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The exhaustion of the French troops was such that, towards 16: 00 a brief moment of panic occurred at Wagram.
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In 1914, at the age of 41, he enlisted in the French Army and served against Germany in World War I. Invalided out of the army three times, Barbusse would serve in the war for 17 months, until the end of 1915, when he was permanently moved into a clerical position due to pulmonary damage, exhaustion, and dysentery.
The state of exhaustion of the French forces and lack of information on the Russian Army's condition led Napoleon to remain on the battlefield with his army instead of the forced pursuit that had marked other campaigns that he had conducted in the past.
Dust, smoke, confusion, and exhaustion all combined to keep the French commanders on the field ( Davout, Ney, and Murat ) from comprehending that all the Russians before them had fallen back, were in confusion, and ripe for the taking.
Napoleon noted with disgust that it was the first time that the cavalry let him down, but, given the state of exhaustion and the losses sustained by the French forces, MacDonald would have probably been unable to follow up any breakthrough achieved by the cavalry anyway.
The French resumed their pursuit towards 14: 00, as the extreme exhaustion of the army prevented an early start.
Their exhaustion was countered by soigneurs ( the French word for " carers "), helpers akin to seconds in boxing.
The demanding production required Paige to sing 15 songs, some in French, and to be on stage for 2 hours 40 minutes in total, and forced her to leave early due to exhaustion.
inserted agents, Don John surrounded the seething city with his forces until the exhaustion of the insurgents and the follies of their French leader, Henry, duke of Guise allowed him to move in, crush the remains of the revolt and drive out the, by then, despised French.
Their exhaustion was countered by soigneurs ( the French word for " carers "), helpers akin to seconds in boxing.
During World War II, Cunard worked, to the point of physical exhaustion, as a translator in London on behalf of the French Resistance.
The exhaustion of the powers brought the fighting to an end in 1697, by which time the French were in control of the Spanish Netherlands and Catalonia.
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Rather than attempt an ambush on those troops, which significantly outnumbered his tired company, Allen withdrew to the other side of the river, where the men collapsed with exhaustion and slept without sentries through the night.
At the end of the day, the Union Army was largely vulnerable, and subject to elimination by Beauregard, had he been able to continue the fight, but for the exhaustion of his troops.
Being increasingly concerned about the heavy casualties sustained in taking Shanghai combined with the concomitant exhaustion of the troops and deteriorating military discipline, the General Staff Headquarters in Tokyo decided not to expand the war front any further.
Seton carried out a spirited defence ; but by the end of June, under repeated attack by land and sea, his troops were close to exhaustion.
At Laar-Neerwinden the eventual success of the attack was bought only at the price of the utter exhaustion of the troops.
Under continuous fire, the advance began to slow as troops dropped from heat exhaustion.
They could not retreat owing to the exhaustion of their troops, and they were short on ammunition.
All forces involved were reaching exhaustion and the offensive finally died down in late September and ended as Russian troops had to be transferred to help Romania, which was being overrun by Austro-Hungarian, German and Bulgarian forces.
Starting at Helles on 28 April, three days after the initial landings, the attack broke down due to poor leadership and planning, lack of communications and exhaustion and demoralisation of the troops.
This proved to be a greater test of staff and troops than anticipated, and many men dropped from thirst or exhaustion.
Because it lacked sufficient troops and those of the 26th VG Division were near exhaustion, the XLVII Panzer Corps concentrated its assault on several individual locations on the west side of perimeter in sequence rather than launching one simultaneous attack on all sides.
General Reno did not pursue them because of his losses and his troops ' exhaustion.
Canadian troops taking part in Operation Anaconda in Afghanistan made good use of this vehicle, riding over rough mountainous terrain with full combat gear, allowing the men to avoid the exhaustion they would have felt moving on foot at such high altitudes and in such conditions.
The headquarters of the 2nd Shock Army reported 259 troops fit for combat within the 109th Rifle Division and a total exhaustion of the army at the night before 1 August, which probably meant a few thousand troops fit for combat out of the 46, 385 men who had initiated the Estonian Operation on 25 July.
The situation had been less than clear for Arredondo and he was prepared to order his troops to fall back, when he seems to have been informed by a defector that the Republican troops were also attempting to disengage due to exhaustion.
As a result of the exhaustion of the troops, the 2nd Division was relieved by the Australian 4th Division by 12 October.
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Al-Maqqari quotes prior Muslim historians as having recorded that Abd al-Rahman said he was so overcome with fear at that moment, that once he made the far shore he ran until exhaustion overcame him.
Agriculture prospered, as did all sectors except for coal mining, which was operating mines near exhaustion.
Although the aging Hannibal was suffering from mental exhaustion and deteriorating health after years of campaigning in Italy, the Carthaginians still had the advantage in numbers and were boosted by the presence of 80 war elephants.
Address exhaustion was not initially a concern in IPv4 as this version was originally presumed to be an internal test within ARPA, and not intended for public use.
By the time he reached his late 50s, he was suffering from an irregular heartbeat as well as severe physical and nervous exhaustion.
Among the propositions Wycliffe, at the direction of the government, worked out for parliament was one that speaks out distinctly against the exhaustion of England by the Curia.
) The area enclosed by a parabola and a line segment, the so-called " parabola segment ", was computed by Archimedes via the method of exhaustion in the third century BC, in his The Quadrature of the Parabola.
As Robyn's popularity grew across the globe, especially in the United States, she was diagnosed with exhaustion and quickly returned to Sweden to recover.
A study was conducted with both sedentary and active females 18 – 25 years old in which the effects of short-term exercise to exhaustion on working memory was measured.
" The day of the drop, October 20, was marked by " stony-faced traders whose sense of humor had abandoned them and in the exhaustion of stock exchange employees struggling to maintain orderly trading.
Their goal was to slow the growth of routing tables on routers across the Internet, and to help slow the rapid exhaustion of IPv4 addresses.
No longer getting the group dynamic he wanted, and pleading " exhaustion " from the grueling schedule, Tork bought out the remaining four years of his contract after filming was complete on December 20, 1968, at a default of $ 150, 000 / year.
After German Emperor Wilhelm II was forced to abdicate following the exhaustion and defeat of the German Empire in World War I, monarchic rule ended in Oldenburg as well with the abdication of Grand Duke Frederick Augustus II of Oldenburg ( Friedrich August II von Oldenburg ) on 11 November 1918.
Mencken advised Valentino to " let the dreadful farce roll along to exhaustion ", but Valentino insisted the editorial was " infamous.
He rigorously developed Antiphon's method of exhaustion, a precursor to the integral calculus which was also used in a masterly way by Archimedes in the following century.
During promotional appearances for this album it became clear that Matthews was not coping well with the increased pressure, suffering from anxiety and nervous exhaustion which resulted in the cancellation of several tour dates and a deterioration in the relationships between the band members.
Heraclius did not impose harsh terms, knowing that his own empire was also near exhaustion.
The band also toured Japan ; a later tour of the US, starting in Minneapolis in June 1997, was cancelled due to illness when McCrea was diagnosed with " fatigue and extreme exhaustion ".
The report concluded further nuclear development was needed to fill the deficit left by the exhaustion of coal deposits and to reduce dependence on oil producers.
It was included in the first women's track programme in 1928, but suspended until 1960 because of shock and the exhaustion it caused the competitors.
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