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Usage examples of battle.

By a quick and unexpected march, Montrose hastened to Innerlochy, and presented himself in order of battle before the surprised but not affrightened Covenanters.

Psychopath ROUs are bound for the Excession but the rest are down for defensive duties elsewhere to cope with likely threats from Affront battle units.

Anglo-Canadian armies in the brutal, slugging battles for Caen and Falaise the spectacular advances made elsewhere by the Allied forces could never have come about.

The last of these battles was then a recent event, it having actually been fought within the recollection of our heroine, whose notions of it, however, were so confused that she scarcely appreciated the effect her allusion might produce on her companion.

When at the battle of Dresden in 1813 Moreau, seated beside the Emperor Alexander, had both limbs shattered by a French cannon-ball, he did not utter a groan, but asked for a cigar and smoked leisurely while a surgeon amputated one of his members.

Once trapped in the node, the bacterium is handled by antibodies or, if that fails, by white cells mobilized for battle.

It had been a much harder battle than anticipated, and the fighting was not yet over.

Unless otherwise stated, the contents of the appendix are all based upon the nineteen major raids of the Battle of Berlin and the diversionary raid to Berlin by twenty.

The order of battle of the German and Italian divisions on September 8 is set out in Appendix f, Book One.

He had charge of all the USW assets in the area, ranging from P-3s deployed from shore stations in support of the battle group, to the S-3 submarine-hunter killers that flew off our own flight deck, to the host of other national assets, including our own submarines.

Forty per cent of her men were new and freshly fitted into her department and division organizations, assigned to watches, battle stations, bunks, sections and duties.

General Blair was, by temporary assignment of General Sherman, in command of a corps through the battles in front of Chattanooga, and in the march to the relief of Knoxville, which occurred in the latter days of November and early days of December last, and of course was not present at the assembling of Congress.

Jahdo got the first pair unhooded easily enough, but their biggest hob, Ambo, was always a battle, a frantic wiggle of pushing paws.

The appellor declined dereignment by battle, and so it was decided that the accused should be tried by the Middle Law, with eighteen compurgators.

Given the ten-percent attrition rate, the battle groups could make only seven or eight jumps before they were no longer assured of success.