The resilience of the French King, and the efforts of his generals, also added to Marlborough ’ s problems.

Pope Martin V appointed Polish King Jogaila and Lithuanian Grand Duke Vytautas as vicar generals in Pskov and Veliky Novgorod in recognition of their Catholicism.

* 537 – Siege of Rome: King Vitiges attempts to assault the northern and eastern city walls, but is repulsed at the Praenestine Gate, known as the Vivarium, by the defenders under the Byzantine generals Bessas and Peranius.

She wrote on a wide range of topics, from fashions to Confederate generals and King Tut.

Plutarch provides the most evocative version of this story: But when Egypt revolted with Athenian aid ... and Cimon's mastery of the sea forced the King to resist the efforts of the Hellenes and to hinder their hostile growth ... messages came down to Themistocles saying that the King commanded him to make good his promises by applying himself to the Hellenic problem ; then, neither embittered by anything like anger against his former fellow-citizens, nor lifted up by the great honor and power he was to have in the war, but possibly thinking his task not even approachable, both because Hellas had other great generals at the time, and especially because Cimon was so marvelously successful in his campaigns ; yet most of all out of regard for the reputation of his own achievements and the trophies of those early days ; having decided that his best course was to put a fitting end to his life, he made a sacrifice to the gods, then called his friends together, gave them a farewell clasp of his hand, and, as the current story goes, drank bull's blood, or as some say, took a quick poison, and so died in Magnesia, in the sixty-fifth year of his life ... They say that the King, on learning the cause and the manner of his death, admired the man yet more, and continued to treat his friends and kindred with kindness.

* King Cassander of Macedon ( one of the diadochoi (" successors "), the Macedonian generals who have fought over the empire of Alexander the Great after his death ) ( b. c. 358 BC )

* The Persian generals, Tiribazus and Orontes, invade Cyprus, with an army far larger than any King Evagoras of Cyprus could raise.

In order to maintain credibility in the Arab world and maintain stability at home, on 30 May 1967, King Hussein signed a mutual defense treaty with Egypt, and handed over command of the Jordanian military to Egyptian generals.

After the death of her first husband, Berenice travelled to Egypt with her children as a lady-in-waiting for her mother ’ s first cousin Eurydice who was the wife of Ptolemy I. Ptolemy I was one of the generals of King Alexander the Great and founder of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Ancient Egypt.

The five men had served as generals under Greek Macedonian King, Alexander the Great.

" In 1969, King Faisal ordered the arrest of hundreds of military officers, including some generals, alleging that a military coup was being planned.

Yu Huan's Weilüe mentioned that when Cao Cao became King of Wei, he gave titles to his generals but gave Xiahou Dun a title from the Han Dynasty, rather than the land of Wei.

When the King of Silla attempted to launch an attack on their hated enemies the Kozakurans ( who had tried to invade the Choson Peninsula in the past ), his fleet was destroyed by a tsunami, which allowed one of his generals, Wanang Sun, to overthrow him.

Foreign generals are also often given honorary appointments to the Order, for example: Marshal Ferdinand Foch and Marshal Joseph Joffre during World War I ; Marshal Georgy Zhukov, King Abdul-Aziz of Saudi Arabia, General Dwight D. Eisenhower and General Douglas MacArthur during World War II ; and General Norman Schwarzkopf and General Colin Powell after the Gulf War.

William Pitt the Elder stated in 1761 that " he learnt his maxims and principles " from " the greatest lawyers, generals and patriots of King William's days: named Lord Somers ".

At all these events and in every representation, the King was constantly portrayed as having personally been in sole command ; the numerous marshals and generals were not mentioned.

After the death of the High King Artur Hawkwing, Ishara, the first Queen of Andor, persuaded her husband Souran Maravaile ( one of Hawkwing's generals ) to lift his siege of Tar Valon and instead establish a country.

The land of Guanzhong, rightfully Liu Bang's according to King Huai II's earlier promise, was granted by Xiang to three surrendered Qin generals instead.

Xiang Yu split the former Qin Empire into the Eighteen Kingdoms later, granting the land of Guanzhong to three surrendered Qin generals, even though Guanzhong was rightfully Liu Bang's, according to King Huai II's earlier promise.

King Stanisław August Poniatowski was at first inclined to mediate between the Confederates and Russia, the latter represented by the Russian envoy to Warsaw, Prince Nikolai Repnin ; but finding this impossible, he sent a force against them under Grand Hetman Franciszek Ksawery Branicki and two generals against the confederates.

While King Frederick and General von Zieten reorganised the Prussian infantry in the south for another attack, the generals Hautcharmoy and Bevern spotted the gap in the Austrian line and started to filter infantry into the gap.

Consequently most of the generals of the Wallingford House party and the key members of the Long Parliament who were in the good old republican commonwealth cause would lose their lives upon the restoration of King Charles II.

The King Arthur offered respectable and convenient lodgings to people from the suburbs who wanted to see a show and didn't want -- heaven knew didn't want!!

The Greek word Messias appears only twice in the Greek Old Testament of the promised prince ( Daniel 9: 26 ; Psalm 2: 2 ); yet, when a name was wanted for the promised one, who was to be at once King and Savior, this title was used.

All the earliest English criminal trials involved wholly extraordinary and arbitrary courts without any settled law to apply, whereas the civil ( delictual ) law operated in a highly developed and consistent manner ( except where a King wanted to raise money by selling a new form of writ ).

King and Peter Wright were members of a group of thirty MI5 officers who wanted to stage a coup against the then crisis-stricken Labour Government of Harold Wilson, and King allegedly used the meeting to urge Mountbatten to become the leader of a government of national salvation.

These ranged from Royalists who wished to place King Charles II on the throne, to men like Oliver Cromwell, who wished to govern with a Parliament voted in by an electorate determined by property ownership, similar to that enfranchised before the civil war, to the Levellers, influenced by the writings of John Lilburne, who wanted parliamentary government based on an electorate constituted of every head of household ( normally though not necessarily male as was acknowledged in the Putney Debates ), through to other groups with smaller followings like the Fifth Monarchists, Gerrard Winstanley and the Diggers, the Ranters, and the Society of Friends ( Quakers ).

The King, many of the Feuillants, and the Girondins specifically wanted to wage war.

Toho had long wanted to make a King Kong film and decided to replace the Frankenstein creature with their own monster Godzilla.

In 1992 ( to coincide with the company's 60th anniversary ), Toho wanted to remake this film as Godzilla vs. King Kong as part of the Heisei series of Godzilla films.

The King maintained that it was now his sole prerogative to choose a governor-general, and he wanted Field-Marshal Sir William Birdwood for the Australian post.

King had been in his political infancy when he witnessed the Conscription Crisis of 1917 during World War I and he wanted to prevent the same divisions from threatening his government.

The purpose of his early dreams was to reach ' Slumberland ', the realm of King Morpheus, who wanted him as a playmate for his daughter, the Princess.

At one point, King Hsinbyushin wanted to see how muay boran would compare to the Burmese Lethwei ( Burmese Boxing ).

The College of Cardinals was equally split between French and Italian Cardinals who wanted a Pope from their country due to the ongoing political situation with Charles of Anjou, younger brother of King Louis IX of France, who had usurped the throne of Sicily by arms and perpetually intervened in the political affairs of the entire Italian peninsula.

Innocent irritated the King still more that same year by abolishing the much abused right of asylum, by which foreign ambassadors in Rome had been able to harbor in embassies any criminal wanted by the papal court of justice.

King therefore wanted to write under another name, in order to increase his publication without over-saturating the market for the King " brand.

According to Ralph of Coggeshall Henry the Young King was the instigator of rebellion against Henry II ; he wanted to reign independently over at least part of the territory his father had promised him, and to break away from his dependence on Henry II, who controlled the purse strings.

King later mentioned during an interview with Fresh Air's Terry Gross that he wanted to completely destroy the vehicle himself with a pickaxe.

The King wanted to marry Wallis Simpson, whom Baldwin and other British politicians considered unacceptable as Queen, as she was an American divorcée.

King wanted to avoid a repeat of the Conscription Crisis of 1917.

" His first doctoral student, Murray Vernon King, pinned the label on him, and it was quickly adopted by other students, who wanted to use an appellation that showed informal respect.

King Iasus wanted a son ; when Atalanta was born, he left her on a mountaintop to die.

Exerting massive pressure in order to gain part of the substantial funds of the Order, the King managed to get the ruling he wanted.