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scouts and HMS
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.

scouts and Alexander
He then advanced to the south and got no further than the river Pinarus before his scouts spotted Alexander marching north.
Believing that, after his victory over the Uxians, he would not encounter any more enemy forces during his march, Alexander neglected to send scouts ahead of his vanguard, and thus walked into Ariobarzanes ' ambush.

scouts and discovered
Many scouts were looking at him play, including Tom Greenwade of the New York Yankees ( who discovered Mickey Mantle ), and Danny Murtaugh of the Pittsburgh Pirates.
It was later postulated that Thrawn did not support the Empire per se, but rather wanted to establish order in the known galaxy in preparation to combat as-yet unknown threats he had discovered during his time in the Outer Rim ( probably early scouts of the Yuuzhan Vong ).
Confident that the Byzantines could not cross the river, the Bulgarians relaxed their guard, and were taken by surprise when Byzantine scouts discovered a ford further upriver.
Ruby Keeler and George Raft were discovered as dancers at the club by Broadway and Hollywood talent scouts.
In 1874, the Arikara scouts guided Custer on the Black Hills Expedition, during which his party discovered gold and prompted European-American desire for the lands, which the Lakota considered sacred.
The scouts discovered a large group of Texians camped from the Alamo.
They were discovered at around 8: 00am by men of Lt. Charles Raw's troop of scouts who chased a number of Zulus into a valley, only then seeing some 20, 000 men of the main enemy force sitting in total quiet.
Finally, when the location of the main Zulu Impi was discovered by British scouts, the Zulus, without hesitation, immediately advanced and attacked, achieving tactical surprise.
He had yet to be discovered, however, for Curaçao was still well off the beaten path for major league scouts — even though countryman Hensley Meulens had done well in the New York Yankee farm system.
Blackfoot scouts discovered this band and attacked.
The entire Zulu army is later discovered by men of Lt. Vereker's troop of scouts, who chase a number of Zulu herdsmen, trying to hurry away their cattle, only to discover the main Zulu enemy force of thousands at the bottom of a valley.
A graduate of Houston's Waltrip High School, she was working as a cosmetics salesperson at Foley's in Houston when she was discovered at a party by production scouts for Altman's Brewster McCloud ( 1970 ).
With the aid of a drum machine, the trio began rehearsing at Crash Rehearsal Studios in Liverpool, where the band were quickly discovered by passing A & R scouts Mark Lewis and Alan Wills ( who later went on to form Deltasonic Records ) who were there to see Cast and overheard the band through their rehearsal room door.
Three days later Helmer led another group of militia back to the Carr farm on the Unadilla, discovered the bodies of three of his scouts, and buried them at that site.
Rowing onto the beach, the force crept into the jungle but was discovered by Spanish scouts and soon scathed by enemy fire.
U. S. scouts discovered the Mexican position at a key ford along the San Gabriel River on January 7, 1847.
Having established a base, scouts were sent out who discovered that a large group of mixed Italian and German tanks and infantry had laagered nearby.
After being discovered by talent scouts for the German movie studios, Baarova left Prague for Berlin.
On August 16, Major Frank North and the Pawnee scouts discovered an Indian trail, followed it, attacked a group of 24 Cheyenne warriors, and killed them all.
On May 27, 1754, a group of Native American scouts discovered Jumonville's party camped in a small valley ( later called Jumonville Glen ) near what is now Uniontown, Pennsylvania.
He was said to have been discovered by Ipswich Town scout Jim Rodgers ( his goals at schoolboy level meant that he was already well known to all the football scouts in Northern Ireland ), who was told by manager Bobby Robson to wait until Whiteside grew older.
McAteer got his big break aged 20, at local non-league team Marine, when he was discovered by scouts from Bolton Wanderers in 1991.
After the World Cup 1978, although Hasan Rowshan had limited playing time in Argentina, the scouts from several countries discovered his potential and send representations to his club in order to recruit him.
On 9 December, Japanese advance scouts of the 228th Regiment headed towards Tai Mo Shan, and discovered that British defences were weak at " 225 High Ground " near Shing Mun Redoubt and Shing Mun Reservoir.

scouts and French
Nelson had missed the French by less than a day, the scouts of the French fleet arriving off Alexandria in the evening of 29 June.
French scouts spied de Barras ' fleet on 9 September, and de Grasse turned his fleet back toward Chesapeake Bay that night.
French irregular forces ( Canadian scouts and Indians ) harassed Fort William Henry throughout the first half of 1757.
In 2010 they wore new clothes when the summer tour began in Hässleholm, Sweden, dressed as what could be described as a mix between old French soldiers ' uniforms and boy scouts ' uniforms.
Braddock's attempt to recruit Native American allies from those tribes not yet allied with the French proved mostly unsuccessful ; he had but eight Mingo Indians with him, serving as scouts.
About 17: 00 h the French watered some horses at the Sauer as if in peace, without escort, though hostile scouts were in sight.
Prince Bernhard deployed before the first French scouts, lancers of the Guard Light Cavalry Division ( Lefebvre-Desnouëtte ), as they approached Quatre Bras.
Before joining Forbes on November 20 with fifteen Indian scouts, Croghan's management of the Indians at Easton, where he acknowledged being an Indian himself, produced a peace treaty that forced the French to burn Fort Duquesne.
He was signed by former Liverpool manager Gérard Houllier from French club CS Sedan Ardennes for £ 5 million (€ 7. 5m ) after impressing several watching scouts with his performances at the 2002 World Cup in South Korea and Japan.
At 06: 00 on 6 February Duckworth's scouts sighted the French, observing two frigates, five ships of the line and one large merchant ship anchored in line at the entrance to Santo Domingo.
His performances caught the eyes of many team scouts across Europe and left at the end of the season to sign for French ProA team Reims Champagne Basket.
Traveling by night, they successfully evade river patrols by French forces but are forced to send several soldiers back to the fort after a confrontation with Mohawk scouts who were dismissed by Rogers.
When informed by his Stockbridge Indian scouts left to watch over the boats that the French have captured their boats and extra supplies, Rogers revises his plan and sends an injured officer back to Fort Crown Point requesting the British to send supplies to old Fort Wentworth, where the returning rangers will meet them.
In the junior section, extra-curricular activities available include sports, music, swimming, a school choir, scouts and girl guides, community service, and French lessons.
However, the English archers inadvertently disclosed their position to French scouts before their preparations were complete when a lone stag wandered onto a nearby field and the archers raised a hunting cry.
During the Vietnam War, the French organized Vietnamese armored regiments, each consisting of three companies equipped with a mixture of M3 halftracks, M3 scouts cars, M8 Greyhound armored cars and M8 towed howitzers.
Notified by one his scouts that the French were anchored outside Trincomalee, Hughes lifted anchor and made haste to come to the garrison's aid, but arrived one day too late.
Born in Griffith but reared in the northern town of Gunnedah, in his early twenties John O ' Neill showed promise in appearances for Country against both City and the French tourists and was spotted by Sydney premiership talent scouts 1964.
* 1740 Non-local native American scouts working for the French at Fort Assumption ( Memphis ) survey the Wolf as a possible military supply route from which to destroy Ackia, a Chickasaw stronghold near Tupelo that weathered an attack four years earlier.
Goumiers also served as scouts and in support of regular French troops, and in 1911 they became permanent units.

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