Ealdred supported Harold as king, but when Harold was defeated at the Battle of Hastings, Ealdred backed Edgar the Ætheling and then endorsed King William the Conqueror, the Duke of Normandy and a distant relative of King Edward's.

However, a similar resolution was defeated by thirty-three votes in the House of Commons on December 15, 1927 when the MPs William Joynson-Hicks and Rosslyn Mitchell " reached and inflamed all the latent Protestant prejudices in the House " and argued strongly against it on the grounds that the proposed book was " papistical " and was a restoration of the Roman Mass and implied the doctrine of Transubstantiation.

After this, James attempted to retake the throne by force in the Williamite War, and was finally defeated by William at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690.

The following year William Wallace and Andrew de Moray raised forces to resist the occupation and under their joint leadership an English army was defeated at the Battle of Stirling Bridge.

William defeated and killed Harold Godwinson, the last Saxon King of England, and destroyed his army ; thus opening England to the Norman conquest.

He succeeded his elder brother William II as King of England in 1100 and defeated his eldest brother, Robert Curthose, to become Duke of Normandy in 1106.

" In 1822 Polk resigned his position as clerk to run his successful campaign for the Tennessee state legislature in 1823, in which he defeated incumbent William Yancey, becoming the new representative of Maury County.

In the presidential election of 1840, Van Buren was overwhelmingly defeated by a popular Whig, William Henry Harrison.

In 1066, King Harald Hardråde of Norway invaded England, only to be defeated by Harold Godwinson, who in turn was defeated by William of Normandy, descendant of the Viking Rollo, who had accepted Normandy as a fief from the Frankish King.

The disaffected English Army and Navy went over to William, and on 11 December the defeated King James attempted to flee, but was intercepted.

William Howard Taft, a Unitarian, is noted to have said in a letter to a friend, " I am interested in the spread of Christian civilization, but to go into a dogmatic discussion of creed I will not do whether I am defeated or not.

Roosevelt was a powerful campaign asset for the Republican ticket, which defeated William Jennings Bryan in a landslide based on restoration of prosperity at home and a successful war and new prestige abroad.

Taft easily defeated three-time candidate William Jennings Bryan.

Godwinson was subsequently defeated within a month by another Viking descendant, William, Duke of Normandy ( Normandy had been conquered by Vikings ( Normans ) in 911 ).

Wilson soundly defeated Lewis in the general election by a margin of more than 49, 000 votes, although Republican William Howard Taft had carried New Jersey in the 1908 presidential election by more than 80, 000 votes.

In the contest for the Republican nomination, President William Howard Taft defeated former president Theodore Roosevelt, who then ran as a Bull Moose Party candidate, which assisted in Wilson's success in the electoral college.

Louis William, Margrave of Baden-Baden was forced to withdraw across the Rhine, where he was defeated by a French army under Claude-Louis-Hector de Villars at Friedlingen.

Henry and Geoffrey led another invasion of Normandy in 1057, but were defeated by William at the Battle of Varaville.

But William was not finished, and marched over the Pennines during the winter and defeated the remaining rebels at Shrewsbury before building castles at Chester and Stafford.

In 1071 William defeated the last rebellion of the north.

King Philip of France later relieved the siege and defeated William at Dol, forcing him to retreat back to Normandy.

As Robert failed to appear in England to rally his supporters, William won the support of the English with silver and promises of better government, and defeated the rebellion, thus securing his authority.

William led an army against Robert and defeated him.

However they were defeated in battle by the Scots under Thomas Randolph.

Getty agreed to run in Strathcona West, and defeated incumbent Social Crediter Randolph McKinnon by more than one thousand votes.

In the general election he defeated, 77. 3 to 22. 7 percent, the attorney Milton Drew Bowers ( 1886-1985 ), originally from Pocahontas in Randolph County in northeastern Arkansas.

In 1926, he unseated in the primary the one-term incumbent Tom Jefferson Terral and then defeated in the general election the Republican attorney Milton Drew Bowers ( 1886 – 1985 ), originally from Pocahontas in Randolph County, in northeastern Arkansas in the general election.

It was strengthened by the prominent part he played in the events immediately preceding the fall of the Liberal government in 1885 ; and when Hugh Childers's budget resolutions were defeated by the Conservatives, aided by about half the Parnellites, Lord Randolph Churchill's admirers were justified in proclaiming him to have been the " organiser of victory ".

Because West Virginia's state Constitution prohibited governors from serving consecutive terms at that time, Underwood ran for the United States Senate in 1960, but was defeated by incumbent Democrat Jennings Randolph.

In 1994, he was narrowly defeated by Republican Fred Heineman, who won by a margin of less than 1 % during the Republican Revolution, in part to lower-than-expected turnout in the Democratic stronghold of Orange County ( home to Chapel Hill ), but despite the fact that heavily Republican Randolph County had been eliminated from the Fourth District during redistricting prior to that election year.

Randolph immediately left for the Indiana territory to launch a new campaign for the seat, but the motion was ultimately defeated in the full house and Jennings was permitted to take his seat.

