| They had onion skin traces made of all bombers returning from raids, as to where they'd been hit by anti-aircraft and enemy fire. | 
 
 
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| Anthony Johnson was captured in his native Angola by an enemy tribe and sold to European slavers. | 
 
 
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| He was a traitor who betrayed his country by selling military secrets to the enemy. | 
 
 
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| The U.S. military had not established any prisoner of war protocols or allocated resources to handle the captured enemy. | 
 
 
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| Psychics and astrologers were employed to attack the enemy and plan tactics based on the alignment of the stars. | 
 
 
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| An expedition reconnoitered the coast to find out the exact location of enemy forces. | 
 
 
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| That means it could take several missile shots to kill an enemy fighter, even for an advanced stealth aircraft like the Raptor. | 
 
 
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| Today Riyadh and Abu Dhabi see the brotherhood as a dangerously subversive and popular enemy. | 
 
 
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| His game lasts until his final ship has either collided with an asteroid or lost a shootout with an enemy saucer. | 
 
 
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| You board an enemy to capture her, and a stranger to receive news or make a communication. | 
 
 
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| The Allied and the enemy submarine played a game of cat and mouse, checking up on each other's whereabouts and strategies. | 
 
 
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| The US Army has published military phrase books in Esperanto, to be used from the 1950s until the 1970s in war games by mock enemy forces. | 
 
 
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| Thousands of soldiers were willing to go into battle to fight the enemy. | 
 
 
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| We have reports of enemy soldiers ambushing civilians on this road. | 
 
 
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| These are the people who will overcome the adversity, chaos, and destruction of combat and defeat the enemy in war. | 
 
 
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| It is antispace, home of the enemy, a creature without a face or with the face of a beast. | 
 
 
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| Phoebe lay down by me, and ask'd me archly if, now that I had seen the enemy, and fully considered him, I was still afraid of him? | 
 
 
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| Edmund was able to temporarily relieve London, driving the enemy away and defeating them after crossing the Thames at Brentford. | 
 
 
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| In that case the enemy himself could have occupied the defences of Corinth and held at bay all the Union troops that arrived. | 
 
 
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| Anzac burial parties greeted the enemy with odds and ends of Arabic phrases, and with Australianese that must have been incomprehensible to them. | 
 
 
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| When the ships were sufficiently close, melee combat would ensue using axes, swords, and spears until the enemy ship could be easily boarded. | 
 
 
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| There has been considerable speculation on the possibility of using nuclear weapons to cause tsunamis near to an enemy coastline. | 
 
 
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| Though outarmed, Maccabee's forces pushed the enemy soldiers out of Jerusalem, and retook the sacred temple. | 
 
 
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| The enemy, outnumbered, outmetalled, outfed, outmanoeuvred, outfought, was being driven backward by foes invisible as well as visible. | 
 
 
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| It was known that enemy intelligence had been heavily active in the region. | 
 
 
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| By 1906 it was considered that Britain's only likely naval enemy was Germany. | 
 
 
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| The minelayers were preceded by Royal Navy destroyers sweeping for enemy mines and submarines. | 
 
 
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| Admiral Maass was still unaware of the nature of the attack, so he spread his ships in search of the enemy. | 
 
 
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| The British side also suffered from poor communications, with ships failing to report engagement with the enemy to each other. | 
 
 
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| Instead, they designed defensive minefields to prevent enemy ships approaching and freed up the destroyers for duties escorting larger ships. | 
 
 
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| Both of these obsolete squadrons were notably vulnerable to attacks by more modern enemy ships. | 
 
 
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| Since there was no enemy nearby, it was assumed that she had hit a mine or had been torpedoed by a submarine. | 
 
 
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| British battlecruisers were designed to chase and destroy enemy cruisers from out of the range of those ships. | 
 
 
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| They were not designed to be ships of the line and exchange broadsides with the enemy. | 
 
 
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| At least amongst the surviving ships, no enemy shell was found to have penetrated deck armour anywhere. | 
 
 
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| A number of opportunities to attack enemy ships by torpedo had presented themselves but had been missed. | 
 
 
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| The loss of even a squadron of torpedo boats to enemy fire would be more than outweighed by the sinking of a capital ship. | 
 
 
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| They took part in fleet actions and they worked in smaller groups and singly to harry enemy supply lines. | 
 
