Nothing but the news of the armistice of Leoben saved him from envelopment and surrender.
For eight hours on the 26th his men, reinforced by Snow's Division, but outnumbered in guns by nearly four to one, held their own, until another envelopment was threatened by Von Kluck.
The unexpectedly rapid fall of Kovno and Grodno had enabled the Germans to threaten the envelopment of Ewarts' army both on the south and the north, on the Niemen towards Mosty and Lida and farther north towards Vilna.
An envelopment of both flanks should never be attempted without a very decided superiority in numbers.
The envelopment of a flank is brought about with difficulty when made by troops already deployed in another direction or by their reserves.
The advantage of envelopment lies in the longer concentric line, with its preponderance of rifles and its converging fire.
Company G received orders from the battalion commander to make a wide envelopment of Hill 380 and then assault the hill from the east.
After the 63d Field Artillery Battalion had blasted the ridge parallel to the road, Company B attacked, while Company C made its envelopment around the south flank and destroyed the Japanese pocket of resistance.
At the same time Company L, 21st Infantry, passed through Company I and attacked the center of Breakneck Ridge as Company G started a wideenvelopment to the west from Company E's position to assault OP Hill from the west.
These patrols met only scattered groups of the enemy and advanced within 2,000 yards of Valencia, returning with the information that an envelopment was feasible.
Company B, attempting to envelop the entrenched enemy from the west, encountered heavy fire on its left front, which made any envelopment in that direction impossible.
The reserve platoon of Company A tried an envelopment around the right flank of the 1st Battalion but was stopped by the enemy in the gap.
It was impractical to attempt an envelopment to the right, since the flank of Company E rested on a deep ravine which ran to the bed of the Bagan River.
The leading elements made a double envelopmentof the American flanks while the main force came down the road and attacked the perimeter of the 2d Platoon of Company G.
An envelopment to the left would have necessitated going down the hill, circling behind Company G, and attacking east from the positions of the 1st Battalion.
The fall of Cogon and the envelopment to the west forced General Suzuki to change his plans again.
This was to elude a successful German envelopment on their Louvain right.
The tactical method of envelopment demands great numerical superiority, and on account of the extreme extension of front necessitated is apt to become dangerous as perforce the center is left weak.
With a view to the envelopment of the enemy at Mkalinzo, where he was reported to be in strong force, Captain Otto had marched his detachment south from Kungulio.
Several companies and patrols of Captain Koehl’s detachment took part in this envelopment of the enemy.
As a mixture of dash and caution I regard his envelopment of the German line, after losing the Queen Mary and Indefatigable, as a superb exhibition of sound battle tactics and of sublime confidence in himself and his men.
A complete envelopment of an enemy fleet rarely, if ever, occurs at sea.
Envelopment too serves as a kind of Connection: the actions which make up such a play as Richard III gain additional compactness by their being merged in a common Enveloping Action.
With this action the share of the Battalion in the great envelopment of the Somme line closes.
An army in the field in danger of envelopment will always be tempted to make for the nearest fortified zone in order to save itself.
Were Paris entered, whether immediately or after that approachingenvelopment of the armies, it would be for destruction; and all that is not replaceable in man's work would be lost to our children at the hands of men who cannot make.
We reckon it more important to remark that the Professor's Wanderings, so far as his stoical and cynical envelopment admits us to clear insight, here first take their permanent character, fatuous or not.
For here is nought but an eternal rest, in a joyous envelopment of loving immersion, and this is the essence, without mode, which all interior spirits have chosen above all other things.
Better, he believed, to strengthen the amphibious forces than to try for an aerialenvelopment that might fail or be delayed by the weather.
An envelopment was in the making when Battery D arrived and moved into the threatened area, forcing the Japanese to break off the action and regroup.
This duplication of walls, this potent envelopment of a people so completely shut up under its strong twofold enclosure, largely contributes to the unity of the commonwealth.
It was not a matter of a decreasing scale of abstract greatnesses or of inorganic atoms, but of the successive envelopment and prodigious movements of beings which are the one in the other.
Holland is therefore an ideal sketching ground for the painter and the best in the world for the student, since the ideas of values and envelopment are ever present.
The envelopment of air which all painting should express,—the detachment of one object from another,—goes as far toward the production of relief as is necessary.
We notice a soft painter-like touch, shadows not detailed—simply graded—aerial envelopment everywhere suggested.
Envelopment is unmistakably represented by the out of door Dutch painters, for in the low countries atmosphere is seen in its density, and at very short range.
However flatly and in mass figures may be conceived, the impression of aerial envelopment must be unmistakable.
A fine distinction must be here drawn between simple envelopment and relief, which is a more positive and less important quality.
This state of envelopment continued until the following day, with the ships at varying distances.
The envelopment is completed before the needle has attained its highest point, and the consequent loose thread is immediately pulled up by a lever, called a positive take-up, before the needle begins to descend for a fresh stitch.
There are air and envelopment and light and breadth.
