Historians debate whether or not Washington preferred a Fabian strategy to harass the British with quick, sharp attacks followed by a retreat so the larger British army could not catch him, or whether he preferred to fight major battles.

Gen. Beverly Robertson's brigade to pursue the Federals and in a sharp fight against Brig.

Their front claws are sharp, and they can fight with both claws and weapons at the same time.

After a short, sharp, fight, most of his fleet was captured, and he himself was taken prisoner.

After a sharp fight in which they lost 5, 000 men and 40 cannons, the French withdrew toward Sedan.

When Yorkist scouts reached the hill, there was a sharp fight in which they suffered heavy casualties.

Stuart and a sharp fight ensued in the town and in farm fields to the south, particularly along Frederick Street.

In sharp contrast to previous wars, the British were forced to fight the entire war without a significant ally.

" Lamont's view expressed in his memoirs was more nuanced: without the discipline of the ERM, the Major government would have given up on the fight against inflation before Black Wednesday ; ERM membership delivered a sharp break in Britain's inflation performance ; the judgment of the markets that the higher rates needed to maintain Britain's membership was undoubtedly correct ; " the ERM was a tool that broke in my hands when it had accomplished all that it could usefully do.

His skills have also improved considerably as he is able to hold his own in a sword fight against Morgan LeFlay, the most skilled bounty hunter in all the seas, and even succeeds in defeating her with his sharp wit.

It was only a sharp intervention by the ILO in 1933 that ended the fight.

After a hard-fought battle with the French losing 5, 000 men and 40 cannons in a sharp fight, the French withdrew towards Sedan.

It is a traditional, strictly regulated sword fight between two male members of different fraternities with sharp weapons.

The Japanese army landed and after a sharp but short fight defeated the Dutch garrison.

The unexpected order to retreat from prepared defensive lines in the face of the enemy meant that II Corps was required to fight a number of sharp rearguard actions against the pursuing Germans.

After a short and sharp fight, Charles ’ s men managed to scale the walls.

Col. Joseph Thoburn's Union division moved forward to silence the guns and engaged in a sharp fight with Kershaw's division, resulting in 209 Union casualties, 182 Confederate.

Birdy can fight well and can make wings come out of his back to fly, and he can throw sharp feathers.

She manages to fight back, scratching his face with her sharp fingernails, and then tries to escape.

" For his outspoken views, Taussig earned the lifetime enmity of Roosevelt, who was in a political fight with the Republican Party over his nomination as Vice President, and wrote a sharp letter to the navy subcommittee denying Taussig's charges.

The same day a sharp but indecisive fight took place on the lower slopes of Arthur's Seat, after which Cromwell, having felt the strength of Leslie's line, drew back to Musselburgh.

Some of the deaths include Santa stabbing a man's hands to the table with steak knives, causing a girl to faint and fall back into a sharp pole that impales through her neck, Virginia's head is set on fire and is then drowned in eggnog, a man tries to fight Santa and gets pushed into a glass case and dies, Santa then grabs a leg from the table and smashes in a woman's head as she pleads, " I've been good!

Ferrero's Division had a sharp little fight at Blue Springs, Tennessee, October 10, 1863, and the whole corps was engaged, November 16, at Campbell's Station.

Atchison attempted a flanking movement on the Federal right, which resulted in a sharp fight.

It arrived at Warrenton Junction on August 26, and on the following day the Excelsior Brigade had a sharp fight at Bristoe Station.

This resolution was in sharp contrast to the manner in which the United Nations dealt with the claim of the federation of Serbia and Montenegro to be recognised as the continuation of the state of Yugoslavia ( albeit as the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia as opposed to the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ).

Subsequently the PRP merged with another breakaway group from the United Party, which was in sharp decline in the mid 1970s, to become the Progressive Federal Party in 1977.

However, the motorcycle lanes in the Federal Highway are known for its dangers towards motorcyclists, such as dark, narrow and poorly-maintained lanes and ramps, dangerous sharp corners, and the nature of the motorcycle lanes themselves to be vulnerable spots for robberies.

After sharp fighting, the Union troops entrenched nearby along the Boydton Plank Road and Johnson withdrew to his lines at White Oak Road.

No army in the world can tolerate such conditions for any length of time, but in the interests of the security and protection of its own troops it must take sharp, energetic measures.

The withdrawal brings sharp reactions: the U. S. dismisses it as " inadequate " and suggests it is no more than a normal rotation of troops ; Afghan resistance groups reject it as a " bluff ," while Pakistan sees it as a small but positive move.

This stood in sharp contrast to Australia ( New South Wales ), which raised and paid for its own troops.

Lü Bu urged both sides to make peace and extracted promises from them to withdraw their troops if he could hit the sharp tongue of a halberd, erected at the gate, with an arrow.

