One year later Guthrum, or Athelstan by his baptismal name, Alfred ’ s former enemy and king of East Anglia, died and was buried in Hadleigh, Suffolk.

In both cases, the reaction would have been the same — avoid the trap and immediately take advantage of the enemy ’ s stupidity.

Lord Cutts ’ column – who by 10: 00 had expelled the enemy from two water mills upon the Nebel – had already deployed by the river against Blenheim, enduring over the next three hours severe fire from a heavy six-gun battery posted near the village.

" Marlborough, spotting this error, now countermanded Cutts ’ intention to launch a third attack, and ordered him simply to contain the enemy within Blenheim ; no more than 5, 000 Allied soldiers were able to pen in twice the number of French infantry and dragoons.

As the French ranks wavered, the leading squadrons of Württemberg ’ s Danish horse – now unhampered by enemy fire from either village – were also sent into the attack and fell upon the exposed flank of the Franco-Swiss infantry and dragoons.

He came to see the lethargic and demoralized Göring, still Germany ’ s economic supremo as head of the Four Year Plan Ministry, as his main enemy.

Being lighter than the spear, the javelin would be thrown rather than thrust and thus allowed long distance attacks against one ’ s enemy.

When the enemy ’ s heavy forces marched on December 1762 and arrived at Harnamadi in January 1763, they found all the local houses already evacuated and the area short of food provisions.

Odysseus ’ protectress, the goddess Athena, discusses his fate with Zeus, king of the gods, at a moment when Odysseus ' enemy, the god of the sea Poseidon, is absent from Mount Olympus.

Often, however, that purpose is to achieve a nation ’ s aims by transferring war guilt, demonizing an enemy, providing an illusion of victory, or preserving friendship.

His record is connected to the Hungarians on the basis that the new fortress must have become necessary because of the appearance of a new enemy of the Khazars, and other peoples could not be taken into account as the Khazars ’ enemies at that time.

“ Throughout his career Capra depended upon his skill as an editor to achieve the contrast of the individual and the group, critical in the success of his Hollywood movies .” Capra thought it would be most effective to use the enemy ’ s original film and propaganda in the series in order to expose the enemies with their own images.

Indeed, he said that Constantine had been a worse enemy to true Christianity than Nero because Constantine ’ s support had corrupted Christianity and led to the death of the Christian church.

It fought in three campaigns on behalf of the Soviet Union between 22 March 1943, and 9 May 1945, during which time it destroyed 273 enemy aircraft and received numerous orders, citations and decorations from both France and the Soviet Union, including the French Légion d ’ Honneur and the Soviet Order of the Red Banner.

On 16 October, the first day of a new offensive against East Prussia, the regiment ’ s pilots claimed 29 enemy aircraft destroyed without loss.

When placed together in formation, units can provide an effective defensive front, block an enemy force ’ s escape route, or exploit bad positioning of an enemy force by surrounding it.

Seeing this, Caesar ordered the warships – which were swifter and easier to handle than the transports, and likely to impress the natives more by their unfamiliar appearance – to be removed a short distance from the others, and then be rowed hard and run ashore on the enemy ’ s right flank, from which position the slings, bows and artillery could be used by men on deck to drive them back.

Each giant wields a distinctive weapon — an iron club in Ereuthalion ’ s case, a massive bronze spear in Goliath ’ s ; each giant, clad in armor, comes out of the enemy ’ s massed array to challenge all the warriors in the opposing army ; in each case the seasoned warriors are afraid, and the challenge is taken up by a stripling, the youngest in his family ( Nestor is the twelfth son of Neleus, David the seventh or eighth son of Jesse ).

Not all of Forrest ’ s feats of individual combat involved enemy troops.

Lt. A. Wills Gould, an artillery officer in Forrest ’ s command, was being transferred presumably because cannons under his command were spiked by the enemy during the Battle of Day's Gap.

Despite some early battles between the two, Cortés allied himself with the Aztecs ’ long-time enemy, the Confederacy of Tlaxcala, and arrived at the gates of Tenochtitlan on November 8, 1519.

On March 16, 1955, the United States Air Force officially ordered the development of an advanced reconnaissance satellite to provide continuous surveillance of ' preselected areas of the earth ' in order ' to determine the status of a potential enemy ’ s war-making capability '.

Medieval trebuchet s could sling about two projectiles per hour at enemy positions.

First, Pompey was not even a praetor, on which grounds a triumph had been denied in 206 BC to the great Scipio Africanus, who had defeated Rome ´ s outstanding enemy, Hannibal, and brought Rome an entire province in Hispania.

Pelayo ´ s captain Cayetano Valdés warned Santísima Trinidad to fly her flag again under threat she would be deemed an enemy ship and raked.

