Meanwhile, to support his weak right flank, Napoleon ordered Davout's III Corps to force march all the way from Vienna and join General Legrand's men, who held the extreme southern flank that would bear the heaviest part of the Allied attack.

It was one of the heaviest Allied tanks of the war.

** In one of the heaviest and most concentrated air attacks thus far in World War II, Allied aircraft drop 1, 571 tons ( 1, 425, 202 kg ) of bombs on Pantelleria.

The SPD suffered the heaviest losses in its history and was unable to form a coalition government.

The second heaviest losses were during the U. S. Army's final offensive of the war, operation Dewey Canyon II ( Dewey Canyon II was an operation in support of the ARVN Lam San 719 Operation, in which the code 719 meant the year 1971 along Route 9 ), when the cavalry's remaining Sheridan Squadrons met near disaster on the Lao border during the early months of 1971, in particular the 1st Squadron of the 1st Cavalry Regt.

But it was in his eagerness for battle, his quick decision in action, and the stern will which sent his regiments to face the heaviest losses, that Condé is exalted above all the generals of his time.

Cameron claimed 80 Māori losses, the heaviest loss of Hauhau tribes in the West Coast campaign.

The 13th Battalion, still part of the 5th Parachute Brigade, suffered the heaviest losses.

Immediately after the fall of the Taliban, Paktia was one of the most chaotic regions in the country, as a small civil war broke out between rival militia commanders for control of the province, and Taliban and Al-Qaeda fighters gave occupying U. S. troops some of their heaviest losses in the cave complexes south of Gardez.

The King's losses accumulated, surpassing 1, 800 by the 3rd, with the supporting 1 / 8th's casualties the heaviest at 18 officers and 304 other ranks.

As an important ally of Mao Zedong ’ s efforts to regain control of the Chinese Communist Party, Kang was an important enabler of and participant in the Cultural Revolution, later described by the Party Central Committee as having “ lasted from May 1966 to October 1976 ” and as “ responsible for the most severe setback and heaviest losses suffered by the Party, the state and the people since the founding of the People ’ s Republic .” The Central Committee resolution concluded that the Cultural Revolution “ was initiated and led by Comrade Mao Zedong .” In outlining the “ errors ” that had been made by Mao and others in the run-up to the Cultural Revolution, the Central Committee noted that “ areerists like Lin Biao, Jiang Qing and Kang Sheng, harbouring ulterior motives, made use of these errors and inflated them .”

However, as it would be in wars such as these, yellow fever caused the heaviest losses because the Spanish had not acquired the childhood immunity that the Cuban troops had.

" Fatalities, he concluded, " closely approach, percentage-wise, the heaviest losses in our Civil War battles.

The hardest fighting and heaviest losses fell on the brigades of Brig.

The 7th Cavalry took the heaviest losses.

The North Vietnamese absorbed and inflicted heavy losses, foreshadowing the heaviest fighting to come.

A 119-page document faulted Mao for the Cultural Revolution that lasted from May 1966 until Mao's death in October 1976, described as " responsible for the most severe setback and heaviest losses suffered by the party, the state and the people ", but added that " an error comprehensive in magnitude and protracted in duration ... was the error of a great proletarian revolutionary.

* August 15, 1940, Schwarzer Donnerstag (" Black Thursday "), when the German Luftwaffe mounted its largest number of sorties during the Battle of Britain, and suffered its heaviest losses ; known in Britain as " The Greatest Day ".

At the exact timing, the Egyptian fire erupted along the front line and the Israelis suffered the greatest losses in a few hours and the destruction of part of the Bar Lev Line positions in the heaviest artillery gun battles witnessed in front before 1973.

Production of heavier elements, from carbon to the very heaviest elements, proceeds by stellar nucleosynthesis, and these were made available for later solar system and planetary formation by planetary nebulae and supernovae, which blast these elements into space.

The heaviest orders were at the bottom, whilst the lightest came at the top.

They progressed to the next round, where they were beaten 4 – 1 by Germany, their heaviest defeat in a World Cup.

* Ouvrages ( 6 ): These fortresses were the most important fortifications on the Maginot Line, having the sturdiest construction and the heaviest artillery.

At one time the cars were billed as the " biggest, heaviest, fastest and most powerful " of all touring cars.

The heaviest pieces were located in eight gun casemates and four open positions while the lighter guns were housed in 35 pillboxes.

Casualties were heaviest among the troops landing at either end of Omaha.

The heaviest casualties were taken by the infantry, tanks and engineers in the first landings.

Pontiac engineers ran early tests of this motor by literally cutting off the left bank of pistons and adding counterweights to the crankshaft, and were surprised to find it easily maintained the heaviest Pontiacs at over.

