Due to a combination of surprise, superior military forces, and a poorly armed South Korean army, the Northern forces quickly captured Seoul and Syngman Rhee and his government was forced to flee further south.

Upon hearing this, Austrasia's Mayor of the Palace, Charles Martel, collected his army and marched south, avoiding the old Roman roads and hoping to take the Muslims by surprise.

Historians ( such as William St. Clair-Baddeley in 1929 ) have concluded that the Saxons may have launched a surprise attack and seized the site at Hinton Hill because it commanded the Avon Valley and disrupted communications north and south between Bath and her neighbouring Romano-British towns of Gloucester and Cirencester.

He then marched south to Mag Leana and destroyed Mug Nuadat's army in a surprise night attack on his camp.

He expected no further move that year from the Protestant army, led by the Swedish king Gustavus Adolphus, since unseasonably wintry weather was making it difficult to camp in the open countryside ; however, Gustavus Adolphus ' army marched out of camp towards Wallenstein's last-known position and attempted to catch him by surprise, but his trap was sprung prematurely on the afternoon of 15 November, by a small force left by Wallenstein at the Rippach stream, about 5 – 6 kilometres south of Lützen.

As Grant moved south against Lee in the Overland Campaign, Maj. Gen. Benjamin Butler launched the surprise Bermuda Hundred Campaign with landings up the James River.

Together they crossed the Elbe with a surprise march and met their opponents in the forested hilly landscape slightly south of Wittstock.

Deceived by a local double agent, Bonaparte dispatched large forces to the north and south, but the Austrians launched a surprise attack on 14 June against the main French army under General Louis Alexandre Berthier.

On 15 November 1315, Leopold of Austria led a large army of knights to crush the rebellious confederates, planning a surprise attack from the south via Lake Aegeri and the Morgarten pass, and counting on a complete victory over the rebellious peasants.

They were unaware of Eärnil's victory in the south and were taken by surprise when Eärnil suddenly attacked them.

Frederick's brother, Leopold of Austria, led a large army consisting of a number of knights to crush the rebellious confederates, planning a surprise attack from south via Lake Aegeri and the Morgarten pass and counting on a complete victory over the rebellious peasants.

Rather, he sent a small force south along the Tigris to try to take the capital by surprise.

This move came as a surprise ; the Japanese had expected the next U. S. target to be farther to the south, either the Carolines or the Palaus.

The corps advanced north, catching the German forces by surprise on their south flank, cutting them off.

The storm caught drivers by surprise on U. S. Route 30 just south of 143rd Street, where three drivers were killed.

The motorised logistics also helped during the rapid redeployment to the south, after the surprise Republican offensive at Brunete in July 1937.

Despite the surprise and shock within the Fraser Island public, this is apparently not new behaviour, and in the distant past wild crocodiles had been reported occasionally appearing as far south as Brisbane during the warmer wet season.

A select force of Continental Army infantry made a coordinated surprise night attack and stormed a fortified position of the British Army on the Hudson River south of West Point, New York.

When their ship is wrecked south of Auckland on the New Zealand coast, they are captured by a Māori tribe, but luckily manage to escape and board a ship that they discover, with their greatest surprise, to be the Duncan.

Instead of marching back down the glen, Montrose decided to surprise Argyll and marched south through the mountains around Ben Nevis to mount a surprise attack.

By this time, Hampton's cavalry was making progress against Gibbon's infantry to the south, launching a surprise dismounted attack that caused many of Gibbon's men to flee or surrender.

Given the distance to the epicenter of the Loma Prieta ( roughly 70 miles or 113 kilometers south of San Francisco ), there was great surprise at the localized destruction around the Bay Area.

To the king's surprise, Kadan headed south past Trogir toward Dubrovnik ( Ragusa ).

The Germans launched a surprise counter offensive in the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944 which was turned back in early 1945 by the Allies after Eisenhower repositioned his armies and improved weather allowed the Air Force to engage.

