At last, however, Marlborough called a halt to the pursuit shortly after midnight near Meldert, from the field.

The U. S. Army's last horse cavalry actions were fought during World War II: a ) by the 26th Cavalry Regiment ( PS ) in World War II — a small mounted regiment of Philippine Scouts which fought the Japanese during the retreat down the Bataan peninsula, until it was effectively destroyed by January 1942 ; and b ) on captured German horses by the mounted reconnaissance section of the U. S. 10th Mountain Division in a spearhead pursuit of the German Army across the Po Valley in Italy in April 1945.

* 1897 – After months of pursuit, generals of Menelik II of Ethiopia capture Gaki Sherocho, the last king of Kaffa, bringing an end to that ancient kingdom.

Like the ( much longer ) team pursuit event, two teams race against each other, starting on opposite sides of the track, but at the end of the first lap, the leading rider in each team drops out of the race by riding up the banking leaving the second rider to lead for the second lap ; at the end of the second lap, the second rider does the same, leaving the third rider to complete the last lap on his own.

His fellow students recall that the last was where he displayed his greatest talent, and apparently this was not an entirely academic pursuit for the teenager: when not painting nudes, he was occupied with seducing the household maid.

The last had been sent to intercept a party of Sarmatians which had been in pursuit of a senior Roman officer named Aequitius.

Combat and accidents reduced but did not eliminate the P-40 complement, and a muster of approximately a dozen pursuit pilots, called the " Bataan Field Flying Detachment ," continued to fly missions until the last day of the campaign, employing mainly 30-pound fragmentation bombs and machine gun fire as ordnance.

Social scientist and physician Nicholas A. Christakis explains that " for the last few centuries, the Cartesian project in science has been to break matter down into ever smaller bits, in the pursuit of understanding.

Champ de Mars was used as a filming location in the 1985 James Bond film A View to a Kill, in which Bond ( played for the last time by Roger Moore ) drove a Renault 11 taxi which he had hijacked at the Eiffel Tower in pursuit of a mysterious assassin later revealed to be Mayday ( Grace Jones ).

It was in pursuit of this last objective that the Rutherford government found itself embroiled in scandal.

* it is a last resort because Saddam Hussein had a record of attacking his neighbors, of the ' headlong pursuit and development of biochemical and nuclear weapons of mass destruction ' and their use against his own people, and harboring al-Qaeda terrorists

In the last action of the war, General William Bailey and prominent planter Jack Bellamy led a posse of 52 men on a three day pursuit of a small band of Tiger Tail's braves who had been attacking pioneers, surprising their swampy encampment and killing all 24.

In the end, it came to be the last expedition of its type ; future African expeditions would be government-run in pursuit of military or political goals, or conducted purely for science.

This difficult conversion has been slowed by budget constraints, the impact on traffic, the pursuit of other modernization projects, and the lingering effects of a workforce reduction over the last decade.

* Work diligently in the pursuit of my education, understanding that I am a student first and that the quest for knowledge is an endeavor which will last a lifetime ;

Jochen Mass was in rapid pursuit of James Hunt and Niki Lauda – by the last lap he was only 2. 4 seconds behind them.

Though this maneuver cut Samori off from his last sources of modern weapons, Sierra Leone and Liberia, it also delayed French pursuit.

The Confederates pulled back to their last line of defense, along the road south of Forest Hill ( present day Gregory Blvd ), with Colonel Jennison leading the pursuit.

Then, in early 1988 in " The Neutral Zone ", the last episode of the first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Picard explains to a banker from the 20th century that economics are quite different and the pursuit of money is no longer a part of human existence, however earlier in that season in " Encounter at Farpoint ", Beverly Crusher purchased a bolt of fabric, while asking for it to be billed to her account on the USS Enterprise.

Recurring plot elements include Raquel traveling in pursuit of the investigation, letters ( primarily to determine last known addresses of people ), comic mix-ups, and death ( although nobody dies during the series, many characters are found to have died and Don Fernando is on the verge of dying ).

