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He fought against Jesse Brinkley in the Semi-Final and defeated him after seven rounds, earning a place to box against Peter Manfredo in the final.
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He fought like a fiend for the helpless and oppressed, worked for the abolition of slavery, helped the Quakers and Indians, and worked against the prosecution of witches.
Rousseau's primitivism, the anti-Newtonian mythology of Blake, Coleridge's organic metaphysics, Victor Hugo's image of the poets as the Magi, and Shelley's `` unacknowledged legislators '' are related elements in the rear-guard action fought by the romantics against the new scientific rationalism.
Since American life is committed above all to productivity and a higher standard of economic life, the countervailing forces of residential and religious exclusiveness have fought a desperate, rearguard action against the expanding interdependence of the metropolis.
Roberts careened backward, his back arched, fought for balance and, failing, stumbled against the newel post at the foot of the stairs.
Politically, Lincoln fought back with patronage, by pitting his opponents against each other, and by appealing to the American people with his powers of oratory.
In doing so, he fought discrimination against immigrants, blacks, and indigenous peoples of the Americas.
They fought against UNITA rebels, based in Angola, and the apartheid-era government in South Africa who supported them.
During Angola's civil war Cuban forces fought to install a Marxist-Leninist MPLA-PT government, against Western-backed UNITA and FLNA guerrillas and the South-African army.
He fought several battles of attrition against Lee through the Overland Campaign to seize Richmond, though in the face of fierce resistance he altered his plans and led the Siege of Petersburg which nearly finished off the rest of Lee's army.
* 1918 – Battle of Ambos Nogales: U. S. Army forces skirmish against Mexican Carrancistas and their German advisors in the only battle of World War I fought on American soil.
His men fought well in the morning, putting up a stout resistance, but as overwhelming Confederate forces massed against them, their line eventually broke and they retreated back through the town of Gettysburg to the relative safety of Cemetery Hill south of town.
Doubleday was humiliated by this snub and held a lasting grudge against Meade, but he returned to division command and fought well for the remainder of the battle.
* 1945 – World War II: Filipino troops of the 66th Infantry Regiment, Philippine Commonwealth Army, USAFIP-NL and the American troops of the 33rd and 37th Infantry Division, United States Army was liberated in Baguio City and they fought against the Japanese forces under by General Tomoyuki Yamashita.
The latter king seems to have fought a sea battle against 32 kings who had gathered against him.
He fought politically against what he denounced as a closed, undemocratic aristocracy, adding to his appeal to common citizens.
A year later in 881 Alfred fought a small sea battle against four Danish ships “ on the high seas ”.
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.
A passionate fighting-man ( he fought twenty-nine battles against Christian or Moor ), he was married ( when well over 30 years and a habitual bachelor ) in 1109 to the ambitious Queen Urraca of León, widow of Raymond of Burgundy, a passionate woman unsuited for a subordinate role.
His final campaigns were against Mequinenza ( 1133 ) and Fraga ( 1134 ), where García Ramírez, the future king of Navarre, and a mere 500 other knights fought with him.
Léon Fleuriot has suggested Ambrosius is identical to Riothamus, a Brythonic leader who fought a major battle against the Goths in France around the year 470.
He next fought for the sovereignty of Provence against Raymond Berenger III, and not till September 1125 did the war end in an amicable agreement.
In 490 BC, Aeschylus and his brother Cynegeirus fought to defend Athens against Darius I's invading Persian army at the Battle of Marathon.
The loose alliance of city states which had fought against Xerxes's invasion had been dominated by Sparta and the Peloponnesian league.
This battle was the last major one fought against the Persians.
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Two of his wins were against Jesse Clark, who never won a fight in his career ; Douglas fought him a total of three times and knocked him out all three times.
The next year he fought up and coming contender Jesse Ferguson, but was beaten by majority decision.
Additional legends credit him with the ability to transform himself into animals, of having caused the San Francisco Earthquake, and of having fought a duel with Jesse James
* Jesse Ventura as Blain Cooper, who fought alongside Mac in the Vietnam War.
His paternal great-grandfather, Joseph La Follette, was born in France, emigrated to New Jersey, fought in the American Revolutionary War, led his family through the Cumberland Gap to Kentucky, and crossed the Ohio River into Indiana with his son, Jesse LaFollette.
In All Select Comics # 7 ( Spring 1945 ), Captain America fought a team of ghosts ( consisting of Jesse James, Frank James, Captain Kidd, and Jack The Ripper ) in a story titled " Masters of Evil.
Jesse " Boogieman " Ferguson ( born March 20, 1957 ) is a retired American boxer who fought in several noteworthy boxing matches in the 1980s and 1990s.
In 1984, Vince McMahon lured Heenan away from the AWA to manage Jesse " The Body " Ventura ; however, after Ventura developed blood clots in his lungs due to Agent Orange use while Ventura fought in the Vietnam War, he was forced to end his active wrestling career.
