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.

" Bernard Grun delivers this assessment in his " Timetables of History ", reissued in 2004: " In 732 Charles Martel's victory over the Arabs at the Battle of Tours stems the tide of their westward advance.

These soldiers were in their mid-teens and performed heroic acts under the personal direction of Napoleon, but could not stem the tide of the Allied advance.

Access to the navigation from the River Blackwater is only possible at certain states of the tide, and advance booking to use the sea lock is required.

At the crucial Battle of Midway your daring and skilled leadership routed the enemy in the full tide of his advance and established the pattern of air-sea warfare which was to lead to his eventual capitulation ..."

In 732 or 737 — modern scholars have debated over the date — Charles marched against an Arab army between Poitiers and Tours and defeated it in a watershed battle that turned back the tide of the Arab advance north of the Pyrenees ; but Charles ' real interests lay in the northeast, primarily with the Saxons, from whom he had to extort the tribute which for centuries they had paid to the Merovingians.

Despite a significant victory over Captain Hearsey ’ s force, which had been sent on a flanking movement though Eastern Kumaun, and the capture of the captain himself, the Gorkhali Army was unable to stem the tide of the British advance.

They could only advance in jumps when the tide was favourable.

At this time, the British government requested that the division be sent to Burma to help stem the tide of the Japanese advance on Rangoon, but the Australian government declined the request.

By November 27 the division came under the command of the German 42nd Corps, west of Kiev, and joined the effort to stem the tide of the Soviet advance.

During the American Civil War, as a leader eventually attaining the rank of major general of the Confederate States Army, Mahone is best known for turning the tide of the Battle of the Crater against the Union advance during the Siege of Petersburg in 1864.

It was between noon and 1 p. m., when the tide had turned and the Russians were on the point of retreating beaten, when an attempt was decided on to advance with the British left against the Russian batteries on Shell Hill.

As the tide turned in the war, and the Soviets began to reclaim the territories they lost to the initial German advance, they began a new wave of deportations of unfavored ethnic groups.

These forces then proved instrumental in first halting the Syrians ' rapid advance, then turning the tide of battle against them.

With advance orders already coming in for the as-yet unreleased album, Revelation decided to press a limited run of 100 white-vinyl copies of the album, assigning it catalog number REV :- 1 ( negative one ), and sending these copies to tide over fans who had advance ordered Bringin ' It Down.

Khafji ’ s notoriety, however, is primarily owed to the Battle of Khafji, which took place in and around the town in 1991 and marked the high tide of Iraq ’ s advance through Kuwait and into Saudi Arabia.

During the war, the 9th Battalion, along with the rest of the 7th Brigade was sent to New Guinea to help stem the tide of the Japanese advance.

While superior to all US barrels, there were too few to stem the tide of the U. S. advance.

Even before the century was out the tide of reaction had set in.

Three years afterwards, under Yusuf's son and successor, Ali ibn Yusuf, Sintra and Santarém were added, and Iberia was again invaded in 1119 and 1121, but the tide had turned, the French having assisted the Aragonese to recover Zaragoza.

In order to attain the Andromeda Cloth, he was chained between two large pillars of rock and he had to overcome the chains before the tide came in and killed him, also reminiscent of this myth.

The Athenians had honed their style of fighting in combat with other phalanxes, wooden shields smashing against wooden shields, iron spear tips clattering against breastplates of bronze ... in those first terrible seconds of collision, there was nothing but a pulverizing crash of metal into flesh and bone ; then the rolling of the Athenian tide over men wearing, at most, quilted jerkins for protection, and armed, perhaps, with nothing more than bows or slings.

When the tide came in water was allowed to flow in behind a barrier.

When the tide turned the water was trapped and it was only allowed to flow out under a mill turning its ' wheel '.

In March 2008, Emsworth was hit by a large storm which resulted in numerous trees being uprooted and, combined with a high tide, led to large parts of the town being flooded.

Over the next year the tide was turned and the Germans started to suffer a series of defeats, for example in the siege of Stalingrad and at Kursk.

The Battle of the Ebro in July – November 1938 was the final desperate attempt by the Republicans to turn the tide.

The situation pushed the leaders of the neighbouring Arab states to intervene, but their preparation was not finalized, and they could not assemble sufficient forces to turn the tide of the war.

The tide was slowly turning against him, and in favor of Rome.

Thus, a redoubling of faith and devotion by Muslims was called for to reverse this tide .</ BLOCKQUOTE >

As the tide of the war turned against Germany, Terboven's personal aspiration was to organise a " Fortress Norway " ( Festung Norwegen ) for the Nazi regime's last stand.

By late 1943, the tide of the war was turning against the Axis powers, but this only spurred Goebbels to intensify the propaganda by urging the Germans to accept the idea of total war and mobilization.

As the Union Army drew near to Lee's divided army, Stuart's men skirmished at various points on the approach to Frederick and Stuart was not able to keep his brigades concentrated enough to resist the oncoming tide.

The pre-20th century names Danger Reef, Caldew Reef, Maria Shoal and Crane Shoal refer to this atoll, which by then was entirely submerged at high tide.

After his victory, Musashi immediately jumped back in his boat and his flight from Sasaki's vengeful allies was helped by the turning of the tide.

In 1996, a red tide was responsible for 151 manatee deaths.

Obstacles such as underwater trenches or large rocks tended to stop the tanks in their tracks and it was decided for this reason that they should be landed at high tide so that any tanks so mired could be retrieved again at low tide.

It was the high tide of the anapsids in the form of the massive Pareiasaurs and host of smaller, generally lizard-like groups.

* 1972: A red tide was caused in New England by a toxic dinoflagellate Alexandrium ( Gonyaulax ) tamarense.

* 2005: The Canadian red tide was discovered to have come further south than it has in years prior by the ship ( R / V ) Oceanus, closing shellfish beds in Maine and Massachusetts and alerting authorities as far south as Montauk ( Long Island, NY ) to check their beds.

Rungholt was situated on the island of Strand, which was rent asunder by another storm tide in 1634, and of which the islets of Pellworm, Nordstrand and Nordstrandischmoor are the only remaining fragments.