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The two armies met at Interamna Nahars ( modern Terni ), at the southern end of the eastern branch of the Flaminia, and Aemilian won the battle ; Gallus and Volusianus fled with few followers towards north, probably to gather time before the arrival of the reinforcements, but at Forum Flaminii ( modern San Giovanni Profiamma ), on the western branch of Flaminia, they were killed by some of their own guards, who thought that their betrayal could earn them a reward.
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Starting in great force late in December, from a line stretching from East Prussia to Budapest, the Red armies had swept two hundred miles across Poland to the Oder, thirty miles from Berlin, and the Upper Danube region was being rapidly overrun, while the Western Allies had not yet occupied all of the left bank of the Rhine.
Cunimund attempted to prevent the two armies joining up by moving against the Lombards and clashing with Alboin somewhere between the Tibiscus and Danube rivers.
Few of his other paintings resemble this apocalyptic scene of two huge armies dominated by an extravagant landscape seen from a very high viewpoint, which looks south over the whole Mediterranean from modern Turkey to include the island of Cyprus and the mouths of the Nile and the Red Sea ( behind the isthmus to the left ) on the other side.
In the two Battles of Villmergen in 1656 and 1712 the Freie Ämter became the staging ground for the warring Reformed and Catholic armies.
Wellington is better-known to posterity, because he led one of the two Allied armies at the final decisive victory of the Napoleonic Wars ( the battle of Waterloo in 1815 ), although Wellington's superior reputation is perhaps also because he only once faced Napoleon, whereas Charles was confronted by Napoleon in battle more times than any other commander.
Early board games represented a battle between two armies, and most current board games are still based on defeating opposing players in terms of counters, winning position or accrual of points ( often expressed as in-game currency ).
On January 1, 1986, the army was restructured from four numbered armies and two military commands into seven military commands.
The two armies confronted each other for several months of uncertainty, Caesar being in a much worse position than Pompey.
There was significant distance between the two armies, according to Caesar.
The tactic proved unsuccessful, but when Tallard arrived to bolster the Elector's army, and Prince Eugene arrived with reinforcements for the Allies, the two armies finally met on the banks of the Danube in and around the small village of Blindheim.
This had two aims: firstly to put pressure on the Elector to fight or come to terms before Tallard arrived with reinforcements ; and secondly, to ruin Bavaria as a base from which the French and Bavarian armies could attack Vienna, or pursue the Duke into Franconia if, at some stage, he had to withdraw northwards.
The time was about 16: 30, and the two armies were in close contact across the whole four-mile ( 6 km ) front, from the skirmishing in the marshes in the south, through the vast cavalry battle on the open plain ; to the fierce struggle for Ramillies at the centre, and to the north, where, around the cottages of Offus and Autre-Eglise, Orkney and de la Guiche faced each other across the Petite Gheete ready to renew hostilities.
While the British military historian Sir John Keegan suggested an ideal definition of battle as " something which happens between two armies leading to the moral then physical disintegration of one or the other of them ", the origins and outcomes of battles can rarely be summarized so neatly.
Through constant pressure by both infantry and cavalry, two Ottoman armies in the Judean Hills, were kept off-balance and virtually encircled during the Battles of Sharon and Nablus which have become known as the Battle of Megiddo.
The distance between the two armies at the point of battle had narrowed to " a distance not less than 8 stadia " or about 1, 500 meters.
Elements of the two armies initially collided at Gettysburg on July 1, 1863, as Lee urgently concentrated his forces there, his objective being to engage the Union army and destroy it.
As a result of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force's capture of two Ottoman armies, an armistice with the Ottoman Empire was signed on 31 October 1918.
The Italians were forced to withdraw to more defensible positions in Tigray, where the two main armies faced each other.
A 1989 listing of forces shows two Czechoslovak armies in the west, the 1st at Příbram with one tank division and three motor rifle divisions, the 4th at Písek with two tank divisions and two motor rifle divisions.
The ensuing Battle of Mursa Major was one of the largest and most bloody battles between two Roman armies in Roman history.
