* 216 BC – Second Punic War: Battle of Cannae – The Carthaginian army led by Hannibal defeats a numerically superior Roman army under command of consuls Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro.

However, the lack of manoeuvrability of the British forces, combined with lack of open-field tactics to command these numbers, put them at a disadvantage to the Romans, who were skilled at open combat due to their superior equipment and discipline.

During the Batavian rebellion, Domitian eagerly sought the opportunity to attain military glory, but was denied command of a legion by superior officers.

Stanley Colville was placed in command of the gunboats attached to the British expeditionary force in Egypt and as Beatty's former commander in Trafalgar and superior in ' Alexandra ' he requested that Beatty join him.

Germanicus ' leadership and command qualities were shown in full at the battle as his superior tactics and better trained and equipped legions inflicted huge casualties on the German army with only minor losses.

* 1702 – Great Northern War: A numerically superior Polish-Saxon army of Augustus II the Strong, operating from an advantageous defensive position, is defeated by a Swedish army half its size under the command of King Charles XII in the Battle of Klissow.

The decline began on 6 August 1284, when the numerically superior fleet of Pisa, under the command of Albertino Morosini, was defeated by the brilliant tactics of the Genoese fleet, under the command of Benedetto Zaccaria and Oberto Doria, in the dramatic naval Battle of Meloria.

" What other man, while Sparta still had the superior strength and the Spartan Eurybiades held the supreme command of the fleet, could by his single-handed efforts have deprived Sparta of that glory?

When the Allies announced the invasion of North Africa, Major General Patton suddenly found himself under the command of his former subordinate, now one star his superior.

Patton received scant praise in Bradley's memoirs, where the latter made it clear that had he been Patton's superior in Sicily in 1943, he not only would have relieved Patton of command immediately but " would have had nothing more to do with him ".

Grant's superior, Maj. Gen. Henry W. Halleck, was concerned about Confederate reinforcements retaking the forts, so Grant left Wallace with his brigade in command at Fort Henry while the rest of the army moved overland toward Fort Donelson.

Exercising his first command, Gaunt dared not attack such a superior force and the two armies faced each other across a marsh for several weeks until the English were reinforced by the Earl of Warwick, at which the French withdrew without offering battle.

Although the young gentlemen technically were ratings, holding a rank below warrant officers at the mercy of the captain, as aspiring future commissioned officers they were considered socially superior and were often given a watch ( with authority over some warrant officers ) or a minor command.

Because of the command and staff experience, the rear admiral rank is generally highly superior to commodore and captain.

( Thomas Francis was given the supreme command only because of his birth ; another French general, Du Plessis Praslin, noted a few years later that French marshals would only serve under someone who was superior to them in social rank, and Thomas, with his blood relationship to the French and Spanish royal families, was the only candidate.

( Thomas was given the supreme command only because of his birth ; another French general, Du Plessis Praslin, noted a few years later that French marshals would only serve under someone who was superior to them in social rank, and Thomas, with his blood relationship to the French and Spanish royal families, was the only candidate.

* When Pyrrhus returns from Sicily, he finds himself vastly outnumbered by a superior Roman army under the command of consul Manius Curius Dentatus.

* a Dux et praeses provinciae Mauritaniae et Caesariensis, i. e., a Roman governor of the rank of Vir spectabilis, who also holds the high military command of ' duke ', as the superior of eight border garrison commanders, each styled Praepositus limitis, named ( genitive forms ) Columnatensis, Vidensis, Praepositus limitis inferioris ( i. e., lower border ), Fortensis, Muticitani, Audiensis, Caputcellensis and Augustensis.

Hamilcar next invited Hanno to join forces, but cooperation between them was ineffective and the Peoples assembly voted to give Hamilcar sole command By the power of his personal influence among the mercenaries and the surrounding African peoples, superior strategy and some luck, Hamilcar, and also cooperation, if unenthusiastic, from Hanno the Great, Hamilcar crushed the revolt by ( 237 BC ) amid a war marked with cruelty atrocities from both sides.

On the day of the battle, Custer divided his 600-man command, despite being faced with vastly superior numbers of Sioux and Cheyenne.

Grant was temporarily disgraced by the surprise attack and near defeat, causing his superior, Maj. Gen. Henry W. Halleck, to assume field command of the combined armies.

" Sargent's excellent command of French and his superior talent made him both popular and admired.

Equestrians such as Pilate could command legionary forces but only small ones, and so in military situations, he would have to yield to his superior, the legate of Syria, who would descend into Palestine with his legions as necessary.

