They were pitted against a servant of Onslaught named Post, in a specific battle area of harsh environment to test the extent of their abilities.

* 1960 – The land that would become the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge was established by an Act of Congress after a year-long legal battle that pitted local residents against Port Authority of New York and New Jersey officials wishing to turn the Great Swamp into a major regional airport for jet aircraft.

In a high profile chart battle, Williams ' album was pitted against X Factor 2008 runners-up JLS who released their debut album the same day.

Zhu's naval forces of 200, 000 are pitted against Chen's naval forces of 650, 000 troops in what is not only the largest naval battle of the medieval age, but also one of the largest naval battles in history.

The battle pitted the two bands against each other, with the conflict as much about British class and regional divisions as it was about music.

This business arrangement pitted the band and CD Presents in a pitched battle against San Francisco-based promoter Bill Graham, who negotiated with concert venue owners and San Francisco government officials to deprive PiL of a concert location.

Instead, the overarching story of all five seasons of the series pitted Angel as the central player in a battle between the " good " Powers That Be and the " evil " law firm Wolfram & Hart and his possible role in a prophesied apocalypse.

The legend tells of two Chiefs, Llao of the Below World and Skell of the Above World, pitted in a battle which ended up in the destruction of Llao's home, Mt.

The battle, sometimes referred to as the " Waterloo of the Confederacy ," pitted Union Maj. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan against Confederate Maj. Gen. George E. Pickett of Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia.

This was a strong defensive position and these maneuvers pitted the Muslims and Byzantines into a decisive battle, one which the latter had tried to avoid.

The battle pitted the forces of the Wizard Saruman against the Rohirrim under King Théoden, who had taken refuge in the mountain fortress of the Hornburg at Helm's Deep.

Kramer's most notable conflict other than with Newman is with Keith Hernandez in " The Boyfriend " until the baseball star straightens out the facts, along with the famous JFK parody and a battle-of-wits game of Risk, where the two are pitted against one another in a battle for world domination (" The Label Maker ").

The battle pitted the forces of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, against those of King Edward IV.

The battle pitted the forces of Emperor Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor against Hussite forces under command of Jan Žižka ( in English, John Zizka ).

The Battle of Dhi Qar ( Arabic, يوم ذي قار ), a pre-Islamic battle, pitted the Arabs in southern Iraq against a Persian army, c. 609.

Eager to compete in the adult division, he and Goten together posed as the fighter Mighty Mask and were pitted against # 18 in a battle royal.

In his authoritative account of the battle, the English historian Christopher Hibbert states: " It was all very well to talk of the courage and endurance of the troops but of what use were these virtues alone when pitted against the genius of Napoleon?

This battle was an extension of the conflict in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and pitted a Commonwealth force of Puritan settlers against a Royalist force of Catholic settlers aligned with Lord Baltimore, Cecilius Calvert.

The battle pitted the Patriot militia from Georgia and South Carolina against a small fleet of the Royal Navy.

In a similar manner, the battle between British and German forces is also recreated as a human drama, with Admiral Lütjens pitted against Capt Shepard in a " psychological chess match.

However this battle found the Scots pitted against effective light artillery and advancing over bad ground which disorganised the Scots phalanxes and left them easy prey to English longbow shooting and attacks by shorter but more effective English polearms called bills.

The battle pitted Austrian naval forces against the naval forces of the newly created Kingdom of Italy.

The battle pitted the Jacobite forces of Charles Edward Stuart against an army commanded by Prince William, Duke of Cumberland loyal to the British government.

This six-way battle immediately followed the final heat of the series, and pitted the winners of each respective heat — Roadblock, Recyclopse, Robot the Bruce, Cunning Plan, Bodyhammer and TRACIE — against one another.

The mayor of the palace, Charles Martel, defeated that raiding party at the Battle of Tours ( although the battle took place between Tours and Poitiers ) and earned respect and power within the Frankish Kingdom.

So it was that the armies of the Frankish ruler and warlord Charles Martel, which defeated the Umayyad Arab invasion at the Battle of Tours in 732, were still largely infantry armies, the elites riding to battle but dismounting to fight, providing a hard core for the levy of the infantry warbands.

Gibuld, last king of the Alamanni, is killed in battle and the territory is incorporated into the Frankish Kingdom.

The location of the battle was close to the border between the Frankish realm and then-independent Aquitaine.

Notably, the Frankish troops won the battle without cavalry.

However, there is little dispute that the battle helped lay the foundations of the Carolingian Empire and Frankish domination of Europe for the next century.

The Mozarabic Chronicle of 754, a Latin contemporary source which describes the battle in greater detail than any other Latin or Arabic source, states that " the people of Austrasia Frankish forces, greater in number of soldiers and formidably armed, killed the king, Abd ar-Rahman ", which agrees with many Arab and Muslim historians.

The battle was still in flux when — Frankish histories claim — a rumor went through the Umayyad army that Frankish scouts threatened the booty that they had taken from Bordeaux.

According to Muslim accounts of the battle, in the midst of the fighting on the second day ( Frankish accounts have the battle lasting one day only ), scouts from the Franks sent by Charles began to raid the camp and supply train ( including slaves and other plunder ).

Alessandro Barbero writes, " Today, historians tend to play down the significance of the battle of Poitiers, pointing out that the purpose of the Arab force defeated by Charles Martel was not to conquer the Frankish kingdom, but simply to pillage the wealthy monastery of St-Martin of Tours ".

Odo continued to battle against the Vikings and defeated them at Montfaucon, but he was soon involved in a struggle with powerful nobles who supported the claim of Charles the Simple to the Frankish throne.

The passage, which appears in Chapter 9, mentions that Hroudlandus ( a Latinization of the Frankish Hruodland ) was among those killed in the battle:

Then, in 689 king Redbad was defeated by Frankish Duke Pippin of Herstal in the battle of Dorestad and the Franks regained control of the area.

The night before the main battle, one of the Frankish forces on the Roman side encountered a band of the Gepids loyal to Attila.

This cape came into the possession of the Frankish kings, and they kept the relic with them as they did battle.

In the battle Zülpich 496 / 497 and another one near Strasbourg in 506 the Franks under their king Chlodwig ( Clovis I ) beat the Alamanni and Speyer became part of the Frankish Kingdom.

The Byzantine-Bulgarian victory of 718 and the victory of the Frankish king Charles Martel in the battle of Tours stopped the Muslim invasion in the interior of Europe.

the cognomen of Charles Martel, the 8th century Frankish leader ), in recognition of his ferocity in battle.

The first written reference to Bratislava ( as Brezalauspurc ) appears in 907, in connection with the battle ( s ) of Bratislava ( in the Salzburg Annals ): The Bavarians are totally defeated by the Magyars ; as a result, the Frankish East March ceases and is occupied by the Magyars ( 907 – 955 ).

An entry for the year 782 in the Royal Frankish Annals records that, after Charlemagne lost two envoys, four counts, and around twenty nobles in battle with the Saxons, Charlemagne responded by massacring 4, 500 rebelling Saxons in what is now Verden.

The battle itself took place in the evening of Saturday 15 August 778, causing numerous losses among the Frankish troops, including several most important aristocrats and the sack of the baggage, probably with all the gold given by the Muslims at Zaragoza.

It was the first major battle against the newfound Crusader states in the aftermath of the First Crusade marking a key turning point against Frankish expansion.