" Control of Jerusalem, and thereby the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, continued to change hands several times between the Fatimids and the Seljuk Turks ( loyal to the Abbasid caliph in Baghdad ) until the arrival of the Crusaders in 1099.

: When, after the action had thus occurred, his own men returned to each general, Scipio could adopt no fixed plan of proceeding, except that he should form his measures from the plans and undertakings of the enemy: and Hannibal, uncertain whether he should pursue the march he had commenced into Italy, or fight with the Roman army which had first presented itself, the arrival of ambassadors from the Boii, and of a petty prince called Magalus, diverted from an immediate engagement ; who, declaring that they would be the guides of his journey and the companions of his dangers, gave it as their opinion, that Italy ought to be attacked with the entire force of the war, his strength having been nowhere previously impaired.

With the arrival from the south of 1, 400 fresh soldiers under the command of Andrés de Santa Cruz Calahumana, the fortunes of the patriotic army were again reversed.

Her strategy, to support the Dutch on the surface with an English army, while beginning secret peace talks with Spain within days of Leicester's arrival in Holland, had necessarily to be at odds with Leicester's, who wanted and was expected by the Dutch to fight an active campaign.

Prince Jayakarta's army and the English were defeated by the Dutch, in part owing to the timely arrival of Jan Pieterszoon Coen ( J. P. Coen ).

In 1095, Henry attempted to reverse his fortunes by seizing Matilda's castle of Nogara, but the countess's arrival at the head of an army forced him to retreat.

Even though Gospatric and Siward's son Waltheof submitted by the end of the year, the arrival of a Danish army under Sweyn Estridsson seemed to ensure that William's position remained weak.

With the unexpected and odd arrival of Miles ’ cousin Ivan Vorpatril, he deduces that a political faction in the Council of Counts is attacking his father back on Barrayar by charging Miles with maintaining a private army — an act of capital treason.

More importantly, the movie depicts one of the battle's most decisive elements, the arrival of the Prussian army, rather superficially as they arrive to win the battle in short order: distant columns of Prussians are observed by the general staff of both armies, arriving on the battlefield at the very end of the day to change the outcome with a single blow.

Wessex was invaded in 871, and although Aethelred and Alfred won some victories and succeeded in preventing the conquest of their kingdom, a number of defeats, heavy losses of men and the arrival of a fresh Danish army in England compelled Alfred to pay the Danes to leave Wessex.

Harold kept his forces on alert throughout the summer, but with the arrival of the harvest season he disbanded his army on 8 September.

* September 13 – September 14 – Battle of Marignano: The army of Francis I of France defeats the Swiss, thanks to the timely arrival of a Venetian army.

The Texian garrison was completely unprepared for the arrival of the Mexican army and had to quickly gather food from the town to supply the Alamo.

Finding on arrival that the British troops already in South Africa were under siege, he split his army corps into several widely spread detachments, to relieve the besieged garrisons.

Once Gelimer learned of the arrival of the Roman army, he had Hilderic murdered, along with Euagees and other supporters of Hilderic he had imprisoned.

In 1184, after a series of failed attempts, the Almohad caliph Abu Yaqub Yusuf invaded Portugal with an army recruited in Northern Africa and, in May, besieged Afonso I in Santarém ; the Portuguese were helped by the arrival of the armies sent by the archbishop of Santiago de Compostela, in June, and by Ferdinand II in July.

The city of Bari, which had been the capital of the Byzantine Catapanate of Southern Italy for centuries before the arrival of the Normans, opened its gates to the Emperor's army, and the overjoyed citizens tore down the Norman citadel.

James's support began to dissolve almost immediately upon William's arrival ; Protestant officers defected from the English army ( the most notable of whom was Lord Churchill of Eyemouth, James's most able commander ), and influential noblemen across the country declared their support for the invader.

Yet the town could not be taken due to the arrival of a Swedish relief army, which secured the Pomeranian pocket before turning west to defeat an allied army in the Battle of Gadebusch.

Bragg had already begun an unsuccessful attempt to interpose his army between Rosecrans and Chattanooga before the arrival of Longstreet's corps.

* The arrival of Mithridates of Pergamum and his army raises the Siege of Alexandria.

However, these did not represent the strong point of the army and would flee on the arrival of the Gothic cavalry.