But when he came upon the Bosporus he understood: on the opposite eastern shore was a Greek city, Chalcedon, whose founders were said to have overlooked the superior location only away.

Coming into Super Bowl XXII, the Broncos were favored to win (- 3 as noted on the NFL Today show by Jimmy " the Greek " Snyder ) because most experts thought both teams were equal in terms of talent with Elway presumed to be the superior quarterback to Williams.

The most generally accepted analysis interprets it as Gaulish ver-(" over, superior " – an etymological cognate of Latin super or Greek hyper ), cingeto-(" warrior ", related to roots meaning " tread, step, walk ", so possibly " infantry "), and rix (" king ") ( cf.

The superior weaponry, strategy, and bronze armour of the Greek hoplites and their phalanx again proved their worth one year later when Sparta assembled at full strength and led a Greek alliance against the Persians at the battle of Plataea.

For example, for several centuries the Greek hoplite's ( heavy infantry ) use of phalanx made them far superior to their enemies.

In addition to being the spiritual leader of 300 million Orthodox Christians worldwide, he is the direct administrative superior of dioceses and archdioceses serving millions of Greek, Ukrainian, Rusyn and Albanian believers in North and South America, Western Europe, Australia and New Zealand, Hong Kong, Korea, Southeast Asia and parts of modern Greece which, for historical reasons, do not fall under the jurisdiction of the Church of Greece.

Nikephoros was the author of an extant treatise on military tactics, most famously the Praecepta Militaria which contains valuable information concerning the art of war in his time, and the less-known On Skirmishing ( Περί Παραδρομής in the original Greek ), which concerned guerilla-like tactics for defence against a superior enemy invasion force — though it is likely that this latter work, at least, was not composed by the Emperor but rather for him: translator and editor George T. Denis suggests that it was perhaps written by his brother Leo Phokas, then Domestic of the West.

The allied Greek land forces, which Herodotus states numbered no more than 4, 200 men, had chosen Thermopylae to block the advance of the vastly numerically superior Persian army.

In one of his seminal works, On the Genealogy of Morals, he describes the poet as a ' mouthpiece ' of the Greek nobility: Theognis represents superior virtues as traits of the aristocracy and thus distinguishes ( in Nietzsche's own words ) the " truthful " aristocrat from the " lying common man ".

Forty years later he told Ozias Humphry that his motive for going to Italy was, " to convince himself that nature was and is always superior to art whether Greek or Roman, and having renewed this conviction he immediately resolved upon returning home ".

Clinton, too, in his Fasti hellenici, charged Mitford with " a general negligence of dates ," though admitting that in his philosophical range " he is far superior to any former writer " on Greek history.

Although the Persian forces put up stout resistance, the heavily armoured Greek hoplites again proved themselves superior in combat, and eventually routed the Persian troops, who fled to their camp.

The coracoid process ( from Greek κόραξ, crow ) is a small hook-like structure on the lateral edge of the superior anterior portion of the scapula.

Not only was it native, but because it had not become hackneyed and characteristically for the direction Northern European Romanticism nationalism was to take, because it was morally superior to Greek mythology.

Barlaam's views-that we cannot really know Who the Holy Spirit is exactly ( an outgrowth of which is agnosticism ), that the ancient Greek philosophers are superior to the Prophets and the Apostles ( since reason is above the vision of the Apostles ), that the light of the Transfiguration is something which is created and can be undone, that the hesychastic way of life ( i. e. the purification of the heart and the unceasing noetic prayer ) is not essential-are views which express a supra-scholastic and, subsequently, a secularised point of view of theology.

Some supporters of the KJVO movement reject Ruckman's position that the King James Version Bible is superior to existing Hebrew and Greek manuscripts, and they also criticize Ruckman because " his writings are so acerbic, so offensive and mean-spirited that the entire movement has become identified with his kind of confrontational attitude.

Military leaders continued to express concern of the feasibility of a division-sized mountain warfare unit until fall of 1941 when they received reports that Greek mountain troops had held back superior numbers of unprepared Italian troops in the Albanian mountains during the Greco-Italian War.

As a result, the numerically superior, better organized, equipped and led Ottoman forces pushed the Greek forces south out of Thessaly.

In Ancient Greek literature the word is also used meaning fate or destiny, ( ανάγκη δαιμόνων, " fate by the daemons or by the gods "), and by extension compulsion or torture by a superior.

The Greek plan was calling for a wider open field combat which ultimately would cost heavy casualties against an already superior opponent.

Five days later colonel Manos captured Pente Pigadia but the Greek advance was halted due to lack of reinforcements against an already numerically superior opposition.