Hiding his main body of troops in a wood, he stationed as bait a smaller vanguard in open ground before the wood.

Stilicho hastened forward with a selected vanguard in advance of his main body of 30, 000 troops, breaking the siege of Milan and rescuing the besieged emperor.

At about 4: 20 pm the battle began with Lieutenant Henderson's NNH troopers, stationed behind the Oscarberg, briefly engaging the vanguard of the main Zulu force.

Before that time, he helped to relieve the vanguard at the Battle of Dorylaeum after it had been pinned down by the Seljuk Turks under Kilij Arslan I, with the help of the other crusader princes in the main force and went on to sack the Seljuk camp.

The horsemen managed to keep the Dutch vanguard busy, but the envelopment of the main allied force failed.

With the battle hanging in the balance Blücher's army intervened with decisive and crushing effect, his vanguard drawing off Napoleon's badly needed reserves, and his main body being instrumental in crushing French resistance.

On 23 September, in the first clash between the main Royalist and Parliamentarian armies, Royalist cavalry under Prince Rupert of the Rhine routed the cavalry of Essex's vanguard at the Battle of Powick Bridge.

Raymond led the vanguard ; Guy the main army ; and Balian, Raynald, and the military orders made up the rearguard.

In early July Schwarzenberg, having received a request from Wellington and Blücher, ordered Wrede to act as the Austrian vanguard and advance on Paris and by 5 July the main body of Wrede's IV Corps had reached Châlons.

" If The Yellow Book was not as " daring " as its introduction advertised, it was still a part of the vanguard of cultural debate which typified the main struggles of the " yellow ' 90s ".

General Fraser and elements of Baron Riedesel's troops faced determined resistance in Battle of Hubbardton on July 7, and a skirmish that same day between the vanguard of the main army met Pierse Long's retreating companies in a skirmish at Skenesboro.

The Byzantine army was divided into a number of divisions, which entered the pass in the following order: a vanguard, largely of infantry ( the other divisions being composed of a mix of infantry and cavalry ); the main division ( of eastern and western Tagmata ); then the right wing ( largely composed of Antiochenes and other Westerners ), led by Baldwin of Antioch ( Manuel's brother-in-law ); the baggage and siege trains ; the Byzantine left wing, led by Theodore Mavrozomes and John Kantakouzenos ; the emperor and his picked troops ; and finally the rear division under the experienced general Andronikos Kontostephanos.

The Byzantine vanguard was the first to encounter Arslan's troops, and went through the pass with few casualties, as did the main division.

Nagumo's main body positioned itself behind the vanguard and advanced forces in order to more easily remain hidden from U. S. reconnaissance aircraft.

Chernov nevertheless considered the proletariat the ' vanguard ', with the peasantry forming the ' main body ' of the revolutionary army.

They ran into Cao Cao's vanguard army and were preparing for engagement when Cao's main force arrived.

The Takeda vanguard, which included Baba Nobuharu, was hard-pressed ; Shingen himself led up the Takeda main body.

Attacking at night, the brigade advanced with No. 3 Commando leading the main body behind the vanguard and was able to infiltrate the German positions before the lead sections ran into the German headquarters units.

On its march to Kumamoto castle, the army was divided into three divisions ; a vanguard of 4, 000 men, the main division of 4, 000 men, and a rearguard of 2, 000 men.

The main tenet of Qutbist ideology is that the Muslim community ( or the Muslim community outside of a vanguard fighting to reestablish it ) " has been extinct for a few centuries " having reverted to Godless ignorance ( Jahiliyya ), and must be reconquered for Islam.

Admiral Hamilcar then faked a retreat to allow the creation of a gap between the Roman vanguard and the transport ships that were his main target.

The Manchesters became the main vanguard of the frontal assault, having originally been tasked with a left-flank attack on the Boer hills.

They skirmished with elements of a Zulu force which Chelmsford believed to be the vanguard of the main enemy army.

When the army who awaited the enemy was busy fighting the Mongolian vanguard, Genghis Khan led the main force towards the sultan who was trapped between the Mongols and the river.

The garrison had previously been a centre of major support for the Bolsheviks, and throughout the Civil War of 1917 – 1921, the navy of Kronstadt had been at the vanguard of the main Bolshevik attacks.

In Marxist philosophy, Leninism is the body of political theory for the democratic organisation of a revolutionary vanguard party, and the achievement of a direct-democracy dictatorship of the proletariat, as political prelude to the establishment of socialism.

Arguing that the revolution needed not a mere parliamentary organization but a party of action which would function as a scientific body of direction, a vanguard of activists, and a central control organ, the Tenth Party Congress banned factions within the party, initially intending it only to be a temporary measure after the shock of the Kronstadt Rebellion.

The vanguard and main body had crossed a stream at Hay's Bridge ( near the present-day village of Chipping Warden ), leaving a rearguard of only two cavalry brigades under the Earl of Cleveland and the twenty-year old Earl of Northampton, with some infantry, south of Hay's Bridge.

The French vanguard surprised the Milanese cavalry at Villafranca, capturing Prospero Colonna ; meanwhile, Francis and the main body of the French confronted the Swiss at the Battle of Marignano on 13 September.

Talbot approached the French camp on 17 July 1453, arriving before his main body of troops with a vanguard of 1, 300 mounted men.

