A body of redcoats were seen marching down a nearby slope, a tempting target for the riflemen, who threw a volley into their ranks and `` messed up '' the smart formation considerably.

If it were primarily a believing fellowship, it would recruit believers from all social and economic ranks, something which most congregations of the New Protestantism ( with a few notable exceptions ) have not been able to do.

Two aediles were from the ranks of plebeians and the other were called curule aediles ( aediles curules ).

There was a great deal of freedom of interaction between the groups: for example, Sarah, the granddaughter of the Visigoth king Wittiza, married a Muslim man and bore two sons who were later counted among the ranks of the highest Arab nobility.

An increasing percentage of the ranks are " long-service " volunteer professionals ; women were allowed to serve in the armed forces beginning in early 1980s when the Brazilian Army became the first army in South America to accept women into career ranks ; women serve in Navy and Air Force only in Women's Reserve Corps.

The rest of Marlborough's army, waiting in their ranks on the forward slope, were also forced to bear the cannonade from the French artillery, suffering 2, 000 casualties before the attack could even be begun.

Nevertheless, the exhausted French were unable to follow up their advantage, and the two cavalry forces tried to regroup and reorder their ranks.

As the French ranks wavered, the leading squadrons of Württemberg ’ s Danish horse – now unhampered by enemy fire from either village – were also sent into the attack and fell upon the exposed flank of the Franco-Swiss infantry and dragoons.

On Overkirk ’ s right flank, close to Ramillies, ten of his squadrons suddenly broke ranks and were scattered, riding headlong to the rear to recover their order, leaving the left flank of the Allied assault on Ramillies dangerously exposed.

In 2010, there were 1. 33 billion journeys on the National Rail network, making the British network the fifth most used in the world ( Great Britain ranks 23rd in world population ).

Miltiades ordered the two tribes that were forming the center of the Greek formation, the Leontis tribe led by Themistocles and the Antiochis tribe led by Aristides, to be arranged in the depth of four ranks while the rest of the tribes at their flanks were in ranks of eight.

With both Bolsheviks and Mensheviks weakened by splits within their ranks and by Tsarist repression, they were tempted to try to re-unite the party.

The Polish commanders were hoping to break into the Cossack ranks with an impetous charge of the famous Polish ' Winged ' Hussars-a tactic proven effective in many previous battles, including Kircholm, and Kłuszyn ( and which would later prove successful at the 1683 Battle of Vienna against the Turks ).

These three orders were later subdivided into seven ranks or grades.

About 5, 000 Reserve officers for the camps were affected, transferred to Civil Service and military ranks and titles were eliminated.

They were invested with feudal authority by Sultan Nur ad-Din Zangi and furnished respectable contingents to the Muslim ranks in their struggle against the Crusaders.

Early dragoons were not organized in squadrons or troops as were cavalry, but in companies like the infantry: their officers and non-commissioned officers bore infantry ranks.

A Provisional Committee was formed that included people with a wide range of political views, and the Volunteers ' ranks were open to " all able-bodied Irishmen without distinction of creed, politics or social group.

This affects the probabilities of making specific hands, so a flush ranks above a full house and below four of a kind.

There were six co-options to make-up the full number when the directors were named from within their ranks.

This may require adjusting hand values: in both of these games, a flush ranks above a full house, because having fewer cards of each suit available makes flushes rarer.

During his 11 years with the SS, Heydrich truly " rose from the ranks ", being appointed to every rank from private to full general.

Since these refused to submit voluntarily and tried to assert their traditional independence, his papacy is full of struggles against the higher ranks of the clergy.

The goat is given full honours of a corporal by all ranks and attended to by the Goat Major.

He or she is elected by an electoral body composed of all Professori ordinari and Associati ( full and associate professors ), the two highest ranks of the Italian university faculty, and of representatives of the Ricercatori ( lowest rank of faculty ), and of the staff.

However, the ranks of major general ( two stars ) and full general ( equivalent to four stars ) are accorded to officers holding particular military commands.

Appian reports that the triumvirs ’ legions were almost at full ranks.

Only two of the legions were at full ranks, but the army was reinforced by levies from the Eastern allied kingdoms.

Each full stone of handicap on a 13 × 13 board is in any case probably equivalent to about 2. 5 to 3 ranks, and each full stone on a 9 × 9 board is equivalent to about 6 ranks.

Jean-François de la Harpe, who is severe enough on Lefranc in his correspondence, does his abilities full justice in his Cours littéraire, and ranks him next to JB Rousseau among French lyric poets.

These ranks, staff sergeant through sergeant major, are always referred to by their full rank and never merely as " sergeant ".

Mackenzie took full advantage of the incident, returning to York and suing the perpetrators in a sensational trial, which propelled Mackenzie into the ranks of martyrs of Upper Canadian liberty, alongside Robert Thorpe and Robert Fleming Gourlay.

Of the severely wounded prisoners, 30 soon died, so by the time a full report on the prisoners was issued on 15 October, there were 19 officers and 417 enlisted men of the U. S. regulars and 54 officers and 435 other ranks of the New York Militia.

* Cards that have been cleared may not be retrieved, so their ranks cannot be collected in full to complete the game objective.

The book was so consistent throughout, so full of ingenious ideas, and written in so striking a style, that it ranks as one of the masterpieces of the French language in the 19th century.

He moved up in the ranks until he became a full professor in the department.

The ancient Aryo-Zoroastrian view on homosexuality, as exemplified in the Vendidad, elicits Evola's full approval: sodomites were classed among the ranks of those criminals to be destroyed on the spot ; " Four men can be put to death by any one without an order from the Dastur ( high priest ): the Nasu-burner ( cannibal ), the highwayman, the Sodomite, and the criminal taken in the deed " ( Vendidad, 8: 73-74 ).

After service in the Polish army since 1790 and the army of the Duchy of Warsaw from 1809 to 1814 he entered the ranks of the army of Congress Poland, became full general in 1828 and was awarded a Polish title of nobility.

The Zhou Dynasty not only preceded the full unification of early China under the Qin Dynasty, the first empire whose realm would subsequently be considered to extend broadly enough to be national in the context of the territorial concept of China, the Zhouli, Rites of Zhou were subsequently canonized by Confucius among his Confucian Chinese classics as a model precedent in principles of government, so ranks of nobility in later regimes both in periods of unified sovereignty and of competing smaller states would typically draw from its catalog of peerage.

One of the most effective ways to gather data and information about an enemy ( or potential enemy ) is by infiltrating the enemy's ranks.

This leads to additional questions about nuclear materials safety and security and the potential for terrorist groups to steal or gain access to sensitive weapons materials ; out of 32 countries thought to have nuclear weapons materials, North Korea ranks last in safety rating.

While members of the Ventrue and Lasombra clans spend up to 10 years evaluating and testing potential embraces, and the Tremere have a rigid apprenticeship where ghouls serve as acolytes for many ranks, the Giovanni embrace strictly within Family lines.

* SJSU ranks 15th nationally by salary potential among all state schools in the nation, according to the PayScale, Inc. annual salary survey ( 2010 – 2011 ).

The scramble for power among factions in late 1945 created political divisions in the ranks of the civilian leaders that destroyed their potential for making a common stand against the resurgent political force of the military in the postwar years.

Both systems also have a prioritization system for establishing preserves ; the WWF designated its Global 200 ecoregions as priorities for conservation, and the Department of Environment and Heritage ranks its bioregions high, medium, or low priority, based on " the potential value land reservation in those regions would add to the development of a comprehensive, adequate and representative reserve system for Australia.

To support his thesis, Rifkin notes that in addition to the EU having more people and a greater Gross Domestic Product than the U. S., the potential of the EU as an economic superpower is shown by having: 14 / 20 of the top banks in the world, 61 of the 140 of the top companies of the world as measure by the Global Fortune 500 ( the U. S. has 50 ), a homicide rate that is 1 / 4 than in the U. S., the 18 most developed countries in Europe all have more broadly distributed wealth than the U. S. ( the U. S. ranks 24th in the world ), higher lifespan than the U. S., higher literacy rates than the U. S., and higher quality of life than the U. S. Also, Europeans provide 47 % of all the humanitarian aid in the world, and are seen by Rifkin as being more effective in global economic market regulation, evidenced by the fact that the EU stopped the merger of General Electric and Honeywell, fined Microsoft for anti-trust, and blocked genetically modified food despite U. S. opposition.

This allowed their units to be more mobile and fill their ranks with a larger pool of potential recruits.

Some of the potential trouble spots where the commission was able to have a positive affect included the towns of Ferriday and Opelousas, and the commission helped to open the ranks of the Louisiana State Police to qualified blacks.

He committed his Gothic allies to action first, perhaps hoping to thin their ranks through attrition and lessen their potential threat to the Empire.

At Brugges, he was viewed as a potential superstar on the European stage, after bursting into the first team ranks and helping them to win the Belgian Championship.

The new Specialist Cadet School complements Officer Cadet School in the cultivation of soldiers who display good leadership potential and capabilities to become key appointment holders in the ranks of the military.

Christians were also deprived of the right to petition the courts, making them potential subjects for judicial torture ; Christians could not respond to actions brought against them in court ; Christian senators, equestrians, decurions, veterans, and soldiers were deprived of their ranks ; and imperial freedmen were re-enslaved.