In 1187, Saladin defeated the armies of the Crusades at the Battle of Hattin, largely because he was able to cut the Crusaders off from the valuable fresh water of the Sea of Galilee.

The Muslim armies under Saladin captured or killed the vast majority of the Crusader forces, removing their capability to wage war.

The two armies withdrew to a mile from each other and while the Crusaders discussed internal matters, Saladin captured the Golan Heights, cutting the Crusaders off from their main supplies source.

To that, William, as Prior of the Order, added the purpose of raising funds to ransom captives from the Muslim armies of Saladin.

Nur ad-Din realized that he had created a dangerous opponent in Saladin, and the two rulers assembled their armies for what seemed to be the inevitable war.

Despite Kilij Arslan's alliance with Saladin he was unable to stop the armies of the Third Crusade, but the remnants of the German army were in any case destroyed by the Turks after the death of Frederick Barbarossa.

After his withdrawal, Saladin reorganized his armies in Egypt with the assistance of his brother Turan-Shah and received the ambassador of the powerful Kilij Arslan.

Fifty year later, Muir redirected the invective hitherto reserved for the Muslims to the crusading leaders and armies, and while still finding some faults with the former, he praised Saladin for knightly values.

During a truce between the Christian armies taking part in the third Crusade, and the infidel forces under Sultan Saladin, Sir Kenneth, on his way to Syria, encountered a Saracen Emir, whom he unhorsed, and they then rode together, discoursing on love and necromancy, towards the cave of the hermit Theodoric of Engaddi.

The armies of Syria and Egypt assembled under Saladin, and after a brief and unsuccessful siege of Tyre, the sultan arrived outside Jerusalem on September 20.

Finally, the two armies engaged in the Battle of Borodino on 7 September, in the vicinity of Moscow.

In 868, at Metz they agreed definitely to a partition of Lotharingia ; but when Lothair II died in 869, Louis the German was lying seriously ill, and his armies were engaged with the Moravians.

Several Arab armies engaged the Jewish forces of the Provisional Government of Israel.

William was heavily engaged with the defence of Normandy against the growing pressure of the Capetian armies between 1200 and 1203.

Württemberg happened to be in the path of French and Austrian armies engaged in the long rivalry between the Bourbon and Habsburg dynasties.

According to his own records, Gudea brought cedars from the Amanus and Lebanon mountains in Syria, diorite from eastern Arabia, copper and gold from central and southern Arabia, while his armies were engaged in battles with Elam on the east.

Sometime during the first two weeks of June, both armies engaged in the battle of Abrittus.

As the French retired, the Spanish cavalry skirmished with the French rear guard and the engagement escalated until the armies were fully engaged.

However, while the two main armies were engaged at Engen, Claude Lecourbe captured Stockach from its Austrian defenders under the Prince of Lorraine-Vaudemont.

Traditional fortification however continued to be applied by European armies engaged in warfare in colonies established in Africa against lightly armed attackers from amongst the indigenous population.

In March 1814 he was one of the band of students who, on the heights of Montmartre and Saint-Chaumont, attempted resistance to the armies of the Sixth Coalition which had engaged in the invasion of Paris.

In this mode, the game mimics the turn-based tactics genre, as the engaged armies must carry through the battle without the opportunity to reinforce or gracefully retreat.

Fleets and armies are raised, and the aid of foreign troops engaged to assist these destructive purposes: The king ’ s representatives in the colony hath not only withheld all the powers of government from operating for our safety, but, having retired on board an armed ship, is carrying on a piratical and savage war against us tempting our slaves by every artifice to resort to him, and training and employing them against their masters.

At several points along the line, the two armies were engaged in close hand-to-hand combat.

At first light on 14 March 1590, the two armies engaged.

At the Battle of Marignano the opposing armies engaged in a protracted and bloody struggle ; which the French won largely because of the valour of Bayard, King Francis, and the French gendarmes ( armored lancers ).

The Soviet 40th and 69th armies had been engaged since 13 March with the Grossdeutschland Panzergrenadier Division, and had been split by the German drive.

