When the Prussians arrived and attacked the French right flank in ever-increasing numbers, Napoleon's strategy of keeping the Coalition armies divided had failed and a combined Coalition general advance drove his army from the field in confusion.

When, as far as could be judged, it was seen that the Prussians were moving eastward, the allies presumed that the Prussians were about to retreat in order to avoid being taken in flank and rear.

When the Prussians began to worry about their borders, he sent Jacob Magnus Sprengtporten with light troops ( the so-called Sprengtportenska ) to Mecklenburg and on 23 December defeated a Prussian force at Malchin on 23 December.

When the Prussians lingered in Silesia, their more numerous enemies attacked.

When his government ordered him to stand and fight the Prussians, Daun selected a position on the Süptitzer Höhen ( Heights ) just west of Torgau.

When August the Strong nevertheless failed to pay, the town was re-occupied in 1703, during the Great Northern War, but the Prussians again withdrew shortly afterwards due to Swedish pressure.

When he was four years old, during the second war of Schleswig in 1864, Jensen watched the Prussians invade his town, and burn his family's farm buildings.

When the Prussians captured the Château de Saint-Cloud in 1814 as part of the War of the Sixth Coalition, they supposedly found the painting hanging in Napoleon's bathroom.

When the Prussians crossed into Bohemia, Benedek failed to mass his forces against the separate enemy formations and suffered defeats across his front ( except for a costly stand at Trautenau ).

When on July 3, 1866, the Prussians attacked, Benedek had a numerical advantage.

When they encountered Wunch's force, he greeted them as friends ; by the time the Prussians realized the allegiance of the Hussars, Nauendorf and his small force had the upper hand, and Wunsch withdrew.

When the Pomeranians refused, war broke out again.

When the Vikings returned in force in 892 they found a kingdom defended by a standing, mobile field army and a network of garrisoned fortresses that commanded its navigable rivers and Roman roads.

When in December 1978 there was media speculation that Prince Charles might marry a Roman Catholic, Powell defended the provision that excludes Roman Catholics from ascending the throne, claiming his objection was not rooted in religious bigotry but in political considerations.

When Galileo later complained of rumors to the effect that he had been forced to abjure and do penance, Bellarmine wrote out a certificate denying the rumors, stating that Galileo had merely been notified of the decree and informed that, as a consequence of it, the Copernican doctrine could not be " defended or held ".

When one promotion absorbs or purchases another, the titles from the defunct promotion may continue to be defended in the new promotion or be decommissioned.

When given the opportunity to visit his father's Georgia grave, he remained there only briefly, yet while as president of Washington College, he defended his father in a biographical sketch while editing Light Horse Harry's memoirs.

When he had recovered sufficiently he addressed a standing-room-only convention organized in Washington, D. C. by the National Geographic Society and satisfactorily defended his claims.

When Dingane sent an impi ( armed force ) of around twelve thousand Zulu warriors to attack the local contingent of Voortrekkers in response, the Voortrekkers defended themselves at a battle at Nacome River ( called the Battle of Blood River ) on 16 December 1838 where the vastly outnumbered Voortrekker contingent defeated the Zulu warriors.

When, after an absence of fourteen months, Cyprian returned to his diocese, he defended leaving his post in letters to the other North African bishops and a tract " De lapsis ," and called a council of North African bishops at Carthage to consider the treatment of the lapsed and the apparent schism of Felicissimus ( 251 ).

When they reached Super Six Four, they extracted Durant and the crew members from the crash and defended the aircraft.

When co-host Jim Norton, who defended these actions by Border Patrol, said he believed in the Constitution, too, Ventura said, " No, you don't, ' cause you're saying this is OK ."

When Noam Chomsky defended an author who wrote articles for the journal ( Dr. Robert Faurisson ), it led to great controversy, though Chomsky insisted he was defending Faurisson's right to free speech rather than any specific claims made in his articles.

When the enemy army invaded Piedmont, in 1744 he personally defended Cuneo against the Spanish-French besiegers.

When three of her four captors were apprehended and given maximum sentences ( including one death sentence ), McElroy defended them.

When a company was needed to lead the advance on the bridge which was defended by the British regulars, Captain Davis was heard to reply, " I haven't a man who is afraid to go.

When the king found this, he went out of doors, and defended himself with courage ; till, having looked on the etheling ( prince ), he rushed out upon him, and wounded him severely.

While all the other judges " succumbed to royal pressure and, throwing themselves on their knees, prayed for pardon ", Coke defended the letter and stated that " When the case happens I shall do that which shall be fit for a judge to do ".

When the tide turned against France, Suchet defended his conquests one by one until compelled to withdraw from Spain, after which he took part in Soult's defensive campaign of 1814.

When the case came before the Court, Pennsylvania defended the Act in part by urging the Court to overturn Roe as having been wrongly decided.

