As could be seen by the prospectus, as political objectives went, the programme was certain to be of immense assistance to Daniel O ' Connell in his efforts to revive the agitation for Repeal, but O ' Connell also knew and felt that he was receiving, for the present, a powerful support from them ; but he knew also, that they were outside of his influence, and did not implicitly believe that Repeal would be yielded to " agitation "; that they were continually seeking, by their writings, to arouse a military spirit among the people ; showing plainly, that while they helped the Repeal Association, they fully expected that the liberties of the country must be fought for in the end: it was in appearance only that they worked in harmony.

Muawiyah fought a protracted campaign against Ali, allegedly seeking justice for the assassinated caliph Uthman Ibn Affan.

Before he was elected king of the Commonwealth, Władysław fought in many campaigns, seeking personal glory.

The was a civil war in Japan, fought from 1868 to 1869 between forces of the ruling Tokugawa Shogunate and those seeking to return political power to the imperial court.

Here, they fought alongside Normans recently arrived in Italy seeking adventure and Lombards from Byzantine-held Apulia.

* 1883-1916: Felipe Bachomo-Born in Jahuara, an indigenous leader native to the valley that fought to the death against the " yoris " ( whites ) who were seeking to take possession of the land belonging to the " indios " ( native Americans ) of the region.

Other stories revolved around Jake and Paulina seeking out a justice of the peace to get married, only to end up calling it off, while Ryan and Vicky fought their attraction to one another, only to give in to their desires at the end of the episode.

Walker was mortally wounded and, for about an hour, the Rangers desperately fought to hold their position in the town, some of them seeking refuge in a church.

When the statutory copyright term provided for by the Statute of Anne, the first copyright statute, began to expire in 1731 London booksellers fought to defend their dominant position by seeking injunctions from the Court of Chancery for works by authors that fell outside the statute's protection.

After the derby's six-year absence from the Monumental, on 14 September 2008 the Estadio Monumental hosted a second derby after the club fought bitterly, seeking the authorities ' approval to be able to host the game.

After seeking, but failing, to be readopted as a local councillor in the London Borough of Enfield, where he had been previously been Deputy Leader of the Council, he joined the Labour Party in 1994, giving an exculpatory interview to The Spectator magazine, and in the 2001 general election fought the Hitchin and Harpenden constituency for Labour, coming second to the Conservatives ' Peter Lilley.

For two years, in a Western Europe where revolutionary elements were seeking a road to revolution to provide decisive aid to the USSR, the Sinistra-led CPI was the foremost edge of the politics of “ Bolshevism, A Plant for Every Clime .” Amongst the trade unions, it carried out a strenuous campaign to construct a real united front-not of parties-of the working masses whatever their political loyalties ; it fought no less strenuously against social-democratic reformism that misled the workers with its illusory pacifism and legalism ; it openly confronted fascism, which it described as the reaction of industrial and agrarian capital to a worldwide economic crisis and the militancy of the proletariat, and not a feudal phenomenon as would be averred later by Stalinists ; it built a defensive military apparatus against reaction and did not have to rely on such organizations as the “ Arditi del Popolo ”, a formation of spurious and uncertain nature ; and during all those years marked by the reflux of the postwar revolutionary wave, the party maintained an international and internationalist stance, criticizing from the outset the rise of localism or autonomous actions and, above all else, the moves subordinating the International itself to Russian national needs.

Olaf and his men fought Alfvine's crew and won every battle, but did not kill any of them, instead they bound them.

He was the first major villain that Darkwing fought against and defeated, although only after Bulba proved willing to destroy himself, in order to try to kill Darkwing in the process.

Duels were fought not so much to kill the opponent as to gain " satisfaction ," that is, to restore one's honour by demonstrating a willingness to risk one's life for it, and as such the tradition of duelling was originally reserved for the male members of nobility ; however, in the modern era it extended to those of the upper classes generally.

Bill says " Priest " Vallon was the last enemy he ever fought who was worthy of real respect, and " Priest " once beat Bill soundly and then let him live in shame rather than kill him.

Later, He is chained when he attempts to kill Scamp, who is in the pound, but is fought off by Tramp.

And Chemosh said to me, Go take Nebo against Israel, and I went in the night and I fought against it from the break of day till noon, and I took it: and I killed in all seven thousand men, but I did not kill the women and maidens, for I devoted them to Ashtar-Chemosh ; and I took from it the vessels of Jehovah, and offered them before Chemosh.

The posse fought back but the creature killed several of the men before they finally managed to kill it.

It is likely that Jemmy and his rebel cohort were such military men, as they fought hard against the militia when they were caught, and were able to kill 20 of them.

When they discover that the evil they had fought in Mordor had come home to roost, they rouse the Shire and are able to kill or drive off the evil-doers that infested it.

People from Combate are known as mata con hacha (" those who kill with axes ") based on an old folk tale about a fight over the Salinas where those from Cabo Rojo fought with axes against people from the adjacent town of Lajas.

Deathstroke and Arsenal fought, with Deathstroke intending to kill him, but when the mercenary discovered the bullet scars on Arsenal's chest, he figured Arsenal had suffered enough and gave him a " pass ".

He attempted to kill Daredevil while the crime-fighter was hospitalized, and he also fought the Avengers.

As his forces fought the armies of the Authority and the Church, Mrs. Coulter tricked Metatron into trying to kill Lord Asriel and take Lyra's dæmon.

