His passive defensive performance while positioning himself in a forward position at Bowling Green, spreading his forces too thinly, not concentrating his forces in the face of Union advances, and appointing or relying upon inadequate or incompetent subordinates subjected him to criticism at the time and by later historians.

In 394 BC, while encamped on the plain of Thebe, he was planning a campaign in the interior, or even an attack on Artaxerxes II himself, when he was recalled to Greece owing to the war between Sparta and the combined forces of Athens, Thebes, Corinth, Argos and several minor states.

The crusaders believed their oaths were made invalid when the Byzantine contingent under Tatikios failed to help them during the siege of Antioch ; Bohemund, who had set himself up as Prince of Antioch, briefly went to war with Alexios in the Balkans, but was blockaded by the Byzantine forces and agreed to become Alexios ' vassal by the Treaty of Devol in 1108.

This stranded the forces led by the King himself.

Here too the Imperial forces suffered defeat, Otto himself being saved only by the devotion of a handful of Saxon knights.

Bolívar returned to New Granada only in 1819 after establishing himself as leader of the pro-independence forces in the Venezuelan llanos.

The Padishah Emperor Shaddam Corrino IV decides to intervene himself and arrives on Arrakis along with five legions of Sardaukar forces.

To prepare him for the future life means to give him command of himself ; it means so to train him that he will have the full and ready use of all his capacities ; that his eye and ear and hand may be tools ready to command, that his judgment may be capable of grasping the conditions under which it has to work, and the executive forces be trained to act economically and efficiently ” ( Dewey, 1897, Para.

Instead of finding himself in serious trouble for acting as though he were joining forces with the Catholics, Elizabeth sent two Gentlemen Pensioners to summon him back within the month.

Soon after his enthronement, Saga himself took ill. Emperor Saga's untimely health problems provided former-Emperor Heizei with a unique opportunity to foment a rebellion ; however, forces loyal to Emperor Saga, led by taishōgun Sakanoue no Tamuramaro, quickly defeated the Heizei rebels which thus limited the adverse consequences which would have followed any broader conflict.

However, after a long political career and with a very conservative reputation, in 1989 he placed himself at the head of verligte (" enlightened ") forces within the governing party, with the result that he was elected head of the National Party in February 1989, and finally State President in September 1989 to replace then president P. W.

Fedon's forces were defeated by the British in late 1796, but Fedon himself was never caught and his fate is unknown.

In his response, Achilles points out that while Hector was terrorizing the Greek forces now, while he himself had fought in their front lines, Hector had ' no wish ' to take his force far beyond the walls and out from the Skiaian Gate and nearby oak tree.

Just as one does not judge an individual by what he thinks about himself, so one cannot judge such a period of transformation by its consciousness, but, on the contrary, this consciousness must be explained from the contradictions of material life, from the conflict existing between the social forces of production and the relations of production.

Alexander increasingly left much of the tactical conduct of the campaign to his corps commander, Bill Slim, while he himself handled the more political aspects of relations with Joe Stillwell, the nominal commander of the Chinese forces.

" If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself ; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it.

Shaka proved himself to be one of Dingiswayo's most able warriors after the military call up of his age grade to serve in the Mthethwa forces.

* 474 – Julius Nepos forces Roman usurper Glycerius to abdicate the throne and proclaims himself Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.

This turned out to be a tactical error, for he was left with insufficient forces to defend himself when a large contingent of Franks besieged the town and Julian was virtually held captive there for several months, until his general Marcellus deigned to lift the siege.

Having regained the south-east John split his forces, sending William Longespée to retake the north of side of London and East Anglia, whilst John himself headed north via Nottingham to attack the estates of the northern barons.

In the second, Kantakouzenos used Ottoman forces against John V himself, granting them the use of a European fortress at Çimpe around 1352.

Although the Commander-in-Chief of the British Armed Forces is legally the Sovereign: under constitutional practice the Prime Minister can declare war, and through the Secretary of State for Defence ( whom he may appoint, dismiss or even appoint himself as ) as chair of the Defence Council the power over the deployment and disposition of British forces.

to lay a stone that forces one ’ s opponent to play into atari against himself.

In China during the Tang Dynasty, cannibalism was supposedly resorted to by rebel forces early in the period ( who were said to raid neighboring areas for victims to eat ), as well as both soldiers and civilians besieged during the rebellion of An Lushan.

* Popular food dishes include taspar eggs ( always served boiled, as most races find it revolting when raw and even more so while still alive writhing inside its shell, as seen when Captain Picard forces himself to eat one after torture and starvation by a Cardassian agent ), tojal, zabo meat, and sem ' hal stew ( often eaten with yamok sauce ).

Seleucus ordered his forces to sleep and eat breakfast in battle formation.

Jǫtunn ( Proto-Germanic * etunaz ) might have the same root as " eat " ( Proto-Germanic * etan ) and accordingly had the original meaning of " glutton " or " man-eater ", possibly in the sense of personifying chaos, the destructive forces of nature.

The small size of the pastures forces the cattle to ' mob stock '- to eat all the grass.

Alex does not eat Driscoll's sins but forces them down Driscoll's throat.

* Ron goes to Tino's ( the restaurant where Ron took Veronica out and played jazz flute ) after the incident and Tino forces him to eat cat feces before he brings him a steak.

This does nothing to quash the Judge's hatred for Peekay-on the contrary, at the end of the schoolyear the Judge forces to Peekay to eat human feces, and he kills Granpa Chook with a catapult.

Jon occasionally forces Garfield to hunt and catch mice, which is always unsuccessful due to Garfield not wanting to eat mice and his friendship with Floyd.

Ives wounds Boyd and forces him to make a choice: eat or die.

It takes Dan to its ' nest ' and forces him to eat a mutilated dead squirrel.

Once he ran out of bullets, he escaped the battlefield, after defeating two German regiments and forcing the remaining German forces to go around him, finding impossible to defeat what they believed to be an heavily armed post, yet, he got lost along the way, having to eat nothing but sweet-almonds his family had sent him from Portugal for three days.

When she arrives late for Christmas dinner, he pushes her face into her plate and forces her to eat the remains from the carpet.

A famous irritant among interactive fiction fans is the " hunger daemon ": code in a game that forces the player's character to periodically eat and / or drink to survive.

The Doctor forces Toroko to eat a red flower as a test, but King arrives to try to stop him and is killed in the process.

The box is full of pint containers of the Stuff, and Mo forces both to eat them all as punishment for all the lives lost to it, and for their greed.

The restaurant became a popular place for Confederate officers to eat, and Nellie found herself involved gathering intelligence for a U. S. spy ring run by Hal Jacobs, a cobbler, who also gathered information on Confederate forces.

He becomes rich ( creating a drug ring that sells " drac ", derived from vampire blood ) and socially successful ( befriending many luminaries, including Andy Warhol ), but risks losing it all when the many enemies he makes along the way join forces against him.

New Delhi, Aug 13 ( IANS ) India ’ s audit watchdog has found lapses in financial and business operations and the pricing and quality of goods of the Canteen Stores Department ( CSD ) that sells household products at cheaper than market rates to armed forces personnel and their families.

MRV has sales offices in more than 20 countries and sells its products and services both directly and through channel partners with support from their sales forces.

Rocco sells Ziggy a large amount of counterfeit money and then forces Frank, who has skills as a seaman, to take him and his henchmen back to Cuba on a small boat belonging to the hotel ( the luxurious yacht they arrived on was taken out to deep water to escape damage in the storm by its skipper, despite threats from Rocco ).