Panzer and Italian Trieste Divisions launched counter-attacks against the Australian positions, the counter-attacks failing in the face of overwhelming Allied artillery and the Australian anti-tank guns.

Preparations were made to bring up units stationed for the defense of Brittany, southwest of Normandy, but these would not arrive quickly and would be subject to losses inflicted in transit by overwhelming Allied air superiority.

In the following two years Allied Air Forces became overwhelming in both quality and quantity, and the German forces were only able to maintain limited control over a small area of the front at any time.

Although the Luftwaffe could, and did, mount effective attacks on the ever larger formations of Allied heavy bombers, the sheer numbers of B-17s and B-24s attacking enemy targets was overwhelming the German fighter force, which simply could not sustain the losses the Eighth Air Force bombers and fighters were inflicting on it.

Despite their speed, the German jets were too few and produced too late to stop the Allied aerial armadas from simply overwhelming the Luftwaffe and leveling their targets.

Heidrich had expected to be confronted by an overwhelming Allied force and had withdrawn his units north, although he endeavoured to delay the Allied advance where possible by ambushes and roadblocks.

Both battalions saw very heavy fighting at Ypres and in the surrounding area, which eventually saw over 50, 000 British soldiers of the Regular Army become casualties, though the British held the line against seemingly overwhelming German attacks, stopping the final German attempt to break the Allied line in 1914.

Nonetheless, the overwhelming numbers of Shermans combined with their average capabilities ensured Allied Victory.

Ellis describes what he feels are poor decisions by the Allied High Command with regards to such things as employment of weapons systems or misuses of their overwhelming advantage in manpower.

For players who still find the German side consistently victorious, an option to improve play balance is to add some Allied bombers, reflecting the overwhelming historical Allied air superiority, e. g. adding two Allied bombers to the two the game already provides.

The Allied force successfully held off all attacks during the day, but retreated from the Roncesvalles Pass that night in the face of overwhelming French numerical superiority.

His campaigns were successful and, on 25 July 1139, he obtained an overwhelming victory in the Battle of Ourique, and straight after was unanimously proclaimed King of the Portuguese by his soldiers, establishing his equality in rank to the other realms of the Peninsula.

In spite of the overwhelming British victory in the climactic battle, the campaign has sometimes been considered a strategic success for France.

After the overwhelming electoral victory, Tito was confirmed as the Prime Minister and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the DFY.

On 15 April 1961, the MCP won an overwhelming victory in elections for a new Legislative Council.

* 1944 – World War II: The Battle of Leyte Gulf ends with an overwhelming American victory.

In 1906, the Liberal party, led by Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, won an overwhelming victory on a platform that promised social reforms for the working class.

In the same year a second referendum took place on May 5 dealing with the first electoral laws and on June 10 the first political elections in San Marino's history resulted in an overwhelming victory of the exponents of democracy.

* November 8 – U. S. presidential election, 1864: Abraham Lincoln is reelected in an overwhelming victory over George B. McClellan.

The Isaurians blockade the mountain passes, but John the Hunchback ( John Gibbo ) wins an overwhelming victory against the rebels.

On 15 July, at the Battle of Grunwald ( also known as Battle of Tannenberg ) after one of the largest and most ferocious battles of the Middle Ages, the allies won a victory so overwhelming that the Teutonic Order's army was virtually annihilated, with most of its key commanders killed in combat, including Grand Master Ulrich von Jungingen and Grand Marshal Friedrich von Wallenrode.

It was an overwhelming victory for the Prussians, for they not only captured an entire French army, but the leader of France as well.

His campaigns were successful and, on July 25, 1139, he obtained an overwhelming victory in the Battle of Ourique, and straight after was unanimously proclaimed King of Portugal by his soldiers.

The victory by the US-led coalition forces in the 1991 Persian Gulf War and the 2003 invasion of Iraq, demonstrated that training, tactics and technology can provide overwhelming victories in the field of battle during modern conventional warfare.

