Question: When did the people the battle first appeared to favor come to the area serving as the middle leg of the journey from England to Africa to the Americas?

<P0-S0> On 18 August, the battle began when at 08:00 Moltke ordered the First and Second Armies to advance against the French positions. <P0-S1> By 12:00, General Manstein opened up the battle before the village of Amanvillers with artillery from the 25th Infantry Division. <P0-S2> But the French had spent the night and early morning digging trenches and rifle pits while placing their artillery and their mitrailleuses in concealed positions. <P0-S3> Finally aware of the Prussian advance, the French opened up a massive return fire against the mass of advancing Germans. <P0-S4> The battle at first appeared to favor the French with their superior Chassepot rifle. <P0-S5> However, the Prussian artillery was superior with the all-steel Krupp breech-loading gun. <P0-S6> By 14:30, General Steinmetz, the commander of the First Army, unilaterally launched his VIII Corps across the Mance Ravine in which the Prussian infantry were soon pinned down by murderous rifle and mitrailleuse fire from the French positions. <P0-S7> At 15:00, the massed guns of the VII and VIII Corps opened fire to support the attack. <P0-S8> But by 16:00, with the attack in danger of stalling, Steinmetz ordered the VII Corps forward, followed by the 1st Cavalry Division. <SEP> <P1-S0> many adult insects use six legs for walking and have adopted a tripedal gait. <P1-S1> the tripedal gait allows for rapid walking while always having a stable stance and has been studied extensively in cockroaches. <P1-S2> the legs are used in alternate triangles touching the ground. <P1-S3> for the first step, the middle right leg and the front and rear left legs are in contact with the ground and move the insect forward, while the front and rear right leg and the middle left leg are lifted and moved forward to a new position. <P1-S4> when they touch the ground to form a new stable triangle the other legs can be lifted and brought forward in turn and so on. <P1-S5> the purest form of the tripedal gait is seen in insects moving at high speeds. <P1-S6> however, this type of locomotion is not rigid and insects can adapt a variety of gaits. <P1-S7> for example, when moving slowly, turning, or avoiding obstacles, four or more feet may be touching the ground. <P1-S8> insects can also adapt their gait to cope with the loss of one or more limbs. <SEP> <P2-S0> Pierre Belain d'Esnambuc was a French trader and adventurer in the Caribbean, who established the first permanent French colony, Saint - Pierre, on the island of Martinique in 1635. <P2-S1> Belain sailed to the Caribbean in 1625, hoping to establish a French settlement on the island of St. Christopher (St. Kitts). <P2-S2> In 1626 he returned to France, where he won the support of Cardinal Richelieu to establish French colonies in the region. <P2-S3> Richelieu became a shareholder in the Compagnie de Saint - Christophe, created to accomplish this with d'Esnambuc at its head. <P2-S4> The company was not particularly successful and Richelieu had it reorganized as the Compagnie des Îles de l'Amérique. <P2-S5> In 1635 d'Esnambuc sailed to Martinique with one hundred French settlers to clear land for sugarcane plantations. <SEP> <P3-S0> the story, illustrated by the author, is set in england during the middle ages, as the black death (bubonic plague) is sweeping across the country. <P3-S1> young robin is sent away to become a knight like his father, but his dreams are endangered when he loses the use of his legs. <P3-S2> a doctor reassures robin that the weakness in his legs is not caused by the plague and the doctor is supposed to come and help him but does not. <P3-S3> his parents are away, serving the king and queen during war, and the servants abandon the house, fearing the plague. <P3-S4> robin is saved by brother luke, a friar, who finds him and takes him to a monastery and cares for him. <SEP> <P4-S0> Historically the particular routes were also shaped by the powerful influence of winds and currents during the age of sail. <P4-S1> For example, from the main trading nations of Western Europe it was much easier to sail westwards after first going south of 30 N latitude and reaching the so - called ``trade winds ''; thus arriving in the Caribbean rather than going straight west to the North American mainland. <P4-S2> Returning from North America, it is easiest to follow the Gulf Stream in a northeasterly direction using the westerlies. <P4-S3> A similar triangle to this, called the volta do mar was already being used by the Portuguese, before Christopher Columbus' voyage, to sail to the Canary Islands and the Azores. <P4-S4> Columbus simply expanded the triangle outwards, and his route became the main way for Europeans to reach, and return from, the Americas.