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" With Grant in command, Lincoln felt the Union Army could relentlessly pursue a series of coordinated offensives in multiple theaters, and have a top commander who agreed on the use of black troops.
She also used the priory during her short reign, particularly in 1547, where she felt safe from the English Army.
Bartov wrote no German film of the 1950s showed the deep commitment felt by many German soldiers to National Socialism, the utter ruthless way the German Army fought the war and the mindless nihilist brutality of the later Wehrmacht.
The Army felt that the Bantam company was too small to supply the number of vehicles it needed, so it supplied the Bantam design to Willys and Ford who were encouraged to make their own changes and modifications.
Saionji had recommended Konoe to Emperor Hirohito despite his hesitations, because he felt that the Prince might be able to keep the Imperial Japanese Army in check and protect the position of the Emperor.
Whereas the British quickly replaced the Snider with a dropping-block Peabody style Martini action, the US Army felt the trapdoor action to be adequate and followed its muzzleloader conversions with the new-production Springfield Model 1873, which was the principal longarm of the Indian Wars and was still in service with some units in the Spanish-American War.
In 1958 the Army felt that existing knowledge was sufficient for work on a guided missile with a HEAT warhead to begin, and in June 1959 Sperry and Ford Aeronutronic were asked for designs to fill the shorter range role.
While the maximum range of was acceptable, the Army felt it could and should be improved.
Only Santa Anna had been defeated, not the Army of Operations, and Urrea felt that the campaign should continue, but Filisola disagreed.
Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside decided to conduct a mass purge of the Army of the Potomac's leadership, eliminating a number of generals who he felt were responsible for the disaster at Fredericksburg.
Bevan was also critical of the leadership of the British Army which he felt was class bound and inflexible.
Members of the Republican Army who had come from Indonesian Hizbullah felt betrayed by Indonesian Government.
The Army Corps of Engineers set about their business of making the structure a reality ; however, many felt that such actions would destroy the unique ecosystem residing there.
French felt ( wrongly ) that the war would be over by the summer before the New Army divisions were deployed, as Germany had recently redeployed some divisions to the east, and took the step of appealing to the Prime Minister, Asquith, over Kitchener ’ s head, but Asquith refused to overrule Kitchener.
According to J. Bowyer Bell, in the Secret Army, " With the possible exception of Tom Maguire, who went along, the Dáil members felt that the IRA request gave them the moral recognition so long denied by all factions and that their conditional devolution of power would in turn give the IRA the moral basis for the impending campaign " of 1939 – 45.
In the early months of WWII, U. S. Army Chief of Staff George C. Marshall felt obligated to sign every condolence letter sent to the families of slain soldiers.
Whereas the British quickly replaced the Snider with a dropping-block Peabody style Martini action, the US Army felt the trapdoor action to be adequate and followed its muzzleloader conversions with the new-production Springfield Model 1873, which was the principal longarm of the Indian Wars and was still in service with some units in the Spanish-American War.
The United States War Department felt the British Bomb Disposal experience could be a valuable asset, based on reports from U. S. Army, Navy, and Marine Corps observers at RAF Melksham in Wiltshire, England in 1940.
However, in 1977, Martin van Creveld, analyzing the role of logistics in the plan, felt that the effects of Moltke's alteration to avoid invading Dutch neutrality were more apparent than real, since two corps of troops which had been allocated to contain the 90, 000-strong Dutch Army could instead be used for the invasion of France.
Many Americans felt the U. S. Army actions were harsh ; some related the massacre at Wounded Knee Creek to the " ungentlemanly act of kicking a man when he is already down.
Along with most of the Fifth Army staff they felt that Shingle was properly a two corps or even a full army task.
However, Clark was determined that VI Corps should strike directly for Rome as evidenced in his later writing: " We not only wanted the honour of capturing Rome, but felt that we deserved it ... Not only did we intend to become the first army to seize Rome from the south, but we intended to see that people at home knew that it was the Fifth Army that did the job, and knew the price that had been paid for it .".
But while Chauvel had been an Australian, he had been a regular officer while Morshead was not and the new commander of the British Eighth Army, Lieutenant General Bernard Montgomery felt that a reservist could not possess the " requisite training and experience " to command a corps and Morshead was passed over in favour of Oliver Leese, a British regular officer, who was junior to him and had never commanded a division in action.
With Asquith and the Army in support, however, he felt that he was ill-equipped to combat the proposal.
He felt that the Stalinist regimes that came into existence after 1945 were just extending the bourgeois revolution, i. e., the expropriation of the Prussian Junker class by the Red Army, through their agrarian policies and through the development of the productive forces.

