The Regulares infantry were known for their ability to traverse " dead ground " without being detected, but their Spanish officers disliked unconventional warfare and only infrequently took advantage of this skill.
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The objectives of the 16th Division were on a slight incline, which in the conditions of 1917, was more dangerous to the attacking force than a steep one, because of the lack of dead ground.
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Dutch AH-64D Apaches and US aircraft were then called in to suppress the insurgents in the dead ground, as the Australians forced the Taliban to withdraw with heavy casualties after two hours of intense fighting.
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However, since the Government dragoons stayed out of range, and the Jacobites were partly in dead ground they moved back and formed up on a re-entrant at Culchunaig, facing south and covering the army's rear.
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The yeomanry squadrons came out of the dead ground, charged the position from the flank and had almost reached it before the Turks managed to turn their guns around and opened fire at point blank range.
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Led by dragoons under Colonel Henry Washington, they penetrated up a re-entrant between the Brandon Hill and Windmill Hill forts and found that once against the defences between these two forts they were in " dead ground ", safe from fire from the forts.
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Ben-Gal feared that it might not be able to hold out, and ordered it to leave three tanks in the sector and move to the northern flank of the battle to face the Assad Republican Guard, which was trying to use the dead ground to move towards El Rom.
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After the raid a pilot ( Raaj Kumar ) takes an oath while standing near the body of a dead ground crewman-" " Jawaab dene aaunga, is jawan ki kasam, Hindustan Ki Kasam " " ( we will avenge, we swear by this soldier, we swear by Hindustan ).
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The donjon is thought to have been one of the earliest experiments in improving flanking fire from the battlements ( reduction of " dead ground " ), and a transitional form between the rectangular keeps of the 11th to 12th centuries, and widespread adoption of cylindrical keeps in the 13th century.
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However, shrapnel's relatively flat trajectory ( it depended mainly on the shell's velocity for its lethality, and was lethal only in the forward direction ) meant that it could not strike trained troops who avoided open spaces and instead used dead ground ( dips ), shelters, trenches, buildings, and trees for cover.