 
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| In war, pipelines are often the target of military attacks, as destruction of pipelines can seriously disrupt enemy logistics. | 
 
 
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| Since the destruction of the enemy fleet was the only permanent way to end this problem, Caesar directed his men to build ships. | 
 
 
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| And they are accustomed always to throw these axes at a signal in the first charge and thus to shatter the shields of the enemy and kill the men. | 
 
 
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| He ordered it to be burned to prevent it from falling into enemy hands, then he commanded the town of Dam to be burned to the ground as well. | 
 
 
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| In the Punic Wars with Carthage, Romans developed the technique of grappling and boarding enemy ships with soldiers. | 
 
 
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| Nelson instead divided his smaller force into two columns directed perpendicularly against the enemy fleet, with decisive results. | 
 
 
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| Privateers were sanctioned by their respective governments to raid enemy vessels. | 
 
 
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| The ships in the van of the enemy fleet would have to turn back to support the rear, which would take a long time. | 
 
 
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| As the British drew closer, they could see that the enemy was not sailing in a tight order, but rather in irregular groups. | 
 
 
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| Nelson was outnumbered and outgunned, the enemy totalling nearly 30,000 men and 2,568 guns to his 17,000 men and 2,148 guns. | 
 
 
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| But while men were asleep, his enemy came and oversowed cockle among the wheat and went his way. | 
 
 
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| Unlike depth charges, mines are deposited and left to wait until they are triggered by the approach of, or contact with, an enemy vessel. | 
 
 
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| Minefields designed for psychological effect are usually placed on trade routes and are used to stop shipping from reaching an enemy nation. | 
 
 
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| It was a watertight keg filled with gunpowder that was floated toward the enemy, detonated by a sparking mechanism if it struck a ship. | 
 
 
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| Each run covers between one and two hundred meters, and the ships must move slowly in a straight line, making them vulnerable to enemy fire. | 
 
 
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| If so, he believed that any enemy force emerging from the forest would be vulnerable to a pincer attack and destroyed. | 
 
 
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| They relied on excellent communication systems, which enabled them to break into a position and exploit it before the enemy could react. | 
 
 
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| It was debatable whether British ships were as vulnerable to enemy air attack as the Germans hoped. | 
 
 
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| The commandos were eventually forced to withdraw in the face of superior enemy forces. | 
 
 
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| They also started clearing the draws of enemy defences so that vehicles could move off the beach. | 
 
 
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| The enemy could not only have broken through, but he might have trampled Patton's position in the onrush. | 
 
 
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| Although X Corps had failed in its attempt to break out, it had succeeded in its objective of finding and destroying enemy tanks. | 
 
 
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| Your enemy, despite his superiority, must also be at the end of his strength. | 
 
 
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| By the time 154th Brigade moved forward, although they met some shelling, the enemy had left. | 
 
 
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| Montgomery now realised that in order to finish the enemy off he would need to make even deeper armoured thrusts. | 
 
 
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| In many parts of occupied Europe the enemy was suffering losses at the hands of partisans that he could ill afford. | 
 
 
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| This was an advantage because since it was less extensive it formed a less obvious target for enemy force to be directed against. | 
 
 
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| This may require more ships on station, but they can usually operate closer to their bases, and are at much less risk from enemy raids. | 
 
 
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| The object of loose blockade is to lure the enemy into venturing out but to stay close enough to strike. | 
 
 
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| Planes assigned to attack enemy balloons were often equipped with incendiary bullets, for the purpose of igniting the hydrogen. | 
 
 
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| While there's a decent variety of enemy types in the game, those same enemies also tend to get palette swapped as the game progresses. | 
 
 
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| The captains of these ships were given letters of marque by their governments, intended to validate all actions against the enemy. | 
 
 
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| The North needed to conquer and hold vast stretches of enemy territory and defeat Confederate armies to win. | 
 
 
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| Sonar was originally developed during World War II to locate enemy submarines, but was later applied to locating schools of fish. | 
 
 
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| It comprises a tall, circular gun tower and an adjacent gun platform, and was designed to prevent enemy naval vessels from entering the harbour. | 
 
 
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| It would have held a battery of guns and an accompanying garrison, designed to prevent enemy vessels from entering the harbour. | 
 
 
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| Harold then apparently accompanied William to battle against William's enemy, Conan II, Duke of Brittany. | 
 
