In earlier Homeric combat, the words and deeds of supremely powerful heroes turned the tide of battle.

Earl Erling Skakke is killed, and the battle changes the tide of the civil wars.

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.

* 1942 – World War II: Battle of Stalingrad – Soviet Union forces under General Georgy Zhukov launch the Operation Uranus counterattacks at Stalingrad, turning the tide of the battle in the USSR's favor.

* November 19 – WWII: Battle of Stalingrad: Soviet Union forces under General Georgy Zhukov launch the Operation Uranus counter-attacks at Stalingrad, turning the tide of the battle in the USSR's favor.

* June 19 – Battle of Kalvskinnet ( outside Nidaros, Norway ): Earl Erling Skakke is killed, and the battle changes the tide of the civil wars.

He faced the difficult proposition of organizing a line of battle while sailing against an incoming tide, with winds and land features that would require him to do so on a tack opposite that of the British fleet.

The battle goes badly at first for the Britons, but four unknown men — Belarius, Guiderius, Arviragus, and Posthumus in their disguises — turn the tide, rallying Cymbeline's troops into a rout of the Romans.

The turning of the tide of the conflict occurred in 996 when the Byzantine general Nikephoros Ouranos inflicted a crushing defeat on a raiding Bulgarian army at a battle on the River Spercheios ( Sperchius ) in Thessaly.

Later Christian chroniclers and pre-20th century historians praised Charles Martel as the champion of Christianity, characterizing the battle as the decisive turning point in the struggle against Islam, a struggle which preserved Christianity as the religion of Europe ; according to modern military historian Victor Davis Hanson, " most of the 18th and 19th century historians, like Gibbon, saw Poitiers ( Tours ), as a landmark battle that marked the high tide of the Muslim advance into Europe.

Within 24 hours after the Choctaw language was pressed into service, the tide of the battle had turned.

The sudden defection turns the tide of battle, and the remaining Greek fleet is completely destroyed.

During a battle, Odin, again in the guise of an old, one-eyed man, breaks Sigmund ’ s sword, turning the tide of the battle and ultimately leading to his death.

Henry long and faithfully supported his older cousin, Emperor Frederick I ( Barbarossa ), in his attempts to solidify his hold on the Imperial Crown and his repeated wars with the cities of Lombardy and the Popes, several times turning the tide of battle in Frederick's favor with his fierce Saxon knights.

His rationale was that since the sole motivation of mercenaries is their pay, they will not be inclined to take the kind of risks that can turn the tide of a battle, but may cost them their lives.

He also interprets the entrails of the enemy during the tide of battle.

When the Myrmidons led by Achilles turn the tide of battle and Hector is killed, foreshadowing Troy's imminent fall, Helenus-like most of the greatest heroes-survived the poem.

She often caused fear and confusion among soldiers in order to move the tide of battle to her favoured side.

Following the sacking of Washington, the tide of battle turned against the British, and the Treaty of Ghent ended the war even as Johnson prepared to return to Kentucky to raise another military unit.

Seeing the tide of battle turn, Perseus fled with the cavalry on the Macedonian right.

We are, therefore, determined that Australia shall not go, and we shall exert all our energies towards the shaping of a plan, with the United States as its keystone, which will give to our country some confidence of being able to hold out until the tide of battle swings against the enemy.

The tide of battle turned and the Emperor launched an offensive along the entire line, while Maréchal Louis-Nicolas Davout drove a relentless offensive, turning the Austrian left, eventually rendering Charles's position untenable.

Once a flourishing small community with a lighthouse, the island was destroyed by coastal erosion and now exists as a shoal that is exposed at low tide.

( Philip the Good would later make peace with the Dauphin, now Charles VII, with the Treaty of Arras when, under the inspiration of Joan of Arc, the tide of the war turned in favour of the French.

As the ice retreated during the Mesolithic, the sea level rose, filling what is now the North Sea, and bringing the Norfolk coastline much closer to its present line ; the remains of submerged forests can still be detected at low tide.

The Tern Hide, now cut off at high tide, was dismantled.

The accommodation quarters of several of the forts have been converted into apartments ; two are now private homes ; and one, Fort Clonque, at the end of a causeway that is flooded at high tide, belongs to the Landmark Trust and can be rented for self-catering holidays.

