To counter this effect, Nelson ordered HMS Theseus under Captain Ralph Miller to pass his flagship and join Zealous and Goliath in the vanguard.

The Bolsheviks, under Vladimir Lenin, advocated the formation of a small elite of professional revolutionists, subject to strong party discipline, to act as the vanguard of the proletariat in order to seize power by force.

This army, under the command of Eliab the son of Helon, encamped with Judah and Issachar east of the Tabernacle and with them made up the vanguard of the line of march ( Numbers 2: 3-9 ).

An attempt to send a naval vanguard from the south of France under Louis I of Clermont failed, however, with the forces being destroyed in a battle off Genoa in 1319.

The vanguard of the assault were the German troops under General Vandamme ; these soldiers stormed the bridge at Eckmühl and even captured the town's chateau after ferocious Austrian resistance.

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.

He had begun his manoeuvre just after 03: 00, moving south, out of his position along the Russbach line and at Deutsch-Wagram, Bellegarde formed a vanguard of three battalions and three squadrons, under the command of General-Major Stutterheim, which he sent towards Aderklaa.

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.

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.

Infantry were unavailable, and the British could have been expected to still be " under the devastating impression of seeing vanguard totally destroyed in such a short time ".

Meanwhile Moray continued to deploy the rest of the army, the vanguard under the command of the Earl of Morton leading the march across a nearby bridge.

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.

A Yorkist force under John Neville raced north in vanguard of Edward's larger force and the two sides met outside Hexham on 14 May 1464.

When they broke, the English cavalry rejoined the battle following a vanguard of 300 experienced soldiers under the command of Sir John Luttrell.

The right was under the command of Antony Bek, Bishop of Durham, while the King commanded the centre, still a little distance to the rear of the vanguard.

The enemy commander Zhou Yu dispatched a several thousand-strong vanguard force to challenge them under the city wall.

At 6: 00, under the cover of a thick fog, the vanguard came upon the Nawab ’ s advanced guard, who after firing with their matchlocks and rockets, ran away.

Although the constitution did not establish the vanguard role of the KSČ within the Czechoslovak state and government administration under the Leninist principle of democratic centralism ( these were provisions only of the following " socialist " 1960 Constitution of Czechoslovakia ), it confirmed the KSČ had in Czechoslovakia the absolute power, just as other Communist parties in Communist countries.

He sent the vanguard of his army across the narrow bridge under the Scots ’ gaze, who, rather than wait myopically for the entire army to cross the bridge and deploy for battle, struck when it was only partially deployed.

The phrase Socialist state, or Communist states in the West, is widely used by Leninists and Marxist – Leninists in reference to a state under the control of a vanguard party that is organizing the economic, social and political affairs of said state toward the construction of socialism.

According to Lenin's April Theses, the goal of the revolution and vanguard party is not the introduction of socialism, which could only be established on a worldwide scale, but to bring production and the state under the control of the Soviets of Workers ' Deputies.

After this, the young duke continued to serve under his father and grandfather in the Condé army, and, on several occasions, distinguished himself by his bravery and ardour in the vanguard.

The Danish arrived in Trincomalee to the end of 1619 with a first ship, called " Øresund " under the command of Roelant Crape, this small expedition, was the vanguard of another Danish fleet, this one composed by four vessels and three hundred soldiers, commanded by Ove Giedde, that reached the island in May 1620.

Hence, as a political-science concept and term, vanguard party most often is associated with Leninism ; however, similar concepts ( under different names ) also are present in other revolutionary ideologies.

Edward's vanguard was commanded by his youngest brother, Richard, Duke of Gloucester.

After some fierce fighting, in which the Earl of Gloucester was knocked off his horse, the knights of the vanguard were forced to retreat to the Tor Wood.

Already distinguished as a soldier in the Italian Wars, he was appointed Constable of France by Francis I of France in 1515, and was rewarded for his services at the Battle of Marignano ( where he commanded the vanguard ) with the Governorship of Milan.

Yuan Shao ordered his cousin Yuan Shu to manage the supplies for the coalition, and appointed Sun Jian as the vanguard to take Sishui Pass, one of several mountain passes leading to Luoyang.

AD ... an expedition to Derbent ... ` Abdur Rahman bin Rabi ` ah appointed as the chief of his vanguard.

Khiḍr is also said to have been appointed to be over the vanguard of the king Dhu al-Quarnayn the Elder, who in this version is identified as the king Afridun.

Ling Cao's valiant effort and extraordinary skill on the field had earned the appraisal by Sun Ce that he should be appointed as the vanguard should there be a battle.

Guan Sheng is appointed as commander of the imperial army with Xuan Zan and Hao Siwen serving as his deputies and leaders of the vanguard army.

Ling Cao, a veteran warrior who gained much fame during the service to Sun Ce, was appointed by Sun Quan as the vanguard ; however, with a light but elite force.

When Richard III marched against the invader, Brackenbury hurried himself to reach the King and arrived two days before the Battle of Bosworth Field ( 22 August 1485 ), in which-according to Molinet and Lindsay-he had joint command of Richard's vanguard ; he took part in the final charge on Henry and was killed fighting beside Richard III.

Vladimir Lenin, leader of the Bolsheviks, argued that a revolutionary party should be a small vanguard party with a centralized political command and a strict cadre policy ; the Menshevik faction, however, argued that the party should be a broad-based mass movement.

The following year Ferdinand Philippe returned to Belgium in command of the vanguard brigade of the armée du Nord.

Pang De then volunteered to command the vanguard force of the relief army to be sent to its help.

By 1819, Santander was given command of the republican army's vanguard by Bolívar during the campaign to liberate New Granada.

The Tudeh also sensed a coup might be coming, and created " vanguard cells " that along with the TPMO, " identified key military installation, army depots, and command and control centers in the capital " Tehran " to react violently to any coup attempt.

Within a decade he rose to become a general, in command of one of 4 tumens operating in the vanguard.

The vanguard of the Russian army under the command of Lieutenant General Mikhail Miloradovich and a Cossack unit of General Matvey Platov attacked the rearguard corps of Marshal Louis Nicolas Davout east of Vyazma and cut off his retreat.

On May 16, the vanguard of the force left San Francisco under the command of Brigadier General Thomas M. Anderson.

Ram Singh, on the other hand, set a woman, Madanavati, dressed as a man, to command the vanguard to deny the Ahoms any glory in case of a victory.

When war breaks out, Gregor is given command of Tywin's vanguard and left flank and leads his men through intimidation.

Napoleon added that he would give Vandamme command of the vanguard were he ( Napoleon ) to launch a campaign against Lucifer in Hell.

The Ottoman high command sent an army under the command of Osman Nuri Pasha to reinforce Nikopol, but the city fell to the Russian vanguard in the Battle of Nikopol ( 16 July 1877 ) before Osman reached it.

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.

After just a few kilometres the Swedish vanguard under command of Ascheberg encountered a small Danish unit that was beaten and effectively routed back north.

In March 892 Zhu Quanzhong led his army in an attack on Yunzhou, giving command of the vanguard to his first son Zhu Youyu.