Miraculously, Karipo and her women had succeeded in driving a hundred invaders from the isle of Pamasu back to their war canoes, after considerable loss of life on both sides.

Attorney Shearn had worked on this for two years and had succeeded in getting a report supporting his stand from the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York.

But he had succeeded well, we agreed.

Presidential coercion had succeeded not only in poisoning the courtiers, `` toadies '' and sycophants of the `` bench '' against me, but it had been so far-reaching as to discourage any lawyer in the nation from representing me!!

An American student named Charlotte Adams had refused to take notice of his evident aversion to people and had at last succeeded in getting him to talk to her.

The expedition that had discovered Ozagen had succeeded in correlating two thousand Siddo words with an equal number of American words.

Angola sent a delegation to DR Congo's capital Kinshasa and succeeded in stopping government-forced expulsions which had become a " tit-for-tat " immigration dispute.

Brearley retired from Test cricket in 1979 and was succeeded by Ian Botham, who started the 1981 series as England captain, by which time the WSC split had ended.

These negotiations might have succeeded had it not been for the malignant influence of another Goth, Sarus, an Amali, and therefore hereditary enemy of Alaric and his house.

Ealdred was succeeded by Wulfstan, chosen by Ealdred, but John of Worcester relates that Ealdred had a hard time deciding between Wulfstan and Æthelwig.

He succeeded his father as king in 272 BC, and continued the war which his father had begun with Antigonus II Gonatas, whom he succeeded in driving from the kingdom of Macedon.

They had five or six children together, including Edward the Elder, who succeeded his father as king, Æthelflæd, who would become Queen of Mercia in her own right, and Ælfthryth who married Baldwin II the Count of Flanders.

He succeeded to relinquish suzerainty of his cousin Alfonso VII of León, becoming instead a subject of the papacy, as the kingdoms of Sicily and Aragon had done before him.

Aided by the treachery of Ælfmaer, whose life Ælfheah had once saved, the raiders succeeded in sacking the city.

He had succeeded to a remarkable degree in balancing tribal alliances and hostilities, and in directing tribal energies away from rebellion.

Ahmad Shah was succeeded by his son, Timur Shah, who had been deputed to administer his fathers conquests in northern India, but had been driven out by the Marathas.

He had to a great extent succeeded, and was paying a visit to Saxony, when he was recalled by news of a fresh rising.

Frederick William, known as the " Great Elector ", who had succeeded his father George William as ruler in 1640, initiated a policy of promoting immigration and religious tolerance.

Lord John Russell, the Whig leader who had succeeded Peel as Prime Minister and like Rothschild a member for the City of London, introduced a Jewish Disabilities Bill to amend the oath and permit Jews to enter Parliament.

* Harold I Harefoot, king of the Anglo-Saxons ( 1035 – 1040 ), illegitimate son of Cnut, died in 1040 and his half-brother, Harthacanute, on succeeding him, had his body taken from its tomb and cast in a pen with animals.

Meanwhile, the Danish king's brother, Cnut, had finally arrived in England with a fleet of 200 ships, but he was too late as Norwich had already surrendered.

Edward then again went into exile with his brother and sister, but his mother had no taste for the sidelines, and in 1017 she married Cnut.

In the same year Cnut had Edward's last surviving elder half-brother, Eadwig, executed, leaving Edward as the leading Anglo-Saxon claimant to the throne.

Cnut had put aside his first wife Ælfgifu of Northampton in order to marry Emma, and according to the Encomium Emmae Reginae, a book she inspired many years later, Cnut agreed that any sons of their marriage should take precedence over the sons of his first marriage.

Cnut had left Norway under the rule of Håkon Eiriksson but he was drowned in 1029, and Cnut appointed his son Svein to rule Norway with the assistance of Ælfgifu, Cnut's first wife and Svein's mother.

Ian Howard points that Cnut had been survived by three sons: Svein, Harold, and Harthacnut.

Harold soon " sent and had taken from her all the best treasures " of Cnut the Great

The event points that Harold Harefoot, as a son and successor to Cnut, had gained the support of Anglo-Danish nobility, which violently rejected the claims of Ælfred, Edward, and ( by extension ) the Aethelings.

Emma Mason speculates that Cnut had build a royal residence in the vicinity of the Abbey, or that Westminster held some significance to the Danish Kings of England, which would also explain why Harthacnut would not allow a usurper to be buried there.

