Royal Marines from HMS Vulture and HMS Odin tried to come ashore to ransack the town, but were repelled by local defenders, of which many were civilians armed with hunting rifles.

Leclerc could not pinpoint the Saharianas, so he tasked the LRDG with the job of hunting them down and robbing the defenders of their mobile reserve.

" Its defenders argued that it was less cruel and dangerous than fox hunting, and one local newspaper asked " Who or what is this London Society that, usurping the place of constituted authorities, presumes to interfere with our ancient amusement?

Flower but was beaten back with slaughter by the defenders.

The rising of the peasants likewise turned to the advantage of the princes: the fearful slaughter of Frankenhausen ( 1525 ) left the princes without an enemy and the new Gospel without its natural defenders.

On the second day, the Americans used ladders and moat-bridging tools to break through the Moro fortifications, and a general slaughter of the defenders followed.

And yet, the connection of all Christians is also asserted, albeit in a way that defenders of this view usually decline, often intentionally, to elaborate more clearly or consistently.

Kerkyra, the " Door of Venice " during the centuries when the whole Adriatic was the Gulf of Venice, remained in Venetian hands from 1401 until 1797, though several times assailed by Turkish naval and land forces and subjected to four notable sieges in 1537, 1571, 1573 and 1716, in which the great natural strength of the city and its defenders asserted itself time after time.

His defenders asserted that Mordecai Richler may have been wrong on certain specific points, but was certainly not racist or anti-Québécois.

Custer's defenders, however, including historian Charles K. Hofling, have asserted that Gatling guns would have been slow and cumbersome as the troops crossed the rough country between the Yellowstone and the Little Bighorn.

Critics of Goerdeler such as the American political scientist Daniel Goldhagen have asserted that, because Goerdeler published a list of " non-Aryan " physicians to be excluded from practicing under public insurance, Goerdeler was an anti-Semite ; by contrast, Goerdeler's defenders like the Canadian historian Peter Hoffmann have argued that Goerdeler's insistence on enforcing the laws served to protect those Jewish physicians entitled to practice.

However, defenders of Pope Pius XII have asserted that Herzog had maintained friendly relations with the pontiff during and after the WW2.

Announcing the award, President of the European Parliament Jerzy Buzek said that the assembly hoped " to contribute to ending the circle of fear and violence surrounding human rights defenders in the Russian Federation ".

As the defenders became more vocal and critical of their governments ’ human rights records, their governments often responded with threats, imprisonment, and sometimes physical violence.

During the presidential elections taking place in September and November 2007, violence tended to increase and especially human rights defenders were threatened.

We may further grant to those of her ( Poetry's ) defenders who are lovers of poetry and yet not poets, the permission to speak in prose on her behalf: let them show not only that she is pleasant but also useful to States and to human life, and we will listen in a kindly spirit ; ;

* 1897 – Franco-Hova Wars: The town of Anosimena is captured by French troops from Menabe defenders in Madagascar.

Broadly, these include three main categories: forwards, whose main task is to score goals ; defenders, who specialise in preventing their opponents from scoring ; and midfielders, who dispossess the opposition and keep possession of the ball to pass it to the forwards ; players in these positions are referred to as outfield players, to discern them from the single goalkeeper.

" 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.

He is " old " because of the antiquity of the feast itself, which its defenders saw as a good old Christian custom that should be kept.

The cheirosiphōnes especially were prescribed for use at land and in sieges, both against siege machines and against defenders on the walls, by several 10th-century military authors, and their use is depicted in the Poliorcetica of Hero of Byzantium. The Byzantine dromons usually had a siphōn installed on their prow under the forecastle, but additional devices could also on occasion be placed elsewhere on the ship.

The game is quite fast and includes body contact as the defenders try to stop the attackers from approaching the goal.

The warhead is encased in a cone-shaped reentry vehicle and is difficult to detect in this phase of flight as there is no rocket exhaust or other emissions to mark its position to defenders.

The goal of the defenders is to stop the raider from returning to the home side before taking a breath. If any of the seven players cross the lobby without touching the raider he will be declared as " out ".

* 537 – Siege of Rome: King Vitiges attempts to assault the northern and eastern city walls, but is repulsed at the Praenestine Gate, known as the Vivarium, by the defenders under the Byzantine generals Bessas and Peranius.

In the context of the Arab-Israeli conflict, the term is commonly used by defenders of Israel.

Singer comments that defenders of abortion attack the second premise, suggesting that the fetus becomes a " human " or " alive " at some point after conception ; however, Singer finds this argument flawed in that that human development is a gradual process, and it is nearly impossible to mark a particular moment in time as the moment at which human life begins.

The Père Lachaise Cemetery, where the defenders of the Paris Commune made their last stand and many of them were afterwards summarily executed, is the focus of annual pilgrimages by parties and organizations of the French Left.

During the Warring States era of ancient China, there is both textual and archaeological evidence of prolonged sieges and siege machinery used against the defenders of city walls.

The marker calls out the force side (" force home " or " force away ") before starting the stall count in order to alert the other defenders to which side of the field is open to the handler.

The wedge is a configuration of two close defenders.

