Next were films such as The Winds of the Aures ( 1965 ) of Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, Patrol To The East ( 1972 ) of Amar Laskri, Prohibited Area of Ahmed Lallem, ( 1972 ), The Opium and the stick of Ahmed Rachedi, or The Battle of Algiers ( 1966 ) which is an Algerian-Italian film selected three times at the Oscars.

His later novels included fixups such as The Beast ( aka Moonbeast ) ( 1963 ), Rogue Ship ( 1965 ), Quest for the Future ( 1970 ) and Supermind ( 1977 ); expanded short stories ( The Darkness on Diamondia ( 1972 ), Future Glitter ( aka Tyranopolis ) ( 1973 ); original novels such as Children of Tomorrow ( 1970 ), The Battle of Forever ( 1971 ) and The Anarchistic Colossus ( 1977 ); plus sequels to his classic works, many of which were promised, but only one of which appeared, Null-A Three ( 1984 ; originally published in French ).

They include: the Second Battle of Athenry ( 1316 ); the battle of Knockdoe ( 1504 ); the Battle of the Yellow Ford ( 1596 ); the First Battle of Curlew Pass ( 1599 ); the Battle of Dungans Hill ( 1647 ); the Battle of Castlebar ( 1798 ), and the Battle of the Bogside ( 1969 ).

The early policy of Ambracia was determined by its loyalty to Corinth ( for which it probably served as an entrepot in the Epirus trade ), its consequent aversion to Corcyra ( as Ambracia participated on the Corinthian side at the Battle of Sybota, which took place in 433 BC between the rebellious corinthian colony of Corcyra ( modern Corfu ) and Corinth ).

When Alaric II was killed fighting Clovis I, king of the Franks, in the Battle of Vouillé ( 507 ), his kingdom fell into disarray.

The Battle of Qarqar is mentioned in extra-biblical records, and was perhaps at Apamea where Shalmaneser III of Assyria fought a great confederation of princes from Cilicia, Northern Syria, Israel, Ammon, and the tribes of the Syrian desert ( 853 BC ), including Ahab ( A-ha-ab-bu < sup > mat </ sup >) ( Adad -' idri ).

At the Battle of Asfeld ( 552 ), he killed Turismod, son of the Gepid king Thurisind, in a victory that resulted in the Emperor Justinian's intervention to maintain equilibrium between the rival regional powers.

At the very outset, he had to meet the formidable attack of the Normans ( led by Robert Guiscard and his son Bohemund ), who took Dyrrhachium and Corfu, and laid siege to Larissa in Thessaly ( see Battle of Dyrrhachium ).

Based in frontier Tennessee, Jackson was a politician and army general who defeated the Creek Indians at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend ( 1814 ), and the British at the Battle of New Orleans ( 1815 ).

However, later that month, on 22 January, the English were defeated at the Battle of Basing and, on the 22 March at the Battle of Merton ( perhaps Marden in Wiltshire or Martin in Dorset ), in which Æthelred was killed.

In 1138, Ali ibn Yusuf was defeated by Alfonso VII of León, and in the Battle of Ourique ( 1139 ), by Afonso I of Portugal, who thereby won his crown.

During his brother's reign, he participated in the taking of Huesca ( the Battle of Alcoraz, 1096 ), which became the largest city in the kingdom and the new capital.

But there are smaller snippets of tradition preserved in the Historia Brittonum: in Chapter 31, we are told that Vortigern ruled in fear of Ambrosius ; later, in Chapter 66, various events are dated from a Battle of Guoloph ( often identified with Wallop, ESE of Amesbury near Salisbury ), which is said to have been between Ambrosius and Vitolinus ; lastly, in Chapter 48, it is said that Pascent, the son of Vortigern, was granted rule over the regions of Buellt and Gwrtheyrnion by Ambrosius.

Anaximenes wrote a history of Greece in twelve books, stretching from the gods ' origins to the death of Epaminondas at the Battle of Mantinea ( Hellenica, ), and a history of Philip of Macedon ( Philippica ).

At Rome, he wrote in Latin a history of the Roman empire from the accession of Nerva ( 96 ) to the death of Valens at the Battle of Adrianople ( 378 ), in effect writing a continuation of the history of Tacitus.

This command included the Battle of El Alamein, a turning point in the Western Desert Campaign.

He had stabilised the Allied position at the First Battle of El Alamein, but after a visit in August 1942, the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, replaced him as C-in-C with Alexander and William Gott as commander of the Eighth Army in the Western Desert.

9th Australian Infantry Division in a posed photograph during the Second Battle of El Alamein.

The Second Battle of El Alamein reversed German ambitions in North Africa, and is often cited as one of the turning points of the Second World War.

Later, however, the British would have spectacular success defeating the Italians and Germans at the Battle of El Alamein in North Africa, and in the D-Day invasion of Normandy with the help of American, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand forces.

* First Battle of El Alamein – 1 – 27 July 1942

* Second Battle of El Alamein – 23 October – 4 November 1942

After the Christian defeat at the Battle of Sagrajas in 1086, El Cid was recalled to service by Alfonso VI, and commanded a combined Christian and Moorish army, which he used to create his own fiefdom in the Moorish Mediterranean coastal city of Valencia.

In 1084, El Cid and the Moorish armies defeated Sancho of Aragon at the Battle of Morella near Tortosa.

El Cid had probably commanded a large Moorish force during the Battle of Sagrajas, which took place in 1086, near the Taifa of Badajoz.

In May 1090, El Cid defeated and captured Berenguer in the Battle of Tébar ( nowadays Pinar de Tévar, near Monroyo, Teruel ).

