As he approached the first farmhouse, thunder sounded behind him again, closer now and louder, like a steadily advancing drum corps.

The ostensible reason was a report by XI Corps commander Maj. Gen. Oliver O. Howard that Doubleday's corps broke first, causing the entire Union line to collapse, but Meade also had a long history of disdain for Doubleday's combat effectiveness, dating back to South Mountain.

This gave him access to a disciplined corps of workers, who also may have served as his first soldiers.

* 1809 – Two Austrian army corps are driven from Landshut by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon I of France as two French corps to the north hold off the main Austrian army on the first day of the Battle of Eckmühl.

The Corps Network began during 1985, when the nation's first 24 Corps directors banded together to secure an advocate at the federal level and a repository of information on how best to start and manage a corps.

Two groups of 10 volunteers each did join Italian forces in the fighting on the Italian front, the first as combatants and the second as a medical corps operating a Red Cross field hospital.

The classic " corps style " salute is often known as the " punch " type, where the saluting party will first punch their right arm straight forward from their body, arm parallel to the ground, hand in a fist, followed by the more traditional salute position with the right hand, left arm akimbo.

Napoleon first sent his reserve corps ( under General Lobau ) and then some elements of his Guard to engage and delay these Prussians, while maintaining his front line: these clashes in and around the village of Plancenoit were crucial to the battle.

* February 26 – first US navy captain, Sue S. Dauser of nurse corps appointed.

This included a corps of Normans which saved the situation in the first clash against the Muslims from Messina.

By the time the first class graduated, SAMS had already become " the symbol for intellectual renaissance in the officer corps ".

The Southern Han state is forced to submit to the Song Dynasty, ending not only Southern Han rule, but also the first regular war elephant corps employed in a Chinese army that had gained the Southern Han victories throughout the 10th century.

Emergency medical services may also be locally known as a first aid squad, emergency squad, rescue squad, ambulance, squad ambulance service, ambulance corps, or life squad.

The commanders of the first three corps changed frequently in 1864 and 1865.

If the corps maintained its schedule, the troops would advance as much as and have the majority of the ridge under control by 1: 00 pm of the first day.

* Battle of Paraitacene: The first battle of Western armies each with an elephant corps who fights for control over Alexander's empire.

The first Antarctic observation corps commanded by Takeshi Nagata left Japan in 1956, arriving at Antarctica on January 29 1957.

This necessitated dividing the army first into divisions and later into corps.

Perhaps the first civilization to have a dedicated force of military engineering specialists were the Romans, whose army contained a dedicated corps of military engineers known as Roman military engineering. This group was pre-eminent amongst its contemporarie.

Double-thick corps de logis had already been used in hôtels particuliers in Paris, including Le Vau's Hôtel Tambonneau, but Vaux was the first chateau to incorporate this change.

Born in Neufchâtel, Quebec, Bédard learned marksmanship as a member of the Royal Canadian Army Cadets ' 2772 cadet corps, which she joined at the age of 15, and participated in her first biathlon event at age 15.

The first men of Davout's corps arrived at this time and threw the Allies out of Telnitz before they too were attacked by hussars and reabandoned the town.

After being wounded, Rockwell joined one of the Legion's aviation corps, known as the Lafayette Escadrille, and would become the first American pilot to shoot down an enemy plane in combat.

By the end of the first day, two Union infantry corps had been almost destroyed, but had taken up positions on favorable ground.

He stopped, embarrassed, and Morgan said, `` I understand that, but I don't savvy why you'd go off and leave your jobs in the first place ''.

At the first restaurant he sensibly pulled up to go in for his dinner, and as a consequence did not see Cobb strike the open range at the mouth of the canyon and head straight across the swells for Antler.

`` They wouldn't have sold me in the first place if there'd been food enough to go around ''.

But the real beginnings of this development in him go back to the opposing of grammar school, and probably if it had not been this occasion and these Latin lines it would have been some others, such as the first prolusion, that set off this streak in him of unbridled and scathing verbal attack on an enemy.

Yet every Sunday we sinners go to that emergency room to receive first aid, and we leave unmindful that the man who ministered to us is a human being who suffers, too.

How titillating it was to go among people who did not know him as the composer, but who talked in the most glowing terms of the promise of the piece after having heard the first rehearsals.

The remarks she made about the sufferings of a lonely woman seemed so broad at first that he didn't know what to make of them, but after the sixth drink he put his arm around her and suggested that they go upstairs and look for her checkbook there.

Years later, franks-in-buns were accepted as the `` first to go '' at the New York Polo Grounds.

Another said that her arm did not go up at first `` because I wouldn't let it ; ;

She had felt that her arm wanted to go up in the first trial, but had consciously prevented it from so doing.

This was nearly completed May 23, 1901 with a promise of lights by June 10, but the first light did not go on until September 28.

The startlingly bright effect of the first washings led the Committee to order the rest of the Brumidi-Costaggini cycle cleaned and restored to go with them.

Without agreeing with every phrase in this statement, we must certainly assert the great difference between Christian love and any form of resistance, and then go on beyond the Mennonite position and affirm that Christian love-in-action must first justify and then determine the moral principles limiting resistance.

On that first day, Blanche literally thought she was going to die, or, at the very least, go out of her mind.

I'll go to bat first.

Officials estimated the combined programs would cost 5.1 million dollars the first year and would go up to 21 millions by 1966.

In fact, he went on to birdie the 6th and 8th as well, to go 4 under par for the first eight holes.

Would not the children, if they received all their food on the first day of the month, eat it up immediately, and later go hungry??

As for Cousin Alexander Carraway, the only thing Theresa could remember at the moment about him ( except his paper knife ) was that he had had exceptionally long hands and feet and one night about one o'clock in the morning the whole Stubblefield family had been aroused to go next door at Cousin Emma's call -- first Papa, then Mother, then Theresa and George.

When he at last did go to his room, he couldn't sleep and instead paced up and down before his little image of Acala, thinking first of Charlotte's tale of the man at Ryusenji, then of his biwa and the invisible Pacific waters.

Hal Yarrow was among the last to go into the suspensor and among the first to come out.

The first is called the initial arraignment and must take place within 48 hours of an individual's arrest, 72 hours if the individual was arrested on the weekend and not able to go before a judge until Monday.

Clearly we can do this: We start at the first box, choose an item ; go to the second box, choose an item ; and so on.

The 21st chapter was omitted from the editions published in the United States prior to 1986 .< ref > Burgess, Anthony ( 1986 ) A Clockwork Orange Resucked in < u > A Clockwork Orange </ u >, W. W. Norton & Company, New York .</ ref > In the introduction to the updated American text ( these newer editions include the missing 21st chapter ), Burgess explains that when he first brought the book to an American publisher, he was told that U. S. audiences would never go for the final chapter, in which Alex sees the error of his ways, decides he has lost all energy for and thrill from violence and resolves to turn his life around ( a slow-ripening but classic moment of metanoia — the moment at which one's protagonist realises that everything he thought he knew was wrong ).

England then achieved their first Ashes win at Lord's since 1934 to go 1 – 0 up.