They chose to abandon the old tactic of stopping the enemy at the beach.

Oliver Cromwell, who arrived too late in the day to take part in the battle, later wrote disparagingly to John Hampden, " Your troopers are most of them old decayed servingmen and tapsters ; and their Royalists troopers are gentlemen's sons, younger sons and persons of quality ...." Not only were the Parliamentarian cavalry not so naturally accustomed to mounted action, but they were drilled in the Dutch tactic of firing pistols and carbines from the saddle, whereas under Rupert, the Royalist cavalry would charge sword in hand, relying on shock and weight.

In an article, he writes that the current tendency to accuse Hindu movements of " fascism " is nothing but a " replay of an old colonial tactic.

In reality, US armored forces had fallen victim to an old German tactic, previously employed with much success against British forces.

Don Cherry told Toronto radio station The Fan 590 of Avery's tactic, " I've known this kid since he was about 16 years old ; Once a jerk, always a jerk.

Havelock defeats Edulf in battle ( 735-758 ) and then Edelsie ( by the tactic, taught to him by Argentille, of propping up the corpses of his army to make it look like he has more men than he does ); moreover, Edelsie dies a few days later, allowing Havelock and Argentille to inherit both Edelsie's and Adelbrit's old lands.

In a substantial, detailed speech he used his old tactic of marshalling demographic and financial detail to swamp rhetorical argument.

Miles was following a tried and true tactic of the U. S. army in fighting Plains Indians: attack a village suddenly and “ shock and demoralize all the camp occupants – men, women, and children, both young and old – before they could respond effectively to counter the blow .” However, the Nez Perce were warned by scouts of the approach of the soldiers a few minutes in advance.

He supported the old tactic of direct street fights with far left militia groups but also endorsed a process of infiltrating these groups and thus provoking them to more action and more direct confrontation with law enforcement.

With the mainstream success of Gravity and " Somewhere Out There ", Our Lady Peace's fan base was split between fans of the new material and fans of the old material who, like several critics, cited the band's new direction as sell-out tactic.

stated that " the allegation of sexual assault may either be a trumped up charge to undermine public sympathy for the youths, a frequent tactic by the Islamist regime in Iran " or that " it may be that the 13 year old was a willing participant but that Iranian law ( like UK law ) deems that no person of that age is capable of sexual consent and that therefore any sexual contact is automatically deemed in law to be a sex assault.

NetAlert, the software made available free of charge by the Australian government, was allegedly cracked by a 16 year old student, Tom Wood, less than a week after its release in August 2007.

Sonia took charge of Orwell's affairs and attended diligently in the hospital, causing concern to some old friends such as Muggeridge.

Since taking over the franchise, Attanasio has worked hard to build bridges with Milwaukee baseball fans, including giving away every seat to the final home game of 2005 free of charge and bringing back the classic " ball and glove " logo of the club's glory days on " Retro Friday " home games, during which they also wear versions of the team's old pinstriped uniforms.

" He suggested that Marshall was old and feeble and easily duped but did not charge Marshall with treason.

Borland has released three old versions of Turbo Pascal free of charge because of their historical interest: the original Turbo Pascal ( now known as 1. 0 ), and versions 3. 02 and 5. 5 for DOS.

As a mixed string of new and old batteries is depleted, the string voltage will drop, and when the old batteries are exhausted the new batteries still have charge available.

The new cells with more capacity now charge very slowly, so slowly that the chemicals may begin to crystallize before reaching the fully charged state, reducing new cell capacity over several charge / discharge cycles until their capacity more closely matches the old cells in the series string.

The turnip is an old vegetable charge in heraldry.

Francis McCloskey, a 67-year old Catholic civilian had been found unconscious on 13 July near the Dungiven Orange Hall following a police baton charge against a crowd who had been throwing stones at the hall.

25 ), Orestes was saved by his old nurse or by Electra, and was taken to Phanote on Mount Parnassus, where King Strophius took charge of him.

In his old age Mentor was a friend of Odysseus who placed Mentor and Odysseus ' foster-brother Eumaeus in charge of his son Telemachus, and of Odysseus ' palace, when Odysseus left for the Trojan War.

