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The objective of the campaign was to prevent the transit of People's Army of Vietnam ( PAVN ) personnel and supplies on the logistical corridor known as the Ho Chi Minh Trail ( the Truong Son Road to the North Vietnamese ) that ran from the southwestern Democratic Republic of Vietnam ( North Vietnam ) through the southeastern portion of the Kingdom of Laos and into the Republic of Vietnam ( South Vietnam ).
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The absence of royal authority enabled Ordoño II to easily campaign in this area, his main objective being the city of Mérida, in the summer of 915.
They then headed south down the coast of Attica, en route to complete the final objective of the campaign — to punish Athens.
Plunder in itself was often the objective of a military campaign, to either pay mercenary forces, seize resources, reduce the fighting capacity of enemy forces, or as a calculated insult to the enemy ruler.
If the main objective of a campaign was not the conquest of a particular city, it could simply be passed by.
When the main objective of the campaign had been fulfilled, the Hittite army returned to Carchemish and the city fell after an eight-day siege.
The terms tactic and strategy are often confused: tactics are the actual means used to gain an objective, while strategy is the overall campaign plan, which may involve complex operational patterns, activity, and decision-making that lead to tactical execution.
Grant's campaign objective was not the Confederate capital of Richmond, but the destruction of Lee's army.
Grant's campaign objective was not the Confederate capital of Richmond, but the destruction of Lee's army.
* The objective of the fourth mission in the Ghengis Khan campaign of the video game Age of Empires 2 is to destroy the city of Samarkand.
The next objective in the campaign was the Earl of March's castle at Dunbar, a few miles up the coast from Berwick.
While campaign games can have many different objectives, the sole objective in multiplayer games is to destroy all the buildings of the opposition.
The objective was a short, sharp march west to Datong via the Xuanfu garrison, a campaign into the steppe and then a return to Beijing by a southerly route through Yuzhou.
Moreover, the great port of Dunkirk, which had been the principal objective of Maurice's campaign, lay out of reach and in Spanish hands.
Besides the fighting this becomes a very important objective through all campaign.
As the air war against Germany increased from 1943, " dehousing " German workers became an objective of the Allied area bombing campaign, and Ley's commissariat was increasingly unable to cope with the resulting housing crisis.
This air campaign eventually succeeded in its objective, forcing the Royal Air Force to move its planes to Alexandria.
At Sari Bair they were the only troops in the whole campaign to reach and hold the crest line and look down on the Straits, which was the ultimate objective.
After the success of Dettington, the 1744 campaign was another frustration as the Allies forces now led by George Wade failed to compete their objective of capturing Lille, fought no major battles, and returned to winter quarters at Ghent without anything to show for their efforts.
That campaign, and a second one in 1791 led by territorial Governor Arthur St. Clair, both failed in the objective of pacifying the Native Americans, and Knox was widely blamed for the failure to protect the frontier.
The Sport article was labeled " objective " by Sam Lacy, who wrote in the Baltimore Afro-American, " Statistics show that eight colored players in the two major leagues were hit by pitches a total of 68 times during the 1951 campaign, an average of times per man.
By December 1942, with Allied forces advancing through Tunisia the North African campaign was coming to a close ; with victory in North Africa imminent, discussions began among the Allies regarding the nature of their next objective.
In late September 2006, the C16 experimental campaign was started, with the objective of studying ITER-like operation scenarios.
The Romans had had a tremendous advantage throughout their campaign from their much more limited political objective.
Where protests are part of a systematic and peaceful campaign to achieve a particular objective, and involve the use of pressure as well as persuasion, they go beyond mere protest and may be better described as cases of civil resistance or nonviolent resistance.
* Inventory objective or Insertion order, a business document specifying the inventory goal of an advertising campaign
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His objective was, essentially, to repair those aspects of orthodox astronomy responsible for its deficiencies in achieving these ends.
The impression was unmistakable that, whatever one may choose to call it, natural law is a functioning generality with a certain objective existence.
At these times he felt a kind of pain in his upper chest, but it was an objective pain, in no way different from others in intensity and not different in kind ; ;
The objective behind this action was to place in one agency the responsibility for the management, assignment, and replacement of all vehicles.
In dealing with these frequencies, the objective listed first above -- provision of service to all listeners -- was predominant ; ;
In this case, then, the military objective was accomplished with an epidemic agent solely through the results secured in the initial attack.
An objective scale was developed for rating school neighborhoods from these data.
To free the factors of production was a major objective of the rising bourgeoisie, and this objective required that governmental authority -- administrative officials and judges -- be limited as precisely and explicitly as possible ; ;
The objective of the study was to determine the opinions and practices of small firms selling to defense programs.
As was noted earlier, it is important that in valid, objective study of this sort of communication, the interested sitter should be separated from the sensitive.
It is true, of course, that the end or objective of this action was different.
Harvey said his objective was to create a better public image for welfare ''.
The campaign's objective was to capture Richmond by moving the Army of the Potomac by boat to the peninsula and then overland to the Confederate capital.
Lincoln refused to allow any negotiation with the Confederacy as a coequal ; his sole objective was an agreement to end the fighting and the meetings produced no results.
According to Hartshorne people do not experience subjective ( or personal ) immortality in the afterlife, but they do have objective immortality because their experiences live on forever in God, who contains all that was.
The main objective of the mission, however, was to secure the return of Edward ; but this failed, mainly because Henry III's relations with the Hungarians were strained, and the emperor was unable or unwilling to help Ealdred.
The second lunar excursion's primary objective was to visit Stone Mountain to climb up the slope of about 20 degrees to reach a cluster of five craters known as " Cinco Craters ".
Its design was modeled after English football stadiums with the objective being to give fans a closer view of the pitch.
The objective of the event was to demonstrate the durability of the V8 Vantage across hazardous terrain – and also to publicise the car in China.
This requires developing new faculties of objective spiritual perception, which Steiner maintained was possible for humanity today.
Abd ar-Rahman's next objective was to squash the longstanding rebellion of Ibn Hafsun.
Later still, abstraction was manifest in more purely formal terms, such as color, freedom from objective context, and a reduction of form to basic geometric designs.
The early objective of the Shiv Sena was to ensure job security for Maharashtrians competing against immigrants from southern India, Gujaratis and Marwaris.
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