The city was well-prepared for a lengthy siege, but the defences were undermanned and the defenders lacked enough gunpowder for their artillery.

Despite being undermanned, and greatly outnumbered, the defenders were sent no reinforcements from Vienna by the imperial army.

The US Army's Coast Division, led by Brigadier General Ambrose E. Burnside and accompanied by armed vessels from the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, were opposed by an undermanned and badly trained Confederate force of North Carolina soldiers and militia led by Brigadier General Lawrence O ' B.

Fort Henry, undermanned by Confederates and nearly submerged from flood waters, was taken over with few losses.

In Brazil, he briefly captured the Portuguese settlement of Salvador, personally leading the assault on the sea fortress of that town. In August with a small and undermanned fleet he sailed for the African west coast and attacked a Portuguese fleet in a strongly defended bay of Luanda but failed to capture any ships. He then crossed the Atlantic ocean again to try and capture merchant ships at the city of Vitória, but was defeated by a resistance organized by the local civilians, with assistance by a Portuguese garrison. After finding Salvador recaptured by a large Spanish-Portuguese fleet Heyn returned home. The Dutch West India Company were pleased with Heyn's leadership qualities and in 1626 placed him in command of a new squadron. In subsequent raids in 1627 at Salvador, he attacked and captured over thirty richly laden Portuguese merchant ships before returning to the United Provinces.

Nevertheless, their Playoff run ended on April 28, 2007 after they were swept in the first round by first seeded Detroit Pistons whose experience, veteran leadership and ability to consistently make the clutch basket proved far too much for the undermanned and overwhelmed Magic to overcome.

* In 2010, while competing at the MTEEA Supermileage Competition, the Springfield High School CADD Team, under the direction of Mr. TJ Brown, pulled off what has since been considered the greatest upset in competition history by winning a state title in the “ Best Design ” portion of the competition with a severely underfinanced and undermanned team.

Administration actions worked against the effort, sending explosives meant for naval mines to civilian construction companies while the Spanish fleet in Manila was seriously undermanned by inexperienced sailors who had not received any training for over a year.

The Army responded that, though the 10th Mountain Division had been unprepared following its deployment as Task Force Eagle, that the unit was fully prepared for combat by late 2000 despite being undermanned.

During the early stages, the Gestapo was undermanned and the German army and navy were called in to reinforce the Gestapo in its effort to prevent transportation taking place ; but by and large they proved less than enthusiastic in the operation and frequently turned a blind eye to escapees.

The ill-equipped and undermanned forts were forced to endure bombardment by seven Union warships, to which they were unable to reply.

The army was undermanned and under equipped ( since usually any suggestion of bigger military budget when enemy was not on the doorstep was labeled as warmongering ) and lands of Rzeczpospolita were constantly ravaged by new invasions, crippling its economy.

The English were considered a poor and undermanned team, but it surprised all by winning the first Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground by an innings and 124 runs.

That Dacia was considered a substantial threat can be seen by the fact that Trajan withdrew troops from other hostile borders leaving them dangerously undermanned.

" Reportedly, he justified such an action by indicating that " You know Sarbahara extremists men have been quite active in the region for many years and it is not possible for the undermanned and under-equipped police to hunt them down.

The Texian garrison was woefully undermanned and underprovisioned, with fewer than 100 soldiers remaining by January 6, 1836.

This meant that not only was the position effectively saturated during the approximately two months of bombardment, but also most of the defending crew had to be withdrawn far behind the line because of attrition by the bombardment and lack of effective shelters, and when the storm assault was finally initiated, the line was consequently undermanned by tired and demoralised troops.

The arrival of the German Afrika Korps under command of General der Infanterie Erwin Rommel highlighted the weaknesses of the British approach: the small number of infantry and artillery in each armoured division was sufficient when attacking the immobile and uncoordinated Italian troops, but against the highly mobile, well-coordinated German units, the undermanned Commonwealth formations were proving inadequate.

Despite being hopelessly undermanned and inadequately armed, the Royalists managed to keep the island out of Cromwellian hands for all but two brief periods of the war.

Some ships were so seriously undermanned, missing as many as 200 men, that not all of their guns could be manned.

When the rest of their opponents reached midseason form, the undermanned Wrangler defense had trouble keeping the games within reach of the offense.

They opened their campaign against an undermanned West Indian outfit who were without prominent players because of an industrial dispute.

However, while undermanned, they were not nearly as bad as their record indicated.

When the Germans broke through the Kasserine Pass in February 1943, his undermanned and undersupplied squadron flew eleven missions in a single day, repeatedly attacking advancing armored columns and blunting their thrust.

More seriously, the Portuguese part of the empire, with its chronically undermanned African and Asian forts, proved nearly impossible to defend adequately, and with Spain so fully engaged on so many fronts, it could spare little for their defense.

In defining the tasks of this new political establishment, Subhas declared: “ It will be the task of the Provisional Government to launch and conduct the struggle that will bring about the expulsion of the British and their allies from the soil of India .” Bose, taking formal command of the demoralized and undermanned Indian National Army from Rash Bose, turned it into a professional army with the help of the Japanese.

This included two Portuguese divisions, which were undermanned, lacked almost half of their officers, had very low morale and were set to be replaced the day of the German attack.

Kambei is forced to send reinforcements, leaving the main post undermanned when the bandit chief leads a charge against this position.

Caesar himself commanded the cavalry, he posted the notorious tenth legion on his right under Sulla, with the undermanned eighth and possibly the ninth on his left under Antonius.

Unfortunately for Antony, many of his ships were undermanned ; there had been a severe malaria outbreak while they were waiting for Octavian's fleet to arrive.

Food, horses and other goods flooded into the city, and thousands of slaves from West Africa were transported to the island to work on the undermanned sugar plantations.

Perhaps in response to Hamilcar's raids, Rome did build another fleet paid for with donations from wealthy citizens and it was that fleet which rendered the Carthaginian success in Sicily futile, as the stalemate Hamilcar produced in Sicily became irrelevant following the Roman naval victory at the Battle of the Aegates Islands in 241 BC, where the new Roman fleet under consul Gaius Lutatius Catulus was victorious over an undermanned and hastily built Carthaginian fleet.

The army suffered from a critical shortage of key personnel, and many of its fighting units were undermanned.

As Grant continued to push the Union advance westward towards the South Side Railroad, Lee's entrenchment lines became overstretched and undermanned.

They arrived at Fort Lipantitlán late on November 3 and took the undermanned fort without firing a shot.

We knew we were undermanned.

The film begins with a bugler playing " Taps " and an overlay of text stating that Americans have been accustomed to military victory, but cites Valley Forge and The Lost Battalion as examples of times where undermanned groups fought to the bitter end for America.

The better trained Roman fleet defeated a hastily raised undermanned and ill trained Punic fleet at Battle of the Aegates Islands in 241 BC, cutting off Sicily from Carthage.

Nervous settlers organized a company of volunteers to guard the undermanned fort.

Rupert began the 1673 campaign against the Dutch knowing the logistical support for his fleet remained uncertain, with many ships undermanned.

Khe Sanh and its 6, 000 U. S. Marine Corps, Army, and ARVN defenders was surrounded by two to three North Vietnamese divisions, totaling approximately 20, 000 men.

With the ARVN having few defenders, the fate of the city was effectively sealed.