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The Battle of the Red Wall was marked with the total defeat of the French forces, with 5, 700 out of 6, 000 men killed.
The industrialization of war had dehumanized the process, and made possible a new kind of defeat which the Germans suffered as a total war emerged.
However, Trajan's Dacian Wars may have led to troop reductions in the area or even total withdrawal followed by slighting of the forts by the Picts rather than an unrecorded military defeat.
However, because Constantinople was protected by impenetrable walls and a strong navy, Heraclius was able to avoid total defeat.
The second ( the Summer Battle of Osaka ; Musashi's fifth battle ) resulted in the total defeat of Toyotomi Hideyori's Army of the West by Ieyasu's Army of the East in May 1615.
His memoir of the first days of World War II, Strange Defeat, written in 1940 but not published until 1946, blamed the French military establishment, along with her social and political culture, for the sudden total military defeat and helped after the war to neutralize the traumatic memory of France's failure and to build a new French identity.
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The defeat was total for the Vikings, as even their " Indestructible " quarterback Joe Kapp had to be helped off the field in the fourth quarter after being sacked by Chiefs defensive lineman Aaron Brown.
However, after Saddam had negotiated the 1975 treaty with Iran, the Shah withdrew support for the Kurds, who suffered a total defeat.
In the campaign of 1813 Allied forces in the German theater alone amounted to nearly one million whilst two years later in the Hundred Days a French decree called for the total mobilization of some 2. 5 million men ( though at most a fifth of this was managed by the time of the French defeat at Waterloo ).
Through the remainder of the 13th century, French control over Flanders steadily increased until 1302 when an attempt at total annexation by Philip IV met a stunning defeat when Count Guy ( who had the support of the guilds and craftsmen ) rallied the townspeople and humiliated the French knights at the Battle of the Golden Spurs.
French measures, including general conscription ( levée en masse ), military reform, and total war, contributed to the defeat of the First Coalition, despite the civil war occurring in France.
At the Treaty of Chaumont ( 9 March 1814 ), the Allies agreed to preserve the Coalition until Napoleon's total defeat.
The Romans, who began their conquest of Britain in AD 43, first campaigned in what is now northeast Wales in 48 against the Deceangli, and gained total control of the region with their defeat of the Ordovices in 79.
Parker adds that a Catholic uprising in the north and in Ireland could have brought total defeat.
Valinor took no part in the struggle between the Noldor and Morgoth, but when the Noldor were in total defeat, the mariner Eärendil convinced the Valar to make a last blow to Morgoth.
" Leo IX led the army himself but his forces suffered total defeat at the Battle of Civitate on 15 June 1053.
By May 1945, the war in Europe was over, with total defeat of enemy resistance down to the last few small pockets of resistance remaining after the fall of Berlin.
The total defeat of the Sabines in 505 / 504 BC was followed by the siege of Fidenae.
It led to mutual killing of hundreds of thousands Jews, Greeks and Romans, ending with a total defeat of Jewish rebels and complete extermination of Jews in Cyprus and Cyrene by the newly installed Emperor Hadrian.
Following Rothesay's death — with the restoration of the lieutenancy to Albany and the Scottish defeat at the battle of Humbleton — Robert III experienced almost total exclusion from political authority and was limited to his lands in the west.
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By 1572, about six months after the defeat, more than 150 galleys and 8 galleasses, in total 250 ships had been built, including eight of the largest capital ships ever seen in the Mediterranean.
Yet, Rousseau fails to consider that the state is not a total institution within the liberal democracies, and that the freedom of the citizen in between the elections is the freedom of the citizen to live their life in pursuit of their own happiness, subject to the law made by their elected representatives, who are, in turn, subject to popular pressure, public protest, petition, recall, referendum, initiative, and ultimately, electoral defeat if they fail to heed the views of those they represent.

