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  • Thumbnail for Defensive end
    Defensive end (DE) is a defensive position in the sport of gridiron football. This position has designated the players at each end of the defensive line...
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  • Thumbnail for Last stand
    A last stand is a military situation in which a body of troops holds a defensive position in the face of overwhelming and virtually insurmountable odds...
    23 KB (2,752 words) - 17:09, 20 March 2024
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    decided to stand on the defensive. On February 19, the first shots of the war were fired as the defenders of Kumamoto Castle opened fire on Satsuma units...
    28 KB (3,450 words) - 07:26, 27 March 2024
  • X-Men: The Last Stand (also marketed as X3: The Last Stand, or X-Men 3) is a 2006 superhero film based on the X-Men comic books published by Marvel Entertainment...
    118 KB (11,508 words) - 18:46, 4 June 2024
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    towards the English. They were now willing to give battle, knowing they would have the advantage of being able to stand on the defensive while the English...
    63 KB (7,821 words) - 03:19, 20 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of last stands
    last stand is a military situation on which a normally-small defensive force holds a position against a more powerful opposing military force. The defending...
    123 KB (1,982 words) - 12:25, 25 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Battle of the Little Bighorn
    all of the survivors and wounded. Fire from the southeast made it impossible for Custer's men to secure a defensive position all around Last Stand Hill...
    188 KB (23,707 words) - 05:39, 4 June 2024
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    The Great Stand on the Ugra River (Russian: Великое стояние на Угре) or the Standing on the Ugra River, also known as the Battle of the Ugra, was a standoff...
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    Crécy campaign (category 14th-century military history of the Kingdom of England)
    early 1345 the French decided to stand on the defensive in the south-west. Their intelligence had uncovered the English plan for offensives in the three theatres...
    63 KB (8,376 words) - 23:05, 16 May 2024
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    Battle of Galicia (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
    to defeat the French in the first ten weeks of the war. Only the German 8th army would be in the East, where they would stand on the defensive in East Prussia...
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    the system of defensive positions constructed, initially, by the Italian Army at Tobruk, Libya. After Tobruk fell to the Allies in January 1941, the existing...
    11 KB (1,187 words) - 08:41, 28 April 2024
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    Siege of Kumamoto Castle (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
    decided to stand on the defensive. On February 19, the first shots of the war were fired as the defenders of Kumamoto castle opened fire on Satsuma units...
    7 KB (788 words) - 15:09, 17 February 2024
  • A stand-your-ground law, sometimes called a "line in the sand" or "no duty to retreat" law, provides that people may use deadly force when they reasonably...
    49 KB (6,111 words) - 09:36, 27 March 2024
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    by the words He and Him, had charged her to tell the whole tribe to stand on the defensive, that the enemy would come, and would be destroyed in a contest...
    11 KB (1,189 words) - 13:34, 20 December 2023
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    stand as a "defensive wall" or "hinder ...national defence", depending on whether conduct to them was good or bad. He died in Beijing at the age of 91....
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    Isaac Brock (category Knights Companion of the Order of the Bath)
    to the British outpost at St. Joseph Island on Lake Huron. His orders to commander (Captain Charles Roberts) allowed him to stand on the defensive or...
    62 KB (7,481 words) - 03:54, 17 April 2024
  • the quarterback than stopping the run. Linebackers stand behind the defensive linemen or set themselves up on the line of scrimmage. Depending on the...
    40 KB (5,996 words) - 22:21, 23 February 2024
  • Battle of Bascara (1795) (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
    and Pérignon was replaced by Schérer. The French government ordered the army to stand on the defensive. Though the French were beaten, Pierre Augereau's...
    3 KB (260 words) - 17:16, 16 October 2023
  • sufficient to allow attacking personnel to evade the effect of the weapon or defensive fire from the target area. Typically, they are used against land-...
    3 KB (293 words) - 19:02, 15 April 2024
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    Battle of Arracourt (category Battles of World War II involving the United States)
    categorical orders to stand on the defensive. The rights and wrongs of this strategy do not concern me, but it certainly simplified the problems of Army Group...
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