The potential of a successful engagement at sea to change the course of history is underscored by the list of French army officers carried aboard the convoy who later formed the core of the generals and marshals under Emperor Napoleon.

Due to the situation in Iberia, Martel believed he needed a virtually full-time army — one he could train intensely — as a core of veteran Franks who would be augmented with the usual conscripts called up in time of war.

The North Korean army, by contrast, had been the beneficiary of the Soviet Union's outdated Soviet WWII-era equipment, and had a core of hardened veterans who had fought as anti-Japanese guerrillas or with the Chinese Communists.

The core units of the Paraguayan army reached Corrientes in April 1865.

The core of the army was made up of full-time professional soldiers called housecarls who had a long-standing dedication to the King.

Paul Davis says the core of Charles's army was a professional infantry which was both highly disciplined and well motivated, " having campaigned with him all over Europe ", buttressed by levies that Charles basically used to raid and disrupt his enemy, and gather food for his infantry.

In effect, the core army of the eastern Empire was destroyed, valuable administrators were killed, and all of the arms factories on the Danube were destroyed following the battle.

Michael Curtis Ford-The Ten Thousand-Is a historical novel about the 10 000 Greek mercanaries who made up the core of Cyrus's army.

In 1634 a Protestant Saxon and Swedish army had invaded Bohemia threatening the Habsburg core territories.

He appreciated that the Catholic army was significantly superior in numbers and had at its core the highly trained professional Spanish Infantry who had not been present at previous Swedish victories over the Imperials.

However, when they entered the core of Visigoth territory, trying to conquer Déols, they were defeated by an outnumbering Visigoth army, and Riothamus was forced to flee to the Burgundians, who were Roman allies.

It was one of the last major military operations of the Western Roman Empire though Visigothic soldiers also formed the core of the allied Roman army.

Two army corps, three cavalry divisions and the Central Reserve formed core of the army.

Initially the victorious French army only lightly occupied the old core of the Canton of Schwyz, but plundered the Einseideln Abbey.

This document was considered the moral core of the Japanese army and naval forces until their dissolution in 1945.

However, woodcreepers often form part of the core group at the center of flocks attending army ant swarms.

The title of " Immortals " was again revived twice under the Byzantine Empire, first as an elite heavy cavalry unit under John I Tzimiskes ( r. 969 – 976 ) and then by Nikephoritzes, the chief minister of Emperor Michael VII ( r. 1071 – 1081 ), as the core of a new central field army of the following the disastrous defeat of Manzikert by the Seljuk Turks in 1071.

Training by Russian officers beginning in 1896 led to the organization of a 1, 000-strong royal bodyguard armed with Berdan rifles that served as the core of an improved army.

The French were by contrast a classic feudal army made up of a core of 2, 500 noble cavalry, including knights and squires.

The core UNLF led by Tito Okello recruited fighters mainly from the north of Uganda and enlisted them en masse into the new national army.

The random and speedy recruitment into the national army by the core UNLF created an army that lacked discipline or professionalism and was involved in random murder, robbery and atrocities.

During the Second World War the army was the core element in the British contribution in the Normandy landings and subsequent advance across Europe.

The feeling was that he would sense an inner core of toughness and determination in the President and that plain talk by Mr. Kennedy would give him pause.

The skiff was headed for the very center of the nebula -- toward that place which, Jack knew now, could hold nothing less important than the very core of the Angel's life and religion.

In 1911, Ernest Rutherford gave a model of the atom in which a central core held most of the atom's mass and a positive charge which, in units of the electron's charge, was to be approximately equal to half of the atom's atomic weight, expressed in numbers of hydrogen atoms.

The general consensus amongst scholars is that Luwian was spoken — to a greater or lesser degree — across a large area of western Anatolia, including ( possibly ) Wilusa (= Troy ), the Seha River Land ( to be identified with the Hermos and / or Kaikos valley ), and the kingdom of Mira-Kuwaliya with its core territory of the Maeander valley.

Unlike the plum pudding model, the positive charge in Nagaoka's " Saturnian Model " was concentrated into a central core, pulling the electrons into circular orbits reminiscent of Saturn's rings.

Behind the revolving lineup and the regular sidemen, the true core of the Project was the duo of Parsons and Woolfson.

A popular application was use in home theater PC systems due to high performance and low heat output resultant from low V < sub > core </ sub > settings.

The structure of the 70 nm core was determined in 1998 and was at the time the largest atomic structure to be solved.

Originally known as Buckingham House, the building which forms the core of today's palace was a large townhouse built for the Duke of Buckingham in 1705 on a site which had been in private ownership for at least 150 years.

The Holy See accepts as valid the ordinations of the Old Catholics in communion with Utrecht, as well as the Polish National Catholic Church ( which received its orders directly from Utrecht, and was — until recently — part of that communion ); but Roman Catholicism does not recognise the orders of any group whose teaching is at variance with what they consider the core tenets of Christianity ; this is the case even though the clergy of the Independent Catholic groups may use the proper ordination ritual.

The Central Artery, as part of MassHighway's Master Plan of 1948, was originally planned to be the downtown Boston stretch of Interstate 95, and was signed as such ; a bypass road called the Inner Belt ( officially Interstate 695 ) was to pass around the downtown core to the west, through the neighborhood of Roxbury and the cities of Brookline, Cambridge, and Somerville.

BRP was developed from a core set of attributes similar to the original Dungeons & Dragons ( D & D ).

Although its Caucasian pieces were as brilliant as the earlier efforts, the book alienated the core of Pasternak's refined audience abroad, which was largely composed of anti-communist White emigres.

" Well, you'd better fatten up them skinners or all you'll get from the apple will be the core ," was the quick rejoinder.

Fighting was close, with the core of excellent Cossack infantry making up for the weakness of their cavalry ; much of the decisive fighting was by the infantry and dismounted dragoons of each side.

In that early form of chemical science, it was believed by many that the best way to heat certain materials was to mimic the supposed natural processes, occurring in the Earth's core, by which precious metals were believed to be germinated.

Carbon may also burn vigorously and brightly in the presence of air at high temperatures, as in the Windscale fire, which was caused by sudden release of stored Wigner energy in the graphite core.

This has prompted suspicion that Omega Centauri was the core of a dwarf galaxy that had been absorbed by the Milky Way.

CPANPLUS was added to the Perl core in version 5. 10. 0.

* Gradačac Castle is a citadel, also a palace of Husein " Dragon Of Bosnia " Gradaščević who was a renowned 19th-century military Bosnian Captain, overlooking the historic core of Gradačac-National monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina