Support from the Castilian rear was late to come and the knights that did not perish in the combat were made prisoners and sent to the Portuguese rear.

Advancing uphill with the sun on their backs, squashed between the funnelling Portuguese defensive works and their own advancing rear, and under a heavy rain of English longbowmen's arrows shot from behind the Portuguese line and crossbow quarrels from behind both the Sweethearts ' and the Honeysuckle wings on their flanks, the Castilians did their best to win the day.

Haking visits the Portuguese troops and decides to send the Second Division to the rear from April 9, which would never happen.

I regained my squatting position behind the truck cab's rear window.

After you have taken a breather, reverse the position of your legs so that the front thigh of the previous exercise is now to the rear, and the rear thigh now to the front, and perform the same movement in the same manner.

Another force flanked the company and took up a position on a hill to the rear.

If a pair is forced to lift or clear the shuttlecock, then they must defend: they will adopt a side-by-side position in the rear midcourt, to cover the full width of their court against the opponents ' smashes.

" Hindal, Humayun's 19-year old brother, had agreed to aid him in this battle and protect the rear from attack but abandoned his position and withdrew to Agra where he decreed himself acting emperor.

Some commentators cite this placement as proof that Jacob continued to favor Joseph over Leah's children, as presumably the rear position would have been safer from a frontal assault by Esau, which Jacob feared.

After Christmas, Lee ordered Stuart to conduct a raid north of the Rappahannock River to " penetrate the enemy's rear, ascertain if possible his position & movements, & inflict upon him such damage as circumstances will permit.

* Pulling ( manually or electrically ) the bolt assembly / bolt carrier rearward by way of the cocking lever to the point bolt carrier engages a sear and stays at rear position until trigger is activated making bolt carrier move forward

This machine pistol-class firearm has a lever-type fire-control selector switch, installed on the left side of the slide, in the rear, serrated portion ( selector lever in the bottom position for continuous fire, top setting for single fire ).

In computer science, a queue ( ) is a particular kind of abstract data type or collection in which the entities in the collection are kept in order and the principal ( or only ) operations on the collection are the addition of entities to the rear terminal position and removal of entities from the front terminal position.

In Afghanistan, the Mujahideen often modified RPGs for use against Soviet helicopters by adding a curved pipe to the rear of the launcher tube, which diverted the backblast, allowing the RPG to be fired upward at aircraft from a prone position.

After scattered fighting in little valleys to the south of the main position, the Zengid central force returned to the offensive ; Saladin joined in from the rear.

When a key is in the normal position an electrical talk path connects the front and rear cords.

The mine was then triggered from a safe position, preferably to the side and rear.

Because the position of the exit pupil usually is unknown to the user of a lens, the rear conjugate focal distance is used instead ; the resultant theoretical error so introduced is insignificant with most types of photographic lenses.

Rather than realigning his troops so that the rear guard would be in the front, Wallace chose to countermarch his column ; he argued that his artillery would have been greatly out of position to support the infantry when it would arrive on the field.

The entire army took up position along the ridge-line ; as casualties fell in the front lines the rear ranks would move forward to fill the gaps.

As the desired character for each column passes the print position, a hammer strikes the paper from the rear and presses the paper against the ribbon and the drum, causing the desired character to be recorded on the continuous paper.

Jackson started the campaign under Lee's orders with a sweeping flanking maneuver that placed his corps into the rear of Union Maj. Gen. John Pope's Army of Virginia, but he then took up a defensive position and effectively invited Pope to assault him.

Most significant is the position of the rear mounted Volkswagen engine, which with removal of bodywork transfers a high proportion of the weight to the rear driven wheels for extra traction.

The Bilenky ViewPoint and the Hase Pino are hybrid upright / recumbent tandems steered by the captain who sits upright in the rear, while the stoker rides in a recumbent position in the front.

Seeing the strength of the Union attack at that point, Beauregard insisted that Johnston leave the area of immediate action and coordinate the overall battle from a position to the rear.

No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.

But it was only Johnson reaching around the wire chicken fencing, which half covered the truck cab's glassless rear window.

So Dandy Brandon trustingly entered the house with Delphine Lalaurie and trudged up the rear steps to the attic room which was to be his new home.

This is done by measuring the distance from the surface on which the tire is resting to the center of the rear axle shaft.

Foods for rear stations, which require cooking, but no refrigeration, are also of interest.

Advanced wheelchairs include systems like the iBOT, which can balance on the its rear wheels, raising the occupant up to around six feet.

The day's next task was to deploy the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package ( ALSEP ); while they were parking the lunar rover, on which the TV camera was mounted, to observe the deployment, the rear steering began functioning without explanation.

< font face =" arial " color =" red "> Wire carrying current to be measured .</ font >< font face =" arial " color =" green "> Spring providing restoring force </ font > This illustration is conceptual ; in a practical meter, the iron core is stationary, and front and rear spiral springs carry current to the coil, which is supported on a rectangular bobbin.

Some even depict it as a horned, dragon-like creature with a serpent-headed tail and small, round ears, while others have both " necks " of equal size so that it cannot be determined which is the rear head.

When the shuttlecock is near to net height, players can hit drives, which travel flat and rapidly over the net into the opponents ' rear midcourt and rearcourt.

While some women's bicycles continue to use this frame style, there is also a variation, the mixte, which splits the top tube laterally into two thinner top tubes that bypass the seat tube on each side and connect to the rear fork ends.

With a chain drive transmission, a chainring attached to a crank drives the chain, which in turn rotates the rear wheel via the rear sprocket ( s ) ( cassette or freewheel ).

A rear hub brake may be either hand-operated or pedal-actuated, as in the back pedal coaster brakes which were popular in North America until the 1960s.

To slow down, the rider applies resistance to the pedals, acting as a braking system which can be as effective as a conventional rear wheel brake, but not as effective as a front wheel brake.

Orkney, attacking from the rear, now tried a different tactic – "... it came into my head to beat parley ", he later wrote, " which they accepted of and immediately their Brigadier de Nouville capitulated with me to be prisoner at discretion and lay down their arms.

But they were surprised in the rear by a second force of Dardani which had approached their camp stealthily by mountain paths and proceeded to storm and ransack it.

Combat was hard, but the Black Prince still had a mobile reserve hidden in the woods, which was able to circle around and attack the French in the flank and rear.

However the French ships were hampered by their inadequate deployment, reduced crews and the failure of the rear division under Villeneuve to meaningfully participate, all of which contributed to their defeat.

The CRT uses an evacuated glass envelope which is large, deep ( i. e. long from front screen face to rear end ), fairly heavy, and relatively fragile.

The rear glass tube of modern CRTs may be made from leaded glass, which represent an environmental hazard if disposed of improperly.

Racing motorcycles often use slipper clutches to eliminate the effects of engine braking which, being applied only to the rear wheel, can lead to instability.

* Crankset, the component of a bicycle drivetrain that converts the reciprocating motion of the rider's legs into rotational motion used to drive the chain, which in turn drives the rear wheel

The best use of this lightly armed fast moving cavalry was revealed at the Battle of Yarmouk ( 636 AD ) in which Khalid ibn Walid, knowing the skills of his horsemen, used them to turn the tables at every critical instance of the battle with their ability to engage, disengage, then turn back and attack again from the flank or rear.

Early in the 20th century, Columbus also was home to a number of pioneering car manufacturers, including Reeves, which produced the unusual four-axle Octoauto and the twin rear axle Sextoauto, both around 1911.