Santo fought against an evil scientist, Dr. Clone, who collected the DNA of Santo's previous foes and resurrected them to kill Santo and dominate the world.

While Marek fought with Sir Charles de Gaune, Sir Guy tried to kill Chris.

Unable to bring himself to kill his friend and teammate, he fought the mind control just long enough to commit suicide.

Although both Matix and Platt were hit multiple times during the firefight, Platt fought on and continued to injure and kill agents.

Knowing he could never have a traitor taking over his role, Thragg decided to secretly kill Mark until Dinosaurus stepped in and fought Thragg, but was almost killed in the process.

She fought the Hulk, but the two worked through their differences and attempted to search for a child who was foretold to become a genocidal maniac, while contending with Achilles of the Pantheon, who was sent to kill the boy.

Jeff also states that Phil was not his real father and that Mona chopped off his right hand when they fought over a bottle of beer, but that in spite of all this he did not kill either of them.

Midnighter fought with Jenny and then Apollo, regaining clarity for just long enough to beg Apollo to kill him if he got the chance.

The Indians are fought off, but an arrow is shot through Jacob's chest, and he begs to be left behind to recover on his own terms as the trail would kill him faster.

He rejected the League when ordered to kill a criminal to prove his commitment to justice, having realized that he must retain his compassion or he would become like the criminals he fought.

When next they fought, Wolverine barely beat him and appeared to kill him.

* 1863 – A 65-man French Foreign Legion infantry patrol fought a force of nearly 2, 000 Mexican soldiers to nearly the last man in Hacienda Camarón, Mexico.

During his reign, Spain lost its last colonies in the Americas ( Cuba and Puerto Rico ) and the Philippines ; fought and, after several setbacks, won a war in Morocco ; witnessed the start of the Spanish Generation of 1927, and endured the dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera.

This battle was the last major one fought against the Persians.

The U. S. Army's last horse cavalry actions were fought during World War II: a ) by the 26th Cavalry Regiment ( PS ) in World War II — a small mounted regiment of Philippine Scouts which fought the Japanese during the retreat down the Bataan peninsula, until it was effectively destroyed by January 1942 ; and b ) on captured German horses by the mounted reconnaissance section of the U. S. 10th Mountain Division in a spearhead pursuit of the German Army across the Po Valley in Italy in April 1945.

Charles's last years were marked by the English Civil War, in which he fought the forces of the English and Scottish parliaments, which challenged his attempts to overrule and negate parliamentary authority, whilst simultaneously using his position as head of the English Church to pursue religious policies which generated the antipathy of reformed groups such as the Puritans.

It was the last of Commodore Daniel Patterson's makeshift fleet that fought a series of delaying actions that contributed to Andrew Jackson's victory at the Battle of New Orleans.

After liberation from the fascist occupation on 29 November 1944, several Albanian partisan divisions crossed the border into German-occupied Yugoslavia, where they fought alongside Tito's partisans and the Soviet Red Army in a joint campaign which succeeded in driving out the last pockets of German resistance.

The patrol was forced to make a defence in Hacienda Camarón, and despite the hopelessness of the situation, fought nearly to the last man.

While all of the Japanese soldiers on the nearby Islands fought and died to the last man, the Japanese soldiers on Lagos survived the war and eventually returned to Japan.

Subsequently, in " Dalek " ( 2005 ), it is revealed that the last great Time War was fought between the Time Lords and the Daleks, ending in the obliteration of both sides and with only two apparent survivors ; the Doctor and a lone Dalek that had somehow fallen through time and crashed on Earth.

* 1565 – Battle of Talikota, fought between the Vijayanagara Empire and the Islamic sultanates of the Deccan, leads to the subjugation, and eventual destruction of the last Hindu kingdom in India, and the consolidation of Islamic rule over much of the Indian subcontinent.

* 1885 – In the last military engagement fought on Canadian soil, Cree leader Big Bear escapes the North-West Mounted Police.

* The second dates to the Battle of Flodden in 1513 (" a landmark in the history of archery, as the last battle on English soil to be fought with the longbow as the principal weapon ...").

The Hanseatic League was greatly weakened by this and the city state of Luebeck fought its last great war.

Murad IV was the last Warrior Sultan who led campaigns in front of his army and fought on the battlefield.

During the last years of his life he fought the Bohemian state, winning Silesia and probably Lesser Poland.

* 1803 – The Battle of Vertières, the last major battle of the Haitian Revolution, is fought, leading to the establishment of the Republic of Haiti, the first black republic in the Western Hemisphere.

On 15 April 1746, the day before the Battle of Culloden, at Dunrobin Castle, a party of the William Sutherland, 17th Earl of Sutherland ’ s militia conducted the last siege fought on the mainland of Great Britain against Jacobin members of clan MacLeod.

The last great battle was fought in 691 BC with an uncertain result which enabled Mushezib-Marduk to remain on the throne for another two years.

From 1643 – 45, during the last years of the Thirty Years ' War, Sweden and Denmark fought the Torstenson War.

One of the last major battles involving Vikings was the Battle of Clontarf on the 23 April 1014, in which Vikings fought both for the Irish over-king Brian Boru's army and for the Viking-led army opposing him.

File: Battle of Lepanto 1571. jpg | The Spanish naval victory of the Battle of Lepanto, 1571, the last battle to be fought primarily between galleys

* May 14 – 15 – WWII – Battle of Poljana: The last battle of the War in Europe is fought at Poljana near Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia.