The Swiss main body had meanwhile arrived in Arriving the area of battle Hostile_encounter , and skillfully deployed Arranging its attack Attack columns so as to deny Preventing_or_letting the Imperials the maximum benefit Receiving of their artillery superiority .

These would be deployed Arranging in very deep infantry combat columns .

Smaller bodies of men would skirmish Hostile_encounter around these columns , firing Use_firearm with crossbows or primitive muzzle-loading firearms called Name_conferral the arquebus .

The Imperial army had an artillery train and a small force of armoured knights , although it is not known Know whether these fought Hostile_encounter on horseback , or , as was often their custom , on foot Connect amongst the infantry pike columns .

The Swiss attack Attack columns precipitously attacked Attack the Imperial positions , staggered Motion under the weight of the defensive Defending fire Use_firearm from the Imperial artillery , but , propelled Cause_change_of_strength forward by their serious warfighting ethos , kept up the assault Attack .

Colliding Connect with the Imperial infantry columns , the Swiss rapidly threw Hold the Swabian forces Causation into disorder Action , then rout Earnings_and_losses .

With limited battle-ready units to draw on in the wake of Rommel 's recent successes , on 15 May Brigadier William Gott attacked Attack in three columns with a mixed infantry and armoured force .

During the fighting Hostile_encounter on Maryland Heights , the other Confederate Collaboration columns arrived Arriving and were astonished to see Perception_active that critical positions to the west and south of town were not defended Defending .

The infernal columns ( Fr. , `` '' colonnes infernales '' ) were operations led by the French revolutionary Change_of_leadership general Louis Marie Turreau in the War Hostile_encounter in the Vendée , after the failure of the Royalist Virée de Galerne .

Following the passage on 1 August 1793 and 1 October 1793 by the National Convention of laws aimed Aiming at exterminating anti-Republican terrorists Terrorism in the area south of the Loire River ( the so-called Vendée ) , 12 army columns were formed Coming_to_be and sent Sending through the Vendée to exterminate the local anti-republican population .

The employment and actions of these `` infernal columns '' continues to be a subject of heated debate Communication , both in France and abroad .

To achieve Achieve this goal , Wurmser planned Arranging to lead four converging Come_together columns against the French .

But his skill and the speed of his troops ' march allowed Preventing_or_letting the French army commander to keep the Austrian columns separated Forming_relationships and defeat Conquering each in detail over a period of about one week .

Meanwhile , the mounted columns continued marching Self_motion to the north and south of the infantry column on to Amman east of Jericho on the high plateau .

The event is the namesake for the Vesuvian type of volcanic eruptions Catastrophe , characterized by eruption columns of hot gases and ash exploding into the stratosphere , although the event also included Cause_to_be_included pyroclastic flows associated Collaboration with Pelean eruptions Catastrophe .

Kitchener 's strategy for bringing the war to an end was to build Building fortified blockhouses across the veld and to mount Motion_directional 'drives ' or sweeps of the countryside with mobile columns .

After the wadi was fairly quickly crossed Motion_directional late on 7 November , Sausage Ridge protecting Defending the road and railway along which the retreating Escaping Ottoman columns were traveling Traveling , was attacked Attack on 8 November by the EEF 's 52nd ( Lowland ) Division .

By then the rearguard had successfully withdrawn Escaping along with the withdrawing Escaping Ottoman columns .

As Kienmayer 's columns fled Escaping to the east , they joined Cause_to_amalgamate with elements of the Russian Empire 's army in a rear guard action at the Battle Hostile_encounter of Amstetten on 5 November .

Retreating columns of the Yildirim Army Group were attacked Attack during the battle Hostile_encounter for the Jisr ed Damieh bridge , and several fords to the south were also captured Conquering , closing this line of retreat Escaping .

After several days pursuing remnant columns , Desert Mounted Corps captured Conquering Damascus on 1 October .

although the columns surrounding unk were not in effective communication with one another , on 1 january 1916 , british forces under colonel georges occupied Control the capital .

after leaving Departing a detachment to hold Defending the jisr ed damieh bridge and two other fords against any further retreating Escaping columns , chaytor 's force Military_operation advanced Cause_to_make_progress eastwards to attack Attack and capture Conquering the garrisons at shunet nimrin and es salt .

Mola famously remarked Statement to an English journalist that he would take Madrid with his four columns , of regular and Moroccan troops from southwest in Spain , outside the city and his `` Fifth column '' - composed of right wing sympathisers within it .

The bridge—designed by Sir Thomas Bouch—used lattice girders supported Supporting by iron piers , with cast Motion iron columns and wrought iron cross-bracing .

The Irish Free State awarded Award 62,868 medals for service Rite during the War Hostile_encounter of Independence , of which 15,224 were issued Creating to IRA fighters of the flying Self_motion columns .

The 4th Light Horse Brigade , Australian Mounted Division was deployed Arranging guarding Patrolling supply Supply columns , and prisoners , before being ordered Arranging to attack Attack and capture Conquering Samakh on the shore of the Sea of Gallilee .