 
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| For the next seven years these two nations were ranged against a growing number of enemy powers led by France. | 
 
 
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| Its field of fire was from approximately West South West clockwise to Northeast and it was designed to defend against enemy ships. | 
 
 
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| But it is more likely that he was pursuing a large enemy cavalry force, probably Sarmatians. | 
 
 
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| Bichir argues that the Carpi were the most powerful of the Dacian tribes who had become the principal enemy of the Romans in the region. | 
 
 
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| The shattered remains of what was once the enemy army would be pursued closely and harassed all the way to the border and sometimes beyond. | 
 
 
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| They showed their prowess during this siege by jumping from the wall and directly into the enemy despite being completely outnumbered. | 
 
 
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| Caesar says that the enemy camp was defended by a wagon train, drawn up behind the German forces, which had now either to fight or to run. | 
 
 
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| Octavian also demanded that the decree should be rescinded which declared Antony a public enemy. | 
 
 
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| To counter them, Legio V Macedonica, a veteran of the Parthian campaign, was moved from Moesia Inferior to Dacia Superior, closer to the enemy. | 
 
 
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| A new and menacing enemy started to emerge directly after Alexander's success in the Persian war. | 
 
 
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| The enemy attempted to pillage the cottage, apparently unaware Valens was inside. | 
 
 
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| Theodoric the Great, as he is sometimes distinguished, was sometimes the friend, sometimes the enemy, of the Empire. | 
 
 
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| Many of the enemy fled and Martel's troops gathered the spoils of the camp. | 
 
 
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| The Dutch provinces, though fighting alone now, for the first time in their history found themselves fighting a common enemy. | 
 
 
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| During the Great Patriotic War, some minority languages were banned, and their speakers accused of collaborating with the enemy. | 
 
 
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| Military tactics concerns itself with the methods for engaging and defeating the enemy in direct combat. | 
 
 
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| Often, military deception, in the form of military camouflage or misdirection using decoys, is used to confuse the enemy as a tactic. | 
 
 
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| The propaganda war that accompanied World War II invariably depicted the enemy in unflattering terms. | 
 
 
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| During the negotiations, a Hun in service of the Romans named Chelchel persuaded the enemy Goths to attack their Hun overlords. | 
 
 
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| Most wars had other causes but they reinforced mercantilism by clearly defining the enemy, and justified damage to the enemy's economy. | 
 
 
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| That only four ships on India runs were known to be captured by the enemy seems quite astonishing. | 
 
 
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| This does not count, of course, ships that were attacked by enemy action and subsequently capsized or destroyed. | 
 
 
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| If he pointed the bone at anyone, that man soon died. If an enemy of Taipan came up to him, he would point the bone at him. | 
 
 
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| The many disputes, even the armed ones, were set aside in 1087 when they reunited to fight their common enemy. | 
 
 
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| The army under Bonaparte crossed the frontiers of neutral Venice in pursuit of the enemy. | 
 
 
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| In 1261, Berke of the Golden Horde allied with the Mamluk Sultan Baibars, against their common enemy the Ilkhanate. | 
 
 
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| He married a daughter of Danylo of Halych, who was the Mongols' avowed enemy. | 
 
 
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| Their function in battle was to contain the enemy troops until the cavalry arrived and to block the enemy infantry from charging the knights. | 
 
 
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| To break the impasse, the Liberals then decide to open another front in the rearguard of the enemy forces. | 
 
 
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| The Portuguese naval theorists started to defend the use of the submarine as the only weapon capable to face a more powerful enemy navy. | 
 
 
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| This evacuation was planned to occur in the case of an enemy invasion and successfully occupation of Continental Portugal. | 
 
 
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| The battle lasted eight hours, and the Spanish believed they had done much damage to the enemy flagship and the other vessels. | 
 
 
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| It has been usual to precede hostilities by a public declaration communicated to the enemy. | 
 
 
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| Political power was reinforced by military power, and the capture and humiliation of enemy warriors played an important part in elite culture. | 
 
 
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| This is an example of intensive warfare carried out by an enemy in order to completely eliminate a Maya state, rather than subjugate it. | 
 
 
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| Maya warfare was not so much aimed at destruction of the enemy as the seizure of captives and plunder. | 
 