* May 28 – Following the invasion of the Paris Commune by Government troops, 147 Communards, the last defenders of the workers ' district of Belleville, are shot, on the last day of the " Bloody Week " ( Semaine Sanglante ) in which the Commune is crushed.

* March 21 – Vitiges attemps to assault the northern and eastern city walls with four siege towers, but is repulsed at the Praenestine Gate, known as the Vivarium, by the defenders under the Byzantine generals Bessas and Peranius.

# Similarities were blurred by the fact that proponents of wage labor won the American Civil War, in which they competed for legitimacy with defenders of chattel slavery.

Ancient tradition ascribes thirty-six dialogues and thirteen letters to him, although of these only twenty-four of the dialogues are now universally recognized as authentic ; most modern scholars believe that at least twenty-eight dialogues and two of the letters were in fact written by Plato, although all of the thirty-six dialogues have some defenders.

He believed that the Christian Church had not yet presented " its final or its most perfect aspect to the world "; that " the belief of each successive age of Christendom had as a matter of fact varied enormously from the belief of its predecessor "; that " all confessions and similar documents are, if taken as final expressions of absolute truth, misleading "; and that " there still remained, behind all the controversies of the past, a higher Christianity which neither assailants nor defenders had fully exhausted.

The Warlocks were a pillar of the Camarilla and were one of its main defenders, despite the fact that they existed almost as a subsect.

The specific books mentioned above would in fact find very few defenders, although they are typical of a genre of fiction for young people that was once common.

The encyclical lamented that the dialogues between the two churches were being criticized in “ an unacceptably fanatical way ” by some who claim to be defenders of Orthodoxy despite the fact that these dialogues are being conducted “ with the mutual agreement and participation of all local Orthodox Churches ”.

Clarke was also criticized by defenders of the Bush administration who seized on 1999 suggestions by Clarke himself of intelligence indicating a link between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda, despite the fact that by 2001, after investigation, Clarke and others concluded that no link had been established.

The name derives from the fact that this would be a refuge in case of an attack upon the city, from which arms would be supplied to the defenders.

Critic Luke Y. Thompson of The New Times stated that " defenders of the film have argued that it's actually pro-woman, due to the fact that the female lead wins in the end, which is sort of like saying that cockfights are pro-rooster because there's always one left standing ".

The German defenders were also hampered by the fact that they had no reliable intelligence as to where the actual assault would be launched ; although German forces along the Rhine had been alerted as to the general possibility of an Allied airborne attack, it was only when British engineers began to set up smoke generators opposite Emmerich and began laying a long smokescreen that the Germans knew where the assault would come.

Pamyat came out in support of the Yeltsin regime during 1993 bombing of the Russian parliament, a surprising move in view of the fact that Pamyat had many ideological sympathisers amidst the defenders of the parliament.

Understanding the fact that they were largely outnumbered, the defenders ' only hope is to delay their enemies long enough for them to negotiate.

Marx's defenders pointed to the fact that, years later ( 1871 ), records published after the fall of the Second Empire of Napoleon Bonaparte III indicated that Vogt had been secretly in the pay of the French Emperor.

" Other intelligence described the Japanese defenders as " sick and malnourished " when in fact some 6, 500 enemy from the Imperial Japanese Army and marines from the Special Naval Landing Forces held the beachhead.

As for the substance of his statement, Rumsfeld's defenders have included Canadian columnist Mark Steyn, who called it " in fact a brilliant distillation of quite a complex matter ", and Australian economist and blogger John Quiggin, who wrote, " Although the language may be tortured, the basic point is both valid and important ... Having defended Rumsfeld, I ’ d point out that the considerations he refers to provide the case for being very cautious in going to war.

After the United States and the Soviet Union became temporary allies in 1942, criticism of Serge spread to the American press, and though he had staunch defenders there, his ability to defend himself was limited by the fact that he was still distrusted by many Trotskyists.

( During the battle, the thick parapet would in fact prove to be a disadvantage to the defenders because they could not fire upon approaching troops without mounting the top of the parapet, subjecting them to enemy fire.

He was encouraged in this belief by some American deserters, who also reported the defenders as numbering only 1, 500, when in fact there were 2, 200.

" According to Roger Ebert, " Conventional wisdom in Hollywood is that any movie named The Alamo must be simplistic and rousing, despite the fact that we already know all the defenders got killed.

However, the novel has had its defenders among feminists in the academy as well, notably Alison Hennegan, pointing to the fact that the novel did raise awareness of homosexuality among the British public and cleared the way for later work that would tackle gay and lesbian issues.

To the German fortune, the Soviet intelligence overestimated the strength of the defenders to more than 60 tanks and 800 artillery while in fact there were just one tank and 70 – 80 artillery left at the Tannenberg Line.

03-1164 and 03-1165 ), a majority of the Court agreed with check-off defenders that the programs are in fact " government speech " ( an issue that was not considered in the mushroom decision ).

Much was made of this by Heywood ’ s friends and defenders during his court martial, as if to underscore their plea that Edwards ’ conduct towards the prisoners had in fact been excessively harsh and that Heywood had already suffered disproportionately and therefore had, in fact, already been punished.