Word: feint
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ninth, Yale got Dann on second by Boyden's excusable error of Dann's high fly. Cross hit to Campbell who made a feint to throw him out at first. Dann ran to third and was put out by Campbell. McConkey finished the game by striking...
...call attention through your columns to the meeting of the Harvard Union this evening which will not prove uninteresting, as many are led to believe. There will be a hotly contested election, as the report that one of the presidential contestants had withdrawn is only a political feint. Every man should be present, and vote for the interests of the Union and the University...
...single charge 7,000 men were lost. Time had now come for strategy. Grant kept part of his men in front of Lee and pretended to attack Richmond while he detached most of his army across the James river to make a sudden attack on Petersburg. The feint was successful, but not so the attack on Petersburg. The troops arriving in front of the city made an attack, but it was not followed up and General Beauregard, the commandant sent word to Lee to reinforce him at once. That general still deceived by Grant's movements delayed. The Federal troops...
Hooker determined to make the main attack a flank one on Lee's left and rear, sending Sedgwick across the river to make a feint on his right. He himself crossed the river higher up, and was ready to strike Lee before the latter was aware of the real nature of what was going on. Then a delay was made by Hooker at Chancellorsville, and before he could move forward Lee was in his front with most of his army, having left some divisions to watch Sedgwick. Hooker was now placed on the defensive, and Lee and Jackson devised...
...twenty thousand men, against him are hurled the overwhelming masses of A. P. Hill's. Jackson's and Longstreet's divisions in a desperate attempt to flank McClellan. The attempt is only partially successful and results in great loss to both sides. In the meantime Magruder has made a feint in front of a porting of McClellan's army, which prevented aid being sent to Porter. The next day Lee remains quiet, only to find that the retreat of McClellan to the James has begun. Lee orders a hot pursuit and almost envelopes the Union army. At Charles City cross...