Although Thévenard's manoeuvre was successful, it placed his own bow under Minotaurs guns and by 21: 25 the French ship was dismasted and battered, Captain Thévenard killed and his junior officers forced to surrender.

The manoeuvre of the Scythians was ultimately successful.

Mercenary-on-mercenary warfare in Italy led to relatively bloodless campaigns which relied as much on manoeuvre as on battles, since the condottieri recognized it was more efficient to attack the enemy's ability to wage war rather than his battle forces, discovering the concept of indirect warfare 500 years before Sir Basil Liddell Hart, and attempting to attack the enemy supply lines, his economy and his ability to wage war rather than risking an open battle, and manoeuvre him into a position where risking a battle would have been suicidial.

The phalanx was a cumbersome military unit to manoeuvre and was easily defeated by mountain tribes such as the Volsci or Samnites in rough terrain.

In 1997, the Trabant was celebrated for passing the " Elchtest " (" moose test "), a swerve manoeuvre slalom, without toppling over like the Mercedes-Benz W168 ( 1997 A-class ) infamously did.

In June 1938, Chinese forces stalled the Japanese advance by flooding the Yellow River ; this manoeuvre bought time for the Chinese to prepare their defenses at Wuhan, but the city was taken by October.

Ian Howard argued that Emma not being involved in a major political manoeuvre would be " out of character for her " and the Encomium was probably trying to mask her responsibility for a blunder.

This manoeuvre was highly successful.

At the time of the Somme, British senior commanders insisted that the company ( 120 men ) was the smallest unit of manoeuvre ; less than a year later, the section of 10 men would be so .< ref >

There was also a slight war of manoeuvre on the middle Rhine.

This manoeuvre was so unusual and so widely admired in the Royal Navy that using one enemy ship to cross to another became known facetiously as " Nelson's patent bridge for boarding enemy vessels.

There was a sense that time was running out, both on the battlefield, where the Eastern front was in full retreat and where the Allies had landed in France on 6 June, and in Germany, where the resistance's room for manoeuvre was rapidly contracting.

The need for manoeuvre was emphasized by the American Civil War, and was used very effectively by the Prussian General Staff to combine the strategic use of railways with the new firepower of quick-firing ordnance and small arms to defeat France in 1871.

As the defenders on the Western side of the city retreated in good order into the city ( although during this manoeuvre Keith was captured and Montgomery was badly wounded ), Charles ordered two sorties to attack the Parliamentary forces east of the city.

But it was by then a failed manoeuvre, because during the 48 lost hours, the German infantry had caught up behind their tanks in the breakthrough and had consolidated their gains.

Chamberlain's scope for manoeuvre was restricted between 1880 and 1883 by the Cabinet's preoccupation with Ireland, Transvaal Colony and Egypt, but he was able to introduce the Grain Cargoes Bill, for the safer transportation of grain, an Electric Lighting Bill, enabling municipal corporations to establish electricity supplies, and a Seaman's Wages Bill, which ensured a fairer system of payment for seamen.

Accounts note that Richard fought bravely and ably during this manoeuvre, unhorsing Sir John Cheney, a well-known jousting champion, killing Henry's standard bearer Sir William Brandon and coming within a sword's length of Henry himself before being finally surrounded by Sir William Stanley's men and killed.

In the second week of March, the 161st Indian Infantry Brigade ( part of the 5th Division ) finally captured the " Tortoise " and the other fortifications around Razabil, by a flanking manoeuvre, before the division was withdrawn into reserve.

Most military analysts consider the Goumiers ' manoeuvre as the critical victory that finally opened the way to Rome.

This WE. 177 laydown weapon supplemented the remaining modified Blue Steel missiles using a low-level penetration followed by a pop-up manoeuvre to release the weapon at Forty-eight live operational rounds were deployed on 48 Vulcan and Victor bombers plus a further five live rounds as operational spares.

While " absolute discretion " appears to leave some freedom for manoeuvre for a president in deciding whether to initiate contact with the opposition, " own counsel " has been interpreted by some lawyers as suggesting that no contact whatsoever can take place.

A major manoeuvre commanded in 1912 by Ulrich Wille, a reputed Germanophile, convinced visiting European heads of state, in particular Kaiser Wilhelm II, of the efficacy and determination of Swiss defences.

# Sailing vessels must give way to vessels engaged in fishing, those not under command, those restricted in their ability to manoeuvre and should avoid impeding the safe passage of a vessel constrained by her draft.

Observing and even memorizing the patterns ( diagonally 2-4-2-4-2-4, horizontally and vertically 3-2-3-2-3-2 ) helps a player to manoeuvre his knight and to avoid his pieces being attacked by an enemy knight.

In an unusual military manoeuvre, the Yorkists surrendered the high ground by immediately going on to the attack.

This manoeuvre, the same effected by the French-Spanish fleet in Trafalgar, would be quicker but would have disrupted the sequence of the battleline and caused confusion by altering the battle plans and placing the cruisers in the lead.

It has been said that the abdication had been imposed by opponents, but the royal house, too, had an interest in the manoeuvre.

