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In June, 1940, Sergeant Helion, with a company of reserve troops waiting to go into battle, was sketching the hills south of the Loire River, when the war suddenly rolled in upon him.
As I got off the trolley at Kehl bridge the next morning, I was met by what looked like 5,000 students, some of whom were carrying sticks apparently for the coming `` battle '' with the police.
There was a battle on an average of once every three weeks.
But he was perpetually engaged in a battle to command his own temper.
The eventual prize in this new battle was the public printing contract that Woodruff still held.
It was the first American war in which the death rate from disease was lower than that from battle, due to the provision of trained medical personnel ( of the 200,000 officers, 42,000 were physicians ), compulsory vaccination, rigorous camp sanitation, and adequate hospital facilities.
The news of battle on Breed's Hill had already seeped through, and New York itself was now left in the hands of the local Provincial Congress.
The savage barbarian hordes of red Russian Communism descended on the Athens that was mighty Metronome, sacking and despoiling with their Bolshevistic battle cry of `` Soak the rich '!!
Assonance seems nearly as severe a curb, although in a celebrated passage William of Malmesbury declares that A Song Of Roland was intoned before the battle commenced at Hastings.
Thus at the same time that William Henry Harrison was preparing to pacify the aborigines of Indiana Territory and winning fame at the battle of Tippecanoe, Anglo-Saxon settlement made a great leap into the center of the North American continent to the west of the American agricultural frontier.
Although it was at the Battle of The Little Horn, about which more words have been written than any other battle in American history, that the 7th Cavalry first made its mark in history, the regiment was ten years old by then.
That battle scene, ridiculous as it was, remained in my mind.
Georgia's Dick Russell objected politely, and the battle was joined.
By reminding ourselves of these factors in the situation, we should, I am sure, come to a fresh realization, however painful it be, that the battle between Parker and his neighbors was fought in earnest.
After the battle of Actium, which was fought near a sanctuary of Apollo, Augustus enlarged Apollo's temple, dedicated a portion of the spoils to him, and instituted quinquennial games in his honour.
As the battle progressed, Zollicoffer was killed, Crittenden was unable to lead the Confederate force since he was probably intoxicated and the Confederates were turned back and routed by a Union bayonet charge, suffering 533 casualties from their force of 4, 000.
The term allocutio was used by the ancient Romans for the speech made by a commander to his troops, either before a battle or during it, to animate and encourage them.
The battle, as was the tradition, was named after a nearby castle called Azincourt.
Initially the festival was held in October, but due to the inclement weather and local heavy clay soil ( like the battle ) making the festival difficult it was moved to July.

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While the Hurricane was available in larger numbers and consequently played a larger role, the new Spitfire caught the popular imagination and became the aircraft associated with the battle.
The French offensive was quite successful but soon Napoleon received alarming news that the main bridge had broken and that consequently, no further reinforcements and ammunition could be brought from the southern bank, which made a protracted battle impossible.
< p > It occurred to me that if I could invent a machine – a gun – which could by its rapidity of fire, enable one man to do as much battle duty as a hundred, that it would, to a large extent supersede the necessity of large armies, and consequently, exposure to battle and disease be greatly diminished .</ p >
This is a civil war against the ultimate evil, and consequently we must identify us and them in no uncertain terms, a task which will prove to be half the battle ".
The battle field was consequently abandoned to Prince Charles and the Prussians went back to Glogau via Breslau.
A close-season boardroom takeover battle disrupted preparations for their first season back in the Conference ; consequently the club struggled to maintain efforts towards a quick return to the Football League, ending up with a 15th place finish in the Conference National.
On July 12, 1943, during the Battle of Kursk, the largest tank battle in world history took place near Prokhorovka, and the city was consequently liberated on August 5, 1943.
This line, therefore, is imposed as the only order of battle, and consequently as the basis of all fleet tactics.
The totally disorganized and demoralized Imperial and Catholic League force effectively lost all cohesion with the fall of night, and the desertion rate was consequently higher than the battle losses themselves.
He consequently did not protest when General Castaños agreed that Marshal Beresford, who was also junior to Castaños in rank, should command the combined Allied armies in any battle because there were more men in the Anglo-Portuguese force.
His energy sapped by the trip, Omega shut himself down to recharge, and was consequently unable to aid the Autobots in their battle against a reactivated, Decepticon-controlled Guardian Robot.
He consequently asked Sigurd if he would let him leave this life gloriously in a great battle.
When Lieutenant Akane Yashiro, a mazer technician, fails to kill Godzilla during her first combat engagement, she is made a scapegoat for the military's losses during the battle and consequently transferred to a desk job.
However, Hitler refused to evacuate the country and consequently the German forces in Holland later fell into Allied hands without a major battle.
For this reason, the battle has been described as ' Ulster ’ s Aughrim ' – furthermore this particular battle marked the decline of the province ’ s native aristocracy through the attrition of battle, disease and existing in a land at war for the best part of eight years, this consequently assured the successful planting and supremacy of a new wave of colonist orientated settler population.
However, there was no food for them and the fort's artillery had been placed on the British fleet for the naval battle and was consequently lost.
The stone is contemporary with the battle mentioned on the previous runestones and it is consequently possible that the stone was raised by Jomsvikings in memory of their lord.

