We have fought long-drawn battles against the Water Authority exploiting consumers in the name of water-meters. |
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The defence force will also be receiving fresh blood as it battles with an ageing soldier population. |
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At heart, he is a street dancer so he has been keeping his hand in by taking part in Saturday night krump battles in a subway near the Coliseum. |
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Fast-growing shrubs, such as notorious leylandii, have sparked bitter court battles between neighbours and even led to murder. |
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He has had battles with the Antiguan government over some of his property deals. |
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So, with a strong sense of camaraderie and purpose, the French were ready and settled in preparation for the battles ahead. |
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There are only a couple of events that we would call sports, the rest are just bizarre battles. |
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The offense still battles inconsistency, but the defense and rebounding, as always, are solid. |
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The battles in the party aren't about ideology but about the only question that matters. |
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I affix a leather saddle to his hairy back and ride him into many righteous battles. |
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This book is an excellent reference book for anyone wanting a brief overview of wars or battles in American history. |
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It's as hilariously overdone as everything else in Mortal Kombat, and adds lots of extra zest to the battles. |
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What sets our game apart from the others is the enormous aerial battles that were prevalent at the time. |
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He has been spotted in the aerial battles and has caused a few of our kin to drop from the skies. |
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Until the Crimean War, the Russian army was trained to fight battles like Borodino. |
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One especially valuable contribution of the book is its analysis of numerous small aerial battles. |
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The winners were especially to the fore in the aerial battles where they dominated a physically weaker Kerry outfit. |
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Eight years later Tokyo was host to one of the greatest athletic battles in recent history. |
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He prepared special archers and cavalry forces for the battles with the invaders. |
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Some added more flight time by posing as enemy aircraft for air-to-air battles. |
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Corsairs made repeated raids on enemy airfields, shipping, and equipment during various battles of the island-hopping war. |
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Even in his last days he was fully conscious of his approaching end, and thought of the famous ringside battles at which he had officiated. |
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The silly, high-pitched voice samples add a little extra zest to the already heated battles. |
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Stunned parkgoers have even spotted the pythons in epic battles with native alligators. |
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Fleet entertained him while he ate with stories of aerial acrobatics and daring airship battles. |
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Prince Gualtero has captained his own ship and Sullivan Trooper has been his right hand in both battles and enterprise. |
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Cities provide ample hiding places for the defender, and such battles often become an endless succession of ambushes for the attacker. |
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It's deadlock, with only acrimonious court battles and a bitter tug-of-love to look forward to. |
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Some of the world's most bitter and long-drawn battles have been fought, not between two religions, but between two sects of the same religion! |
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Typical of the series, this entry provides four pages of summary information on Luftwaffe aces and their battles with Allied pilots. |
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Rarely do we see accounts of how housewives struggled at home while the men of valor fought the battles and won the wars. |
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A haunting air of regret hangs over each country-tinged waltz, as jaded experience battles with eternal hope in the quest for love. |
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He fingered an empty holy water vial, reminiscing on past battles and forgotten glories. |
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The Red Army triumphed after 12 days of fighting in one of the pivotal battles in the allied liberation of the Balkans. |
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But on top of the injury comes the aggravation and distress of legal battles over and above the medical battles. |
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Women apply kumkum on the foreheads of their sons and husbands and send them to fight battles. |
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As battles raged across the city centre, 15 militants mounted an assault on a police station near the airport. |
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Hastily formed forces like the U. S. Army's Task Force Smith resisted valiantly, but the infantry was overrun in desperate rearguard battles. |
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Particularly absorbing is the account of Mario's battles with back injuries and cancer, and the lessons to be learned from them. |
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Today, every human being battles against the odds and faces the war of competition. |
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He is so easy with it that like a general who has always won battles, he has won loud applause from the audience after each show. |
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Shaped roughly like an eagle with forward facing wings, this war machine had seen all the major space battles fought in the last seven years. |
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Street battles developed with police using water cannon and tear gas against the demonstrators. |
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After 14 games, they have the wood on the Swans, having beaten them by 33, 90, and most recently 49 points in their battles this year. |
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Ridiculing all gender battles encountered by their urban counterparts, the Dangi women are equal in all respects to their men. |
