The Azeri armed forces took a series of devastating defeats by Armenian forces during the 1992 – 1994 Nagorno-Karabakh War, which resulted in the loss of control of Nagorno-Karabakh proper and seven surrounding rayons, comprising roughly 16 % of the territory of Azerbaijan.

Despite suffering heavy defeats against the West Indies during the 1980s, England continued to do well in the Ashes.

* 1813 – Manuel Belgrano defeats the royalist army of Pío de Tristán during the Battle of Salta.

He condemned his " hounds " ( werewolves ) to walk the mortal ground during the Bloodmoon until a champion defeats him or Bloodmoon falls.

* 1564 – The Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeats the Tsardom of Russia in the Battle of Ula during the Livonian War.

* 1866 – Battle of Custoza: an Austrian army defeats the Italian army during the Austro-Prussian War.

* 1950 – The United States defeats England during the 1950 FIFA World Cup.

* 1913 – A Greek flotilla defeats the Ottoman Navy in the Naval Battle of Lemnos during the First Balkan War, securing the islands of the Northern Aegean Sea for Greece.

The Ottomans also faced defeats during battles such as the Battle of Sisak.

Ottoman defeats in the war caused Mehmed III to take personal command of the army, the first sultan to do so since Suleyman I. Mehmed III's armies conquered Eger in 1596 and defeated the Habsburg and Transylvanian forces at the Battle of Keresztes ( Turkish for Battle of Hacova ) during which the Sultan had to be dissuaded from fleeing the field halfway through the battle.

* 1601 – Tiryaki Hasan Pasha, provincial governor of Ottoman Empire, utterly defeats Habsburg forces, commanded by Ferdinand the Archduke of Austria during the Siege of Nagykanizsa.

* 1938 – Seabiscuit defeats War Admiral in an upset victory during a match race deemed " the match of the century " in horse racing.

General Zeng Guofan Early during the Taiping Rebellion, Qing forces suffered a series of disastrous defeats culminating in the loss of the regional capital city of Nanjing in 1853.

* 1813 – The United States defeats the British Fleet at the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812.

Pitt drew up his plans for the campaigning season of 1757 in which he hoped to reverse Britain's string of defeats during the wars opening years.

* June 23 – Liberal leader Wilfred Laurier defeats Charles Tupper during Canadian federal elections for the 8th Canadian Parliament, and becomes the first francophone Prime Minister of Canada.

* 439 BC: Cincinnatus again becomes dictator of the Roman Republic ; during his term he defeats the Volsci.

He defeats the Germans at Amisius river estuary and the Weser, but during its return the Roman fleet is partially destroyed by storms.

* July 19 – Battle of Halidon Hill: Edward III defeats Sir Archibald Douglas, during the last of the Wars of Scottish Independence.

* September 7 – Richard I of England defeats Saladin at the Battle of Arsuf during the Third Crusade.

Elizabethan England was not particularly successful in a military sense during the period, but it avoided major defeats and built up a powerful navy.

In the summer of 1738, Austria suffered defeats during the ongoing Russo-Turkish War.

* King Goujian of Yue defeats and banishes King Fuchai of Wu, gaining a temporary hegemony in ancient China during the Spring and Autumn Period.

It struggled to maintain contact under these conditions of simultaneous illegality and scorn around much of the world during World War II, because when workers ' uprisings did occur, they were usually under the influence of Soviet-inspired, anarchist, social democratic, Maoist, or militant nationalist groups, leading to further defeats for the FI and its Trotskyists, who never gathered similar support.

Despite half victories and many defeats, Boniface was at the height of his reign.

Between the strong reigns of his father Edward I and son Edward III, the reign of Edward II was considered by some to be disastrous for England, marked by alleged incompetence, political squabbling and military defeats.

This threat did not materialise in a significant way during Michael VIII's reign, and the Emperor tried to take advantage of a civil war in Bulgaria in the late 1270s but the Byzantine armies suffered several major defeats at the hands of the peasant Emperor Ivaylo.

During his reign, the renaissance of letters begun by his predecessor Basil I continued, but the Empire also saw several military defeats in the Balkans against Bulgaria and against the Arabs in Sicily and the Aegean.

After a promising start to his reign, a run of 7 straight league defeats and a 4 – 2 defeat in the FAW Premier Cup at the hands of Llanelli, forced Little to ring the changes and brought in 11 players in the January transfer window to attempt to change Wrexham's fortunes.

* July 16 – Jermain Taylor, 2000 US Olympic Boxing bronze medalist, defeats Bernard Hopkins for the undisputed Middleweight Title ending Hopkins ' 10 year title reign.

After Twinsen defeats him, the planet is peaceful again, and no longer under the reign of terror.

Balliol came to the throne of Scotland on St Andrews Day, 1292 but his reign was short and he abdicated in July 1296 following the defeats of the Scots at Berwick and Dunbar at the hands of King Edward I of England.

However, the Samguk Sagi records many Baekje defeats against the Mohe and Silla, as well as natural disasters towards the end of Gusu's reign.

Lloyd's reign started very well, with successive victories taking the team back into the World Group, but after the retirement of both Greg Rusedski and Tim Henman in 2007 the team suffered five successive defeats, their worst run in Davis Cup history, to drop back down to the third tier of the competition.

During the third reign of Al-Nasir Muhammad Egypt did not witness external threats as both the Crusadres and the Mongols were enormously weakened by their frequent defeats and their internal conflicts.

His reign saw incursions by the surrounding Liao-and Song-ruled nations, and a series of military defeats from 1114.

During the reign of Onigbogi, Oyo suffered military defeats at the hands of the Nupe led by Tsoede.

These defeats effectively ended his reign over the country, and he died in obscurity in 1817, having survived Mohammad Ali Pasha's 1811 massacre of Mameluke leaders.

In the Völsunga saga, Attila ( Atli in Norse ) defeats the Frankish king Sigebert I ( Sigurðr or Siegfried ) and the Burgundian King Guntram ( Gunnar or Gunther ), but is later assassinated by Queen Fredegund ( Gudrun or Kriemhild ), the sister of the latter and wife of the former.

* 845 – The first King of all Brittany, Nominoe defeats the Frankish king Charles the Bald at the Battle of Ballon near Redon.

* 394 – Battle of the Frigidus: The Christian Roman Emperor Theodosius I defeats and kills the pagan usurper Eugenius and his Frankish magister militum Arbogast.

But the Vikings took advantage of the quarrels in the royal family caused after the death of Louis the Pious to settle their first colony in the south-west ( Gascony ) of the kingdom of Francia, which was more or less abandoned by the Frankish kings after their two defeats at Roncevaux.

* Battle of Vouillé: A Frankish army under command of Clovis I invades the Visigothic Kingdom and defeats king Alaric II near Poitiers.

* Summer – King Theudebert I sends a small Frankish force across the Alps, and defeats the Goths and Byzantines at the River Po.

* Battle of Narbonne – The Frankish army under Charles Martel defeats the Umayyad forces but fails to retake the city.

While Brittany defeats the Vikings, and expels them, France arrives at a peace that grants neighboring Normandy to the Viking ruler, Rollo, who became a Frankish count.

** Frankish commander Charles Martel " the Hammer " defeats a massive Muslim army of 60, 000 fighters at the Battle of Tours killing Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi, effectively halting the northward advance of Islam in Europe from the Iberian peninsula.