However, on 14 May, with considerable skill Marshal Tallard managed to bring 10, 000 reinforcements and vast supplies and munitions through the difficult terrain, whilst outmanoeuvring Baron Thüngen, the Imperial general who sought to block his path.

The Turks stayed in Otranto and its surrounding areas for nearly a year, but after Mehmed II's death on 3 May 1481, plans for penetrating deeper into the Italian peninsula with fresh new reinforcements were given up on and cancelled and the remaining Ottoman troops sailed back to the east of the Adriatic Sea.

French regular army reinforcements arrived in New France in May 1756, led by Major General Louis-Joseph de Montcalm and seconded by the Chevalier de Lévis and Colonel François-Charles de Bourlamaque, all experienced veterans from the War of the Austrian Succession.

On May 18, a new 4th Division was constituted with reinforcements of heavy artillery regiments from Washington, D. C., under the command of Brig.

Believing the garrison too small for any action, on May 1, Dunois left the city in the hands of La Hire and Joan, and made his way personally to Blois to arrange for reinforcements.

Kitchener wired French ( 16 May 1915 ) that he would send no more reinforcements to France until he was clear the German line could be broken.

With French forces defeated at Lincoln in May 1217 and then routed on their way back to their London stronghold, Louis desperately needed the reinforcements from France.

The British retreated behind the city's walls, and withstood Lévis ' feeble siege until the arrival of naval reinforcements in May.

Fighting resumed early on 22 May, when Napoleon began receive some reinforcements and decided to attack.

Its commander, Carl Olof Cronstedt, negotiated a cease-fire, and when no Swedish reinforcements had arrived by May, Sveaborg, with almost 7, 000 men, surrendered.

On 25 May, 4, 500 reinforcements arrived in the city, along with three more generals: Major General William Howe and Brigadiers John Burgoyne and Henry Clinton.

Washington will order reinforcements to Charleston, but the city falls on May 12 in what is arguably the worst American defeat of the war.

Throughought May, the British had been receiving reinforcements, until they reached a strength of about 6, 000 men.

The siege began on May 22 and after maneuvering, securing outposts and the cutting off of reinforcements by the Patriots, Colonel Thomas Brown surrendered Augusta on June 5, 1781.

In May 1643, he defeated the Parliamentarian forces in the West Country at Stratton, enabling him to overrun Devon and link up with reinforcements under Prince Maurice.

Kitchener, reluctant to deploy the volunteer New Armies to the Western Front, wired French ( 16 May 1915 ) that he would send no more reinforcements to France until he was clear the German line could be broken.

After two months of laying siege, and after the fall of Frankfurt ( Oder ) to the Swedish, Pappenheim finally convinced Tilly, who had brought reinforcements, to storm the city on 20 May with 40, 000 men under the personal command of Pappenheim.

The 92nd Battalion was authorized on 30 July 1915 and embarked for Britain on 20 May 1916, where the battalion provided reinforcements to the Canadian Corps in the field until 24 January 1917, when its personnel were absorbed by the 5th Reserve Battalion, CEF before being disbanded on 1 September 1917.

King Gustavus Adolphus landed there with his reinforcements in May 1626.

Like the other Australian Light Horse and the New Zealand Mounted Rifles regiments, they had been dispatched to Gallipoli in May as infantry reinforcements, leaving their horses in Egypt.

On May 6, British reinforcements commanded by John Burgoyne arrived at Quebec.

When in May 1915 the Australian and New Zealand mounted soldiers were sent to Gallipoli as infantry reinforcements, the Australian 1st Light Horse Brigade and the 3rd Light Horse Brigade and the New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade joined the division.

Some land reinforcements were sent in May and June.

The 42nd and 52nd divisions were sent to Gallipoli as reinforcements for the Helles front in May and June 1915.

In May 1960, the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology began a series of articles on the `` Medical Museum '', and in June, the Institute started contributing a regular monthly `` Case For Diagnosis ''.

Louisa May Alcott, who was ten years old at the time, later wrote of the experience in Transcendental Wild Oats ( 1873 ): " The band of brothers began by spading garden and field ; but a few days of it lessened their ardor amazingly.

The building work for the stadium which has a capacity of 32. 960, began in May 2008 and was completed by the beginning of 2009.

Construction began in May 1844.

In May 1984 Sakharov's wife, Yelena Bonner, was detained and Sakharov began a hunger strike, demanding permission for his wife to travel to the United States for heart surgery.

After the Starr Report was submitted to the House providing what it termed " substantial and credible information that President Clinton Committed Acts that May Constitute Grounds for an Impeachment ", the House began impeachment hearings against Clinton before the mid-term elections.

Montgomery's training paid off when the Germans began their invasion of the Low Countries on 10 May 1940 and the 3rd Division advanced to the River Dijle and then withdrew to Dunkirk with great professionalism, entering the Dunkirk perimeter in a famous night-time march which placed his forces on the left flank which had been left exposed by the Belgian surrender.

Due to the change from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar, Bealltainn in Scotland was commonly celebrated on 15 May while in Ireland " Old Beltane " or " Old May " began about the night of 11 May.

After three years of consistent use across different platforms, the BBC began to drop the BBCi brand gradually ; on 6 May 2004, the BBC website was renamed bbc. co. uk, after the main URL used to access the site.

In 1919, the May Fourth Movement began as a response to the terms imposed on China by the Treaty of Versailles ending World War I, but quickly became a protest movement about the domestic situation in China.

As the war began to wind down with Germany's surrender in May 1945, the team parlayed Brown's ties to college football and the military to build its roster.

A similar feature began in May 2001, " Where Are They Now, Tommy?

Tramlink ( originally and sometimes still called Croydon Tramlink ) is a tramway system in south London in the United Kingdom which began operation in May 2000.

His rise to its leadership position occurred in 1957 in part because of his handling of the critical Nissan workers ' strike that began May 25, 1953, and ran for 100 days.

A more thorough police search for the children began around 8: 00 a. m. on the morning of May 6, led by the Crittenden County Search and Rescue personnel.

A judicial recount under the jurisdiction of a special panel of the High Court began on 10 May 2004 and ended on May 18, 2004.

Between May 1770, when he first began working on the defense, and the trial in July, he acquired, for the price of $ 50, grants from Wentworth to about of land in Poultney and Castleton.

In May 2005, the Ethiopian government began negotiations to use the port of Berbera in Somaliland.

In May 2001, NBC began using " Only Time " to accompany commercials for their television series Friends, which helped the song top the Adult Contemporary and Adult Top 40 charts.

It began hearings on 18 May under the chairmanship of Lord Hardinge of Penshurst.

The French Revolution began in 1789 with the convocation of the Estates-General in May.

After an infamous home plate collision involving outfielder Scott Cousins and Giants catcher Buster Posey in late May, the team began a downfall.