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They outflanked the Royalist left, but their own left flank rested, like the Royalists ' right flank, on the Sulby Hedges.
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" A British Dragoon later described the action from his own perspective – " They were so superior in numbers, they outflanked us, and we were in the middle of them … I hope God will forgive me, for I felt more like a devil than a man.
They faced Oliver Cromwell's more numerous and better disciplined troopers, but were outflanked and driven from the field by weight of numbers.
They thus achieved their main strategic objective, which was to protect the French Fifth Army from being outflanked.
They also kept an eye on the Sava to the southwest to avoid the infantry's being outflanked by Hunyadi's army.
They and Royalist
They lost much of the manpower from the Northern Counties of England which were strongly Royalist in sympathy, and access to the continent of Europe through the ports on the North Sea coast.
They played little part in the battle ; their first salvos went high, and the Royalist and Parliamentarian infantry were subsequently too closely engaged for the guns to be used.
They are still notable for their collection of trees ( specimens include a holm oak, silver pendent lime, tulip tree, golden yew, purple beech, cedar of Lebanon, ginkgo, giant redwood, tree of heaven, incense cedar, Corsican pine, magnolia and a rare Chinese gutta-percha ) and they still contain a number of vestigial curiosities from the past ( notably an 18th-century ‘ cowshed ’ set into the remnants of the Royalist earthworks of 1642, and a sculpture of Warden Bowra ).
They were intended to reduce the remaining Royalist garrisons in their areas and prevent Royalist incursions.
They put to flight some badly-led Royalist cavalry, and the alarm caused all of Hopton's army to form up and began advancing west, till they came in sight of Waller's position.
They and their English Royalist allies were defeated during the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland by the New Model Army under Oliver Cromwell in 1649 – 53.
They were besieged by the Royalist Cornwall just across the water, which took control of St Budeaux and used the church as a garrison.
They were deployed in some enclosures in front of Auldearn, and the Royal Standard was prominently displayed among them to convince Hurry that the entire Royalist force was in this position.
They refused to retreat and stood their ground in the face of the Royalist onslaught, refusing to give up the standard of the Mackenzies, the " Cabar Feidh.
They had kept their weapons and lived a life of banditry, attacking both civilians and Parliamentary soldiers for supplies during the Royalist rising of 1651 to 1654 when English Parliamentarian troops under George Monck occupied Scotland.
They and left
They had been seen as soon as they left the ranch, picked out of the darkness by the weary though watchful eyes of two men posted a few hundred yards away in the windless shelter of the trees.
They are huge areas which have been swept by winds for so many centuries that there is no soil left, but only deep bare ridges fifty or sixty yards apart with ravines between them thirty or forty feet deep and the only thing that moves is a scuttling layer of sand.
They sprung the attack when the Romans were most vulnerable-when they had left their fortified camp, and were on the march in a pounding rainstorm.
They left Grothendieck in the care of Wilhelm Heydorn, a Lutheran Pastor and teacher in Hamburg where he went to school.
They consist of chemical or structural formulas of the reactants on the left and those of the products on the right.
They secured a record contract with Capitol Records, but Hooper left the band before the remaining trio moved to Los Angeles to record their debut album.
They were stripped naked and had been hogtied with their own shoelaces: their right ankles tied to their right wrists behind their backs, the same with their left arms and legs.
They say that it requires the complete renaming of only two exoplanetary systems: The planets around HW Virginis would be renamed HW Vir ( AB ) b & ( AB ) c, while those around NN Serpentis would be renamed NN Ser ( AB ) b & ( AB ) c. In addition the previously known single circumbinary planets around PSR B1620-26 and DP Leonis ) can almost retain their names ( PSR B1620-26 b and DP Leonis b ) as unofficial informal forms of the "( AB ) b " designation where the "( AB )" is left out.
They left a kind of circle where they had danced, which were called älvdanser ( elf dances ) or älvringar ( elf circles ), and to urinate in one was thought to cause venereal diseases.
They are hardened and tempered at the cutting edge while the head is left soft so it will not crack when hammered.
They followed up by a campaign which swept the allies to the east bank of the Rhine and left the French, by the beginning of 1795, conquering Holland itself.
They were a part of the French 6th Light Armoured Division, whose mission was to protect the coalition's left flank.
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They were dirty, their clothes were torn, and the girl was so exhausted that she fell when she was still twenty feet from the front door.
They poured through the opening in the valley, then spread out in a long line to come at us, brandishing their lances and filling the morning with their spine-chilling scalp cry.
They, and the two large fans which I could dimly see as daylight filtered through their vents, down at the far end of the hall, could be turned on by a master switch situated inside the office.
They squatted on their heels in the deep mud and Dill found a cigar in his breast pocket, passing it over silently.
They had spent a million dollars, carving in a road, putting up buildings, drilling their haulage tunnel.
They returned to the street, mounted their horses, rode through the rain to the big house on Houston Street.
They brought to it all the odors that clung to men like themselves, that of their own sweat, of campfire smoke, of horses and cattle.
`` They were supposed to meet Thor at nine PM for a conference concerning the ad campaign for their soap, a new angle based on this SX-21 stuff ''.
They bought rustled cattle from the outlaw, kept him supplied with guns and ammunition, harbored his men in their houses.
They squatted on their heels with their heads bent far forward, their eyes only a few inches from the ground.
They recognized that slavery was a moral issue and not merely an economic interest, and that to recognize it explicitly in their Constitution would be in explosive contradiction to the concept of sovereignty they had set forth in the Declaration of 1776 that `` all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among them are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
They feel they are leagued against a hostile, persecutory world, faced with the concerted malevolent opposition of squares and their hirelings, the police.
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