The same can be said about the half-hearted Cuban invasion mounted by the administration last April, which, we trust, is not symptomatic of the methods to be invoked in holding off the felonious Khrushchev.

This is to surrender in advance to whatever attack may yet be mounted, to the very last ; ;

They mounted a spirited rally in the last month of the 2007 regular season, winning 21 of their final 22 games, and qualified for the 2007 World Series.

At about the same time the Romans began to recruit foreign auxiliary cavalry from among Gauls, Iberians, and Numidians, the last being highly valued as mounted skirmishers and scouts ( see Numidian cavalry ).

The last horsed regiment of the Indian Army ( other than the Viceregal Bodyguard and some Indian States Forces regiments ) was the 19th King George's Own Lancers which had its last mounted parade at Rawalpindi on 28 October 1939.

Germany still maintained some mounted ( mixed with bicycles ) SS and Cossack units until the last days of the War.

The U. S. Army's last horse cavalry actions were fought during World War II: a ) by the 26th Cavalry Regiment ( PS ) in World War II — a small mounted regiment of Philippine Scouts which fought the Japanese during the retreat down the Bataan peninsula, until it was effectively destroyed by January 1942 ; and b ) on captured German horses by the mounted reconnaissance section of the U. S. 10th Mountain Division in a spearhead pursuit of the German Army across the Po Valley in Italy in April 1945.

Jacobite rebellions continued on into the mid-18th century until the son of the last Catholic claimant to the throne, ( James III & VIII ), mounted a final campaign in 1745.

However, a mounted reserve was often kept, and the heavy cavalry continued to be an important battlefield arm of European armies until the 19th century, when new and more accurate weapons made the mounted soldier too easy a target, with WWI being the last instance where cavalry played a major role in the war.

A last minute bug in the ULA as designed meant that the keyboard did not always scan correctly, which was rectified by a " dead cockroach " ( a small circuit board mounted upside down next to the CPU ) for " Issue 1 " ZX Spectrums.

After White took part in a Quincy Jones record titled Back on the Block, on the song titled " The Secret Garden ( Sweet Seduction Suite )", which topped the R & B chart in 1990, he mounted an effective comeback with several albums, each one more successful than the last.

Monzón, however, mounted a brilliant comeback and outboxed Valdez for the last 8 rounds, winning a unanimous decision to retain the title and score his 14th title defense.

A last minute gift from a wealthy donor were a pair of modern tripod mounted, gas-operated M1895 Colt-Browning machine guns in 7mm Mauser caliber.

This is the last known occasion in which a full Supermarionation production was mounted.

In 1818, a mounted forester, Spellerberg, from Lautenthal, killed the last lynx in the Harz on the Teufelsberg.

The second grenadier brigade under GM Karl Philippi von Weidenfeld and some unpanicked cavalry delayed Boudet ’ s advance long enough for O ’ Reilly ’ s cavalry to return, and together with Frimont, they mounted a last defence around Marengo village as night fell, allowing the Austrian centre to reach safety behind the Bormida.

After a dummy light was knocked down by a truck in 2010, the city of Coleman, Texas decided to preserve and refurbish its last two pedestal mounted dummy lights as part of its historic district preservation efforts.

In 2011, The Arkansas Historic Preservation Program nominated the last remaining pedestal mounted signal in Arkansas, located in Smackover, AR, to be listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

That year, Muster mounted one last deep run at Roland Garros, where he reached the quarterfinals, before falling to Spaniard Félix Mantilla in four sets.

Stanley Fort was where British and Canadian troops mounted a last stand during the Battle of Hong Kong.

His last military function was a mounted review of the 11th Hussars before their embarkation for India in May 1866.

He was on the U. S. 1912 Olympic pentathlon team and also designed the U. S. Cavalry's last combat saber: the " Patton Saber " ( the M-1913 ).

This weapon, the last saber issued to U. S. cavalry, was never used as intended.

He was one of the last men to leave the redoubt, parrying bayonet thrusts with his ceremonial saber.

