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Here are additional clues for each of the words in today's Mini Crossword. NYT Mini Across Hints 1 Across: Yoga discipline with a name from Sanskrit — HINT: It starts with the letter "H"
Reduit: an enclosed defensive emplacement inside a larger fort; provides protection during a persistent attack. Sangar: a small temporary fortified position with a breastwork originally of stone, but built of sandbags and similar materials in modern times. Sally port; Sapping; Scarp: the side of a ditch in front of a fortification facing away ...
Here are additional clues for each of the words in today's Mini Crossword. NYT Mini Across Hints 1 Across: Comfy slip-on shoes, for short — HINT: It starts with the letter "M"
A frontal assault is a military tactic which involves a direct, full-force attack on the front line of an enemy force, rather than to the flanks or rear of the enemy. It allows for a quick and decisive victory, but at the cost of subjecting the attackers to the maximum defensive power of the enemy; this can make frontal assaults costly even if successful, and often disastrously costly if ...
The Tet Offensive [a] was a major escalation and one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War.The Viet Cong (VC) and North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) launched a surprise attack on 30 January 1968 against the forces of the South Vietnamese Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), the United States Armed Forces and their allies.
What I Learned from Today’s Puzzle. ARG (41A: Country whose national sport is pato (Abbr.) Pato is a game played on horseback. It combines elements of polo and basketball.
George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River, which occurred on the night of December 25–26, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War, was the first move in a complex and surprise military maneuver organized by George Washington, the commander-in-chief of the Continental Army, which culminated in their attack on Hessian forces garrisoned at Trenton.
In all, the Swordfish attack was made with just 20 aircraft. Two Italian aircraft were destroyed on the ground by the bombing, and two unexploded bombs hit the cruiser Trento and the destroyer Libeccio. Near misses damaged the destroyer Pessagno. [13] Meanwhile, X-Force cruisers attacked an Italian convoy (Battle of the Strait of Otranto).