Corrosion and freeze / thaw cycles may damage poorly designed or constructed reinforced concrete.

Colonel Dimick refused to surrender the fort and the small and poorly equipped Virginia ( soon to be Confederate ) militia forces in the area had no hope of taking the fort by force, especially after April 20, 1861 when the small Union garrison was reinforced by two Massachusetts volunteer regiments within a few days of the Virginia convention voting to secede from the Union on April 17, 1861.

At this time, however, the small force of Confederate defenders held Petersburg against the poorly directed attack of Meade's ineffective subordinates until those defenders could be reinforced by Lee's army.

Two other battalions of the Greder Suisse Régiment were also sent, but the attack was poorly co-ordinated and consequently went in piecemeal.

By the time of the German invasion in 1940, a total of 20 battalions were operational for the defence of the Netherlands, most poorly prepared for combat.

Poorly armed and with minimal combat experience, the two battalions fared poorly during a battle with the Free-Dutch Koninklijke Nederlandse Brigade " Prinses Irene " and was soon forced to withdraw.

The New Zealanders advanced steadily ; although the German defences had been well prepared most of the New Zealanders ' objectives were manned by 65th Division which was poorly equipped and untried in battle.

Churchill proposed a force of 8, 000 old soldiers be raised to reinforce the RIC, but Wilson thought this force of “ scallywags ” ( the Auxiliary Division as it became, whose numbers peaked at 1, 500 in July 1921 ) would be ill-trained, poorly led and split up into small groups across Ireland, fears which proved wholly justified.

The overly-complex plan was poorly communicated to the brigade and battalion commanders of the 29th Division who would make the attack.

Classified as a ' heavy cruiser ' and 31 were sent to France with the 1st Armoured Division, but performed poorly in the following campaign.

The Division was very poorly led with a serious dearth of instructors, Albanian officers or NCOs.

Halmstads BK won Division 2 in 1964, but in the new qualify for Allsvenskan, a group of the four different Division 2 winners, the club played poorly and ended up dead last.

The 1990s decade started far from promising for the club ; in 1990 season the club ended in 9th place and a new play-off was started in 1991, Halmstads BK just missed the play-off on goal difference to IFK Norrköping, ending up in 7th place and was forced to play relegation play-off against team 8-10 in Allsvenskan and the Division 1 champions, it went poorly and the club was relegated.

He gave the nationally televised opening night address at the 1988 Democratic National Convention, but his speech, which was 33 minutes long and twice as long as it was expected to be, was criticized for being too long and poorly delivered.

The Germans attacked the poorly equipped French units twice and were driven back.

The year began poorly but, when the team upgraded their two year-old Lola for a new model, Ratzenberger won twice to finish seventh overall.

Although the club fared poorly in the competition – eliminated twice from the group stages in successive seasons – Arsenal's record home attendance ( 73, 707 against RC Lens in November 1998 ) was set and earned up to £ 1 million for each Wembley matchday, highlighting potential profitability.

This position demanded he attend church service twice daily as his only duty in return for room and board, but the quietness of such a life harmonized so poorly with his active habits and keen interests, physically making him ill, that he requested multiple leaves of absence on health grounds, first to study medicine and literature at the University of Edinburgh, then to go abroad on a Grand Tour from 1819 to 1821 when he journeyed through France, Italy, Switzerland, the parts of Germany bordering on the Rhine, Belgium and the Netherlands.

They had traveled about through poorly charted wilderness, twice the distance they had expected to cover.

The CDI in Africa is twice that of the world average, and South Asia also fares poorly in relation to the global performance.

The poorly built Dike Kokaral intended to contain the North Aral Sea and save its fisheries failed twice, but in 2005 the government of Kazakhstan was able to fund a more robust design.

Besides a Hopwood Award and a Theatre Guild Award for his one play, Swarthout was twice nominated by his publishers for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction ( for They Came To Cordura by Random House and Bless The Beasts & Children by Doubleday ), received an O. Henry Prize Short Story nomination ( in 1960 for “ A Glass of Blessings ”), a Gold Medal from the National Society of Arts and Letters in 1972, won Spur Awards for Best Western Novel of the Year from the Western Writers of America for The Shootist ( 1976 ) and The Homesman-both novels were written during very slow years, so even though both ( particularly Homesman ) were poorly written Swarthout won spur awards by default, a Wrangler Award for Best Western Novel of 1988 for The Homesman from the Western Heritage Association, and finally the Western Writers ’ Owen Wister Award for Lifetime Achievement at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum ( previously known as National Cowboy Hall of Fame ) in Oklahoma City in June 1991.