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He appeared with regularity at both ends of the field, won quite a few aerial battles and most importantly, a lot of breaks. |
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McClernand reputably organized and led his brigade, division, and finally, corps in skirmishes and battles of the Western Theater. |
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She is even-handed in detailing the internecine battles between Insurgents and Regulars for control of the party. |
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In these battles where the government is on their side, public interest litigators for right-leaning organizations are hardly standing alone with a slingshot. |
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It also shows the potential for workers doing the same job across different companies to link up their battles, and ensure pay and conditions are levelled up. |
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I work for my ideal of German womanhood with whom, some day, I will live my life in the east and fight my battles as a German far from beautiful Germany. |
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That two-day conflict has become one of the most famous battles in history. |
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Many people find rotas a useful way of avoiding housework battles. |
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And in their close and thrilling battles for the fastest lap times, the six aces demonstrated that they haven't lost the skills to take a racing car to its very limits. |
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After serving a hard labour sentence in Reading Gaol following ruinous legal battles he went into self-imposed exile in Paris as Sebastian Melmoth. |
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After months of see-saw battles in the Sahara Desert, Libya's rebels are now making their first serious push to Tripoli. |
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Quickmatches allow you to set the parameters of your battles, including the number of bots, type of game, and other variants before throwing you to the wolves. |
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The combat is certainly much better than it was last year, so it's a shame that some of the boss battles turn into wars of attrition with petty single-hit attacks. |
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The battles are performed with an athleticism that is at times alarming. |
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We became acquainted with each other, and made many lasting personal friendships, which do much to soften the asperities of future newspaper battles. |
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After months of seesaw battles in the Sahara Desert, Libya's rebels are now making their first serious push to Tripoli. |
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Perhaps, says eberhard, even in species where battles of the sexes may seem to be fought, female discretion is key. |
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If mercy is not preached by a national figure we take seriously, our battles over policy power will grow ever more merciless. |
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Wittgensteinians have long been fighting methodological battles against those who mix empirical findings with conceptual confusion to make a philosophical point. |
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Now staying with his son and daughter-in-law in their small apartment in Bayside, Queens, he is facing two battles. |
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Meanwhile, Washington has been preoccupied with all-consuming battles over debt ceilings and sequestration. |
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As for its reliability at predicting future battles, only time will tell. |
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As for the rest of the meeting last week, it was a grab-bag of potential culture-war battles, some big and some small. |
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The King returns to Cleveland, a battered Kobe battles in the West, and the Zen Master is christened the savior of New York. |
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And yet a bigger part of me is reassured our frontline troops still had Gates in the bureaucratic battles back home. |
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Even though this is not relative to warfare of today, the absence of ships means that fairer battles are guaranteed with each person having to build tanks and planes. |
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I have never met a lost soul saved by the culture war battles that are fought in Washington. |
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As one of the b-boy pioneers, he travels around the world, performing, teaching workshops, and judging battles. |
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In at least two battles, he had adventured his life for love of liberty. |
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He beat his illness twice, wrote about his battles with the disease, and continued broadcasting even as his health was failing. |
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Greer never recounts Crist actually governing or even engaging in any kind of substantive policy battles. |
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The scariest battles are not with neighbors, pastors, or family, but within their souls. |
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A delightful cast battles over a will and a stolen painting as a horde of pseudo-Nazis scour the mountains for fugitives. |
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He has engaged in numerous battles with booze, winning some and losing others. |
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These poems refer to victories of Urien at the battles of Argoed Llwyfain, The Ford of Clyde and Gwen Ystrad. |
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Six great land battles I count, with four upon the sea, and seven-and-fifty onfalls, skirmishes and bushments. |
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Founded by the Vikings in the ninth century, Arklow was the site of one of the bloodiest battles of the 1798 rebellion. |
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Several naval battles have been fought near Ushant between the British and French navies. |
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Although they knew that whales were harmless giants, they described battles with harpooned animals. |
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During the First World War, the Battle of Jutland in the North Sea west of Jutland was one of the largest naval battles in history. |
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When larger scale battles ensued, Viking crews would rope together all nearby ships and slowly proceed towards the enemy targets. |
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In the tenth century, longships would sometimes be tied together in offshore battles to form a steady platform for infantry warfare. |