Crossing at night to what is now called Wolfe Island, the vanguard of the main body spent the day there before crossing at night to Sackett's Harbor.

Dupont, following with the main body of the convoy at two leagues ' distance, halted the bloodied vanguard, posted General Barbou to defend the rear against any pursuit by Castaños, and ordered all other formations to the fore in an attempt to crack Reding's line.

The body was hauled aboard by Admiral Yi's men and identified as Kurushima Michifusa, the commander of the vanguard units of the Japanese fleet and the brother of the late Kurushima Michiyuki, killed in 1592 by Admiral Yi at the Dangpo Battle.

Although credited to Joan of Arc, most of the fighting took place at the vanguard of the French army and the battle was over before the main body could arrive.

Yusuf Ya ' qub al-Mansur gave to his vizier, Abu Yahya ibn Abi Hafs, command of a very strong vanguard: on the first line the Bani Marin volunteers under Abu Jalil Mahyu ibn Abi Bakr, with a big body of archers and the Zenata Tribe ; behind them, in the hill itself, the vizier with the Amir's banner and his personal guard, from the Hintata tribe ; to the left the Arab host under Yarmun ibn Riyah ; and to the right, the al-Andalus forces under the popular Caid Ibn Sanadid.

The strong Castilian vanguard was led by the Lara brothers, while the King himself rode in the main body.

The main body of the French fleet was sailing in a loose cluster with three or four ships trailing behind and one ship, Alexandre under Captain François Charles Guillemet far to the rear and only from the British vanguard.

* Dejazmach (" Commander or General of the Gate ") a military title meaning commander of the central body of a traditional Ethiopian armed force composed of a vanguard, main body, left and right wings and a rear body.

On the left, the vanguard of the war of 1918 was the most radical urban Red Guards and Workers ' Security Guards from Helsinki, Kotka and Turku ; they led the rural Reds, and convinced those leaders of the Social Democrats who wavered between peace and war to support revolution.

In February 1917, for five years, Leninism was the Russian application of Marxist economics and political philosophy, effected and realised by the Bolshevik party, the vanguard party who led the fight for the political independence of the working class.

Nevertheless, the circumstances of the Red vs. White Russian Civil War, and terrorism by the opposing political parties, and in aid of the White Armies ' counter-revolution, led to the Bolshevik government banning other parties ; thus, the vanguard party became the sole, legal political party in Russia.

The Bolshevik faction led by Lenin advocated an active, politically committed vanguard party membership while opposing trade union based membership of social democratic parties.

Compared to its predecessor, it focused more on the independent national identity and vanguard role of the Palestinian people, led by the PLO, in their " liberation of their homeland " by armed struggle.

Rhys did not oblige at the time, but released him the following year and in 1169 Fitz-Stephen led the vanguard of a Norman army which landed in Wexford.

As a matter of political pragmatism, Lenin reversed Marx's order of economics over politics, allowing for a political revolution led by a vanguard party of professional revolutionaries rather than a spontaneous establishment of socialist institutions led by a spontaneous uprising of the working class as predicted by Karl Marx.

Angered, the earl mounted his horse and led the vanguard on a charge against the leading Scots spearmen, commanded by Edward Bruce.

The vanguard were led by Edward, the Prince of Wales, the central division by the King of England, Edward III, and the rearguard by the Earl of Northampton.

In June, 1336 Ryushin and his vanguard led an attack on the Southern Court's fort on Mt.

Article 1 of the State Constitution describes China as " a socialist state under the people's democratic dictatorship " meaning that the system is based on an alliance of the working classes — in communist terminology, the workers and peasants — and is led by the Communist Party, the vanguard of the working class.

In the Battle of Pinkie Dudley led the vanguard, being " one of the key architects of the English victory ".

Meanwhile, Sheridan, riding with Ayres's vanguard, personally led the charge that breached the left flank of Pickett's line, an exploit that has been depicted heroically in paintings and lithographs of the era.

Guan Yu and Zhang Liao led the vanguard, and attacked Yuan Shao's remaining troops at Baima.

Four days later, Bagration's corps of 17, 000 men occupied the strategic Åland Islands, while Kulnev led the vanguard further across the frozen sea and on March 19 reached the Swedish shore within 70 km from Stockholm.

Bayard ’ s company became a model for discipline, high morale, and battlefield effectiveness ; and played a key role that year in rescuing the French vanguard at the Battle of Agnadello, on May 14, 1509 ; against the Venetian forces led by Bartolomeo d ' Alviano.

Raymond led the vanguard, but five of Raymond's own knights defected to Saladin's side and told him of the disagreements in the crusader army.

The vanguard was surrounded and Raymond led two unsuccessful cavalry charges.

After about a month spent outside the city's walls, the queen followed Guy when he led a vanguard of the newly arrived Third Crusade against Muslim-held Acre, desiring to make that town the seat of kingdom.

When Mary escaped from Lochleven, he led the vanguard of the army which defeated her forces at the Battle of Langside in 1568, and he was the most valued privy counsellor of the Earl of Moray during the latter's brief term of office as Regent of Scotland.

When the Takeda vanguard, led by Baba Nobuharu and Yamagata Masakage heard the drums, and saw the braziers and open gates, they assumed that Tokugawa was planning a trap, and so they stopped and made camp for the night.