The surprise attack Attack in oblique order on the unsuspecting Austrian flank baffled Prince Charles ; the Prince took Conquering several hours to realize Know that the main action was to his left , and not to his right .

In the meantime , in order to secure Preventing_or_letting the flank for U.S. forces preparing to attack Japanese forces in the Philippines , in September 1944 , U.S. Marine and Army forces landed on the islands of Peleliu and Angaur in Palau .

In addition , the Soviet–Finnish Continuation War may also be considered Statement the northern flank of the Eastern Front .

On the western flank , the 1st Battalion , Hampshire Regiment captured Conquering Arromanches ( future site of one of the artificial Mulberry harbours ) , and 69th Infantry Brigade on the eastern flank made contact Connect with the Canadian forces Military_operation at Juno .

On the western flank , the 1st Battalion , Hampshire Regiment captured Conquering Arromanches ( future site of one of the artificial Mulberry harbours ) , and 69th Infantry Brigade on the eastern flank made contact Connect with the Canadian forces Military_operation at Juno .

at dawn on september 17 , maj. gen. joseph hooker 's corps mounted Process_start a powerful assault Attack on lee 's left flank .

Brigades from the 56th and 5th divisions in the north , wheeled to the right to form Cause_to_amalgamate a south-facing flank above Combles , as the French 2nd Division attacked Attack from the south .

The British attack swiftly established Building the defensive flank and patrols began Process_start to probe Criminal_investigation southwards .

The 58th Division ( Major-General Hew Dalrymple Fanshawe ) was to conduct Action the attack Attack , between the 55th ( West Lancashire ) Infantry Division on the right flank and the 51st ( Highland ) Division on the left .

The right-hand brigade made Action a decoy attack Attack and the left-hand brigade attacked Attack from the left flank , concealed Hiding_objects by mist .

The British 6th Airborne Division , under the command Control of Major-General Richard Nelson Gale , was one of the first Allied units to arrive in Arriving Normandy on D-Day , 6 June 1944 , and successfully secured Getting the left flank of the invasion zone .

On 19 October Murad II used Using his `` sipahi '' cavalry from Thessaly to envelop Besieging the cavalry on the Crusader left flank , along with a general assault Attack all along the line to distract Preventing_or_letting Hunyadi from the primary effort .

Confederate Maj. Gen. Theophilus H. Holmes made a feeble attempt to attack Attack the Union left Departing flank at Turkey Bridge but was driven Motion back .

In a pitched battle , the Armenians , Georgians and Oirats under King Leo II and Mongol generals routed and scattered Dispersal the Mamluk left flank , but the Mamluks personally led Conquering by Sultan Qalawun destroyed Destroying the Mongol centre .

McDowell 's ambitious plan Arranging for a surprise flank attack Attack on the Confederate left Departing was poorly executed by his officers and men ; nevertheless , the Confederates , who had been planning Arranging to attack Attack the Union left Departing flank , found Know themselves at an initial disadvantage .

McDowell 's ambitious plan Arranging for a surprise flank attack Attack on the Confederate left Departing was poorly executed by his officers and men ; nevertheless , the Confederates , who had been planning Arranging to attack Attack the Union left Departing flank , found Know themselves at an initial disadvantage .

The battle Hostile_encounter was fought Hostile_encounter in conjunction with attacks Attack by the French Tenth and Sixth armies on the southern flank and the Reserve/5th Army on the northern flank , against ( Field Marshal Rupprecht of Bavaria ) created Creating on 28 August , from the 1st and 2nd armies of the dissolved Dispersal and the 6th and 7th armies .

The battle Hostile_encounter was fought Hostile_encounter in conjunction with attacks Attack by the French Tenth and Sixth armies on the southern flank and the Reserve/5th Army on the northern flank , against ( Field Marshal Rupprecht of Bavaria ) created Creating on 28 August , from the 1st and 2nd armies of the dissolved Dispersal and the 6th and 7th armies .

Mametz was occupied Control during the morning by the 20th Brigade but a German counter-attack forced most of the British troops out , until a second attack Attack during the afternoon , when the advance of the 18th ( Eastern ) Division on the right flank , had cut the Germans in the village off from Montauban to the east .

After capturing Conquering Chongju on 30 October the British and Australians had been ordered Arranging to pull Motion back to Pakchon in an attempt to consolidate Cause_change_of_strength the western flank of the US Eighth Army .

The withdrawal Escaping threatened Warning to open Openness the 27th British Commonwealth Brigade 's left Departing flank and the Australians were ordered Arranging to immediately reposition on the ridge , yet ultimately it was too late to regain Getting the feature in darkness .

Nonetheless , the 27th British Commonwealth Brigade succeeded in preventing Preventing_or_letting a PVA break-through at Pakchon , keeping Temporary_stay open vital withdrawal Escaping routes across the river and securing Getting the UN left Departing flank .

Entrenched defences approximately on the lines held Defending at the end of the second battle were strengthened Cause_change_of_strength , and both sides undertook Action regular mounted reconnaissances into the open eastern flank .

The Ottoman defenders were also reinforced Cause_change_of_strength at this time , and both sides carried out Action training while manning the front lines and monitoring the open eastern flank .

Despite the difficult climate and the unhealthy environment of the Jordan Valley , General Edmund Allenby decided Deciding that , to ensure the strength Cause_change_of_strength of the EEF 's front line it was necessary to extend Change_event_time the line which stretched Expansion from the Mediterranean , across the Judean Hills to the Dead Sea to protect Assistance his right flank .

