Allied assault on the Schellenberg – taken by coup de main on 2 July – provided the Allies with an excellent river crossing.

On the third day of battle, July 3, fighting resumed on Culp's Hill, and cavalry battles raged to the east and south, but the main event was a dramatic infantry assault by 12, 500 Confederates against the center of the Union line on Cemetery Ridge, known as Pickett's Charge.

Cesare is the main antagonist of the video game Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, acting as Captain-General of the Papal army in Rome and ordering an assault on the castle-town of Monteriggioni, home to the protagonist Ezio Auditore da Firenze's uncle, Mario Auditore.

Kazin ( 1998 ) says, " The liberals who anxiously turned back the assault of the postwar Right were confronted in the 1960s by a very different adversary: a radical movement led, in the main, by their own children.

Katakis featured a rather unusual two-player mode, where the second player controlled the Force, creating a dual-role challenge-one of assault and one of protecting the vulnerable main ship.

In the meantime in Iberia, which served as the main source of manpower for the Carthaginian army, a second Roman expedition under Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Major took New Carthage by assault and ended Carthaginian rule over Iberia in the battle of Ilipa.

After the end of World War II, the assault gun fell from use with a general trend towards a single heavy gun-equipped vehicle, the main battle tank.

In response to Sherman's assault Bragg withdrew Confederate troops on the main ridge to reinforce the Confederate right flank.

Each force was to be inserted via helicopter or boat on the perimeter of the targets and then assault the main facilities.

The main French assault was launched on 25 September and at first made good progress, in spite of surviving wire entanglements and machine gun posts.

The attack involved two corps in the main assault and two more corps performing diversionary attacks at Ypres.

The key geographical features that had influenced the landings also influenced the next phase of the battle: the draws, the natural exits off the beaches, were the main targets in the initial assault plan.

In January 1916, Joffre had agreed to the BEF making their main effort in Flanders but after further discussions in February, the decision was reached to mount a combined offensive where the French and British armies were to launch their assault astride the Somme River in Picardy.

The following year Minas Tirith faced the main assault from Mordor, combined with an invasion from the Corsairs of Umbar.

The knights would remain mounted and act as scouts, flank defense, and in rare instances, the main frontal assault force.

" On 22 April, twelve days before the main battle, rocketeers worked their way around to the rear of the British encampment, then ' threw a great number of rockets at the same instant ' to signal the beginning of an assault by 6, 000 Indian infantry and a corps of Frenchmen, all directed by Mir Golam Hussain and Mohomed Hulleen Mir Mirans.

The assault was successful, but the two other main Ottoman fortresses in Rumelia held out, extending the Russo-Turkish War ( 1828-1829 ) | Russo-Turkish War for a further year

During Act II of a sold-out performance of Nord-Ost a little after 9: 00 PM, some 40-50 heavily armed and masked men and women drove in a bus to the theater and entered the main hall firing assault rifles in the air.

Although a heliborne assault managed to seize Tchepone, it was a useless victory, since the South Vietnamese could only hold the town for a short period of time before being withdrawn due to attacks on the main column.

Possibly because of Thornton's delay in crossing the river and the withering artillery fire that might hit them from across the river, the 93rd Highlanders were ordered to leave Keane's assault column advancing along the river and move across the open field to join the main force on the right of the field.

The 95th Rifles had advanced in open skirmish order ahead of the main assault force and were concealed in the ditch below the parapet, unable to advance further without support.

While emphasis was placed on the airborne assault the German messages mentioned seaborne operations, which seriously affected Freyberg's troop deployment, as he expected an amphibious landing, consequently detracting from the defence of the main German objective of the Maleme airfield.

His battalion were reinforcements that parachuted in after glider forces had landed and completed the main assault against Pegasus Bridge near Caen.

Melas renewed the main assault and the Austrians broke the central French position.

The plan, devised by Hitler, was essentially for a re-run of the invasion of 1914, with the main assault to come in the north, through Belgium and the Netherlands, then wheeling south to capture Paris, leaving the French Army anchored on the Maginot Line.

