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succeeded and retaking
Spanish resistance continued for some years thereafter, in some cases with the help of the Jamaican Maroons, but Spain never succeeded in retaking the island.
Imperial forces finally succeeded in retaking it by storm in 1636.
The fighting continued throughout the night of 7 / 8 August as the 47th Regiment, launched a determined counterattack ; suffering heavy casualties, including the regimental commander, Tewfik Bey, the attack was unsuccessful in retaking the main front-line trenches, but succeeded in regaining some of the ground in the north and also pushed the Australians back a little way from The Cup.
The diocese of Palencia was but a name — a " titular see "— until Froila, Count of Villafruela, succeeded in retaking the area of the see in 921, but the true restorer of Christian power was Sancho III of Navarre.
The Empire of Nicaea had, in 1261, succeeded in retaking Constantinople, extinguishing the feeble Latin Empire.
The Papuan army, in alliance with the resistance, succeeded in retaking Arawa, the provincial capital, in January 1993.
Spicer succeeded in convincing Chan that Sandline could assist in retaking Bougainville before the upcoming elections.
In the battle of Le Bourget the Prussian Guards succeeded in retaking the city and captured 1, 200 French.
Oyama then launched a massive counteroffensive on 29 January 1905, and succeeded retaking Heikoutai by mid-morning.
Schakofsky managed to take two redoubts, but by the end of the day the Ottoman forces succeeded in repulsing all the attacks and retaking lost ground.
After the terrorist attacks of September 11 on U. S. soil that killed 3, 000 people, the United Front succeeded in retaking most of Afghanistan from the Taliban with air support from the United States Air Force and small embedded NATO Special Forces teams on the ground in Operation Enduring Freedom.

succeeded and Orléans
* 524 – King Sigismund of Burgundy is executed at Orléans after an 8-year reign and is succeeded by his brother Godomar.
* May 1 – King Sigismund is executed at Orléans after an 8-year reign and is succeeded by his brother Godomar.
He succeeded his great-grandfather at the age of five, though Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, his first cousin twice removed, and maternal great uncle, served as Regent of the kingdom until Louis's majority in 1723.
Having succeeded in ceasing his mother's power in Savoy, Victor Amadeus looked to his oncoming marriage with the youngest child of Philippe I, Duke of Orléans ( brother of Louis XIV ) and Henrietta of England.
For the rest of 1642 and part of the 1643 campaigns, Thomas Francis ommanded Piedmontese forces fighting alongside the French under Henri II d ' Orléans, duc de Longueville against the Spanish, generally along the Piedmont / Milan border ; when Longueville was recalled home, he succeeded him as allied commander-in-chief, with Henri de la Tour d ' Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne as his second-in-command.
For the rest of 1642 and part of the 1643 campaigns, Thomas commanded Piedmontese forces fighting alongside the French under Henri II d ' Orléans, duc de Longueville against the Spanish, generally along the Piedmont / Milan border ; when Longueville was recalled home, Thomas succeeded him as allied commander-in-chief, with Turenne as his second-in-command.
When Louis Philippe's grandfather died in 1785, his father succeeded him as Duke of Orléans and Louis Philippe succeeded his father as Duke of Chartres.
The son of Charles, duc d ' Orléans and Marie of Cleves, he succeeded his father as Duke of Orléans in the year 1465.
The Orléanists agreed to support the comte de Chambord's claim to the throne, with the hope that at his death he would be succeeded by their own claimant, Philippe d ' Orléans, comte de Paris.
* Louis Philippe Joseph d ' Orléans ( Château de Saint-Cloud, 13 April 1747, – 6 November 1793, Place de la Révolution, Paris ( executed )), who succeeded his father as Duke of Orléans in 1785,
The same happened with the Palais-Royal ; Louis d ' Orléans, who succeeded his father as the new Duke of Orléans, and his son Louis Philippe lived at the other family residence in Saint-Cloud, which had been empty since the death of the Princess Palatine in 1722.
In 1785, Louis Philippe II d ' Orléans succeeded his father as the head of the House of Orléans.
With the support of Henri II d ' Orléans, who was also prince of Neuchâtel and the head of the French delegation, he succeeded to get the formal exemption from the empire for all cantons and associates of the confederacy.
With the support of the Duke of Orléans, who was also prince of Neuchâtel and the head of the French delegation, Johann Rudolf Wettstein, the mayor of Basel, succeeded in getting a formal exemption from the empire for all cantons and associates of the confederacy.
Philippe II was succeeded as duke by his son Louis d ' Orléans, who was entitled to the style of Serene Highness as a prince du sang.
After the death of her brother Jean Louis Charles d ' Orléans in 1694 she succeeded him as Princess of Neuchâtel.
He was then succeeded by Étienne Hubert d ' Orléans from 1598 to 1600.
In August 1660 he succeeded Henri Dumont as harpsichordist to Philippe I, Duke of Orléans, the King's younger brother.
A soldier and historian under Charles V, he succeeded in having the Emperor pay for the restoration of the village of Mamer after the Duke of Orléans ' troops pillaged it in 1543.

