On 9 July Porto was taken by the liberal forces, and after an inconclusive result at the Battle of Ponte Ferreira on 22 – 23 July were besieged in the city by the Miguelites for nearly a year until, in July 1833 the Duke of Terceira ( as Vila Flor had now been created ) was able to land in the Algarve and defeat Miguel's forces at the battle of Almada.

In September 1862, the Confederate campaign in Maryland ended in defeat at the Battle of Antietam, which dissuaded the British from intervening.

In 1876, a vigorous campaign against the Carlists, in which the young king took part, resulted in the defeat of Don Carlos and the Duke's abandonment of the struggle.

The baneful influence of these antiquated principles was clearly shown in the maintenance of Königgratz-Josefstadt in 1866 as a strategic point, which was preferred to the defeat of the separated Prussian armies, and in the strange plans produced in Vienna for the campaign of 1859, and in the almost unintelligible Battle of Montebello in the same year.

Although the Allies had captured Barcelona that year, they had been forced to abandon their campaign on the Moselle, had stalled in the Spanish Netherlands, and suffered defeat in northern Italy.

In a battle, each combatant will seek to defeat the others, with defeat determined by the conditions of a military campaign.

However, defeat at the Battle of Salamis would be the turning point in the campaign, and the next year the expedition was ended by the decisive Greek victory at the Battle of Plataea.

On June 5, 1926, Chiang became Commander-in-Chief of the National Revolutionary Army ( NRA ), and on July 27 he launched a military campaign known as the Northern Expedition in order to defeat the warlords controlling northern China and to unify the country under the KMT.

Although the Bombers were competitive during the first quarter, the Crows dominated from that point on, winning 26. 10 ( 166 ) to 10. 10 ( 70 ), handing the Bombers their worst finals defeat and ending their 2009 campaign.

However, a campaign to reconquer Peru and Chile during the Chincha Islands War ( 1864 – 1866 ) proved disastrous and Spain suffered defeat before the determined South American powers.

His reign was fairly successful, until another disastrous campaign against England led to defeat at the battle of Solway Moss ( 1542 ).

Conradin's campaign to retake control ended with his defeat in 1268 at the Battle of Tagliacozzo after which he was handed over to Charles, who had him publicly executed at Naples.

After the battle, the Romans quickly bridged the river, thereby prompting the Helvetii to once again send an embassy, this time led by Divico, another figure whom Caesar links to the ignominious defeat of 107 BC by calling him bello Cassio dux Helvetiorum ( i. e. “ leader of the Helvetii in the Cassian campaign ”).

The first battles of the campaign ended in defeat for the Byzantines ; the Persian army fought their way to the Bosphorus.

Arguably Stuart's most famous campaign, Gettysburg, was marred when he was surprised by a Union cavalry attack at the Battle of Brandy Station and by his separation from Lee's army for an extended period, leaving Lee unaware of Union troop movements and arguably contributing to the Confederate defeat at the Battle of Gettysburg.

The failure of John's French military campaign in 1214 was probably the final straw that precipitated the baronial uprising during John's final years as king ; James Holt describes the path to civil war as " direct, short and unavoidable " following the defeat at Bouvines.

* 1813 – War of 1812: Battle of Crysler's Farm – British and Canadian forces defeat a larger American force, causing the Americans to abandon their Saint Lawrence campaign.

It ended with intervention of Iranian Imperial Forces and defeat of the rebels, but the state of Oman had to be radically reformed and modernized to cope with the campaign.

Otto II's campaign against the Saracens ended in 982 following a disastrous defeat.

Attempting to defeat the Shah once and for all, Suleiman embarked upon a second campaign in 1548 – 1549.

( see Halabja poison gas attack ) The attack occurred in conjunction with the 1988 al-Anfal campaign designed to reassert central control of the mostly Kurdish population of areas of northern Iraq and defeat the Kurdish peshmerga rebel forces.

In the campaign of 1813 Allied forces in the German theater alone amounted to nearly one million whilst two years later in the Hundred Days a French decree called for the total mobilization of some 2. 5 million men ( though at most a fifth of this was managed by the time of the French defeat at Waterloo ).

Fighting games often include a single player campaign or tournament, where the player must defeat a sequence of several computer controlled opponents.

After Attila's final defeat and death, both Eastern and Western empires joined forces for a final assault on Vandal North Africa, but their campaign was a spectacular failure.

Bush had alienated much of his conservative base by breaking his 1988 campaign pledge against raising taxes, the economy was in a recession, and Bush's perceived greatest strength, foreign policy, was regarded as much less important following the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the relatively peaceful climate in the Middle East after the defeat of Iraq in the Gulf War.