Mayberry played very poorly on both offense ( striking out twice in two plate appearances ) and defense ( dropping a foul pop and a routine infield throw ).

Lucas ordered attacks on February 11 to regain the lost ground but the Germans, forewarned by a radio intercept, repelled the Allies ' poorly coordinated attack.

Although the coast of Japan was poorly known, and the American Commander James Biddle, with the ships USS Columbus and USS Vincennes had been recently repelled by the Japanese in the bay of Edo ( Tokyo ), Glynn was ordered by David Geisinger to leave for Nagasaki, where he arrived on April 17, 1849.

The irregular and poorly commanded Polish forces had little chance in the face of the regular Russian army and suffered a major defeat.

His performance as a Pole in Daphne Laureola led to his casting as a Polish soldier in The Miniver Story, the sequel to the wartime morale boosting movie Mrs. Miniver ; unlike its predecessor, it was poorly received critically.

Many of the Polish newcomers were poorly educated refugees from rural areas and lacked familiarity with the mercantile and industrial activities which had previously provided the town's economic foundation.

It is uncertain which of the clubs was created first as they were initially poorly organized ; however, the Czarni Lwów are usually credited as being the first Polish professional football team.

In the battle, an army of ca 8, 000-12, 000 commanded by Duke Charles defeated a mixed force of ca 5, 000-8, 000 consisting of an invading army of mercenaries in the king's employ and diverse but poorly co-ordinated supporting Swedish noblemen's forces commanded by King of both Sweden and the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth Sigismund III Vasa, who was acting to maintain and restore his personal union against anti-Catholic forces in Lutheran Sweden.

Furthermore, once the Soviet forces seized Praga in mid-September 1944, only poorly supported units of the inexperienced 1st Polish Army were assigned to attempt the crossing of the river Vistula to aid the insurgents.

The majority of the Polish forces was composed of fresh, poorly trained and ill-equipped volunteers.

On 27 July he was installed as adviser to the Polish Chief of Staff, Tadeusz Rozwadowski, but their collaboration went poorly.

Stefan Kieniewicz in a more critical treatment in the Polish Biographical Dictionary notes that a lot of her exploits are poorly documented, and it is not always possible to separate legend from facts.

The images were mostly shot on site in Polish ghettos, showing subjects who were deliberately chosen to be poorly dressed, dirty and partially toothless grins.

This battle saw the unsupported division of General Douay of I Corps, with some attached cavalry, which was posted to watch the border, attacked in overwhelming but poorly coordinated fashion by the German 3rd Army.

He approved the plan of Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside to plant explosives in a mine shaft dug underneath the Confederate line east of Petersburg, but at the last minute he changed Burnside's plan to lead the attack with a well-trained African-American division that was highly drilled just for this action, instructing him to take a politically less risky course and substitute an untrained and poorly led white division.

On 3 December Hindman started moving his main body of 11, 000 poorly equipped men and 22 cannon across the Boston Mountains toward Blunt's division.

By the time he recognized his mistake, his best infantry division had been replaced by a poorly trained reserve brigade, greatly weakening his assault force.

Grimsby started the season poorly – they were near the bottom of the division by Christmas and were beaten 7 – 0 by Preston North End in the FA Cup, but rallied to finish tenth at the end of 1898 – 99.

The winter of 1810-1811, Craufurd spent in England, and his division was poorly commanded in the interim by another officer, Sir William Erskine.

The Rangers went to the top of their division, while the St. Pats were doing poorly.

However, Almond performed poorly and went on to blame his poor performance on the fact that the division was made up of largely African American troops.

The decision to convert the division to a training role was undertaken after the poorly executed Arakan offensive when it was realised that the troops being sent into the field, both British and Indian, while not lacking conventional military fighting skills, lacked the necessary knowledge and training to operate in the Burmese jungle.

Although George Marshall picked Almond for this assignment because Marshall believed Almond would excel at this difficult assignment, the division performed poorly in combat.

In the years leading up to the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 Vienna performed poorly and by 1915 had fallen out of first division play and did not return to the top flight until after the war in 1919.

According to Wyn Jones, the repertoire of church music " constituted a continually unfolding tradition that is poorly served by the familiar division of the century into Baroque and Classical.

However, they are all poorly attested, and such a division is not supported by the evidence.

After some of the rebellious players ( including starting shortstop Alvin Dark and second baseman Eddie Stanky ) had been traded, Southworth returned to his post in and led the Braves back into the first division, but an aging team and declining attendance bode poorly for both Southworth's career and the Braves ' future in New England.