 
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| A pressor beam lashed out, and invisible hammer blow of repulsion, five times the strength of the enemy tractor. | 
 
 
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| They developed serial firing technique to create a continuous rain of bullets on the enemy. | 
 
 
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| The British did not lose a single ship, and destroyed the enemy fleet, but Admiral Lord Nelson died in the battle. | 
 
 
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| On more than one occasion men were seen hanging their own brothers, who had been taken prisoners in the enemy rank. | 
 
 
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| They discussed the possibility of an alliance between Holland, the Ottoman Empire, Morocco and the Moriscos, against the common enemy Spain. | 
 
 
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| During the 18th century, disease killed more British sailors than enemy action. | 
 
 
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| They were also called on to physically defend their villages and towns from enemy attacks. | 
 
 
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| For example, Nikan Wailan was a Jurchen leader who was an enemy of Nurhaci. | 
 
 
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| Our sailors wore rattan shields to protect their heads so that enemy bullets and arrows could not pierce them. | 
 
 
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| Violent skirmishes with the enemy continue despite talks of peace. | 
 
 
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| The fact is that Reaganomics slowed down the breakneck economy and succeeded in defeating public enemy number one, runaway inflation. | 
 
 
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| More than writing his theses, Luther's confrontation with the church cast him as an enemy of the pope. | 
 
 
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| The effect of R v Depardo is that the same rule applies where an alien enemy is charged with killing a British subject. | 
 
 
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| Examples of killings not under the Queen's peace include the killing of an enemy combatant during a time of war or other international conflict. | 
 
 
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| There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. | 
 
 
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| Each time the men fought bravely rushing out of the fort walls charging the enemy, but lost. | 
 
 
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| During wartime the high dikes of the Yellow River were sometimes deliberately broken in order to flood advancing enemy troops. | 
 
 
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| Indeed, on 26 September 1940 this facility was completely destroyed by an enemy bombing raid. | 
 
 
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| The increased taxes, the British blockade, and the occupation of some of New England by enemy forces also agitated public opinion in the states. | 
 
 
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| The Rajput is the most worthy antagonist, the Mahratta the most formidable enemy. | 
 
 
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| The landing craft came within sight of Omaha Beach before coming under enemy fire and turning back. | 
 
 
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| This overhang was an excellent place from which to attack an enemy while it was marching in column through the pass. | 
 
 
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| The castles once operated a defensive chain across the estuary, which was raised at dusk to destroy enemy ships attempting to attack the harbour. | 
 
 
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| Typically, little distinction was made between enemy combatants and enemy civilians, although women and children were more likely to be spared. | 
 
 
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| The same mural shows a government soldier, called 'Commando Spider', dressed in a ronko, but slaying a rebel, presumably behind enemy lines. | 
 
 
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| Some tribes used to collect scalps to prove how many of the enemy they had killed in battle. | 
 
 
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| He decided that before scuttling the ship to prevent her falling into enemy hands he had to get the dead and wounded ashore. | 
 
 
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| The soldiers of XX and YY were fighting side by side against a common enemy. | 
 
 
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| English Navy squibs set fire to two dozen enemy ships in a Dutch harbor during the 16th century battle against the Spanish Armada. | 
 
 
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| To deprive the enemy of any advantage they might gain at night, he had star shells which could light up the entire countryside. | 
 
 
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| After returning the fire three times, Peale's men saw the enemy formed near the college take to their heels. | 
 
 
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| Weakness was her enemy, the taloned beast that lived in her chest and couldn't wait to sharpen its fangs on her heart. | 
 
 
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| But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way. | 
 
 
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| He gravely informed the enemy that all his cards had been thumbed to pieces, and begged them to let him have a few more packs. | 
 
 
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| Sometimes a trenchful of the enemy would fire a volley and half of them disappear through gullies leading to other cover. | 
 
 
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| I believe that I have no enemy on earth, and none surely would have been so wicked as to destroy me wantonly. | 
 
 
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| He yearned to strike with the working edge of the blade, but was not ready to leave himself effectively wizardless in the face of the enemy. | 
 
 
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| Now was the time to be avenged on his old enemy, to wreak a grudge of seventeen years. | 
 
 
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| Lieutenant KERRY immediately maneuvered his craft through several strafing runs which completely silenced the enemy. | 
 
