His paternal grandfather, also named Abner, had fought in the American Revolutionary War.

On May 28, 585 BC, during the Battle of Halys fought against Cyaxares, king of Media, a solar eclipse took place ( see also Thales ); hostilities were suspended, peace concluded, and the Halys fixed as the boundary between the two kingdoms.

Jordanes also mentions that they fought with Hercules, and in the Trojan War, and that a smaller contingent of them endured in the Caucasus Mountains until the time of Alexander.

Generals were elected not only because their role required expert knowledge but also because they needed to be people with experience and contacts in the wider Greek world where wars were fought.

They also fought alongside Hannibal, killing ( in 216 BC ) the Roman general L. Postumius Albinus, whose skull was then turned into a sacrificial bowl.

Edward le Despencer, 1st Baron le Despencer also fought at Poitiers under The Black Prince.

Sir Thomas Felton fought not only at Poitiers but also the Battle of Crécy.

Fans come from all over the world to see the places in Scotland where William Wallace fought for Scottish freedom, and also to the places in Scotland and Ireland to see the locations used in the film.

The Battle of the Nile ( also known as the Battle of Aboukir Bay, in French as the Bataille d ' Aboukir or in Egyptian Arabic as معركة أبي قير البحرية ) was a major naval battle fought between British and French fleets at Aboukir Bay on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt from 1 – 3 August 1798.

The constellation was also used on the dark blue, shield-like patch worn by personnel of the U. S. Army's Americal Division, which was organized in the Southern Hemisphere, on the island of New Caledonia, and also the blue diamond of the U. S. 1st Marine Division, which fought on the Southern Hemisphere islands of Guadalcanal and New Britain.

City, and later state laws, that upgraded standards for the medical profession and fought urban epidemics of cholera, small pox, and yellow fever were not only passed, but also enforced.

He also managed to have the powers of the state's Public Service Commissions increased and fought strenuously, if not completely successfully, to get their decisions exempted from judicial review.

Elements of the FP were also used to form Belgian colonial units that fought in the East African Campaign during World War II.

He also fought for progressive reforms such as woman's rights, educational rights, and freedom of press.

The marcistas fought among themselves almost ceaselessly and also had to struggle against Flores's repeated attempts from exile to overthrow the government.

" Other public school teachers and teacher unions have also fought against school vouchers.

During this period, he also fought as an amateur boxer in 16 matches and obtained a title in Muay Thai.

His son Frederick Douglass Jr. also served as a recruiter and his other son, Lewis Douglass, fought for the 54th Massachusetts Regiment at the Battle of Fort Wagner.

Freikorps also fought in the Baltic, Silesia, Poland and East Prussia after the end of World War I, including aviation combat, often with significant success.

The Foreign Legion was primarily used, as part of the Armée d ' Afrique, to protect and expand the French colonial empire during the 19th century, but it also fought in almost all French wars including the Franco-Prussian War and both World Wars.

In World War I, the Foreign Legion fought in many critical battles on the Western Front, including Artois, Champagne, Somme, Aisne, and Verdun ( in 1917 ), and also suffered heavy casualties during 1918.

Similarly, the repression the authoritarian single-party regime he led imposed on the population and severe food shortages also left marks and, despite having always denied, Luís Cabral was accused of being responsible for the death of a large number of black Guinea-Bissauan soldiers who had fought along with the Portuguese Army against the PAIGC guerrillas during the Portuguese Colonial War.

The war is fought across four dimensions and whole sections of history are blocked off by either side and it is also suggested that events cross into different universes ( such as the events of Dead Romance ).

This international body he contrasted with imperialism, not only the imperialism of Germany, against which the war was being fought, but also the imperialism, which he considered more benign, of Britain and France.

It is also suggested that the Arabs, who reached Lakshadweep and Maldives around 900 AD, may have visited the Chagos, and that Zheng He may have sailed close in 1413 – 1415, since it is documented on a Ming Dynasty map.