Conflict was avoided by the arrival of the Goblin and Warg army who wanted the treasure out of greed, and the Dwarves decided to ally with the Elves and Men to fight this greater evil in what became known as the Battle of Five Armies.

A Legion Honor guard | honour guard of the 2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment stands at attention as they await the arrival of Lt. Gen. Khalid Bin Sultan Bin Abdul Aziz, commander of Joint Forces in Saudi Arabia, during Operation Desert Shield.

File: Quba Mosque. JPG | The four minarets of Quba Mosque, the first mosque in history built by Prophet Muhammad upon arrival in Medina, Saudi Arabia

According to early Islamic books and Somali tradition, the Isaaq clan was founded in the 12th or 13th century with the arrival of Shaykh Ishaq ibn Ahmad al-Hashimi from Arabia, one of the Prophet Muhammad's early followers.

As with Sheikh Darod, there are also numerous existing hagiologies in Arabic which describe Sheikh Isaaq's travels, works and overall life in northern Somalia, as well as his movements in Arabia before his arrival.

" Little Arabia grew significantly in the 1990s with the arrival of immigrants from the Middle East, and is the home thousands of Arab-Americans ; primarily of Egyptian, Lebanese, Palestinian, and Syrian descent.

One commonly cited influence is of the arrival of the four-string oud, which was introduced by the invading Moors in the 8th century.

The arrival of Moors in the Balearic Islands occurred at the beginning of the 8th century.

Guisborough was well-established at the time of the priory's founding ; the town's name refers to the fortified place of a Scandinavian called Gigr, who may have taken over a site established by the Anglo-Saxons or Romans who lived in the vicinity before the arrival of Vikings in the 8th and 9th centuries.

Saint Thomas Christians trace the further growth of their community to the arrival of the Nestorian Thomas of Cana from the Middle East, which is said to have occurred sometime between the 4th and 8th century.

With the outbreak of hostilities, the 8th division ( stationed in Epirus ) was transferred to the front, and with the arrival of new recruits, the army's strength in the Macedonian theater increased eventually to some 145, 000 men with 176 guns.

The arrival of more yeomanry from Salonika prompted the raising of the Yeomanry Mounted Division ( 6th, 8th and 22nd Yeomanry Brigades ) in June 1917.

The Ottomans had reclaimed the east side of the summit and were reinforced by the arrival of the 8th Division from Helles.

By the autumn of 1942, the arrival of the USAAF 8th Air Force and its daylight bombers would add bomber escort to Fighter Command's tasks.

The term " Siculu " describes one of the larger prehistoric groups living in Sicily ( the Sicels or Siculi ) before the arrival of Greeks in the 8th century BC ( see below ).

As news of the German armour's arrival came in on 4 October, 78th Division's commander — Major-General Evelegh — demanded priority from 8th Army resources for bridging equipment.

The 8th century was also the time the Viking invasions of the Scottish seaboard commenced and with them came the arrival of a new culture and language for the Northern Isles, the fate of the existing indigenous population being uncertain.

Hinduism and Islam, from the arrival of the Arabs as far back as the 8th century AD, has had a checkered history.

After the period that followed the arrival of the Dorians, known as the Greek Dark Ages or the Geometric Period, the classical Greek culture developed in the southern Balkan peninsula, the Aegean islands and the western Asia Minor Greek colonies starting around the 9 – 8th century BC and peaking with the democracy that developed in 6th and 5th century BC Athens.

Montgomery's answer was to point out that the 8th Army was in a process of reformation with the arrival of new, untrained units and was, as a result, not ready to take the offensive.

With the arrival of Arab traders in the 8th century, Islam began to flourish in Sri Lanka.

Muslim settlements have existed in Arakan since the arrival of Arabs there in the 8th century CE.

With the arrival of Christianity, Irish art was influenced by both Mediterranean and Germanic traditions, the latter through Irish contacts with the Anglo-Saxons, creating what is called the Insular or Hiberno-Saxon style, which had its golden age in the 8th and early 9th centuries before Viking raids severely disrupted monastic life.

With the arrival of 8th edition the rules given on the GW website and in the Ravening Hordes list became unofficial, preventing their use at official GW tournaments.

In the Bakumatsu period, the 8th lord Matsudaira Katataka assisted with security duties during and after the arrival of Matthew C. Perry's US Navy vessels ; Katataka's successor, 9th lord Matsudaira Katamori served as Kyoto Protector, but his clan was later defeated in the Boshin War.