Ajax at first gets the better of the encounter, wounding Hector with his spear and knocking him down with a large stone, but Hector fights on until the heralds, acting at the direction of Zeus, call a draw: the action ends without a winner and with the two combatants exchanging gifts, Ajax giving Hector a purple sash and Hector giving Ajax a sharp sword.

The space a battle occupies depends on the range of the weapons of the combatants.

Battles are, on the whole, made up of a multitude of individual combats, skirmishes and small engagements within the context of which the combatants will usually only experience a small part of the events of the battle's entirety.

A necking duel can last over half an hour, depending on how well matched the combatants are.

Among these combatants are some characters either drawn from or based on those in Doom (" Doomguy "), Quake ( Ranger, Wrack ) and Quake II ( Bitterman, Tank Jr., Grunt, Stripe ).

Their primary objectives were achieved quickly, and the combatants withdrawal began on December 27.

It always has a hook or thorn on the back side of the axe blade for grappling mounted combatants.

For most of human history, depending on the culture of the victors, combatants on the losing side in a battle could expect to be either slaughtered or enslaved.

Two groups of 10 volunteers each did join Italian forces in the fighting on the Italian front, the first as combatants and the second as a medical corps operating a Red Cross field hospital.

Film exists of Spanish Civil War combatants using slings to throw grenades over buildings into enemy positions on the opposite street.

In November 2001, Taliban, Al-Qaeda combatants and ISI operatives were safely evacuated from Kunduz on Pakistan Army cargo aircraft to Pakistan Air Force bases in Chitral and Gilgit in Pakistan's Northern Areas in what has been dubbed the " Airlift of Evil " Former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf wrote in his memoirs that Richard Armitage, the former US deputy secretary of state, said Pakistan would be " bombed back to the stone-age " if it continued to support the Taliban, although Armitage has since denied using the " stone age " phrase.

Congress has mandated that the U. S. Navy consider nuclear power as an option on all large surface combatants ( cruisers, destroyers ) and amphibious assault ships.

Drawing on the popularity of The Lord of the Rings, this game featured the novelties of combat magic and fantastic creatures as combatants.

In the decades following the War, the American film industry produced many war films either critical of American involvement in Vietnam, depicting American war crimes or the negative effects of war on combatants.

The Second Intifada has caused thousands of victims on both sides, both among combatants and among civilians – The death toll, including both military and civilian, is estimated to be 5, 500 Palestinians and over 1, 000 Israelis, as well as 64 foreign citizens.

The AC-130 was then directed to attack the large groupings of enemy combatants currently exposed on top of the mountain, one to three minutes before the Mako 30 was scheduled to arrive.

France and Prussia had been combatants, with France on the losing side and Napoleon I exiled to St. Helena.

In total, about 2. 8 million Frenchmen fought on land and about 150, 000 at sea, bringing the total for France to almost 3 million combatants.

Similarly, laws of warfare prohibit combatants from using civilian settlements, populations or facilities as military bases, but when an inferior power uses this tactic, it depends on the premise that the superior power will respect the law that the other is violating, and will not attack that civilian target, or if they do the propaganda advantage will outweigh the material loss.

Russian casualties totaled 1, 111 killed and 2, 856 wounded, about one third of those engaged ( Lewenhaupt, probably basing himself on the account of a Russian prisoner-of-war, in his diary claimed 16, 000 rather than 12, 000 Russian combatants )

It always has a hook or thorn on the back side of the axe blade for grappling mounted combatants.

A war cemetery for Iraqi soldiers and local combatants is located on the outskirts of Jenin.

A certain discontent had begun to spread among the French combatants on the Verdun battlefield during the summer of 1916.

In October 1973, he placed a British arms embargo on all combatants in the Arab-Israeli Yom Kippur war, which mostly affected the Israelis by preventing them obtaining spares for their Centurion tanks.

The overall number of combatants in the war is estimated to be over a million — tens of thousands from the side of the Free Peoples and hundreds of thousands from the armies and navies of those loyal to the Enemy.

This being so, according to the then rules, he ought to have retired back as far as he pleased, without parting with the ball, for the combatants on the opposite side could only advance to the spot where he had caught the ball, and were unable to rush forward till he had either punted it or had placed it for some one else to kick, for it was by means of these placed kicks that most of the goals were in those days kicked, but the moment the ball touched the ground the opposite side might rush on.

Contemporary debate on this issue is still fresh ; neither side can claim to know for certain which strategies will ultimately be effective in defeating non-state combatants.

After several damaging air attacks, the naval surface combatants from both the United States of America ( U. S .) and Japan withdrew from the battle area without either side securing a clear victory.

Richard Davis can be assumed to be referring to Christians among the combatants rather than the total number killed on either side.

This being so, according to the then rules, he ought to have retired back as far as he pleased, without parting with the ball, for the combatants on the opposite side could only advance to the spot where he had caught the ball, and were unable to rush forward till he had either punted it or had placed it for some one else to kick, for it was by means of these placed kicks that most of the goals were in those days kicked, but the moment the ball touched the ground the opposite side might rush on.

If all combatants from either side were eliminated, the other side would win, even if they did not make it to the finals.

