They withdrew to Mercia, but, in January 878, made a sudden attack on Chippenham, a royal stronghold in which Alfred had been staying over Christmas, " and most of the people they killed, except the King Alfred, and he with a little band made his way by wood and swamp, and after Easter he made a fort at Athelney in the marshes of Somerset, and from that fort kept fighting against the foe ".

Goya's involvement with the court of the " Intruder king ", Joseph I, the brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, is not known ; he did paint works for French patrons and sympathisers, but kept neutral during the fighting.

*" terrorist bands attacked this peaceful village, which was not a military objective in the fighting, killed most of its inhabitants – 240 men, women and children – and kept a few of them alive to parade as captives through the streets of Jerusalem.

Japanese victories continued at Hsuchow, Hankow, Canton, Wuchang, Hanyang – but still the Chinese kept on fighting.

In a 2010 trial of a Sheboygan Wisconsin Hmong that was charged with staging a cockfight, it was stated that the roosters were “ kept for both food and religious purposes ” resulted in an acquittal .” In Viet Nam fighting roosters or fighting cocks are colloquially called " sacred chickens ".

First the Ottomans attacked the newly built fort of St. Elmo and after a whole month of fighting the fort was in rubble and the soldiers kept fighting until the Turks ended their lives.

The fighting style of the tight formations of foot soldiers, especially if they were heavily armored, generally meant very low casualties as long as they remained disciplined and kept in formation ; it was when armies broke and fled the field that serious casualties were inflicted, and would often result in markedly lopsided victories.

Sánchez kept on fighting and moved to the Featherweight division.

Hearns boxed from a distance in rounds one, two and three and Benitez kept applying pressure, and using his best method of fighting: Lying against the ropes.

Serrano kept fighting, but during the 11th round, the cut was so deep, the fight had to be stopped by the doctor and Serrano had to be taken to a Santiago hospital.

Ortiz kept on fighting, but he never got another chance at a world title.

Kuriyama kept on fighting with the cleft spear and eventually defeated Suzuki.

Even after the battle had clearly turned against the Turks, groups of Janissaries still kept fighting with all they had.

The Southern Philippines with the Moros were never really conquered by the Spaniards and the Americans ; nor the Northern mountains of Luzon with their feared headhunter tribes so they kept their weapons and their fighting skills.

Canzoneri kept fighting and winning and on May 10, 1935, he found himself in a ring for a world title again, this time against Lou Ambers, who had earned the World Lightweight title that once had belonged to Canzoneri.

Antuofermo kept fighting and winning and, after Hagler won the title from Minter in 1980, Antuofermo was given another chance to regain the World Middleweight Championship.

He kept fighting and winning, and in 1919, he beat Joe Lynch, another boxer who was a world champion, by decision in 15.

Cruz kept on fighting, and winning, until he was given a second world title try, this time by the WBA world champion Sergio Palma, in Buenos Aires.

One of the highlights of this period was the October 17, 1943 Sunday page: Corkin gives the recently commissioned Terry a speech on his responsibilities as a fighter pilot, including the need to consider all those who have contributed to the development of his plane, respect his support crew, spare a thought for those killed in the fighting and respect military bureaucracy which, for better or for worse, has kept the American army going for over 150 years.

Soon after, he went back to the Heavyweights, where he kept fighting until 1914, with mixed results.

Morazán kept on fighting around San Miguel, defeating every platoon dispatched by General Arzu from San Salvador.

Louis XIV now mastered the Rhine south of Mainz to the Swiss border, but although the attacks kept the Turks fighting in the east, the impact on Leopold I and the German states had the opposite effect of what had been intended.

Billy kept coming back, next fighting three-time champion Alexis Argüello in February 1986.

But the fighting marshal's fifty-year run of immunity from violent death came to a full and final stop one night in a street at Cromwell, Oklahoma, where he had been sent to clean up the gambling and vice rackets.

The minister, describing the attacks which led up to the appeal, said that 60,000 Communist North Vietnamese were fighting royal army troops on one front -- near Thakhek, in southern-central Laos.

However, years of activism, and fighting for the Republican side of the Spanish Civil War have left him disillusioned .</ br > When the plague epidemic is virtually over, Tarrou becomes one of its last victims, but puts up a heroic struggle before dying.

According to Alexei Nakamura, as of 2012, there are only 205 Ainu living in Russia ( up from just 12 people who self-identified as Ainu in 2008 ) and they along with the Kurile Kamchadals ( Itelmen of Kuril islands ) are fighting for official recognition.

The Opuntian Locrians worshiped Ajax as their national hero, and so great was their faith in him that when they drew up their army in battle, they always left one place open for him, believing that, although invisible to them, he was fighting for and among them.

Many animals rear up on their hind legs whilst fighting or copulating.

Fighting was close, with the core of excellent Cossack infantry making up for the weakness of their cavalry ; much of the decisive fighting was by the infantry and dismounted dragoons of each side.

The document was drawn up with the explicit concern of bringing to an end the bitter inter tribal fighting between the clans of the Aws ( Aus ) and Khazraj within Medina.

The fighting between MISAB and the mutineers continued with a large offensive in June, resulting in up to 200 casualties.

When the Avengers and the New Avengers are fighting Skadi, the Serpent ends up joining the battle and breaks Captain America's shield with his bare hands.

In October 2002, the new president was successful in getting occupying Rwandan forces to withdraw from eastern Congo ; two months later, an agreement was signed by all remaining warring parties to end the fighting and set up a Transition Government, the make-up of which would allow representation for all negotiating parties.

Those who had not taken part in the fighting themselves, but had incited others to rise up against the king, were fined at two year's value, while those who had been compelled to fight, or played only a minor part, had to pay one year's value of their land.

Vertov says in his essay " The Man with a Movie Camera " that he was fighting " for a decisive cleaning up of film-language, for its complete separation from the language of theater and literature.

The portly Hung is shown fighting Lee in the opening sequence of the movie and Chan shows up as a henchman when Lee is discovered inside Han's underground lair.

The British eventually took the position, which had not been reinforced by the nearby rebel garrison at Boland's Mills, on Thursday but the fighting there inflicted up to two thirds of their casualties for the entire week for a cost of just four dead Volunteers.

Caracciola drove a fighting race, bringing his SSK up to second position at the end of the race, despite starting in fifteenth.

" This was the time of the Barcelona May Days and Orwell was caught up in the factional fighting.

But at the same time, a nationalist movement had arisen in Turkey, led by Mustafa Kemal ( later Kemal Atatürk ), who set up a rival government in Ankara and was engaged in fighting the Greek army.

He built up the Ashante army based on the Akan state of Akwamu, introducing new organization and turning a disciplined militia into an effective fighting machine.

It was Radek who took up the slogan of Stuttgart communists of fighting for a United Front with other working class organisations, that later formed the basis for the strategy developed by the Comintern.

Proletarian internationalism saw itself as a deterrent against war, because people with a common interest are less likely to take up arms against one another, instead focusing on fighting the ruling class.

Both Batmen ended up fighting Rohtul and his army of giant robots ( resembling the ones from the comics ) when Batman discovered that he had superpowers upon being exposed to Rodon.

A reliable European ally in fighting terrorism, drug trafficking and illegal immigration, Morocco was granted an " advanced status " from the EU in 2008, shoring up bilateral trade relations with Europe.

In spring 1917, he was also elected to command the students ' volunteer army, set up to defend the school from potential attack after two warlords began fighting one another in Hunan.

As long as Moses held the rod up, Israel dominated the fighting, but if Moses let down his hands, the tide of the battle turned in favor of the Amalekites.