A series of coordinated attacks by these Egyptian Expeditionary Force infantry and mounted troops were also successful at the Battle of Mughar Ridge, during which the British infantry divisions and the Desert Mounted Corps drove two Ottoman armies back to the Jaffa — Jerusalem line.
The Australian Mounted Division was armed with swords and in September, after the successful breaching of the Ottoman line on the Mediterranean coast by the British Empire infantry XXI Corps was followed by cavalry attacks by the 4th Cavalry Division, 5th Cavalry Division and Australian Mounted Divisions which almost encircled two Ottoman armies in the Judean Hills forcing their retreat.
Were two conventional armies to fight, the loser would have redress in its nuclear arsenal.
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No wonder Wright was enchanted -- no two better suited people ever met.
`` Little Rock is, without any flattery, one of the dullest towns in the United States and I would not have remained two hours in the place, if I had not met with some good friends who made me forget its dreariness ''.
the Low Countries, where the Middle Ages were to last for another two centuries and die out only when Charles the Bold of Burgundy met his first defeat in the fields and forests below the walls of Grandson.
It met a serious rebuff in New Orleans, where the two schools selected for the first moves toward integration were boycotted by white parents.
`` Sure, we met a barrel of rich men but it's hard to find the real thing when you're young, beautiful and the toast of two continents '' `` Remember Fanny Brice promised my mother she would look after me on the road ''??
Fran and he had met about two years after she had arrived in Manhattan from Nebraska, or was it Wyoming??
Much progress has been made in the last two decades in developing techniques for understanding children, yet in almost any classroom today can be found children whose needs are not being met by the school program.
The two met in the Captain's cabin.
The sultan proposed terms of peace, which were rejected by the emperor, and the two forces met in the Battle of Manzikert.
He met two admirers, Charles Lane and Henry C. Wright.
In 1906, Berg met the singer Helene Nahowski, daughter of a wealthy family ( said by some to be in fact the illegitimate daughter of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria from his liaison with Anna Nahowski ); despite the outward hostility of her family, the two were married on May 3, 1911.
The two contingents met on opposite sides of the River Guadalquivir, just outside the capital of Córdoba on the plains of Musarah.
Before leaving, he met Milton Caniff, and the two became lifelong friends.
That autumn he enrolled in the King Khaled University at Abha to study Sharia, he left his family home in Khamis Mushayt in the summer of 2000 to complete the Hajj, but never returned – instead travelling to the Al Farouq training camp in Afghanistan where he met and befriended Waleed and Wail al-Shehri, two brothers from Khamis Mushayt, and Saeed al-Ghamdi.
This is when he met his first girlfriend Christina Grönvall, with whom he had two children: Peter ( born 1963 ) and Helen ( born 1965 ).
Andersson met Björn Ulvaeus in June 1966, and the two started writing songs together, their first being " Isn't It Easy To Say ", eventually recorded by The Hep Stars.
The two never met again, and with many other occupants of New Providence, Hornigold accepted the King's pardon from Woodes Rogers in June the following year.
Rose, along with his close friend and former teammate Mike Schmidt ( who is a strong supporter of Rose's reinstatement into baseball ), met with Selig in 2002, where Rose privately admitted to Selig ( two years before going public with his admission ) about betting on baseball.
The two fleets met outside the Gulf of Actium ( Today Preveza city, Greece ), on the morning of 2 September 31 BC.
" In March 2012, the now-retired Fidel Castro met Pope Benedict XVI during the latter's visit to Cuba ; the two men discussed the role of the Catholic Church in Cuba, which has a large Catholic community.
However, agreement was never reached on the finer details, and the two sides often met deadlock over the following points, among others:
When Love was 17, she began an on-and-off relationship with Rozz Rezabek of the band Theatre of Sheep after the two met at The Metropolis in Portland, Oregon, where Love occasionally worked as a DJ.
Although there are conflicting dates as to when they met ( some sources state that they met in January 1989 at the Satyricon nightclub ), Love stated that the two first encountered one another in January 1988 at a Dharma Bums show where she was doing a spoken word performance, and Erlandson stated that both he and Love were formally introduced to Cobain in a parking lot after a Butthole Surfers concert at the Hollywood Paladium in 1991.
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