Within seven hours , the Prussians destroyed Destroying the Austrian force , erasing Emptying any advantage the Austrians had gained Getting throughout the campaigning Military_operation in the preceding Process_start summer and autumn .

Both sides relied on light infantry operations and air transport Sending , although Commonwealth forces Military_operation enjoyed the advantage Earnings_and_losses of better helicopter deployment Arranging and resupply Supply to forward operating Being_in_operation bases .

Charles I hoped that quick victories would negate Parliament 's advantage in material , and as the armouries in London were beyond his reach Arriving he hoped to take the large arsenal at Hull to supplement the armouries he did have access Having_or_lacking_access to , such as those of the Derbyshire and Staffordshire trained bands .

After the mid-September Polish defeat Conquering in the Battle of the Bzura , the Germans gained Getting an undisputed advantage .

the proponents of the republic , particularly the republican party Social_event , found Creating ways to take advantage of the situation .

Here they reform Reforming_a_system and await the Poles ' attack , confident that the terrain will give them an advantage .

When exhaustion again overcomes them without Fortune having given Giving any indication of where the advantage lies , a fresh truce is arranged Arranging , during which the knights rub down their horses and themselves , bandage wounds , rest , talk , exchange prisoners and captured Conquering horses , send Sending each other wine and clear up the ground of the wounded and those thrown Motion from their horses and unable to get up Self_motion , lest these be trampled Destroying when the fighting Hostile_encounter resumes ; indeed , the scene is such that all of them might have been thought the greatest friends , instead of enemies .

at once the poles begin Process_start to have the advantage and , the enemy begins Process_start to think of retreat Escaping .

Union assaults Attack against the Sunken Road eventually pierced Destroying the Confederate center , but the Federal advantage was not followed up .

For the Australians , a significant advantage was gained Getting through the technological edge that Allied industry had achieved Achieve over the Japanese by this phase of the war , while the Japanese were hampered Hindering by a lack of supplies and reinforcements due to Allied interdiction efforts at sea and in the air .

chiefs rivalling Competition each other which usually led to Causation Europeans taking Creating advantage of that and meddle in the Xhosa kingdom politics .

Two months later , the Allies took advantage of Japan 's resulting strategic vulnerability in the South Pacific and launched Military_operation the Guadalcanal Campaign ; this , along with the New Guinea Campaign , eventually broke Destroying Japanese defenses Defending in the South Pacific and was a significant contributing Causation factor to Japan 's ultimate surrender Surrendering in World War II .

With a clear advantage in the harbour 's shallow waters , these vessels manoeuvred Practice in the darkness and savaged Attack Jervis ' heavy ships of the line , striking Attack at their vulnerable areas with impunity .

Justinian took advantage of , or even instigated Convincing , rebellions in the remote Vandal provinces of Sardinia and Tripolitania .

Fighting known as the Battle of the Observatories continued for local advantage all summer on the Chemin des Dames and along the Moronvilliers heights east of Reims .

Russia took Action advantage of the Swedish setback , declared Expressing_publicly war on Sweden and pushed Motion into Lithuania and Swedish Livonia .

On January 1 , 1862 , Cockpit Point was shelled Attack by ( Lieutenant Oscar C. Badger commanding Control ) and ( Lieutenant Eastman commanding Control ) , with neither side gaining Getting an advantage , though `` Yankee '' was slightly damaged Damaging .

After the Battle Hostile_encounter of Flers–Courcelette on 22 September , the Anglo-French armies tried to press Motion their advantage with several smaller attacks Attack in quick succession , rather than pause Process_end to regroup Cause_to_amalgamate and give Giving the Germans time to recover Recovering .

The capture Conquering of Beaumont Hamel and Serre would go some way to redeem Recovering the failure Earnings_and_losses of 1 July and obtain Getting ground on which the British would have a tactical advantage .

In 1369 , Sultan Muhammed V of Granada took advantage of the Castilians ' distractions and in the Siege of Algeciras ( 1369 ) he seized Hold the city of Algeciras , on the west side of the Bay of Gibraltar , which Alfonso XI had captured in 1344 .

Taking advantage of local assistance he successfully flanked Attack the American position outside the town , captured Conquering a large portion of Major General Robert Howe 's army , and drove Influence the remnants to retreat Escaping into South Carolina .

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side advantage then alternates Exchange race by race .

He concluded Coming_to_believe a local truce and left Departing his post , which allowed Preventing_or_letting the Arabs to take Bringing advantage , enter the city and capture it .

although the advantage had clearly been with knowles , he failed Earnings_and_losses to use Using this to deliver Bringing a decisive blow Attack .

