Hence it took a prominent part in the Peloponnesian War until the crushing defeat at Idomene ( 426 ) which crippled its resources.

Congress passed a third Reconstruction Act to invalidate these opinions, and took two votes to defeat the President's obstruction.

In 1876, a vigorous campaign against the Carlists, in which the young king took part, resulted in the defeat of Don Carlos and the Duke's abandonment of the struggle.

After defeat in 310 BC he took the desperate resolve of breaking through the blockade and attacking the enemy in Africa.

The battles that took place in the period between the departure of Napoleon from Elba to his final defeat at Waterloo are not included.

Abd ar-Rahman's appointed governor in Sevilla took up the chase, and after a series of small fights, managed to defeat al-Fihri's army.

Originally, poorly organised Lions teams regularly suffered defeat at the hands of their hosts, but by 1955 the tourists took the matches seriously enough to obtain a 2 – 2 draw in South Africa.

Cleveland went on to defeat the Brooklyn Robins 5 – 2 in the World Series for their first title, winning four games in a row after the Robins took a 2 – 1 Series lead.

He was replaced by Charles Blount, Lord Mountjoy, who took three years to defeat the rebels.

The decisive battle probably took place near Thebes and the result was a clear defeat of Aemilianus.

After her defeat at the Battle of Langside in 1568 she took refuge in England, leaving her young son in the hands of regents.

The three quisling prime ministers were Georgios Tsolakoglou, the general who had signed the armistice with the Wehrmacht, Konstantinos Logothetopoulos, and Ioannis Rallis, who took office when the German defeat was inevitable, and aimed primarily at combating the left-wing Resistance movement.

After or just before the dissolution, the Electors of Bavaria, Württemberg, Saxony, and Hanover each took the title of king of his former electorate ( in the case of Hanover after regaining his lands following Napoleon's defeat in 1814 ) while the King of Prussia extended his royal title to cover his erstwhile Electorate of Brandenburg as well as the lands he held as king outside the imperial border.

Jellicoe took a pessimistic view, declaring that nothing could be done to defeat the U-boats.

Occasional ancient battles took place along the Persian Gulf coastlines, between the Sassanid Persian empire and the Lakhmid Kingdom, the most prominent of which was the invasion led by Shapur II against the Lakhmids, leading to Lakhmids ' defeat, and advancement into Arabia, along the southern shore lines.

In a one-off Test against Pakistan in Karachi, he scored 56 and took 1 / 36 as Australia fell to defeat.

The First Test in Brisbane ended in the first tie in Test history, which came about after Benaud and Alan Davidson, rather than settle for a draw, decided to risk defeat and play an attacking partnership, which took Australia to the brink of victory.

However, the British exceeded their original mandate, and took full military action to finally defeat the rebels and restore order.

During Samuel's youth at Shiloh the Philistines inflicted a decisive defeat against the Israelites at Eben-Ezer (), placed the land under Philistine oppression, and took the sanctuary's Ark for themselves.

The Tetrarchic system was at an end, although it took until 324 for Constantine to finally defeat Licinius, reunite the two halves of the Roman Empire and declare himself sole Augustus.

Bowing to the overwhelming power of the Toyotomi army, the Hōjō accepted defeat, the top Hōjō leaders killed themselves and Ieyasu marched in and took control of their provinces, so ending the clan's reign of over 100 years.

After the defeat of Greece in the Greco-Turkish War and during the break-up of the Ottoman Empire, a population exchange took place between Greece and Turkey.

Taylor ultimately declared himself a Whig, and easily took their nomination, receiving 171 delegate votes to defeat Henry Clay, Winfield Scott, Daniel Webster and others.

After the 843 Treaty of Verdun, the defeat of Pepin II and the death of Charles the Bald, the Kingdom of Aquitaine ( subsumed in West Francia ) ceased to have any relevance and the title of King of Aquitaine took on a nominal value.

After the fall of Louis Napoleon following the defeat in the Franco-Prussian War barricades went up in the streets of Marseille ( 23 March 1871 ) and the Communards, led by Gaston Cremieux and following the lead of the Paris Commune, took control of the city.

The Cuman mercenaries among the Byzantine forces immediately defected to the Turkish side ; and, seeing this, " the Western mercenaries rode off and took no part in the battle.

Their most famous battle against Rome took place in Argentoratum ( Strasbourg ), in 357, where they were defeated by Julian, later Emperor of Rome, and their king Chnodomarius was taken prisoner to Rome.

After the first battle between two ironclads took place in 1862 during the American Civil War, it became clear that the ironclad had replaced the unarmoured line-of-battle ship as the most powerful warship afloat.

It took all these faults to lose so celebrated a battle.

Philipp August Böckh in 1855 concluded that the battle took place on September 12, 490 BC in the Julian calendar, and this is the conventionally accepted date.

In that case the battle took place on August 12, 490 BC.

Fought over three days from 28 to 30 June 1651, the battle took place in the Polish province of Volhynia.

The Battle of Bouvines, which took place on 27 July 1214, was a medieval battle ending the twelve year old Angevin-Flanders War that was fundamental in the early development of France in the Middle Ages by confirming the French crown's sovereignty over the Angevin lands of Brittany and Normandy.

Philip now took the offensive himself, and in maneuvoering to get a good cavalry ground upon which to fight he offered battle ( 27 July ), on the plain east of Bouvines and the river Marque.

The battle took place on 2 September 31 BC, on the Ionian Sea near the city of Actium, at the Roman province of Epirus vetus in Greece.

Ultimately, no battle ever took place as Constantius became ill and died late in 361, though not before naming his opponent as his successor.

There 40 anarchists were killed by Cheka forces, and about 500 were arrested and jailed after a pitched battle took place between the two groups.

The last, in Europe, cavalry vs. cavalry mutual charge took place in Poland during the battle of Krasnobrod when the Polish and German cavalry units charged each other.

Of all the Nahuas, only Tlatelolcas remained loyal, and the surviving Tenochcas looked for refuge in Tlatelolco, where even women took part in the battle.

He needed two soldiers to keep his hands up and when the Danes were about to win, ' Dannebrog ' fell from the sky and the King took it, showed it to the troops and their hearts were filled with courage and the Danes won the battle.

In September 1688, the Mughal Emperor Aurangazeb took Golconda after a prolonged battle.

Albert took a leading part in the operations which preceded the battle of Sedan, the 4th army being the pivot on which the whole army wheeled round in pursuit of Mac-Mahon ; and the actions of Buzancy and Beaumont on 29 and 30 August 1870 were fought under his direction ; in the Battle of Sedan itself ( 1 September 1870 ), with the troops under his orders, Albert carried out the envelopment of the French on the east and north.

The two regiments of the Foreign Legion took part, as the " Foreign Brigade ", in the battle of Alma ( 20 September 1854 ) and the siege of Sevastopol, during the winter of 1854 – 1855.

The actual battle took place in mountainous country north of the town of Adwa.

The battle most likely took place in 269, and was fiercely contested.

The decisive battle took place at what is now Pontirolo Nuovo near Milan.

Light infantry and missile troops took part in the battle, but their role was of a lower importance.

On February 28, a pitched battle took place in La Ceiba between government troops and rebels.

After the battle of Giannitsa, the Greek Army took 26, 000 Ottoman POWs.