Albertone's askari brigade was the first to encounter the onrush of Ethiopians at 6: 00, near Kidane Meret, where the Ethiopians had managed to set up their mountain artillery.

The Danes, heavily outnumbered, would have been wiped out if the tide had not risen.

The Allied commander ordered his cavalry forward against the now heavily outnumbered French and Bavarian horsemen.

Suetonius, meanwhile, regrouped his forces in the West Midlands and, despite being heavily outnumbered, defeated the Britons in the Battle of Watling Street.

Suetonius took a stand at an unidentified location, probably in the West Midlands somewhere along the Roman road now known as Watling Street, in a defile with a wood behind him — but his men were heavily outnumbered.

With the French vanguard now heavily outnumbered, the following British ships HMS Bellerophon and HMS Majestic passed by the melee and advanced on the so far unengaged French centre.

The Americans were heavily outnumbered, many men deserted, and Washington was badly beaten.

Although heavily outnumbered by Portuguese troops ( approximately 30, 000 Portuguese to some 10, 000 guerrillas ), the PAIGe had the great advantage of safe havens over the border in Senegal and Guinea, both recently independent of French rule.

But Suetonius regrouped with two of the three legions still available to him, chose a battlefield, and, despite being heavily outnumbered, defeated the rebels in the Battle of Watling Street.

In the Epirus front the Greek army was initially heavily outnumbered, but due to the passive attitude of the Ottomans succeeded in conquering Preveza ( 21 October 1912 ) and pushing north to the direction of Ioannina.

* 1944 – World War II: During Anzio campaign 1st Ranger Battalion ( Darby's Rangers ) is destroyed behind enemy lines in a heavily outnumbered encounter at Battle of Cisterna, Italy.

* 1811 – Mexican War of Independence: In the Battle of Calderón Bridge, a heavily outnumbered Spanish force of 6, 000 troops defeats nearly 100, 000 Mexican revolutionaries.

The Romans were heavily outnumbered and during the heat of battle a group of 600 horsemen on the right wing deserted, yet, taking full advantage of the limitations of the terrain, the Romans were overwhelmingly victorious.

Despite having 48 infantry battalions, three cavalry regiments, two engineer battalions, and 100 pieces of artillery at his disposal, Caserta is heavily outnumbered by the government forces opposing him.

Santa Anna's entire force of men were killed or captured by Sam Houston's heavily outnumbered army of Texans ; only nine Texans died.

* November 9 – Battle of Posada: The Wallachians, under Basarab I, defeat the Hungarians, though heavily outnumbered.

Although heavily outnumbered, the Greek Allies were persuaded by the Athenian general Themistocles to bring the Persian fleet to battle again, in the hope that a victory would prevent naval operations against the Peloponessus.

Finally, it moved to attack Athens, landing at the bay of Marathon, where it was met by a heavily outnumbered Athenian army.

Marathon ( Demotic Greek: Μαραθώνας, Marathónas ; Attic / Katharevousa:, ) is a town in Greece, the site of the battle of Marathon in 490 BC, in which the heavily outnumbered Athenian army defeated the Persians.

The combined Franco-Spanish fleet of 38 ships of the line heavily outnumbered the British Mediterranean Fleet of 15 ships of the line, forcing the British to evacuate their positions in first Corsica and then Elba.

Although the Republicans heavily outnumbered their opponents and managed to push 12 kilometres inland, superior Nationalist air power mainly provided by Fascist Italy forced the Republicans to retreat and to leave the island completely by September 12.

The English garrison of 400 was heavily outnumbered by the 1, 500 French assaulters.

As a general rule, the Japanese units were heavily outnumbered.

Relations at any rate quickly soured between Yoshitatsu and Dōsan, leading up to the Battle of Nagaragawa, where Dōsan was heavily outnumbered.

The Austrians fought heroically but were heavily outnumbered and had to retreat.

In the narrative, just prior to this test, when Joseph had first met all of his brothers ( but not identified himself to them ), he had held a feast for them ; the narrative heavily implies that Benjamin was Joseph's favorite brother, since he is overcome with tears when he first meets Benjamin in particular, and he gives Benjamin five times as much food as he apportions to the others.

