However, lacking requested reinforcements from McClellan, now commanding the Army of the Potomac, Pope was soundly defeated at the Second Battle of Bull Run in the summer of 1862, forcing the Army of the Potomac to defend Washington for a second time.

However, lacking fluency in the Japanese language, he had to limit himself to reading aloud the translation of a catechism.

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However, his works were criticized for lacking characteristics of true polyphonism, as pointed out by Eugène Ysaÿe.

However some have found these to be loose rather than well-defined and lacking persistent focus, there was relatively low cohesion, few shared goals and little organisational structure.

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However, some critics have dismissed these influences as lacking in intellectual credibility.

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However, Bryan, lacking a seat at the start of the convention, could not be elected temporary chairman.

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However, by 1815, with the publication of physician Gilbert Blane's On the Comparative Health of the British Navy from 1779 to 1814, the efficacy of portable soup for promoting the health of sailors was found lacking.

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However, the French had taken heavy casualties and, lacking artillery and armor, Barré was forced to withdraw.

However, Disra was being manipulated by his aide, Major Grodin Tierce, a cloned Royal Guardsman with all of Thrawn's tactical genius but lacking his political vision.

However, ships were lacking at first and what naval forces were available were unable to prevent Britain from taking effective control of the Dutch colonies ( in the Indian Subcontinent all of the Dutch colonies were taken ).

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However, a good sword blow arriving in exactly perpendicular angle to the surface could cut through the links ; when the mail was not riveted, a well placed thrust from a spear or thin sword could penetrate, and a pollaxe or halberd blow could break through the armour.

However, many units retained cuirasses and helmets for their protective value against sword and bayonet strikes and the morale boost these provide to the wearers.

The blade was around 18 inches ( 55 cm ) long, on the end of a pole 6 or 7 feet ( 180 – 210 cm ) long However, instead of having a tang like a sword or naginata, the blade is affixed in a socket-shaft configuration similar to an axe head, both the blade and shaft varying in length.

However, during the Joseon dynasty, a variety of swords were used uniformly by Korean soldiers, including but not limited to the hwando ( single edged sabre ), Hwandudaedo, Jedok geom ( literally, the " Admiral's " sword ), and the yedo.

However the native types of blade known as kris, parang, klewang and golok are popular to be used as weapon rather than sword.

However, the women of the village come into possession of a magic sword, and go in search of a hero who is able to wield it and save their village from the evil bandit.

However, the Golden Gate was only constructed in 1037 and the sword is actually dated to the late 12th or 13th century.

However, the enemy's overwhelming numbers rendered resistance hopeless, and after a ten-day siege the city was taken and most of the defenders put to the sword.

However, the celebrated American sword and sorcery author Fritz Leiber replied in the journal Ancalagon ( 6 April 1961 ) suggesting " sword-and-sorcery as a good popular catchphrase for the field ".

However, sword and sorcery's immediate progenitors are the swashbuckling tales of Alexandre Dumas, père ( The Three Musketeers ( 1844 ), etc.

However, he is warned that the Force is a double edged sword ; its dark side is seductive and could corrupt him into an agent of evil if he gives into his anger and aggression.

However, the sword was drawn as Frank Sinatra singing " Witchcraft ", a wordplay of the name of the sword.

In the Epistles of Wisdom, Hamza ibn -' Ali ibn-Ahmad warns Ad-Darazi, saying, “ Faith does not need a sword to aid it .” However, Ad-Darazi refused Hamza ’ s threats and continued to challenge the Imam.

However, in 1745, a cashiered British officer could have his sword broken over his head, among other indignities inflicted on him.

However, U. S. National Park Service historian Jerome Green, in his 2005 history of the siege, The Guns of Independence, concurs with the 1881 centennial account by Johnston, noting simply that when Brigadier General O ' Hara presented the sword to Major General Lincoln, " he held it for a moment and immediately returned it to O ' Hara.

However, Musashi states within the volume that one should train with a long sword in each hand, thereby training the body and improving one's ability to use two blades simultaneously, though the aim of this was only for training purposes and wasn't meant to be a viable fighting style.

However, you can become a master of strategy by training alone with a sword, so that you can understand the enemy's stratagems, his strength and resources, and come to appreciate how to apply strategy to beat ten thousand enemies.

However, although apprenticed to Soko in the military arts, Asano showed a marked lack of samurai spirit as well as a lack of sword skill in his attack on Kira.

However, Staurakios was paralyzed by a sword wound near his neck, and was saved by the Imperial guard which retreated from the battlefield towards the safety of Adrianople.

However, if the sword is tempered to a springy hardness, it will be more likely to return to its original shape.

However, a sword tempered in this way can usually be resharpened many times, and, although the hardness will decrease with each sharpening, the reduction in hardness will usually not be noticeable until a large amount of steel has been removed.

However, a legend claims that during the Bumps in that year, the rowers of Trinity's arch-rivals, St John's College, attached a sword to the front of one of their boats such that if they successfully bumped the boat in front ( which turned out to be one of Second Trinity's ), it would be holed and sink.