England would not be involved with its rather weak army ; apart from an English brigade in the French army under the Duke of Monmouth its only effort would be made by the Royal Navy: to defeat its Dutch counterpart and ideally blockade the Dutch coast.

There, he took command of a weak ( under-manned ) brigade at the small town of Winterthur, in northern Switzerland.

If the enemy position was weak, the light horse pushed forward, and if a counterattack began, the brigade retired slowly, thereafter to return to camp at Romani at nightfall.

Before reaching their goal, and discovering a British and Canadian force had reached the town before them they turned to face a weak Canadian militia brigade that was approaching Fort Erie from the west, routing it at the Battle of Ridgeway.

Later from September 25 to October 15, 1944 brigade of Czechoslovak paratroopers ( 2nd Czechoslovak Parachute Brigade ) was trasfered from front in Carpathians to strengthen the weak insurgents front.

Despite this fact, the unit could hardly muster the strength of a weak brigade.

Others, badly wounded, gripped hands in manes, knees in bellies, held on as long as possible and then, weak from ghastly wounds, slipped sideways, slowly, almost thoughtfully, to be broken under the slashing hoofs.

When compressed, the crystal produces a small electrical current, so when placed under the bridge saddle, the vibrations of the strings through the saddle, and of the body of the instrument, are converted to a weak electrical signal.

The only forces immediately available for Vienna's defence were Prince Louis of Baden's force of 36, 000 stationed in the Lines of Stollhofen to watch Marshal Tallard at Strasbourg ; there was also a weak force of 10, 000 men under Field Marshal Count Limburg Styrum observing Ulm.

His knees were weak and gave way under him and his head shook.

In England, Charles was placed under the charge of Alletta ( Hogenhove ) Carey, the Dutch-born wife of courtier Sir Robert Carey, who taught him how to talk and insisted that he wear boots made of Spanish leather and brass to help strengthen his weak ankles.

The overwhelming Turkish land, naval and air superiority against island's weak defenses led to the bringing of 37 % of the land under Turkish control.

This is a technique used when one's opponent has weak kisei ( spirit, vigour ) or when they yield a suki under pressure.

The weak points of traditional styles had been under attack by progressive theorists since the mid-nineteenth century, primarily for the contradictions of hiding modern construction technology with a facade of ornamented traditional styles.

Even though Gospatric and Siward's son Waltheof submitted by the end of the year, the arrival of a Danish army under Sweyn Estridsson seemed to ensure that William's position remained weak.

The effective military and bureaucratic structures of the previous century also came under strain during a protracted period of misrule by weak Sultans.

The Constitution of the United States ratified in 1789 created a relatively strong federal republic to replace the relatively weak confederation under the first attempt at a national government with the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union ratified in 1783.

Richard made overtures to Landais, offering military support for Landais's weak regime under duke Francis II of Brittany in exchange for Henry.

Although relatively weak up until the early 11th century under the Sancho III ( 1004 – 1035 ), Navarre took up a more active Christian role after the accession to the throne of the Jimenez lineage ( 905 ).

* February 19 – ( Third Carlist War )- Government troops under General Primo de Rivera drove through the weak Carlist forces protecting Estella, Spain and took the city by storm.

Combined with a weak economy and difficulty in maintaining order, this was a fragile situation that crumbled under the pressure of external forces they could not oppose.

** Ptolemy IV Philopator, Greek king of Egypt who has reigned from 221 BC and under whose weak and incompetent rule, heavily influenced by his favourites, much of Ptolemaic Syria has been lost and native uprisings have begun to disturb the internal stability of the country ( b. c. 238 BC )

When the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, Prewitt, still weak from his unhealed wound, finds out about the attack, and attempts to return to camp under cover of darkness, but is shot dead by a sentry.

Of the actors, Variety went on to say, " Burt Lancaster, whose presence adds measurably to the marquee weight of the strong cast names, wallops the character of Top Sergeant Milton Warden, the professional soldier who wet-nurses a weak, pompous commanding officer and the GIs under him.

The " electroweak " theory attempts to unite two of the four forces of nature — the weak and the electromagnetic forces — under the same set of equations.

