The running battle which ensued was spread out over several kilometres ; the site where most of the fighting took place is the village playing field today.

Fierce fighting ensued and to avoid escalating the conflict and to press the fascist government to revoke their policy, Boqor Osman tried to open a dialogue.

The following year, the Blancos led a rural revolt and eight bloody months of fighting ensued before their leader, Aparicio Saravia, was killed in battle.

" Aburish writes that it was on Arafat's orders that Fatah remained, and that the Jordanian Army agreed to back them if heavy fighting ensued.

Bitter fighting ensued in the First Indochina War.

By this time the Jews had been exhausted by famine, and when the weak third wall was breached, bitter street fighting ensued.

The gates facing south from the east became the arenas for the heavy fighting that ensued.

Although it is again difficult to determine their effectiveness, popular anti-German demonstrations, such as general strikes by the Paris Métro, the Gendarmerie and the Police, took place, and fighting between the opposing forces ensued.

Mindarus was forced to flee to a nearby beach, and vicious fighting ensued on land as the Athenians attempted to drag off the Spartan ships.

Stiff fighting at Woensdrecht ensued on 6 October, the objective of the first phase.

Heavy fighting at Hoogerheide also ensued, but by 16 October, Woensdrecht was secured, cutting the land link to South Beveland and Walcheren.

In the brutal hand to hand fighting which ensued, the Sea People were utterly defeated.

Heavy fighting ensued as the gliders arrived in the middle of the retreat and Polish losses were heavy.

A period of intense fighting ensued when at least 375 SWAPO insurgents were killed.

From that date, Virton, like many other Walloon cities, became embroiled in more than two centuries of wars between France, Spain, and the Netherlands, with all the fighting, famine, epidemics ( plague …), and economic disasters that ensued.

“ Horses were traded, races run, heavy drinking indulged in and many a fight ensued .” Markets continued to be held near the church until the 19th century, but as a result of fighting and general unrest in connection with the market days the church was torn down in 1808.

Fierce fighting ensued and the French finally managed to establish a foothold on the right bank of the Danube.

But vicious fighting ensued, with C Company ( the name given to the lower Shankill unit of the UDA's West Belfast Brigade, which contained Adair's most loyal men ) members attacking the patrons of the Rex, initially with hand weapons such as bats and iron bars, before they shot up the bar as its patrons barricaded themselves inside.

Open fighting between the rival factions ensued, and only after mediation by Yassir Arafat did their relationship stabilize.

At this session tension was so high between politicians that fighting ensued in the assembly following communist deputees speeches against the Indochinese policy.

The intense fighting that ensued cost 8, 000 killed and 30, 000 wounded in the Sixth Army, compared to 190, 000 dead for Japan.

During the month of fighting that ensued, the army or Mengguguo suffered severe casualties.

A power struggle ensued, and by mid-1981, MEK was fighting street battles against the Islamic Revolutionary Guards.

Again near the Borden house, hand to hand fighting ensued.

During the month of fighting that ensued, the army or Mengguguo suffered severe casualties.

The war captain had been badly wounded and was fighting to hold his seat.

Unconcerned, indifferent, unmotivated, the forest was simply there -- fighting man's depredations with more abundant growth and man's follies with its own musical evening laughter.

It was best to die fighting the marines.

Citizens took the view that a lawman was expected to risk his life on the odd occasion anyway, but this fighting fury of a man risked it regularly over a period of half a century.

To my knowledge, Lincoln remains the only Head of State and Commander-in-Chief who, while fighting a fearful war whose issue was in doubt, proved man enough to say this publicly -- to give his foe the benefit of the fact that in all human truth there is some error, and in all our error, some truth.

Trevelyan's Liberalism was above all a liberalism of the spirit, a deep feeling of communion with men fighting for country and for liberty.

If his circumspection in regard to Philip's sensibilities went so far that he even refused to grant a dispensation for the marriage of Amadee's daughter, Agnes, to the son of the dauphin of Vienne -- a truly peacemaking move according to thirteenth-century ideas, for Savoy and Dauphine were as usual fighting on opposite sides -- for fear that he might seem to be favoring the anti-French coalition, he would certainly never take the far more drastic step of ordering the return of Gascony to Edward, even though, as he admitted to the English ambassadors, he had been advised that the original cession was invalid.

Angry because I was that very one somebody was supposed To be fighting for ''.

Of course the fighting was officially under the auspices of the United Nations.

I point now with pride to the fact that, long ere the Committee on Un-American Activities, the Minute Women, the Economic Council and other such notable `` watchdog '' organizations were so much as heard of, I was Hollywood's leading bulwark against communism, fighting single-handedly `` creeping socialism '' against such insuperable odds as the Fascio-Communist troops of the NRA, PWA, WPA, CCC and an army of more than twenty-two million mercenaries whom F.D.R. employed secretly, through the transparent ruse of regular `` relief '' checks.

It was nevertheless almost incredible that four years after Yalta there should be a complete split over Germany, with hot heads on both sides planning to use the Germans against their former allies, and with Nazi-minded Germans expecting to recover their power by fighting on one side or the other.

Chandler had been commissioned in the Medical Service Corps and was serving as a personnel officer for the Kansas City Medical Depot when he decided that if he was going to make the Army his career, he wanted to be in the fighting part of it.

When the Korean war began, on June 25, 1950, the anniversary of the day Custer had gone down fighting at the Little Big Horn and the day the regiment had assaulted the beachhead of Leyte during World War 2,, the 7th Cavalry was not in the best fighting condition.

From then on the Fighting Seventh was in the thick of the bitterest fighting in Korea.

It was his brag that he could beat everybody at anything, but especially at fighting, and he once took on the manager of his club and worked him over thoroughly with his fists.

Poet was not fighting Nick now.

When she wasn't crying, she was in our bedroom fighting with Wally.

It was also turned into the female form Ἀχιλλεία ( Achilleía ) attested in Attica in the 4th century BC ( IG II² 1617 ) and, in the form Achillia, on a stele in Halicarnassus as the name of a female gladiator fighting an " Amazon ".

Lincoln refused to allow any negotiation with the Confederacy as a coequal ; his sole objective was an agreement to end the fighting and the meetings produced no results.

His real name was Muhammad bin Da ' ud Chaghri, and for his military prowess, personal valour, and fighting skills he obtained the surname Alp Arslan, which means " Heroic Lion " in Turkish.

Milne did not speak out much on the subject of religion, although he used religious terms to explain his decision, while remaining a pacifist, to join the army: " In fighting Hitler ", he wrote, " we are truly fighting the Devil, the Anti-Christ ... Hitler was a crusader against God.