Although initially victorious at the Battle of Pea Ridge ( Elkhorn Tavern ) in March, Pike's unit was defeated later in a counterattack, after falling into disarray.

Although Shapur seems to have been victorious in most of the confrontations, the Sassanids were able to achieve little.

Although he is depicted as a peaceful king in children's books, he in fact waged many victorious wars and was readying for others just before he died.

Although the result initially appeared uncertain, the Romans were victorious.

Although initially victorious, the Dutch army was forced to retreat after the threat of French intervention.

Although Sui troops were victorious many succumbed to disease as northern soldiers did not have immunity to tropical diseases such as malaria.

Although the Jin forces boasted 70, 000 men on 600 warships, and the Song forces only 3, 000 men on 120 warships, the Song Dynasty forces were victorious in both battles due to the destructive power of the bombs and the rapid assaults by paddle wheel ships.

Although the scholar-officials viewed military soldiers as lower members in the hierarchic social order, a person could gain status and prestige in society by becoming a high-ranking military officer with a record of victorious battles.

Although not victorious in the Italian theater, he managed anyway to receive Veneto after the Austrian defeat in Germany.

Although Eteocles's forces were victorious, the brothers killed each other.

Although he was victorious against Ailill and Medb, neither of them was killed in the battle, and he still lost his bull.

Although the Union forces were victorious, they were later forced to retreat for lack of supplies.

" Although victorious, Æthelfrith suffered losses ; Bede tells us his brother Theodbald was killed with all his following.

Although Denmark emerged on the victorious side, she failed to reconquer lost possessions in southern Sweden.

Although victorious, the union agreed to significant wage cuts that left tonnage rates less than half those at the nearby Jones and Laughlin works, where technological improvements had not been made.

Although the Seljuk army was much larger, the crusaders were victorious, and they restored much of the influence they had lost after the Ager Sanguinis.

Although the forces of Wei saved Handan from a follow-up siege by the victorious Qin, Zhao would never recover from the huge loss of men in the battle.

Although Sima Yong was initially victorious, timely reinforcements from the Prince of Fanyang, Sima Chu ( Sima Yue's cousin ), mostly consisting of barbarian troops, helped turn the tide.

Although the Greeks were victorious, Callimachus was killed during the fighting.

Although the Knights and the Maltese were ultimately victorious against the Ottoman forces, victory came at a high cost: one third of the population of Malta is said to have perished in battle.

" Although both sides sustained " great losses ," the Spartans were victorious and now able to return home through the mountain passes of the Isthmus.

Although Russia had been victorious in the war that occasioned the conference, it was humiliated at Berlin, and resented its treatment.

Although victorious, Chlodomer had Sigismund and his sons Gisald and Gondebaud assassinated on 1 May 524.

Although Chigorin had a poor record against Lasker in serious play (+ 1-8 = 4 ), he was victorious with the black pieces in their first game of this 1895 tournament, in which he outplayed Lasker in a classic two knights versus two bishops ending.

Although used during the Normandy landings, by that point German aircraft were contained by the Allies own air forces and they were largely unneeded.

Although the Allies were again repulsed, these persistent attacks on Blenheim eventually bore fruit, panicking Clérambault into making the worst French error of the day.

Although the Allies had captured Barcelona that year, they had been forced to abandon their campaign on the Moselle, had stalled in the Spanish Netherlands, and suffered defeat in northern Italy.

Although Louis XIV wanted peace he wanted it on reasonable terms ; for that, he needed victory in the field and to convince the Allies that his resources were by no means exhausted.

Although educated Indians " by and large took a vicarious pleasure " in seeing the British rulers humbled, the ruling upper classes sided with the Allies.

Although the Allies knew from their monitoring of Nazi radio broadcasts that the Germans had some new form of recording technology, the nature was not discovered until the Allies acquired captured German recording equipment as they invaded Europe in the closing of the war.

Although German U-boat crews were under War Order No. 154 not to rescue survivors, which was also the policy of the Allies, out of several thousand sinkings of merchant ships in World War II, there is only one documented case of a U-boat crew's deliberately attacking the ship's survivors: that of the U-852, whose crew attacked survivors of the Greek ship Peleus.

Although initially restricted by its constitution to render aid only to nationals from the United Nations ( the Allies ), this was changed late in 1944, in response to pleas from Jewish organizations who were concerned with the fate of surviving Jews of German nationality, to also include " other persons who have been obliged to leave their country or place of origin or former residence or who have been deported therefrom by action of the enemy because of race, religion or activities ' in favor of the United Nations.

Although the Allies defeated the French, they lost over twenty thousand men, compared with only ten thousand for their opponents.

Although an anti-communist state, the West-Pakistan sided with the United States and her Western Allies, whilst the East-Pakistan remained sympathetic to Soviet Union and her Eastern Bloc.

Although the United States was still neutral, the nation-and especially the Republican Party-was deeply divided between isolationists, who felt the nation should avoid any steps that could lead America into the war, and interventionists, who felt that America's survival depended upon helping the Allies defeat Nazi Germany.

Although not approved by Allies at Potsdam, hundreds of thousands of ethnic German living in Yugoslavia and Romania were deported to slave labour in the Soviet Union, to Allied-occupied Germany, and subsequently to the German Democratic Republic, Austria and the Federal Republic of Germany.

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.

Although Germany had surrendered to the Allies a day earlier, Stalin had insisted on a second surrender ceremony in Berlin.

Although all three of the leaders present arrived with differing objectives, the main outcome of the Tehran Conference was the commitment to the opening of a second front against Nazi Germany by the Western Allies.

Although Saxe favoured movement over siege warfare he knew there was nothing more likely to provoke an early encounter than to threaten one of the Allies ' larger fortresses, which only the most confident and able commander could ignore.

Although the details have not been precisely established, casualty figures were high for both sides: the French amounting to at least 7, 000 killed and wounded ; the Allies are estimated as 10, 000 to 12, 000.

Although he was commander of the German Army in the west, charged with defending the coasts of France and Begium against attack by the western Allies, the military governors in Paris and Brussels ( Rundstedt's former subordinate Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel and Alexander von Falkenhausen respectively ) were not under his direct command, and he had no control over the Navy or Air Force.

Although < span lang =" fr "> Guillaume Marie Anne Brune </ span > and < span lang =" fr "> André Masséna </ span > won the Battle of Bergen and of Zürich, and although the Allies of the Second Coalition lingered on the frontier as they had done after the Battle of Valmy, still the fortunes of the Directory were not restored.

Although Rocker had opposed his teacher Kropotkin for his support of the Allies during World War I, Rocker argued that the Allied effort in World War II was just, as it would ultimately lead to preservation of libertarian values.

Although China later joined on the side of the Allies in World War I, the Japanese demanded the German spheres of influence in China, and also wanted special economic rights for the Japanese nationals living in parts of China

Although clearly storm damaged, the Persian fleet still probably outnumbered the Allies by nearly 3: 1.

Although Spanish leader Field Marshal ( Generalísimo ) Francisco Franco did not enter the war on the side of Nazi Germany, he permitted volunteers to join the German Army ( Wehrmacht Heer ) on the clear and guaranteed condition they would fight exclusively against Bolshevism ( Soviet Communism ) on the Eastern Front, and not against the Western Allies or any Western European occupied populations.