Do you think the enemy ’ s sailed away?

Helen ’ s open admiration of both the Greek and Trojan warriors is viewed as ironic, as it seems odd that the major cause of a war that has brought devastation to the Trojans should praise the enemy.

Stormbringer has a " brother " sword named Mournblade, which was at one time wielded by Elric ’ s cousin and enemy Yyrkoon.

Morgan was ordered to attack the enemy, who had meantime moved to Edge Hill on the left of the Americans.

The Thracians and the other auxiliaries who were left in the camp, in total seven cohorts, defended bravely, but they were not able to fend off the enemy assault.

Overkirk's squadrons – 48 Dutch, supported on their left by 21 Danish – steadily advanced towards the enemy ( taking care not to prematurely tire the horses ), before breaking into a trot to gain the impetus for their charge.

Piotr Dunin decided not to wait for the enemy and attacked first, setting infantry with crossbows at left, defended by cavalry between the tabor and the coast of the nearby lake of Rogoźnica.

Enemies turn " angry " – becoming pink-colored and moving faster – if they are the last enemy remaining, escape from a bubble after being left too long, or a certain amount of time has been spent on the current level.

As quoted from a Byzantine essay: " charged into the sea of the enemy soldiers, hitting left and right in a final act of defiance.

Under Louis XIV France achieved military supremacy over its rivals, but escalating conflicts against increasingly powerful enemy coalitions checked French ambitions and left the kingdom bankrupt at the opening of the 18th century.

# the " horns ", or flanking right and left wing elements, to encircle and pin the enemy.

Unlike depth charges, mines are deposited and left to wait until they are triggered by the approach of, or contact with, an enemy vessel.

He left school at the age of 16 and took up a clerical job with Elder Dempster, a Liverpool shipping company headed by Alfred Lewis Jones, later an enemy on the Congo issue .< ref > Seamas O Siochain, Roger Casement, Imperialist, Rebel, Revolutionary p. 15

: Only when each people, left to itself, develops and forms itself in accordance with its own peculiar quality, and only when in every people each individual develops himself in accordance with that common quality, as well as in accordance with his own peculiar quality-then, and then only, does the manifestation of divinity appear in its true mirror as it ought to be ; and only a man who either entirely lacks the notion of the rule of law and divine order, or else is an obdurate enemy thereto, could take upon himself to want to interfere with that law, which is the highest law in the spiritual world!

Desslar, the enemy defeated in the first season and left without a home or a people, recognizes that his foes are fighting for the same things he fought for and, eventually, becomes Earth's most important ally.

At the advance of Agesilaus ' forces, instead of giving the order to charge, Chabrias famously ordered his men at ease — with the spear remaining pointing upwards instead of towards the enemy, and the shield leaning against the left knee instead of being hoisted against the shoulder.

Then to his glance appeared the accurst swordbelt surmounting Turnus ' shoulder, shining with its familiar studs — the strap Young Pallas wore when Turnus wounded him and left him dead upon the field ; now Turnus bore that enemy token on his shoulder — enemy still.

Each vehicle would alternate its machine guns and / or cannon to the left or right respectively, firing continuously to cover the flanks on both sides of the column and suppress enemy counterfire.

Flavius Arrianus marched against the Alani in the 1st century and left a detailed report ( Ektaxis kata Alanoon or ' War Against the Alans ') that is a major source for studying Roman military tactics, but doesn't reveal much about his enemy.

Napoleon then left his men and returned to Paris, to prepare the defence against the advancing Russians, and the campaign effectively ended on 14 December 1812, when the last enemy troops left Russia.

Pawns other than rook pawns ( those on the a-and h-files ) can also be used to fork by attacking two enemy pieces diagonally — one to the left, the other to the right.

Meeting with Lee, Longstreet was concerned about the strength of the Union defensive position and advocated a strategic movement around the left flank of the enemy, to " secure good ground between him and his capital ," which would presumably compel the Union commander, Maj. Gen. George G. Meade, to attack defensive positions erected by the Confederates.

Defeating the two enemy vessels, the Rose then cleared out the thirty-man garrison left by the Spanish and French.

The " coffres " (" wall bunkers ") protecting the fort's moats with Hotchkiss revolving cannons had been left unmanned and thus the moats were wide open to enemy entry.

Making a political alliance with the Empress Dowager, and becoming a lasting enemy of the Guangxu Emperor, Yuan left the capital in 1899 for his new appointment as Governor of Shandong.

On March 15, 1945, Buck was wounded in his left leg and forearm by shrapnel while crossing the last ( Remagen ) bridge into Germany to stop enemy fire.