It is interesting to record that those prisoners who had seen tanks before all noticed that they were up against a new type which moved faster and manœuvred better than the old ones.
I manœuvred to present as small a target as possible to the former.
The force was altogether too formidable to be engaged by four ill-manned and ill-equipped ships, but Lord Cochrane manœuvred so that he was able with his flag-ship to cut off the four rearmost ships of their fleet.
The Carthaginians had a great superiority in the rapidity with which they manœuvred their ships.
Placing his rifle one side, Sevier manœuvred gingerly until he could reach down and grasp the scalp-lock.
Fighting to spare the girl, Sevier manœuvred his antagonist back a dozen feet.
Jackson manœuvred with the stealth he had acquired in stalking the Shawnees and soon located the tavern-keeper.
With the English government he manœuvred delicately and dexterously.
At Guildford he manœuvred to secure both seats, but was only able to obtain one.
La Serna manœuvred to cut off Sucre from his base, moving in a semicircle of which the Patriots held the centre.
Lopez stationed himself at Rio Bamba, but was out-manœuvred by Sucre, who entered the valley at the foot of Chimborazo.
On one day the British force was manœuvred by Sir Henry Fane; and on another the Sikh troops were exercised by the Sirdars.
On the following day it was manœuvred in presence of the King.
As we left the open field, and entered the woods between us and Campbell's Station, the enemy manœuvred to cut us off from the road, so that we were obliged to oblique to the left.
To have manœuvred slowly and cautiously, would not have struck that terror and confusion which was inspired by the desperate attack on the position at Lodi.
In war the first blow is half the battle, and it was sad to see such glorious troops out-manœuvred at the very outset.
So on Eph went through the series of orders until the “Farnum” had been manœuvred to her exact position.
Mr. Mayhew slowly manœuvred his craft, while men stood on the deck below, forward, prepared to heave the bow anchors.
Brighton, and then, returning to London, man[oe]uvred the carriage in the crowded streets without difficulty or accident.
The English seamen manœuvred for the wind, and, having gained it, bore down on their encumbered foes.
Cumberland was already falling back towards Coventry to regain the main road, but Charles had fairly outmanœuvred him.
Caradoc manœuvred among the mountains, harassed the Roman line of march, cut off detachments, but was at last brought to bay in A.
Tom manœuvred his craft within easy talking-distance of the other.
Captain Tom now manœuvred the “Rocket” alongside of the floating coat.
They had no weapons, and the Preacher man[oe]uvred to take them singly.
With two such keen and nervous racers it was no easy matter to get a fair start; but at length they were man[oe]uvred into line, side by side.
When it came, a few flecks of white on the horizon made by the topsails of Hood’s ships told Grasse that the enemy, who had outmanœuvred him all along, had baffled him again.
Admirals manœuvred to beat the enemy, and not to keep their own line intact.
The success with which an inferior English force had defied the French, and had outmanœuvred them, greatly raised our spirits after the last unlucky months.
Rodney was thoroughly savage, and hinted pretty intelligibly that Hood had manœuvred so as to fulfil his own prophecy--a monstrous charge, which he did not venture to press.
Moreover, it may be very reasonably doubted whether, without the encouraging example set by Rodney, our admirals of the Revolutionary War would have manœuvred as boldly as they did.
Rodney’s contemporary, Maurice of Saxony, beat or manœuvred the allies out of the Low Countries though he was a cripple with the same disease.
At the end of a few days the lesson had been taught, and the English squadron manœuvred with the precision of Frederick’s grenadiers.
According to Rodney the French manœuvred to draw him to leeward of St. Vincent, with the intention of getting between him and Barbadoes.
The Government habitually impressed on its admirals the necessity of keeping their fleets intact, and these officers very naturally so manœuvred as to avoid a really damaging action.
The watchful enemy, however, had only manœuvred to deceive us, and by the precipitation of their march had got in an advantageous position of which we were not aware, concealed by the ground.
The enemy manœuvred to interrupt us, and every few moments charged with the advantage of the ground.
The army of the Republic left Rome, to attack the enemy, on the 16th and 17th, and manœuvred to turn their flanks and cut off their communications with the Neapolitan State.
Next day Pyrrhus manœuvred so as to bring the Romans fairly into the plain, where his elephants could act upon the enemy's line.
He quietly and steadily changed his front, manœuvred his army out of its disadvantageous position, attacked the enemy, and completely routed them.
Lieutenant Stewart now manœuvred his schooner so as to bring her in the enemy’s wake, to windward, when a chase was made on his part.
Having obtained the weather-gage, she manœuvred for some time to try her sailing, and to ascertain the force of her antagonist.
The fact that the Amorites fled, not towards their cities but away from them, shows clearly that Joshua had specially manœuvred so as to cut them off from Jerusalem.
An elderly lady of a saturnine cast of countenance sat on a wisp of grass in the stern of the canoe, and man[oe]uvred the steering oar.
Whether under sail or paddle, they man[oe]uvred very badly, and were on the whole very poor specimens of naval architecture, even for a tribe of savages.
Through the now clearing mist the batteries advanced and, as in open fighting, manœuvred in the manner so often taught in the plains around Bulford.
It had man[oe]uvred the country through a great political struggle and a foreign war, both of which were chiefly engineered to secure the consolidation of the slave aristocracy.
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