The Crown Prince, however, succeeded in effecting the retreat in good order, and in the decisive Battle of Königgratz ( 3 July 1866 ) he held the extreme left of the Austrian position.

# Interior of express car .... the two robbers have succeeded in effecting an entrance.

Only the third battalion, commanded by Colonel Grace, succeeded in effecting an orderly retreat, and marched off the field intact.

His pertinacity helped in effecting a change in the method of electing Scottish representative peers, and in 1780 he succeeded in founding the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.

Rescued by two Neapolitan barons who had sided for Louis, Raimondello Orsini and Tommaso di Sanseverino, after six months of siege he succeeded in making his escape to Genoa with six galleys sent him by doge Antoniotto Adorno.

Toghus Temur is killed whilst trying to escape and is succeeded as Khan of Mongolia by his rival, Jorightu.

In the second Battle of Cape Finisterre which followed, the French admiral, Henri-François des Herbiers-l ' Étenduère ( 1681 – 1750 ), succeeded in covering the escape of most of the merchant ships, but Hawke's British squadron took six of his warships.

It almost succeeded, had it not been for Brown's delay, and hundreds of slaves left their plantations to join Brown's force-and others left their plantations to join Brown in an escape to the mountains.

Drouet had succeeded in making his escape, according to Paul Barras, with the connivance of the Directory.

He was arrested as he was about to sail for Italy, for a sum of money which he owed to the treasury of Caesar, but made his escape, and reached Alexandria, where his wife succeeded in procuring a supply of money from Alexander the Alabarch.

* The initial defense in Southern Norway, which was largely disorganized, but succeeded in allowing the government to escape capture

In the original novel, the jailbreak succeeded without a hitch, and Lili and her lover were able to escape to Canada and start a new life there.

In one tale, Demeter transformed herself into a mare to escape Poseidon, but Poseidon counter-transformed himself into a stallion to pursue her, and succeeded in the rape.

A few died but some of the wounded succeeded to escape.

During his withdrawal to the coast his army was ambushed near Beth Horon, and only succeeded in making good his escape to Antioch by sacrificing the greater part of his army and a large amount of war material.

The English barely succeeded in making their escape, a humiliating experience which affected Drake's later career.

Jacques Mouhot failed to escape three times, he eventually succeeded the fourth time.

Some of the garrison tried to escape by jumping into the water surrounding the castle, but only three men succeeded in getting away.

Two Mamelukes had in the meantime succeeded, by great exertions, in giving the alarm to their comrades in the vicinity of the Al-Azhar Mosque, thus enabling that faction to escape by the eastern gate called Bib al-Ghoraib.

Early in 1796 with the assistance of Pierre François Péron, a French sailor, he succeeded in arranging his escape from the settlement on board the American ship the Otter of Boston.

He succeeded to the Imperial throne in 12, 010 GE at the age of twenty-two following the death of his father, Stanel VI, who was fortunate enough to escape the roughly one-in-two chances of assassination faced by the last century of Galactic Emperors.

Groups of Soviet tanks and infantry that attempted to escape and succeeded in breaking through German lines were caught and destroyed by Ju 87s from StG 77.

They succeeded in making their escape after 11 days, crossed the Channel on a small craft, and were soon serving their country again.

Hamilton succeeded in making good his escape.

However, Kirk and McCoy's escape succeeded.

They attempted to escape and eight succeeded.

In 2009, The New York Times succeeded in suppressing news of a reporter's abduction by militants in Afghanistan for seven months until his escape from captivity in order to ' reduce danger to the reporter and other hostages '.

He succeeded in making his escape -- possibly he was permitted to leave on account of his youth and immediately began a more rigorous campaign against autocracy.

The sequence may involve a sharp contrast: for example, a quiet meditative sway of the body succeeded by a violent leap ; ;

It was with the assistance of one of the members of this expedition, Lauritz Esmarch, that Oersted succeeded in producing light by creating an electric discharge in mercury vapor through which an electric current was made to flow.

She was succeeded by Clarence Goyette.

The Colonial Light and Power Company was succeeded by the Vermont Hydro-Electric Corporation, which in turn was absorbed by the Central Vermont Public Service Corporation.

Even before it was formally dissolved in 1912, the A.L.A.M. was succeeded by the Automobile Board of Trade, the direct lineal ancestor of the present-day Automobile Manufacturers Association.

He will be succeeded by Ivan Allen Jr., who became a candidate in the Sept. 13 primary after Mayor Hartsfield announced that he would not run for reelection.

He will be succeeded by Rob Ledford of Gainesville, who has been an assistant more than three years.

A bunch of young buckaroos from out West, who go by the name of Texas Boys Choir, loped into Town Hall last night and succeeded in corralling the hearts of a sizable audience.

When his uncle Tughril died he was succeeded by Suleiman, Alp Arslan's brother.

In game 19, Korchnoi succeeded in winning a long endgame, then notched a speedy victory after a blunder by Karpov two games later.

Bradman was succeeded as Australian captain by Lindsay Hassett, who led the team to 4 – 1 victory in 1950 – 51.

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.

Valens died in the Battle of Adrianople in 378 and was succeeded by Theodosius I, who adhered to the Nicene creed.

He was succeeded as Emperor by his adopted son ( also stepson and former son-in-law ) Tiberius.

He was succeeded as bishop of Milan by Simplician.

Ahab was succeeded by Ahaziah and Jehoram who reigned over Israel until Jehu's revolt of 842 BC.

Ahab was succeeded by his sons, Ahaziah and Jehoram.

Ahmed II was born at Topkapı Palace, Constantinople, the son of Sultan Ibrahim I ( 1640 – 48 ) by Valide Sultan Khadija Muazzez, and succeeded his brother Suleiman II ( 1687 – 91 ) in 1691.

He was succeeded by his eldest son Hasan Ali Shah, also known as Muhammad Hasan, who became the 46th Imam.

Hasan Ali Shah was succeeded as Imam by his eldest son Aqa Ali Shah, who became Aga Khan II.

Aga Khan III was succeeded as Aga Khan by his grandson Karim Aga Khan, who is the present Imam of the Ismaili Muslims.

" Ever since the time of my ancestor Ali, the first Imam, that is to say over a period of thirteen hundred years, it has always been the tradition of our family that each Imam chooses his successor at his absolute and unfettered discretion from amongst any of his descendants, whether they be sons or remote male issue and in these circumstances and in view of the fundamentally altered conditions in the world in very recent years due to the great changes which have taken place including the discoveries of atomic science, I am convinced that it is in the best interest of the Shia Muslim Ismailia Community that I should be succeeded by a young man who has been brought up and developed during recent years and in the midst of the new age and who brings a new outlook on life to his office as Imam.

His prudence and heroism preserved an un-walled Sparta against the revolts and conspiracies of helots, perioeci and even Spartans, and against her enemies, four different armies led by Epaminondas, that penetrated Laconia that same year, and again in 362 BC when they all but succeeded in seizing the city by a rapid and unexpected march.