Prokofieff might well emerge as a cultural hero, who, by the force of his creative life, helped preserve the main stream of tradition, to which the surviving idioms of current experimentalism may be eventually added and integrated.

The main treaty was opened for signature on December 1, 1959, and officially entered into force on June 23, 1961.

Their main force was infantry, armed with javelins in the front ranks and pikes behind, which formed into a phalanx ; and was supported by camelmen and horsemen on the flanks.

It was during this time that he followed closely the work of the main driving force behind the new modernism, Le Corbusier, and visited him in his Paris office several times in the following years.

They deployed their main force in Thrace, forming three armies.

On 7 August, therefore, the first of Baden's 15, 000 Imperial troops ( the remainder following two days later ) left Marlborough's main force to besiege the heavily defended city of Ingolstadt, farther down the Danube.

At 02: 00 on 13 August, 40 squadrons were sent forward towards the enemy, followed at 03: 00, in eight columns, by the main Allied force pushing over the Kessel.

He has been criticized for allowing Clérambault to maintain a force of infantry in Blenheim so large that it denied the main army manpower it needed.

Marching along the coast, the French army stormed Alexandria and captured the city, before Bonaparte led the main force of his army inland.

The British Army of the Rhine was the Germany garrison formation, with the main fighting force being I ( BR ) Corps.

Breatharianism is a related concept, in which believers claim food and possibly water are not necessary, and that humans can be sustained solely by prana ( the vital life force in Hinduism ), or, according to some, by the energy in sunlight ( according to Ayurveda, sunlight is one of the main sources of prana ).

Armored Cataphracts began to be deployed in eastern Europe and the near East, following the precedents established by Persian forces, as the main striking force of the armies in contrast to the earlier roles of cavalry as scouts, raiders, and outflankers.

He had particular difficulty in believing in natural selection as the main motive force in evolution.

The remainder of the first of the two Cathar wars now essentially focused on Simon's attempt to hold on to his fabulous gains through winters where he was faced, with only a small force of confederates operating from the main winter camp at Fanjeau, with the desertion of local lords who had sworn fealty to him out of necessity — and attempts to enlarge his newfound domains in the summer when his forces were greatly augmented by reinforcements from northern France, Germany and elsewhere.

The Army, twice as large as the other services combined with about 24, 000 active duty personnel, consists of six infantry brigades, a combat support brigade, an air cavalry squadron and a combat service support brigade ; the Air Force operates two main bases, one in southern region near Santo Domingo and one in the northern region of the country, the air force operates approximately 40 aircraft including helicopters ; and the Navy maintains three aging vessels which were donated from the United States, around 25 patrol crafts and interceptor boats and two helicopters.

Roberts then led the main British force from Kabul and decisively defeated Ayub Khan in September at the Battle of Kandahar, bringing his rebellion to an end.

" Regardless, The Thin Blue Line, as Morris's film would be called, was popularly accepted as the main force behind getting its subject, Randall Adams, out of prison.

The Indian Army also gave full support to the main Bangladeshi guerrilla force, the Mukti Bahini.

The New York Times reported in September 1906 on the rationale for the changes: " The main efforts of the football reformers have been to ' open up the game '— that is to provide for the natural elimination of the so-called mass plays and bring about a game in which speed and real skill shall supersede so far as possible mere brute strength and force of weight.

A new constitution came into force on 1 January 2009 which modernised the Chapter on fundamental rights and freedoms of the individual, embedding self-determination in the main body of the constitution.

Contrary to popular belief, the Marshall Plan, which was extended to also include Western Germany after it was realized that the suppression of the Western German economy was holding back the recovery of the rest of Europe, was not the main force behind the Wirtschaftswunder.

It is widely accepted that the main driving force for the evolution of elliptical galaxies is mergers of smaller galaxies.

While their main force had constructed siege works and was close to taking the cities of Thessalonica and Cassandreia, it retreated to the Balkan interior at the news that the emperor was advancing.

The main force was provided by the Jesuit order, founded by the Spaniard Ignatius of Loyola.

A second German force was sent into Belgium and the Netherlands to act as a diversion to this main thrust.