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centre and battlefield
When they saw that the centre had broken, the Elector and Marsin decided the battle was lost and, like the remnants of Tallard's army, fled the battlefield ( albeit in better order than Tallard's men ).
The two tribes which had been in the centre of the Athenian line stayed to guard the battlefield under the command of Aristides.
In 1923, IRA members blew up a large monument to the battle on the battlefield site on the Boyne and destroyed a statue of William III in 1929 that stood outside Trinity College, Dublin in the centre of the Irish capital.
The Grade I listed site is now operated by English Heritage as 1066 Battle of Hastings, Abbey and Battlefield, which includes the abbey buildings and ruins, a visitor centre with a film and exhibition about the battle, audio tours of the battlefield site, and the monks ' gatehouse with recovered artefacts.
At 19: 00 the situation on the battlefield was as follows: Grouchy's cavalry had captured Tongrenelle and advanced on Mont-Potiaux ; in the centre, heavy fighting was taking place around Ligny ; on the Prussian right flank there was a lull in the fighting between the Young Guard and the Prussians.
The Austrian centre formed into a massive pursuit column in order to chase the French off the battlefield, with the advance guard commanded by GM Franz Xaver Saint-Julien.
">< sub >< big >↓</ big ></ sub > Spanish historian Juan B. González: “(…) In the (…) battle of Toro, which although of uncertain outcome, Ferdinand skilfully was able to exploit for propaganda .” in España Estratégica, guerra y diplomacia en la história de España, Sílex ediciones, Madrid, 2007, p. 222 .</ ref > battle: Prince John of Portugal became master of the battlefield, after defeating the Castilian ’ s right wing and recovering the lost Portuguese Royal standard, but Afonso V was beaten by the left and centre of Ferdinand ’ s army, fleeing from the battlefield.
The Lone Pine battlefield, named for a solitary Turkish Pine that stood there at the start of the fighting, was situated near the centre of the eastern line of the Australian and New Zealand trenches around Anzac Cove on a rise known as " 400 Plateau " that joined " Bolton's Ridge " to the south with the ridge along the east side of " Monash Valley " to the north.
Just before the ARVN 7th Airborne Battalion landed on the battlefield, the Viet Cong had intercepted a radio conversation between the aforementioned unit and the 52nd Ranger Battalion in the district centre ; several months earlier the 7th Airborne Battalion was involved in the battle at Binh Gia, so they vowed to avenge the loss of their comrades.
The approximate centre line of the battlefield was defined by the Roman road that ran straight from Albert in the west to Bapaume in the east.
Khan Dauran's division in the centre of the battlefield was also forced to withdraw.
Most of the cavalry was placed in second line, in the centre, with the artillery quite evenly dispersed throughout the battlefield.

centre and General
The centre, commanded by the Duke's brother, General Charles Churchill, consisted of 18 battalions of infantry arranged in two lines: seven battalions in the front line to secure a foothold across the Nebel, and 11 battalions in the rear providing cover from the Allied side of the stream.
General Post Office ( Dublin ) | The GPO on O ' Connell Street was at the centre of the 1916 Easter Rising.
Hospitals in Edinburgh include the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, which includes Edinburgh University Medical School, and the Western General Hospital, which includes a large cancer treatment centre and the nurse-led Minor Injuries Clinic.
While the first use of a roundel in a London transport context was the 19th-century symbol of the London General Omnibus Company – a wheel with a bar across the centre bearing the word GENERAL – its use on the Underground stems from the decision in 1908 to find a more obvious way of highlighting station names on platforms.
At centre is Major General Heinz Guderian and at right is Brigadier Semyon Krivoshein.
However, not long after arriving, on 3 September 1982, the General was gunned down in the city centre, his young wife by his side.
Murcia is a centre for industry, with many British and American companies choosing it as a location for satellite factories, such as Henry Milward & Sons ( which manufactures surgical and knitting needles ), American firms like General Electric and Paramount Park Studios.
Chania was chosen as the seat of the Rector ( Administrator General ) of the region and flourished as a significant commercial centre of a fertile agricultural region.
The process that culminated in the foundation of the Estudi General of Barcelona can be traced back to the end of the fourteenth century, with the opening of a number of schools under the patronage of the City Hall, the cathedral schools and the Dominican convent of Santa Caterina, which established itself as a major cultural centre.
Bundaberg town centre with Bundaberg General Post Office to the right.
During the Second World War, General Dornberger was the military head of the army's rocket program, Zanssen became the commandant of the Peenemünde army rocket centre, and von Braun was the technical director of the ballistic missile program.
In the 1930s, named London Air Park, it was best known as a centre for private flying, society events, the aircraft manufacture by General Aircraft Limited ( GAL ) 1934-1949, and the visit by the Graf Zeppelin airship in 1932.
The main risks identified in the borough include Barnet FC's stadium, Underhill Stadium, Brent Cross shopping centre, Coppetts Wood Hospitals and Barnet General Hospital.
The first Canadian flag was that then used as the Flag of the Governor General of Canada, a Royal Union Flag with a shield in the centre bearing the quartered arms of Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick surrounded by a wreath of maple leaves.
The town centre of Loddon, a designated conservation area, is dominated by the Holy Trinity Church dates from 1490 by Sir James Hobart who lived at Hales Hall, and was Attorney General to King Henry VII.
The infantry under Sergeant-Major General Sir Philip Skippon was in the centre with five regiments in the front line and three in support.
In addition to its primary source material and books on the Anglo-Catholic Movement ( Tractarian and Oxford Movements ), in recent times the library has become a library of record and resource centre for the Church of England, holding General Synod papers, runs of church newspapers and directories and other relevant material and publications as well as the theses written for Lambeth degrees and diplomas.
A Newsagent / General Store formally located in the centre of the village closed in mid 2012.
Baildon village centre is home to many independent shops including Pickles Delicatessen, Westgate General Stores, Seasons Home, Finesse Gifts and Baildon interiors.
General Bertrand Clausel, third in seniority, assumed command and ordered a counterattack by the French reserve toward the depleted Allied centre.
Villars was able to regroup his forces, but Marlborough and Eugène attacked again, assisted by the advance of a detachment under General Withers advancing on the French left flank, forcing Villars to divert forces from his centre to confront them.
General New Urban transect classifications ( from highest to lowest density ) are: urban core, urban centre, general urban, suburban, rural, and natural.
Rundstedt joined the General Staff, the command centre of the German Army, as a senior lieutenant ( Oberleutnant ) in April 1907.
This was largely due to his being seen by many politicians of the centre and left as a controversial figure for his outspoken opposition to the Bolsheviks, his supposed desire for Finnish intervention on the side of the Whites during the Russian Civil War, and the antipathy toward him of Finnish socialists, who saw him as the ' bourgeois ' ' White General '.
The centre of the street is dominated by the imposing presence of the 1818 General Post Office ( GPO ) with its hexastyle Ionic portico projecting over the west pavement, and the 120 m ( 393 ft ) Spire of Dublin, a needle-like self supporting sculpture of rolled stainless steel erected in 2003.

