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.

The tide of battle now rapidly turned against Manfred.

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.

The tide finally turned in 1953 when England won the final Test at The Oval to take the series 1 – 0, having narrowly evaded defeat in the preceding Test at Headingley.

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.

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

In part due to their own inability to control unruly corporate behavior, the tide turned against the guilds.

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 tide turned in December 1941, when the invasion of Russia stalled in cold weather and the United States joined the war.

His victory at the Battle of Luchana ( 1836 ) turned the tide of the war, and in 1839, the Convention of Vergara put an end to the first Carlist insurrection.

As the tide of the war turned toward the former slaves, Napoleon abandoned his dreams of restoring France's New World empire.

After an initial loss of territory by the Jewish state and occupation of Arab Palestine by the Arab armies, from July the tide gradually turned in the Israelis favour and they pushed the Arab armies out and occupying some of the territory which had been allocated to the Palestinian Arabs.

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.

The influx of Chinese arms turned the tide in Burma against the ethnic insurgencies, many of which had relied indirectly on Chinese complicity.

The entry of the Klingon ships turned the tide and allowed the Defiant to break through and retake the station ( DS9: " Favor the Bold ") ( DS9: " Sacrifice of Angels ").

However, what ultimately turned the tide in favor of validity of Gregory's election was the near universal acclaim of the Roman people.

Parklife continued the fiercely British nature of its predecessor, and coupled with the death of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain in April of that year it seemed that British alternative rock had finally turned back the tide of grunge dominance.

Although Edward III invaded again, he was becoming more anxious over the possible French invasion, and by late 1336, the Scots had regained control over virtually all of Scotland and by 1338 the tide had turned.

An attempt by Philip II of Spain to invade England with the Spanish Armada in 1588 was famously defeated, but the tide of war turned against England with an unsuccessful expedition to Portugal and the Azores, the Drake-Norris Expedition of 1589.

The tide of the advance was dramatically turned with the Battle of the Marne.

Buck has compared him to Winston Churchill, another advocate of imperial policies who held fast to his beliefs after the tide of history had turned against him, and who rose to his peak of prominence at his country's darkest hour.

By the fall of 1999, The Attitude Era had turned the tide of the Monday Night Wars into WWF's favor for good.

Then Eorl the Young and his fierce Éothéod Riders unexpectedly took the field during the Battle of Celebrant and turned the tide in the favour of Gondor.

An overtime goal by Gary Dornhoefer in Game 5 turned the tide of their first round series with the Minnesota North Stars in the Flyers ' favor, as the Flyers got their first playoff series win in six games.