When he needs money to buy something like, say, the Rolls-Royce he keeps near his vegetable patch, he takes a flyer in the sale of surplus army supplies.

When the Confederate attempt to defend Petersburg failed, the Confederate army retreated but was pursued and defeated, which resulted in Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865.

When the news spread that Agrippina had died, the Roman army, senate and various people sent him letters of congratulations that he had been saved from his mother's plots.

When the Viking raids resumed in 892, Alfred was better prepared to confront them with a standing, mobile field army, a network of garrisons, and a small fleet of ships navigating the rivers and estuaries.

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 he was drafted into the army in 1894, his gift for turning notions upside down defeated attempts to instill military discipline.

When the Roman infantry became entangled in combat with his army, the hidden ambush force attacked the legionnaires in the rear.

When Abdülhamid came to the throne the army asked for gratuities and the sultan claimed that: " There are, no longer, gratuities in our treasury, all of our soldier sons should learn ".

When Democratic-Republicans in some states refused to enforce federal laws, and even threatened to rebel, Federalists threatened to send the army to force them to capitulate.

When they saw that the centre had broken, the Elector and Marsin decided the battle was lost and, like the remnants of Tallard's army, fled the battlefield ( albeit in better order than Tallard's men ).

When he had reached Bodmin on 28 July, he found that there was no chance of supplies or recruits, and he also learned that the Royalist army was at Launceston, close to his rear.

: When, after the action had thus occurred, his own men returned to each general, Scipio could adopt no fixed plan of proceeding, except that he should form his measures from the plans and undertakings of the enemy: and Hannibal, uncertain whether he should pursue the march he had commenced into Italy, or fight with the Roman army which had first presented itself, the arrival of ambassadors from the Boii, and of a petty prince called Magalus, diverted from an immediate engagement ; who, declaring that they would be the guides of his journey and the companions of his dangers, gave it as their opinion, that Italy ought to be attacked with the entire force of the war, his strength having been nowhere previously impaired.

When the revolt broke out, it was supported by intellectuals, the army, and almost all the ethnic minorities of the Empire, and forced Sultan Abdul Hamid II to re-adopt the long defunct Ottoman constitution of 1877, ushering in the Second Constitutional Era.

When the Greek army entered Thessaloniki in the First Balkan War ahead of the Bulgarian 7th division by only a day, they were asked to allow a Bulgarian battalion to enter the city.

" When Congress, in the summer of 1973, legislated an end to U. S. military action in, over, or off the shores of Indochina, the only U. S. military activity then going on was air support of a friendly Cambodian government and army desperately defending their country against a North Vietnamese and Khmer Rouge onslaught ... What destabilized Cambodia was North Vietnam's occupation of chunks of Cambodian territory from 1965 onwards for use as military bases from which to launch attacks on U. S. and South Vietnamese forces in South Vietnam.

When the Byzantine forces saw the entire Ottoman army get on their knees to pray, the Byzantine army was witnessing how united the Ottoman Turks were and this worried them.

When Constantius learned of Shapur's withdrawal from Roman territory, he prepared his army for a counter-attack, drilling them and upgrading the equipment of his cataphracts.

When the Japanese army approached Wuhan in the fall of 1938, Chiang's forces abandoned the city without a fight and withdrew farther inland, to Chongqing.

When Hernando Pizarro and his army returned, Almagro's troops quickly defeated them and took the Pizarro brothers Hernando and Gonzalo captive.

When the army reached Bithynia, some of the soldiers smelled an odor emanating from the coach.

When the army issued revised mobilization regulations in 1942, it distinguished " homosexual " recruits from " normal " recruits for the first time.

When the British army conquered Eritrea from the Italians in spring 1941, most of the infrastructures and the industrial areas were extremely damaged.

When most of the land army arrived, the King and Queen had a profound dispute.

When the French king Charles VIII invaded northern Italy, Piero II chose to resist his army.

When the temperature drops below 50 ° F ( 10 ° C ), feeding, particularly with protein, is halted or the food can spoil in their stomachs, causing sickness.

When the coconut supply was halted by the strike, resourceful Ricardo Gracia made the executive decision to relocate the ingredients of the Coco-Loco inside hollowed out pineapples ( evidently the pineapple cutters ’ union had not followed suit with a strike of their own ).

When the French army was halted by floods, an attempt was made to invade The Republic by sea.

When the initial results showed former president Arnulfo Arias on his way to a landslide victory, Noriega halted the count.

When regular cleaning is halted the figure quickly becomes obscured ; it has always needed frequent work for the figure to remain visible.

When it became imminent the advancing Expedition forces would defeat Zhang and thus threaten Japanese interests in Manchuria, rogue elements within the Kantogun ( Japan's Army in Manchuria ) forcibly halted the Expedition in Ji ' nan and assassinated Zhang on the grounds he was an unreliable ally, hoping to capitalise on the confusion caused by his death.

When a page fault was raised, the main CPU was halted in mid ( memory ) cycle while the watchdog CPU would bring the page into memory and then allow the main CPU to continue, unaware of the page fault.

When Giotto died in 1337, Andrea Pisano continued the building until work was again halted due to the Black Death in 1348.

When Allied troops were halted near Anzio, Italy during the spring of 1944, personal portable radios were strictly prohibited as the Germans had radio detecting equipment that could detect the local oscillator signal of superheterodyne receivers.

When World War II broke out, Disney halted normal production, and contributed to the war effort making propaganda films.

When the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II launched a retaliatory attack on Moldavia, Stephen defeated the invaders at the Battle of Vaslui in 1475, a victory which temporarily halted the Turkish advance.

When the work was halted by the city, excavations were used to construct what is now known as " Moses Mountain ," a rise adjacent to the Manor Road-Rockland Avenue interchange.

When Chaosium threatened legal action, the first printing was halted and the two companies agreed on a compromise: TSR could continue to use the material but must provide a credit to Chaosium to do so.

When the Ottoman forces realised that the British infantry had halted, they began to regroup and strengthen their defensive line within a smaller perimeter.

Slot machine betting was officially halted at 7: 30 a. m. Just before the casino was officially closed at noon, the Bobbie Howard Band led the customers out the doors for the last time ( in a conga line ) to the tune of " When the Saints Go Marching In ", and the hotel / casino complex closed after a 48 year run of continuous 24 hour operation.

When the main attack was halted, the Turkish infantry regrouped and successfully drove the Hungarian knights back.

When he is defeated, Arcee nearly executes him, only halted by the fact Bumblebee was watching.

When the units of 29th Infantry Brigade were ultimately forced to fall back, their actions in the Battle of the Imjin River together with those of other UN forces, for example in the Battle of Kapyong, had blunted the impetus of the Chinese offensive and allowed UN forces to retreat to prepared defensive positions north of Seoul where the Chinese were halted.

When the Kuomintang lost control of mainland China in 1949, the university's activities were halted.

When they found out about this, the British halted at Talegaon, a few hours ' brisk march from Pune, but days away for the thousands of support staff with their ox-drawn carts.

When the import of Pacific islanders was temporarily halted in 1892 Philp was instrumental in securing its resumption.

When Flynn's financial backers defaulted, production halted, leaving Flynn broke in Rome.

When halted, the project was one-third complete and approximately $ 74 million had been spent on land acquisition and construction.

When Republicans gained seats in Congress in 1938, and the Congressional balance of power shifted in a more conservative direction, the pipeline of Federal commissions for projects like Lorentz's was abruptly halted.