This damage had been done in the battle of Vientiane, fought less than three months earlier when four successive governments had ruled here in three days ( December 9-11, 1960 ).

United Airlines Flight 93 crashed into a field as flight attendants and passengers — who had heard about the other three hijacked planes ramming into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon — fought hijackers who were likely flying to crash the plane either into the White House or the United States Capitol.

According to the Anglo Saxon Chronicle, Ælle and three of his sons are said to have landed at a place called Cymensora and fought against the local Britons.

The Battle of Poitiers was fought between England and France on 19 September 1356 near Poitiers, resulting in the second of the three great English victories of the Hundred Years ' War: Crécy, Poitiers, and Agincourt.

The annal for 577 reads " Here Cuthwine and Ceawlin fought against the Britons, and they killed three kings, Coinmail and Condidan and Farinmail, in the place which is called Dyrham, and took three cities: Gloucester and Cirencester and Bath.

He probably participated in the First Punic War, the first of three wars fought between the Roman Republic and Ancient Carthage, although no details of his role are known.

The First Punic War ( 264 to 241 BC ) was the first of three wars fought between Ancient Carthage and the Roman Republic.

At the outbreak of World War I, Lang returned to Vienna and volunteered for military service in the Austrian army and fought in Russia and Romania, where he was wounded three times.

To mention a few of the memorable milestones on the road to the scudetto: a decisive win against Juventus ( 2 – 0 ), with a goal scored by Elkjær after having lost a boot in a tackle just outside the box, set the stage early in the championship ; an away win over Udinese ( 5 – 3 ) ended any speculation that the team was losing energy at the midway point ; three straight wins ( including a hard fought 1 – 0 victory against a strong AS Roma side ) served notice that the team had kept its polish and focus intact during their rival's final surge ; and a 1 – 1 draw in Bergamo against Atalanta secured the title with a game in hand.

Plutarch claimed that the army had fought against three million men during the Gallic Wars, of whom one million died, and another million were enslaved.

The three karate fighters from Oyama dojo ( kyokushin later ) went to the Lumpinee Boxing Stadium in Thailand, and fought against three Muay Thai fighters.

In the event, variations of all three interpretations were attempted: some barricaded the Acropolis, the civilian population was evacuated over sea to nearby Salamis Island and to Troizen, and the war fleet fought victoriously at Salamis Bay.

Post-independence, it has fought three wars against India, several border skirmishes with Afghanistan and against the Soviet Union which occupied Afghanistan in 1979, and an extended border skirmish with India in 1999 ( Kargil War ) and is currently conducting anti-terrorist operations along the border areas of Afghanistan.

Historically, Pakistan's foreign policy has encompassed difficult relations with the Republic of India ; especially on the core-issue of Kashmir, over which it has fought three wars.

To prepare for a crusade, Boniface ordered Venice and Genoa to sign a truce ; they fought each other for three more years, and turned down his offer to mediate peace.

#: It was noted that Italy had fought on the side of the Allies and was making good progress towards establishment of a democratic government and institutions and that after the peace treaty the three Allies would support an application from a democratic Italian government for membership of the United Nations.

The Punic Wars were a series of three wars fought between Rome and Carthage from 264 BC to 146 BC.

However Jamal upon hearing of Yeshaq's plan to send several large armies to attack three different areas of Adal, including the capital returned to Adal where he fought the Solomonic forces at Harjai and according to al-Maqrizi this is where the Emperor Yeshaq died in battle.

From 1919-1921 three Silesian Uprisings occurred among the Polish-speaking populace of Upper Silesia ; the Battle of Annaberg was fought in the region in 1921.

Members of all three factions fought in these uprisings, which began to blur the divisions and prepare the way for unified action.

Shah of Persia Peroz fought three wars with Hephthalites.

When the two armies had fought to a stalemate, the two generals ruthlessly took three days to reach a truce, so that the dead and dying could be removed from the battlefield.

Through the most rancorous battles of political controversy and the most bitterly fought national and presidential campaigns his character shines as an example of dignity and honesty, forthrightness and nobility.

And in a series of bitterly fought battles in the jungles and hills and along the great rivers of Burma he waged one of the most brilliant campaigns of the war.

His final campaigns were against Mequinenza ( 1133 ) and Fraga ( 1134 ), where García Ramírez, the future king of Navarre, and a mere 500 other knights fought with him.

He led his men in brutal campaigns against the Indians in the west ; in 10 months units of his regiment fought 20 battles, and lost a third of its men.

Henryk Dąbrowski's Polish Legions fought in French campaigns outside of Poland, hoping that their involvement and contribution result in liberation of their Polish homeland.

Jewish and Arab communities fought each other violently in campaigns of attacks, retaliations and counter-retaliations which provoked around 800 deaths after 2 months.

Murad IV was the last Warrior Sultan who led campaigns in front of his army and fought on the battlefield.

The Wars of Scottish Independence were a series of military campaigns fought between the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of England in the late 13th and early 14th centuries.

During the 1980s in New York, there were the ' model wars ' in which Ford Models and Elite Models fought over models and campaigns.

Muscogee warriors fought on behalf of Britain during the Mobile and Pensacola campaigns of 1780 – 81, where Spain re-conquered British West Florida.

The Army fought in a number of campaigns and battles, including:

The oaths between Gondor and Rohan were renewed, and several joint campaigns were fought in the east and south ; all former territories of the South-kingdom were won back during the following centuries, and its power and wealth were restored.

During the first four years of the reign of Byzantine Emperor Michael IV, Harald probably also fought in campaigns against the Pechenegs.

The outbreak of hostilities with England in 1294 was the inevitable result of the competitive expansionist monarchies, triggered by a secret Franco-Scottish pact of mutual assistance against Edward I, who was Philip's brother-in-law, having married Philip's sister Margaret ; inconclusive campaigns for the control of Gascony to the southwest of France were fought in 1294 – 98 and 1300 – 03.

He fought in the army of Dionysus during his campaigns in India.

strategy forms the plan of the War, and to this end it links together the series of acts which are to lead to the final decision, that is to say, it makes the plans for the separate campaigns and regulates the combats to be fought in each.

Peter Rex, in his 2005 biography of Hereward, points out that the campaigns he is reported to have fought in the neighbourhood of Flanders seem to have begun around 1063, and suggests that Hereward in fact went to Flanders-meaning that, if he was 18 at the time of his exile, he was born in 1044 / 5.

In November – December 2003, the Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) won three major state elections, fought mainly on development issues, without ideological campaigns.

* The Outrage-an account of the bombing on a website set up by ex-British servicemen, whose purpose was to detail largely forgotten campaigns fought by the British since the end of the Second World War.

The Battle of Engen was fought between France and Austria on May 3, 1800 as a part of the 1800 campaigns of the French Revolutionary Wars.

* Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Irish-born British general who fought many successful campaigns and defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo.

He left to enter the army when he was only sixteen and fought in several campaigns, succeeding his father in the office of mestre de camp.

By the end of World War I, V Corps had fought in three named campaigns.

The VNA fought in a wide range of campaigns including but not limited to the Battle of Na San ( 1952 ), Operation Atlas ( 1953 ) and the Battle of Dien Bien Phu ( 1954 ).