But Zhukov called Name_conferral a halt , owing Commerce_pay to continued German resistance on his northern flank ( Pomerania ) , and the advance on Berlin had to be delayed Change_event_time until April .

The intention Aiming was to break Destroying through the German defences Defending south of Caen on the eastern flank of the Allied positions in Normandy and exploit success by driving Self_motion south , to capture Conquering the high ground north of the city of Falaise .

That evening the KPA were strongly reinforced Cause_change_of_strength , attacking Attack the Australian southern flank manned Giving by D Company 3 RAR , and partially penetrating Destroying their perimeter .

further north , the x corps attack captured Conquering the redoubt , failed Earnings_and_losses opposite thiepval and had a great but temporary success Achieve on the left flank , where the german front line was overrun by the 36th ( ulster ) division , which then captured Conquering and stuff redoubts .

Utah , along with Sword on the eastern flank , was added Cause_to_be_included to the invasion Attack plan in December 1943 .

Hill to move Motion down the west bank of the Shenandoah River in preparation for a flank attack Attack on the Federal left Departing the next morning .

although the final Process_end flank attack Attack was prematurely delivered Military_operation , it nevertheless resulted in Causation a victory Earnings_and_losses .

The mission 's objective was to airlift glider infantry of the 6th Airlanding Brigade and divisional troops to reinforce Cause_change_of_strength the British 6th Airborne Division on the left flank of the British invasion beaches .

German troops passed Motion_directional through the village in late September 1914 during the First Battle Hostile_encounter of Albert , part of a series of reciprocal operations Military_operation by the German and Franco-British armies , to advance Self_motion round the northern flank of their opponent during the operations Military_operation known as the Race to the Sea .

Another attempt Influence to flank Attack the house to the left failed when Gore 's soldiers encountered Hostile_encounter the less well-armed Bearing_arms militia .

Attacks Attack in the XVIII Corps sector from the right flank of the Fifth Army , north to Poelcappelle , were costly and gained Getting little ground but the attack Attack of XIV Corps from Poelcappelle to the French First Army boundary beyond the Ypres–Staden railway , reached Arriving the fringe of Houthoulst Forest .

Mid-afternoon , the Army of West Virginia and the cavalry turned Becoming the Confederate left flank .

The front line was adjusted Change in February 1918 when the right flank of the Jaffa–Jerusalem line was secured Preventing_or_letting by the capture of land to the east of Jerusalem and down into the Jordan Valley to Jericho and the Dead Sea .

The occupation Control of Tulagi by the Japanese was intended to cover Hiding_objects the flank of and provide Supply reconnaissance support Supporting for Japanese forces that were advancing Self_motion on Port Moresby in New Guinea , provide Supply greater defensive depth for the major Japanese base at Rabaul , and serve Assistance as a base for Japanese forces to threaten and interdict the supply and communication routes between the United States and Australia and New Zealand .

Hoping to repeat the success of the earlier First Phase Campaign Military_operation , the PVA 13th Army first launched Process_start a series of surprise attacks Attack along the Ch'ongch'on River Valley on the night of November 25 , 1950 at the western half of the Second Phase Campaign Military_operation ( ) , effectively destroying Destroying the Eighth United States Army 's right flank while allowing Preventing_or_letting PVA forces to move Self_motion rapidly into UN rear areas .

As he withdrew Escaping , a portion of his right flank was cut off Dispersal from the main force .

However , supported Supporting by an Ottoman cavalry attack Attack on the British infantry 's northern flank , the Ottoman rearguard strongly defended Defending the ridge all day and most of the night , until it was finally captured Conquering early on 9 November .

In the nineteenth century , the British conquered Conquering Burma and Sikkim , occupying Control the whole southern flank of Tibet .

Fought Hostile_encounter on the right flank and subsidiary to the Battle of Nablus , the Third Transjordan attack Attack began Process_start northwards , with the assault on Kh Fasail .

The term describes Communication reciprocal attempts by the Franco-British and German armies to envelop the northern flank of the opposing army through the provinces of Picardy , Artois and Flanders , rather than an attempt to advance northwards to the sea .

Hoche sent Sending 12,000 troops under Alexandre Camille Taponier through the Palatinate Forest to attack Attack Wurmser 's right flank at Froeschwiller .

On 18 July , the British I Corps conducted Action an advance Cause_to_make_progress to secure Getting a series of villages and the eastern flank of VIII Corps and to the west , the II Canadian Corps launched Process_start Operation Atlantic , synchronised with Goodwood , to capture Conquering the rest of Caen south of the Orne River .

While Goodwood failed Earnings_and_losses in its primary aim , it forced Causation the Germans to keep powerful formations opposite the British and Canadians on the eastern flank of the Normandy beachhead and Operation Cobra , the First US Army attack Attack which began Process_start on 25 July , caused Causation the weaker German defences opposite to collapse Destroying .

The objectives of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division on D-Day were to cut Removing the Caen-Bayeux road , seize Hold the Carpiquet airport west of Caen , and form Coming_to_be a link between the two British beaches on either flank .

On May 31 , as Grant 's army once again swung Self_motion around the right flank of Lee 's army , Union cavalry seized Conquering the crossroads of Old Cold Harbor , about 10 miles northeast of the Confederate capital of Richmond , Virginia , holding Defending it against Confederate attacks Attack until the Union infantry arrived Arriving .