Although mostly used by coast radio stations, there is nothing to stop individual craft broadcasting their own Sécurité messages where appropriate, for example, a yacht becalmed ( rendered motionless for lack of wind ), or any vessel adrift or unable to manoeuvre near other craft or shipping lanes.

After a while the French disengaged — later writing enthusiastic reports to Louis about feeling honoured to witness the tactical genius shown by De Ruyter by this manoeuvre — exposing the Allied rear to encirclement by the Dutch rear and centre.

These deck modules were brought to the site by specially designed barges and raised into the deck position by a pair of strand jack gantries that could manoeuvre along the main cable.

The Queen, who loathed Sunderland and the Junto, and who refused to be dominated by any single party, bitterly opposed the move ; but Godolphin, increasingly dependent on Whig support, had little room for manoeuvre.

Marlborough was more likely to manoeuvre than his opponents, and was better at maintaining operational tempo at critical times, yet the Duke qualifies more as a great practitioner within the constraints of early 18th century warfare, rather than as a great innovator who radically redefined military theory.

Osler's manoeuvre takes a patient who has a palpable, although pulseless, radial artery while the blood pressure cuff is inflated above systolic pressure ; thus they are considered to have " Osler's sign.

On 13 February, reeling from his successive defeats, Blücher looked to disengage from Napoleon and instead manoeuvre with a part of his forces to fall upon the isolated Corps of Marshal Auguste de Marmont, who was defending Napoleon ’ s rear.

On the right, Montbrun's cavalry had already advanced towards Obersiebenbrunn, repulsing Fröhlich's Austrian cavalry elements and clearing the way for Friant and Morand, who began their enveloping manoeuvre against the enemy left.

The techniques of self-defense and using farm tools as weapons against armed opponents — called " Karate " by today's martial artists — was created totally by Uchinanchu who probably incorporated some gong fu and native techniques from China into a complete system of attack and defense known simply as Te ( literally meaning " hand ( s )," but with a strong connotation of " manoeuvre ( s )").

His most notorious exploit took place during the Crimean War on 25 October 1854 when, in command of the Light Cavalry Brigade at the battle of Balaclava, he led the charge of the Light Brigade, reaching the Russian guns before returning, personally unscathed, in a manoeuvre that cost the lives of about 107 out of the 674 men under his command who took part in the charge ( although others may have died of wounds later on ).

Lucy, who acted with only a small force, was clearly trusted by Harclay, so the arrest must have been conducted as a surprise manoeuvre.

It is possible that the price rises were imposed on Gomułka by his enemies in the Party leadership who planned to manoeuvre him out of power.

Fermor, who was then besieging Küstrin, learned about his manoeuvre from a Cossack sortie.

She described a typical Oldfield machiavellian manoeuvre in which the information Keith Littlejohn had passed to her about Kenneth's discovery of Russian arms in the Republic of Ireland, was firstly given to Oldfield who requested that she passed it to Lord Carrington.

Pacifica must discover her hidden destiny, even as powerful beings called Peacemakers, who are worshipped in this world as demi-gods, continually manoeuvre to have her destroyed, and, at the same time, a mysterious being called a Dragoon comes to the assistance of Pacifica and her guardians, offsetting to some extent the attack of the Peacemakers.

In taking evasive action, Cacho was forced to leap over the fallen El Guerrouj, in a manoeuvre which he later estimated had lost him 5 metres of ground to Morceli, who had commenced his final lap sprint for the finish.

The " Savardian Spin-o-rama ", which is a quick pivoting turn with the puck done in order to evade opponents, was coined by Danny Gallivan and named after Serge Savard, and not Denis Savard ( who was adept at the same manoeuvre ) as is often thought.

The fact that such a manoeuvre was executed was supported by other crew members who testified that the stern of the ship never hit the berg.

To a Trotskyist friend, André Stefi, who had warned him that the communists would not forgive for such poems, Migjeni replied, " My work has a combative character, but for practical reasons, and taking into account our particular conditions, I must manoeuvre in disguise.

In one episode, he also developed the habit of throwing his subordinates into " The Pit " ( a door, appearing out of nowhere under the characters ' feet ) ( he once did it to the subordinate who asked him why he doesn't simply catch some random sheep and make the Sheep-Powered Ray Gun compatible to it ), but later, finds out that this is a problem, when neither he nor Private Public can manoeuvre the helicopter properly, because Specific dropped the helicopter pilot into the Pit.

The manoeuvre is named after the Soviet test pilot Viktor Pugachev, who first performed the manoeuvre publicly in 1989 at the Paris Le Bourget air show.

However the rebel rump had not yet deployed and upon spotting the British manoeuvre, rallied the front ranks who stood and broke the cavalry charge with massed pikes.

Wamba was a reformist king who, according to Charles Julian Bishko, " tried to set up at Aquis ( Chaves ) in Lusitania a monastic see of the same type as Dume – Braga, i. e., involving the sort of episcopus sub regula associated with early pactualism, this manoeuvre was successfully blocked by the metropolitan church of Emérita with the full support of the fathers of the XIIth Council of Toledo ( 681 ).

Aldo Giannuli, a historian who works as a consultant to the parliamentary terrorism commission, sees the release of the Left Democrats ' report as a manoeuvre dictated primarily by domestic political considerations.