As a result, on 13 Adar, five hundred attackers and Haman's ten sons are killed in Shushan, followed by a Jewish slaughter of seventy-five thousand Persians, although they took no plunder.

" Addressing the faster rate at which defenders could reinforce an area than attackers could penetrate it during the First World War, Guderian wrote that " since reserve forces will now be motorized, the building up of new defensive fronts is easier than it used to be ; the chances of an offensive based on the timetable of artillery and infantry co-operation are, as a result, even slighter today than they were in the last war.

The Sardaukar and Harkonnen forces are trapped on the planet, astonished at the sandworm mounts and vast numbers of their attackers.

Such exploits are referred to as ' zero day exploits ' and to obtain access to such exploits is the primary desire of unskilled attackers, often nicknamed script kiddies.

For the purposes of the rules, all players on the team in possession of the ball are attackers, and those on the team without the ball are defenders, yet throughout the game being played you are always " attacking " your goal and " defending " the opposite goal .< ref > Anders, ELizabeth.

Opennet connections are easy to use, but darknet connections are more secure against attackers on the network, and can make it difficult for an attacker ( such as an oppressive government ) to even determine that a user is running Freenet in the first place.

* 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Trois-Rivières – American attackers are driven back at Trois-Rivières, Quebec.

Pressure drills in which students engage with multiple attackers are also common.

Since even the unholstered weapon is indistinguishable to most observers from a standard pistol, this may lessen attention from media or potential attackers as to the security measures that are in place.

It is a basic tenet of sniping operations that there are enough snipers ( at least two for each known target, or in this case a minimum of ten ) deployed to neutralize as many of the attackers as possible with the first volley of shots.

Such attacks are impractical if the amount of computation needed to succeed-termed the " work factor " by Claude Shannon-is out of reach of all potential attackers.

Asking users to use " both letters and digits " will often lead to easy-to-guess substitutions such as ' E ' --> ' 3 ' and ' I ' --> ' 1 ', substitutions which are well known to attackers.

In particular, attackers can quickly recover passwords that are short, dictionary words, simple variations on dictionary words or that use easily guessable patterns.

A system relying on security through obscurity may have theoretical or actual security vulnerabilities, but its owners or designers believe that if the flaws are not known, then attackers will be unlikely to find them.

Most of the attackers are killed, but their leader takes refuge in a hut unseen.

The clear disadvantage to this offensive formation is that there are only two attackers, leaving a team with fewer offensive weapons.

Four Israeli soldiers and one of the attackers are killed.

These systems are compromised by attackers using a variety of methods.

The attackers are trying to pull on the chain to free the ram, while the aforementioned wet hides on the canopy provide protection against the flames.

This promotion of the idea that homosexuality is immoral and can be corrected may make would-be attackers of homosexuals feel justified in that they are " doing God's work " by ridding the world of LGBT people.

Quills are released by contact with them, or they may drop out when the porcupine shakes its body, but cannot be projected at attackers.

However, some attackers are highly skilled and motivated with the goal of compromising computers for financial gain or espionage.

Scimitar Hill was captured briefly but the attackers were driven off or killed by the defensive fire from the Ottomans higher up the spur.

The attackers were defeated and driven off with 53 ERP guerrillas and 9 supporting militants killed.

The Rohirrim guard on the eastern side of the ford had been driven into retreat, and their attackers recrossed the ford to attack Théodred on both sides.

However on both occasions the attackers were driven off before a lengthy siege could develop.

Refusing to withdraw, Company P closed in and met the attackers in a furious hand to hand struggle in which many of the enemy were driven off.

Once they opened fire, the British attackers were driven off, with some barges destroyed, and they retreated back to the ships.

She was then driven to a secluded paddock, while being held down in the car and raped and beaten by her five attackers.

The Bastarnae easily beat off the attackers, chased them back to their chief town, and besieged them.

Stagehands successfully managed to ward off their backstage attackers.

Marines from the drive off American Indian attackers after all day battle with settlers.

Alexander the Great combined both methods in his clashes with swarming Asiatic horseman, screening the central infantry core with slingers, archers and javelin men, before unleashing his cavalry to see off attackers.

Rifles or even a shotgun would be sufficient to persuade the crew to close all the hatches, and then the view from the tank is very limited ; a turret-mounted machine gun has a very slow traverse and cannot hope to fend off attackers coming from all directions.

It is possible that Weinberg hoped that the stronger men would have a better chance of fighting off the attackers, but they were all surprised in their sleep.

Later, they stumble across a group of non-possessed children and Father Horst, a Christian priest who led them to escape the settlement, and try to protect them from the attacks by the increasingly effective possessed humans, the weapons of the mercenaries of limited use, and their numbers insufficient to fend off the attackers.

* January 26 – First Battle of Seattle: Marines from the drive off American Indian attackers after an all day battle with settlers.

Carte's stagehands managed to ward off their backstage attackers and protect the scenery and props.

Stagehands and cast members managed to ward off their backstage attackers and protect the scenery, although the stage manager, Richard Barker, and others, were injured.

The Swedish forces fought off heavy Russian attacks against the wagon fort and the attackers received heavy losses before withdrawing for the day.

Christian villagers then came to his defense, driving off the attackers.

As each successive wave of attackers was wiped out or beaten off by the Spaniards, Lautaro sent another, until the entire Spanish company was massacred.

Billy manages to scare off the attackers by yelling and brandishing a knife.

In the fray that followed, Heracles slew Hippolyta, stripped her of the belt, fought off the attackers, and sailed away.

The odor of the fluid is strong enough to ward off bears and other potential attackers and can be difficult to remove from clothing.

At first, Gunnar manages to fight off his numerous attackers with his masterful archery.

The rider who was hit, mounted next to a rider who bore a flag, had shouted orders that prompted the soldiers to attack, but when the buckskin-clad rider fell off his horse after being shot, many of the attackers reined up.

The manner of killing is reported to have been notably sadistic, mutilating victims and burning corpses ; CNN quoted a survivor as saying that " attackers slashed the throats of children, cutting the arms and legs off one of them and throwing the body in a boiling pot.

The Austrians then made a dash towards Montbrun's second line, which made a surprising attempt to drive off the attackers with a carbine volley, which failed to break the impetus of the charge and sent the French horse reeling.

The key aspect of the doomsday device's deterrent factor is that it would go off automatically without human aid and despite human intervention, providing a highly credible threat that would dissuade attackers and avoid the dangerous game of brinkmanship that brought the United States and the Soviet Union closer to nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

It was characteristic of royal policy in both England and Francia during the ninth through eleventh centuries, collected both as tributary, to buy off the attackers, and as stipendiary, to pay the defensive forces.

The " chit-chit-chit-chit " sound is made to warn off potential attackers from its territory and also seems to serve as a signal to its mate of a potential threat to offspring is in the vicinity.

He manages to head off Xavier's attackers, defeating them in short order before he is joined by Xavier himself.

They are an effective weapon to kill snakes and ward off dogs and other attackers and are still carried in public by many Black South Africans.