For example, Henry's " I know not what to say, my title's weak " ( 1. 1. 135 ), " All will revolt from me, and turn to him " ( 1. 1. 152 ), " And I with grief and sorrow to the court " ( 1. 1. 211 ), and " Revenged may she be on that hateful Duke ,/ Whose haughty spirit, wing'd with desire ,/ Will cost my crown, and like an empty eagle / Tire on the flesh of me and my son " ( 1. 1. 267 – 270 ); Exeter's " And I, I hope, shall reconcile them all " ( 1. 1. 274 ); the entirety of York's soliloquy in Act 1, Scene 4 ; Warwick's pause to get his breath during the Battle of Barnet ( 2. 3. 1 – 5 ); all of Act 2, Scene 5 ( including dialogue from Henry, the father and the son ) up to the entry of Prince Edward at line 125 ; all of Henry's monologue in Act 3, Scene 1, prior to his arrest ( ll. 13 – 54 ); Richard's entire soliloquy in Act 3, Scene 2 ( ll. 124 – 195 ); Margaret's " Ay, now begins a second storm to rise ,/ For this is he that moves both wind and tide " ( 3. 3. 47 – 48 ); Warwick's soliloquy at the end of the Act 3, Scene 3 ( ll. 257 – 268 ); Richard's " I hear, yet say not much, but think the more " ( 4. 1. 85 ) and " Not I, my thoughts aim at a further matter :/ I stay not for love of Edward but the crown " ( 141. 124 – 125 ); Warwick's " O unbid spite, is sportful Edward come " ( 5. 1. 18 ); the entirety of Richard's soliloquy in Act 5, Scene 6, after killing Henry ( ll. 61 – 93 ) and Richard's " To say the truth, so Judas kissed his master / And cried ' All hail ', whenas he meant all harm " ( 5. 7. 33 – 34 ).

Its site is marked by Church Rock, now no longer visible, even at a low spring tide.

At 13: 10, Beatty turned northwest and ordered all the British ships to withdraw since the tide had now risen sufficiently for larger German ships to pass out through the Jade estuary.

When the Hanoverian reserve infantry arrived on the Obensburg, they were able to turn the tide momentarily, but as the Duke of Cumberland had begun to withdraw his army, they were unable to maintain the now isolated position for long.

Having examined the soundscape, Arnold turns to the action of the tide itself and sees in its retreat a metaphor for the loss of faith in the modern age, once again expressed in an auditory image (" But now I only hear / Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar ").

Mitchells Bay is a great right hand point break that performs well at mid tide, waves can be found at ' Petrol Pumps ' ( named after a now closed small Caltex auto garage located there ), the bay before and occasionally further round when the tides are right.

His belief that a strait separated the mainland from Van Diemen's Land ( now Tasmania ) was backed up by his astute observation of the rapid tide and the long south-western swell at Wilsons Promontory.

The tide then changed after it lost three by-elections in 1917 to the more physical-force republican Sinn Féin movement, which in the mean time had built up 1, 500 organised clubs around Ireland and exceeded the strength of the old UIL, most of the latter members now joining the new movement.

The tide had now turned against the Huguenots, and Schomberg's merits had been long ignored on account of his adherence to the Protestant religion.

The part of the village which now contains the fish market was known as " Streetanowan ", this was separated at high tide from " Newlyn Town " the site of the lower part of the modern harbour being reclaimed land and formerly a beach.

This outfall, from a pipe now called the Ranelagh Sewer, can still be seen at low tide.

The tide of Filicaja's fortunes now turned.

The site is now occupied by the industrial sprawl, though the foundations of the pier are still visible at low tide to this day and are clearly visible on aerial photographs of the area at coordinates.

In the early 1990s the beach flooded with the tide rising beyond the beach wall and inundating the surrounding pasture in the valley, which is now used as a campsite.

If the story is a comedy, things will have gone badly for the protagonist up to this point ; now, the tide, so to speak, will turn, and things will begin to go well for him or her.

Deceived by this, Russell's squadron was carried away by the flood tide, until they could themselves anchor, now out of range giving the French a respite.

Findochty harbour is now used mostly by pleasure craft and is a good sun spot when the tide is out.

Because of this, the chocolate sales begin to skyrocket and the tide is now turned: Jerry soon becomes an outcast, facing harassment by his peers, isolation in the hallways, prank calls at home, and the vandalism of his locker and possessions.

Until 1767, when Georges Dock was built where the Liver Building now stands, the River Mersey reached the church garden walls at high tide.