The kingship of England of course lent the Danes an important link to the maritime zone between the islands of Great Britain and Ireland, where Cnut like his father before him had a strong interest and wielded much influence among the Gall-Ghaedhil.

Cnut also gained concessions on the tolls his people had to pay on the way to Rome from other magnates of medieval Christendom, at the coronation of the Holy Roman Emperor.

Edgar was born in Hungary, where his father Edward the Exile, son of King Edmund II Ironside, had spent most of his life, having been sent into exile after Edmund's death and the conquest of England by the Danish king Cnut in 1016.

In the 11th century, when King Magnus I had freed Norway from Cnut the Great, the terms of the peace treaty provided that the first of the two kings Magnus ( Norway ) and Harthacnut ( Denmark ) to die would leave their dominion as an inheritance to the other.

Olaf sought to reclaim the Norwegian throne, which he had lost to the Danish king Cnut the Great two years prior.

The battle was part of an attempt to restore Olaf to the Norwegian throne, which had been taken by the Danish king Cnut the Great two years earlier.

As Cnut the Great's sons had chosen to abandon Norway and instead fight over England, and his sons and successors Harold Harefoot and Harthacnut had died young, Magnus ' position had been secured.

There had been reading at table, especially from two books, Pope Gregory The Great's account of St. Scholastica in his Dialogues and my own The World Of Washington Irving.

Alfred the Great's victory at Edington in 878 stemmed the Danish attack ; however, by then Northumbria had devolved into Bernicia and a Viking kingdom, Mercia had been split down the middle, and East Anglia ceased to exist as an Anglo-Saxon polity.

The question of Russia's direction had been gaining steam ever since Peter the Great's program of Westernization.

Dioxippus was an Athenian who had won the Olympic Games in 336 BC, and was serving in Alexander the Great's army in its expedition into Asia.

Otto II had been king of Germany for twelve years and Emperor for five at the time of Otto the Great's death.

The Archbishop of Mainz Willigis, appointed in 975, who had been with Otto II's advisor since Otto the Great's second expedition into Italy in the 960s, had not been born from a noble family.

Otto the Great's efforts to consolidate the Church under Imperial control had made this type of action normal.

Llywelyn the Great's other son, Gruffudd had been killed trying to escape from the Tower of London in 1244.

Although very long spears had been used since the dawn of organized warfare ( notably illustrated in art showing Sumerian and Minoan warriors and hunters ), the earliest recorded use of a pike-like weapon in the tactical method described above involved the Macedonian sarissa, used by the troops of Alexander the Great's father, Philip II of Macedon, and successive dynasties, which dominated warfare for several centuries in many countries.

The citizens of Seleucia, still largely Greek ( the city had been commissioned and settled as a capital of the Seleucid empire, one of Alexander the Great's successor kingdoms ), opened its gates to the invaders.

The lands of the former Kingdom of Israel and Kingdom of Judah ( c. 930 BCE – 586 BCE ), had been occupied in turn by Assyria, Babylonia, the Achaemenid Empire, and Alexander the Great's Hellenic Macedonian empire ( c. 330 BCE ), although Jewish religious practice and culture had persisted and even flourished during certain periods.

It may be one of the " aestels " Alfred had sent to each bishopric with a copy of his translation of Pope Gregory the Great's book Pastoral Care.

Like his forefathers, he joined King Valdemar I ’ s housecarls, known as Thinglid – who, it is said, had originated with King Canute the Great's corps.

In later years Asser, a scholar at Alfred the Great's court, recorded the story that Beorhtric had died from being accidentally poisoned by his wife, Eadburh.

The Empire was founded in 322 BC by Chandragupta Maurya, who had overthrown the Nanda Dynasty and rapidly expanded his power westwards across central and western India taking advantage of the disruptions of local powers in the wake of the withdrawal westward by Alexander the Great's Greek and Persian armies.

Augustus may have been inspired to found the Order by the example of Peter the Great's recent founding of the Russian Order of Saint Andrew ( of which he himself had been made one of the first knights by the Russian emperor ), and above all by the example of the prestigious French Order of the Holy Spirit, with which the light blue ribbon, and the star with a bird, have a strong resemblance, and which had also inspired Peter the Great's Order of Saint Andrew.