 
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| He'd be useless in war. He'd just cower in his bunker until the enemy came in and shot him, or until the war was over. | 
 
 
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| It is a narrative that has cast the American datenkraken as the arch enemy. | 
 
 
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| With this assault they drive back the thin enemy line, pressing forward through the disordered enemy. | 
 
 
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| Once the two fleets had met, it was then likely, if not inevitable, that only some of the attacking fleet would make it through the enemy line. | 
 
 
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| Received a DUC for developing and using a special bombing technique against enemy bridges in French Indochina. | 
 
 
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| We shall harry the enemy at every turn until his morale breaks and he is at our mercy. | 
 
 
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| The sea was choppy but not hindersome. And there was no sign of enemy ships out on the water. | 
 
 
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| He interpreted the site as an armory, erected on platforms on piles over the lake and later destroyed by enemy action. | 
 
 
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| The plebeian soldiers refused to march against the enemy, and instead seceded to the Aventine Hill. | 
 
 
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| Caractacus lived out his days on land provided by the Roman state, an unusual end for an enemy commander. | 
 
 
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| The Romans were also in the habit of destroying their own forts during an orderly withdrawal, in order to deny resources to an enemy. | 
 
 
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| Severus travelled onwards to Nisibis, which his general Julius Laetus had prevented from falling into enemy hands. | 
 
 
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| Severus then thrust north with his army across the wall into enemy territory. | 
 
 
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| Finding himself cut off in enemy territory, he began a land retreat during which he was mortally wounded. | 
 
 
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| Troops, defenseless and exposed to all the weapons of the enemy, are more disposed to fly than fight. | 
 
 
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| With his position thus strengthened he declared Stilicho a public enemy, and he established Alaric as magister militum per Illyricum. | 
 
 
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| Sarus was an enemy of Ataulf, and on Ataulf's arrival went back into imperial service. | 
 
 
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| Rome had not fallen to an enemy since the Battle of the Allia over eight centuries before. | 
 
 
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| Plunder was still made from suppressing insurgencies within the Empire and on limited incursions into enemy land. | 
 
 
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| Bravo Three, this Bravo Six. Immediate! We are coming under fire from the north from an unknown enemy, over! | 
 
 
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| Further south, Theobald V, the Count of Blois, an enemy of Louis, became another early ally of Henry. | 
 
 
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| And being in close neighborhood with the enemy we were necessitated to be pretty alert. | 
 
 
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| Others have viewed William as an enemy of the English constitution, or alternatively as its creator. | 
 
 
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| Henry evaded the enemy forces on his way south and collapsed in his castle at Chinon. | 
 
 
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| In 1171 Henry II set an alliance with Humbert of Maurienne adding one more enemy of Raymond V to his alliance. | 
 
 
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| The first scene of battle was the city of Gloucester, which Edward managed to retake from the enemy. | 
 
 
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| Unwisely, however, he followed the scattered enemy in pursuit, and on his return found the rest of the royal army defeated. | 
 
 
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| As King John was an enemy of the church, Pope Innocent III gave his blessing to Llywelyn's revolt. | 
 
 
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| He was the lifelong enemy of Charles the Bold, Count of Charolais, and later Duke of Burgundy. | 
 
 
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| Rather than fight while seated on the horse, they would dismount to engage the enemy. | 
 
 
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| Seeing this, Richard decided to end the fight quickly by killing the enemy commander. | 
 
 
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| Either way, Richard led a cavalry charge deep into the enemy ranks in an attempt to end the battle quickly by striking at Henry Tudor himself. | 
 
 
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| The English then closed, firing repeated and damaging broadsides into the enemy ships. | 
 
 
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| Although their shot lockers were almost empty, the English pursued in an attempt to prevent the enemy from returning to escort Parma. | 
 
 
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| Fairfax soon drove the enemy into Colchester, but his first attack on the town met with a repulse and he had to settle down to a long siege. | 
 
 
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| In 1668, England allied itself with Sweden, and with its former enemy the Netherlands, to oppose Louis XIV in the War of Devolution. | 
 
 
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| Fox claimed that France was England's natural enemy and that it was only at Britain's expense that she could grow. | 
 
 
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| With enemy troops advancing, the Commune looked for potential traitors in Paris. | 
 
 
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| The Neapolitan Republic was formed around Naples, but it lasted only five months before the enemy forces of the Coalition recaptured it. | 
 