Daemon is the daughter of Chuck Cadman, who fought for victim's rights after the murder of Jesse Cadman.
With added help from a former Nazi and his female deputy, Cindy, Jesse fought back at Quincannon's criminal activity, going head-to-head with corporate lawyer Miss Oatlash, an S & M fanatic who admired Adolf Hitler and secretly desired Jesse.
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On May 10, 2006 Brinkley fought the undefeated Joey Spina.
On February 14, 2009, Brinkley fought longtime rival Joey Gilbert at The Reno Events Center in Reno, NV.
Brinkley fought Mike Paschall on July 10, 2009 and won by unanimous decision.
On January 29, 2010, Brinkley fought Curtis " Showtime " Stevens in Reno as part of ESPN2's Friday Night Fights.
On October 15, 2010 Brinkley fought against the IBF Super Middleweight champion Lucian Bute in Montreal, Canada.
On April 29, 2011 Brinkley fought Peter Quillin in Reno, Nevada for the vacant United States Boxing Organisation Super Middleweight Championship.
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Azincourt is famous as being near the site of the battle fought on 25 October 1415 in which the army led by King Henry V of England defeated the forces led by Charles d ' Albret on behalf of Charles VI of France, which has gone down in English history as the Battle of Agincourt.
* Andromache, an Amazon who fought Heracles and was defeated ; only known from vase paintings.
King Æthelstan was successful in securing Constantine's submission in 927 and 934, but the two again fought when Constantine, allied with the Strathclyde Britons and the Viking king of Dublin, invaded Æthelstan's kingdom in 937, only to be defeated at the great battle of Brunanburh.
The key battle of this civil war was fought on Ecuadorian soil, near Riobamba, where Huáscar's northbound troops were met and defeated by Atahualpa's southbound troops.
On 14 October, after having marched his exhausted army all the way from Yorkshire, Harold fought the Normans at the Battle of Hastings, where England's army was defeated and Harold was killed.
Part of Mar's army joined up with risings in northern England and southern Scotland, and the Jacobites fought their way into England before being defeated at the Battle of Preston, surrendering on 14 November 1715.
Symeon of Durham records a battle fought at an unidentified location near Hastings in 771, at which Offa defeated the Haestingas tribe, effectively ending its existence as a separate Kingdom.
A decisive battle was fought with Tisamenus, son of Orestes, the chief ruler in the peninsula, who was defeated and slain.
During the 1920s and the 1930s, Stalin fought and defeated the political influence of Leon Trotsky and of the Trotskyists in Russia, by means of slander, anti-Semitism, programmed censorship, expulsions, exile ( internal and external ), and imprisonment.
Musashi is said to have fought over 60 duels and was never defeated, although this is a conservative estimate, most likely not accounting for deaths by his hand in major battles.
* 685 – The Battle of Dun Nechtain is fought between a Pictish army under King Bridei III and the invading Northumbrians under King Ecgfrith, who are decisively defeated.
The conflict between the Quraysh and the Muslims, however, continued: the two fought in the Battle of Badr, where the Muslims defeated the Quraysh army outside Medina ; while the Battle of Uhud ended indecisively.
The Genoese had fought and defeated the Byzantines earlier in 1348 when the Byzantines had decreased their customs tariffs in order to attract trade to the Byzantine side of the Golden Horn.
They were comprehensively defeated by Ramses III, who fought them in " Djahi " ( the eastern Mediterranean coast ) and at " the mouths of the rivers " ( the Nile delta ), recording his victories in a series of inscriptions in his mortuary temple at Medinet Habu.
While Coragus fought with weapons and full armour, Dioxippus showed up armed only with a club and defeated Coragus without killing him, making use of his pankration skills.
Important Alien civilisations include the Puppeteers, paranoid pacifist herbivore centaurs, and the Kzinti, carnivorous warlike felines, who fought multiple wars over hundreds of years against the Humans, being defeated each time.
Desslar, the enemy defeated in the first season and left without a home or a people, recognizes that his foes are fighting for the same things he fought for and, eventually, becomes Earth's most important ally.
The Rams then narrowly defeated the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 11 – 6 in a hard fought defensive struggle in the NFC Championship.
* Baba Banda Singh Bahadur: fought and defeated the Mughal Governor of Punjab, Wazir Khan, and established a Sikh force in PunjabInterior view of Gurdwara Hazur Sahib Nanded, Maharashtra, India.
Led by their king, Nuada, they fought the First Battle of Magh Tuireadh on the west coast, in which they defeated and displaced the native Fir Bolg, who then inhabited Ireland.
The armies of Theodosius and Maximus fought at the Battle of the Save in 388, which saw Maximus defeated.
In his first appearance though, the Champion fought the Thing and defeated him with ease.
In response to this siege, Octavian rallied his troops and fought a series of battles in which Antonius was defeated.
The first was fought on October 3, 42 BC, in which Brutus defeated Octavian's forces, although Cassius was defeated by Antonius ' forces.
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