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The battle starts shortly after 11. 30 am with cannon fire from the French.
* November 12 – WWII: Battle of Guadalcanal: A naval battle near Guadalcanal starts between Japanese and American forces.
* 14: 50 The Emperor Alexander III starts turning to the north and attempts to leave the battle line.
" ( Book IX ) Agamemnon accepts this counsel and the next day's battle starts with his " aristeia " where he becomes the hero of the day.
When war threatens to break out between the Cave Fraggles and the Rock Fraggles, Beige finds the courage to help Mokey and, with Red's help, stop the battle before it starts.
" For the climactic battle, Eidelman starts the music quietly, building the intensity as the battle progresses.
The term " melee " has been extended to refer to other forms of combat, such as a naval or armor battle that is fought at abnormally close range with little central control once it starts.
A nasty looking hollow tree does battle with a much healthier looking tree for the attentions of a female tree, and starts a fire in the process.
As Gohan starts to join the other heroes in battle his temper starts to show as the villains insult and underestimate him.
The ravens battle Ahiru mercilessly, and Fakir starts to write the story Ahiru requested, finding that Drosselmeyer's story dominates everything he does and is forcing Drosselmeyer's intended tragedy.
* 1443-After being sent in a battle near Nis, Skanderbeg turns in Albania, starts the long war against the Ottoman Empire and reembraces Roman Catholicism.
Johnny then starts a massive psychic battle when he discovers that the souls in Heaven are immortal and have mental powers which includes the ability to explode people's heads.
* MS-06C Zaku II-Mobile suit that he starts with at the beginning of the war, and wins his ace status in at the battle of Loum.
Their battle starts on the tower's top, but fall off onto the roof of a passing subway train.
The conflicts and insurgencies on 1944 was aftermath, many guerrillas and Hukbalahap resistance was downfall retreating Japanese Imperial Armed Forces and starts the liberation on 1945 was battle of Filipino soldiers and guerrilla groups with the Japanese Imperial forces.
is found — and starts a battle with a wild Mew.
When a battle starts, the screen switches to a turn-based interface where the player's and enemies ' Pokémon fight.
Krzywonos arrives with his forces – the battle starts with single hand to hand combat-and then Krzywonos ’ force is eventually defeated.
Battlegear is a specific item each creature is equipped with when it starts battle.
Where " Hochzeit " is darker and ends on the note of " Müde " (" Tired ") " Ach, ich bin von dieser Welt so müd '" (" Oh, I am so tired of this world "), " Herzblut " starts off with the energetic " die Schlacht " (" the battle "), declaring that " Ich gewinne diese Schlacht " (" I am winning this battle ").
After serving as one of Stark's trustees when Iron Man was presumed dead after the final battle with Onslaught, Rhodes starts his own marine salvage business called " Rhodes Recovery " and retires from superheroics.

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* September 9 – Battle of Svolder: King Olaf Tryggvason is defeated by an alliance of his enemies, in this notable naval battle of the Viking Age.
* July 29 – Battle of Stiklestad ( Norway ): Olaf II of Norway loses to his pagan vassals and is killed in the battle.
In the battle, Olaf and Harald were defeated by forces loyal to Cnut, and Harald was forced in exile to Kievan Rus ' ( Garðaríki ).
The battle was part of an attempt to restore Olaf to the Norwegian throne, which had been taken by the Danish king Cnut the Great two years earlier.
The battle resulted in defeat for the brothers at the hands of those Norwegians who were loyal to Cnut, with Olaf being killed and Harald wounded.
Historians have been struck by the correspondence with names in Fagrskinna, which says that two of the kings who died with Eirik in his final battle against Olaf were called Harékr and Ragnvald, although they are not identified as relatives.
Olaf and his men fought Alfvine's crew and won every battle, but did not kill any of them, instead they bound them.
He had dreamed of his father the night before, and the Norwegians swore that before the battle they could hear the bell that Saint Olaf had given to the church at Kaupang-a sign that the saint was watching over his son and the army.
Nidud was a villainous king in the lay of Wayland the smith, Olaf aided the Norwegian king Vikar in battle, and Sporsnjall was burnt to death by Ingjald Ill-ruler together with five other petty kings.
This battle of Man, recorded by the Annals of Ulster, is said to have been won by Gofraid and " the Danes " – possibly forces directly from Scandinavia under the command of Olaf Tryggvason.
After recovering from a mental breakdown caused by Glory's kidnapping of Dawn, Buffy decides to attack Glory with everything she has: Willow's magic spell to restore Tara's sanity stolen by Glory, at the same time weakening Glory's mind ; the Dagon Sphere ( a weapon created by the monks that causes physical pain to Glory ); Buffy's robot double ( the " Buffybot ") originally Spike's sex toy ; Olaf, The Troll God's Hammer ( with which Buffy is able beat Glory in battle and severely weaken her albeit temporarily, due to the hammer being a weapon of the gods ); and eventually a wrecking ball, commandeered by Xander.
Guttorm won the battle by praying to Saint Olaf and Echmarcach was killed.
The Battle of Svolder ( Svold, Swold ) was a naval battle fought in September 999 or 1000 in the western Baltic Sea between King Olaf Tryggvason of Norway and an alliance of his enemies.
Olaf had only 11 warships in the battle against a fleet of at least 70.
The sagas ascribe the causes of the battle to Olaf Tryggvason's ill-fated marriage proposal to Sigrid the Haughty and his problematic marriage to Thyri, sister of Svein Forkbeard.
Contemporary skaldic poetry which refers to the battle includes a work by Hallfreðr the Troublesome Poet, who was in Olaf Tryggvason's service.
Hallfreðr was not present at the battle but gathered information about it afterwards for a eulogy on Olaf.
These accounts are contradicted by a contemporary verse of Halldórr the Unchristian which states that Olaf Tryggvason was travelling from the south when he came to the battle.
The Norse sources agree that Olaf Tryggvason fought against overwhelming odds in the battle.
Olaf first declared himself king of Norway in 1015 and established control of the nation in battle, principally the Battle of Nesjar in 1016.
Olaf suddenly ordered an invasion of the Orange Star nation, and is in battle with the Orange Star Army.
In 991 AD there was a major battle between the pillaging Danes led by Olaf Trygvassen who had already attacked Ipswich, and Earl Bryhtnoth's men who were defending Maldon on the instruction of the Saxon King Ethelred the Unready.
Olaf clearly knows what it is, as he orders everyone to battle stations to flee.
The attempt of the deposed Christian monarch Olaf II of Norway to retake the throne resulted in a bloody civil war in Norway, which ended in the battle of Stiklestad ( 1030 ).

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