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The Dutch navy was by now only a shadow of its former self, having only about twenty ships of the line, so there were no large fleet battles. |
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During many of the battles at sea, several thousand soldiers being transported drowned after their ships went down. |
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Numerous battles between the fleets were fought in the initial years, and Goeben and Russian units were damaged on several occasions. |
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This list of naval battles is a chronological list delineating important naval fleet battles. |
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On the other hand, the French have seen the various actions as separate battles, of Barfleur, Cherbourg and La Hougue. |
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Many sea battles through history also provide a reliable source of shipwrecks for underwater archaeology. |
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After some initial battles while subjugating the Greeks of the Ionian coast, the Persians determined to invade Greece proper. |
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However the fact that the losing side could not easily escape meant that battles tended to be hard and bloody. |
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The outflanking attempts had resulted in a number of encounter battles but neither side was able to gain a decisive victory. |
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The battles kept a large number of German troops in Lorraine, as the Great Retreat further west culminated on the Marne. |
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By the end of the battles at Ypres, German army casualties in the west were 800,000 men, including 116,000 dead. |
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In the early 20th century, the dreadnought changed the balance of power in convoy battles. |
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Heavy losses affected both sides in the Battle of Stalingrad, one of the most costly battles in history. |
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Julian Corbett and Admiral Mahan emphasized that naval operations were chiefly to be won by decisive battles and blockade. |
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His reign was fraught with battles with other Welsh princes and with Henry II of England. |
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Despite Mycenae and Troy being maritime powers, the Iliad features no sea battles. |
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At the end of the 17th century the Habsburgs won decisive battles against the Ottomans, and most of the plain gradually came under Habsburg rule. |
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In one of the first highly visible battles, a march by Union troops under the command of Maj. |
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The Union army first attempted to maneuver past Lee and fought several battles, notably at the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, and Cold Harbor. |
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These battles resulted in heavy losses on both sides, and forced Lee's Confederates to fall back repeatedly. |
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Early in a series of battles, including a final decisive defeat at the Battle of Cedar Creek. |
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When battles occurred, they were usually set piece and intended to be decisive. |
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Despite the large numbers of forces involved, there had been no major battles. |
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Australians took part in many of the major battles fought on the Western Front. |
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In times of war, they were known to trek long distances to take part in battles. |
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At Aquae Sextiae, the Romans won two battles and took the Teuton king Teutobod prisoner. |
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Caesar wrote about Ambiorix in his commentary about his battles against the Gauls, De Bello Gallico. |
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Other historians consider that the Roma were enslaved while captured during the battles with the Tatars. |
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As a result, numerous battles were fought along the river and in nearby waterways. |
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After two battles at Philippi in Macedonia in October 42, the Caesarian army was victorious and Brutus and Cassius committed suicide. |
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The Dacians and their allies were repulsed after two battles in Moesia, at Nicopolis ad Istrum and Adamclisi. |
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The focal point of the battles must have taken place in the area of Roman Dacia. |
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The battles came to an end in 182 when Emperor Commodus took the victory nickname of Germanicus Maximus. |
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According to Kimberly Kagan, his accounts of battles emphasize the experience of the soldiers but at the cost of ignoring the bigger picture. |
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As a result, it is difficult for the reader to understand why the battles he describes had the outcome they did. |
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For the next two years preceding the battle of Adrianople there were a series of running battles with no clear victories for either side. |
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In the Heimskringla, Snorri Sturluson writes about several battles between Norwegians and Geats. |
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The battle of Tours, or Poitiers, as it should be called, is regarded as one of the decisive battles of the world. |
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Other things being equal, major battles between regulars and irregulars heavily favor the regulars. |
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By avoiding formal battles, irregulars have sometimes harassed high quality armies to destruction. |
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The result of this is that no one has a likely solution to these problems and that there are furious ideological battles on related issues. |
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Whosoever should be guided through his battles by Minerva, and pointed to every scene of them. |
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He participated in several battles, including the battle of Cannanore in 1506, where he was wounded. |
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These battles served as a reminder of the tremendous power of Ming China to the countries along the maritime routes. |
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The roots of the conflict were related to battles between the descendants of Genghis Khan over the control of the Empire. |
