He defeated the Sarmatians and Carpi during several campaigns between 285 and 299, the Alamanni in 288, and usurpers in Egypt between 297 and 298.

The prefect of Aegyptus in 260, Mussius Aemilianus, first supported the Macriani, Gallienus usurpers, and later, in 261, become a usurper himself, but was defeated by Gallienus.

In 261 he commanded the force which defeated the army of the usurpers Macrianus Major and Macrianus Minor in battle somewhere in the central Balkans.

All usurpers had been defeated, but large barbarian groups remained un-subdued in both Gaul and Hispania.

At the beginning of the reign of Commodus, the V Macedonica and the XIII Gemina defeated once again the Sarmatians, under the later usurpers Pescennius Niger and Clodius Albinus.

* 1710 – In the Battle of Helsingborg, 14, 000 Danish invaders under Jørgen Rantzau are decisively defeated by an equally sized Swedish force under Magnus Stenbock.

* February 28 – Battle of Helsingborg: Fourteen thousand Danish invaders under Jørgen Rantzau are decisively defeated by an equally large Swedish army under Magnus Stenbock.

* June 14 – King Valdemar I of Sweden is defeated by his brother Magnus in the Battle of Hova, after which Magnus deposes him.

* Harald Kesja and Magnus the Strong are defeated at the Battle of Fotevik.

However, this law never came into force, as King Magnus was defeated and killed by Sverre Sigurdsson, who became King Sverre.

He was defeated by the royal armies but he obtained a remarkable autonomy as a Magnus Dux.

Sweyn fled east and returned as one of the leaders of an invasion by the Wends in 1043, which Magnus decisively defeated at the Battle of Lyrskov Heath, near Hedeby.

In a battle near Enköping in 1365 between Albert's German forces and king Magnus Eriksson's forces, supported by king Haakon VI of Norway ( Magnus ' son ), Magnus was defeated and taken prisoner by Albert.

When the Prussians began to worry about their borders, he sent Jacob Magnus Sprengtporten with light troops ( the so-called Sprengtportenska ) to Mecklenburg and on 23 December defeated a Prussian force at Malchin on 23 December.

Piso did not openly declare support for Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus and remained neutral but is widely believed he secretly supported Pompey but still did not forfeit the respect of Caesar when Pompey was defeated.

Knud's half-brother Erik rebelled against Niels and Magnus, but was defeated and took refuge in Norway, where he convinced the local nobility and the Holy Roman Emperor Lothair III to launch a retaliatory expedition against Niels.

Niels was defeated in the Battle of Fotevik ( 4 June 1134 ), and also lost his son Magnus who was slain during the battle.

He was defeated by Magnus on several occasions, and fled to Sweden where he eventually established a foothold in Scania.

Anand regained the world number one ranking in 1 November 2010, having defeated the reigning world No. 1 Magnus Carlsen in the Bilbao Masters, but had to concede the top spot back to Carlsen in July 2011.

Magnus Barefoot then led his fleet from Mann to Ynys Môn, Gwynedd, and appeared off of the coast at Ynys Seiriol ( Puffin Island ), interrupting a Norman victory celebration after they had recently defeated the Welsh of Gwynedd.

Seeded 11th, he won his first three rounds and then defeated Peter Svidler, former FIDE world champion Ruslan Ponomariov and future world-number one Magnus Carlsen to reach the finals.

In late 110 or early 109 Jugurtha defeated a Roman army led by the praetor Aulus Postumius Albinus Magnus, brother of the consul of that year, apparently by using bribery, treachery, and trickery.

Mithridates was finally defeated by Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus ( Pompey the Great ) in 65 BC.

Despite a disastrous start and losing four of his first five games to Magnus Carlsen, Vladimir Kramnik, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, and Sergey Karjakin, he recovered to score 5 / 7 in the second half of the day and finished with a score of 7½ / 14, 2½ points behind coleaders Carlsen and Levon Aronian, whom he defeated in their individual games.

After few months of occupation in 388, citizens of Emona saluted Emperor Theodosius I entering the liberated city after the victorious Battle of the Save where Theodosius I defeated army of Roman usurper Magnus Maximus.

In 1025, with the death of his eldest brother Hugh Magnus, he and Henry rebelled against their father and defeated him, forcing him back to Paris.

Honorius now found himself an able commander, Constantius, who defeated Maximus and Gerontius, and then Constantine, in 411.

The armies of Theodosius and Maximus fought at the Battle of the Save in 388, which saw Maximus defeated.

Following his conquest of Gaul, Maximus went out to meet his main opponent, emperor Gratian, whom he defeated near Paris.

Maximus was defeated in the Battle of the Save, and retreated to Aquileia.

Andragathius, magister equitum of Maximus and the killer of emperor Gratian, was defeated near Siscia while Maximus ' brother, Marcellinus, fell in battle at Poetovio.

* Consul Quintus Fabius Maximus, allied with the Aedui, defeated the Arverni and Allobroges in Transalpine Gaul, thus establishing the province for Rome.

Meanwhile, his generals defeated the Franks and these operations were directed to clearing Gaul of Germanic invaders ( Franks, and Burgundians ), allowing Probus to adopt the titles of Gothicus Maximus and Germanicus Maximus.

In 388, Theodosius marched west and defeated Maximus.

Having defeated the Quadi and Sarmatians on the Danube, for which he was given the title Germanicus Maximus, Carus proceeded through Thrace and Asia Minor, annexed Mesopotamia, pressed on to Seleucia and Ctesiphon, and marched his soldiers beyond the Tigris.

In 411 he defeated Gerontius, the general of usurper Maximus, and Constantine III, another usurper, in Arles.

In particular, the army ’ s support was split between three main candidates: Maximianus, the former domesticus (" bodyguard ") of Aëtius, who was the son of an Egyptian merchant named Domninus who had become rich in Italy ; the future emperor Majorian, who commanded the army after the death of Aetius and who had the backing of the Empress Licinia Eudoxia ; and Maximus himself, who had the support of the Roman Senate and who in the end, on 17 March, defeated his rivals and secured the throne by distributing money to officials of the imperial palace.

The legion disappears from the sources after 219, when their commander, Gellius Maximus, rebelled against Emperor Elagabalus and proclaimed himself emperor, only to be defeated by Elagabalus.

On August 8, 121 BC legions of Quintus Fabius Maximus defeated them and forced them to submit ; Maximus earned a moniker Allobrogicus for this feat.

In 123 BC, the Roman general Quintus Fabius Maximus ( later additionally named Allobrogicus ) campaigned in the area and defeated the Allobroges and the Arverni under king Bituitus.

It was natural for Symmachus to sympathise with Magnus Maximus who had defeated Gratian.

The maddened creature is only defeated by the bravery of Sentinel Maximus and the autoguns controlled by the Mini-Con Over-Run, and Alpha Trion survives.

In the end, Maximus defeated Galvatron, sending him toppling into the Arctic waters, from which he never emerged.

In the ensuing confrontation, his newly-created Zarak Shield deflected the Master Sword, and Fortress Maximus was defeated.

With their combined strength, they defeated the two Decepticons, and Grand Maximus pusued the fleeing BlackZarak back into space.