Post-war writing by senior German officers like Hermann von Kuhl , Gerhard Tappen , Wilhelm Groener and the historians led by the former ( Lieutenant-Colonel ) Wolfgang Förster , managed Preventing_or_letting to establish a commonly accepted narrative that it was the failure to follow the blueprint by Moltke the Younger , rather than German strategic miscalculation , that condemned Judgment_communication the belligerents to four years of attrition warfare instead of the quick , decisive conflict it `` should '' have been .

The Battle Hostile_encounter of Saint-Denis was fought Hostile_encounter on November 23 , 1837 between British colonial authorities under Lieutenant-Colonel Gore and Patriote rebels in Lower Canada as part of the Lower Canada Rebellion Violence .

Gore was sent Sending to quell Preventing_or_letting the uprising Violence in the Richelieu River valley in conjunction Collaboration with a force Control led by Lieutenant-Colonel George Wetherall .

The terrain was hard Confronting_problem going Motion for the British tanks and Combeforce ( Lieutenant-Colonel John Combe ) , a flying Motion column of wheeled vehicles , was sent Sending ahead across the chord of the jebel .

The year before , the city of Savannah , Georgia , had been captured Conquering by a British expeditionary corps under Lieutenant-Colonel Archibald Campbell .

While protected Defending by the Liberal fleet , the division of Lieutenant-Colonel John Schwalbach crossed Motion_directional the river and occupied Control the Serra do Pilar , in Gaia , forcing Control the Royalists to withdraw Escaping in disorder to Oliveira de Azeméis .