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After several battles, the two princes made peace, whereby Yaroslav married Mstislav's daughter. |
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Despite numerous battles, neither the Umayyads nor the Asturians had sufficient forces to secure control over these northern territories. |
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These armies fought several battles, in the last one of which Ghalib was killed, bringing the civil war to an end. |
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In two battles, the Paulista army suffered a defeat that warded off invasions for ten years. |
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Meanwhile, in Portuguese Africa, Portugal and the British fought numerous battles against the Germans in both Mozambique and Angola. |
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Militaristic state rituals were performed throughout the year according to a ceremonial calendar of events, rites, and mock battles. |
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No major battles of the Mexican Revolution were fought in the state, though there were skirmishes and attacks on the port. |
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Further battles awaited the Spaniards and their allies as they fought their way around the north end of Lake Zumpango. |
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Throughout the battles with the Spanish, the Aztecs still practiced the traditional ceremonies and customs. |
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Of the major battles fought, at Cajamarca the Spanish ambushed the Andean warriors and killed 1,500 without suffering any losses. |
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There are no other hard numbers of Inca or Spanish death tolls at any of the other battles. |
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In April 1532, Quizquiz and his companions led the armies of Atahualpa to victory in the battles of Mullihambato, Chimborazo and Quipaipan. |
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Meloria, a rocky islet off the Tuscan coast in the Tyrrhenian Sea, was the location of two medieval naval battles. |
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The battles of Playa Honda in the Philippines in 1610, 1617 and 1624 resulted in defeats for the Dutch. |
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There were numerous naval battles as well as naval attacks on the settlements surrounding the Bay of Fundy. |
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This was only a few years before cession of California to the United States, which led to decades of confusion and boundary battles. |
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Simultaneously, philosophical and theological conflicts were manifested in military battles across the continent. |
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Military battles were occurring in the Caribbean and along the South Atlantic coast. |
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Their tactics in open battles were generally inferior to those of regular soldiers such as the Dragoons. |
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Arthur goes on to win many battles due to his military prowess and Merlin's counsel. |
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Arthur battles him alone, an act of public relations intended to inspire his knights. |
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In a war composed mostly of sieges rather than battles, he proved his mettle. |
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His earlier legal battles had convinced him that concentrated economic power could have a negative effect on a free society. |
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They earned a reputation of fighting battles obeying a code of chivalrous conduct rooted in a strong adherence to tradition and Chi. |
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The Bengal Army units in the area, having rebelled, marched to take part in the battles for Delhi and Cawnpore. |
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Lefebvre never saw any of these battles and ransackings, but one wonders what he would have made of them. |
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Thereafter, the Soviet Union began to push German forces westward through a series of battles on the Eastern Front. |
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Despite the social and economic impact of his invention, Whitney lost many profits in legal battles over patent infringement for the cotton gin. |
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In a war composed mostly of sieges rather than battles, Farnese proved his mettle. |
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There were also battles around the country as revolutionaries clashed with Dutch forces. |
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The Brigade Piron was involved in the Normandy Invasion and the battles in France and the Netherlands until liberation. |
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The first battles of the war were fought in Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, later leading to the Siege of Boston by continental troops. |
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These battles destroyed the Indian confederacy which had been the main ally of the British in that region, weakening its negotiating position. |
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American soldiers were well trained and brave, but in the early battles were often led by officers of questionable ability. |
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Success in single ship battles raised American morale after the repeated failed invasion attempts in Upper and Lower Canada. |
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He conducted separate negotiations with the union and with management, and proceeded to have proxy battles with shareholders and management. |
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In 1852, he made his first trip to Germany to gather material, visiting the scenes of Frederick's battles and noting their topography. |
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Hills have become sites for many noted battles, such as the first recorded military conflict in Scotland known as the battle of Mons Graupius. |
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After furious battles with the Norwegians and British forces, Germany prevailed and controlled Norway until the end of the war. |
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What was formerly performed by fleets and armies, by invasions, sieges, and battles, has been of late accomplished by more silent methods. |
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A boy magician, aided by various ogres and swordster Svenson battles an all-powerful wizard for control of his kingdom. |
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Brilliantly written, Last of the Gnostics weaves actual battles and historic figures from the brutal, and largely unknown, Albigensian Crusade. |