In 1969 Randolph – Macon defeated the University of Bridgeport ( Connecticut ) 47 – 28 in the Knute Rockne Bowl laying claim to a shared College Division National Championship with Wittenberg University ( Springfield, Ohio ) which had defeated William Jewell College in the Alonzo Stagg Bowl.

Ole Louina was a community during early settlement of Randolph County which was settled after the Battle of Horseshoe Bend in 1814 when the Creek Indians were defeated by General Andrew Jackson.

Randolph would then lead the Grizzlies to an opening game win in their second round playoff series, posting a playoff-career high 34 points as the Grizzlies defeated the Thunder 114 – 101.

Led by Coach John Quinn, and for the second time in six days, Roxbury defeated Randolph 23-12 in the State Semifinals, setting up a final with heavily favored Plainfield at Giants Stadium.

The event also saw the return of the Ultimate Warrior who defeated Hunter Hearst Helmsley ( later known as Triple H ) in the latter's WrestleMania debut ..

On September 7, 1996, Rivera defeated Triple H, then wrestling under the full name of " Hunter Hearst Helmsley ".

The Ontario Conservative Party, led by Sir William Hearst, was soundly defeated in a bid for a fifth consecutive term in office by the newly formed United Farmers of Ontario.

While prohibition was approved by the voters, the Hearst government was unexpectedly defeated by the United Farmers of Ontario party in their first election.

* On October 4, 1906, Harvard defeated Bowdoin 10 – 0 " in a hard-fought contest that was featured by a newfangled and daring forward pass that Crimson worked in the closing minutes of play.

* On October 4, 1906, Williams College defeated the Massachusetts Agricultural College, scoring the game's only touchdown on a forward pass by Waters.

" Battlin '" Dan Beecham of Hemet defeated Ronald Arcia of Romoland in a May 14, 1906 bout, and the railroad terminus was awarded to Hemet.

The Liberal split made the Unionists ( the Liberal Unionists sat in coalition with the Conservatives after 1895 and would eventually merge with them ) the dominant force in British politics until 1906, with strong support in Lancashire, Liverpool & Manchester, Birmingham ( the fiefdom of its former mayor Joseph Chamberlain who as recently as 1885 had been a furious enemy of the Conservatives ) and the House of Lords where many Whigs sat ( a second Home Rule Bill would pass the Commons in 1893 only to be overwhelmingly defeated in the Lords ).

In the summer of 1906 the Serbian Chetniks defeated the Bulgarians at Krapa.

Though returned as a Unionist, his political action was not to be dictated by party considerations, and he gravitated towards Liberalism ; but he played no prominent part in parliament and at the election of 1906 was defeated.

The club won league championships in 1895, 1905, and 1906, but from 1920-1925, the Panthers won every Texas League pennant, and defeated the Southern Association champion in the Dixie Series in all but one year.

When Sonnino was defeated in May, Giolitti became Prime Minister once more ( 1906 – 1909 ).

Scott insisted on Regina, though, and his caucus eventually fell in line – when the Liberal MLA from Saskatoon, W. C. Sutherland, introduced a resolution to move the capital to Saskatoon on May 23, 1906, the motion was defeated by a vote of 21 – 02 in the legislature.

The Chicago White Sox of the American League defeated the Cubs in the 1906 World Series.

He was New York State Comptroller from 1907 to 1908, elected in 1906, but defeated for re-election in 1908 by Republican Charles H. Gaus.

He had been a protégé of political boss Mark Hanna, but in 1906 was defeated by the efforts of Wayne Wheeler and the Anti-Saloon League after he refused to support their plan for prohibition of alcohol in Ohio.

Campbell was nominated for Congress in 1906, but lost, and was his party's choice for Senator in 1908, but was again defeated.

The White Sox then defeated their cross-town rivals, the heavily-favored Chicago Cubs in the 1906 World Series.

In 1906, he was defeated for re-election.

He was defeated in the 1906 election for Congress.

In an important title defense he defeated the " Durable Dane ," Oscar " Battling " Nelson, on a foul in 42 rounds on September 3, 1906 in Goldfield, Nevada by promoter Tex Rickard.

An incumbent MP has been defeated just four times, in the elections of 1906, 1923, 1924, and 2005.

It was not until 1906 that he gained national attention, when he defeated Frank Gotch, the reigning American Heavyweight Wrestling Champion.

Baloo played for the Hindu side in the famous 1906 and 1907 matches against the Europeans of the Bombay Gymkhana, in which the Hindus defeated the Europeans by 109 runs and 238 runs respectively.

After his father stepped down as member for the South, or Newbury division of Berkshire in 1900 he was elected and served for six years before being defeated at the 1906 general election by his Liberal opponent.

In the fourth game of the 1906 season, Michigan narrowly defeated Vanderbilt by a score of 10 – 4.

In 1906 he was elected to the U. S. House, where he served until he was defeated in the 1920 elections.

He returned briefly for Sunderland from 1906 until again being defeated in January 1910.