Prince Eugene was expected to be in position by 11: 00, but due to the difficult terrain and enemy fire, progress was slow.

Nelson ordered the fleet to slow down at 16: 00 to allow his ships to rig " springs " on their anchor cables, a system of attaching the bow anchor that increased stability and allowed his ships to swing their broadsides to face an enemy while stationary.

The phalanxes would approach each other in a steady, slow march to keep cohesion or rarely at a run, if the enemy was prone to panic, or if they fought against enemies equipped with bows, as was the case against the Persians at the Battle of Marathon.

In military science, minefields are considered a defensive or harassing weapon, used to slow the enemy down, to help deny certain terrain to the enemy, to focus enemy movement into kill zones, or to reduce morale by randomly attacking material and personnel.

Anglo-Norman warfare during the reign of Stephen was characterised by attritional military campaigns, in which commanders tried to seize key enemy castles in order to allow them to take control of their adversaries ' territory and ultimately win a slow, strategic victory.

The slow Potez 540 rarely survived three months of air missions, moving some 80 knots against enemy fighters flying at more than 250 knots.

Terrorist groups such as al Qaeda enjoy subjecting captured enemy soldiers to a variety of tortures &# 151 ; typically commencing with the forcible extraction of all ten fingernails, all ten toenails, and all thirty-two teeth &# 151 ; before executing them by such barbaric techniques as slow decapitation via butcher knife.

Anglo-Norman warfare during the civil war was characterised by attritional military campaigns, in which commanders tried to raid enemy lands and seize castles in order to allow them to take control of their adversaries ' territory, ultimately winning slow, strategic victories.

A commonly occurring historical perspective concerning the interdiction effort tends to support the campaigns ( regardless of their failure to halt or slow infiltration ) due to the enemy materiel and manpower that it tied down in Laos and Cambodia.

Lapeña, thinking to have more enemy before he had, was very slow in progress and only managed to highlight Urzante two battalions and a detachment of provincial grenadiers.

The Mongol tactics were essentially a long series of feigned attacks and faked withdrawals from widely dispersed groups, which were designed to inflict a constant slow drain by ranged fire, disrupt the enemy formation and draw larger numbers away from the main body into ambush and flank attacks.

While the first ocean-going ironclads had been launched around 1860, the " station ironclads " built for long-range colonial service such as the British Audacious and French Belliqueuse classes were too slow, at 13 and 11 knots respectively, to raid enemy commerce or hunt down enemy commerce raiders, tasks usually assigned to frigates or corvettes.

Situated on the lake some fifteen miles south of Fort Saint Frédéric, it was built to prevent an attack on Canada and slow the advance of the enemy long enough for reinforcements to arrive.

When the enemy becomes so slow that it is unable to do anything useful, the memory is bombed with < tt > DAT </ tt > instructions.

When the defender must retreat it is often desirable to destroy anything that may be of use to the enemy, particularly bridges, as their destruction can slow the advance of the attackers.

* Demolition: slow or average speed, able to use a variety of explosives, typically rockets, grenades, and mines ; typically used to clear map obstructions and destroy enemy constructions

The spy is equipped with a knife to kill enemy players in one hit by stabbing them in the back as well as a tranquilizer gun to slow down opponents and hallucination gas to confuse them.

They are designed to disrupt, delay and generally slow down an attacking enemy.

During this slow process, convoys would build up into a dangerously inviting target for the enemy.

It was not until 26 June, while escorting a supply train of slow ox-wagons, that Childers first experienced enemy fire, in three days of skirmishing in defence of the column.

The player's Command Ship is now capable of attack ; though slow, the Command Ship is capable of delivering a vast array of weaponry, most notably the Siege Cannon capable of crippling an enemy Command Ship with a single well aimed shot.

Since pilots lacked specific training, and their aircraft were both slow and fragile, they suffered heavy casualties while flying low over enemy positions.

With these territories, Rome would have an advance station north of Ctesiphon, and would be able to slow any future advance of Persian forces through the region.

Many Red Guard units collapsed under the weight of the assault and several detachments retreated in panic, while some units defended their posts relentlessly, and were able to slow the advance of the White Guards, who were unaccustomed to offensive warfare.