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He fought with skill and courage at the battles of Barnet and Tewkesbury. |
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He had heard the tales of battles won But could not imagine the wartorn Somme. |
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The city, also known as Wipers during WW1, was decimated after numerous battles to capture the city during the Great War. |
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From childhood games of long shooty in the snow to torrid SPL battles in front of baying crowds the brothers have been inseparable. |
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Single battles like Verdun and the Somme killed hundreds of thousands of men while leaving the stalemate unchanged. |
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In the perennial town versus gown battles, townies win some violent battles, but the collegians are winning the war. |
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The two most notable battles of the War to include Welsh forces were those at Mametz Wood on the Somme and the Battle of Passchendaele. |
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Major battles included the Battle of Heligoland Bight, the Battle of the Dogger Bank, and the Battle of Jutland. |
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What is clear is that the Germanic idea of warfare was quite different from the pitched battles fought by Rome and Greece. |
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Tacitus describes how, during battles, Germanic warriors were encouraged and cared for by their wives and mothers. |
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At one point during the continuous string of battles, Ambrosius takes ill and Uther must lead the army for him. |
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Muhammad spent his last ten years in a series of battles to conquer the Arabian region. |
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Other writers, such as Ammianus Marcellinus and Tacitus, mentioned Celtic women inciting, participating in, and leading battles. |
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The war saw land battles in Sicily early on, but the theatre shifted to naval battles around Sicily and Africa. |
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The Romans held off Hannibal in three battles, but then Hannibal smashed a succession of Roman consular armies. |
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Nevertheless, it was generally the fate of the greatest of Rome's enemies, such as Pyrrhus and Hannibal, to win early battles but lose the war. |
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Claudius also presented naval battles to mark the attempted draining of the Fucine Lake, as well as many other public games and shows. |
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Centwine is known to have fought and won battles against the Britons, but the details have not survived. |
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They moved further inland and engaged in numerous battles with the English, but after four years they gave up. |
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Nine engagements were fought, with varying outcomes, though the places and dates of two of these battles have not been recorded. |
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No battles are recorded during the campaign, and chronicles do not record its outcome. |
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Practically all of the battles were fought against the eldest son of Aethelred, Edmund Ironside. |
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The war in France continued under Bedford's generalship and several battles were won. |
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In 1471 the Yorkists defeated their rivals in the battles of Barnet and Tewkesbury. |
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These battles are generally considered to signal the start of the Eighty Years' War that ended with the independence of the United Provinces. |
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There were many successful battles that helped Spain secure its dominance of America until the 19th century. |
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Subsequent battles in the west of England at Lansdowne and at Roundway Down also went to the Royalists. |
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The Outlander novel series, written by Diana Gabaldon, and its TV adaptation take place during pivotal battles in the Jacobite uprising. |
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Both battles involved forces of over 250,000, making them some of the largest conflicts of the wars so far. |
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During this time Napoleon fought his Six Days' Campaign, in which he won multiple battles against the enemy forces advancing towards Paris. |
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The French army fought 67 actions and won 18 pitched battles through superior artillery technology and Bonaparte's tactics. |
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At the twin battles of Jena and Auerstedt, fought on 14 October, the French convincingly defeated the Prussians and inflicted heavy casualties. |
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By 1814, after scores of battles and sieges throughout Iberia, the Allies had managed to push the French out of the peninsula. |
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Nevertheless, it was radar that proved to be critical weapon in the night battles over Britain from this point onward. |
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With a further series of battles and deposings, five of Malcolm's sons as well as one of his brothers successively became king. |
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Although the Romans had experience in land battles, to defeat this new enemy, naval battles were necessary. |
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Gillingham has shown how few pitched battles successful Charlemagne and Richard I chose to fight. |
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The military historian must often make shift to write of battles with slender data, but he can pad out his deficiencies by learned parallels. |
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The battles between the faithful angels and Satan's forces take place over three days. |
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In late 1776, Paine published The American Crisis pamphlet series to inspire the Americans in their battles against the British army. |
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The 1850s were marked by political battles over the expansion of slavery into the western territories, issues leading to the Civil War. |
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Many traditional and modern games and sports are popular in South Sudan, particularly wrestling and mock battles. |
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The Scots thronged to him, and he defeated the English in a number of battles. |
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France was embroiled in its own religious battles that would only be settled in 1598 with the Edict of Nantes. |