 
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| He inflicted 25,000 casualties on a numerically superior enemy army while sustaining fewer than 7,000 in his own force. | 
 
 
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| The campaign effectively ended on 14 December 1812, when the last enemy troops left Russia. | 
 
 
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| During this time Napoleon fought his Six Days' Campaign, in which he won multiple battles against the enemy forces advancing towards Paris. | 
 
 
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| Under Napoleon, a new emphasis towards the destruction, not just outmanoeuvring, of enemy armies emerged. | 
 
 
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| Invasions of enemy territory occurred over broader fronts which made wars costlier and more decisive. | 
 
 
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| For the rest of the month he carried out raids along the coast and intercepted enemy shipping. | 
 
 
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| However, Dundas merely assessed the enemy positions and then withdrew, arguing that the French were too well entrenched to risk an assault. | 
 
 
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| While Nelson directed a continuous bombardment of the enemy positions, Stuart's men began to advance. | 
 
 
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| The Victory had by now reached the enemy line, and Hardy asked Nelson which ship to engage first. | 
 
 
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| During the battle, Wellesley led his men, in a line of battle of two ranks, against the enemy to a gentle ridge and gave the order to fire. | 
 
 
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| In the confusion Colonel Wellesley was himself struck on the knee by a spent ball, and narrowly escaped falling into the hands of the enemy. | 
 
 
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| Napoleon had dispatched all eight battalions of the Young Guard to reinforce Lobau, who was now seriously pressed by the enemy. | 
 
 
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| At the start of the war, most commanders thought enemy tanks should be met by tanks with superior specifications. | 
 
 
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| After five years of experience, I am convinced that he is the worst enemy of France in her troubles. | 
 
 
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| Peace with the Sasanian Empire, the traditional enemy of Rome, lasted throughout most of the 5th century. | 
 
 
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| The prisoners and captives who were sold were usually from neighbouring or enemy ethnic groups. | 
 
 
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| Although the Romans had experience in land battles, to defeat this new enemy, naval battles were necessary. | 
 
 
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| Joan Curran devised the 'chaff' technique during the Second World War to disrupt radar on enemy planes. | 
 
 
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| In case of attack, arrows, javelins and sling missiles could be fired down at an enemy tiring himself to come up. | 
 
 
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| While these towers provided positions from which flanking fire could be deployed against a potential enemy, they also contained accommodation. | 
 
 
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| As well as defensive structures, castles were also offensive tools which could be used as a base of operations in enemy territory. | 
 
 
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| However, leaving an enemy behind would allow them to interfere with communications and make raids. | 
 
 
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| Below them were archers and bowmen, whose role was to prevent the enemy reaching the walls as can be seen by the positioning of arrowslits. | 
 
 
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| A long siege could slow down the army, allowing help to come or for the enemy to prepare a larger force for later. | 
 
 
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| While Lancelot is an infant, his father is driven from his kingdom in Britain by his enemy Claudas de la Deserte. | 
 
 
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| Consequently, the Montagnards, especially Robespierre, regarded him as an enemy. | 
 
 
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| The American scholar Scott Lucas has described Orwell as an enemy of the Left. | 
 
 
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| Without conferring with his British ministers, George stationed them in Hanover to prevent enemy French troops from marching into the electorate. | 
 
 
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| The only exception to this rule were children of diplomats and enemy aliens. | 
 
 
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| The American privateers had almost 1,700 ships, and they captured 2,283 enemy ships. | 
 
 
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| They set aside their plaids and other encumbrances before the battle, and dropped to the ground to avoid enemy volleys. | 
 
 
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| Unable to see behind the Jacobites above him, Hawley had his men stand and face the enemy. | 
 
 
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| They prescribed loyalty to the patriot cause, disloyalty to the British government and a promise not to aid and abet the enemy. | 
 
 
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| Napoleon attacked the Turkish beachheads and scored a crushing victory at the Battle of Abukir, capturing and killing the entire enemy army. | 
 
 
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| Balloons commonly had a crew of two, equipped with parachutes, so that if there was an enemy air attack the crew could parachute to safety. | 
 
 
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| Recognised for their value as observation platforms, balloons were important targets for enemy aircraft. | 
 
 
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| However, because the weapon was to be directed against the enemy, none of us were overly concerned at all. | 
 