At his trial in 1415, Jan Hus argued that the Church does not necessarily need a Pope, because, during the Pontificate of " Pope Agnes " ( as he also called her ), it got on quite well.

There was also Gregory XII in 1415 who agreed to quit at the request of the Council of Constance.

Eck also forced Luther to declare that Ecumenical Councils were sometimes errant, as in the case when Konstance ( 1414 – 1418 ) condemned Hus ( 1415 ).

Manuel also regained from Ottomans Nesebar ( 1403 – 1453 ), Varna ( 1403 – 1415 ), and the Marmara coast from Scutari to Nicomedia between 1403 – 1421.

* The Moravian Brethren ( also known as United Brethren or Unitas Fratrum and Bohemian Brethren ) descend from the followers of Jan Hus, a Czech reformer burned at the stake in 1415 and mainly Bohemian 15th century nobleman and theologian Peter Chelcicky.

Between 1415 and 1426, Donatello created five statues for the campanile of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence, also known as the Duomo.

The Unity of the Brethren (; Latin: Unitas Fratrum ), also known as Czech or Bohemian Brethren, is a Christian denomination whose roots are in the pre-reformation work of priest and philosopher Jan Hus, who was martyred in 1415.

However the Azincourt in France is also the site of a decisive English victory over French forces in 1415.

The restored earl died in 1415 without male heirs, whereupon the earldom of Surrey became either extinct or abeyant ( authorities disagree on this ), while the earldom of Arundel passed to his 1st cousin once removed, who was great-grandson of the 9th Earl of Surrey ( and consequently also descended from the de Warennes ).

Anthony, Duke of Brabant, also known as Antoine de Brabant, Antoine de Bourgogne and Anthony of Burgundy ( August 1384 – 25 October 1415, in the battle of Agincourt ), was Duke of Brabant, Lothier and Limburg.

She was also Dauphine of France for a short time between 1415 and 1417 and Duchess of Gloucester in the 1420s, if her marriage to Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, is accepted as valid.

By 1415 Pope Martin V affirmed that " the material substance of bread and ... wine longer remain " ( Dz § 581 ), also addressed by St. Thomas in the Summa e. g. III 75 4.

When the last Sultan of Ifat, Sa ' ad ad-Din II, was also killed by Dawit I of Ethiopia at the port city of Zeila in 1410, his children escaped to Yemen, before later returning in 1415.

A vacancy in the papal office may also result from a papal resignation, though no pope has abdicated since Gregory XII in 1415.

The city of St. Gallen had also become free in 1415, but was in a conflict with its abbot, who tried to bring it under his influence.

In 1415 Hedon was granted an important charter, which let the town have burgesses and other ministers and also gave the town a mace.

Johannes von Tepl ( c. 1350 – c. 1415 ), also known as Johannes von Saaz (), was a Bohemian writer of the German language, one of the earliest known writers of prose in Early New High German ( or late Middle German — depending on the criteria ).

When the last Sultan of Ifat, Sa ' ad ad-Din II, was also killed by Emperor Dawit I in Zeila in 1410, his children escaped to Yemen, before later returning in 1415.

The first landings of Europeans in Africa, the conquest of Ceuta by King João I ( 1415 ), the attacks upon Tangier under João's son Duarte ( 1437 ) were also crusades, inspired by a religious spirit and sanctioned by similar Papal Bulls.

He was succeeded by his son, also Edward who campaigned in Ireland and died at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415.

There was also a special version named CSS with an 1. 4 L ( 1415 cc ) engine used in a Brazilian race championship.

An even earlier map, the De Virga world map ( 1411 – 1415 ) also depicts the old world in a way broadly similar to the Fra Mauro map, and may have contributed to it.

Suffolk brought 40 men-at-arms and 120 archers with him on the 1415 campaign of Henry V. He died of dysentery before Harfleur, and was succeeded by his eldest son Michael, who was also present there.