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battle and Memnon
In the ensuing battle, Memnon killed Antilochus, who took one of Memnon's blows to save his father Nestor.
* As the Persian satraps have gathered for a war council at Zeleia, Memnon argues that it is preferable for the Persians to avoid a pitched battle and adopt a scorched earth tactic.
Killed in battle while protecting his father from Memnon.
Shortly after the battle, Memnon died.
Antilochus was later killed in battle by Memnon.
Balthazar makes his way into Memnon's quarters and briefly helps Mathayus battle Memnon and his men, but a fire starts and they end up separated.
In 335 BC Calas was defeated in a battle in the Troad by Memnon of Rhodes, but took refuge in Rhaeteum.

battle and kills
Godzilla kills two of the Kamacuras during the battle while one manages to fly away to safety, Godzilla then adopts the baby.
* 1659 – Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj, Maratha King kills Afzal Khan, Adilshahi in the battle popularly known as Battle of Pratapgarh.
The ensuing 4-day battle in Que Son Valley kills 114 Americans and 376 North Vietnamese.
Garo pulls out his knives and they battle, which ends when Miller kills him ; however, Wild Dog reappears, kidnaps Rachel, and drags her away.
As the season draws to a close, Buffy is forced to battle her best friend when Willow becomes psychotic with dark magics after the human, Warren ( Adam Busch ) shoots and kills Willow's girlfriend Tara ( Amber Benson ) and wounds Buffy in the process.
At a battle at Verona, he defeats and kills Philip the Arab.
* The pretender to the Seleucid throne, Alexander Balas, who claims to be the son of the late Antiochus IV, defeats the Seleucid king, Demetrius I Soter, in battle and kills him.
On the Gallic side, one of the leaders, Concolitanus, is captured in battle, while the leader of the Gaesatae, Aneroëstes, kills himself when the battle is lost.
Ultimately, Elric's reliance on Stormbringer proves his undoing: after the utter destruction of the Young Kingdoms in the battle of Law and Chaos, just as it seems that the cosmic Balance has been restored, Stormbringer kills Elric, transforms into a humanoid demon, and leaps laughing into the sky, to corrupt the newly-remade world once more.
Seleucus kills Lysimachus during the battle.
In most versions, he kills Laodamas, the son of Eteocles, in the battle.
In 8, Tydeus, wounded and dying kills Melanippus and eats his head ; a battle over his body leads to the death of Hippomedon and Parthenopaeus ( Book 9 ).
When hostilities break out again, Conn and Mug Nuadat's armies gather for battle at Mag Leana, but Conn kills Mug Nuadat in his bed in an early morning attack.
Conall kills a thousand men in the battle.
Sinfjötli later kills Sigrun's brother in battle, and Sigrun avenges her brother by poisoning Sinfjötli.
Only a general who kills the leader of the opposing army prior to a battle may be honored with taking a spolia opima.
In the midst of the battle, Nekron kills a Guardian and Black Hand uses his blood and organs to raise " The Trespasser " from the ground, holding a white figure.
In self-defence Macbeth meets him in battle and kills him in personal combat.
In the disastrous last battle, Arthur kills Modred, and, in turn, receives a mortal wound.
After a long and heated battle, Jacen kills Mara Jade.
Galahad is too weak and sleeps through most of the battle and, when he does wake up, he kills his father as well as being killed himself.
The war ends when Kamille, piloting the titular mobile suit Z Gundam, kills Scirocco in battle and the AEUG sinks Scirocco's flagship and most of the Titans ' fleet.
On the same day a U. S. M1 Abrams main battle tank fires into the 15th floor of the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad, where almost all foreign journalists base on, and kills two cameramen and wounds three.
Changes to the text include a new, albeit silent scene just prior to the Battle of Wakefield where York embraces Rutland before heading out to fight ; an extension of the courtship between Edward and Lady Grey, and the edition of two subplots ; one concerning a mistress of Edward's who he accidentally kills in battle ( an allusion to Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher's Philaster ), the other involving an attempt by Warwick to seduce Lady Grey after her husband's death at the Second Battle of St. Albans ( this is later used as a rationale for why Warwick turns against Edward ).

