In order to prevent this, Washington hastened to dispatch several units to reinforce the fort, including a force under the Marquis De Lafayette containing some 160 of Morgan's riflemen, all who were fit for duty at this time, the rest having no shoes.

sales and production of home sets were about equal at 10.4 million units.

Sample units ( villages in rural areas, houses in cities ) were drawn systematically within these strata.

Dominant stress is of course more than extended duration, and normally centers on syllables that would have primary stress or phrase stress if the words or longer units they are parts of were spoken alone: a dominant stress given to glorify would normally center on its first syllable rather than its last.

Two other end-use areas which contributed to expandable styrene's growth during the year were packaging ( molded inserts replacing complicated cardboard units ) and foamed-core building panels.

The Confederate troops who escaped were assigned to other units as Crittenden faced an investigation of his conduct.

The concept that matter is composed of discrete units and cannot be divided into arbitrarily tiny quantities has been around for millennia, but these ideas were founded in abstract, philosophical reasoning rather than experimentation and empirical observation.

Shortly after, in 1913, Rutherford's postdoctoral student Niels Bohr proposed a new model of the atom, wherein electrons orbited the nucleus with classical periods, but were only permitted to have discrete values of angular momentum, quantized in units h / 2π.

About 200 units were produced.

) This was changed because a government study showed that many people were in effect " saving up " their units and using them at the end of the week, a phenomenon referred to as binge drinking.

After selecting the landing site for Apollo 16, sampling the Descartes and Cayley formations, two geologic units of the lunar highlands, were determined by mission planners to be the primary sampling interests of the mission.

Despite this, several features that would later be associated with BBC Master and Archimedes were first features of Electron expansion units, including ROM cartridge slots and the Advanced Disc Filing System — a hierarchical improvement to the BBC's original Disc Filing System.

The main units were only sold bundled with a colour or monochrome monitor that doubles as the main unit's power supply.

As the amount of German armour encountered by the Allies decreased, especially in Italy, a number of American tank destroyer units were used in the assault gun role for infantry support.

Their turretless construction bears similarity to later tank destroyers and they were used as an anti-tank component of the reconnaissance units.

However, sometimes they were used in larger units up to squadron size.

During the Anglo-Iraqi War, some of the units located in the British Mandate of Palestine were sent to Iraq and drove Fordson armored cars.

The turrets carried four. 50 inch ( 12. 7 mm ) machine guns, which were designed to be adjusted to converge at the single point where enemy aircraft were expected to appear at low altitude in conduction of strafing runs directed at large infantry and field artillery units.

* Meteorological data: historically these were usually divisional level specialist teams but advances in technology mean they are now increasingly part of artillery units.

There were 2, 704 housing units at an average density of 997. 2 per square mile ( 385. 2 / km² ).

There were 142 housing units at an average density of 109. 0 per square mile ( 42. 2 / km² ).

In 1997 there were major units around Brasília, four jungle brigades, and five jungle battalions extending from Amapá to Mato Grosso do Sul.

The name is also applied to several military units employed by the Romans that were originally raised among the Batavi.

All his men dismounted and were organized into units, with longbowmen placed in a V-formation on both flanks and a small cavalry unit, commanded by Jean de Grailly, the Captal de Buch, hidden in woods at the rear.

Though rarely used by modern conventional military units, abatises are still officially maintained in United States Army and Marine Corps training.

Though SI prefixes may also be used to form multiples of the second such as kilosecond ( one thousand seconds ), such units are rarely used in practice.

Metric prefixes rarely appear with imperial or US units except in some special cases ( e. g., microinches, kilofeet, kilopound or ' kip ').

In Old Norse sources, beings described as trolls dwell in isolated rocks, mountains, or caves, live together in small family units, and are rarely helpful to human beings.

The first ALE-family controller units were external rack mounted controllers connected to control military radios, and were rarely interoperable across vendors.

SI units of thermal inertia are J · m < sup >− 2 </ sup >· K < sup >− 1 </ sup >· s < sup >− 1 / 2 </ sup >, also occasionally referred to as Kieffers, or more rarely, tiu.

Japanese airborne units suffered heavy casualties during the Dutch East Indies campaign, and were rarely used as parachute troops afterward.

Older units are rarely used nowadays.

Two related units are the outhouse ( 1 μb, or 10 < sup >− 34 </ sup > m < sup > 2 </ sup >) and the shed ( 10 < sup >− 24 </ sup > b ( 1 yb ), or 10 < sup >− 52 </ sup > m < sup > 2 </ sup >), although these are rarely used in practice.

The boundaries of each sub-district rarely correspond to any units of civil administration such as parishes or boroughs ; despite this, they have developed over time into a primary reference frame.

DVD / VCR combo units rarely offered S-VHS, only VHS.

Although American units were usually able to replenish their numbers quickly, the replacements rarely had sufficient tactical training.

They were also urged to lead their units from the front, and to keep command posts well forward ( Fredendall had built an elaborate, fortified " bunker " headquarters behind the front, and only rarely emerged to visit the lines ).

Even early 21st century developments rarely achieve densities above 5 to 7 units per acre in the suburbs.

1, 5, 10, and 20 dirham coins are rarely used as units of exchange.

Red Blood Cell units can also be frozen when buffered with glycerol, but this is an expensive and time consuming process, and is rarely done.

NAS units rarely limit clients to a single protocol.

Vertical chemical zonation in ignimbrites is interpreted as recording incremental changes in the deposition and the zonation rarely correlate with flow unit boundaries and may occur within flow units.

Such units were primarily defensive and although there were examples of RF and PF units successfully defending themselves, they rarely conducted offensive operations ; even when they did these operations were usually limited and lacked initiative or aggression.

An Order of Battle is not a reliable source for army strength, since units in campaign, or even in peace time periods, are rarely if ever at full authorized strength.

However, such expensive and bulky equipment was rarely available to infantry units and was prone to malfunction.

It should also be noted that specialized personnel, such as police and special forces units, have typically carried newer and safer firearms, and have rarely used this mode of carry.

Battle losses, formation of new units, reinforcements and captured enemy equipment all mean that the actual equipment of each unit is rarely known.