After the collapse of that desperate and ill-fated campaign the character of the king degenerated for a time into a futility that was not merely pitiable but often ridiculous.

Facing the desperate circumstance the king, with experienced Hunyadi fighting and breaking the Sipahi cavalry, decided to gamble and attack the very person of the sultan, protected by the guard cavalry and formidable Janissary infantry.

* 1182 BC — A desperate letter of Ammurapi, the last king of Ugarit, reporting the approaching fleet of the Peoples of the Sea.

Things now seemed increasingly desperate, and in May 1272 Hugh III of Cyprus, who was the nominal king of Jerusalem, signed a ten – year truce with Baibars.

However, he insisted Demetrius would become king, knowing that Rome would never tolerate a unified Hellenistic state, and the year after Ptolemy VI was killed when Alexander Balas made a last desperate attempt to regain his throne.

" Whether this was the act of a king of Scots or of an earl of Huntingdon we are not told ; it was certainly the act of a man desperate for knightly arms, but that did not make it any more acceptable in Scotland.

Ashamed that he could not save the dire affairs of his state or his king by offering good council, Qu Yuan leaped into a river and committed suicide ; it was said that soon after many went out on the river in boats in a desperate attempt to rescue him if still alive.

In a seemingly desperate position, with his king apparently about to fall to a powerful attack by White's pieces, Burn played 33 ... Qg4 !!

The unrest was also being fomented by agents of the Byzantine Emperor Michael Palaeologus who was desperate to thwart Charles's projected invasion of his empire, and of the Aragonese king Peter III, Manfred's son-in-law, who saw his wife Constance as rightful heir to the Sicilian throne.

* In this sequel Professor Summerlee, Lord Roxton and the narrator Malone accompany Challenger on a journey to the moon, in a desperate bid to save the people of Ell Ka-Mar, who have crowned Challenger their king.

As King Lune tells Shasta / Cor: " For this is what it means to be a king: to be first in every desperate attack and last in every desperate retreat, and when there's hunger in the land ( as must be now and then in bad years ) to wear finer clothes and laugh louder over a scantier meal than any man in your land.

The situation became desperate in 1013, when, despite Æthelred, a prominent leader of the Viking armies, Swein Forkbeard, managed to position himself as king of England.

As the battle commenced, the situation for the Swedes was getting more and more desperate, and there was no sign of the king, the Household cavalry or the Field Marshal for hours.

White has no passed pawns and seems to be in desperate straits, since Black's king will soon attack White's pawns with ... Kg4.

But the desperate Pompey soon overrode the pompous treaty ; he acknowledged the elder Tigranes, took his son prisoner, occupied the vassal states Gordyene and Osroene for the Romans, and denied the title of " king of kings ," which Phraates had adopted again, to the Parthian king.

The Warners hint that the wishing process is not as simple as the king thinks in a desperate bluff.

A desperate Alfonso XI appealed to his father-in-law, the Portuguese king Afonso IV for assistance.

Argene prevents the desperate Aristaea from suicide, Megacles is rescued by a fisherman, and Lycidas contemplates the assassination of the king.

Then the desperate king tried to commit suicide.

In a desperate attempt to prevent armed battle and to avert the resulting political crisis, U. S. President Andrew Jackson consulted his Attorney General Benjamin Butler for his legal opinion on the border dispute.

Realizing his nation's poor strategic position, Admiral Thomas Theisman of Haven resolves to launch one final massive, desperate strike on the Manticore system itself, hoping to end the war before Apollo can be widely distributed in the field to all units by the Royal Manticoran Navy.

The Providence Sunday Journal article ( Jan. 29 ) asking whether American taxpayers are being victimized by a gigantic giveaway to pay for the care of war veterans who have non-service-connected disabilities sounds as though The Providence Journal is desperate for news.

It is a desperate effort to prop up a sagging candidate who has proven he cannot answer any questions about New Jersey's problems.

The one who did the most to help Peirce in these desperate times was his old friend William James, dedicating his Will to Believe ( 1897 ) to Peirce, and arranging for Peirce to be paid to give two series of lectures at or near Harvard ( 1898 and 1903 ).

* A Sign in Space — The idea that the galaxy slowly revolves becomes a story about a being who is desperate to leave behind some unique sign of his existence.

The real heroes and heroines were the priests and nuns who refused to bow to Pius's officials and hand over the desperate people whom they were hiding.

See the sacrifice of the ninth Sikh Guru, Guru Tegh Bahadar who on the final desperate and heart-rending pleas of the Kashmiri Pandit, agreed to put up a fight for their right to practise their religion in which he was executed so another religion besides his own could have the freedom to practice there religion against the tyrant moghul empire who were forcing people to accept Islam.

A desperate Odo turned to his archrival Charles Martel for help, who led the Frankish and leftover Aquitanian armies against the Muslims and beat them at the Battle of Tours in 732, killing Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi

A desperate Odo turned to his archrival Charles Martel for help, who led the Frankish and leftover Aquitanian armies against the Muslims and beat them at the Battle of Tours in 732, killing Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi

The story runs parallel with the narrative of a young Tasmanian who tells the struggle of the indigenous population and the desperate battle against the invading British colonists.

Thus, ambushed in the plain between the hill and the front line, the archers were systematically slaughtered, watched upon by their desperate comrades who stayed behind up in the hill, shooting arrows to thwart the raiders, but to little effects.

The Sheridan was much appreciated by the infantry who were desperate for direct-fire support, which generally served in combination with ACAVs ( M113s ) as armored cavalry units consisted of both M113s and M551s as part of their TO & E.

Actual " whodunit " plots were relatively rare in the stories ; the focus is the chase, with a criminal committing a crime and Tracy solving the case during a relentless pursuit of the criminal, who becomes increasingly desperate as the detective closes in.

Many Patton contemporaries, including those who knew him personally or served with him, have applauded Scott's characterization of Patton for accurately capturing the essence of the man – war-loving, egotistical, overbearing, obsessive, conflicted, and enigmatic, yet unrivalled in his ability to inspire and lead large forces of men in a desperate and ultimately victorious struggle against a determined enemy.

A lot of people, who don't understand how desperate people can get, advised me to cut it.

On the one hand are those who contend that those who can afford to buy organs are exploiting those who are desperate enough to sell their organs.

On the other hand are those who contend that the desperate should be allowed to sell their organs and that preventing them from doing so is merely contributing to their status as impoverished.

The novel features scenes and events including the discovery of a near-dead alien in the desert, who clearly says in English, " I'm sorry, but there is bad news ," and this alien's subsequent interrogation and autopsy ; the discovery of an artificial geological formation and its subsequent nuclear destruction by a desperate military ; and the Earth's eventual destruction by the mutual annihilation of a piece of neutronium and a piece of antineutronium dropped into Earth's core.

Aeneas and his crew land on the island, when they are approached by a desperate Greek man from Ithaca, Achaemenides, who was stranded on the island a few years previously with Odysseus ' expedition ( as depicted in The Odyssey ).

By 1072 the Fatimid Caliph Abū Tamīm Ma ' ad al-Mustansir Billah in a desperate attempt to save Egypt recalled the general Badr al-Jamali, who was at the time the governor of Acre, Palestine.

The series features Saunders as Edina Monsoon, a heavy-drinking, drug-abusing PR agent who spends her time chasing bizarre fads in a desperate attempt to stay young and " hip.