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fighting and stopped
Suddenly the lash stopped fighting the air and she heard Pile of Clouds say in his high, quavering voice:
The German / Italian armoured Corps infantry attack was stopped in very heavy fighting.
A truce began on 11 June, but fighting resumed on 8 July and stopped again on 18 July, before restarting in mid-October and finally ending on 24 July 1949 with the signing of the armistice agreement with Syria.
Although fighting stopped after the preliminary peace in 1735, the final peace settlement had to wait until the death of the last Medici Grand Duke of Tuscany, Gian Gastone in 1737, to allow the territorial exchanges provided for by the peace settlement to go into effect.
By 15 May the advanced had been stopped, although the fighting continued until 18 June.
At this time, Italy was on the defensive, Russia had virtually stopped fightingand it was believed they would be making a separate peace with Germany.
One night, his ship stopped at Rhodes, fighting arose, and Althaemenes, unknowingly killed Catreus with his spear.
After about six hours of heavy fighting the attack was stopped about a mile ( 1. 6 km ) short of their objective.
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.
Although fighting stopped after the preliminary peace, the final peace settlement had to wait until the death of the last Medici Grand Duke of Tuscany, Gian Gastone in 1737, to allow the territorial exchanges provided for by the peace settlement to go into effect.
World War I stopped the economic boom in its tracks as the city became a large camp ground for the German troops fighting on the front lines in neighbouring Diksmuide.
If the Vikings were expelled from Ireland in 1014, or at least the looting and raiding stopped after that, then whoever the Irish were fighting had to be either another race of people coming into Ireland, just as the Vikings did, or the Irish were having yet another domestic or civil battle.
The official end of the Battle of Bastogne only occurred three weeks later, when all fighting finally stopped.
" And he stopped the fighting, and after encouraging his men, retired in peace and told the queen how he had had merit to win the victory by calling on the name of Christ.
The fighting on the outposts continued ; the 7th Infantry Division stopped wave after wave of troops that the Chinese threw against Pork Chop Hill.
With the attempted British invasion of New Jersey was stopped at Connecticut Farms and Springfield, major fighting in the North ends.
Then Walcott looked outside the ring ( presumably to the ringside count keeper ) as Ali and Liston went at each other before Walcott instructed them to keep on fighting, then Walcott approached the fighters and abruptly stopped the fight.
To address these developments, the Nixon Administration began parallel negotiations with both Arab oil producers to end the embargo, and with Egypt, Syria, and Israel to arrange an Israeli pull back from the Sinai and the Golan Heights after the fighting stopped.
Gaius, taking no part in the fighting and despairing at the bloodshed, fled to the Temple of Diana on the Aventine where he intended to commit suicide but was stopped by his friends Pomponius and Licinius.
Many thought Galindez would defeat him, but Rossman opened up cuts over Galindez's eyes and continued fighting until near the end of the 13th round, when the referee stopped the fight, and Rossman became world champion.
During the afternoon, Confederate forces under Captain William N. Robinson counterattacked with less than 100 cavalry, driving Branson back to White's Ranch, where the fighting stopped for the night.
At 15: 30, with their ammunition consumed, the British stopped fighting.
During the regular war, the fighting armies were more or less disciplined and " the killings of civilians and prisonners of war almost stopped, except for the series of atrocities committed by the IDF troops ".
The offensive was stopped by the Bulgarian army on the eastern side of the pass and fighting ground to a stalemate.

fighting and autumn
In the autumn, Owain ’ s Aberystwyth Castle surrendered — whilst he was out fighting for the land it stood on.
In 1414, a sporadic new war broke out, known as the " Hunger War " from the Knights ' scorched-earth tactics of burning fields and mills ; but both the Knights and the Lithuanians were too exhausted from the previous war to risk a major battle, and the fighting petered out in the autumn.
The Battle of the Somme was one of the largest battles of the war ; by the time fighting paused in late autumn 1916, the forces involved had suffered more than 1 million casualties, making it one of the bloodiest military operations ever recorded.
In summer and autumn of 1799, the outbreak of the War of the Second Coalition brought renewed fighting to Schwyz.
And during the Second World War, in autumn 1944, they were the site of brief but sharp fighting between Franco-American and German forces.
In the autumn of 1922, Chamberlain faced a backbench revolt ( largely led by Stanley Baldwin ) designed to oust Lloyd George, and when he summoned a meeting of Conservative MPs at the Carlton Club on 19 October, a motion was passed in favour of fighting the forthcoming election as an independent party.
When civil war broke out between pro-and anti-Gamsakhurdia forces in the winter of 1991-92 and again in the autumn of 1993, he kept both sides out of Ajaria, ensuring that the fighting did not spread to the republic.
The poor winter weather, which made armoured manoeuvre and the exploitation of overwhelming air superiority impossible, coupled with the massive losses suffered to its ranks during the autumn fighting, the need to transfer some British troops to Greece ( as well as the need to withdraw the Canadian I Corps to northwest Europe ) made it impractical for the allies to continue their offensive in early 1945.
By the second half of October, it was becoming increasingly clear to Alexander that despite the dogged fighting in the waterlogged plain of Romagna and the streaming mountains of the central Apennines, with the autumn well advanced and exhaustion and combat losses increasingly affecting his forces ' capabilities, no breakthrough was going to occur before the winter weather returned.
In the autumn of 1924, fighting broke out again in Central China and Zhang saw an opportunity to capture North China and Beijing and become head of the Central Government.
German infantry ( visible on the horizon ) attacking a line of British " scrapes ," or hastily dug fighting positions, autumn, 1914.
By the autumn of 1650, James Holborne was fighting against Cromwell at the Battle of Dunbar.
This left the United Kingdom and Empire fighting alone ( or almost alone after the Italian attack on Greece that autumn ) against Germany.
In the autumn of 1915, as the armies of the Confederacy are fighting those of the United States along the border regions, the CSA's blacks rise up in revolt.
With the lull in the fighting, and the onset of autumn rains, coupled with endless hills and deepening mud, Middleton's left knee, which had been uncomfortable for more than a year, was now becoming agonizing.
Infanterie was engaged in defensive fighting under Heeresgruppe Mitte through 1943, until transferred to Heeresgruppe Nord in the autumn.
Mithradates, angry with the Romans, refused to cooperate but neither did he offer opposition and both kings were restored without any fighting in about the autumn 90 BC.
The logistical crisis and heavy combat of autumn 1944 had dulled the fighting edge of Allied forces throughout northwestern Europe, and the U. S. 6th Army Group was no exception.

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