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 the victorious Allies of World War I had prohibited the union of Austria and Germany, their reaction to the Anschluss was mild.

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 the nation's rail network links seven of the country's 10 major cities, very little of it has been used regularly because of security concerns, lack of maintenance, and the power of the road transport union.

Although the ultimate attainment for this type of mysticism is union with God, it is not necessarily visionary, nor does it hope only for ecstatic experiences ; instead, mystical life is successful if it is imbued with charity.

Although the conditions were ripe for industrial unrest — Communist influence in the union movement was then at its peak, and the right-wing faction in Cabinet was openly agitating for a showdown with the unions — the combination of strong economic growth and Holt's enlightened approach to industrial relations saw the number of working hours lost to strikes fall dramatically, from over two million in 1949 to just 439, 000 in 1958.

Although by 1900, it was virtually nonexistent as a labor union, the Knights maintained a central office until 1917 and held conventions until 1932.

Although Asians were not welcomed in the union, black workers who joined the union brought a large number of blacks into the white labour movement.

Although their political structure and autonomy varies widely, union leaderships are usually formed through democratic elections.

Although continuity prevailed on the political level, the war caused social upheaval, which laid the foundation for the first trades union in Luxembourg.

" Although the laws criminalising union activity were outdated and had already been abolished in Great Britain, they were still on the books in Canada and police arrested 24 leaders of the Typographical Union.

Although Germany's once-powerful trade unions distanced themselves from the Left in the 2005 election, some union leaders expressed interest in cooperating with the party after the election.

Although Tobago had an elected Assembly, this was dissolved prior to the union of the two islands.

Although Norway was in a legislative union with Sweden, it was a sovereign state, and needed educated people to run it.

Although the governments of the PDRY and the YAR declared that they approved a future union in 1972, little progress was made toward unification, and relations were often strained.

Although little is known about him or their time together, the union was complicated because of her slave status.

Although Dirac did not at first fully appreciate what his own equation was telling him, his resolute faith in the logic of mathematics as a means to physical reasoning, his explanation of spin as a consequence of the union of quantum mechanics and relativity, and the eventual discovery of the positron, represents one of the great triumphs of theoretical physics, fully on a par with the work of Newton, Maxwell, and Einstein before him.

Although the statutes did not explicitly limit the definition of marriage to male-female pairs, the court held that both the common dictionary definition of marriage, in addition to the legislative intent ( the relevant statutes were enacted in 1945 ) favored the interpretation of marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

Although the union was generally supported by most local Orthodox bishops and the king himself, it was opposed by some prominent nobles and, more importantly, by the nascent Cossack movement.

Although opinion among the United Kingdom government, the South African government and the British South Africa Company favoured the union option ( and none tried to interfere in the referendum ), when the referendum was held the results saw 59. 4 % in favour of responsible government for a separate colony and 40. 6 % in favour of joining the Union of South Africa.

Although the IWW was built on the basis of uniting workers of industry, a rift began between the union and the Socialist Party.

" Although Nasser initially turned them down, suggesting that it would take a minimum of five years to establish a feasible political union, he became more afraid of a Communist takeover when the second Syrian delegation composed of military officers was led by Bizri on 11 January 1958 ; Bizri personally discouraged Syro-Egyptian unity.

Although the constitution forbids the federation or union of autonomous communities, an addendum or " transitional provision " to the constitution makes an exclusion whereby Navarre could join the Basque Country if the people chose to do so.

Although the stevedores ' strike failed, the riots had planted the seeds of what would become an organized trade union movement.

Although it is generally believed that the union was childless, some sources state that Solomon and Judith had a daughter, Sophia, who later married Poppo, Count of Berg-Schelklingen.

Although the union was arranged for political reasons, Charles Emmanuel and his wife became devoted to each other.

Although the intervention of Austria protected Serbia from the consequences of defeat, Prince Alexander's success sealed the union with Eastern Rumelia, and after long negotiations the sultan Abdul Hamid II nominated the Prince of Bulgaria as governor-general of that province for five years ( 5 April 1886 ).