His marriage to the widowed Lady Grey took place secretly and though the date is not accepted as exactly accurate is traditionally said to have taken place ( with only the bride's mother and two ladies in attendance ) at her family home in Northamptonshire on 1 May 1464, just over three years after he had taken the English throne subsequent to leading the Yorkists in an overwhelming victory over the Lancastrians at the Battle of Towton.

The result was an overwhelming Yorkist victory.

It was an overwhelming victory for the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho, led by several major war leaders, including Crazy Horse and Gall, inspired by the visions of Sitting Bull ( Tȟatȟáŋka Íyotake ).

The battle took place about north of Adrianople ( modern Edirne in European Turkey, near the border with Greece and Bulgaria ) in the Roman province of Thracia and ended with an overwhelming victory for the Goths.

Many older works attribute the Gothic victory to overwhelming Gothic numbers, to Gothic cavalry, and sometimes to Gothic use of stirrups.

Despite this support among sectors of the upper classes, his overwhelming victory was above all due to the support of the biggest class in France: the peasants.

In the Local Elections of 2007 this contributed to the overwhelming victory of a small bypass pressure group, over the traditional political parties.

" The next day, both houses of Congress voted on it without change, producing an overwhelming margin of victory: 423 to 3 in the House and 99 to 0 in the Senate.

* The Athenian general Conon, the Persian satrap Pharnabazus and Evagoras, King of Salamis, win an overwhelming naval victory over the Spartans under Peisander in the Battle of Cnidus ( near Rhodes ).

In other depictions, the aliens score an overwhelming victory over humanity and the bulk of the story occurs after the aliens have taken over.

Arminius ( a. k. a. Hermann the Cherusker ), leader of the Germanic tribes during the battle, became something of a legend for his overwhelming victory over the Romans.

The overwhelming strength of the joint British and Maratha forces ensured that the battle was won with few losses.

In the Guadalcanal Campaign, neither side enjoyed the overwhelming local naval and air supremacy which ensured victory in every other amphibious operation of the war.

His men fought well in the morning, putting up a stout resistance, but as overwhelming Confederate forces massed against them, their line eventually broke and they retreated back through the town of Gettysburg to the relative safety of Cemetery Hill south of town.

In the overwhelming majority of cases, organ donation is not possible for reasons of recipient safety, match failures, or organ condition.

Roosevelt proposed adding more justices to the court and creating a mandatory retirement age ; the changes would allow him to appoint an overwhelming majority to the court who be more sympathetic to his agenda, ensuring the safety of legislation passed by his party.

My overwhelming impression, having undertaken this Review, is of an organisation that has been extremely conscious of the importance of fulfilling the very serious responsibilities of changing both the perception and the reality of food safety in the UK.

In the wake of this overwhelming transformation, the Quintessons had invaded the planet, but they were not the only threat to Cybertron's safety: The Wreckers were also faced with Cryotek, who had used the legendary Divine Light to tap into the power of Primus and transform himself into a living god.

By his magnificent leadership and complete disregard for his personal safety, Major Lassen had, in the face of overwhelming superiority, achieved his objects.

Navy Chaplain Lieutenant Vincent Capodanno was also awarded a posthumous Medal of Honor for his efforts in pulling wounded men to safety in face of overwhelming enemy fire.

" and reiterated that " the overwhelming weight of scientific evidence supports the safety and efficacy of dental amalgam, and it should continue to be made available to dentists and their patients " and " dental amalgam contains elemental mercury combined with other metals such as silver, copper, tin and zinc to form a safe, stable alloy.

During a violent enemy counterattack in the KRINKELT-ROCHERATH area, BELGIUM, personnel inexperienced in combat such as cooks, clerks and drivers, manned deadlined tanks and with superb courage met the headlong plunge of the enemy and inflicted severe casualties upon him, with utter disregard for their personal safety, the officers and men of these three gallant companies faced devastating hostile tank, anti-tank and self-propelled artillery fire and fought on tenaciously against overwhelming enemy forces.