Han Cheng's armies attempted to capture Qin cities that were formerly Hán territories but did not achieve much success and engaged in guerilla warfare for about a year.

The two armies engaged in small skirmishes to gauge the strength of the opposing force, during which two legions switched to Caesar's side.

Throughout the Middle-Ages, two-handed agricultural flails were sometimes employed as an improvised weapon by peasant armies conscripted into military service or engaged in popular uprisings.

For the next 12 days the two armies engaged in several skirmishes with minimal casualties.

This makes the game arguably more difficult, as a careful player of the DOS version could often maneuver past several wandering armies at a time without being successfully engaged.

The opposing armies both engaged in offensive operations until the major German offensive occurred in mid-October, which forced the Allies onto the strategic defensive and limited to counter-attacks.

On that day, the French Fifth Army, located on the immediate right of the BEF, was heavily engaged with the German Second and Third armies at the Battle of Charleroi.

* Warfare is used for armed combat, from duelling to commanding armies

On the Eastern Front of World War I, where combat did not bog down into trench warfare, German and Russian armies fought a war of maneuver over thousands of miles, giving the German leadership unique experience which the trench-bound Western Allies did not have.

In many modern armies, the term cavalry is still often used to refer to units that are a combat arm of the armed forces which in the past filled the traditional horse-borne land combat light cavalry roles.

As a result of intense internal debate, the national policy was one of becoming the Arsenal of Democracy, that is financing and equipping the Allied armies without sending American combat soldiers.

The Allies had been amply resupplied by the United States, which also had fresh armies ready for combat, but the UK and France were too war-weary to contemplate an invasion of Germany with its unknown consequences.

The lack of combat skills of the common soldiers in the both armies created the opportunity to use terror as a military weapon.

Gatling wrote that he created it to reduce the size of armies and so reduce the number of deaths by combat and disease, and to show how futile war is.

At the advice of his brother Helenus ( who also is divinely inspired ) and being told by him that he is not destined to die yet, Hector manages to get both armies seated and challenges any one of the Greek warriors to single combat.

As the oldest branch of combat arms, they are still the backbone of modern armies.

Various armies and manufacturers have developed add-on tank armor and other systems for urban combat, such as the Tank Urban Survival Kit ( TUSK ) for M1 Abrams, slat armor for the Stryker, ERA kit for the FV432, AZUR for Leclerc, and others.

It is clear that many ancient peoples used the sling in combat and that organized armies included specialist slingers as well as equipping regular soldiers with slings as a backup weapon.

Technically, this was a separate Microgame, but was designed with TFT in mind as a mass combat system for armies.

The battle started with champions from both armies emerging to engage in combat.

In some armies drums also assisted in combat by keeping cadence for firing and loading drills with muzzle loading guns.

Unlike many other strategy games available at the time of its release, Myths combat does not focus on the collection of resources and the building of armies.

The better-known combat units in which foreign nationals serve in another country's armed forces are the Gurkha regiments of the British and Indian armies, and the French Foreign Legion.

Private paramilitary forces are functionally mercenary armies, not security guards or advisors ; however, national governments reserve the right to control the number, nature, and armaments of such private armies, arguing that, provided they are not pro-actively employed in front-line combat, they are not mercenaries.

The battle resulted in close combat between two armies of well-trained veterans.

His skill in combat is extolled in this poem ; he is described as " the hope of armies " and " hero of hosts " and, when asked from which region he comes, he simply replies: " I come from battle and conflict.

When the troops of opposing armies both carried the pike, it often grew in a sort of arms race, getting longer in both shaft and head length to give one side's pikemen an edge in the combat ; the longest pikes could exceed 6 m ( 22 feet ) in length.

In modern armies, soldiers trained to perform such tasks while well forward in battle and under fire are often called combat engineers.

In early WWII, however, the Wehrmacht " Pioniere " battalions proved their efficiency in both attack and defense, somewhat inspiring other armies to develop their own combat engineers battalions.