It tells how Jonathan and his armor-bearer crossed over during the night ‘ to the Philistines ’ garrison ’ on the other side, and how they passed two sharp rocks: ‘ there was a sharp rock on the one side, and a sharp rock on the other side: and the name of the one was Bozez and the name of the other Seneh .’ They clambered up the cliff and overpowered the garrison ‘ within as it were an half acre of land, which a yoke of oxen might plough .’ The main body of the enemy awakened by the mêlée thought they were surrounded by Saul ’ s troops and ‘ melted away and they went on beating down one another .’

In response to a sharp escalation in attacks by insurgents since the summer of 2007, Moscow sent in an additional 2, 500 interior ministry troops, more than tripling the number of special forces in Ingushetia in July.

As the U. N. troops ground forward, they were constantly descending sharp slopes or ascending steep heights to attack enemy positions that were sometimes above the clouds.

Between April 3 – April 6, Pakistani troops carried out mop up operations and fought several sharp street battles in and around Chawlkbazar, and by April 10 they had secured the city.

On April 6, he arrived within 3 miles of Sylhet, and after a sharp fight with some Pakistani troops, managed to take control of the south side of Surma river.

The situation for different leaders and their troops of the United Front thus shows sharp contrasts.

This was in sharp contrast to his insistence, for more than 30 years, that those killed on the day had not been innocent.

For sport fishing, it is recommended that fish be killed soon after catching them by hitting them on the head followed by bleeding out, or by stabbing the brain with a sharp object ( called pithing or ike jime in Japanese ).

They find that the said Thomas Franke was killed by falling on the sharp end of an anchor

They killed their prey with long, sharp fingernails and then ate them.

With this acquaintance Betty got to know an accomplished writer and poet with a sharp mind ( and a sad past — Betty's research had turned up a beau of Ms. Wyndham's who was killed in combat ), but after a while Ms. Wyndham herself died.

In 1934, a freeze killed many of the town's orchards, leading to a sharp decline in fruit growing.

His curse was: 1 ) that as the sound of the bell had been broken, so now would any sharp sound send Suibhne into madness, 2 ) as Suibhne had killed one of Ronan's monks, so would Suibhne die at spear point.

" When Prince Louis Ferdinand was killed in the Battle of Saalfeld, Dussek wrote the moving Sonata in F sharp minor, Elégie harmonique, Op.

On February 10, during a dinner party at the mansion, he fell near a basement door, possibly after tripping, and was killed instantly after hitting his head on a sharp corner of the mansion's granite base course and then again on the cobblestone pavement.

Before being killed, a stiff dose of brandy was forced down the birds ' throats to make the meat more tender and tasty, and hopefully to ensure a happy state of mind when the time would come for the use of a sharp knife.

Going into the Wehrseifen slight right hand / sharp left hand turn, Marimón's Maserati 250F failed to negotiate the corner while going down the downhill run to the corner, plunged down an embankment, the car somersaulted and he was killed instantly.

They struggle and after she repeatedly bashed its head with a curling stone, they fall into the basement, and the werewolf is killed on a set of mattress springs holding a wide variety of sharp objects.

Chased flock of birds for two rounds and killed one which fell on top of the upper surface and after a time fell off when swinging a sharp curve.

The animal was finally killed by a powerful bite from the sharp teeth, at the back of the neck, in the region of the throat and even in the chest.

While leading the race, Campari was instantly killed when his car crashed after skidding in a sharp turn on a patch of leaked engine oil.

Awaiting repatriation in England, about 150 Australians subsequently enlisted in the British North Russia Relief Force ( NRRF ), where they were involved in a number of sharp battles and several were killed.

Rabbits are occasionally killed by a priest, but may also be killed with a sharp blow of the hand to the base of the neck, or by holding the neck between the thumb and first finger and using a whipping motion.

At the Second Battle of Bull Run it was partially engaged, the First New Jersey Brigade of Slocum's ( 1st ) Division having a sharp fight on August 27, at Bull Run Bridge, in which it lost 339 in killed, wounded, and missing, Brig.

The Danish garrison of 170 men put up a sharp but ineffectual resistance that killed one British marine and wounded two ; the garrison then surrendered.

* Waterfall rail accident-2003-overspeed through sharp curve-7 killed

In recent decades, many motorists have been permanently injured or killed in the sharp turn that immediately follows the bridgehead.

Carr illustrated his theory by telling a story of a man named Robinson who went out to buy some cigarettes one night, and was killed by an automobile with defective brakes driven by a drunk driver named Jones on a sharp turn of the road.

Carr argued one could contend that the " real " reasons for the accident that killed Robinson might be the defective brakes or the sharp turn of the road or the inebriated state of Jones, but that to argue that it was Robinson's wish to buy cigarettes that was the cause, while a factor, was not the " real " cause of his death.

Quite unexpectedly, the tiger left the spear and, alas, the sharp point of the spear pierced through a priest who was standing among the spectators and killed him.