However, Evagoras manages to cut off this force from being resupplied, and the starving troops rebel.

Made a scout because of his abilities as a hunter, trapper, and woodsman, Crockett is known to have supported the starving troops during the time of the Creek War with the game he hunted.

When British and Canadian troops finally entered they found thousands of unburied bodies and ( including the satellite camps ) at least 53, 000 inmates most acutely sick and starving.

After being surrounded for 46 days, the starving Zhao troops surrendered ( September, 260 BC ).

The German troops remaining in the city were trapped – cut off from their supply lines and starving, they were ordered by Hitler to fight to the last man, and they displayed incredible fortitude and bravery under unbearable conditions.

However, Evagoras managed to cut off this force from being resupplied, and the starving troops rebelled.

This left Massena in control of northern Switzerland, and closed forced Suvorov into an arduous three week march into the Voralberg, where his troops arrived, starving and exhausted, in mid-October.

It was during the Napoleonic campaigns when the surgeon-in-chief of Napoleon's Grand Army, Baron Dominique-Jean Larrey, advised the starving troops to eat the meat of horses.

Neither the 31st Division which was fighting at Kohima nor the 15th Division had received adequate supplies since the offensive began, and their troops were starving.

In November, Raymond finally gave into Bohemund for the sake of continuing the crusade in peace and to calm his mutinous starving troops.

By now, Procter's troops were exhausted and starving on half-rations.

Scant rations for the cold and starving troops, gunpowder, salt, and lead.

In December, by the neglect of the Revolutionary Government, these troops were shirtless, shoeless, starving and in rags.

Almost starving to death, he eventually escaped to the US.

In ancient Egypt, the tax exemption for temple lands eventually drove almost all the good land into the hands of the priestly class, making them immensely rich ( and leaving the world a stunning legacy of monumental temple architecture that still impresses several millennia later ), but starving the government of revenue.

Castell Y Bere's starving garrison would eventually surrender on April 25.

He was able to rely on the friendship and protection of a few people like Daly, but Daly was eventually amnestied after almost starving himself to death in a hunger strike, and then, essentially, Clarke was left on his own.

She eventually decides that bringing a message of salvation to people who have plenty will be more fulfilling and genuine than converting the starving in return for bread.

One was a Cyprian fable about doves escaping from a sacrificial fire only to fall into another fire later on ( demonstrating that wrong-doers eventually get their just deserts ), and the other was a Carian fable about a fisherman who espies an octopus in the winter sea and wonders whether or not to dive after it, since this is a choice between his children starving or himself freezing to death ( i. e. you're damned if you do and damned if you don't ).

Scrooge's fiancee, who eventually leaves him because of his miserly ways, was completely dropped from the film, as were the two starving children " Want " and " Ignorance ", who hid within the folds of the Ghost of Christmas Present's robe.

Much of its shock value derives from the fact that the first portion of the essay describes the plight of starving beggars in Ireland, so that the reader is unprepared for the surprise of Swift's solution when he states, " A young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled ; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragoust.

Cyril was constantly busy with work that ranged from offering Mass to meeting with the people of his flock and not to mention making it a top priority to make sure people were not starving or being seduced by the call of false idols and religious skeptics.

The CPC continued to make the irresistible promise in the countryside to the massive number of landless and starving Chinese peasants that by fighting for the CPC they would be able to take farmland from their landlords.

For instance, CNN recently portrayed the Samburu practice of young men giving a large number of beads to a particular girl as tantamount to rape, and erroneously stated that no research exists on the tradition despite the fact that anthropological portrayals based on long term studies show it to be largely akin to the U. S. practice of “ going steady .” In a 2009 article MSNBC took readers on a tour through imaginary places purported to be in Samburu District, while asserting that ethnic conflict between Samburu and the neighboring Pokot was the result of both sides starving because they had more cattle than the rangelands could support, although the reporter did not indicate how having too many cattle could make people starve.

In just a few weeks, the starving Cree went to Battleford to make peace with Major-General Middleton.

The argument is that, like the starving ass, we must make a choice in order to avoid being frozen in endless doubt.

Like the situation of the starving ass, there exists an input on which the converter cannot make a proper decision, resulting in a metastable state.

In November of 2011, an Ecuadorean activist group known as Fundacion Causana began a petition on Change. org to entreat the Ecuadorean Minister of Health to close down over 200 " ex-gay clinics " known for starving, abusing, and torturing patients " in an effort to make them straight ".

", while the Far Side cartoon got the Dennis caption-" Lucky thing I learned to make peanut butter sandwiches or we'd be starving to death by now .").

Standing at 1. 78 m ( 5 ' 10 "), McCoy has been known to diet in order to make the low weights on some rides, starving himself down to when his natural weight is about 75 kg ( one and a half stone ) more.

In 1863 it was suggested that, in order to provide employment for the starving operatives, the government should start works of utility, profit and ornament, and Rawlinson being sent to make an official investigation into the question, reported, after visiting nearly 100 towns, that 1 / 2 million sterling might be advantageously expended in providing water-supply and drainage, forming streets, etc., in those places.

" He wrote that the "... beast is starving, as planned ..." and that " Republicans insist that the deficit must be eliminated, but they ’ re not willing either to raise taxes or to support cuts in any major government programs.

Then sneaking into a secret Bolshevik meeting, Tintin learns that all the Soviet grain is being exported abroad for propaganda purposes, leaving the people starving, and that the government plan to " organise an expedition against the kulaks, the rich peasants, and force them at gunpoint to give us their corn.

When Chan looks at the jacket, he suddenly recalls meeting Frank before, and has a flashback to an event from years ago: a homeless man from the mainland arrives without much money, and his son is starving.

In 1991, she started starving herself more than ever and vomiting, and lost a massive amount of weight, to the point that she was admitted to a hospital in early 1992.

The objective of the training at this point was to narrow the list of potential recruits by starving, exhausting and antagonizing them.

In India they are considered symbols of marital fidelity, believed to mate for life and pine the loss of their mates even to the point of starving to death.

The colony reached a low point during the " starving time " in 1609-1610, when over 80 % of the 500 colonists perished after the third supply mission was disrupted by a massive hurricane in the North Atlantic.

Nakoshi is extremely fond of his car, to the point where he has no problem starving if it will provide gasoline for his car.

This temporary starving of the hens is seen as inhumane and is the main point of objection by critics and opponents of the practice.

* Minahikosis ( Little Pine, French: ‘ Petit Pin ’, Chief of the Plains Cree, born about 1830 in the vicinity of Fort Pitt, Saskatchewan, his mother was a Blackfeet, became famous in the 1860s, as armed Plains Cree to find the last remaining bison, penetrated more and more into the territory of the Blackfoot Confederacy, led three years bitter resistance, signed however, in view of his starving people in 1879 the Treaty 6, and moved into a reserve at the foot of Blue Hill along the Battle River, his reputation was comparable to that of Mistahimaskwa ' (' Big Bear '))

General Carleton's " solution " was brutal: thousands of starving Navajo were forced on a Long Walk of 450 miles and interned near Fort Sumner, New Mexico, and much of their livestock was destroyed.

The starving band seized food and supplies from several white settlements and captured Fort Pitt, taking prisoners.