It was here that he founded the new headquarters of the Communist League, and got heavily involved with the socialist German Workers ' Educational Society, who held their meetings in Great Windmill Street, Soho, central London's entertainment district.

Cognitively transmitted memes depend heavily on a cluster of other ideas and cognitive traits already widely held in the population, and thus usually spread more passively than other forms of meme transmission.

Indoor Trials are trials held in stadiums ( not necessarily with a roof ) which by their very nature use man made artificial sections in contrast to outdoor trials with rely heavily on the natural terrain.

The Flemish footmen at the Battle of the Golden Spurs met and overcame French knights in 1302, and the Scots held their own against heavily armored English invaders.

Previous theory held that dietary deficiency is extremely rare unless the intestine ( small bowel ) was heavily damaged, resulting in malabsorption of the molecule.

It involves a great departure from the methods of political action established in this country, where reforms, and especially financial reforms, have always been considerate and even tender ... I do not yet see the ground on which it can be justly held that any one description of property should be more heavily burdened than others, unless moral and social grounds can be shown first: but in this case the reasons drawn from those sources seem rather to verge in the opposite direction, for real property has more of presumptive connection with the discharge of duty that that which is ranked as personal ... the aspect of the measure is not satisfactory to a man of my traditions ( and these traditions lie near the roots of my being )... For the sudden introduction of such change there is I think no precedent in the history of this country.

He therefore considered the Italian ( and European ) premiere, held at La Scala, Milan on 8February 1872, and in which he was heavily involved at every stage, to be its real premiere.

Politically, Bloomsbury held mainly left-liberal stances ( opposed to militarism, for example ); but its " clubs and meetings were not activist, like the political organizations to which many of Bloomsbury's members also belonged ", and they would be criticised for that by their 1930s successors, who by contrast were " heavily touched by the politics which Bloomsbury had rejected ".

After a fierce firefight, the Sherman tanks of the IDF 37th Armored Brigade broke through the heavily fortified lines outside of Khan Yunis held by the 86th Palestinian Brigade.

As the 1990s advanced, RTS inspired splinter groups in other countries across the world, and they were heavily involved in organising the international Carnival against Capitalism-an anti-capitalism event held in many cities simultaneously on June 18, 1999.

Throughout the 1970s, Celtic rock held close to its folk roots, drawing heavily on traditional Celtic fiddle, pipe, and harp tunes, as well as traditional vocal styles, but making use of rock band levels of amplification and percussion.

These cemeteries are so heavily used that services are sometimes held at night.

The heavily fortified city held out, however, and Guderian's Second Panzer Army was stopped near Tula.

A large, heavily built, herbivorous quadruped, Stegosaurus had a distinctive and unusual posture, with a heavily rounded back, short forelimbs, head held low to the ground and a stiffened tail held high in the air.

Zaragoza retreated to Puebla which was heavily fortified – it had been held by the Mexican government since the Reform War.

Despite many television rights to sporting events being heavily fought over by commercial companies, such as Sky Sports and ITV Sport, radio sports coverage for many events are still held by the BBC: the main competitor being the commercial station talkSPORT.

Many styli are heavily curved to be held more easily.

He was heavily involved in the discussions within WMO in 1978 that eventually led to the first World Climate Conference being held in Geneva in 1979.

At Beirut and elsewhere, Phalange ’ militia sections were heavily committed in several battles against Lebanese National Movement ( LNM ) leftist militias and suffered considerable casualties, notably at the Battle of the Hotels in October 1975 where they fought the al-Murabitoun and the Nasserite Correctionist Movement ( NCM ), and later at the ‘ Spring Offensive ’ held against Mount Lebanon in March 1976.

The specific idea that a room ’ s true beauty is in the empty space within the roof and walls came from Laozi, a philosopher and the founder of Taoism, who held to the “ aesthetic ideal of emptiness ”, believing that the mood should be captured in the imagination, and not so heavily dictated by what is physically present.