The boxes are rapidly failing and the surviving adults begin unloading them, but are killed when one of two rival forces of Tines seize the ship.

Eisenhower worked tirelessly to address the demands of the rival commanders to optimize Allied forces, often by giving them tactical, though sometimes ineffective, latitude ; many historians conclude this delayed the Allied victory in Europe.

Two rival paramilitary forces, the White Guards and Red Guards, emerged.

Renewed Catholic reaction – headed by the powerful Francis, Duke of Guise – led to a massacre of Huguenots at Vassy in 1562, starting the first of the French Wars of Religion, during which English, German, and Spanish forces intervened on the side of rival Protestant and Catholic forces.

He placed loyal but often unqualified Cyrenaicans in all senior command positions, limited the armed forces to 6, 500 men, kept the army lightly armed, and built up two rival paramilitary units, the National Security Force and the Cyrenaican Defence Force which was recruited from Cyrenaican Bedouin loyal to the Sanussi.

Civil war between rival emperors became common in the middle of the 4th century, diverting men from the empire's frontier forces and allowing the barbarians to encroach.

* 1363 – End of the Battle of Lake Poyang ; the Chinese rebel forces of Zhu Yuanzhang defeat that of his rival, Chen Youliang, in one of the largest naval battles in history.

In the first, the regent John Kantakouzenos married his daughter Theodora to Orhan and employed Ottoman warriors against the rival forces of the queen dowager, allowing them to loot Thrace.

Both Brazil and Argentina remained deeply involved in Paraguay as a result of their connections with Paraguay's rival political forces.

Benedict IX's forces returned in April 1045 and expelled his rival, who however kept his claim to the papacy for years.

The First Samoan Civil War was fought roughly between 1886 and 1894, primarily between rival Samoan factions though the rival powers intervened on several occasions with military forces.

The security forces were unable to reassert control, largely because many police and security personnel are associated with one or another of the rival gangs.

In 1610, to prevent war between the rival claimants, the forces of Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor occupied Jülich-Cleves-Berg until the dispute was decided by the Aulic Council ( Reichshofrat ).

It was not a formal treaty between nations but an informal agreement between rival military forces in which the Californios gave up fighting.

* The Soviet Union under the leadership of Leonid Brezhnev, having the largest armed forces and largest stockpile of nuclear weapons in the world, pursued an agenda to lessen tensions with its rival superpower, the United States for most of the Seventies.

* Mexican Drug War ( 2006 – present ) – an armed conflict fought between rival drug cartels and government forces in Mexico.

** December – Battle in Alexandria, Egypt between the forces of Caesar and his ally Cleopatra VII and those of rival King Ptolemy XIII of Egypt and Queen Arsinoe IV.

* The city of Stralsund ( in present-day Germany ) is burned to the ground by forces from the rival city of Lübeck.

New York held out until July 26 ; certainly The Federalist was more important there than anywhere else, but Furtwangler argues that it " could hardly rival other major forces in the ratification contests "-- specifically, these forces included the personal influence of well-known Federalists, for instance Hamilton and Jay, and Anti-Federalists, including Governor George Clinton.

The forces loyal to the House of Lancaster were completely defeated by those of the rival House of York under their monarch, King Edward IV.

The opposing forces were an army led by nobles loyal to the captive King Henry VI of the House of Lancaster, his Queen Margaret of Anjou and their seven year-old son Edward, Prince of Wales on one side, and the army of Richard, Duke of York, the rival claimant to the throne, on the other.

He also met Arthur Meighen, a future political rival ; the two men did not get on especially well from the start.

* October 14 – The Battle on the Elster: between the armies of the two rival brothers-in-law kings of the German states, Henry IV and Rudolf of Rheinfelden met at the Weisse-Elster River in the Great Saxon Revolt civil war of the Holy Roman Empire.

The armies of the rival kings met at the Battle of Göllheim near Worms, where Adolph was defeated and slain.

On 26 August 1278, the rival armies met at the Battle on the Marchfeld, where Ottokar was defeated and killed.

Clark encountered another future rival when he met Brian Mulroney at a national Young PCs meeting in 1958.

During this period, Ben-Gurion met with his old rival Menachem Begin in Sde Boker.

In June 1992, nearly 200 delegates from dozens of opposition groups met in Vienna, along with Iraq's two main Kurdish militias, the rival Kurdistan Democratic Party ( KDP ) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan ( PUK ).

* Coupe Hatchback ( voiced by Conor Duffy ) is the strongest son of Pete's rival and a public announcing host, Harold Hatchback, and he is also Max and PJ's friend ( met in Buddy Building episode )

He was immediately met by a troop of his rival Otho's cavalry near the Lacus Curtius in the Forum, where he was killed.

The rival armies met on September 17, in the Battle of Antietam ( also called the Battle of Sharpsburg ).

Tension between the rival cities began to abate in 1968, when Hilltop mayor Vivian Caesar and Columbia Heights mayor Bruce Nawrocki met alongside their respective city councils to discuss mutual issues.

The two rival emperors met in battle in Cilicia.

Around 1959, Holt and fellow Ordette member Sundray Tucker met and befriended a rival girl group from Trenton, New Jersey, not too far from Philadelphia, named the Del-Capris, which featured friends Nona Hendryx and Sarah Dash.

Also at Oxford, Healey met future Conservative Prime Minister Teddy Heath ( as he was then known ), whom he succeeded as president of Balliol College Junior Common Room and who was to be a lifelong friend and political rival.

Schaefer had stayed in contact with Julie Murphy ( now Murphy Wells ), whom he'd met while they'd attended rival Virginia high schools.

After some minor clashes, the rival armies met at the Battle of Benevento on 26 February 1266, and Manfred's army was defeated.

Benn returned to the UK and met British rival Chris Eubank.

The armies of the rival Ottoman brothers met on the plain of Chamurli ( today Samokov, Bulgaria ).

Yoshitsune shortly thereafter joined Yoritomo, along with Minamoto no Noriyori, all brothers who had never before met, in the last of three conflicts between the rival Minamoto and Taira samurai clans, known as the Genpei War.

They had first met as pupils at rival schools in the 1960s.

When Carter ran for President in 1976, Maddox ran against him as the nominee of Wallace's former American Independent Party, saying that his former rival was " the most dishonest man I ever met.

At the same time, rival journalist Gareth Jones, who had met Muggeridge in Moscow, published his own stories confirming the extent of the famine.

RPG Dimension met competition on March 31, 2000 when Spinner 8 and ( wraith ) opened The Whirlpool, a rival news site focusing exclusively on fan translations.

Miffed, Cowley sent Albina to Drury Lane ’ s rival theatre in London, Covent Garden, but it met with no better reception there, and the script alternated between the theatres for the next two years.