To the surprise of many of the ethnic Germans in Opole however, the local Polish Silesian population and groups of ethnic Poles also rose to oppose the planned reforms ; this came about as a result of an overwhelming feel of attachment to the voivodeships that were planned to be ‘ redrawn ’ as well as a fear of ‘ alienation ’ should one find themselves residing in a new, unfamiliar region.

Fortitude South's main aims were to give the impression of a much larger invasion force ( the FUSAG ) in the South-East of England, to achieve tactical surprise in the Normandy landings and, once the invasion had occurred, to mislead the Germans into thinking it a diversionary tactic with Calais the real objective.

The battle showed the British that even the strongest trench defences could be overcome by a surprise artillery-infantry attack using the newly available methods and equipment, with a mass tank attack as a bonus ; it also showed the Germans the effectiveness of their similar new Stormtrooper tactics so recently adapted by General Hutier against the Russians.

Despite ample warning from intelligence sources and defectors, Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Command were caught by surprise, and the Germans rapidly broke through the frontier defences, helped by their total command of the air.

While Bradley focused on these two campaigns, the Germans were in the process of assembling troops and materiel for a surprise winter offensive.

The Germans were able to surprise the defenders with a glider-borne assault in the early morning of 26 April and captured the bridge, but the British were able to set off the charges and destroy the structure.

The two boats waited until December 1915, and mounted a surprise attack on the Germans, with the capture of the gunboat Kingani.

However, even with such a massive force taking the Germans completely by surprise, the assault was a tactical failure and after 9 days of fighting the Allies managed only to escape back to their own lines, having sustained over 18, 000 casualties.

Schwanitz doubts the sincerity of his surprise since, he argues, Husseini had publicly declared that Muslims should follow the example Germans set for a " definitive solution to the Jewish problem ".

Fortitude South's main aims were to give the impression of a much larger invasion force ( the FUSAG ) in the South-East of England, to achieve tactical surprise in the Normandy landings and, once the invasion had occurred, to mislead the Germans into thinking it a diversionary tactic with Calais the real objective.

The Germans took advantage of the narrow front to pound advancing attackers with artillery, and progress remained slow as German tanks used houses as bunkers to surprise and overwhelm American foot soldiers.

Although the Russian offensive of 1916 caught the Germans and Austrians by surprise, poor communications and logistics prevented the Russians from taking full advantage of their situation.

As the 37th and 43rd Battalions led the advance towards the German lines, supported by small teams of mortarmen and machine gunners, the Germans launched their own attack, however, the Australian assault had taken them by surprise and after some initial resistance, the German assault troops began to fall back or surrender.

The Germans launched a two-division offensive centered on Meijel, catching the thinly stretched 87th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron of the 7th Armored Division by surprise.

At Compiègne, a sudden French counter-attack on 11 June, by four divisions and 150 tanks ( under General Charles Mangin ) with no preliminary bombardment, caught the Germans by surprise and halted their advance.

In many sectors the Germans, deprived of any surprise as their fuel-starved air force had lost air superiority to the Allies, advanced no further than the French Forward Zone, and nowhere did they break the French Battle ( Second ) Zone.

The Germans were taken by surprise, to the extent that both von Vietinghof, and the parachute division's commander — Richard Heidrich — were away on leave.

However the Germans considered it far more important to maintain the element of surprise for as long as possible by slipping out of Brest unnoticed at night, thus avoiding the 12-hour warning that an early daytime departure would have given the British.

The Germans would not expect an attack from this quarter, giving the British the advantage of surprise.

The Germans achieved temporary surprise, as the Ultra documents had arrived at U. S. First Army Headquarters too late to alert the troops to the immediate assault.

They were delayed by 20 minutes and the smoke screens that should have hidden their assault had lifted, with the advantage of surprise and darkness lost the Germans had manned their defensive positions in preparation for the landings.

The ascendency of the Eindecker also contributed to the surprise the Germans were able to achieve at the start of the Battle of Verdun – the French reconnaissance aircraft failed to provide their usual cover of the German positions.

Despite the extremely muddy conditions, the Germans managed to attack effectively and take the Soviets by surprise.