Nelson Piquet ( Benetton-Ford ) won his second F1 GP in a row having won the previous race in Japan, but the driver of the race was Ferrari's Nigel Mansell who set numerous lap records chasing both Senna and late in the race in his pursuit of his former Williams team mate Piquet only to finish 2nd by 3 seconds after a daring passing move on the last lap at the hairpin at the end of the Brabham Straight just missed taking both cars out.

However, when in the year A. D. 2009 of the human calendar a Zentradi fleet in pursuit of a Supervision Army Gun Destroyer first encountered Earth humans — intelligent beings, smaller than themselves, possessed of culture and who had reconstructed the Supervision Army vessel — they believed earthlings to be the last remnants of the Supervision Army brainwashed Protoculture and sought to destroy them, thus starting Space War I.

In its last stage, the Qing suppression policy combined pursuit and extermination of rebel guerrilla bands with a program of amnesty for deserters.

At last the Samnites fled, and not many would have survived if nightfall had not put an end to the pursuit.

Linder's comedy was set in an upper middle-class milieu, and relied on clever and inventive ways of getting around the embarrassments and obstacles arising in his single-minded pursuit of a goal.

In full-blown mania, often the manic person will feel as though his or her goal ( s ) trump all else, that there are no consequences or that negative consequences would be minimal, and that they need not exercise restraint in the pursuit of what they are after.

Using his Whig victory as a mandate for reform, Grey was unrelenting in the pursuit of this goal, using every Parliamentary device to achieve it.

Streight's goal changed to escape the pursuit.

Prince Charles Edward was to play a major part in the pursuit of this ultimate goal.

But the pursuit of power is not a goal that commands popular passion, except in conditions of a sudden threat or challenge to the public's sense of domestic well-being.

A plan, when augmented with a schedule and resource allocation calculations, completely defines a particular instance of systematic processing in pursuit of a goal.

Others have argued that Fox's greatness derives from his audacious vision, his determined pursuit of his goal, his ability to overcome challenges such as his lack of experience and the very loneliness of his venture.

Precision agriculture therefore seeks to use high-tech systems in pursuit of this goal.

The Vogtländer for him are the " Saxon Tyrolese, only pleasanter, livelier, more persistent in the pursuit of their goal, but just as sober, if also rougher.

In pursuit of this goal, he founded ( 1910 ) the quarterly Round Table.

As such, a state acts as a rational autonomous actor in pursuit of its own self-interest with a primary goal to maintain and ensure its own security — and thus its sovereignty and survival.

In 1916, Beebe traveled to Georgetown in pursuit of his earlier goal of establishing a permanent field research station in Guiana.

While modern liberalism had stressed the pursuit of individual liberty as its highest goal, Strauss felt that there should be a greater interest in the problem of human excellence and political virtue.

He was very reluctant to admit that his ultimate goal was in fact to develop a vehicle for flights into space, since most scientists, especially in the United States, did not consider such a goal to be a realistic or practical scientific pursuit, nor was the public yet ready to seriously consider such ideas.

In other words, motivation and volition refer to goal setting and goal pursuit, respectively.

Brown's pursuit of this goal of righting what he perceived to be a great wrong to Canada West was accompanied at times by stridently critical remarks against French Canadians and the power exerted by the Catholic population of Canada East over the affairs of largely Protestant Canada West, referring to the position of Canada West as " a base vassalage to French-Canadian Priestcraft.

Optimalism allows for failure in pursuit of a goal, and expects that while the trend of activity will tend towards the positive it is not necessary to always succeed while striving to attain goals.

Frontism was a tactic endorsed by Lenin, where Communists sought tactical agreements with reformist ( social democratic ) parties in pursuit of a definite, usually defensive, goal.

Another definition of the common good, as the quintessential goal of the state, requires an admission of the individual's basic right in society, which is, namely, the right of everyone to the opportunity to freely shape his life by responsible action, in pursuit of virtue and in accordance with the moral law.

In pursuit of this goal, the installed bureaucracy renamed streets and cities and seized tens of thousands of Polish enterprises, from large industrial firms to small shops, without payment to the owners.

In pursuit of that goal, he attended Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York, graduating in 1951 with a degree in advertising and a minor in radio.