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Elsewhere, Spanish troops repel a French attack in the Battle of San Marcial.
This led Haldon and Byrne to theorize that the device was fundamentally different, " a simple syringe squirted both liquid fire ( presumably unignited ) and noxious juices to repel enemy troops.
It was later reported that, while in Afghanistan, Harry had called in United States Air Force air strikes, helped Gurkha troops repel an attack from Taliban insurgents, and performed patrol duty in hostile areas.
After the success of the uprising on 7 – 8 November, Trotsky led the efforts to repel a counter-attack by Cossacks under General Pyotr Krasnov and other troops still loyal to the overthrown Provisional Government at Gatchina.
* 1814 – Napoleonic Wars: Austrian forces repel French troops in the Battle of Arcis-sur-Aube.
* 1861 – American Civil War: Battle of Santa Rosa Island – Union troops repel a Confederate attempt to capture Fort Pickens.
Being a classically educated Mandarin his blueprint for the Xiang Army was taken from a historical source — the Ming general Qi Jiguang who, because of the weakness of regular Ming troops, had decided to form his own " private " army to repel raiding Japanese pirates in the mid-16th century.
Harold assembled an army and a fleet to repel William's anticipated invasion force ; troops and ships were deployed along the English Channel for most of the summer.
* July 7 – War of Jenkins ' Ear: British troops repel those of Spain ( under Montiano ) in the Battle of Bloody Marsh in the Province of Georgia.
* June 25 – June 27 – Third Carlist War: Battle of Monte Muro: Carlist forces entrenched around Abárzuza, on the approach to Estella in Navarre, repel an attack by Isabelino / Liberal ( supporters of Queen Isabella II ) troops led by General Manuel Gutiérrez de la Concha, Marqués del Duero, who is killed on the third day of fighting.
The defenders, although unsupported by Byzantine troops, repel the Persian assaults for three months before they are finally beaten.
During the 1758 Battle of Carillon, 4, 000 French defenders were able to repel an attack by 16, 000 British troops near the fort.
By the late 19th century French plans to colonize Madagascar were gaining momentum, leading British mercenaries to provide training to the queen's army in an unsuccessful bid to repel the French troops.
" Where is the prince who can afford so to cover his country with troops for its defense, so that ten thousand men descending from the clouds might not, in many places, do an infinite deal of mischief before a force could be brought together to repel them?
When Zhu Di traveled with his guards to pay tribute to his father, Jianwen took his actions as a threat and sent troops to repel him.
Ironically, only the U. S. Marine Corps, whose commanders had stored and maintained their World War II surplus inventories of equipment and weapons, proved ready for deployment, though they still were understrength and in need of suitable landing craft to practice amphibious operations ( Johnson had transferred most of the remaining craft to the Navy and reserved them for use in training Army units ).< ref name = Shipmate2000 > As U. S. and South Korean forces lacked sufficient armor and artillery to repel the North Korean forces, Army and Marine Corps ground troops were instead committed to a series of costly rearguard actions as the enemy steadily progressed down the Korean peninsula, eventually encircling Pusan.
Haruhisa managed to stave off the invasion, encouraging those retainers who had defected earlier, and after gathering enough troops, managed to repel it.
Liu then asked Wei in front of the mass how would he serve his new post, wherein Wei confidently replied: " If Cao Cao mustered all his forces and invaded, let me assist my lord to repel the enemies ; if an Assistant-General came with 100, 000 troops, let me engulf them for my Majesty.
During the Second Kashmir War in 1965, when Pakistan attached India, the people of Sialkot came out in full force to support the troops of the Pakistan Army to repel the Indian army.
We therefore inhabitants of the Province of Maryland, firmly persuaded that it is necessary and justifiable to repel force by force, do approve of the opposition by Arms to the British troops, employed to enforce obedience to the late acts and statutes of the British parliament, for raising a revenue in America, and altering and changing the charter and constitution of the Massachusetts Bay, and for destroying the essential securities for the lives, liberties and properties of the subjects in the united colonies.
Jiang Wei was able to meet their troops and initially repel them, but Deng Ai led his army through a trecherous mountain pass and deep into Shu territory.
In the 18th century, troops from one of the feudal states in Yun intruded into Karenni State, but the Karenni people united to repel these invaders.
The 2nd Battalion of the 27th Infantry Regiment was ordered to be on the alert prepare for action to repel any troops landing on the shores.
From 29 – 30 August 1904, the Russian troops managed to repel intense Japanese assaults on the main defense lines south of Liaoyang.

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The charged particles then repel each other and are also repelled from the charged surface, which almost invariably bears a negative charge under washing conditions.
Also, some users complain that the resulting prints are difficult to write on, as the wax tends to repel inks from pens, and are difficult to feed through automatic document feeders, but these traits have been significantly reduced in later models.
The coyote's instinctive fear of cougars has led to the development of sound systems which repel coyotes from public places by replicating the sounds of a cougar.
The cathode supplies electrons to the positively charged cations which flow to it from the electrolyte ( even if the cell is galvanic, i. e., when the cathode is positive and therefore would be expected to repel the positively charged cations ; this is due to electrode potential relative to the electrolyte solution being different for the anode and cathode metal / electrolyte systems in a galvanic cell ).
The planet is protected from physical attack by the impenetrable barrier called the quantum force field, named presumably after the Eye of Harmony, and from teleportation incursions by the transduction barrier-which can be reinforced to repel most levels of this type of technological attack.
Lenin begins from the premise that guerrilla warfare must be linked to struggle of the masses of the working class, or else it is against the interests of revolution: ' the acts of individuals isolated from the masses, which demoralise the workers, repel wide strata of the population, disorganise the movement and injure the revolution '".
He was soon called back into military action in Asia, raising a band of auxiliaries to repel an incursion from the east.
* 1965 – Vietnam War: Just miles from Da Nang, United States Marines repel an intense attack by wave after wave of Viet Cong forces, killing 56 guerrillas.
The Genoese, in trying to repel a Venetian fleet from destroying their ships in Golden Horn, bombarded the sea walls of Constantinople and pushed Byzantines to ally with Venetians.
However, infinitely large forces repel the particle if it touches the walls of the box, preventing it from escaping.
A besieging army must be prepared to repel both sorties from the besieged area and also any attack that may try to relieve the defenders.
Applying a negative DC voltage (" bias ") to the control grid will repel some of the electron stream back towards the cathode, thus isolating the plate from the cathode ; full bias will turn the tube off by blocking all current from the cathode.
* At the battle of Ostia, the Italian fleets of Naples, Amalfi and Gaeta repel the Saracen pirates and save Rome from plunder.
Since Goguryeo had been able to repel earlier Chinese invasions from the North, perhaps Gorguryeo would fall if it were attacked by Silla from the south at the same time.
The next day Powell, disagreed with the Labour Party leader Michael Foot's claim that the British government was acting under the authority of the United Nations: " The right of self-defence —- to repel aggression and to expel an invader from one's territory and one's people whom he has occupied and taken captive -— is, as the Government have said, an inherent right.
Since like charges repel and opposites attract, the electric field is directed away from positive charges and towards negative charges.
The negative sign arises as positive charges repel, so a positive charge will experience a force away from the positively charged plate, in the opposite direction to that in which the voltage increases.
This will create a more negative electric charge at point B than average, and that extra charge will tend to repel the further flow of electrons from leaving point A during the remaining half nanosecond.
Finding out that he can turn into his new alter-ego at will, Videoman, however, is completely inexperienced with his handling of such powerful abilities ; he tries to help the trio ( which has awakened Iceman from his trance ) against a hypnotized mob, but they repel his offers due to his inexperience.

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