The ruler of the Zhou, King Wu, with the assistance of his brother, the Duke of Zhou, as regent, managed to defeat the Shang at the Battle of Muye.

Thus, Confucius could not achieve the idealistic reform that he wanted and restore the legitimate rule of the duke, returning to the period of the Duke of Zhou.

One of Feizi's descendants, Duke Zhuang, became favoured by King Ping of Zhou, the thirteenth king in that line.

Though King Wu died just a few years after the Battle of Muye, the Duke of Zhou assisted the young and inexperienced King Cheng in consolidating power for the Ji line: he managed a war against rebellious Zhou princes in the eastern lowlands ( allied with feudal rulers and Shang remnants ); formulated the Mandate of Heaven doctrine to counter Shang claims to a divine right of rule ; founded Chengzhou as an eastern capital ; and set up the fengjian " feudal " system designed to maintain Zhou authority as it expanded its rule over a larger amount of territory.

After Zhou Wu's death, the Shang joined the Three Governors ' Rebellion against the Duke of Zhou, but the rebellion collapsed after three years, leaving Zhou in control of Shang territory.

The Shiji states that King Cheng of Zhou, with the support of his regent and uncle, the Duke of Zhou, enfeoffed Weiziqi ( 微子啟 ), a brother of Di Xin, as the ruler of Wei.

Reminiscent of the first years of the Cultural Revolution, the political battle was carried out through historical allegory, and although Zhou Enlai's name was never mentioned during this campaign, the Premier's historical namesake, the Duke of Zhou, was a frequent target.

* 636 BC — Duke Wen of Jin ascends to power in the State of Jin during the Zhou Dynasty of China.

* Going against his loyalty to the figurehead monarch of the Zhou Dynasty, the Qin ruler, Duke Huiwen, takes on the title of King Huiwen, claiming royal title and sparking a trend amongst other Warring States rulers to do the same.

The Chinese also used the gnomon, mentioned in the 2nd century Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art as being used much earlier by the Duke of Zhou ( 11th century BC ).

In the Classic of History, the Duke of Zhou had an altar built in the southern suburb of Luo, the eastern capital of Zhou Dynasty.

His associates were also said to be praising each other and comparing each other to such great historical figures as Yi Yin, the Duke of Zhou, Guan Zhong, and Zhuge Liang.

Statue of the Duke of Zhou who founded a city here c. 1036 BCE

In the 1136 BCE a settlement named Chengzhou () was constructed by the Duke of Zhou for the remnants of the captured Shang nobility.

The Duke also moved the Nine Tripod Cauldrons to Chengzhou from the Zhou Dynasty capital at Haojing.

While the Zheng rulers initially supported the Zhou royalty, relations soured enough that Duke Zhuang of Zheng ( 757 – 701 BC ) raided Zhou territory in 707 BC, defeating King Huan's army in battle and injuring the king himself ; the display of Zheng's martial strength was effective until succession problems after Zhuang's death weakened the state.

Young and Duke, in the LM, successfully rendezvoused and re-docked with Ken Mattingly, who had remained in orbit to perform observations while his fellow crewmembers explored the surface, in the Command / Service Module.

Using scientific knowledge from textbooks in the trunk of his 1973 Oldsmobile Delta 88, and enlisting the help of Duke Henry, Ash successfully leads the medieval soldiers to victory over the Deadites and Evil Ash, saving Sheila and bringing peace between Arthur and Henry in the process.

At this time, the community of Barcelonnette successfully purchased the seigneurie of the town as it was put to auction by the Duke of Savoy ; it thereby gained its own justicial powers.

Brabantio arrives and accuses Othello of seducing Desdemona by witchcraft, but Othello defends himself successfully before an assembly that includes the Duke of Venice, Brabantio's kinsman Lodovico and Gratiano, and various senators.

Neither threats of divine retribution nor outright bribery made an impression on Romuald, and so Gregory appealed to Duke John I of Naples, funding his campaign to successfully retake Cumae.

* September 15 – After several skirmishes in the preceding days, troops under the Marquis of Toiras successfully recapture the island of Ré, forcing the Duke of Soubise to flee to England and ending the second Huguenot rebellion.

In 1707, during the War of the Spanish Succession, Toulon successfully resisted a siege by the Imperial Army led by the Duke of Savoy and Prince Eugene.

There were several potential candidates for the role of regent, including Charles of Valois and Odo IV, the Duke of Burgundy, but Philip successfully out-manouvred them, being appointed regent himself.

Edward II of England, as Duke of Aquitaine, owed homage to the King of France ; Edward had successfully avoided paying homage under Charles ' older brother Louis X, and had only paid homage to Philip V under great pressure.