Some reports go so far as to say that Musashi entered a duel with Ieyasu, but was recruited after Ieyasu sensed his defeat was at hand.

Plutarch also reports that Brutus had not received news of Domitius Calvinus ' defeat in the Ionian Sea.

In the closing days of the war in Europe, Allied intelligence received reports of a Nazi doomsday plan code-named " Der Tag " to be implemented after Hitler's defeat.

Approaching old age, the Rougon couple finally admit defeat and settle, crushed, into their lower middle class destinies, until by a remarkable stroke of luck their eldest son Eugène reports from Paris that he has some news that they might find interesting.

During the 1913 Lockout of workers, in which Murphy was the leading figure among the employers, the Irish Independent vigorously sided with its owner's interests, publishing news reports and opinion pieces hostile to the strikers, expressing confidence in the unions ' defeat and launching personal attacks on the leader of the strikers, James Larkin.

Xenophon reports that when the news of the defeat reached Athens,

A number of battles involving Dál Riada are recorded in the time of Selbach, a defeat in Glen Lemnae in 704, and victories over the Britons at Lorg Ecclet in 711 and again at " the rock called Minuirc " in 717, but Selbach is not named in these reports.

However, Hardy's next venture, the 9 – 11 August bombardment of Stonington, Connecticut was a defeat ; Royal Navy cannonading set 20 buildings on fire while killing a horse and a goose, while reports indicate the sizeable American defending force killed 21 and wounded 50 British attackers.

As Thucydides reports, the Boeotian left wing was surrounded and close to defeat, and only the Thespian contingent stood its ground.

When reports reached Mustafa Kemal that the Australians were making for the peaks of Chunuk Bair and Hill 971, he was convinced the landing was not a feint and so, making a decision that probably doomed the Anzac landing to failure, if not defeat, he personally led the entire 57th Regiment forward to counter-attack, setting up his headquarters on the third ridge at Scrubby Knoll ( understandably known to the Turks as Kemal Tepe — " Kemal's Hill ").

Later reports ascribed his defeat to problems with his " shelly " feet.

Plutarch further reports that he divided up their movables as well, using the strategy of introducing money called pelanors made of iron which had been weakened by it being cooled in a vinegar bath after being turned red-hot, and calling in all gold and silver, in order to defeat greed and dependence on money.

Book 13 reports the Roman's invasion of Capua and the death of two Scipios, which leads to Scipio Africanus ' journey to the underworld ( nekyia ), his meeting with famous dead heroes, and a prophecy by the Sibyl of Hannibal's defeat.

They are able to raise money for political activities, but are only required to file regular disclosure reports if they operate as a political party or political action committee engaging in activities that expressly advocate the election or defeat of a federal candidate, or electioneering communications.

William of Malmesbury reports negotiations between King Alfred of Wessex and King Dungarth of the Cornish in c. 876 held somewhere near Exmoor in Devon ; presumably Alfred would have sought reassurances over his western frontier as he conspired to defeat the Danes.

The intelligence reports from his espionage were instrumental in helping to defeat the British during the Battle of Yorktown.

However, Sasha soon reports that a second Biobliterator is housed at Nefarious's main command center on planet Mylon, Ratchet and Clank arrive at the command center and confront Nefarious, but before they can defeat him he teleports inside the Biobliterator, which transforms into a giant, heavily armed robot.

* at Remka, initial reports claimed 117 killed ; in 2006, Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia declared that the true toll had been 1000, and that the government had " hid the truth because you don't go into battle proclaiming defeat.

According to reports by two Chinese envoys, K ' ang T ' ai and Chu Ying, the state was established by an Indian Brahmin named Kaundinya, who in the 1st century CE was given instruction in a dream to take a magic bow from a temple and defeat a Khmer queen, Soma.

However other sources show a Chnuba ( usually identified with Gnupa, Sigtrygg's father ) still ruling in 934, while Heimskringla reports Gnupa's defeat by Gorm the Old, again placing his death later than Adam would have it.

The only surviving reports are Roman, but certainly the complete annihilation of the Teutones and Ambrones speaks to the crushing nature of their defeat.

His time as head of state was dedicated it to submit reports on the pacificación de Olancho, highlighting the agreements with the factious, and the defeat of surveys led by the opotecan priest Antonio Rivas.

According to reports by two Chinese envoys, K ' ang T ' ai and Chu Ying, the state was established by an Indian Brahmin named Kaundinya, who in the 1st century CE was given instruction in a dream to take a magic bow from a temple and defeat a Khmer queen, Soma.