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course and raid
To the infantryman, there may be little to distinguish between combat as part of a minor raid or as a major offensive, nor is it likely that he anticipates the future course of the battle ; few of the British infantry who went over the top on the first day on the Somme, July 1, 1916, would have anticipated that they would be fighting the same battle in five months ' time.
Nevertheless, as a direct result of the failings of the Dieppe raid, the British made several innovations – most notably Hobart's Funnies – specialized armoured vehicles which, in the course of the Normandy Landings, undoubtedly saved many lives on those three beachheads upon which Commonwealth soldiers were landing ( Gold Beach, Juno Beach, and Sword Beach ).
After a piratical raid on Ismaros in the land of the Cicones, he and his twelve ships were driven off course by storms.
The police raid of a private gay club called the Stonewall Inn on June 27, 1969, led to a series of minor disturbances in the neighborhood of the bar over the course of the subsequent three days involving more than 1, 000 people.
In reprisal for the suicide bombing, Israeli forces conducted a raid at 3: 00 a. m. on October 5, 2003, during the course of which they demolished the family home of Jaradat and the houses of two of her neighbours.
The destruction of Minden on August 2, 1780, was the most destructive raid in the course of the four-year civil war.
He dies, at least temporarily, in 1771 when he is killed in the course of a raid on his lair by a group of important Providence citizens who have got wind of only a few of his crimes.
* May 6 – 7 ( overnight ) through 11-12 ( overnight ) – Royal Air Force Bomber Command mounts four major raids on Hamburg, Germany, over the course of six nights, averaging 128 bombers per raid.
According to Weeks, Of course, Jimmy lost money once the drug dealers were removed from the streets in the summer raid, but he always had other business going on.
Two dozen arrests were made during the course of the raid, and several people later sued the SFPD.
After a medical course at the Tiflis St. Nino hospital, he was enlisted in the nascent Georgian Cavalry Legion which marched in Iran as part of General Baratov's 1915 expedition, and made a raid into Mesopotamia, where he joined the British expeditionary forces in 1916.
The capstone of the course is the extensively-planned raid of the ALF's island stronghold.
In all cases, further target Indicators would be dropped in the course of the raid to reinforce the marking and to compensate for earlier TIs either burning out or being extinguished by the bombing.
In January 1996, the local airbase was raided by the Chechen separatists in the course of the Kizlyar raid, which claimed the lives of seventy-eight Russian soldiers.
The Indian Navy did not take any counter-actions against naval raid, the destroyer squadron remained 100 miles away from Dwarka changing the course on anti-aircraft mission.
In 1863, the Union General Nathaniel Prentice Banks attempted to interrupt this trade with his forces capturing Brownsville, Texas and raiding and destroying the King Ranch, but King avoided the raid and resumed business in 1864, earning a considerable fortune over the course of the war.
The raid was the first attack on Japanese soil during the course of World War II, and one of the few offensive operations conducted by China directly against Japan during the course of the war.
Over the course of the next few years, they would have three daughters, one of whom was killed in a bombing raid in May 1943.
A good source on the conduct of the traditional ghazw raid are the medieval Islamic jurists, whose discussions as to which conduct is allowed and which is forbidden in the course of warfare reveal some of the practices of this institution.

course and seizure
Puiji died on Wednesday, October 26, 2011 following a seizure after having been undergoing treatment for an undisclosed medical condition over the course of several months.
A California State Police ( State ) Security Officer was required to attend a two week course of instruction in arrest, search and seizure.
While he would not rule out the possibility that the President might acquire the power to take certain actions by a long course of conduct unobjected to by Congress, he found the statutory history persuasive evidence that Congress had not acquiesced, much less authorized seizure of private property in the absence of a formal declaration of war.
Features that are common in PNES but rarer in epilepsy include: biting the tip of the tongue, seizures lasting more than 2 minutes, seizures having a gradual onset, a fluctuating course of disease severity, the eyes being closed during a seizure, and side to side head movements.
In the dispute between the New Model Army and the Long Parliament he naturally took the side of the former, and after the seizure of the king by the Army in June 1647 had interviews with Charles I at Newmarket and Windsor, in which he favourably impressed the latter, and gave advice upon the best course to pursue.

course and canal
The oldest bridge still in use is the Levensau High Bridge from 1893 ; however, the bridge will have to be replaced in the course of a canal expansion already underway.
( This ancient, second, canal may have followed a course along the shoreline of the Red Sea when it once extended north to Lake Timsah.
) In the 20th century the northward extension of this ancient canal was discovered, extending from Lake Timsah to the Ballah Lakes, which was subsequently dated to the Middle Kingdom of Egypt by extrapolating the dates of ancient sites erected along its course.
One end of the Grand Union Canal ( Grand Junction Canal-Main Line ) is at Brentford on the River Thames in west London, where the canal follows the engineered course of the River Brent.
Just upstream of the Gauging Lock was a large canal basin, now known as Brentford Lock, from which the canal continues to follow the course of the River Brent through two more locks.
At Cowley, the canal begins to climb the valley of the River Colne following a north-westerly course to Uxbridge After Denham and Harefield, it passes to the south of Rickmansworth.
This realigned the canal to the south of its former course ; the locks here are still referred to-without irony-as " The New ' Uns " by traditional boaters, and the term has been passed on to a new generation of canal users.
From here the canal follows the course of the River Bulbourne through Bourne End with the well-known swingbridge at Winkwell, and the " Port of Berkhamsted ".
In 1855, the Yellow River flooded and changed its course, severing the course of the canal in Shandong.
The fifth section of the canal extends from Linqing to Tianjin, following the course of the canalised Wei River.
In Tianjin the canal heads northwest, for a short time following the course of the Yongding, a tributary of the Hai River, before branching off toward Tongzhou on the edge of the municipality of Beijing.
With the opportunity is brought to light part of the course of the canal once used by craftsmen weavers.
The runners returned towards the racecourse by running along the edge of the canal before re-entering the course at the opposite end.
The canal ran from Antingham Mill, largely following the course of the River Ant to a point below Honing.
From Bristol to Bath the waterway follows the natural course of the River Avon before the canal links it to the River Kennet at Newbury, and from there to Reading on the River Thames.
In 1793 a further survey was conducted by John Rennie, and the route of the canal was altered to take a more southerly course through Great Bedwyn, Devizes, Trowbridge and Newbury.
The canal essentially follows river valleys, shadowing the course of tributaries, to break through the watershed between the Trent and Severn north-west of Wolverhampton, at the Aldersley Gap, a minor glacial feature turned to advantage by Brindley.
The canal then swings at right angles to the south, taking up the course of the Penk.
A section of the Portsmouth-London mainline railway follows the course of the canal between Portsmouth & Southsea and Fratton stations.
The tow-path and course of the canal are extant to the rear of gardens on the south side of Locksway Road at its easternmost end.
This did not take place immediately, but on 30 June 1881, half of the canal was closed, and sections of it were used for the course of the Ledbury and Gloucester Railway.
A slipway enabled the boats to be launched, and the canal will be made wider in due course.

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