Count Jean d ' Arco had been sent with 12, 000 men from the Franco-Bavarian camp to hold the town and grassy hill, but after a ferocious and bloody battle, inflicting enormous casualties on both sides, Schellenberg finally succumbed, forcing Donauwörth to surrender shortly afterwards.

Brunanburh, for all that it had been a famous and bloody battle, settled nothing.

The Soviets, along with the Polish, captured Berlin in a very large-scale bloody battle, and the Germans finally surrendered on May 7, 1945.

An indication that we are dealing with multiple flags, are the 1570 writings of Niels Hemmingsøn regarding a bloody battle between Danes and Swedes near the Swedish town of Uppsala in 1520.

Beatty is reported to have remarked ( to his Flag Captain, Chatfield, later First Sea Lord in the early 1930s ), " there seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today ," after two of them had exploded within half an hour during the battle.

* 1814 – War of 1812: Battle of Lundy's Lane – reinforcements arrive near Niagara Falls for General Riall's British and Canadian forces and a bloody, all-night battle with Jacob Brown's Americans commences at 18. 00 ; the Americans retreat to Fort Erie.

1900: bloody battle ( Presidency Coleman )

The campaign led to a bloody battle in which the Annals of Ulster report 3, 000 Scots and 1, 500 English dead, which can be taken as meaning very many on both sides, and one of Siward's sons and a son-in-law were among the dead.

The following year, the Blancos led a rural revolt and eight bloody months of fighting ensued before their leader, Aparicio Saravia, was killed in battle.

In a bloody battle near the village of Crocetta on June 29, the Austrians were beaten back, Mercy was killed, and Frederick of Württemberg, his second, was wounded.

Having defeated King Beorhtwulf of Mercia in battle, the Danes moved on to invade Wessex, but were decisively crushed by Egbert's son and successor King Aethelwulf in the exceptionally bloody Battle of Aclea.

** War of 1812 – Battle of Lundy's Lane: Reinforcements arrive near Niagara Falls, Ontario for General Riall's British and Canadian force, and a bloody, all-night battle with Jacob Brown's Americans commences at 1800 hours ; Americans retreat to Fort Erie.

According to the Yizhoushu and Mencius the battle was very bloody.

After six days of bloody battle, the city was totally annihilated.

After a bloody but inconclusive battle, they escaped but were pursued again until they surrendered.

Following the bloody but inconclusive Battle of the Wilderness, Grant's army disengaged from Confederate General Robert E. Lee's army and moved to the southeast, attempting to lure Lee into battle under more favorable conditions.

The battle becomes very bloody with troops being slaughtered and dismembered corpses littering the ground.

The battle was bloody as both sides faced attrition in urban hand-to-hand combat.

A bloody battle destroyed them in Porto Cristo.

In 1880, a dispute over land titles between settlers and the Southern Pacific Railroad resulted in a bloody gun battle on a farm northwest of Hanford ; seven men died.

The battle was bloody but indecisive and many bodies were washed ashore.

The battle lasted about an hour but the bloody pursuit lasted until nightfall.

Over 160, 000 troops were engaged at the Wilderness in a bloody, see-saw, battle that saw both sides on the brink of destruction.

Crayford is also plausible as the site of a bloody battle in 457 AD at Crecganford ( early English for " creeks-ford ").

Oktibbeha is a Native American word meaning either bloody water ( because of a battle fought on the banks ) or possibly icy creek.

It was Dandy Brandon, clad only in a bloody loincloth, emaciated and quaking as if the devil were breathing hard on him.

Its groin was bloody.

Even though this period-known in its earlier part as the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period-in its latter part was fraught with chaos and bloody battles, it is also known as the Golden Age of Chinese philosophy because a broad range of thoughts and ideas were developed and discussed freely.

The Homestead Strike was a bloody labor confrontation lasting 143 days in 1892, one of the most serious in U. S. history.

Nineveh was a city of vast extent, and was then the center of the civilization and commerce of the world, a " bloody city all full of lies and robbery " ( Nahum 3: 1 ), for it had robbed and plundered all the neighboring nations.

It was the start of a bloody civil war.

The result of the bloody three-day confrontation known as the Battle of the Maule was that the Inca conquest of the territories of Chile ended at the Maule river, which subsequently became the boundary between the Incan empire and the Mapuche lands until the arrival of the Spaniards.

The Jurchen-founded Jin Dynasty was defeated by the Mongols, who then proceeded to defeat the Southern Song in a long and bloody war, the first war in which firearms played an important role.

The ensuing Battle of Mursa Major was one of the largest and most bloody battles between two Roman armies in Roman history.

It was during the Red Terror that the Cheka, hoping to avoid the bloody aftermath of having half-dead victims writhing on the floor, developed a technique for execution known later by the German words " Nackenschuss " or " Genickschuss ", a shot to the nape of the neck, which caused minimal blood loss and instant death.

It was said in the Talmud about the death penalty in Judaism, that if a court killed more than one person in seventy years, it was a barbarous ( or " bloody ") court and should be condemned as such.

The following day after the victims ' bodies were found, Bojangles ' manager Marty King, thinking there was a possible connection to the bloody man found in the bathroom, repeated the incident to police officers who then inspected the ladies room.

The invasion of the Inca in the 15th century was very painful and bloody.

The upshot was that Heppenstall ended up with a bloody nose and was locked in a room.

The Battle of Clontarf was fought on the banks of the River Tolka in 1014 ( a field called the bloody acre is supposed to be part of the site ).

Following a period of growing political instability in the early 20th century, in 1936 Spain was plunged into a bloody civil war.

On 27 April 1978, the PDPA, led by Nur Mohammad Taraki, Babrak Karmal and Amin Taha overthrew the government of Mohammad Daoud, who was assassinated along with all his family members in a bloody military coup.

One Gurjar Rajput of the Chauhan clan, Prithvi Raj Chauhan, was known for bloody conflicts against the advancing Islamic sultanates.

The power of the mai was undermined by droughts and famine that were becoming more intense, internal rebellion in the pastoralist north, growing Hausa power, and the importation of firearms which made warfare more bloody.

* The line " bloody, but unbowed " was the Daily Mirrors headline the day after the 7 July 2005 London bombings.

The Irish War of Independence was a brutal and bloody affair, with violence and acts of extreme brutality on both sides.

The Contras ' form of warfare was " one of consistent and bloody abuse of human rights, of murder, torture, mutilation, rape, arson, destruction and kidnapping.