centre and corps
The standard is a crimson coloured damask-in the centre is the corps ' badge of a combined rose, thistle and shamrock, with the initials of the reigning monarch either side, and the royal motto Dieu et mon Droit below.
Napoleon gave brief orders: Ney's corps would take the line between Postlienen and the Sortlack Wood, Lannes closing on his left, to form the centre, Mortier at Heinrichsdorf the left wing.
Spearheading the pursuit were the army corps of Masséna to the west, Marmont in the centre and Davout to the east, while the " Army of Italy " was detailed to keep an eye on Archduke John ’ s army.
He commanded a corps in the advance on Ulm, and at Austerlitz he led the decisive attack on the allied centre.
" He is chiefly remembered for his exploits under the Duke of Wellington in the Iberian Peninsular War and at the Battle of Waterloo, where he was mortally wounded while his division stopped d ' Erlon's corps attack against the allied centre left, and as a result became the most senior officer to die at Waterloo.
In the centre the fight had been going badly for the V corps.
Meanwhile von Kirchbach, seeing the progress of the XI corps, had ordered the whole of his command forward to assault the French centre ; away to the right the two Bavarian corps moved against the French left, which still maintained its original position in the woods northeast of Fröschweiler.
When he drew up his army on the ridge at Waterloo, elements of the various corps were mixed up, and although he gave the Prince of Orange nominal command of the centre, that officer had different forces under him.
He handily covered the retirement of the Anglo-Allies from Quatre Bras to Waterloo on 17 June, and on 18 June led the spectacular cavalry charge of the British centre, which checked and in part routed D ' Erlon's corps d ' armée ( see Waterloo campaign ).
Melbourne became the centre of the Commonwealth Public Service, the Australian Defence Forces, the diplomatic corps ( very small until World War II ), and also to a large extent of the legal profession, all of which reinforced the supremacy of Melbourne University and exclusive schools such as Scotch College, Melbourne Grammar School and Xavier College.
* Battle of Borodino ( September 7, 1812 ) Three cavalry corps contained French, German and Polish regiments strike enemy's centre.
Gen. Clark's 5th Army comprised three corps: U. S. IV Corps on the left formed by U. S. 1st Armored Division, South African 6th Armoured Division and two regimental Combat Teams (" RCT "), equivalent to 5, 000 men each: one of the U. S. 92nd Infantry Division ( Buffalo Soldiers ) and other was the Brazilian 6th RCT, the first arrived contingent of land forces element of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force ; in the centre was U. S. II Corps ( U. S. 34th, 85th, 88th and 91st Infantry Divisions supported by three tank battalions ); and on the right British XIII Corps ( British 1st Infantry Division, British 6th Armoured Division, 8th Indian Infantry Division and 1st Canadian Tank Brigade ).
First Parachute Army had three corps stationed along the river ; 2nd Parachute Corps to the north, 86th Corps in the centre, and 63rd Corps in the south.
Sebastiani's corps held the centre, while Latour-Maubourg and the Madrid Garrison stood in reserve.
The design is of a centre block portico, or corps de logis, containing the state and principal rooms, between two flanking wings.
The post of centre commandant is the commanding officer of a corps or regiment.
Frossard distributed his corps as follows: holding the right and centre was the division of General Laveaucoupet, deployed along the heights, with two companies entrenched on the Rotherberg.
Pfeffer-Wildenbruch established his corps command centre on Castle Hill, in the centre of the Hungarian Government District, and began ordering the encircled forces to attempt breakouts.

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