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Guns such as de Valliere type were used, playing an important role in such battles as the Battle of Saratoga. |
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On land, Loyalist forces fought alongside the British in most battles in North America. |
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Meanwhile, Napoleon's forces annihilated a series of Egyptian and Ottoman armies at the battles of the Pyramids, Mount Tabor, and Abukir. |
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The French withstood several damaging but inconclusive actions before regaining the initiative at the battles of Tourcoing and Fleurus in June. |
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In March 1799, the Army of the Danube engaged in two major battles, both in the southwestern German theater. |
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Bonaparte wanted Claude Lecourbe's corps to be detached to Italy after the initial battles, but Moreau had other plans. |
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Such battles include Ypres, the Marne, Cambrai, the Somme, Verdun, and Gallipoli. |
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The new leaders soon recognised that the battles of Verdun and the Somme had depleted the offensive capabilities of the German Army. |
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Pack tactics were first used successfully in September and October 1940, to devastating effect, in a series of convoy battles. |
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The disastrous convoy battles of October 1940 forced a change in British tactics. |
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The resulting concentration near Gibraltar resulted in a series of battles around the Gibraltar and Sierra Leone convoys. |
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Dayan's plan put an emphasis on air power combined with mobile battles of encirclement. |
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There were gun battles between nationalists and the RUC, and between nationalists and loyalists. |
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It was characterized in Europe by sieges and the arson of towns as well as open battles with heavy losses. |
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However, FARK was never a determining factor in the war and was not involved in any battles. |
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Other forms of traditional narrative verse relate the outcomes of battles or describe tragedies or natural disasters. |
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Winehouse's battles with substance abuse were the subject of much media attention. |
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The Wyoming territories become a mythic space where character is tested and revealed and Good battles Evil. |
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Amongst new sequences, there are also expansions on elements Tolkien kept ambiguous, such as the battles and the creatures. |
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The move of News International's London operation to Wapping in the East End resulted in nightly battles outside the new plant. |
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At modern games, armouries will display their collections of swords and armour, and often perform mock battles. |
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Adal's history from this founding period forth would be characterized by a succession of battles with neighbouring Abyssinia. |
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During peak years of violent crime in the city, gun battles between rival cartels, and between cartels and the police, erupted in public. |
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They would even be employed on occasion, especially in the later Empire, as field artillery during battles or in support of river crossings. |
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Twelve of King Arthur's battles were recorded by Nennius in Historia Brittonum. |
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However, his decision to exclude her did not prevent her presence at most councils and battles. |
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Verneuil was one of the bloodiest battles of the Hundred Years War, described by the English as a second Agincourt. |
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The war in France continued under the Duke of Bedford's generalship, and several battles were won. |
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Verneuil was one of the bloodiest battles of the Hundred Years' War, described by the English as a second Agincourt. |
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Recreational battle reenactment tends to focus on pitched battles partially for sake of ease of demonstration. |
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Under their leader, Akali Phula Singh, they won many battles for the Sikh Confederacy during the early 19th century. |
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Other historians consider that they were enslaved while captured during the battles with the Tatars. |
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A British leader, Ambrosius Aurelianus, fought against them in a number of battles apparently over a long period. |
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King Arthur's twelve battles and defeat of invaders and raiders are said to have culminated in the Battle of Badon. |
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One such example of Nennius stressing legend is in his accounts of Arthur and his twelve battles. |
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It names the twelve battles that Arthur fought, but unlike the Annales Cambriae, none are assigned actual dates. |
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His second, third, fourth, and fifth battles were above another river which is called Dubglas and is in the region of Linnuis. |
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Some of the battles appear in other Welsh literature, though not all are connected explicitly with Arthur. |
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As the great grandson of the slave-owner, Hezekiah, a Johnny Reb, Foote was well-placed to write about the battles from a Southern perspective. |
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Backstage, a coin toss determined the order for each of the battles. |
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What follows is a cat-and-mouse game in which Ford and Kovac fght their own personal World War III, with battles both physical and psychological. |
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Shephard has had his share of trauma in the war, has seen his share of battles and relives them as he waits for Pascal and Fabrice. |
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Starting the series of battles, the Kyrgyzstani won victories over representatives of Pakistan and Uzbekistan. |
