This damage had been done in the battle of Vientiane, fought less than three months earlier when four successive governments had ruled here in three days ( December 9-11, 1960 ).

The text does however seem to imply, based on the text from the earlier passage of Revelation 16: 14, that the purpose of this gathering of kings in the " place called Armageddon " might be so that these kings could do battle with one another.

Convinced by this that rather than risk an evening battle in confined waters, the British were planning to wait for the following day, Brueys rescinded his earlier order to sail.

The Kesselschlacht, (" cauldron battle "), was a concentric attack on encircled forces earlier bypassed by the Schwerpunkt attack ( s ).

* 1964 – Vietnam War: For his heroism in battle earlier in the year, Captain Roger Donlon is awarded the first Medal of Honor of the war.

In earlier Homeric combat, the words and deeds of supremely powerful heroes turned the tide of battle.

As a continuing part of the social pact, and even more as the result of a fierce union-government battle, President Callejas announced in 1991 a 27. 8 percent increase over a minimum wage that the government had earlier agreed upon.

At the battle of Gisors ( sometimes called Courcelles ) in 1198 Richard took " Dieu et mon Droit "—" God and my Right "— as his motto ( still used by the British monarchy today ), echoing his earlier boast to the Emperor Henry that his rank acknowledged no superior but God.

An earlier appeal to Achilles to return was rejected, but after Hector burned Protesilaus ' ship, he allowed his close friend and relative Patroclus to go into battle wearing Achilles ' armour and lead his army.

William of Poitiers claimed that the battle was won mainly through William's efforts, but earlier accounts claim that King Henry's men and leadership also played an important part.

* Anarawd ap Rhodri defeats the Mercians in a battle described as " God's vengeance for Rhodri ", who had been killed in battle a few years earlier.

The battle abruptly ended the period of triumphant Roman expansion that had followed the end of the Civil Wars 40 years earlier.

In an otherwise highly enthusiastic review of the best-of for the NME, Steve Sutherland criticised the band's " sheer disregard " for their earlier work ; " Just because these songs embarrassed them once they started listening to broadsheet critics and retreated wounded from the big-sales battle with Oasis doesn't mean that we're morons to love them.

The ground holding divisions were reinforced by the Stoss regiment of an Eingreif division being moved up behind each front division, into the artillery protective line behind the forward battle zone, to launch earlier counter-attacks while the British were consolidating.

Charles had been preparing for this confrontation since the battle of Toulouse a decade earlier.

At the vital moment, the 200 spearmen Edward had earlier posted in the woods far out on the left attacked Somerset from his own right flank and rear, as Gloucester's battle also joined in the fighting.

Another suggestion was that York and his opponents had agreed a day for battle ( 6 January, the Feast of Epiphany ) after a Christmas truce, but when York moved into the open the Lancastrians treacherously attacked earlier than had been agreed, catching York at a disadvantage while many of his men were absent foraging for supplies.

The aggressive tactic prompted U. S. President Clinton to invoke the Taiwan Relations Act and dispatch two aircraft carrier battle groups into the region off Taiwan's southern coast to monitor the situation, and PRC's missile tests were forced to end earlier than planned.

In the second stage El was absorbed into the god Yahweh, the national god of the kingdom of Judah, who took over El's role as creator-god ; in the third stage the theme of creation by battle was replaced with creation by divine command ( paralleling an earlier development in Egyptian theology some 300 years previously ) and the process of creation itself was " de-mythologised ".

According to Gildas, the consequences of Badon had been to halt Anglo-Saxon expansion up to the time of his writing, but the battle and its aftermath had not restored the Britons to their earlier prominence.

An earlier reference by Gildas to the same event — de postrema patriae victoria quae temporibus nostris dei nutu donata est — establishes that the battle was fought " in our time ".

Aragorn son of Arathorn ( direct descendant of many of the characters appearing earlier in the printed Silmarillion ) is briefly mentioned as returning to claim the kingship and fighting a great field of battle before the City of Gondor.

The battle was part of an attempt to restore Olaf to the Norwegian throne, which had been taken by the Danish king Cnut the Great two years earlier.

In the Gideon narrative Naphtali are one of the tribes which join in an attack against Midianite invaders, though textual scholars regard the Gideon narrative as being spliced together from at least three earlier texts, the oldest of which describes only personal vengeance by Gideon and 300 men of his own clan, not a battle in which the rest of the northern tribes join him.

