In heavy fighting during the day the British armour made little further progress.
Under the cover of darkness that night the bulk of his motorized and armoured forces drove south to skirt the left flank of the British, coming up and attacking to the north the following morning.Throughout the day a running armour battle occurred, where both sides took heavy losses.The attempted encirclement of the Gazala position failed and the Germans lost a third of their medium tanks.…
Corslets provided with both breast and back pieces were worn by foot-soldiers in the 17th century, while their mounted comrades were equipped in heavier and stronger cuirasses.These defenses continued in use longer than any other single piece of armour.Their use never altogether ceased and in modern armies mounted cuirassiers, armed as in earlier days with breast and back plates, have in some degree emulated the martial splendour of the body armour of the era of medieval chivalry.…
The pocket would have been closed at the coast if only our armour had not been held back.
The mobile armour in series are mostly appearing as an extended part of, or docked with mobile suits.But a very small amount of mobile armours can be operated on their own.In the 24th century, Mobile Armours were considered obsolete and went out of use.…
The British came back to the concept in the pre-Second World War era.The infantry tank did not need to be fast so it could carry more armour.One of the best-known infantry tanks was the Matilda II of World War II.…
I tried another pistol shot, but just aimed at the main bulk of the figure.I heard the ball strike the iron armour, and that was all.…
The class's style of gameplay is altered with the class change, and new skills and spells are gained.Characters also learn the use of new weapons, and may wear new class specific armours in their new class.The advanced classes function similarly to the common classes, albeit instead of accumulating experience to gain levels, the character accumulated ability points to increase ability levels.…
Iron became more widespread and began to replace bronze.Most armour and weapons of this period were made from iron.The first official native Chinese cavalry unit was formed in 307 BC during the military reforms of King Wuling of Zhao, who advocated 'Nomadic dress and horse archery'.…
Gurnemanz wonders if there is any significance to her reappearance on this special day.Looking into the forest, he sees a figure approaching, armed and in full armour.The stranger wears a helmet and the hermit cannot see who it is.…
The planned armament consisted of guns in remotely operated turrets and in positions on the sides of the fuselage.Overall, it carried very little armour and few guns as a means of increasing fuel capacity and range.…
Each knight is in armour and bears in his hand a model of a church.Both are supporting a shield (affixed to a pomegranate tree) bearing the attributed arms of themselves and of the Abbey Gules a cross or.…
Its invention is commonly credited to the Celts, but there are examples of Etruscan pattern mail dating from at least the 4th century BC.Mail may have been inspired by the much earlier scale armour.…
This shape greatly improved the in-flight stability of the projectile and meant that the primitive time fuzes could be replaced with the percussion fuze situated in the nose of the shell.The new shape also meant that further, armour piercing designs could be used.During the 20th Century shells became increasingly streamlined.…
Geneva being fairly close to St. Armour, meant more frequent visits to the village where he was born and which he loved.He never failed to visit his adoptive mother when he passed by St. Armour.By 1936, he was on top of the world.…
Khosrau is shown wearing a helmet with a chain mail veil, and a chain mail shirt.His horse is shown only wearing armour from the front.This style of armour shows some parallels with Soghdian armour of the 6th-8th centuries, as depicted at Afrasiab and Panjikent, and may be related to a Soghdian style of armour.…
Before dying, he asked to be dressed in his full armour.He was buried at sea in a lead coffin, near Portobelo.…
Their infantry were meant to be supported by Churchill tanks of the 14th Army Tank Regiment landing at the same time, but they arrived on the beach late.As a result the two infantry battalions had to attack without armour support.They were met with heavy machine gun fire from emplacements dug into the overlooking cliffs.…
Now it was maintained she had saved his life at an outbreak of her tribe; again, that she had found him dying in the woods and had nursed him back to life and health; yet again, that she was a chieftainess, a successful claimant against the Hudson's Bay Company -- and so on.There were several on board who knew the Armours well by name, and two who knew them personally.…Cited from Translation Of A Savage, by G. Parker, v1
Losses among the infantry, many of them Welsh, were also high.Those who could throw off their armour swam across the river.…
