XXI (95) The Celtiberians have a peculiar manœuvre in war.
This manœuvre the Romans used also in mock fights.
Pretending warm friendship, he tried every manœuvre whereby he might promote the enemy’s interests, and surround us by the gravest perils.
Again, one uniform system of drill and manœuvre was laid down and rigidly enforced for each arm of the service, for hitherto such matters had been left to the commanding officers of corps.
By a bold manœuvre he held the Russians in check, and gave the remains of his two divisions an opportunity of escaping.
According to Ségur, he undertook to execute the whole manœuvre by six o’clock in the morning.
For I tell you plainly, if you cannot find some way to outman[oe]uvre this villain before to-morrow, I am spent.
This fire was delivered as the corps advanced in line, a manœuvre constantly practised by Campbell, and it put the Sikh cavalry to a hasty flight.
Upon this the grenadiers of the Ninety-Third under Captain Ross were wheeled up to their right and fired upon the enemy, and by this manœuvre entirely discomfited them.
He could attack and cut off this right wing, whilst the main body of Leslie's army, penned between the brook and the hills, could not manœuvre to help it.
This could not last long, although it puzzled the dogs very much; he was taken, and then only was the reason for his manœuvre discovered by finding that he had only three feet.
Napoleon continued for several days to manœuvre on the country beyond St. Dizier.
The varied and undisciplined character of the Scottish army must have rendered the complicated manœuvre slow and difficult.
Second, it can have had no proper service of scouts, and was too cumbrous to manœuvre readily, circumstances which left it at the mercy of its numerically inferior antagonist.
This manœuvre on Thibault’s part appeared to be just what the individual who was making use of him as a ladder wished him to do, for we can no longer hide the fact that the weight so felt was that of a man.
In the course of this manœuvre he happened to rumple the dress of a tall, fine woman, next to whom he was trying to instal himself.
The same manœuvre made him try Arabic; still he obtained no answer.
I saw him in the execution of this manœuvre press upon his palm a bank-note, with a flourish in the corner like the top of a raspberry tartlet.
It cannot be supposed that this detachment of my corps, hitherto untrained to military tactics, could evince that regularity and precision in manœuvre which so much distinguished those veteran Soldiers with whom they served.
To this happy manœuvre the whole detachment owed its salvation, and Boston also may acknowledge his Lordship as its preserver at that early and important crisis.
He was indeed speedily joined by many sympathizing countrymen; but few of them, since the general disarming manœuvre of the oligarchs, had heavy armor.
His next embarrassments arose from the manœuvre of Lysander in paying back to Cyrus all the funds from whence the continuous pay of the army was derived.
It was only after some time that we recognized this as a grenade attack, a manœuvre then unknown to us.
Such a manœuvre would have been very menacing to us, as the close nature of the bush country would prevent us from detecting it until very late, probably too late.
This last-named town has not been included in the itinerary, although it played an important part in the ultimate manœuvre attempted by Von Kluck--that of outflanking the French left wing.
The tricolour cockade pinned below is that of "l'Œuvre du Souvenir.
While Von Hausen was striking on the left, the Duke of Wurtemberg brought all his weight to bear on Langle de Cary's right, with the Crown Prince executing a similar manœuvre against Sarrail's left.
The position was this: If the manœuvre succeeded, Joffre's entire plan would fall to pieces.
After passing through Vincy, bear to the left in order to pass in front of the Manœuvre distillery, leaving the hamlet of that name on the left.
They would also have been able to manœuvre freely in order to fall on the rear of the army of Espérey on the west, and that of Langle de Cary on the east.
Before this manœuvre could be executed, however, the right wing and centre of the army were broken, and the troops fell back in confusion.
She was certain that his return had not been for Rafael's supper, but to see that she did not by some man[oe]uvre manage that it be a ladies' supper and graced by her attendance.
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