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In the centre of the British attack, XVIII Corps and XIX Corps pushed forward to the line of the Steenbeck to consolidate and sent reserve troops towards the Green and Red lines, ( on XIX Corps's front ) an advance of some.
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Trapped in a crossfire, the leading French ships were battered into surrender during a fierce three-hour battle, while the centre was able to successfully repel the initial British attack.
As British reinforcements arrived, the centre came under renewed assault, and at 22: 00 the French flagship Orient exploded.
In deploying his ships in this way, Brueys hoped that the British would be forced by the shoals to attack his strong centre and rear, allowing his van to use the prevailing northeasterly wind to counterattack the British once they were engaged.
Nelson's plan, shaped through discussion with his senior captains during the return voyage to Alexandria, was to advance on the French and pass down the seaward side of the van and centre of the French line, so that each French ship would face two British ships and the massive Orient would be fighting against three.
With the French vanguard now heavily outnumbered, the following British ships HMS Bellerophon and HMS Majestic passed by the melee and advanced on the so far unengaged French centre.
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At the centre of the Great Court is the Reading Room vacated by the British Library, its functions now moved to St Pancras.
* French-derived words that in American English end with-or and-er, such as color or center, retain British spellings ( colour, honour and centre ).
Under British indirect rule, separate European ( e. g. Oyster Bay ) and African ( e. g. Kariakoo and Ilala ) areas developed at a distance from the city centre.
The Britannica generally prefers British spelling over American ; for example, it uses colour ( not color ), centre ( not center ), and encyclopaedia ( not encyclopedia ).
However, although it was lightly guarded, Volunteer and Citizen Army forces under Seán Connolly failed to take Dublin Castle, the centre of British rule in Ireland, shooting dead a police sentry and overpowering the soldiers in the guardroom, but failing to press home the attack.
The Allied soldiers who died driving the Germans from Tuscany are buried in cemeteries outside the city ( Americans about nine kilometres south of the city, British and Commonwealth soldiers a few kilometres east of the centre on the right bank of the Arno ).
The shipyards were the centre of more activity, but many smaller industries produced the machinery needed by the British bombers, tanks and warships.
The principal British centre for phrenology was Edinburgh, where the Edinburgh Phrenological Society was established in 1820.
The CBD has recently been the centre of a mining-induced boom, with several commercial and residential projects due for completion, including a office building for Australian / British mining company BHP Billiton.
Sierra Leone also served as the educational centre of British West Africa.
The Turks and Caicos Islands ( and or ; abbreviated TCI ) are a British Overseas Territory consisting of two groups of tropical islands in the West Indies, the larger Caicos Islands and the smaller Turks Islands, known for tourism and as an offshore financial centre.
Located in the Greater Victoria area the University's legal centre provides free legal assistance to the disadvantaged as well as dealing with important environmental cases in British Columbia.
Northumbria during its " golden age " was the most important centre of religious learning and arts in the British Isles.
Graves at this point did not press the potential advantage of the separated French van ; as the French centre and rear closed the distance with the British line, they also closed the distance with their own van.
A major centre of the Scottish Enlightenment during the 18th century, in the 19th century ( while continuing to educate the upper classes ), Glasgow became a pioneer in British higher education by providing for the needs of students from the growing urban and commercial middle classes.
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As the Axis forces dug in, Auchinleck — having drawn a number of German units to the coastal sector during the Tel el Eisa fighting — developed a plan — codenamed Operation Bacon — to attack the Italian Pavia and Brescia Divisions in the centre of the front at the Ruweisat ridge.
However, XIII Corps commander — Lieutenant-General William Gott — rejected this and ordered the attack but on a centre line south of the original plan which he incorrectly believed was mine-free.
Polgár was able to attack with her rooks on Kasparov's king which was still in the centre of the board and when he was two pawns down, Kasparov resigned.
The attack on 28 March 1942 created a firestorm, that caused severe damage to the historic centre and the Bombing of Lübeck in World War II destroyed three of the main churches and greater parts of the built-up area.
* June 26 – Tiflis bank robbery: Bolsheviks attack a cash-filled bank coach in the centre of Tiflis, Georgia, killing forty people.
* January 25 – Norwegian rocket incident: A rocket launched from the space exploration centre at Andøya, Norway is briefly interpreted by the Russians as an incoming attack.
** At least 50 people are killed in a car bomb attack on a police recruitment centre south of Baghdad.
The chaos of the prelude to the attack, as city residents are forcibly evacuated to the country, leads to the story's centre in Rochester, which is struck by an off-target missile aimed at Gatwick Airport.
Some of the victims of the attack took refuge in a student cultural centre, where a discussion was to follow the Pride march.
His performances in the centre of the Saints attack were soon recognised by the fans, who voted him their Player of the Year for 1991.
* 17 March: The LVF claimed responsibility for an attempted bomb attack on St Comgall's parish centre in Larne.
Blake wants to attack the heart of the Federation and he targets the main computer control centre on Earth.
The attack would be made on a front of, with its centre opposite the village of Vimy, to the east of the ridge.
When Galway committed his reserves to an attack on the Bourbon centre, Berwick unleashed a strong force of Franco-Spanish cavalry against the weakened Anglo-Portuguese lines, sweeping away the Portuguese cavalry.
Despite a concerted Anglo-Hanoverian attack on the French centre, which led many to believe the Allies had won, the failure to clear the woods and of the Dutch forces to capture Fontenoy forced Cumberland's force onto the retreat.
Despite disadvantageous weather conditions Monck decided to attack the Dutch rear under Lieutenant-Admiral Cornelis Tromp hoping to cripple it before the Dutch centre and van could intervene.
The area has a centralised precinct providing services, comprising a community centre ( Thornhill Church Centre ), Sainsbury's supermarket, Sainsbury's Pharmacy, and a Medical Centre ; which in early August 2007, suffered an arson attack.
In theory, such an obvious attempt to turn the Russian flank would so concern the Russians that they would fail to notice a British attack on their centre and left.
After failing to make progress on the flanks – the Dutch on the left, Brigadier Ingolsby's brigade on the right – Cumberland decided to smash his way through the centre without securing the flanks of his main attack.
While this attack went in on the right, the Dutch and the Austrians with the Hanoverians in the centre would strike to Cumberland's left in all-out assaults on Fontenoy and Antoing.
To forestall the perceived Russian attack on Eylau and to pin the Russian army, so that Davout's flank attack would be more successful, Napoleon launched an attack against the Russian centre and left with Augereau's VII Corps on the left and Saint-Hilaire's Division of Soult's IV Corps on the right.
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