Pompey had the backing of a majority of the senators, of whom many were optimates, and his army significantly outnumbered the veteran Caesarian legions.

King Charles's army had been reinforced as it marched, and outnumbered that of Essex by nearly two to one.

By 30 July the Greek army was outnumbered by the counter-attacking Bulgarian army, which attempted to encircle the Greeks in a Cannae-type battle, by applying pressure on their flanks.

Legend has it that the Brecbennoch, was carried to the Battle of Bannockburn ( 24 June 1314 ) by the vastly outnumbered Scots army and the intercession of Columba helped them to victory.

The Greek division, surprised by the presence of the Ottoman Corps, isolated from the rest of Greek army and outnumbered by the now counterattacking Ottomans centered on Bitola, was forced to retreat.

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.

Largely outnumbered, the Prussian army was crushed at Jena-Auerstedt in 1806 ; Napoleon captured Berlin and went as far as Eastern Prussia.

* 1896 – Battle of Adowa: an Ethiopian army defeats an outnumbered Italian force, ending the First Italo – Ethiopian War.

This convinced the Carthaginian commander Hanno, the nephew of Hannibal, to accept pitched battle before his troops had been united with the army under Hasdrubal, the brother of Hannibal, despite being outnumbered 2 to 1.

Although vastly outnumbered, the Scottish army routed the English army.

* July 4 – Polish – Muscovite War: Battle of Klushino – The outnumbered forces of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth defeat the combined Russian and Swedish army.

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

Her husband moved his small army quickly to her relief although outnumbered by some five to one.

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

In the Xanthus Valley an army of Xanthians sallied out to meet them, fighting determinedly, although vastly outnumbered.

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 next day, the outnumbered and leaderless Yorkist army surrendered.

For example, historian John Sadler states that there was no Lancastrian deception or ambush ; York led his men from the castle on a foraging expedition, and as each Lancastrian contingent joined in the fighting, York's army was outnumbered and overwhelmed.

A large part of John's army had succumbed to sickness, however, and when the invasion was mounted they were far outnumbered by their Portuguese allies.

All of these factors made Edward III's army powerful, even when outnumbered by the French forces.

* When Pyrrhus returns from Sicily, he finds himself vastly outnumbered by a superior Roman army under the command of consul Manius Curius Dentatus.

The line was as strong as it could be made under the circumstances, but on 28 May the Belgian army, largely outnumbered by the attacking German troops, abandoned by the Belgian government but still under the direct command of King Leopold who had refused to abandon his troops and the Belgian refugees inside the little enclave of what remained of unoccupied Belgium, surrendered, leaving a gap on Gort's eastern flank between the British and the sea.

He may have outnumbered Máel Morda's army, since Brian felt secure enough to dispatch a mounted detachment under the command of his youngest son, Donnchad, to raid southern Leinster, presumably hoping to force Máel Morda to release his contingents from there to return to defend their homes.

As always, the ranks worked out new and better tactics, but there was brilliance in the way the field commands adopted these methods and in the way the army commanders incorporated them into their military thinking.

But they left behind them large numbers of officers, variously called `` volunteers '' or `` mercenaries '', who now staff the army of Moise Tshombe in Katanga, the seceded province which, according to Tshombe, holds 65% of the mineral wealth of the entire country.

Before he could return to Burma, Field Marshal Slim had to rally the defeated remnants of a discouraged army and unite them with fresh recruits.

Latinus, king of the Latins, welcomed Aeneas ' army of exiled Trojans and let them reorganize their lives in Latium.

The Opuntian Locrians worshiped Ajax as their national hero, and so great was their faith in him that when they drew up their army in battle, they always left one place open for him, believing that, although invisible to them, he was fighting for and among them.

The Thebans sent a large army into Thessaly to rescue Pelopidas, but they could not keep the field against the superior cavalry of Alexander, who, aided by auxiliaries from Athens, pursued them with great slaughter.

When the Viking raids resumed in 892, Alfred was better prepared to confront them with a standing, mobile field army, a network of garrisons, and a small fleet of ships navigating the rivers and estuaries.

The only means left to them was to starve the burh into submission, but this allowed the king time to send assistance with his mobile field army or garrisons from neighbouring burhs.

If his kingdom lacked strongpoints to impede the progress of an enemy army, he would build them.

Pompey is said to have found them in the army of Mithridates.

Abd al-Rahman hand-picked 700 fighters from his army and led them to Carmona's main gate.

Abd ar-Rahman moved to subdue them by means of a mercenary army that included Christians.

When Democratic-Republicans in some states refused to enforce federal laws, and even threatened to rebel, Federalists threatened to send the army to force them to capitulate.

At conference it was decided that Eugene would return with 28, 000 men to the Lines of Stollhofen on the Rhine to keep an eye on Villeroi and Tallard, and prevent them going to the aid of the Franco-Bavarian army on the Danube.

The French had repulsed every attack with heavy slaughter, but many had seen what had happened on the plain and what its consequences to them would be ; their army was routed and they were cut off.

The weapon may be further used to bog down an advancing army making them more vulnerable to counter attack by the defending force.

Over the next few days all but 200 of the captured prisoners were landed on shore under strict terms of parole, although Bonaparte later ordered them to be formed into an infantry unit and added to his army.

During the First World War the German army used horses for logistics, 1. 4 million of them, in the 1939 – 45 war it used 2. 7 million horses.

There was no shortage of recruits, many of them unemployed First World War army veterans, and by November 1921 about 9, 500 men had joined.

" Proceeding therefore incautiously in an unknown place, he and his army became entangled in the mire, and under that disadvantage were so assailed by the missiles of the Barbarians, that not one of them escaped with life.

The Cossack army were well acquainted with this Polish style of war well, having much experience of fighting against the Poles and alongside them.

In 1979 the armed forces were dominated by the army ; the navy and the air force only had 450 men between them.

When the Byzantine forces saw the entire Ottoman army get on their knees to pray, the Byzantine army was witnessing how united the Ottoman Turks were and this worried them.