succeeded and failed
Each time a general failed, Lincoln substituted another until finally Grant succeeded in 1865.
After the contract has been established, the play of the cards proceeds as in most trick-taking card games until all thirteen tricks have been played with the result that the declaring side has either succeeded or failed in fulfilling their part of the contract.
For Irenaeus Christ succeeded on every point on which Adam failed.
An attack by the Crusaders on 6 April failed, but a second from the Golden Horn on 12 April succeeded, and the invaders poured in.
The Buddha succeeded when the King and all his soldiers failed to eliminate the murderer by force.
Malenkov succeeded Stalin as Chairman of the Council of Ministers, but failed to take total control over the party machinery
Malenkov spoke twice to the plenum, but it failed to alter his position, and on 8 March 1955 he was forced to resign from his post as Chairman of the Council of Ministers ; he was succeeded by Nikolai Bulganin, a protege of Khrushchev dating back to the 1930s.
Constitutional nationalism enjoyed its greatest success in the 1880s and 1890s when the Irish Parliamentary Party under Charles Stewart Parnell succeeded in having two Home Rule bills introduced by the Liberal government of William Ewart Gladstone, though both failed.
On the left, the initial attempt to clear the western end of Ruweisat failed but at 08: 00 a renewed attack by the reserve battalion succeeded.
Henry failed to make royal and Imperial succession hereditary, but in 1196 he succeeded in gaining a pledge that his infant son Frederick would receive the German crown.
While courts have specifically made clear certain instances which have succeeded or failed to meet the nebulous threshold for materiality, the topic remains unresolved in large part, except in certain legal areas where intent manifests itself in an abundantly clear fashion, such as with the so-called perjury trap, a specific situation in which a prosecutor calls a person to testify before a grand jury with the intent of drawing a perjurious statement from the person being questioned.
Each time the spider failed, it began again until it succeeded.
Mobile troops armed with carbines and klewangs succeeded in suppressing Aceh resistance where traditional infantry with rifle and bayonet had failed.
The French retaliated in 1706 with a raid on St. Kitts ; one attempt to do the same on Nevis failed, but a later one succeeded, led by Pierre Le Moyne d ' Iberville.
Karmal's policies failed to bring peace to the war-ravaged country, and in 1986 he was succeeded as PDPA General Secretary by Mohammad Najibullah.
Organized labor nearly succeeded in pushing Congress to amend the law to increase the protections for strikers and targets of employer retaliation during the Carter and Clinton administrations, but failed on both occasions because of Republican opposition and lukewarm support for these changes from the Democratic President in office at the time.
He failed to reform industrial law by amending the Master and Servant Act, but he succeeded with the Criminal Procedure Amendment Act in 1881.
One ultimately succeeded ; the other failed despite repeated pleas to ImClone officials.
Francis failed to conquer Milan, but succeeded in conquering most of the lands of Charles's ally the Duke of Savoy, including his capital, Turin.
He also noted that a mercenary who failed was obviously no good, but one who succeeded may be even more dangerous.
The Union failed due to opposition in Constantinople, but through his prudent conduct towards the Ottoman Empire he succeeded in holding possession of the city.
Although Caesar could hardly have expected the bill to pass, the aristocratic party would be saddled with the odium of rejecting a popular measure, and the people themselves would be more ready to welcome a proposal by Caesar himself, an expectation fulfilled by the passing of the lex Julia and the lex Campania in 59 BC, whereby Caesar at least partly succeeded where Rullus had failed.
Various European efforts to establish trading posts in Vietnam failed, but missionaries were allowed to operate for some time until the mandarins began concluding that Christianity ( which had succeeded in converting up to a tenth of the population by 1700 ) was a threat to the Confucian social order since it condemned ancestor worship as idolatry.
The Theban force not only failed to overcome Alexander and his allies, but got into serious difficulties, when it tried to withdraw ; Epaminondas, serving as a private soldier, succeeded in extricating it.

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