battle and Greek
" Hall of the Slain " i. e. " the Chosen Ones ") This heavenly abode, somewhat analogous to the Greek Elysium, is reserved for those brave warriors who die heroically in battle.
Achilles, the greatest warrior of the age, withdrew from battle in revenge and nearly cost the Greek armies the war.
His awareness, thoughtfulness, and wisdom were all traits to be emulated diplomatically, while his bravery and shrewdness in battle epitomized the heroic Greek commander.
In 334 BC, Alexander I, at the request of the Greek colony of Taras ( in Magna Graecia ), crossed over into Italy, to aid them in battle against several Italic tribes, the Lucanians and Bruttii.
It is an example of the widespread motif of Greek ( or Indo-European more generally ) names expressing " battle-prowess ", in this case the ability to withstand or push back an enemy battle line.
Amazonian raiders were often depicted in battle with Greek warriors in amazonomachies in classical art.
There may also be a connection with the Roman god of war Mars, via hypothetical Proto-Indo-European * M ̥ rēs ; compare Ancient Greek μάρναμαι ( marnamai ), " to fight, to battle ", or Punjabi maarna ( to kill, to hit ).
Ares may also be accompanied by Kydoimos, the demon of the din of battle ; the Makhai (" Battles "); thev " Hysminai " (" Acts of manslaughter "); Polemos, a minor spirit of war, or only an epithet of Ares, since it has no specific dominion ; and Polemos's daughter, Alala, the goddess or personification of the Greek war-cry, whose name Ares uses as his own war-cry.
A map showing the Greek world at the time of the battle
Herodotus suggests that this was the first time a Greek army ran into battle in this way ; this was probably because it was the first time that a Greek army had faced an enemy composed primarily of missile troops.
This myth has Pheidippides running from Marathon to Athens after the battle, to announce the Greek victory with the word " Nenikēkamen!
After a failed Ottoman counter-attack in the Western-Thracian front, Bulgarian forces with the help of the Serbian Army managed to conquer Adrianople while Greek forces managed to take Ioannina after defeating the Ottomans in the battle of Bizani.
By 30 July the Greek army was outnumbered by the counter-attacking Bulgarian army, which attempted to encircle the Greeks in a Cannae-type battle, by applying pressure on their flanks.
After the battle of Plataea, the Greek cities extinguished their fires and brought new fire from the hearth of Greece, at Delphi ; in the foundation stories of several Greek colonies, the founding colonists were first dedicated at Delphi.
During his campaigns, El Cid often ordered that books by classic Roman and Greek authors on military themes be read aloud to him and his troops, for both entertainment and inspiration before battle.
* 1897 – Greco-Turkish War: The first full-scale battle takes place when the Greek expeditionary force in Crete defeats a 4, 000-strong Ottoman force at Livadeia.
Greek fire continued to be mentioned during the 12th century, and Anna Komnene gives a vivid description of its use in a naval battle against the Pisans in 1099.
After the battle of Giannitsa, the Greek Army took 26, 000 Ottoman POWs.
In western Macedonia however, the lack of coordination between the Greek and Serbian HQs cost the Greeks a setback in the Battle of Vevi on, when the Greek 5th Infantry Division crossed its way with the VI Ottoman Corps ( a part of the Vardar Army consisting of the 16th, 17th and 18th Nizamiye divisions ), retreating to Albania following the battle of Prilep against the Serbs.
The royalist troops fired at them, leading to a battle between French and Greek royalist troops.
Castiglione's tale took the form of a discussion among the nobility of the court of the Duke of Urbino, in which the characters determine that the ideal knight should be renowned not only for his bravery and prowess in battle, but also as a skilled dancer, athlete, singer and orator, and he should also be well-read in the Humanities and classical Greek and Latin literature.
Polybius and Plutarch, a Greek author writing under the Roman empire, cite a battle at Mt.

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