He terms this early enthusiasm `` Romantic Christianity '' and concludes that its similarity to democratic beliefs of that day is so great that `` the doctrine of liberty seems but a secular version of its counterpart in evangelical Protestantism ''.

This early version of Miss Marple is a gleeful gossip and not an especially nice woman.

The most common is Martin Waldseemüller's deriving it from Americus Vespucius, the Latinised version of Amerigo Vespucci's name, the Italian merchant and cartographer who explored South America's east coast and the Caribbean sea in the early 16th century.

An early theory, suggested by Swiss theologian Jean LeClerc in the 17th century, posits that the longer Western version was a first draft, while the Alexandrian version represents a more polished revision by the same author.

This early version ran on the Marinchip Systems 9900 computer ( Marinchip Systems was owned by Autodesk co-founders John Walker and Dan Drake ).

Virtually all productions today, however, use the original ending, as do nearly all of the film versions of this play, including Dariush Mehrjui's Sara ( the Argentine version, made in 1943 and starring Delia Garcés, does not ; it also modernizes the story, setting it in the early 1940s ).

Another difficulty is that manuscripts of early writers were often incomplete: it is apparent that Bede had access to Pliny's Encyclopedia, for example, but it seems that the version he had was missing book xviii, as he would almost certainly have quoted from it in his De temporum ratione.

Frank Moore Cross later proposed that an early version of the history was composed in Jerusalem in Josiah's time ( late 7th century ); this first version, Dtr1, was then revised and expanded to create a second edition, that identified by Noth, and which Cross labelled Dtr2.

This early version of biological terrorism continued on into the 14th century where the bubonic plague was used to infiltrate enemy cities, both by instilling the fear of infection in residences, in hopes that they would evacuate, and also to destroy defending forces that would not yield to the attack.

Among the tracks he recorded was an early version of " That'll Be The Day ", which took its title from a line that John Wayne's character says repeatedly in the 1956 film The Searchers.

In many other ways it looked a lot like an early version of C. A few library functions existed, including some that vaguely resemble functions from the standard I / O library in C.

An early version of yacc was produced with this PDP-11 configuration.

He espoused the well-known principle " Do not do to others what you do not want done to yourself ", an early version of the Golden Rule.

Actor Richard Dix's best-remembered early role was in the silent version of DeMille's The Ten Commandments.

** Fuller applied the name " Dymaxion " and Vector Equilibrium to this shape, used in an early version of the Dymaxion map.

That list shows a gap in the early sixth century that matches Gildas's version of events.

Using liquid nitrogen, CryoTech formulated the first early version of the cryogenic processor.

In the early 1960s, English county cricket teams began playing a shortened version of cricket which only lasted for one day.

A New York writer sent to Tulsa, Oklahoma in late 1940 / early 1941 noted an "... Oklahoma version of shag done to the Western Swing music of Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys at the Cain's Dancing Academy in Tulsa.

They used an early version of the snare drum carried over the player's right shoulder, suspended by a strap ( typically played with one hand using traditional grip ).

A slightly earlier, surprisingly reliable version of the same concept was to bundle a sequence of audio digital " signal " and " no signal " information ( i. e. " sound " and " silence ") on magnetic cassette tape for use with early home computers.

; the Biblical Leviathan presumably reflects a corresponding opponent of an early version of Yahweh ).

An early version of the Octabrain, as shown in LameDuke

The result was the Marder series, which were armed with either the new 7. 5 cm Pak 40 anti-tank guns or captured Soviet 7. 62 cm F-22 Model 1936 field guns, large numbers of which had been acquired early in the war.

These early Marder IIs had a very high silhouette ( 2. 60 m high ), thin armor of only 30 mm ( front ) and 10 to 15 mm ( sides ).

In the early 15th century, advances in weaponry allowed infantry to defeat armoured knights on the battlefield.

After hard lessons early in the war, machine guns were mounted for use against infantry but the limited traverse of the mounting meant that they were still less effective than those used on turreted tanks.

While early German tanks, Stuka dive-bombers and concentrated forces were used in the Polish campaign, the majority of the battle was conventional infantry and artillery based warfare and most Luftwaffe action was independent of the ground campaign.