It was also argued that the party should be an elite body of professional revolutionaries dedicating their lives to the cause and carrying out their decisions with iron discipline, thus moving toward putting loyal party activists in charge of new and old political institutions, army units, factories, hospitals, universities, and food suppliers.

The cannibalism charges against him were brought from old indictments in 1980 that resulted in his conviction in absentia, a year before Kolingba's amnesty, so the anthropophagy charge remained listed among Bokassa's crimes.

The Payette River was named after Francois Payette, a fur trader from Quebec who was put in charge of old Fort Boise in 1818 and traveled through the area.

Khosrau discarded the old satrap system and replaced it with four military districts with a spahbad, or general, in charge of each district.

Ross and his crew found original colonist Stev Kimmer, now an old man, in charge at Honshu Hold.

Schlesinger put Avery in charge of the low-budget Looney Tunes in a low run-down old building the animators named Termite Terrice.

Custine had prophesised that the command of an army would be “ an evil present ” to him, " Custine certainly could judge men, and he was right in this case, for all who knew the worthy old Houchard considered him as lost when given a charge so much beyond his powers ”.

Researchers examined “ only uncomplicated episodes of acute appendicitis ” that involved “ visits for patients 18 to 59 years old with hospitalization that lasted fewer than four days with routine discharges to home .” The lowest charge for removal of an appendix was $ 1, 529 and the highest $ 182, 955, more than 120 times greater.

He was left in charge of the old Command Post at # 1 Victoria in Manila when Gen. MacArthur went to Corregidor to establish his Command Post on December 24, 1941.

Less than a year after he and Mayer took charge of the newly-created MGM studios, and still only twenty-five years old, Thalberg suffered a serious heart attack due to overwork.

His mother married again when he was four years old, and he was educated under the charge of his pietistic Lutheran grandmother, Henriette Catharina von Gersdorff, who did much to shape his character.

He was too old -- when he passed up and through the corridor of pines that lined the trail he could see ahead, he was passing from life.

It was pitiful to see the thin ranks of warriors, old and young, wheeling and twisting their ponies frantically from side to side only to be tumbled bleeding from their saddles by the relentless slam, slam of the cruelly efficient Hawkinses.

He was in earnest conversation with her father and the old vaquero, Luis Hernandez.

He'd put on his old brown corduroy coat and it was already soaked.

Forced to realize that this was the end of a very short line I scanned a road marker and discovered what the end of a slightly longer line would be for the old Mexican: Moriarty, New Mexico.

The car was just about to us, its driver's fat, solemn face intent on the road ahead, on business, on a family in Sante Fe -- on anything but an old pick-up truck in which two human beings desperately needed rescue.

I was standing beside her, watching the outspread palms and wondering about the old horsehair sofa against the wall on which he sometimes napped.

The Bonaventure was quivering and lurching like an old spavined mare.

For an anthropologist, loquacious old L'Turu was a mine of information.

The story was shaping up nicely in his mind: the young pioneer, as of old, altruistically braving the unknown ; ;

To Tilghman the incident was just one of a long list of hair-raising, smash-'em-down adventures on the side of the law which started in 1872 when he was only eighteen years old, and did not end till fifty years later when he was shot dead after warning a drunk to be quiet.

He was about 50 years old.

`` Oh he was stupid, her old man!!

for another, it was here that one of the old caravan routes came in.

But I suspect that the old Roman was referring to change made under military occupation -- the sort of change which Tacitus was talking about when he said, `` They make a desert, and call it peace '' ( `` Solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant ''.

On his father's side he was of German descent, on his mother's he came of the old Swedish nobility.

Strindberg's remedy for this condition was to tear down the old structures and build anew from the ground up.

At this period the thirty-year old Helion was ranked `` as one of the mature leaders of the modern movement '', according to Herbert Read, `` and in the direct line of descent from Cezanne, Seurat, Gris and Leger ''.

Only what else was she singing but the old Song of Songs, that most ancient of tunes that nature plays with such unfailing response upon young nerves??

It was much more fun, reminding the girls of their old carefree days in the Hasseltine frolics room at Bradford.

He had worked in the newspaper business since he was nineteen years old, always for the Hearst service.