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His reign was fairly successful, until another disastrous campaign against England led to defeat at the battle of Solway Moss ( 1542 ).
Alexander called the removal of Longstreet the critical juncture of the battle: " I have always believed that, but for Longstreet's fall, the panic which was fairly underway in Hancock's Corps would have been extended & have resulted in Grant's being forced to retreat back across the Rapidan.
Burns shows that the Gothic army's cavalry arm was actually fairly small, that Valens would actually have had more cavalry and that while the role of Fritigern's cavalry was critical to his victory, the battle was a mainly infantry versus infantry affair.
As a result of the battle, the West Saxons took three important cities, Glevum ( Gloucester ), Corinium ( Cirencester ) and Aquae Sulis ( Bath ), representing a fairly substantial area of Gloucestershire and Somerset.
'" That became their battle cry, and it could fairly be said that WNEW-FM earned the slogan " Where Rock Lives ".
There has been a long ongoing battle between communities and environmentalists versus governments and corporations about how strict and how fairly the regulations and laws are written and enforced.
It was fairly common for pirate captains to request that their bodies be dumped into the sea if they die in battle, so there corpses would not be desecrated and put on display by various navys.
Beginning fairly early after the start of the original Japanese Zoid releases, the battle story first introduced the conflict between two rival nations: the Helic Republic and Zenebas Empire.
He was a fairly popular wrestler in the United States, but was a huge attraction to fans in the United Kingdom, due in part to the WWF becoming a ratings hit on Sky Sports, as well as the promotion touring the country holding supercards such as UK Rampage which saw Smith defeat The Warlord at the London Arena in March 1991 and the Battle Royal at Royal Albert Hall in which Smith won a 20-man battle royal by eliminating Typhoon on October 13, 1991.
Szlachta from regions like the Commonwealth's eastern and southern borderlands, where combat was common, created fairly competent units, while those from peaceful regions of the Commonwealth lacked battle experience and training compared to regular-military troops or mercenaries.
His reign was fairly successful, until another disastrous campaign against England led to defeat at the battle of Solway Moss ( 1542 ).
According to most accounts ( both crusader and Muslim ), the Fatimids were caught unprepared and the battle was short, but Albert of Aix states that the battle went on for some time with a fairly well prepared Egyptian army.
Common praises often go to the game's battle system-which as stated by IGN "... can offer up a fairly wide variety of skirmishes and strategies ..." -, the Innocent Devil system and musical score.
It was a tough but ultimately fairly indecisive battle between a Venetian fleet, under Flangini, and an Ottoman fleet.
Edward was eager to make peace with the aristocracy after the battle, and things were fairly well patched up within a few years.

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