* Albert, Somme a French Commune, site of three battles during the First World War

Paulician soldiers in imperial service likewise deserted during Alexios ' battles with the Normans.

Among these was a raid taking place in Kent, an allied country in Southeast England, during the year 885, which was quite possibly the largest raid since the battles with Guthrum.

* 1363 – Beginning date of the Battle of Lake Poyang ; the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders — Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang — are pitted against each other in what is one of the largest naval battles in history, during the last decade of the ailing, Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty.

* 1775 – American Revolutionary War: The war begins with an American victory in Concord during the battles of Lexington and Concord.

Improvements in transportation and the sudden evolving of trench warfare, with its siege-like nature during World War I in the 20th century, lengthened the duration of battles to days and weeks.

Instead of the locked trench warfare of World War I, during World War II, a dynamic network of battles developed where small groups encountered other platoons.

With the development of military aircraft during World War II, battles were fought in the sky as well as below the ocean.

The 27th Infantry had been nicknamed " The Wolfhounds " in recognition of their endurance during battles in Siberia.

Darius the Great proclaimed himself victorious in all battles during the period of upheaval, attributing his success to the " grace of Ahura Mazda ".

Chinese soldiers fighting under the Mongols appear to have used hand cannon in Manchurian battles during 1288, a date deduced from archaeological findings at battle sites.

Eadgyth accompanied her husband on his travels, though not during battles.

Despite the Roman victories at sea, the Roman Republic lost countless ships and crews during the war, due to both storms and battles.

In World War I, the Foreign Legion fought in many critical battles on the Western Front, including Artois, Champagne, Somme, Aisne, and Verdun ( in 1917 ), and also suffered heavy casualties during 1918.

Nevertheless, the old and the new men of the Foreign Legion fought and died in vicious battles on the Western front, including Belloy-en-Santerre during the Battle of the Somme, where Seeger, after being mortally wounded by machine-gun fire, cheered on the rest of his advancing battalion.

The first serious local battles were fought during 9 – 21 January in southern and southeastern Finland, mainly to win the race for weapons and for control of the vital southeastern town of Viipuri.

Although he lost many of his battles, he never surrendered his army during the war, and he continued to fight the British relentlessly until the war's end.

It is estimated that as many as 100, 000 German peasants were massacred during the revolt, usually after the battles had ended.

Greeks, Romans, and Persians took the form to a greater depth during their years of world domination, using scale replicas of enemy fortifications, coastal defense lines, and other geographic fixtures to plan battles.

The Gaulish tribal confederacies were then defeated by the Romans in battles such as Sentinum and Telamon during the 3rd century BC.

In the North American theatre, France was allied with various Native American peoples during the Seven Years ' War and, despite a temporary success at the battles of the Great Meadows and Monongahela, French forces were defeated at the disastrous Battle of the Plains of Abraham in Quebec.

The " wonderful year " referenced in the first verse is 1759-1760, during which British forces were victorious in several significant battles: the Battle of Minden on 1st of August 1759, the Battle of Lagos on 19 August 1759, the Battle of the Plains of Abraham ( outside Quebec City ) on 13 September 1759 and the Battle of Quiberon Bay on 20 November 1759, foiling a French invasion project.

* 1921 – Belfast's Bloody Sunday: 16 people are killed and 161 houses destroyed during rioting and gun battles in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

The budget left him with $ 256 million for his plan, which Kemp increased during some appropriations battles.

Slavery was less common than ransom, especially for prisoners of war ; the large numbers of prisoners taken during raids and battles every year ensured that ransom money flowed freely between the Christian and Muslim states.

Nine engagements were fought with varying outcomes, though the place and date of two of these battles have not been recorded.

All these theories centre on two battles in Estonia, Fellin ( 1208 ) or Lyndanisse ( 1219 ), and thus try to explain the origin in relation to the tale brought forth over 300 years after the event.

With Colorado beating Detroit in the third round in 1996, in the second round of both 1999 and 2000, and the Red Wings beating the Avs in the third round in 1997, the battles between these two teams had become one of the fiercest in the league.

Laments for lost battles and wars, and the lives lost in them, are equally prominent in many traditions ; these laments keep alive the cause for which the battle was fought.

The RAF raided German cities at night, and both sides developed radar-equipped night fighters for these battles.

Speer, allied with Fritz Sauckel, the General Plenipotentiary for the Employment of Labour from 1942, generally won these battles.

Even after these battles, Mexico did not surrender until 1848, when it agreed to peace terms set out by Polk.

Nepalese army fights various battles on the unification campaign these battles of Nepal unification help royal Nepalese army to gain more experiences with a gift of Unified Nepal.

After these battles, the Spartan general Brasidas raised an army of allies and helots and marched the length of Greece to the Athenian colony of Amphipolis in Thrace, which controlled several nearby silver mines ; their product supplied much of the Athenian war fund.

Despite numerous battles, neither the Umayyads nor the Asturians had sufficient forces to secure control over these northern territories.

Occasionally pitched battles were fought between armies but these were considered highly risky endeavours and were usually avoided by prudent commanders.

Some of these websites have competitions, battles and signature of the week contests, where members submit their entries to have them featured on the website.

However, given his youth and physical disabilities, which seemed to require the use of a cane in order to walk ( he died c. age 19 ), historians speculate that he did not personally take part in these battles.

Varying from arcane to combative to humorous, and ranging from midshipmen to very senior naval aviators who sought command of aircraft carriers ( which sometimes lapsed into ego battles ), the content of most of these interviews has been lost to history, though some were later chronicled in the several books on Rickover's career, as well as in a rare personal interview with Diane Sawyer in 1984.

Late in his reign, the Vandals themselves began to clash more and more with the Visigoths, often getting the worse of these battles because the Visigoths were so much more numerous.

Over time, the consequences of these battles would transform the balance of power in East Asia, resulting in a reassessment of Japan's recent entry onto the world stage.

After the Z Plan was completed in the mid-1940s, Raeder's plans called for a " double pole strategy ", in which U-boats, Panzerschiffe and cruisers operating alone or in tandem would attack British commerce all over the globe, forcing the Royal Navy to divert ships all over the world to deal with these threats while at the same time two task forces of carriers, battleships, cruisers and destroyers would engage in frequent sorties into the North Sea, preferably from bases in Norway to destroy what remained of the British Home Fleet in a series of battles that would give Germany command of the sea.

During these voyages, Champlain aided the Wendat ( aka ' Hurons ') in their battles against the Iroquois Confederacy.

Many of these freedmen joined the Union army and fought in battles against the Confederate forces. Yet hundreds of thousands of freed slaves died during emancipation as a result of the illness that devastated army regiments.

But these efforts were far too late to have any effect on the battles taking place after Operation Cobra and the subsequent breakout into France.

During these battles the Song navy employed swift paddle wheel driven naval vessels armed with trebuchet catapults aboard the decks that launched gunpowder bombs.

History recorded battles between the Hakka and the Taiwanese-language speakers ; between these and the aborigines ; and between those who spoke the Choân-chiu variant of what became the Taiwanese language and those who spoke the Chiang-chiu variant.