Army and combination
" Comics ,” wrote Capp in 1970, “ can be a combination of the highest quality of art and text, and many of them are .” Capp would produce many giveaway educational comic books and public services pamphlets, spanning several decades, for the Red Cross, the Department of Civil Defense, the Department of the Navy, the U. S. Army, the Anti-Defamation League, the Department of Labor, Community Chest ( a forerunner of United Way ), and the Job Corps.
For example, at the Battle of Kursk the Red Army employed a combination of defense in great depth, extensive minefields, and tenacious defense of breakthrough shoulders.
In the Ardennes, a combination of hedgehog defense at Bastogne, St Vith and other locations, and a counterattack by Patton's 3rd U. S. Army were employed.
HK was contracted by the U. S. Army to produce the kinetic energy subsystem ( see: kinetic projectiles or kinetic energy penetrator ) of the Objective Individual Combat Weapon, a planned replacement for the M16 / M203 grenade launcher combination.
With the Red Army forces still stationed in the country and exerting de facto control, Communists and their allied parties claimed 80 % of the vote, through a combination of vote manipulation, elimination, and forced mergers of competing parties, thus establishing themselves as the dominant force.
The combination of Montgomery being given priority for supplies, and diversion of resources to moving the Communications Zone, resulted in the Third Army running out of gas in Alsace-Lorraine while exploiting German weakness.
By October 1969 Norman was a regular performer at the Salt Company, " a combination of late Victorian and early Salvation Army ", which held concerts on weekends in the upstairs loft of a converted apartment building in downtown Hollywood.
The term " human wave attack " was often misused to describe the Chinese short attack — a combination of infiltration and the shock tactics employed by the Chinese People's Liberation Army ( PLA ) during the Korean War.
In Bangladesh Army infantry regiments, platoons are commanded by a major or a captain, assisted by two to four lieutenants ( or combination of lieutenants and Junior Commissioned Officers ) and at least two sergeants ..
All units within the service are either Regular ( full-time ) or Territorial Army ( part-time ), or a combination with sub-units of each type.
Many of these outposts were simply trading posts or a combination of a trading post and an Army post.
The " Queen ’ s own Corps of Guides " of the British Indian Army consisted of a unique combination of infantry companies and cavalry squadrons.
Kathleen F. Jones of the U. S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory states, " The combination of the ice load and the wind on ice load can break wires, cross arms, and poles and / or other supporting structures.
These pistols were originally built for the United States Army, and the few available on the civilian market are highly sought after due to their unique combination of high power, large capacity, and tiny size.
Work on plan No. 5, which was against a combination of Bulgaria, Greece, Serbia and Montenegro, was very advanced, and had been sent to the Army staffs for them to develop local plans.
His suspicion develops into paranoia after his attempts find answers by using logic and reason are thwarted by a combination of vague bureaucracy, transparent yet contradicting Army regulations and personality conflicts.
Each Army infantry division should have had one divisional tank battalion of 69 tanks, and each army infantry regiment should have had a company of 22 tanks ; the marine division had a tank battalion of 70 gun tanks and nine combination flamethrower-howitzer tanks, and each marine infantry regiment had an antitank platoon with five tanks each.
* M25 Tank Transporter, a US Army WWII tractor-trailer combination used for transporting / recovering tanks
Bagration, in combination with the neighbouring Lvov-Sandomierz Offensive launched a few weeks later in Ukraine, allowed the Soviet Union to recapture Belorussia and Ukraine within its 1941 borders, advance into German East Prussia, but more importantly, the Lvov-Sandomierz operation allowed the Red Army to reach the outskirts of Warsaw after gaining control of Poland east of the Vistula river.
In the 1990s Moe's, on Pike just east of Broadway ( now named Neumo's ), transformed a former Salvation Army facility into a combination bar, restaurant, and performance venue, with local and national acts as well as dance nights, and became for several years one of Seattle's most prominent musical performance venues.
* Two Imperial Japanese Army Air Force Mitsubishi Ki-46-IV ( Allied reporting name " Dinah ") reconnaissance aircraft fly 2, 301 km ( 1, 430 statute miles ) at an average speed of 700 km / hr ( 435 mph ), a notable combination of speed and endurance for the time.
In 1908, the units were re-titled the Officer Training Corps ( OTC ) A school contingent may have any combination of Royal Navy, Army, Royal Air Force and sometimes Royal Marines sections, the army section is almost invariably the largest.
The German Army Enigma symmetric encryption key was a mixed type early in its use ; the key was a combination of secretly distributed key schedules and a user chosen session key component for each message.
The combination of the S-1 and A-5 so impressed the Army that on 17 June 1941 they authorized the construction of a 186, 000 square foot factory and noted that " in the future all production models of bombardment airplanes be equipped with the A-5 Automatic Pilot and have provisions permitting the installation of either the M-Series Bombsight or the S-1 Bombsight ".

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