When company chairman Pete Coors was criticized for the company's gay-friendly policy during his 2004 Republican primary campaign for one of the US Senate seats from Colorado, he defended the policy as basic good business practice.

:" When I was still an inexperienced youth, and the suicide of Paul Lafargue and his wife Laura Marx raised such an outcry in the socialist parties, I firmly defended the principled and correct nature of their positions.

When the offensive did begin, a total of 27 allied maneuver battalions defended the city and the surrounding area.

When properly defended, they had the choice whether to assault the castle directly or to starve the people out by blocking food deliveries, or to employ war machines specifically designed to destroy or circumvent castle defenses.

When rival Mike Hawthorn was threatened with a penalty in the Boavista Urban Circuit in Porto, Portugal, Moss defended Hawthorn's actions.

When Coates was replaced by Noel Neill ( who had played Lois Lane in the Kirk Alyn serials ), Reeves defended her nervousness on her first day when he felt that the director was being too harsh with her.

< small >< sup > 1 </ sup > When Chavo Guerrero won this championship, it was still officially recognized and sanctioned by the National Wrestling Alliance and was primarily defended in Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre, an NWA affiliated promotion in Mexico.

When they express themselves it is incandescent hatred that shines forth, the rage of repudiation, the ecstasy of negation.

When words can be used in a more fresh and primitive way so that they strike with the force of sights and sounds, when tones of sound and colors of paint and the carven shape all strike the sensibilities with an undeniable force of data in and of themselves, compelling the observer into an attitude of attention, all this imitates the way experience itself in its deepest character strikes upon the door of consciousness and clamors for entrance.

When the smaller facet-planes of Analytical Cubism were placed upon or juxtaposed with the large, dense shapes formed by the affixed materials of the collage, they had to coalesce -- become `` synthesized '' -- into larger planar shapes themselves simply in order to maintain the integrity of the picture plane.

When no medical problems exist, the newly married couple generally prefer to cope with the adjustments of their new relationship by themselves.

When did women begin to assert themselves sexually??

When the eggs hatch, the tadpoles work themselves out of the foam and fall into the water below.

When the resistance is suddenly removed without warning, the patient's arm may swing up and even strike themselves.

When a vacancy occurred, the bishop of the diocese chose the abbot out of the monks of the convent, but the right of election was transferred by jurisdiction to the monks themselves, reserving to the bishop the confirmation of the election and the benediction of the new abbot.

When the press expanded to current titles, they wrote some books themselves and employed other writers, including Erasmus.

When the populace rebelled in late January 1204, the emperors barricaded themselves in the palace and entrusted Alexios Doukas with a mission to seek help from the crusaders.

When one turns from the dombocs introduction to the laws themselves, it is difficult to uncover any logical arrangement.

When the Mensheviks struck an alliance with the Jewish Bund, the Bolsheviks found themselves in a minority.

When monks and nuns who follow the Theravadan way feed themselves by alms, they must eat leftover foods which are given to them, including meat.

When the surviving bacteria exit the stomach and reach the small intestine, they need to propel themselves through the thick mucus that lines the small intestine to get to the intestinal walls, where they can thrive.

When it was discovered that the market for alternative versions of films was substantial, the studios themselves began to promote " director's cuts " for a wide array of films, even some where the director already had final cut of the theatrical release.

When grown outdoors in good locations, the plants tend to reseed themselves and may become invasive.

When social identity and ingroup status are salient, computer mediation can decrease flaming because individuals focus their attention on the social context ( and associated norms ) rather than themselves.

When looking at these areas ( amygdala ), it was proposed that a person learns to fear regardless of whether they themselves have experienced trauma, or if they have observed the fear in others.

When they released the orbit of Sputnik to the media, the Russians were dumbfounded to learn how powerful American computers had become, as they would not have been able to calculate the orbit themselves.

When armies throughout Spain pronounced themselves in sympathy with the revolters, led by Rafael del Riego, Ferdinand relented and was forced to accept the liberal Constitution of 1812.

When they withdraw themselves to the culture of a small piece of land, they will perceive how useless to them are their extensive forests, and will be willing to pare them off from time to time in exchange for necessaries for their farms and families.

When different rabbis forwarded conflicting interpretations, they sometimes appealed to hermeneutic principles to legitimize their arguments ; some rabbis claim that these principles were themselves revealed by God to Moses at Sinai.

When his opponents realized what they had gotten themselves into, they tried to bury the censure and move on, but Adams made sure this did not happen and the censure continued to be debated.

When Grobba reported that the Iraqis as Arab nationalists saw the British and the Jews as their enemies and wished to ally themselves with Germany against their common foes, Ribbentrop was delighted and become obsessed with the idea of an Iraqi-German alliance.

When an external electric field is applied to the liquid crystal, the dipole molecules tend to orient themselves along the direction of the field.