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Among the other solo ballet dancers of the evening, Elisabeth Carroll and Ivan Allen were particularly impressive in their roles in `` The Duel '', a work that depends so much upon the precision and incisiveness of the two principal combatants.
William the Breton also says in his column that the two lines of combatants were separated by a small space.
During the 1892 – 1894 war between the Congo Free State and the Swahili-Arab city-states of Nyangwe and Kasongo in Eastern Congo, there were reports of widespread cannibalization of the bodies of defeated Arab combatants by the Batetela allies of Belgian commander Francis Dhanis.
Three-quarters of the dead were Red combatants and sympathizers.
For Silius Italicus, who wrote as the games approached their peak, the degenerate Campanians had devised the very worst of precedents, which now threatened the moral fabric of Rome: " It was their custom to enliven their banquets with bloodshed and to combine with their feasting the horrid sight of armed men fighting ; often the combatants fell dead above the very cups of the revelers, and the tables were stained with streams of blood.
Occasionally Scottish troops made up large proportions of the active combatants, and suffered corresponding loses, as at the Battle of Loos, where there were three full Scots divisions and other Scottish units.
After the fall of the November Uprising, thousands of former Polish combatants and other activists emigrated to Western Europe, where they were initially enthusiastically received.
Although the primary mission of the Order was military, relatively few members were combatants.
Their primary objectives were achieved quickly, and the combatants withdrawal began on December 27.
Typically, little distinction was made between combatants and civilians, although women and children were more likely to be spared.
The strength of the FARC – EP forces is indeterminate ; in 2007, the FARC said they were an armed force of 18, 000 men and women ; in 2010, the Colombian military calculated that FARC forces consisted of approximately 18, 000 members, 50 per cent of which were armed guerrilla combatants ; and, in 2011, the President of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, said that the FARC – EP forces comprised fewer than 8, 000 members.
In the wars in Anatolia between Mithridates VI of Pontus and Sulla of Rome, the Seleucids were largely left alone by both major combatants.
The defeated combatants were either transported to an alternate reality where medical technology was advanced enough that they could be revived from any wound or transported to the alternate reality that was Valhalla.
In November 2001, Taliban, Al-Qaeda combatants and ISI operatives were safely evacuated from Kunduz on Pakistan Army cargo aircraft to Pakistan Air Force bases in Chitral and Gilgit in Pakistan's Northern Areas in what has been dubbed the " Airlift of Evil " Former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf wrote in his memoirs that Richard Armitage, the former US deputy secretary of state, said Pakistan would be " bombed back to the stone-age " if it continued to support the Taliban, although Armitage has since denied using the " stone age " phrase.
The Easter Lily ( badge ) | Easter Lily is a badge worn at Easter by Irish republicans as symbol of remembrance for Irish combatants who died during or were executed after the 1916 Easter Rising.
The practice of enslaving enemy combatants and their villages was widespread throughout Western and West Central Africa, although wars were rarely started to procure slaves.
Although not French Navy personnel, corsairs were considered legitimate combatants in France ( and allied nations ), provided the commanding officer of the vessel was in possession of a valid Letter of Marque ( fr.
The Lynx was originally envisaged for surface combatants that were too small for the Sea King, but now equips most surface ships of the Royal Navy.
Crossbowmen were separated from the regular infantry and placed in their own units as they were prized combatants, providing effective missile fire against cavalry charges.
In June, Human Rights Watch investigated six UAV attacks which was reported to have resulted in civilian casualties, and alleged that Israeli forces either failed to take all feasible precautions to verify that the targets were combatants, or failed to distinguish between combatants and civilians.
After many years of fighting, the Orcs were defeated by a coalition of humans, dwarves and elves known as the Alliance ; the surviving combatants were herded into internment camps, where they seemed to lose their lust for battle.

combatants and army
The number and quality of combatants and equipment, the skill of the commanders of each army, and the terrain advantages are among the most prominent factors.
Guerrilla warfare is a form of irregular warfare in which a small group of combatants including, but not limited to, armed civilians ( or " irregulars ") use military tactics, such as ambushes, sabotage, raids, petty warfare, the element of surprise, and extraordinary mobility to harass a larger and less-mobile traditional army, or strike a vulnerable target, and withdraw almost immediately.
In Belgium, after four years of war, as of 26 May 1918, the army had 166, 000 men of which 141974 were combatants, forming twelve infantry divisions and one cavalry division.
Zapata ’ s army was unique in that he allowed women to join the ranks and serve as combatants.
Only in Zapata ’ s army were there large numbers of women combatants: some were even officers.
In the Roman provinces, Sarmatian combatants were enlisted in the Roman army, whilst the rest of the population was distributed throughout Thrace, Macedonia and Italy.
Alon Kadish and Avraham Sela write that it was " an intense battle where the demarcation between civilians, irregular combatants and regular army units hardly existed.
The army of the Kingdom of Serbia accounted for 348, 000 men ( out of which 252, 000 were combatants ) divided into three armies with ten divisions.
By August 17, the Satsuma army had been reduced to 3000 combatants, and had lost most of its modern firearms and all of its artillery.
However, it was not until seven years into the conflict and only one year before the Treaty of Paris ( 1783 ) officially ended the war, and primarily as a consequence of the Battle of Yorktown in 1781 resulting in the second British army of the war being captured, that American combatants were finally recognized as POWs by the Parliament of Great Britain in 1782.
The combined forces of Mariño's and Bolívar were defeated again at Aragua de Barcelona on August 18, at a cost of 2, 000 royalist casualties of the 10, 000 troops they fielded, most of the 3, 000 combatants in the republican army, in addition to many civilian casualties.
Since the Aztec army was larger than their adversaries that were normally smaller city states and since the number of combatants on each side were fixed, the Aztec army were sending a much smaller percentage of their total forces than their opponents.
Indian officials claim that troops need such powers because the army is only deployed when national security is at serious risk from armed combatants.
Warcasters serve multiple roles: in addition to guiding the warjacks ' destructive power, they are the army commanders and potent combatants.
Soldiers who are wearing uniforms of the opposing army after the start of combat may be considered illegal combatants and subject to summary execution.
A routed army often degenerates into a sense of " every man for himself " as the surviving combatants attempt to flee to safety.
The number of Indian combatants and Indian casualties were often overestimated by the army.
Half of the Tumlinson Ranger's corps protected the non combatants, accompanying them toward Nacogdoches along the San Antonio Road, with the remainder serving as rear guard between the Texan army below and the three pursuing Mexican vanguards.
Normally an army operates with military discipline, but in the heat of a battle combatants may act on opportunities, or take risks, contrary to this discipline – perhaps because of the perception that it is necessary to survive or that nobody gives a damn.

combatants and Abu
The practice of ghosting first achieved widespread attention in 2004 when the Washington Post broke a story suggesting that the U. S. Army and the CIA were detaining " unlawful enemy combatants " at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq with little or no due process.
In the Spring of 2003, while secretly traveling undetected to Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, Abu Hafiza recruited Al Qaeda combatants for the battles in Fallujah.

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