We can see the general characteristics of the earlier decade if we look at two poems of very different qualities: `` Revulsion '' ( 1866 ) and `` Neutral Tones '' ( 1867 ).

as a rule, the earlier general dental treatment is started, the less expensive and more satisfactory it is likely to be.

Its roots went earlier, and performers like Burl Ives, Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, and Oscar Brand had enjoyed a limited general popularity in the 1930s and 1940s.

Nimzowitsch supplemented many of the earlier simplistic assumptions about chess strategy by enunciating in his turn a further number of general concepts of defensive play aimed at achieving one's own goals by preventing realization of the opponent's plans.

In 1915, Albert Einstein developed his theory of general relativity, having earlier shown that gravity does influence light's motion.

In 1938, the U. S. Supreme Court in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins 304 U. S. 64, 78 ( 1938 ), overruled earlier precedent, and held " There is no federal general common law ," thus confining the federal courts to act only as interpreters of law originating elsewhere.

Critics of Boswell have pointed out that many earlier doctrinal sources condemn homosexuality in ethical terms without prescribing a punishment, and that Boswell's citations reflected a general trend towards harsher penalties from the 12th century onwards.

By 1827, he had abandoned law and embarked on a geological career that would result in fame and the general acceptance of uniformitarianism, a working out of the idea proposed by James Hutton a few decades earlier.

The term was coined by Thomas Henry Huxley in April 1860, and was used to describe evolutionary concepts in general, including earlier concepts such as Spencerism.

When the earlier disputes broke out into the so-called Mormon War of 1838, Atchison was appointed a major general in the state militia and took part in suppression of the violence by both sides.

But Turing had proven earlier that no general algorithm can decide whether a given Turing machine halts.

The New Ferry Building, built in the Art Deco style to replace an earlier one, was renovated in 2008, but remains only partially accessible to the general public.

Biblical scholars are in general agreement that it was written by St. Paul to the church of Philippi, an early center of Christianity in Greece around 62 A. D. Other scholars argue for an earlier date, c. 50-60 A. D.

Von Baer ’ s laws state that general features of animals appear earlier in the embryo than special features, where less general features stem from the most general, each embryo of a species departs more and more from a predetermined passage through the stages of other animals, and there is never a complete morphological similarity between an embryo and a lower adult.

This approach had appeared a few times in earlier years, but in general cuts to or from a closer shot within a scene were still being made more or less down the lens axis as established in the Long Shot of the scene in question.

Later 4GL types are tied to a database system and are far different from the earlier types in their use of techniques and resources that have resulted from the general improvement of computing with time.

The general concept of such an energy-transferring shell had been advanced decades earlier by author Olaf Stapledon in his 1937 novel Star Maker, a source that Dyson has credited publicly.

It is named for Hans Hahn and Stefan Banach who proved this theorem independently in the late 1920s, although a special case was proved earlier ( in 1912 ) by Eduard Helly, and a general extension theorem from which the Hahn – Banach theorem can be derived was proved in 1923 by Marcel Riesz.

Developments in Eastern painting historically parallel those in Western painting, in general, a few centuries earlier.

Developments in Eastern painting historically parallel those in Western painting, in general a few centuries earlier.

However, the general theory reduces to the special theory over sufficiently small regions of spacetime, where curvature effects become less important and the earlier inertial frame arguments can come back into play.

Known in medieval Chinese sources as Tujue ( 突厥 tú jué ), the Göktürks under the leadership of Bumin / Tuman Khan / Khaghan ( d. 552 ) and his sons established the first known Turkic state around 552 in the general area of territory that had earlier been occupied by the Xiongnu, and expanded rapidly to rule wide territories in Central Asia.

Stories earlier in the timeline feature technology such as Bussard ramjets, Drouds ( wires capable of directly stimulating the pleasure centers of the brain ) and explore how organ transplantation technology enables the new crime of organlegging ( as well as the general sociological effects of widespread transplant technology ), while later stories feature hyperdrive, invulnerable starship hulls, stasis fields, molecular monofilaments, transfer booths ( teleporters used only on planetary surfaces ), the lifespan-extending drug boosterspice, and the tasp which is an extension of the wirehead development which works without direct contact.