Visual effects supervisor William Mesa showed Raimi storyboards he had from Victor Fleming's film Joan of Arc that depicted huge battle scenes and he picked out 25 shots to use in Army of Darkness.

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.

" A pregnant Cruz showed her support for the battle against AIDS by lighting up the Empire State Building with red lights in New York City December 1, 2010 on International AIDS Day, as part of ( RED )' s new awareness campaign, ' An AIDS Free Generation is Due in 2015 ,' which aims to eradicate the HIV virus from pregnant mothers to their babies.

Darius never showed up for the battle, because there was no reason for him to suppose that Alexander intended to conquer the whole of Asia, and Darius may well have supposed that the satraps of the ‘ lower ’ satrapies could deal with the crisis, so he instead decided to remain at home in Persepolis and let his satraps handle it.

In a parlay before the battle, Gandalf and the other leaders of the West met the Mouth of Sauron, who showed them Frodo's mithril shirt and other items from the Hobbits ' equipment.

A bitter Senate battle ensued, and many polls showed that as many as 80 % of Canadians were opposed to the tax.

It decreased in popularity in Gothic art, but revived in the larger works of the Renaissance, when artists took inspiration for their " Massacres " from Roman reliefs of the battle of the Lapiths and Centaurs to the extent that they showed the figures heroically nude.

However Matthew Kantacouzenos asked his father, Byzantine Emperor John Kantacouzenos VI for help and 10, 000 Ottoman Turks showed up at Demotika in October 1352 and engaged the forces of John V's Serbian allies in an open field battle which resulted in the destruction of the allies and a victory for the more numerous Turks in the service of the Byzantines.

American march music showed during the Revolutionary War and earlier wartime conflicts, in which a fife and snare drum would play while the troops marched to battle.

The image of a " warrior king " probably emerged from the courage in battle he showed at Poitiers, and the creation of the Order of the Star.

* The movie Iron Man 2 had a battle scene which showed the Unisphere.

The third level showed a hunting scene, and the fourth a battle of centaurs, all done in gold.

But the course of World War I changed ideas about the place of the navy, as the refusal of the German fleet to engage in a decisive battle, the Dardanelles expedition of 1915, the development of submarine warfare, and the organization of convoys all showed the navy's new role in combined operations with the army.

One, beautifully carved, showed Amenophis III in battle with Nubians and Syrians ; the other, of black granite, was over ten feet high, larger than any stela previously known ; the original text commemorated the building achievements of Amenophis and described the beauties and magnificence of the temple in which it had stood.

Gohan proved this during the battle against Garlic Jr. when he defeated each of Garlic's minions by killing them, when fighting Cell by claiming a murderer like him needed to suffer before being defeated, and during his battle with Buu, whom he heavily and deliberately humiliated when every of his attacks showed no effect against Gohan.

John Neville showed little of Edward's concilatory spirit, and had thirty leading Lancastrians executed in Hexham on the evening following the battle, including the unfortunate Duke of Somerset and Lord Roos.

Tests conducted after the battle showed that the Dahlgren guns could be operated safely and efficiently with charges of as much as.

He was there for the final battle although he and Giles were both quickly knocked out but his subconscious reached out to Buffy and showed her what he had learned on how to defeat and destroy Belphegor.

Doc Ock showed an interest in Spider-Man's symbiote costume during the final battle at Central Park.

It was when Borland showed the product to the Ashton-Tate team that they finally conceded that they had lost the battle for dBASE.

It had been proposed to De Winter to make up for the want of skill by firing shell from the lower deck guns ; and some experiments had been made during the summer which showed that the idea was feasible ; but want of familiarity with an arm so new and so dangerous presumably prevented its being acted on in the battle.

He showed courage in one of the Gatorade Twin 125 races, when involved in a battle with Dale Earnhardt for the win.

The battle had begun when a force of between 2, 000 and 3, 000 Boers had surrounded a force of 500 Australians, Rhodesians, Canadians and British soldiers at a supply dump at Brakfontein Drift.

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* 1778 – American Revolutionary War: British and American forces battle indecisively at the Battle of Rhode Island.

The first tank to engage in battle was designated D1, a British Mark I, during the Battle of Flers-Courcelette ( part of the Somme Offensive ) on 15 September 1916.

Although Henry Lumley ’ s British cavalry had managed to cross the marshy ground around the Petite Gheete, it was soon evident to Marlborough that sufficient cavalry support would not be practicable and that the battle could not be won on the Allied right.

While the British military historian Sir John Keegan suggested an ideal definition of battle as " something which happens between two armies leading to the moral then physical disintegration of one or the other of them ", the origins and outcomes of battles can rarely be summarized so neatly.

To the infantryman, there may be little to distinguish between combat as part of a minor raid or as a major offensive, nor is it likely that he anticipates the future course of the battle ; few of the British infantry who went over the top on the first day on the Somme, July 1, 1916, would have anticipated that they would be fighting the same battle in five months ' time.

Sometimes the soldiers are unable to immediately gauge the significance of the combat ; in the aftermath of the Battle of Waterloo, some British officers were in doubt as to whether the day's events merited the title of " battle " or would be passed off as merely an " action ".

Dio Cassius describes this surprise tactic employed by Aulus Plautius against the " barbarians "— the British Celts — at the battle of the River Medway, 43:

The Battle of the Nile ( also known as the Battle of Aboukir Bay, in French as the Bataille d ' Aboukir or in Egyptian Arabic as معركة أبي قير البحرية ) was a major naval battle fought between British and French fleets at Aboukir Bay on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt from 1 – 3 August 1798.

Trapped in a crossfire, the leading French ships were battered into surrender during a fierce three-hour battle, while the centre was able to successfully repel the initial British attack.

Convinced by this that rather than risk an evening battle in confined waters, the British were planning to wait for the following day, Brueys rescinded his earlier order to sail.

To ensure that in the smoke and confusion of a night battle his ships would not accidentally open fire on one another, Nelson ordered that each ship prepare four horizontal lights at the head of their mizenmast and also to hoist an illuminated White Ensign, which was different enough from the French tricolour that it would not be mistaken in poor visibility, reducing the risk that British ships might fire on one another in the darkness.

As his ship was readied for battle, Nelson held a final dinner with Vanguard < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s officers, announcing as he rose: " Before this time tomorrow I shall have gained a peerage or Westminster Abbey ," in reference to the rewards of victory or the traditional burial place of British military heroes.

Following the rapid change from a loose formation to a rigid line of battle both fleets raised their colours ; each British ship added additional Union Flags in its rigging in case its main flag was shot away.

The third British ship into action was HMS Orion under Captain Sir James Saumarez, which rounded the engagement at the head of the battle line and passed between the French main line and the frigates that lay closer inshore.

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The next three British ships, Vanguard in the lead followed by HMS Minotaur and HMS Defence, remained in line of battle formation and anchored on the starboard side of the French line at 18: 40.

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The most-southerly British ship, Majestic, had become briefly entangled with the 80-gun Tonnant, and in the resulting battle, suffered heavy casualties.

While the battle raged in the bay, the two straggling British ships made strenuous efforts to join the engagement, focusing on the flashes of gunfire in the darkness.