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retreat and Kong
Kong throws some large rocks at Godzilla, but Godzilla shoots his atomic breath at Kong's chest, forcing the giant ape to retreat.
Two days later, they flew their first combat sorties, against PAVN and Pathet Lao covering Kong Le's retreat into the Plaine des Jarres.
The mid-twentieth century, with the outbreak of the Second World War in the Pacific and the retreat of the Republic of China to Taiwan, saw the Macanese population surge through the re-integration of two disparate Macanese communities: the Hong Kong Macanese and the Shanghai Macanese.
Visitors may also see the nearby monastery, known as the " Buddhist Kingdom in the South ," which serves as an international Buddhist retreat, and is one of the largest and most well known in Hong Kong.
In August 1960, a neutralist military faction let by Kong Le seized Vientiane in a coup d ’ etat ; but rightist forces, backed by the U. S. marched on Vientiane from the south and forced the neutralists to retreat.
Hsu Yun remained in China during World War II and after the rise of the People's Republic of China to support the Buddhist communities rather than retreat to the safety of Hong Kong or Taiwan.
After the Japanese retreat, the name of the area was reverted back to its Chinese name, as with the rest of Hong Kong.
However, the move of Cradock, who was the British chief negotiator in the negotiations, to compromise with the Chinese authority was regarded as a major retreat by the general media in Hong Kong and the United Kingdom, and was heavily criticized at that time as betraying the people of Hong Kong.

retreat and Le
He saw action at the Battle of Le Cateau that month and during the retreat from Mons.
It was her first venture into France since the retreat from Le Havre in 1563.
Upon learning from captured Prussian soldiers and a local area police chief that the Second Army was just from Saarbrücken near the town of Wissembourg, General Le Bœuf and Napoleon III decided to retreat to defensive positions.
A general Allied retreat followed, resulting in more clashes such as the Battle of Le Cateau, the Siege of Maubeuge and the Battle of St. Quentin ( Guise ).
… He also alluded to Smith-Dorrien's conduct on the retreat, and said he ought to have tried him by Court Martial, because ( on the day of Le Cateau ) he ' had ordered him to retire at 8 am and he did not attempt to do so insisted on fighting in spite of his orders to retire '.
It then fought a rearguard action at the Battle of Le Cateau, a vital action during the retreat from Mons.
Throughout the retreat, the British were closely pursued by the Germans, and were forced to fight a number of rearguard actions, including the Battle of Le Cateau on 26 August, the Étreux rearguard action on 27 August, and the Action at Néry on 1 September.
After fighting the British at Mons and Le Cateau, the First Army pursued Lanrezac's French Fifth Army during the great retreat.
* The 27th did break the Hindenburg line during the Battle of the Somme, initiating a German retreat from their defensive line and forcing the Germans to a final confrontation at the Le Selle River before Armistice was signed in February 1919.
He was present at Coulmiers, Villepion and Loigny-Poupry, in command of a division, and in Chanzy's retreat upon Le Mans and the battle at that place in command of a corps.
The 2nd Dublins took part in the retreat following the Battle of Mons, taking part in their first engagement on 26 August 1914 at Le Cateau that helped delay the German advance towards Paris, inflicting such heavy casualties that the Germans thought they faced more machine-guns than they actually did.
After he got to Paris, Harry offered him the use of the Crosby's country retreat, Le Moulin du Soleil, in Ermenonville, so he could concentrate on working on his poem.
For these losses, however, the engagement at Le Cateau had achieved its objective, and enabled the British Expeditionary Force to retreat unmolested by the Germans for a further five days.
Although originally a country retreat used for special festivities — and known more for André Le Nôtre's gardens and fountains — Versailles eventually became the permanent home of the king.

retreat and picked
Erratics are boulders picked up by the ice sheet during its advance, and deposited during its retreat.
In 1812 he was made commander of one of the four cavalry corps of the Grande Armée, fought at Smolensk and Borodino and during the retreat from Moscow Napoleon appointed him to command the escort squadron, which was composed entirely of picked officers.
Hatsuyuki picked up Furutakas survivors and joined the retreat northward.

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A few days later, however, near the Aeduan oppidum Bibracte, Caesar caught up with the Helvetii and faced them in a major battle, which ended in the Helvetii ’ s retreat and the capture of most of their baggage by the Romans.
In their calculations they concluded that there was little danger of a large-scale retreat of the Soviet army into the Russian interior, as it could not afford to give up the Baltic states, the Ukraine, or the Moscow and Leningrad regions, all of which were vital to the Red Army for supply reasons and would thus have to be defended.
Without further orders, the Army of the Cumberland continued up hill and captured the Confederate's secondary entrenchments on top of Missionary Ridge ; forcing the defeated Confederates into disorganized retreat.
In October 2010, thousands of Sahrawis fled from El Aaiun, Smara or Bojador to the outskirts of Lemseid ( Gdeim Izik ), raising up a campament of thousands of " jaimas " ( Sahrawi tents ) called the " Dignity camp ", in the biggest Sahrawi movilization since the Spanish retreat.
* Sultan Kamil, Saladin's son and successor, offers Jerusalem to the Crusaders in return for Damietta, which the Crusaders eventually give up in exchange for a safe retreat from the Nile Delta.
As the battle heated up, the Meccans were forced to somewhat retreat.
The Germans were hampered by much the same difficulties, of course ; their divisions had taken heavy losses on the retreat through France and were hastily filled up with untrained boys, men unfit for service, and old men.
During the filming of a scene in which a bridge was blown up, Eastwood urged Wallach to retreat to a hilltop.
He sets up a plot to kill Volemak, who opposes him ; after Volemak and his sons retreat to the desert, they realize that they need the Index, which is in Gaballufix's possession.
In the ensuing heavy fighting, a Syrian tank force took up positions in northern Jordan to support the fedayeen but was forced to retreat.
As Napoleon ’ s troops in Saxony formed up for the retreat before the expanded coalition, the first defectors from the Saxon army to the allies came in September.
Although the Union troops put up a furious defense, Pope's army was forced to retreat in a manner similar to the embarrassing Union defeat at First Bull Run, fought on roughly the same battleground.
The use of " cold steel " to force the enemy to retreat was very successful in numerous small unit engagements at short range in the American Civil War, as most troops would retreat when charged while in the process of reloading ( which could take up to a minute with loose powder even for trained troops ).
The retreat of all the Red Armies was not complete until October 22, 1936, when the three forces linked up in Shaanxi.
With the loss of a senior commander and his army being broken up in street fighting, Northampton ordered a retreat.
Thus alerted to German intentions the Russians moved up their heavy artillery and were able to turn the attack into a disordered retreat.
However, it was blown up by Germans during the retreat in January 1945.
On their consequent retreat northwards, they blew up the church of St. Ninians where they had been storing munitions ; only the tower survived and can be seen to this day.
The town of Pelusium in the Nile Delta puts up resistance, but Pharaoh Nectanebo II is forced to retreat to Memphis.
Instead, Campbell took up residence at Harrington Lake, the Prime Minister's official summer retreat.
Tiberius ' actions stirred up a frenzy in Rome ; his opponents argued that Tiberius ' negotiation made Rome appear weak and the losers of the war, while his proponents maintained that it was the general Mancinus who was several times defeated and had tried to ignobly retreat and it was Tiberius ' actions that saved the lives of many citizen-soldiers.
The Royalist retreat turned into a rout in which Parliamentarian and Royalist forces intermingled and skirmished up to and into the city.
In this context retreat means to leave everyday business for a few days ( weeekend-retreat ) up to weeks.

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