Maxwell recounts his first coming to Camusfearna, his furnishing the empty house with beach-drift, the subtle changes in season over ten years, is a moving experience.

Although this was the first time that Helva had seen unshelled people, she took this experience calmly.

The first Thirthankar, Rishabh introduced the concept of altruism for all living beings, from extending knowledge and experience to others to donation, giving oneself up for others, non-violence and compassion for all living things.

According to LDS Doctrine, Michael the Archangel became the first man on earth, Adam, to experience his mortality.

The friend insists, then, that even though we might postulate that there is a first cause behind all things — God — we can't infer anything about the afterlife, because we don't know anything of the afterlife from experience, and we can't infer it from the existence of God.

The 1937 British Methodist Conference located the " true continuity " with the Church of past ages in " the continuity of Christian experience, the fellowship in the gift of the one Spirit ; in the continuity in the allegiance to one Lord, the continued proclamation of the message ; the continued acceptance of the mission ;..." a long chain which goes back to the " the first disciples in the company of the Lord Himself ...

The University can rarely provide all the necessary training in first hand experience that an apprenticeship can, and therefore in addition to graduate level training the profession also tends towards encouraging conservation students to spend time as an intern.

Hideo Nomo won in 1995, the first of several players to win with past professional baseball experience in Nippon Professional Baseball.

As the official show of the Confederation of Passenger Transport, the UK ’ s trade association for the bus, coach and light rail industry, the three day event offers visitors from Europe and beyond the chance to see and experience, at first hand, the very latest vehicles and product and service innovations right across the industry.

These dogs naturally experience enormous growth surges in the first year or two of their lives.

Indeed, based on their previous experience of the Greeks, the Persians might be excused for this ; Herodotus tells us that the Athenians at Marathon were " first to endure looking at Median dress and men wearing it, for up until then just hearing the name of the Medes caused the Hellenes to panic ".

We must first judge how human reason works, and within what limits, so that we can afterwards correctly apply it to sense experience and determine whether it can be applied at all to metaphysical objects.