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1. The Turks were pouring shrapnel and bullets down the gullies and in a bid to outflank them we came out on to the top of the gully as we did so we saw the New Zealand attack start
2. “They're trying to outflank us!” Joshua answered in a voice suddenly alarmed
3. Through poor sentry discipline and ill-prepared defensive works, that battalion had allowed Chinese soldiers to infiltrate its positions and to outflank the American roadblock across the road to Chungam-ni
4. Wittmann was ordered by his battalion commander to halt the British armour before it could outflank and envelope the Germans
5. Don’t try to outflank them with phone calls or personal
6. Chang crawled the other way, and got closer sooner, because her role was not to outflank
7. The French line was wider than ours, and it was plain that they could easily outflank us on both sides
8. Lemarrois had just arrived at a gallop with Bonaparte’s stern letter, and Murat, humiliated and anxious to expiate his fault, had at once moved his forces to attack the center and outflank both the Russian wings, hoping before evening and before the arrival of the Emperor to crush the contemptible detachment that stood before him
9. What had happened was that news (which the night of a movement by the French to outflank the Drissa camp
10. He went up to the map and speaking rapidly began proving that no eventuality could alter the efficiency of the Drissa camp, that everything had been foreseen, and that if the enemy were really going to outflank it, the enemy would inevitably be destroyed
11. At Smolensk too he judged correctly that the French might outflank us, as they had larger forces
12. He imagined all sorts of movements of the Napoleonic army as a whole or in sections- against Petersburg, or against him, or to outflank him
13. He leaves it to the Russian beggars and pillagers, to march against Kutuzof, outflank the left wing of that general, hurl him back, and then quietly reach the borders of the Dvina, where he will pitch his winter quarters
14. “As the enemy’s left wing rests on wooded hills and his right extends along Kobelnitz and Sokolnitz behind the ponds that are there, while we, on the other hand, with our left wing by far outflank his right, it is advantageous to attack the enemy’s latter wing especially if we occupy the villages of Sokolnitz and Kobelnitz, whereby we can both fall on his flank and pursue him over the plain between Schlappanitz and the Thuerassa forest, avoiding the defiles of Schlappanitz and Bellowitz which cover the enemy’s front
15. What had happened was that news (which afterwards proved to be false) had been received during the night of a movement by the French to outflank the Drissa camp
16. At Smolénsk too he judged correctly that the French might outflank us, as they had larger forces
17. He imagined all sorts of movements of the Napoleonic army as a whole or in sections—against Petersburg, or against him, or to outflank him
1. He felt Crowley arriving, and thought him outflanked by another of these
2. She was outflanked by her charge
3. He only needed a few minutes to reorganize the three rear lines to extend the formation losing the depth of the ranks but covering the crumbling flank better, this would stop him from being totally outflanked and keep the Tanarians hemmed in by the jagged rocks that lined the wide track
4. Watkin recounted that ‘Phil Bennett sidestepped his way past three outflanked and outrun All Blacks
5. They also mutually protect each other in orbit by their laser crossfire, so they can’t be outflanked
6. With seven samurai and fifty spearmen at his back, he then rushed down the nearest side street leading towards the sea, intent on blocking the way before they could be completely outflanked by the enemy cavalry
7. Her army had been outflanked
8. Together we could have outflanked him’
9. On the other side of the courtroom, at the defense table, a small army of black suits swarmed around, all with hard, unpleasant looks, as if they had been outflanked in the initial phase of the trial
10. But our left- which consisted of the Azov and Podolsk infantry and the Pavlograd hussars-was simultaneously attacked and outflanked by superior French forces under Lannes and was thrown into confusion
11. But our left—which consisted of the Azóv and Podólsk infantry and the Pávlograd hussars—was simultaneously attacked and outflanked by superior French forces under Lannes and was thrown into confusion
1. The LSSAH were moved to defend the city of Kharkov in January 1943 but, through poor planning and bad leadership the Soviets had succeeded in outflanking the Panzer Korps
2. I will position three platoons on top of it, plus another platoon on the hill immediately west of it, to prevent the enemy from outflanking it
3. Below the height on which the Kiev regiment was stationed, in the hollow where the rivulet flowed, the soul-stirring rolling and crackling of musketry was heard, and much farther to the right beyond the dragoons, the officer of the suite pointed out to Bagration a French column that was outflanking us
4. There was nothing fresh to be seen from the line, for from where they had been before it had been evident that it was impossible for cavalry to act among the bushes and broken ground, as well as that the French were outflanking our left
5. He attacked it, however, in front, instead of outflanking it and falling on its rear
6. Marshal Davout then requested the assistance of Poniatowski, whose forces were too weak for independent action, to help in outflanking the enemy
7. Below the height on which the Kiev regiment was stationed, in the hollow where the rivulet flowed, the soul-stirring rolling and crackling of musketry was heard, and much farther to the right beyond the dragoons, the officer of the suite pointed out to Bagratión a French column that was outflanking us
1. and outflanks them or stabs them in the back