The goddess ' appearance offered contrasting colours to the eye, for her body was dazzling white, intimating her descent from heaven and her robe was dark blue, denoting her emergence from the sea ... But now becomingly took the centre of the stage to the great acclamation of the theatre, and smiled sweetly ... still more affectingly began to gently stir herself ; with gradual, lingering steps, restrained swaying of the hips, and slow inclination of the head she began to advance, her refined movements matching the soft wounds of the flutes.

The Wilson Bridge ( known locally as the ' stone bridge '), carried a water main which supplied the city ; the bridge was dynamited to slow the progress of the German advance.

* May 26 – WWII – Battle of Bir Hakeim: The Free French and British troops slow the German advance in North Africa.

Longstreet was criticized for the slow pace of his advance toward Knoxville in November and some of his troops began using the nickname " Peter the Slow " to describe him.

Despite the need for hurry and men being sent in advance, the governor was slow to grant them the resources they needed, prompting threats from Bering.

The rebels retreated through the city, setting fire to houses as they went in an attempt to slow the Royal army's advance.

By founding the Exarchate of Ravenna, Maurice managed to slow down the Lombard advance in Italy, if not to halt it.

In 1646, Thomas Francis was put in command of the French expedition sent south to take the Tuscan forts, after which he was to advance further south to Naples, drive out the Spanish and put himself on the throne of the kingdom ; but the expedition set off late, and when he besieged Orbetello, the supporting French fleet was defeated by the Spanish and he was forced to raise the siege and conduct a difficult retreat, which he performed so poorly that Cardinal Mazarin subsequently despised his command ability, viewed him as incompetent, and declined to appoint him to the expedition that France sent to support the Naples revolt late in 1647 ( this did not stop Mazarin from considering him as a potential candidate for a French-backed King of Naples, though Paris was so slow to move on this that Henry II, Duke of Guise was adopted by the Neapolitans instead ).

In 1646, Thomas was put in command of the French expedition sent south to take the Tuscan forts, after which he was to advance further south to Naples, drive out the Spanish and put himself on the throne of the kingdom ; but the expedition set off late, and when he besieged Orbetello, the supporting French fleet was defeated by the Spanish and he was forced to raise the siege and conduct a difficult retreat, which he performed so poorly that Cardinal Mazarin subsequently despised his command ability, viewed him as incompetent, and declined to appoint him to the expedition that France sent to support the Naples revolt late in 1647 ( this did not stop Mazarin from considering him as a potential candidate for a French-backed King of Naples, though Paris was so slow to move on this that Henry II, Duke of Guise was adopted by the Neapolitans instead ).

This explains the slow advance of the column noted in many first hand accounts.

Furious with Victor ’ s slow advance, Napoleon replaced him with Étienne Maurice Gérard.

They would later be reorganized and rearmed in time to slow the Allied advance into Holland and Germany.

The Germans were pursued by the French and British, although the pace of the Allied advance was slow — a mere a day.

Caltrops served to slow down the advance of horses, war elephants, and human troops.

The Japanese caused the American advance to slow down and caused massive casualties with these underground fixed positions.

Although Xerxes ' army was vast the defending Greeks were able to hold their ground for days by using a narrow mountain pass to slow the Persian advance.

On 2 April 1945, the attack was launched and the advance was again slow at first.

Despite the need for rapid action to take full advantage of the German vulnerability, the 7th Armoured Division was slow to redeploy and spent the morning of 12 June attempting to advance on Tilly-sur-Seulles according to its original orders.

The multinational coalition was forced to turn its attention to the slow task of rooting out irregular forces from the southern cities, delaying the advance by two weeks.

In northern Laos, the Communists continued their slow advance across the Plain of Jars in 1967.

The French eventually overran the Mexicans in subsequent battles, but the Mexican victory at Puebla against a much better equipped and larger French army provided a significant morale boost to the Mexican army and also helped slow the French army's advance towards Mexico City.

When first released, advancement through the game was painstakingly slow for most, requiring many hours of slaying NPCs to advance in level.