 
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| They were sponsored by the French Republic, which was then the enemy of the Holy See. | 
 
 
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| Proponents of this tactic claimed interceptions in large numbers caused greater enemy losses while reducing their own casualties. | 
 
 
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| Coastal Command directed its attention towards the protection of British shipping, and the destruction of enemy shipping. | 
 
 
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| From July to September, the Luftwaffe's loss records indicate the loss of 1,636 aircraft, 1,184 to enemy action. | 
 
 
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| Both sides in the battle made exaggerated claims of numbers of enemy aircraft shot down. | 
 
 
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| Minesweepers began clearing channels for the invasion fleet shortly after midnight and finished just after dawn without encountering the enemy. | 
 
 
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| Only 160 men out of the 600 members of the 9th Battalion tasked with eliminating the enemy battery at Merville arrived at the rendezvous point. | 
 
 
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| Several men were killed as a result, because the German weapons made a distinctive noise, and the men were mistaken for the enemy. | 
 
 
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| They also started clearing the gullies of enemy defences so that vehicles could move off the beach. | 
 
 
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| Part of the perceived effectiveness of an independent deterrent was the willingness to target enemy cities. | 
 
 
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| We always have to be aware of the enemy within, which is much more difficult to fight and more dangerous to liberty. | 
 
 
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| Army Special Forces, landed by helicopter and attacked three houses close to a known enemy stronghold in Pakistan. | 
 
 
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| A Marine from Marine Air Control Group 28 was killed by enemy fire, and two Marine engineers drowned in the Saddam Canal. | 
 
 
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| Several RAF airfields and sites were also established at Sullom Voe and several lighthouses suffered enemy air attacks. | 
 
 
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| Vessels sailed the normal shipping routes, but were required to engage an enemy vessel no matter the size or strength. | 
 
 
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| They harassed enemy shipping and attacked enemy colonies, frequently using colonists from nearby British colonies in the effort. | 
 
 
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| There was no sign of the enemy and the men were all landed on 14 September. | 
 
 
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| The aim of any cavalry charge is to scatter the enemy lines and frighten the enemy off the battlefield. | 
 
 
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| More than 1,000 enemy guns tested the strength of the fortress for two days. | 
 
 
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| It appeared that any enemy of the Baghdad regime was a potential ally of the United States. | 
 
 
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| They were told that they had to get their men off ship and onto the beach as soon as possible as the ships were vulnerable to enemy aircraft. | 
 
 
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| The Welsh Guards were keen to rejoin the rest of their Battalion, who were potentially facing the enemy without their support. | 
 
 
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| They had also not seen any enemy aircraft since landing at San Carlos and may have been overconfident in the air defences. | 
 
 
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| He expected that the losses would cause enemy morale to drop and the British assault to stall. | 
 
 
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| At Two Sisters, the British faced both enemy resistance and friendly fire, but managed to capture their objectives. | 
 
 
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| It was called the Trout Memo and compared the deception of an enemy in wartime to fly fishing. | 
 
 
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| Even there they were not immune from enemy air raids, and stayed on occasion with Nancy Astor at her country house, Cliveden. | 
 
 
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| Cawl is another prominent Somali writer who is perhaps best known for his Dervish era novel, Ignorance is the enemy of love. | 
 
 
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| The epic poetic history of The Brus and Wallace helped outline a narrative of united struggle against the English enemy. | 
 
 
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| After a brief exchange of missiles, Agricola ordered auxiliaries to launch a frontal attack on the enemy. | 
 
 
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| As a nephew and supporter of King John, and as someone with a serious claim to the Scottish throne, Comyn was Bruce's enemy. | 
 
 
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| This was a bold proposal because Reims was roughly twice as far away as Paris and deep within enemy territory. | 
 
 
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| A woman was rarely welcome in a position of supreme power, and Margaret was the sister of an enemy king, which served to compound her problems. | 
 
 
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| Burgoyne instead encouraged bayonet charges to break up enemy formations, which was a preferred tactic in most European armies at the time. | 
 
 
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| We met the new captain while we were taking enemy fire and were unable to observe the niceties of formal introductions. | 
 
 
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| As in the Sudan, Haig continued to be sceptical of the importance of artillery, basing his opinions on interviews with enemy prisoners. | 
 
