Modern warfare was born in this campaign -- periscopes, camouflage, booby traps, land mines, extended order, trench raids, foxholes, armored cars, night attacks, flares, sharpshooters in trees, interlaced vines and treetops, which were the forerunners of barbed wire, trip wires to thwart a cavalry charge, which presaged the mine trap, and the general use of anesthetics.

He claimed in his attacks that Woodruff, with scurrilous underhandedness, had deliberately written an ambiguous bid that had so confused the honest members of the legislature that they had awarded him the contract without knowing what they were doing.

So persistent were these attacks that in March of the following year, Woodruff was finally moved to action, and Pike was to learn his first lesson in frontier politics, the subtle art of diversion.

Influential people in America were warning the Pentagon to be prepared against desperation gas attacks by the Germans in future campaigns.

The minister, describing the attacks which led up to the appeal, said that 60,000 Communist North Vietnamese were fighting royal army troops on one front -- near Thakhek, in southern-central Laos.

Until May 2009, the only successful published attacks against the full AES were side-channel attacks on some specific implementations.

By 2006, the best known attacks were on 7 rounds for 128-bit keys, 8 rounds for 192-bit keys, and 9 rounds for 256-bit keys.

William of Malmesbury's account attacks Sybilla, but the evidence argues that Alexander and Sybilla were a devoted but childless couple and Sybilla was of noteworthy piety.

And although the landowners were obliged to the king to supply these men when called, during the attacks in 878, many of them opportunistically abandoned their king and collaborated with Guthrum.

There were thirty-three total spaced approximately distant, enabling the military to confront attacks anywhere in the kingdom within a single day.

), Amasis was able to defeat an invasion of Egypt by the Babylonians under Nebuchadrezzar II ; henceforth, the Babylonians experienced sufficient difficulties controlling their empire that they were forced to abandon future attacks against Amasis.

As a result, 175 employees of Aon were killed in the attacks, including Eisenberg and Kevin Cosgrove, a vice president of the company that made a call to 911 when the tower collapsed.

Many colleagues were unnerved by his scathing critical attacks on those whom he found guilty of shoddy scholarship.

" His younger colleague A. S. F. Gow quotes examples of these attacks, noting that they " were often savage in the extreme.

During the operation, two U. S. helicopters were shot down by rocket-propelled grenade attacks to their tail rotors, trapping soldiers behind enemy lines.

It had a population of four American civilians, who were all evacuated in 1942 after Japanese air and naval attacks.

Although the Allies were again repulsed, these persistent attacks on Blenheim eventually bore fruit, panicking Clérambault into making the worst French error of the day.

It has been suggested by United States government officials that " box-cutter knives " were used in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against the United States, though the exact design of the knives actually used is unclear.

Cave entrances were built slanted as a defense against grenade and flamethrower attacks.

The United States government, its allies, and journalists exhaustively studied the possibility that yellow rain attacks had occurred and concluded that the evidence supports the contention that trichothecene mycotoxins were used as biological warfare agents in Afghanistan and in Southeast Asia.

However, constant attacks by Bedouin partisans required each party to be escorted by heavily armed guards ; hence, up to a third of the fleet's sailors were away from their ships at any one time.

" Theorist Basil Liddell Hart considered that the most important aspect of the operation was the degree to which the Ottoman commanders were first denied intelligence on the British preparations for the attack through British air superiority, and then crippled by air attacks on their headquarters and telephone exchanges, paralysing their attempts to react to the rapidly deteriorating situation.

The concepts associated with the term blitzkrieg – deep penetrations by armour, large encirclements, and combined arms attacks – were largely dependent upon terrain and weather conditions.

The bombings of Guernica, Rotterdam and Warsaw were tactical missions in support of military operations and were not intended as strategic terror attacks.

For this reason, then I want to describe, first, two examples of the puritanical attacks: Stephen Gosson's The School Of Abuse, 1579, and his later Playes Confuted, published in 1582.

By the time the child first attacks the actual problem of reading, he is completely familiar and at ease with all of the elements of words.

During the first taping of the Late Show with David Letterman following the attacks, CBS newsman Dan Rather cried briefly as he quoted the fourth verse.

The Danish attacks had been particularly damaging to the monasteries, and though Alfred founded monasteries at Athelney and Shaftesbury, the first new monastic houses in Wessex since the beginning of the eighth century, and enticed foreign monks to England, monasticism did not revive significantly during his reign.

In the first part, Athanasius attacks several pagan practices and beliefs.

The first stage was the collection and arrangement of some spoken sayings of the historical Micah ( the material in chapters 1-3 ), in which the prophet attacks those who build estates through oppression and depicts the Assyrian invasion of Judah as Yahweh's punishment on the kingdom's corrupt rulers, including a prophecy that the Temple will be destroyed.

These first settlements were abandoned after attacks by Spanish privateers, but English privateers often used the Cayman Islands as a base and in the 18th century they became an increasingly popular hideout for pirates, even after the end of legitimate privateering in 1713.

However, further sieges followed in the course of attacks from the Arabs, a first from 674 to 678, and a second from 717 to 718.

The first reported attacks occurred in March 1995 in Puerto Rico.

Angell and his wife Lynn both died aboard American Airlines Flight 11, the first plane to hit the World Trade Center, during the September 11 attacks.

Moments later, Lee is called to his first match and his opponent turns out to be O ' Hara, who is clearly outclassed and eventually attacks Lee with broken bottles.

Godzilla has the advantage at first, eventually knocking Kong down with a vicious drop kick, and battering the gorilla unconscious with powerful tail attacks to his forehead.

On 19 March, the first Allied act to secure the no-fly zone began when French military jets entered Libyan airspace on a reconnaissance mission heralding attacks on enemy targets.

The first contacts with the African slave market were made by expeditions to ransom Portuguese subjects enslaved by pirate attacks on Portuguese ships or villages.

The network was first crushed by attacks, and then by its own userbase.

The first attacks of the Luddite movement began in 1811.

Haganah and Palmah first collaborated with the British against them, particularly during the Hunting Season, before actively joining them in the Jewish Resistance Movement, then finally choosing an official neutral position after 1946 while the Irgun and the Lehi went on their attacks against the British.

* 1982 – In one of the first militant attacks by Hezbollah, David S. Dodge, president of the American University in Beirut, is kidnapped.

* 1927 – Augusto César Sandino leads a raid on U. S. Marines and Nicaraguan Guardia Nacional that had been sent to apprehend him in the village of Ocotal, but is repulsed by one of the first dive-bombing attacks in history.

* 1976 – In New York, New York, David Berkowitz ( aka the " Son of Sam ") kills one person and seriously wounds another in the first of a series of attacks.

* 2011 – Norway is the victim of twin terror attacks, the first being a bomb blast which targeted government buildings in central Oslo, the second being a massacre at a youth camp on the island of Utøya.

" In another interview in Miami with AventuraUSA. com, Voight said he first met Giuliani " years ago " at a movie premiere in New York City and the main reason for his support was Giuliani's public poise in the wake of the September 11 attacks.

After the attacks, the identification of Mihdhar was one of the first links suggesting that Bin Laden had played a role in their organization, since Mihdhar had been seen at the Malaysian conference speaking to Bin Laden's associates.