This force captured the Sinai and garrisoned the extended lines of communication, but in early 1917 their advance was stopped at Gaza until towards the end of the year when a greatly enlarged force of infantry and mounted troops captured Beersheba, most of southern Palestine and Jerusalem.

Infantry who moved on horseback, but dismounted to fight on foot, were known in the 17th and early 18th centuries as dragoons, a class of mounted infantry which later evolved into cavalry proper while retaining their historic title.

Ironically, the rise of infantry in the early 16th century coincided with the " golden age " of heavy cavalry ; a French or Spanish army at the beginning of the century could have up to half its numbers made up of various kinds of light and heavy cavalry, whereas in earlier medieval and later 17th century armies the proportion of cavalry was seldom more than a quarter.

The cynical attitude toward recruited infantry in the face of ever more powerful field artillery is the source of the term cannon fodder, first used by François-René de Chateaubriand, in 1814 ; however, the concept of regarding soldiers as nothing more than " food for powder " was mentioned by William Shakespeare as early as 1598, in Henry IV, Part 1.

By the early 20th century, infantry weapons had become more powerful, forcing most artillery away from the front lines.

An early instance was ordered by Louis of Nassau during operations near Mons in Hainaut, when 500 infantry were transported this way.

Probably the last use of real dragoons ( infantry on horseback ) in combat was made by the Portuguese Army in the war in Angola during the 1960s and early 1970s.

Although they are thought to have been used in Europe much earlier, gambesons underwent a revolution from their first proven use in the late 11th and early 12th centuries as an item of armour that simply facilitated the wearing of mail to an item of independent armour popular amongst infantry.

Khan claims that it was invading Mongols who introduced gunpowder to the Islamic world and cites Mamluk antagonism towards early musketeers in their infantry as an example of how gunpowder weapons were not always met with open acceptance in the Middle East.

As Lee began moving to counter this, Stuart screened Longstreet's Corps and skirmished numerous times in early November against Union cavalry and infantry around Mountville, Aldie, and Upperville.

In the post-war era, the early years of the Cold War, the Soviet Red Army and NATO further developed the equipment and doctrine for mechanized infantry.

BMP-1, an early infantry fighting vehicle

The early Arab army mainly consisted of camel-mounted infantry, alongside a few Bedouin cavalry.

Along with the use of cavalry and early grenades, the Ottomans mounted an offensive in the early Renaissance period and attacked Europe, taking Constantinople by massed infantry assaults.

The size of a typical legion varied throughout the history of ancient Rome, with complements of 4, 200 legionaries and 300 equites ( drawn from the wealthier classes-in early Rome all troops provided their own equipment ) in the republican period of Rome, ( the infantry were split into 30 maniples of 120 legionaries each ), to 5, 200 men plus auxiliaries in the imperial period ( split into 10 cohorts, 9 of 480 men each, plus the first cohort holding 800 men ).

There was also a reconnaissance squad of 10 or more light mounted infantry called speculatores who could also serve as messengers or even as an early form of military intelligence service.

In early 6 CE, before Varus was commander on the Rhine, it was Legatus Gaius Sentius Saturninus and Consul Legatus Marcus Aemilius Lepidus under Tiberius who led an army of 65, 000 heavy infantry legionaries, 10, 000 – 20, 000 cavalrymen, archers, 10, 000 – 20, 000 civilians ( 13 legions & entourage, probably about 100, 000 + men ) and was planning a major attack on Maroboduus, the king of the Marcomanni, a tribe of the Suebi who had fled the attacks of Drusus I in 9 BCE into the territory of the Boii, where they formed a powerful tribal alliance with the Hermunduri, Quadi, Semnones, Lugians, Zumi, Butones, Mugilones, Sibini and Langobards.

The wagon was given slits for archers to shoot enemy targets, supported by infantry using pikes and flails and later for the invention of gunfire by hand-gunners ; side walls were use for protection against archers, crossbowmen, the early use of gunpowder and cannon fire.

This early use of gunpowder and innovative tactics helped a largely peasant infantry stave off attacks by the

The infantry then crawled out into no man's land early so they could rush the front German trench as soon as the barrage lifted.

Grenade usage declined significantly in the early 18th century, a fact that can be attributed to the improved effectiveness of massive infantry line tactics and flintlock technology.