Since these engagements were almost invariably won by the heaviest ships carrying the most powerful guns, the natural progression was to build sailing vessels that were the largest and most powerful of their time.

There are 10 bells with the heaviest weighing 24cwt-3qr-25 lbs in D, the back eight bells were cast in 1928 by Mears & Stainbank, London and 2 trebles added in 2000 cast by Whitechapel Bell Foundry, London.

The heaviest criticism from the Kemeny Commission concluded that " fundamental changes were necessary in the organization, procedures, practices ' and above all – in the attitudes ' of the NRC the nuclear industry.

They were replaced by a new set of eight in 1791 ; the heaviest, the tenor, weighing 26 cwt.

The species of Smilodon were among the largest felids ever to live ; the heaviest specimens of the massively built carnivore S. populator may have exceeded.

The planes were forbidden from using aerial torpedoes, would be permitted only two hits on the battleship using their heaviest bombs, and would have to stop between hits so that a damage assessment party could go aboard.

The heaviest bombing raid on Nuneaton took place on 17 May 1941, when 100 people were killed, 380 houses were destroyed, and over 10, 000 damaged, a few smaller raids took place on the town, most notably on 25 June 1942.

The Iowa class battleships were designed after the beginning of World War II, and they took full advantage of the escalator clause ( 16-inch guns, 45, 000 standard displacement ); other than the monstrous Yamato class, the Iowa class was the heaviest class of battleship ever put to sea ( The Vanguard was heavier than the Iowas at standard loading, but lighter at full load ).

Some daily commuters felt the extra cost was unjustifiable, but most drivers were quite happy to pay in order to get some of the heaviest traffic out of the city centre.

The heaviest casualties of the battle were felt during this attack by the 10th Missouri Confederate Infantry, which was caught in the open, at the flank of the Confederate forces.

The Mark 8 shells gave the North Carolina, South Dakota, and Iowa classes the second heaviest broadside of all battleship classes, although the North Carolina and South Dakota ships were treaty battleships.

Large numbers of Mallet designs for narrow gauge railways were built, but in 1889 the first six standard gauge examples were built by J A Maffei for the Swiss Central railways, and an 87 tonne 0-6-6-0T banker ( US: pusher ) for the Gotthard Bahn, the last being the most powerful and heaviest locomotive in the world at the time.

Facing the heaviest antiaircraft artillery fire of the war, American helicopter crews have suffered casualties of 176 killed, 1, 942 wounded, and 42 missing, with 107 helicopters destroyed and 600 damaged.

Dott's season came to an unceremonious end at the World Championship as he suffered his heaviest ever defeat at the event.

It was at this point that the Swedes suffered their heaviest casualties.

* HX 212 suffered the heaviest loss of any HX convoy in 1942.

The heaviest damage was in the South Hall of the market, the portion occupied by vendors ' stalls, where the roof suffered a partial collapse.

Charlie Company suffered 45 dead and more than 50 wounded, the heaviest casualties of any unit that fought on Albany.

The enforced merger came just after Glasgow had shown some signs of progress by qualifying for the Heineken Cup quarter-final play-offs, in which they suffered their heaviest defeat ( 90 – 19 ) to Leicester Tigers.

It was the heaviest naval defeat the Ottomans had suffered since the Battle of Lepanto, and enabled the Venetians to occupy the strategically important islands of Tenedos and Lemnos, thus establishing a tight blockade of the Straits.

The Queen's principal secretary, Sir Robert Cecil, rated this defeat ( and the simultaneous defeat of Harrington in Wicklow ) as the two heaviest blows ever suffered by the English in Ireland.

Limerick first competed in 1960 in the European Cup against Young Boys Berne, but suffered their heaviest aggregate defeat.

Regardless, during February 1967 the Australians suffered their heaviest casualties in the war to that point, losing 16 men killed and 55 wounded in a single week, the bulk during Operation Bribie.

The heaviest casualties were suffered by the 111th Battalion ( 31 killed and 58 wounded ) and the 2nd Legion Battalion ( 12 killed and 68 wounded ).

Without the injured Mike Teague for the opening test, the Lions suffered a 30-12 defeat in Sydney, their heaviest defeat by Australia.

Without the injured England and Gloucester loose-forward Mike Teague for the opening test, the Lions suffered a 30-12 defeat in Sydney, their heaviest defeat by Australia.

McLean's debut for Dundee came in the Dundee derby at Dens Park on 11 September 1965 when Dundee suffered their heaviest ever defeat ( 5 – 0 ) to rivals Dundee United.

Matsui's men suffered the heaviest casualties of any formation in this costly operation.

After the American League emerged as a rival in the 20th century, many players began deserting the NL for the new league, and Boston suffered the heaviest casualties.