In retrospect, it can be regarded as the first military engagement between the New Yishuv ( later to become Israel ) and Arab rebels ( of what was to become Syria ), though at the time itself combatants on either side did not regard it in such terms.

Eventually the combatants agreed to a cease-fire, but not before the Soviet Union threatened to intervene on the Arab side, because of Israeli advances after the agreed-upon cease-fire, and the United States declared a higher level worldwide alert of its forces.

All the combatants on either side were either dead or seriously wounded, with nine on the English side slain.

Adam quickly kills Psycho-Pirate and, following a failed attempt to defeat Superboy-Prime ( which reveals that magic does not affect Superboy-Prime, as Adam's blows allegedly only ' tickled '), joins the heroes, ( although he is generally regarded as being on his own side by the other combatants ), in the Battle of Metropolis, destroying Amazo shortly after his arrival.

Since the Aztec army was larger than their adversaries that were normally smaller city states and since the number of combatants on each side were fixed, the Aztec army were sending a much smaller percentage of their total forces than their opponents.

Historian Tuchman notes, " Chroniclers habitually matched numbers to the awesomeness of the event ," and the Battle of Nicopolis was considered so significant that the number of combatants given by medieval chroniclers ranges as high as 400, 000, with each side insisting that the enemy outnumbered them two-to-one, which for the crusaders offered some solace for their defeat and for the Turks increased the glory of their victory.

German historians of the 19th century attempting to estimate the combatants on each side came to the figures of about 7, 500-9000 Christians and about 12, 000-20, 000 Turks, while noting that, from the point of logistics, it would have been impossible for the countryside around Nicopolis to have supplied food and fodder for scores of thousands of men and horses.

One of the combatants on the Guelph side was Dante Alighieri, twenty-four years old at the time.

However, the subsequent government attitude under Cosgrave was that the anti-Treaty side were rebels against the lawful government and were not entitled to recognition as legitimate combatants.

Among the other solo ballet dancers of the evening, Elisabeth Carroll and Ivan Allen were particularly impressive in their roles in `` The Duel '', a work that depends so much upon the precision and incisiveness of the two principal combatants.

William the Breton also says in his column that the two lines of combatants were separated by a small space.

During the 1892 – 1894 war between the Congo Free State and the Swahili-Arab city-states of Nyangwe and Kasongo in Eastern Congo, there were reports of widespread cannibalization of the bodies of defeated Arab combatants by the Batetela allies of Belgian commander Francis Dhanis.

Three-quarters of the dead were Red combatants and sympathizers.

For Silius Italicus, who wrote as the games approached their peak, the degenerate Campanians had devised the very worst of precedents, which now threatened the moral fabric of Rome: " It was their custom to enliven their banquets with bloodshed and to combine with their feasting the horrid sight of armed men fighting ; often the combatants fell dead above the very cups of the revelers, and the tables were stained with streams of blood.

Occasionally Scottish troops made up large proportions of the active combatants, and suffered corresponding loses, as at the Battle of Loos, where there were three full Scots divisions and other Scottish units.

After the fall of the November Uprising, thousands of former Polish combatants and other activists emigrated to Western Europe, where they were initially enthusiastically received.

Although the primary mission of the Order was military, relatively few members were combatants.

Typically, little distinction was made between combatants and civilians, although women and children were more likely to be spared.

The strength of the FARC – EP forces is indeterminate ; in 2007, the FARC said they were an armed force of 18, 000 men and women ; in 2010, the Colombian military calculated that FARC forces consisted of approximately 18, 000 members, 50 per cent of which were armed guerrilla combatants ; and, in 2011, the President of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, said that the FARC – EP forces comprised fewer than 8, 000 members.

In the wars in Anatolia between Mithridates VI of Pontus and Sulla of Rome, the Seleucids were largely left alone by both major combatants.

The defeated combatants were either transported to an alternate reality where medical technology was advanced enough that they could be revived from any wound or transported to the alternate reality that was Valhalla.

The Easter Lily ( badge ) | Easter Lily is a badge worn at Easter by Irish republicans as symbol of remembrance for Irish combatants who died during or were executed after the 1916 Easter Rising.

The practice of enslaving enemy combatants and their villages was widespread throughout Western and West Central Africa, although wars were rarely started to procure slaves.

Although not French Navy personnel, corsairs were considered legitimate combatants in France ( and allied nations ), provided the commanding officer of the vessel was in possession of a valid Letter of Marque ( fr.

The Lynx was originally envisaged for surface combatants that were too small for the Sea King, but now equips most surface ships of the Royal Navy.

Crossbowmen were separated from the regular infantry and placed in their own units as they were prized combatants, providing effective missile fire against cavalry charges.

In June, Human Rights Watch investigated six UAV attacks which was reported to have resulted in civilian casualties, and alleged that Israeli forces either failed to take all feasible precautions to verify that the targets were combatants, or failed to distinguish between combatants and civilians.

After many years of fighting, the Orcs were defeated by a coalition of humans, dwarves and elves known as the Alliance ; the surviving combatants were herded into internment camps, where they seemed to lose their lust for battle.