They were diverted Change_sentiment for raiding by British army officer General Sir Henry Clinton .

The British attack at Aubers Ridge was a costly failure and two German divisions in reserve were diverted Change_sentiment south against the Tenth Army .

The British attacks at Festubert forced the Germans back and diverted Removing reserves from the French but the French gained Getting little more ground , despite firing double the amount of artillery ammunition , at the cost of many casualties to both sides .

The plan was later complicated in late 1985 , when Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North of the National Security Council diverted Removing a portion of the proceeds from the Iranian weapon sales to fund Supply the Contras , a group of anti-Sandinista rebels , in their insurgency against the socialist government of Nicaragua .

In March 1981 , Al-Zulfiqar led by Murtaza Bhutto hijacked Committing_crime a Pakistan International Airlines flight en route to Peshawar from Karachi , and diverted Removing it to Kabul .

On the evening of 4 December 1977 , the Boeing 737-200 aircraft flying Self_motion the service crashed Catastrophe at Tanjung Kupang , Johor , Malaysia , while purportedly being diverted Removing by hijackers to Singapore .

The flight , which had originated Coming_to_be in Tel Aviv with the destination of Paris , was diverted Removing after a stopover in Athens via Benghazi to Entebbe , the main airport of Uganda .

U.S. President Abraham Lincoln diverted Removing several regiments of militia and volunteer troops after the Battle of Gettysburg to control Control the city .

While Allied divisions were being diverted Removing from North Africa , the Italians reinforced Cause_change_of_strength their positions and were supported Supporting by the arrival Arriving of the German `` Afrika Korps '' under `` Generalleutnant '' Erwin Rommel .

A terrorist Terrorism incident at Gran Canaria Airport had caused Causation many flights to be diverted Removing to Los Rodeos , including the two aircraft involved Participation in the accident .

The German 2nd and 1st armies on the Somme managed Control a recovery Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale after the string of defeats in September , with fresh divisions to replace exhausted troops and more aircraft , artillery and ammunition diverted Removing from the battle Hostile_encounter at Verdun and stripped Removing from other parts of the Western Front .

Part of the British 7th Armoured Division was diverted Removing from Tilly-sur-Seulles , to advance through the gap in a flanking manoeuvre and force the Panzer Lehr Division to fall back , to avoid encirclement .

The aircraft was diverted Motion to Jakarta in the hope Coming_to_believe that enough engines could be restarted Resolve_problem to allow Preventing_or_letting it to land Arriving there .

More than 50 flights were canceled Change_event_time or diverted Removing because of the bad weather conditions and President Benigno Aquino III delayed Change_event_time his flight home from a summit in Indonesia by a day .

The flight had just left Departing Butte and was flying Motion over Belgrade , Montana when it diverted Motion to the north to avoid Preventing_or_letting a dust storm Catastrophe over Bozeman Pass .

Twenty-four Hurricanes were delivered Sending by Operation Strength , flying Self_motion direct to Vaenga from the aircraft carrier but Operation Dervish , the first Arctic convoy , was diverted Removing from Murmansk to Archangelsk another on .

The Confederate Army briefly participated Participation in the wars Hostile_encounter during the early 1860s in Texas , before being diverted Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale to action in the American Civil War in New Mexico and Arizona .

Two German divisions intended for Italy were diverted Removing to Flanders , to replace Change `` extraordinarily high '' losses Earnings_and_losses .

Many small and mid-sized aircraft due Causation to arrive Arriving were diverted Removing to other Canadian airports in Ottawa , London , Hamilton , and Winnipeg .

Most of the larger aircraft were diverted Removing to Montreal , Syracuse , New York , and Buffalo , New York .

Some advanced Cause_to_make_progress to their designated objectives while others were diverted Removing to other areas , then ordered Arranging to dig in along defensive ridge lines .

The collapse Earnings_and_losses of Italy necessitated German troops replacing Change_of_leadership the Italians in Italy and to a lesser Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale extent the Balkans , resulting in Causation one fifth of the entire German army being diverted Removing from the east to southern Europe , a proportion that would remain until near the end Process_end of the war Hostile_encounter .

Operation Bagration diverted Removing German mobile reserves to the central sectors , removing Removing them from the Lublin-Brest and Lvov–Sandomierz areas , enabling Preventing_or_letting the Soviets to undertake the Lvov–Sandomierz Offensive and Lublin–Brest Offensive .

The pilot had diverted Motion because of poor visibility .

The 1st Armoured Division arrived in Arriving France from 15 May , without artillery and short of units that had been diverted Removing to Calais .