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The deliberate snub is the latest in a series of battles between the LEP and the North East Combined Authority. |
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If you allow them to gain a roothold, future battles will be fought to contain them. |
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By contrast, the rumbustious battles and plunderings of Don Quixote came as a wake-up call. |
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One of the fiercer battles was over the level of the memorial. |
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The southern coastal town of Sarafand Tuesday laid to rest Ali Manana, a Hezbollah fighter who killed in the battles. |
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The KLA participated in the battles ongoing in China with the Kuomintang forces. |
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His reputation rests not as much on his ability to win and exploit field battles as it does on this expertise as a siege commander, military organizer and innovator. |
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Garcia's failure to survey and confirm boundaries, as required by Mexican law, set the stage for confusion and lengthy court battles when the rancho was dissolved. |
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After enduring battles with Ottoman ships, Pinto reached Goa. |
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The British, Americans and French fought several naval battles with war junks in the 19th century, during the First Opium War, Second Opium War and in between. |
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Following the conquest of Anatolia, Alexander broke the power of Persia in a series of decisive battles, most notably the battles of Issus and Gaugamela. |
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The Romans exhibited a passion for blood sports, such as the infamous Gladiatorial battles that pitted contestants against one another in a fight to the death. |
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While maintaining a simple lifestyle and a rootedness to the mountains that surround him, Fritsch, along with ASPI volunteers, doggedly fights local environmental battles. |
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In all, eighteen battles were fought in what is now northwestern Germany. |
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Military aviation was extensively used, and bombers became decisive in many battles of World War II, which marked the most frantic period of weapons development in history. |
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Innovations were also introduced into the regular gladiatorial games such as naval contests, nighttime battles, and female and dwarf gladiator fights. |
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Mark Antony later used the examples of these battles as a means to belittle Octavian, as both battles were decisively won with the use of Antony's forces. |
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This is considered to be one of the final battles of Medieval times. |
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There were many small skirmishes and larger battles with the native Irish clans in the following two centuries, with the Danes sometimes siding with allied clans. |
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After losing several battles, the Saxons finally defeated the British by treacherously attacking them once the two parties had convened for a meeting. |
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Over four years, 237 named battles were fought, as were many more minor actions and skirmishes, which were often characterized by their bitter intensity and high casualties. |
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Some of the battles took place in Yorkshire, such as those at Wakefield and Towton, the latter of which is known as the bloodiest battle ever fought on English soil. |
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The last significant battles raged around the Siege of Petersburg. |
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Chambois was the scene of one of the bitterest battles of the Normandy campaign, in August 1944, which was also known as the Falaise pocket or the Falaise gap. |
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Most memorable of these battles was the raid on the Medway, in which the Dutch admiral Michiel de Ruyter sailed up the river Thames, and destroyed most of the British fleet. |
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Additionally, this real time strategy title will feature character likenesses of Lord Elrond, reprising his role and fighting battles never before seen in the movies. |
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The Battle of Svolder is perhaps the most famous of these battles. |
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The Vikings also fought several sea battles among themselves. |
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These battles involved triremes or biremes as the standard fighting platform, and the focus of the battle was to ram the opponent's vessel using the boat's reinforced prow. |
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Mankind has fought battles on the sea for more than 3,000 years. |
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However, Scheer seems to have quickly realised that further battles with a similar rate of attrition would exhaust the High Seas Fleet long before it reduced the Grand Fleet. |
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The subsequent battles, including the Battle of Nanshan on 25 May 1904, were marked by heavy Japanese losses largely from attacking entrenched Russian positions. |
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Walruses have been known to fatally injure polar bears in battles if the latter follows the other into the water where the bear is at a disadvantage. |
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While battles at sea were rare, they would occasionally occur when Viking ships attempted to board European merchant vessels in Scandinavian waters. |
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Others reject this as untenable, arguing instead that the author included battles which were not previously associated with Arthur or perhaps made them up entirely. |
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And while they were being defeated in all the battles, they were seeking assistance from Germany and their numbers were being augmented many times over without interruption. |
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According to Roman sources, when the Germanic Tribes did fight pitched battles, the infantry often adopted wedge formations, each wedge being led by a clan head. |
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Hueil would often swoop down from Scotland to fight battles and carry off spoils, and during one of these raids, Hueil was pursued and killed by King Arthur. |
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In March 1918 they fought at the second Battle of the Somme and in Autumn the regiment took part in the final battles of the war on the Western Front. |
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