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  • Thumbnail for Encirclement
    Encirclement is a military term for the situation when a force or target is isolated and surrounded by enemy forces. The situation is highly dangerous...
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  • their families at multiple locations in Utah. Encircle was founded in 2016 by Stephanie Larsen. It was set up to help LGBTQ+ youth survive homophobia in the...
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  • The fourth encirclement campaign can refer to one of several encirclement campaigns launched during the 1930s by the Nationalist Government of China against...
    598 bytes (119 words) - 05:19, 6 October 2023
  • The fifth encirclement campaign can refer to one of two encirclement campaigns launched during the 1930s by the Nationalist Government of China against...
    440 bytes (91 words) - 05:20, 6 October 2023
  • Communist (CCP) enclaves in China from the late-1920s to 1934. The climax were the five "encirclement and suppression", or "extermination", campaigns against...
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    likely to be cut off into pockets, which became the focus of battles of annihilation. The term pocket carries connotations that the encirclement was not...
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  • The first encirclement campaign can refer to one of several encirclement campaigns launched during the 1930s by the Nationalist Government of China against...
    759 bytes (137 words) - 05:14, 6 October 2023
  • In optics, encircled energy is a measure of concentration of energy in an image, or projected laser at a given range. For example, if a single star is...
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    height of a mountain or hill's summit relative to the lowest contour line encircling it but containing no higher summit within it. It is a measure of the independence...
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  • The second encirclement campaign can refer to one of several encirclement campaigns launched during the 1930s by the Nationalist Government of China against...
    736 bytes (135 words) - 05:13, 6 October 2023
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    able to evacuate by sea. Further west, the attack on Viipuri was launched. With Soviet resistance breaking down, the Finns were able to encircle Viipuri...
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    Coalition armies to outflank and encircle Napoleon's army and destroy it. Alexander thought the plan would potentially allow Napoleon to break the Coalition...
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  • The third encirclement campaign can refer to one of several encirclement campaigns launched during the 1930s by the Nationalist Government of China against...
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  • Kaew Lom Phet (Thai: แก้วล้อมเพชร, RTGS: Kaeo Lom Phet, lit. "glass encircles diamonds") is a Thai television soap opera produced by Xact and Scenario...
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    rear, the enemy is encircled. Such battles often end in surrender or destruction of the enemy force, but the encircled force can try to break out. They can...
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    World War I (redirect from 1914 to 1918)
    July, in an attempt to encircle Reims. The resulting counter-attack, which started the Hundred Days Offensive on 8 August, led to a marked collapse in...
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    North Koreans would then launch an attack that would capture Seoul and encircle and destroy the ROK. The final stage would involve destroying South Korean...
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    may encircle their escutcheon with the Garter. Knights and Ladies Companion are also entitled to receive heraldic supporters, a privilege granted to few...
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    difficult to smuggle in supplies. Lines of contravallation and circumvallation generally consist of earthen ramparts and entrenchments that encircle the besieged...
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    Antwerp and to split the Allied lines, allowing the Germans to encircle and destroy each of the four Allied armies and force the western Allies to negotiate...
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