However it was, by the end of the year Bertrada and Charlemagne had successfully encircled Carloman: Charlemagne had married Desiderata, the daughter of the Lombard king Desiderius, Carloman's immediate eastern neighbor, and the marriage created an alliance between Charlemagne and the Lombards ; Bertrada had also secured for Charlemagne the friendship of Tassilo, Duke of Bavaria, her husband's nephew ; she had even attempted to secure Papal support for the marriage by arranging for Desiderius to cede to Rome certain territories to which the Papacy laid claim, although Pope Stephen III remained in theory hostile to an alliance between his allies the Franks and his enemies the Lombards, and in reality deeply conflicted between the threat the Lombards posed to him and the chance to dispose of the anti-Lombard Christopher the Primicerius, the dominant figure at the Papal court.

In 1856 – 1857 there was a case of arbitration between the Crown and the Duchy of Cornwall in which the Officers of the Duchy successfully argued that the Duchy enjoyed many of the rights and prerogatives of a County palatine and that although the Duke was not granted Royal Jurisdiction, he was considered to be quasi-sovereign within his Duchy of Cornwall.

In 1573 the city successfully withstood a siege by Spanish forces under the leadership of Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba.

Chambers and his founding partners, James E. Ferguson, II and Adam Stein, working with lawyers of the Legal Defense Fund, successfully litigated civil rights cases and helped shape the contours of civil rights law by winning landmark United States Supreme Court rulings in such cases as Swann v. Charlotte Mecklenburg Board of Education, 402 U. S. 1 ( 1971 ), the famous school busing decision, and Griggs v. Duke Power Co. 401 U. S. 424, 91 S. Ct.

In 1714, after the death of the king's first wife, the Princess Maria Luisa Gabriella of Savoy, the Piacenzan Cardinal Giulio Alberoni successfully arranged the marriage between Philip and the ambitious Elisabeth Farnese, niece and stepdaughter of Francesco Farnese, Duke of Parma.

He landed successfully in Kent at the Duke of York's Royal Military School.

Perceval successfully defended the Commander-in-Chief of the army, the Duke of York, against charges of corruption when the Duke ’ s ex-mistress Mary Anne Clarke claimed to have sold army commissions with his knowledge.

While the Duke of Wellington's train left successfully, only three of the remaining seven locomotives were usable.

As Duke of Chartres, he opposed the plans of René de Maupeou in 1771 when Maupeou successfully upheld royal interests in a confrontation with the Parlement de Paris, and was promptly exiled to his country estate of Villers-Cotterêts in the former Picardy province, now in the modern Aisne in northern France.

During these years he managed to successfully outmanoeuvre the Duke of Bedford, engineering his resignation and the dismissal of Lord Sandwich who Newcastle had now begun to consider a dangerously ambitious rival.

The Duke of York sought a peerage for him in 1665, but was successfully opposed by Clarendon, on the ground of his " ill-reputation amongst men of piety and religion.

Duke Maurice of Saxony and Joachim II of Brandenburg would not join the Schmalkaldic League ; Cleves was successfully invaded by imperial troops ; and Protestantism was rigorously suppressed in Metz.

Among these foreign talents, Wei Yang ( later renamed to Shang Yang ), a scholar from the Legalist School, successfully conducted a series of reforms in Qin with the support of Duke Xiao, despite facing strong opposition from several Qin politicians.

In 1652 after Emperor Shunzhi successfully purged the court of the more powerful elements in Dorgon's faction, Oboi was elevated to a hereditary Duke of the second rank and more importantly appointed the commander of the imperial bodyguard ( Ch: 领侍卫内大臣 ), a job which doubled as the de facto police chief in the capital.

As a general in the French army, Condé fought at the siege of Metz in 1552, when Francis, Duke of Guise successfully defended the city from the forces of Emperor Charles V, and again at the Battle of St. Quentin in 1557.

In 758, Duke Liutprand of Benevento attained his majority and rebelled.

Among his pictures of this period are mentioned a subject from Macbeth, Ceres in Search of Proserpine, and Diana and Calisto, which in 1803 gained a premium of ten guineas at the Trustees ' Academy, while his pencil portraits of himself and his mother, dated that year, and now in the possession of the Duke of Buccleuch, prove that Wilkie had already attained considerable certainty of touch and power of rendering character.

In 1310, he married Mary, daughter of Robert II, Duke of Burgundy, and was declared to have attained his majority.

In Dawkins ' senior year at Duke, the 1985 – 86 season, the Duke Blue Devils attained a win-loss record of 37 – 3, which was an NCAA record for both games played and games won in a single season.

When he entered the Duke Ellington School of the Arts, Wallace Roney had already made his recording debut at age 14, and had attained distinction as a gifted local performer in the Washington, D. C area.

Currently, the only living Australian field marshal is HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who was promoted to the rank of field marshal in the Australian Army on 1 April 1954 — over a year after he attained that rank in the British Army on 15 January 1953.

Through the influence of the Duke of Lerma ( to whom the Tácito is dedicated ) and of the Count-Duke of Olivares, he subsequently attained high official position.