The Aricaras made one last desperate charge.

Some gracefully soared from the backs of their wounded, screaming mounts to make one last defiant charge before the lead split their hearts or tore their guts.

There was a successful charge by the British 7th Dragoon Guards on the last day of the war.

The last, in Europe, cavalry vs. cavalry mutual charge took place in Poland during the battle of Krasnobrod when the Polish and German cavalry units charged each other.

The last substantive and successful classical cavalry charge of the war that made on March 1, 1945 during the Battle of Schoenfeld by the 1st " Warsaw " Independent Cavalry Brigade.

On his last journey to Jerusalem, the apostle landed at Miletus and, summoning together the elders of the church from Ephesus, delivered to them a farewell charge, expecting to see them no more.

* 1917 – World War I: Battle of Beersheba – " last successful cavalry charge in history ".

On the other side of the field, wide receiver Lance Rentzel ( who would be deactivated for the last few weeks of the season and postseason following an indecent exposure charge ; being replaced in the starting lineup by Reggie Rucker ) recorded 28 receptions for 556 yards and 5 touchdowns.

; that during the present year the Alabama Indemnity has been paid, and the charge of the Ashantee War will be met out of revenue ; and that in estimating, as we can now venture to do, the income of the coming year ( and, for the moment assuming the general scale of charge to continue as it was fixed during the last Session ), we do not fear to anticipate as the probable balance a surplus exceeding rather than falling short of 5, 000, 000l ... The first item ... which I have to set down in the financial arrangements proper for the first year is relief, but relief coupled with reform, of local taxation ... It has ... been the happy fortune of Mr. Lowe to bring it income tax down, first from 6d.

* 1945 Popular Science article that at last revealed secrets of shaped charge weapons ; article also includes reprints of 1900 Popular Science drawings of Professor Munroe's experiments with crude shaped charges

This was the last bayonet charge by the US Army.

Under the immediate charge of the superintendent, the course of study was extended to seven years with the first two and the last two to be spent at the school and the intervening three years at sea.

) The first secular priest to take charge of the mission, Reverend José Maria Rosáles, arrived on October 8, 1843 ; Father Vicente Pascual Oliva, the last resident missionary, died on January 2, 1848.

Because of the much greater distance they must travel before discharging, positive lightning strikes typically carry six to ten times the charge and voltage difference of a negative bolt and last around ten times longer.

His last recorded words were: " The city is fallen and I am still alive ", and then he tore off his imperial ornaments so as to let nothing to distinguish him from any other soldier and led his remaining soldiers into a last charge where he was killed.

A third consecutive title was won by beating Kilmarnock 5 – 1 on the last day of the season, Smith's final match in charge of the club.

Owing to the large number of casualties, York suddenly finds himself the last remaining Non-Commissioned Officer ( NCO ) and thus placed in charge.

The political situation after Suez, which had contributed to Eden's resignation, was so desperate that on taking office on 10 January he told the Queen he could not guarantee his government would last " six weeks "-though ultimately he would be in charge of the government for more than six years.

She turns out to be exactly the right person to leave in charge there, as she does not wish for the power of the Fount of the Four Worlds herself, but is quite happy to prevent others using it, since gaining its power destroyed the last of Brand's humanity, and she appears to have genuinely loved him, and lost him to his power-lust.

* John Charles Blick ( September 11, 1875 – 1960 ), who fought and won a famous hand-to-hand duel with a Ndebele after the charge broke the impis on their last effort to take Bulawayo in the Second Matabele War.

Fred Quimby retired in 1955, with Hanna and Barbera replacing him in charge of the remaining MGM cartoons ( including the last seven Tex Avery's Droopy episodes ) until 1957, when the studio shut down the H-B unit, ending all the animation productions.

The last major student strike at the university occurred in 1999 – 2000 when students shut down the campus for almost a year to protest a proposal to charge students the equivalent of US $ 150 per semester for those who could afford it.