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On June 29, 1863, the cavalry skirmish known as Corbit's Charge was fought in the streets of Westminster, when two companies of Delaware cavalry attacked a much larger Confederate force under General J. E. B.
In 1263, the Scots successfully drove off of the Norwegian leidang-army in a skirmish known as the Battle of Largs.
The county itself was the site of only one significant skirmish during the war, the “ Battle of the Grove ,” which was fought near Blackstone ( then known as Blacks and Whites ) for control of the rail line that supplied General Robert E. Lee ’ s Army of Northern Virginia then entrenched around Petersburg and Richmond.
On June 29, 1863, the cavalry skirmish known as Corbit's Charge was fought in the streets of Westminster, when two companies of Delaware cavalry attacked a much larger Confederate force under General J. E. B.
The skirmish would become known as the Battle of Cañada.
A small skirmish occurred around Worksop during the Wars of the Roses on 16 December 1460, commonly known as the Battle of Worksop.
The search for this remaining would ultimately lead to the Wairau Affray – then known as the " Wairau Massacre " – of 17 June 1843, when 22 Europeans and four Maori died in a skirmish over land in the Wairau Valley, 25 km from Nelson.
This encounter was known as the skirmish at Prairie D ' Ane.
Before the Picacho Pass skirmish, Union and Confederate forces fought a smaller engagement known as the Battle of Stanwix Station.
The Mormons fought back and defeated the mob in a skirmish that came to be known as the Gallatin Election Day Battle.
It is reported that the remains of the entrenchments are still visible that used by the soldiers in the 1877 skirmish with the Nez Perce that is now known as the " Battle of Cow Island ".
The skirmish, which is only known to be documented by Francisco, resulted in the death of at least one man and the wounding of several others.
This was the first skirmish in what became known as the 1838 Mormon War, in which men would be killed and property destroyed by both sides.
The Battle of Pell's Point ( October 18, 1776 ), also known as the Battle of Pelham, was a skirmish fought between British and American troops during the New York and New Jersey campaign of the American Revolutionary War.
On 12 June 1643 the village was the site of a skirmish in the English Civil War, between Royalist forces led by Robert Dormer, 1st Earl of Carnarvon and the parliamentary forces under William Waller including the cavalry unit of Sir Arthur Haselrig known as Haselrig's lobsters.
The skirmish, known as the Battle of Culham Bridge, ended in a Parliamentarian victory and the Royalist commander Sir Henry Gage was mortally wounded.
A few days later a small party of soldiers and civilian surveyors was attacked by the Arapaho in what became known as the Sawyers Fight, three Americans were killed and it marked the last skirmish of the Powder River War.
Douglas's brothers, James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas, Archibald Douglas, Earl of Moray, Hugh Douglas, Earl of Ormonde, and John Douglas, Lord of Balvenie went into open rebellion against the Crown, but were finally put down in a skirmish in 1455 known as the Battle of Arkinholm, ironically the royal forces were led by another Douglas, the ' Red ' George Douglas, 4th Earl of Angus.
After a brief skirmish, the Rangers captured a green-eyed woman who had been taken captive as a child, and whose story is well known to students of Texas history: Cynthia Ann Parker, the mother of Quanah Parker.
The Corps was embodied on 18 May 1814 and made its combat debut in the raid on Pungoteague on 30 May 1814, a skirmish alternatively known as the Battle of Rumley's Gut.
However the faction that supported The Engagement, known as The Engagers, outmaneuvered the Kirk party, defeating some of them in a skirmish at Mauchline Muir, and organised an expeditionary army.
Anna Colbjørnsdatter became known for her role in the skirmish at Norderhov ( Slaget på Norderhov ) between Norwegian-Danish and Swedish forces on 29 March 1716.
At the minor skirmish known as the Battle of Gonzales — the first battle of the Texas Revolution against Mexico — a small group of Texians successfully resisted the Mexican forces who had orders from Col. Domingo de Ugartechea to seize their cannon.
Light infantry operated in extended order ( also known as skirmish formation ) as opposed to the close orders ( tight formations ) used by line infantry.

skirmish and battle
* 1918 – Battle of Ambos Nogales: U. S. Army forces skirmish against Mexican Carrancistas and their German advisors in the only battle of World War I fought on American soil.
Jordanes and Aurelius Victor claim that Herennius Etruscus was killed by an arrow during a skirmish before the outset of the battle and that his father addressed his soldiers as if the loss of his son did not matter.
The last recorded use of bows in an English battle seems to have been a skirmish at Bridgnorth, in October 1642, during the Civil War, when an impromptu town militia proved effective against un-armoured musketeers.
This battle was considered by the Muslims as little more than a skirmish, while the Battle of Toulouse ( 721 ), with at death toll of maybe tens of thousands, was mourned for centuries as a large scale tragedy by the Iberian Muslims.
* August 27 – Battle of Ambos Nogales: U. S. Army forces skirmish against Mexican Carrancistas and their German advisors in the only battle of World War I fought on American soil.
* September 3 – American Revolution – Cooch's Bridge: In a minor skirmish in New Castle County, Delaware, the Flag of the United States was flown in battle for the first time.
In the battle of Fallen Timbers, he drove through the Union skirmish line.
There is not much time to think during a skirmish or battle.
The Christian accounts of the battle claim that the slaughter among the Muslims was horrific, while Umayyad accounts describe it as a mere skirmish.
The most commonly accepted hypothesis for this battle ( epic as described by Christian chronicles, but a mere skirmish in Muslim texts ) is that the Moorish column was attacked from the cliffs and then fell back through the valleys towards present day Gijón, but was attacked whilst in retreat by the retinue and nearly destroyed.
The battle began in the morning, when Manfred advanced his Saracens ( archers and a few light cavalry ) across the bridge to skirmish.
The charge at Krojanty, battle at Krojanty or skirmish of Krojanty was a cavalry charge that occurred during the Invasion of Poland in the Second World War.
Bentonville was a staging point for the Confederate army prior to the Battle of Pea Ridge, fought about northeast of town, and the town saw a brief skirmish just prior to the battle.
Jordanes reports the number of dead from this battle as 165, 000, excluding the casualties of the Franko-Gepid skirmish previous to the main battle.
Willem Lodewijk describes drilling soldiers in a similar manner to how Aelian " countermarched " his troops ; ' I have discovered ex evolutionibus is, from Aelian's discussions of drill a method of getting the musketeers and soldiers armed with harquebuses not only to keep firing very well but to do it effectively in battle order ( that is to say, they do not skirmish or use the cover of hedges ) in the following manner: as soon as the first rank has fired together, then by the drill have learned they will march to the back.
In the early moments of the battle, Joubert died, shot in a skirmish line action, but the French resisted the Austrian attack and counter-attacked.
A skirmish took place at the castle during the English Civil War, in which Stokesay was handed over to the Parliamentarians after a short siege without a pitched battle ( in which it surely would have been severely damaged ).
The Battle of White Mountain was more a skirmish than a full-fledged battle.
However many scholars would see this as highly speculative to say the least and the ' battle ' may have been no more than a skirmish inflated by tradition and / or the saint's hagiographer.
Surprisingly their military abilities seemed to have left them, and the Hau Hau had an almost perfect record for losing every skirmish, fight and battle they got into.
Military wrecks that were caused by a skirmish at sea are studied to find details about the historic event and reveal much about the battle that occurred.
The battle was little more than a skirmish, but the psychological and strategic effects of the conflict were far more than was reflected by the number of casualties.
The battle began with a short skirmish between the French arbalesters and the English archers.

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