total and Athenian
In 490 BCE, at the Battle of Marathon, the Persian army was defeated by a heavily armed Athenian army, with 9, 000 men who were supported by 600 Plataeans, 1, 000 soldiers from each of eleven Greek city-states ( 11, 000 men in total ) and 10, 000 lightly armed soldiers led by Miltiades.
Thrasybulus and Alcibiades kept the Spartans occupied while Theramenes joined up with the nearby Athenian land forces and then hurried to the rescue ; his arrival precipitated a total Athenian victory, in which all the Spartan ships were captured.
In the spring of 498 BC, an Athenian force of twenty triremes, accompanied by five from Eretria, for a total of twenty-five triremes set sail for Ionia.
They also had 1, 200 cavalry, vastly outnumbering the Athenian cavalry, although the total numbers of men were about the same.
According to the Ancient Greek historian Thucydides, the Athenian citizens at the beginning of the Peloponnesian War ( 5th century BC ) numbered 40, 000, making with their families a total of 140, 000 people in all.
Since for some dates the number of amphorae awarded to a winner is known, it is possible to deduce that about one percent of the total production of Athenian vases has survived.

total and expedition
Similarly, a 1919 expedition led by Eddington confirmed general relativity's prediction for the deflection of starlight by the Sun during the total solar eclipse of May 29, 1919, making Einstein instantly famous.
Discounting Peary's disputed claim, the first men to set foot at the North Pole were a Soviet party including geophysicists Mikhail Ostrekin and Pavel Senko, oceanographers Mikhail Somov and Pavel Gordienko, and other scientists and flight crew ( 24 people in total ) of Aleksandr Kuznetsov's Sever-2 expedition ( March – May 1948 ).
A total expedition of 50 men was organized.
Altogether, the Union forces under Colonel Bazel F. Lazear captured a total of 40 Rebel troops on this expedition, who were subsequently sent to military prisons in St. Louis.
On 10 June 1806, Fox offered a resolution for total abolition to Parliament: " this House, conceiving the African slave trade to be contrary to the principles of justice, humanity, and sound policy, will, with all practicable expedition, proceed to take effectual measures for abolishing the said trade ..." The House of Commons voted 114 to 15 in favour and the Lords approved the motion on 25 June.
In Paris he had many scenes from the expedition ( 81 in total ) reproduced as aquatints.
His expedition completed after a total of 17 months, Beebe and Blair crossed the Pacific to San Francisco, then crossed the United States to return to their home in New York.
Including American soldiers who died of exhaustion, exposure, and illness in the following days, total American fatalities from the expedition may have been higher than those of the Hessians.
Indeed, that surprise is well justified, for nothing can be expected of this expedition except the total destruction of the fleet or its hasty and demoralized return.
Afterwards Rodney's squadron, amounting to 8 ships of the line joined the British expedition to Cuba bringing the total number of ships of the line to 15 by the end of April 1762.
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Bolesław's reprisal expedition in the following year ended with a total disaster, so the High Duke eventually had to reconcile with his Silesian nephews.
Captain Hawkins returned to England in September 1566, his expedition a total success as his financiers made a 60 % profit.
After his 1852 expedition to explore the headwaters of the Red and Colorado Rivers, General Randolph Marcy agreed: " a tree, shrub, or any other herbage to intercept the vision ... the almost total absence of water causes all animals to shun it: even the Indians do not venture to cross it except at two or three places.
On 8 June 1937, Kanton was the site of a total solar eclipse and the island was occupied briefly by American and New Zealand scientists, members of an expedition organized by the National Geographic Society and led by the astronomer Samuel Alfred Mitchell.
On 19 June 1936, he led the Harvard-MIT expedition to the steppes of Russia ( at Ak Bulak in southwestern Siberia ) to observe a total eclipse.
" Consequently, once this omitted figure is added to the tally of 8, 368 men who survived the Year 3 quarry expedition, a total of 900 men out of an original expedition of 9, 268 men perished during this massive endeavour for a mortality rate of almost 10 %.
From Como, Saha proceeded to Oslo in Norway to join an expedition organised by Prof. L. Vegard of Oslo University to observe a forthcoming total solar eclipse.
On January 3, 1908 a total eclipse of the sun was observed on the island by an expedition from the Lick Observatory in California.
With a total of more than 4, 000 soldiers involved, Sully ’ s expedition was the largest ever carried out by the U. S. army against Indians.
In total, the expedition lasted only forty-two days and never actually engaged the enemy.
The expedition delivered a fighting force of 4, 000 men to Magdala out of total 13, 000 soldiers and 60, 000 people involved all together.
They then continued west to cross Prince of Wales Island to Ommanney Bay, returning to Batty Bay via Peel Sound and Cape Walker-a total trek of ( Bellot's narrative of the expedition was published posthumously in 1854 ).

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