Lucullus was elected Quaestor in winter 89-88 at the same elections in which Sulla was returned as Consul with his friend Quintus Pompeius Rufus, whose son was married to Sulla's eldest daughter, Cornelia.

Lucullus set out from the Piraeus in mid winter 87-6 BC with three Greek yachts ( myoparones ) and three light Rhodian biremes, hoping to evade the prevailing sea power of the Pontic fleets and their piratic allies by speed and taking advantage of the worst sailing conditions.

Lucullus led them back south to the warmer climes of northern Mesopotamia and had no trouble from his troops there despite setting them the difficult task of capturing the great Armenian fortress of Nisibis, which was quickly stormed and made the Roman base for the winter of 68-7 B. C.

The more daring and ruthless veterans had probably been further encouraged by Lucullus ' relatively mild acceptance of their first open mutiny in the Tablelands the previous autumn: especially the so-called Fimbrian legions who had murdered their commander Lucius Valerius Flaccus at Gaius Flavius Fimbria's instigation eighteen years earlier in the winter of 86-5 B. C.

In addition Mithridates had been sent back to Pontus by Tigranes during the same winter, and made some headway against the garrison force Lucullus had left there under his legates Sornatius Barba and Fabius Hadrianus.

During the winter of 68-67 BC at Nisibis, his authority over his army was more seriously undermined by the efforts of his young brother-in-law Publius Clodius Pulcher, apparently acting in the interests and pay of Pompey the Great, who was eager to succeed Lucullus in the eastern command.

If we manage to keep track of a Bombus queen after she has left her feeding place, we may discover the snug little hideout which she has fixed up for herself when she woke up from her winter sleep.

However, the Greeks thought of the two qualities as complementary: the two gods are brothers, and when Apollo at winter left for Hyperborea, he would leave the Delphic oracle to Dionysus.

In January 1957, the team left its winter training facility at Naval Air Facility El Centro, California for a ten year period.

Diocletian believed that Romanus of Caesarea was arrogant, and he left the city for Nicomedia in the winter, accompanied by Galerius.

Although there still were battles such as Maloyaroslavets the Napoleonic army left Russia in late 1812 annihilated, most of all by the Russian winter, exhaustion, and scorched earth warfare.

In revenge, the latter sailed to Jan Mayen, where the Dutch had left for the winter, to plunder the Dutch equipment and burn down the settlements and factories.

In the autumn the ships would be tarred and then left in a boathouse over the winter to allow time for the tar to dry.

The sun's path each day can be seen from right to left in this image across the sky ; the path of the following day runs slightly lower, until the day of the winter solstice, whose path is the lowest one in the image.

In the winter of 1842, Ford sold Northup to Tibeats at a price that left the carpenter owing money on him.

alt = A three story red brick colonial style hall and its left and right wings during winter.

In July 1808 he left Paris and spent the autumn and winter in Switzerland as the guest of Madame de Staël at Coppet, in the midst of her circle of wits.

Darius's European expedition was a major event in his reign, which began with the invasion of Thrace, after which he left Megabyzus to conquer Thrace, returning to Sardis to spend the winter.

Serb goalkeeper Vladimir Stojković, originally recruited to replace Landreau, failed to impress and left Nantes at the winter break following a rift within the squad.

Furthermore, cotton farmers left fields bare over winter months, when winds in the High Plains are highest, and burned the stubble as a means to control weeds prior to planting, thus depriving the soil of organic nutrients and surface vegetation.

Grand Duchess Tatiana in 1916 From left to right, Grand Duchess Olga, Tsar Nicholas II, Grand Duchess Anastasia, and Grand Duchess Tatiana at Tobolsk in the winter of 1917 – 1918.

< center > From left to right, Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia, Tsar Nicholas II, Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia and Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia in captivity at Tobolsk in the winter of 1917.

" He sailed for England that winter and left the impoverished citizens of France again without a king.

