Thus the only concentration of troops in Conakry appeared to be the armoured battalion, with a modest number of Soviet medium tanks manufactured in the late 1940s, as well as Soviet APCs, and elements of the engineer battalion.

Thus, in 260 BC, a body of Roman troops were encamped in the neighborhood, when they were attacked by Hamilcar, and defeated with heavy loss.

Thus, ' Abd-al-Raḥmân recalled all his troops, which did give him an even larger army — but it also gave Charles time for more of his veteran infantry to arrive from outposts of the Kingdom.

Thus, Soviet troops found themselves drawn into fighting against urban uprisings, tribal armies ( called lashkar ), and sometimes against mutinying Afghan Army units.

Thus he developed and strongly supported " Vietnamization ", a program intended to expand, equip, and train South Vietnam's forces and assign to them an ever-increasing combat role, at the same time steadily reducing the number of U. S. combat troops.

Thus, the arrival of the 4th Parachute Brigade under Brigadier Hackett and several more troops of artillery at the drop zones was several hours overdue.

Thus, on 25 July 1261, with most of the Latin troops away on campaign, the Nicaean general Alexios Strategopoulos found an unguarded entrance to the city, and entered it with his troops, restoring the Byzantine Empire for his master, Michael VIII Palaiologos.

Thus it is often somewhat difficult to tell whether the material refers to the use of cloth flags in battle or a unit of troops.

Thus patriotic support of the troops becomes a form of support for the war in general.

Thus, Chiang had sent a large number of troops into positions in which they could neither defend properly, without the combined support of the army, nor defend with any real purpose, setting the stage for the last great struggle of the Warlord Era.

Thus he deployed the young general off with merely a thousand odd troops and a tiny cavalry force.

Thus, Syria would not officially be opening hostilities against the British troops, who still bore responsibility for security in Palestine.

Thus the small number of available troops did not permit the establishment of a field army.

Thus, by the spring of 410 BC, Mindarus had built a fleet of eighty ships, and with the support of Pharnabazus's troops, besieged and took the city of Cyzicus.

Thus in total around 900, 000 French troops were opposed in all theatres by somewhere around a million Allied troops ( not including the strategic reserve being formed in Germany ).

Thus, at the beginning of 43 BC, Decimus Brutus hurried to Gallia Cisalpina, the province assigned to him as pro-praetor, and started to levy his own troops.

Thus, he reasoned, it would be easy for him to take five thousand troops ( plus another five thousand to carry supplies ) across the Qin Mountains via the Ziwu Valley and into Chang ' an.

Thus, the deaths of Ögedei and Möngke in 1241 and 1259, respectively, necessitated the withdrawal of Mongol leaders ( and troops ) from the outskirts of Vienna and Venice ( in 1241 ) and from Syria ( in 1259 ), hamstringing military operations against the Austrians and Mamluks that might otherwise have continued.

Thus warned, Turner detached all usable combat ships to protect the troops ashore from the expected Japanese naval attack and troop landing and ordered the supply ships at Guadalcanal to depart by the early evening of 12 November.

Thus, troops were rotated between the front line and the rear, analogous to the operation of a " noria ", a type of water wheel that transports water.

Thus, a stalemate in the battle for Guadalcanal developed, with the Allies delivering supplies and reinforcements to Guadalcanal during the day, and the Japanese delivering supplies and reinforcements by warship ( called the " Tokyo Express " by the Allies ) at night with neither side able to deliver enough troops to the island to secure a decisive advantage.

Thus, it reconstructed Grimlock and his troops into dinosaur forms, in order to battle Shockwave.

Thus it was initially unprepared to provide CAS, and in fact, had to be dragged " kicking and screaming " into the CAS function with the ground troops.

Thus Baptist churches on the frontier took cognizance of charges against their members of drunkenness, fighting, malicious gossip, lying, cheating, sexual irregularities, gambling, horse racing, and failure to pay just debts.

Thus, there was a revolt among the mountaineers of Pkhovi and Dido on Georgia's northeastern frontier in 1212, which was put down by Ivane Mkhargrdzeli after three months of heavy fighting.

Thus, in ten days of fighting, on nearly a front, the French 6th Army had progressed as far as six miles ( 10 km ) at points.

Thus, the entire population of Xanthos perished but for 80 families who were absent during the fighting.

Thus, even when fighting systems were outlawed by the Spaniards, Filipinos still maintained their centuries-old relationships with blades and blade fighting techniques that survive from ancient times and are still much alive as they have been adapted and evolved to stay relevant and practical in colonial and modern times.

Thus the defensive line could be relatively thin because the bulk of the fighting power of the defenders was not concentrated in the line itself but rather in the mobile reserves.

Thus, queen survival is enhanced by high fighting ability relative to co-foundresses, rather than by the number of offspring she has.

Thus, if there is no formal declaration of war or the casus belli is not legitimate, all those who engage in the fighting and kill combatants could theoretically be prosecuted.

Thus, over time, this means that HIV will tend to selectively destroy those helper T-cells most capable of fighting the HIV infection off, effectively desensitizing the immune system to the infection.

Thus, the battalion belonged to the first fighting units of the Estonian Army, demonstrated and maintained staunch allegiance and loyalty to authority vested in the Republic.

" Thus, when Theoharis and company were in the middle of fighting in court to obtain J. Edgar Hoover files, they may well have benefited from Landano and also Janet Reno's assertions of the government's need for " greater openness " and " discretionary releases " in 1993

Thus in a situation of civil unrest, such as a riot, civilians may be divided into belligerents, those actually fighting or intending to fight, and non-belligerents who are merely bystanders.

Thus, a player might choose to focus on two-weapon fighting for one play through and single-weapon fighting in the next.

Thus USCENTCOM ( U. S. Central Command ) for example, would be assigned air, ground, and naval assets in order to achieve its objective, not the inefficient method of individual services planning, supporting, and fighting the same war.

Thus hybrids will be less likely to be succumb to pathogenic disease and will be more capable of fighting off infection.

Thus, the unsolved problem of a shortage of transport aircraft meant that a third of the planned troops to be used were discarded, weakening the fighting power of the airborne formation.

Thus it is credible that Jerome had seen Attacotti soldiers, and he would certainly have heard Roman accounts of the recent fighting in Britain.

Thus instead of fighting the party splits up with Derek Crownguard and Sturm Brightblade taking the Dragon Orb with them to Sancrist, while Silvara and the others lure the pursuing elves after them.

Thus, “ the lewd and obscene, the profane, the libelous ,” and ( in this case ) insulting or “ fighting ” words neither contributed to the expression of ideas nor possessed any “ social value ” in the search for truth.

Thus, Gideon won the battle with little actual fighting ( Judges 7: 16-22 ).

Thus, many techniques from jujutsu, judo, and other martial systems joined with the indigenous fighting styles to form the Sambo repertoire.