Had the battle actually taken place in the true month of August, when the harvest was becoming ripe, Pompey's strategy of starving Caesar would not be plausible.

During a later battle with the Right, he is fitted with a power-dampening belt which actually helps him control his abilities.

A form of Chinese art, the Nianhua, depict such torpedoes being used against Russian ships during the Boxer Rebellion, whether they were actually used in battle against them was undocumented and unknown.

Sandburg was never actually called to battle.

Although by tradition, the vanguard occupied the right of the line of battle, several authors have conjectured from descriptions in near-contemporary accounts ( such as the Historie of the arrivall of Edward IV ) that Richard of Gloucester's division actually took position to the left of Edward's battle or that the divisions of Edward's army advanced in line ahead, with Edward's division leading.

Both officers supposedly surpassed their goal during the heat of battle, making it impossible to determine which officer had actually won the contest.

Burns shows that the Gothic army's cavalry arm was actually fairly small, that Valens would actually have had more cavalry and that while the role of Fritigern's cavalry was critical to his victory, the battle was a mainly infantry versus infantry affair.

* Peter Watkins ' 1964 Culloden, with Olivier Espitalier-Noel as the Prince, presents the battle through the eyes of a documentary crew as though they were actually present.

Two English knights were actually taken prisoner, though it is unclear at what stage in the battle.

Although the battle actually took place close to Allenstein ( Olsztyn ), General Erich Ludendorff's aide, Colonel Max Hoffmann, suggested naming it after Tannenberg, in the interest of Pan-German ideology, to counter the defeat of the Teutonic Knights at the Battle of Grunwald ( Tannenberg ) in 1410 by the Poles, Lithuanians and Tatars.

Haig and Rawlinson did not know the enormity of the casualties and injuries from the battle and actually considered resuming the offensive as soon as possible.

The character of Exeter in Shakespeare's play Henry V is based on Beaufort, although Beaufort was not actually created Duke of Exeter until after the battle of Agincourt.

Antiochus actually invades Bithynia but withdraws again without risking a battle.

That general defeated the Lucanians, who had actually laid siege to the city, in a pitched battle, and by several other successes to a great extent broke their power, and thus relieved the Thurians from all immediate danger from that quarter.

Antiochus actually invaded Bithynia but withdrew again without risking a battle.

It is to his credit that he was actually able to raise an army that was capable of fighting the royalist forces in battle.

* In Seeress of Kell, Belgarath and Polgara mention how during the battle of Vo Mimbre the enemy had used illusion in their tactics, and Belgarath recalls trying to keep their side in control, yet this does not actually happen in Belgarath.

It was said Antiochus told his son before he left to battle the Persians with Alexander that his real father was actually the god Apollo.

This is rather confusing, but may betray the battle between the two groups as actually being about the new generation of gods displacing the older generation.

Some scholars have argued that Fflamddwyn is actually Ida of Bernicia and that the battle occurred around the year 547.

Campbell's family tradition is that he and his three brothers were the men who actually captured Lopez de Santa Anna the day following the battle.

The Cuman mercenaries among the Byzantine forces immediately defected to the Turkish side ; and, seeing this, " the Western mercenaries rode off and took no part in the battle.

Their most famous battle against Rome took place in Argentoratum ( Strasbourg ), in 357, where they were defeated by Julian, later Emperor of Rome, and their king Chnodomarius was taken prisoner to Rome.

After the first battle between two ironclads took place in 1862 during the American Civil War, it became clear that the ironclad had replaced the unarmoured line-of-battle ship as the most powerful warship afloat.

It took all these faults to lose so celebrated a battle.

Philipp August Böckh in 1855 concluded that the battle took place on September 12, 490 BC in the Julian calendar, and this is the conventionally accepted date.

In that case the battle took place on August 12, 490 BC.

Fought over three days from 28 to 30 June 1651, the battle took place in the Polish province of Volhynia.

The Battle of Bouvines, which took place on 27 July 1214, was a medieval battle ending the twelve year old Angevin-Flanders War that was fundamental in the early development of France in the Middle Ages by confirming the French crown's sovereignty over the Angevin lands of Brittany and Normandy.

Philip now took the offensive himself, and in maneuvoering to get a good cavalry ground upon which to fight he offered battle ( 27 July ), on the plain east of Bouvines and the river Marque.

The battle took place on 2 September 31 BC, on the Ionian Sea near the city of Actium, at the Roman province of Epirus vetus in Greece.

Ultimately, no battle ever took place as Constantius became ill and died late in 361, though not before naming his opponent as his successor.

There 40 anarchists were killed by Cheka forces, and about 500 were arrested and jailed after a pitched battle took place between the two groups.

The last, in Europe, cavalry vs. cavalry mutual charge took place in Poland during the battle of Krasnobrod when the Polish and German cavalry units charged each other.

Of all the Nahuas, only Tlatelolcas remained loyal, and the surviving Tenochcas looked for refuge in Tlatelolco, where even women took part in the battle.

He needed two soldiers to keep his hands up and when the Danes were about to win, ' Dannebrog ' fell from the sky and the King took it, showed it to the troops and their hearts were filled with courage and the Danes won the battle.

In September 1688, the Mughal Emperor Aurangazeb took Golconda after a prolonged battle.

Albert took a leading part in the operations which preceded the battle of Sedan, the 4th army being the pivot on which the whole army wheeled round in pursuit of Mac-Mahon ; and the actions of Buzancy and Beaumont on 29 and 30 August 1870 were fought under his direction ; in the Battle of Sedan itself ( 1 September 1870 ), with the troops under his orders, Albert carried out the envelopment of the French on the east and north.

The two regiments of the Foreign Legion took part, as the " Foreign Brigade ", in the battle of Alma ( 20 September 1854 ) and the siege of Sevastopol, during the winter of 1854 – 1855.

The actual battle took place in mountainous country north of the town of Adwa.

The battle most likely took place in 269, and was fiercely contested.

The decisive battle probably took place near Thebes and the result was a clear defeat of Aemilianus.

The decisive battle took place at what is now Pontirolo Nuovo near Milan.

Light infantry and missile troops took part in the battle, but their role was of a lower importance.

On February 28, a pitched battle took place in La Ceiba between government troops and rebels.

After the battle of Giannitsa, the Greek Army took 26, 000 Ottoman POWs.