out-flanking

This might mean a trench around the Romans camp, but more likely it is a reference to a ditch or ditches dug to keep Spartacuss cavalry from out-flanking the legions, constructed just as Sulla had done at the Battle of Orchomenus in Greece in 85 B.C. As the Roman general Corbulo would later say, you defeat the enemy with a pickaxe.

The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

This might mean a trench around the Romans camp, but more likely it is a reference to a ditch or ditches dug to keep Spartacuss cavalry from out-flanking the legions, constructed just as Sulla had done at the Battle of Orchomenus in Greece in 85 B.C. As the Roman general Corbulo would later say, you defeat the enemy with a pickaxe.

The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

This might mean a trench around the Romans camp, but more likely it is a reference to a ditch or ditches dug to keep Spartacuss cavalry from out-flanking the legions, constructed just as Sulla had done at the Battle of Orchomenus in Greece in 85 B.C. As the Roman general Corbulo would later say, you defeat the enemy with a pickaxe.

The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

This might mean a trench around the Romans camp, but more likely it is a reference to a ditch or ditches dug to keep Spartacuss cavalry from out-flanking the legions, constructed just as Sulla had done at the Battle of Orchomenus in Greece in 85 B.C. As the Roman general Corbulo would later say, you defeat the enemy with a pickaxe.

The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

But no doubt the arrangement would give the enemy pause, and waste his time in out-flanking movements: violà tout, hgd.

Cyropaedia 2007

Six-year-old online auction firm Dena flirted with bankruptcy after the bust, but now founder Tomoko Namba is effectively out-flanking auction leader Yahoo Japan with a service that works exclusively over mobile phones.

Welcome to Samurai 2.0 2007

To ensure the success of this ruse, the services of a section of the Town Guard were requisitioned for out-flanking purposes on the one side; while the geographical position of the railway line permitted the utilisation of the armoured train for similar service on the other.

The Siege of Kimberley T. Phelan

The Confederates, far out-flanking, swung around him, but as they reached the top of the hill they met a brigade which Warren had sent just in time to defeat this attempt.

A Brief History of the United States

His weakness, in numbers, for only fifty men and a few Indians had come up, was, however, soon apparent, and the enemy came to a halt, and another section of the foe made a movement with the view of out-flanking the assailants.

The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 Charles Roger

Indeed they are an out-flanking movement in the big counter-attack against the Left which Lord Elton.

As I Please 1944