Other charges of obtaining financial advantage by deception were dismissed Agree_or_refuse_to_act on appeal .

The Byzantines obtained Getting a few minor victories before winter , but the rebels , helped Assistance by the Cumans and employing Employment their mountain tactics , still held Defending the advantage .

although iraq hoped to take Getting advantage of iran 's post-revolutionary chaos , it made Creating limited progress and was quickly repelled Defending ; iran regained Recovering virtually all lost territory by june 1982 .

Neither side was able to achieve Achieve a decisive advantage during the first years of the war ; the Empress came to control Control the south-west of England and much of the Thames Valley , while Stephen remained Presence in control of the south-east .

This gave Giving the French forces on the island a significant regional advantage , outnumbering the British frigate on the recently captured Conquering Île Bourbon , commanded by Commodore Josias Rowley , by six to one .

The state of war between South Africa and Angola briefly ended Process_end with the short-lived Lusaka Accords , but resumed Process_start in August 1985 as both PLAN and UNITA took Getting advantage of the ceasefire to intensify Cause_change_of_strength their own guerrilla activity , leading to Causation a renewed phase of FAPLA combat operations culminating in the Battle of Cuito Cuanavale .

The Germans had attacked Attack a weakly defended Defending section of the Allied line , taking Conquering advantage of heavily overcast weather conditions that grounded Placing the Allies ' overwhelmingly superior air forces .

The kings of the surrounding Surrounding countries quickly attempted to take Bringing advantage of the perceived Know weakness of the child king .

During the invasion Attack , the Philistines and Edomites were taking Creating advantage of the situation and raiding Attack towns and villages in Judah .

Despite Scotland having the advantage in the group , thanks to a superior goal difference , they went Forming_relationships into the game as underdogs due to a number of their senior players being unavailable due to either injury or suspension , and because they had lost Earnings_and_losses to Wales in the return fixture at Hampden Park in Glasgow the previous March .

In 1999 , following the election Change_of_leadership of Abdelaziz Bouteflika as president , violence Violence declined Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale as large numbers of insurgents `` repented '' , taking Conquering advantage of a new amnesty law .

The crusader invasion of Egypt ( 1154–1169 ) was a series of campaigns undertaken Action by the Kingdom of Jerusalem to strengthen Cause_change_of_strength its position in the Levant by taking advantage of the weakness of Fatimid Egypt .

Marseille was arguably the best team in France at the time , and the board of Bastia wanted Request to take advantage of it by adding a large-capacity stand , to increase Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale the number of seats by 50 % .

Seeking to take advantage of the opportunity , Pyrrhus took Motion his army to Argos , being harried Damaging along the way by the Spartans .

Taking advantage of this failure , D. Luis de Haro , invaded Attack Portugal and besieged Elvas , the main defensive system of Portugal - where the Portuguese army that had besieged Besieging Badajoz took Creating refuge and was suffering Bodily_harm a second catastrophic plague .

This way , the Portuguese independence was granted Giving while the Spanish reached Arriving military advantage in the secondary front of war , Minho and Galicia .

However , the French took Getting advantage of the lack of cooperation between the Prussians and their Austrian allies .

Ultimately the National socialists took advantage of the radical setting of Germany but leading to Causation this there was great amounts of political violence Violence .

... No advantage whatever was gained Getting to compensate for the heavy loss Earnings_and_losses we sustained . ''

In the first phase , the Archidamian War , Sparta launched repeated invasions of Attica , while Athens took advantage of its naval supremacy to raid the coast of the Peloponnese and attempt to suppress signs of unrest in its empire .

Despite their numerical advantage and the wide dispersal of British forces Request defending Defending against their invasion attempt , the Americans , who were stationed Being_in_operation in Lewiston , New York , were unable to get Getting the bulk of their invasion force across the Niagara River due to the work of British artillery and reluctance on the part of the undertrained and inexperienced American militia .

Catherine the Great of Russia took advantage of the disorder to consolidate her control over the weak polities of the Caucasus , which was , for swaths of it , an integral Persian domain .

Fowler scored Getting early in the second half to equalise but Faustino Asprilla restored Recovering their goal advantage in the 57th minute .

Taking Bringing advantage of the reduction in the British forces Military_operation off the port , Napoleon ordered Request two heavy squadrons to sea , under instructions Education_teaching to raid Attack British trade routes while avoiding Preventing_or_letting contact with equivalent Royal Navy forces Military_operation .

The feudal Ali ' i often fought wars to gain Getting land and mana ; however the introduction of European weapons gave Giving some Ali ' i an advantage over others , and they began Process_start aggressively taking over Conquering their neighbors .