El Cid's son Diego Rodríguez was killed while fighting against the invading Muslim Almoravids from North Africa at the Battle of Consuegra ( 1097 ).

The First Battle of El Alamein ( 1 – 27 July 1942 ) was a battle of the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War, fought between Axis forces ( Germany and Italy ) of the Panzer Army Africa ( Panzerarmee Afrika ) commanded by Field Marshal ( Generalfeldmarschall ) Erwin Rommel, and Allied ( specifically, British Imperial ) forces ( Britain, British India, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand ) of the British Eighth Army commanded by General Claude Auchinleck.

A second attempt by Rommel to bypass or break the Commonwealth position was repulsed in the Battle of Alam Halfa in August, and in October the Eighth Army decisively defeated the Axis forces in the Second Battle of El Alamein.

* Second Battle of El Alamein

* First Battle of El Alamein, from Italian " Comando Supremo "

Alexander presided over Montgomery's victory at the Second Battle of El Alamein and the advance of the Eighth Army to Tripoli, for which Alexander was elevated to a knight grand cross of the Order of the Bath, and, after the Anglo-American forces from Operation Torch and the Eighth Army converged in Tunisia in February 1943, they were brought under the unified command of a newly-formed 18th Army Group headquarters, commanded by Alexander and reporting to Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Supreme Allied Commander in the Mediterranean at the Allied Forces Headquarters.

* 1942 – World War II: first Battle of El Alamein.

His invention, known as the Polish mine detector, was used by the Allies alongside mechanical methods, to clear the German mine fields during the Second Battle of El Alamein when 500 units were shipped to Field Marshal Montgomery's Eighth Army.

It was painted and signed by the artist on April 1942, weeks before his death on the first day of the First Battle of El Alamein.

In January 1976, the son of retired Lieutenant-General Julio Alsogoray, Juan Alsogaray ( El Hippie ), copied from his father's safe a draft of " Battle Order 24 March " and passed it to the head of the Montoneros intelligence, Rodolfo Walsh, who informed the guerrilla leadership of the planned military coup.

* 1942 – World War II: The Second Battle of El Alamein is won by the British in El Alamein, Egypt.

* 1097: Diego Rodriguez, a son of El Cid, dies in the Battle of Consuegra, an Almoravid victory

In 1084, El Cid and the Moorish armies defeated Sancho of Aragon at the Battle of Morella near Tortosa.

El Cid probably commanded a large Moorish force during the great Battle of Sagrajas, which took place in 1086, near the Taifa of Badajoz.

He was defeated by El Cid, who was raiding his lands and those of his Muslim allies, at the Battle of Morella, probably in 1084.

" In addition to stock footage, the film used battle sequences from films such as Zulu, El Cid, Battle of the Bulge and Alexander Nevsky for rotoscoping.

( 1955 ), the Olivier Richard III ( 1955 ), the travelogue Cinerama Holiday ( 1955 ), Helen of Troy ( 1956 ), the Audrey Hepburn-Henry Fonda War and Peace ( 1956 ), the all-star Around the World in 80 Days ( 1956 ), the Technicolor Ten Commandments ( 1956 ), the Cinerama documentary Seven Wonders of the World ( 1956 ), Giant ( 1956 ), The Bridge on the River Kwai ( 1957 ), Raintree County ( 1957 ), the Cinerama Search for Paradise ( 1957 ), the Cinemiracle documentary Windjammer ( 1958 ), South Pacific ( 1958 ), the Cinerama travelogue South Seas Adventure ( 1958 ), The Big Country ( 1958 ), the Sidney Poitier-Dorothy Dandridge Porgy and Bess ( 1959 ), The Diary of Anne Frank ( 1959 ), Ben-Hur ( 1959 ) with Charlton Heston, Disney's Sleeping Beauty ( 1959 ) ( an animated feature only seventy-five minutes long with no intermission ), John Wayne's The Alamo ( 1960 ), Spartacus ( 1960 ), Exodus ( 1960 ), Can-Can ( 1960 ), Scent of Mystery ( 1961 ), El Cid ( 1961 ), King of Kings ( 1961 ), The Guns of Navarone ( 1961 ), ( shown only occasionally in roadshow format despite its length of more than two-and-a-half hours ), Lawrence of Arabia ( 1962 ), the Marlon Brando Mutiny on the Bounty ( 1962 ), The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm ( 1962 ), How the West Was Won ( 1962 ), The Longest Day ( 1962 ), It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World ( 1963 ), The Cardinal ( 1963 ), Cleopatra ( 1963 ), the Richard Burton Hamlet ( 1964 ), My Fair Lady ( 1964 ), The Fall of the Roman Empire ( 1964 ), The Sound of Music ( 1965 ), The Greatest Story Ever Told ( 1965 ), the Olivier Othello ( 1965 ), Doctor Zhivago ( 1965 ), The Great Race ( 1965 ), Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines ( 1965 ), The Agony and the Ecstasy ( 1965 ), Battle of the Bulge ( 1965 ), Khartoum ( 1966 ), Cinerama's Russian Adventure ( 1966 ), Hawaii ( 1966 ), The Blue Max ( 1966 ), Grand Prix ( 1966 ), Half a Sixpence ( 1967 ), Camelot ( 1967 ), The Happiest Millionaire ( 1967 ), Ice Station Zebra ( 1968 ), The Lion in Winter ( 1968 ), Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey ( 1968 ), Oliver!

* 1097-El Cid defeats Almoravid ( Ali ibn al-Hajj ) at the Battle of Bairén south of Valencia.