Expecting resistance, Nepos was forced by bad winter weather to delay his voyage until the next year ; it was therefore left to Zeno, as Leo's successor, to support Julius Nepos ' installation in Ravenna.

At three months, he was left with a paternal uncle and aunt in the country, since his parents feared he would not survive the winter with them.

On the left, daytime in summer ; on the right, nighttime in winter.

After months of clashes with the squatters, the Sauks left in September 1829 for the next winter hunt.

Precipitation is relatively well-distributed throughout the year, sometimes falling in the form of snow during winter ; however, fell on March 13, 1993, during the 1993 Storm of the Century, which left the highest one-storm and daily snowfall total.

When they left they gave the stones to the locals with the promise that as long as the stones were put out to look over the glen at Beltane and put back into the shelter and made secure for the winter at Samhain then the glen would continue to be fertile.

Before he left he invited the Völsungs to conclude the feast with him when the winter had passed.

Northern hemisphere summer occurs at the right side of this diagram, where the north pole ( red ) is directed toward the Sun, winter at the left.

Bishop Asser claimed that the ' pagans ' agreed to vacate the realm and made good their promise ; and, indeed, the Viking army did withdraw from Reading in the autumn of 871 to take up winter quarters in Mercian London.

Washington's army of 11, 000 went into winter quarters at Valley Forge north of Philadelphia in December 1777.

This victory, combined with the fact that winter was fast approaching, meant Germanicus's next step was to lead his army back to its winter quarters on the Rhine.

With his main objectives reached and with winter approaching Germanicus ordered his army back to their winter camps, with the fleet occasioning some damage by a storm in the North Sea.

The stronghold was captured by the Polish army in the winter of 1107 / 08, when the inhabitants ( cives et oppidani ) including a duke ( dux Pomeranorum ) surrendered without resistance.

After defeats in battle, the desertion of his Armenian allies and his failure to capture Parthian strongholds convinced Antony to retreat, his army was further depleted by the hardships of its retreat through Armenia in the depths of winter, losing more than a quarter of its strength in the course of the campaign.

In 1233 the work began in Marienwerder ( Kwidzyn ), and during the winter the Prussians gathered a large army for a major battle on the Sirgune River, where they suffered a great defeat.

The duty fell to him of protecting the British army in its disastrous retreat out of Holland, in the winter of 1794 – 1795.

As in the previous attempt, Tahmasp avoided confrontation with the Ottoman army and instead chose to retreat, using scorched earth tactics in the process and exposing the Ottoman army to the harsh winter of the Caucasus.

In the winter of 130 / 129 BC, his army was scattered in winter quarters throughout Media and Persis when the Parthian king, Phraates II, counter-attacked.

Christian however, realising that his stockpile was dwindling and that it would spell doom to his army to keep the siege over the winter.

When he finally withdrew most of the allied army to Cremona, the Austrians advanced on the north bank of the Po as far as the Adda before both armies entered winter quarters in December 1734.

A portion of the Danish army settled in Mercia, but at the beginning of 878 the remaining Danes mounted a winter invasion of Wessex, taking Alfred by surprise and overrunning much of the kingdom.

* Winter – Agricola conquers Anglesey and disperses his army to their winter quarters.

* Maurice, at war with the Avars and always dealing with the lack of money, decrees that the army should stay for winter beyond the Danube, which proves to be a serious mistake.

* Autumn – winter – The Byzantine general Heraclius, brother of Tiberius III, launches a campaign into Syria, defeats an army from Antioch and raids as far as Samosata.

With his main objectives reached and winter approaching, Germanicus ordered his army back to their winter camps, with the fleet incurring some damage from a storm in the North Sea.

Sickness among his troops brought on by winter and a French relief army under Hugh Capet forced Otto II and Charles to lift the siege on November 30, and to return to Germany.

He rides through the north of England with his army and burns houses, crops, cattle and land from York to Durham, which results in the deaths of over 100, 000 people, mainly from starvation and winter cold.