 
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| They also directly supported ground forces by strafing enemy positions and transport. | 
 
 
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| The next year, when a second enemy force came to attack the port, they found it deserted. | 
 
 
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| National identity can be most noticeable when the nation confronts external or internal enemy and natural disasters. | 
 
 
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| Opened in 2006, the exhibits include uniforms, medals, weapons, regalia, music and a captured enemy standard from the Battle of Waterloo. | 
 
 
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| The primary purpose of these radars was to help night fighters locate enemy bombers and fighters. | 
 
 
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| It provided local funding for Church of England schools, which represented the religious enemy. | 
 
 
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| On the battlefield, it is thought that they were used to pick off enemy leaders. | 
 
 
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| Through the rest of 1940, Swansea was targeted by single and small groups of enemy bombers. | 
 
 
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| Over the three nights a total of nearly 14 hours of enemy activity had been recorded. | 
 
 
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| They have also been trained by militaries to locate sea mines or detect and mark enemy divers. | 
 
 
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| Gimli witnessed the Dead Men rout enemy invaders at Pelargir in south Gondor by the power of fear alone. | 
 
 
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| The ability of submarines to approach enemy harbours covertly led to their use as minelayers. | 
 
 
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| The range of this system is probably very short, and using it radiates sound into the water, which can be heard by the enemy. | 
 
 
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| Navy Marine Mammal Program, including detecting naval mines and enemy divers. | 
 
 
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| Navy officials say that the sea lions can do this in seconds, before the enemy realizes what happened. | 
 
 
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| The Navy has never trained attack dolphins, as they would not be able to discern allied soldiers from enemy soldiers. | 
 
 
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| When larger scale battles ensued, Viking crews would rope together all nearby ships and slowly proceed towards the enemy targets. | 
 
 
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| The headmaster was an even stricter censor of his boarding pupils' correspondence than the enemy censors had been of his own when the country was occupied. | 
 
 
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| Thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy. | 
 
 
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| The concentrated fire from the enemy destroyed our fortifications. | 
 
 
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| Along with these new arrangements came new standards and symbols, such as the aquila, which the troops came to revere and which was never allowed to fall into enemy hands. | 
 
 
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| A skilled cragsman himself, he told his officers that he believed that a determined party of Gurkhas and other experienced climbers could reach the enemy by this route. | 
 
 
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| They were planning to launch an all-out attack against the enemy. | 
 
 
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| It was under this new, militaristic interpretation of Huitzilopochtli that Aztec soldiers were encouraged to fight wars and capture enemy soldiers for sacrifice. | 
 
 
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| The Germans crowded into a phalanx and began to push the Romans backward, even though the latter jumped up on the shields of the enemy to thrust downward. | 
 
 
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| The people of Tenochtitlan were exposed to diseases from their enemy. | 
 
 
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| Members of the Privy Council are privileged to be given advance notice of any prime ministerial decision to commit HM Armed Forces in enemy action. | 
 
 
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| He encountered the enemy at the hazard of his reputation and life. | 
 
 
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| The prevailing tactical orthodoxy at the time involved manoeuvring to approach the enemy fleet in a single line of battle and then engaging broadside in parallel lines. | 
 
 
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| The Irish Rebellion of 1798, and the rebels' alliance with Great Britain's longtime enemy the French, led to a push to bring Ireland formally into the British Union. | 
 
 
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| Tlaxcala was an autonomous state, and a fierce enemy of the Aztecs. | 
 
 
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| Antony was denounced as a public enemy, and Caesar's adopted son and chosen heir, Gaius Octavianus, was entrusted with the command of the war against him. | 
 
 
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| Pull the pin out of the grenade before throwing it at the enemy. | 
 
 
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| Artillery fire aiming to gain superiority over the enemy guns. | 
 
 
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| The intention was to split the enemy line and engage in close quarter action, a form of combat in which, Nelson believed, the British fleet would have the advantage. | 
 
 
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| Those who were chained to the spot by the weakness of their sex, or the infirmity of age, or the attractions of the place, were cut off by the enemy. | 
 
 
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| Sculpted panels depicted victories and achievements, the deeds of the triumphator, the captured weapons of the enemy or the triumphal procession itself. | 
 
 
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| Dio was among those who gave a highly critical account of military discipline during the time, saying that they would rather just surrender to the enemy. | 
 
 
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