Under the latter's weak rule the island suffered considerably from the inroads of various adventurers ; hence in 1386 it placed itself under the protection of Venice, which in 1401 acquired formal sovereignty over Corfu and kept it until the French Occupation in 1797.

However, being of a weak constitution, his cloistered rule lasted just under 2 years before he died.

One group, composed of various ideologically nonaligned groups, gave weak support to the new Chinese leadership under Deng Xiaoping.

Babylon proved to be relatively weak under the long rule of the Kassites, and spent long periods under Assyrian and Elamite domination and interference.

Despite the estimations held by Hitler and others in the German high command, the Soviet Union was by no means weak.

Even if the current naval construction programme was completed on time, Raeder warned that the resulting German fleet would still be too weak to win command of the sea, and what was needed was a vast new battlefleet, even larger than Tirpitz's High Seas Fleet to defeat Britain.

In the 17th century fleets could consist of almost a hundred ships of various sizes, but by the middle of the 18th century, ship-of-the-line design had settled on a few standard types: older two-deckers ( i. e., with two complete decks of guns firing through side ports ) of 50 guns ( which were too weak for the battle line but could be used to escort convoys ), two-deckers of between 64 and 90 guns that formed the main part of the fleet, and larger three-or even four-deckers with 98 to 140 guns that served as admirals ' command ships.

Taking advantage of surprise and poor weather ( which helped neutralise the Allies ' command of the air ), the offensive made initial progress, breaking through the weak American formations in this quiet sector of the front.

The concept of a fog of war has come under considerable criticism, as it can be used as an excuse for poor planning, weak or compromised intelligence and incompetent command.

Nevertheless, middle management plus command and control skills were weak in the RLAF.

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Prussia's main weakness in 1806 was a very weak high command structure that included command positions being held by multiple officers.

And yet he could hardly have been a weak man, having been an officer in the British Navy for many years and had risen to command his own ship with apparent success.

He was able to rejoin his regiment just before the Battle of Gettysburg, but, still weak from his wound, was not permitted to take command during the fight.

Destroyed in a matter of hours, Stalingrad was now a charnel house ; defended by the weak Soviet 62nd Army under the command of General Vasily Chuikov.

These modifications included replacement of the original 90 mm cannon gun with the British 105 mm L7, lowering the command turret's profile, upgraded communication suite, and replacement of the flammable and weak gasoline engine with a 750 hp diesel one.

Captain Murrell ( Robert Mitchum ), a former officer in the merchant marine and now an active duty Lieutenant Commander in the Naval Reserve, has recently taken command of the Haynes, even though he is still weak from having survived the sinking of his previous ship.

As part of the francization programme, the Quebec government provides free language courses for recent immigrants ( from other countries or other provinces ) who do not speak French or whose command of French is weak.

During the Second Schleswig War, Tegetthoff as a Kommodor was given command, in February 1864, of a small Austrian squadron that sailed to the North Sea to support the very weak Prussian naval forces against the superior Danish navy which was blockading northern German ports.

He is renowned for having a seemingly unlimited supply of magical tricks: an eye patch that prevents magical and psionic intrusion and enhances his vision ; a hat with a large feather that can be used to summon a diatryma ( a large flightless bird native to the Underdark ), and is a nondimensional space to hide things ( nondimensional means that he can put items which are many times the size of the hat in ); a many-hued piwafwi that displaces projectiles, thus hindering ranged attacks and makes him invisible on his command ; a varied array of magical wands ; two artifacts ( from a lich named Zhengyi ), which have the power to raise humans from the dead and employ the help of a powerful dracolich, a ring which protects from fire or ice by choice, a dragon figurine that can summon the breath of chromatic dragons, a ring that tells when someone is lying, a necklace which gives him supernatural power and speed, a sword which can control the mind of weak people, and many other unknown magical items.

The sides and especially the rear, the command center, were the weak points of a galley, and were the preferred targets of any attacker.

However, Christians often made threatening advances into the Taifa, and in 1063, a Christian incursion under the command of Ferdinand I of Castile discovered how weak the military force was that occupied these realms.

Immediately after, and given Chile's obvious weak naval power-which at the time, was almost non-existent-a Peruvian squadron under the command of Captain Lizardo Montero, composed of several ships, among them the steam frigates Amazonas and Apurímac, set out southward to reinforce the Chilean ally.