- In
military tactics, a
flanking maneuver is a
movement of an
armed force around an
enemy force's side, or flank, to
achieve an
advantageous position over...
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Operation Outflank was the
first combat operation of the
British Pacific Fleet (BPF). It was a
series of
raids by the
Fleet Air Arm on the oil refineries...
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western Long Island. On
August 27 at the
Battle of Long Island, Howe
outflanked Washington and
forced him back to
Brooklyn Heights, but he did not attempt...
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Marne in
September 1914,
Allied and
German forces unsuccessfully tried to
outflank each other, a
series of
manoeuvres later known as the "Race to the Sea"...
- that
broke through Axis
defensive lines Operation Supercharge II, an
outflanking maneuver at the
Tebaga Gap in the
Tunisian Campaign This disambiguation...
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Armoured Division was
repulsed by an
Italian rearguard action and the
outflanking New
Zealand units became dis****d in the desert. The
engagement ended...
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Kennedy somehow became a
liberal icon, an
antiwar visionary who
tried to
outflank Lyndon Johnson's
Great Society from the left. On Kennedy's ideological...
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peace to King John II of
France (known as John the Good), who had
outflanked him near
Poitiers but
refused to
surrender himself as the
price of their...
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another outflanking move. The
Panzerarmee took up a
defensive position at
Buerat on 29
December but it was
poorly fortified, wide open to an
outflanking manoeuvre...
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battalions threw the 1/2e
Grenadiers (Old Guard) out of the
Chantelet woods,
outflanking Plancenoit and
forcing a retreat. The Old
Guard retreated in good order...
