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victories and second
Turk Lown was tagged with the loss, his second against no victories, while Ray Moore won his second game against a single loss.
The Battle of Poitiers was fought between England and France on 19 September 1356 near Poitiers, resulting in the second of the three great English victories of the Hundred Years ' War: Crécy, Poitiers, and Agincourt.
Although the Cowboys are tied with the 49ers for the second most Super Bowl victories ( Steelers have 6 ), Dallas actually holds the record, with Pittsburgh, for the most Super Bowl games played ( 8 ) and solely holds the record the most Super Bowl MVPs with 7:
Willis holds many Marlins pitching records including single season victories ( 22 ), franchise losses ( 54 ), complete games ( 15 ), shutouts ( 8 ), innings pitched ( 1, 022 ⅔ ), and is second in franchise victories ( 67 ).
** Currently second all-time in Big Ten Conference victories with 848.
The Senators continued to perform respectably in 1913 with Johnson posting a career-high 35 victories, as the team once again finished in second place.
Successive decisive Dutch victories in the second and third Anglo-Dutch Wars confirmed the Dutch mastery of the seas during the Dutch Golden Age, financed by the expansion of the Dutch Empire.
His victories over the Anglian chieftains of Bernicia in the second half of the sixth century are recorded by Nennius and celebrated by the bard Taliesin, who calls him " Ruler of Rheged ".
After two consecutive close second place finishes, the Giants, under new manager Felipe Alou, recorded 100 victories for the seventh time in franchise history and the third time in San Francisco, winning their division for the third time in seven seasons.
The Vikings were making their second Super Bowl appearance after also finishing the regular season with a 12-2 record, and posting postseason victories over the Washington Redskins and the Dallas Cowboys.
Led by Staubach and the Doomsday Defense, Dallas advanced to their second Super Bowl after posting a 12-2 record season record and playoff victories over the Chicago Bears and the Minnesota Vikings.
The 49ers defeated the Broncos by the score of 55 – 10, winning their second consecutive Super Bowl, and tying the Pittsburgh Steelers with four Super Bowl victories.
However, Steve Forbes finished first in Delaware and Arizona while paleoconservative firebrand Pat Buchanan managed early victories in Alaska and Louisiana, in addition to a strong second place in the Iowa caucuses and a surprising victory in the small but key New Hampshire primary.
Luke Garrott was re-elected to a second term, while Charlie Luke and Kyla LaMalfa were elected in upset victories over incumbents J. T.
Cisse, along with the on-form Hatem Ben Arfa, inspired Newcastle to a strong second half of the season, going on a 6-game winning run and recording memorable victories against Liverpool and Chelsea to put the Magpies in contention for European football.
Hill left Williams as the team's second most successful driver in terms of race victories, with 21, second only to Mansell.
Some of his late successes included victories at Lone Pine 1976 and in the 1979 Paul Keres Memorial tournament in Tallinn ( 12 / 16 without a loss, ahead of Tal, Bronstein and others ), shared first place ( with Portisch and Hübner ) in the Rio de Janeiro Interzonal the same year, and second place in Tilburg in 1981, half a point behind the winner Beliavsky.
With two victories against Padova ( 3 – 1 and 5 – 0 ), Udinese finished the tournament in second place behind Petrarca and were promoted to first-level Prima Categoria.
Cosworth's 176 wins make it one of the most successful engine manufacturers to race in F1, second only to Ferrari in victories.
In just the pair's first tournament since 2010 Wimbledon, the unseeded sisters advanced to the final with notable victories against fourth-seeded Maria Kirilenko and Nadia Petrova in the second round and top-seeded Liezel Huber and Lisa Raymond in the semifinals.
It is Unser's second of four victories.

victories and war
In the spring of 1863, Lincoln was optimistic about upcoming campaigns to the point of thinking the end of the war could be near if a string of victories could be put together ; these plans included Hooker's attack on Lee north of Richmond, Rosecrans ' on Chattanooga, Grant's on Vicksburg, and a naval assault on Charleston.
Beauregard, who was supposed to attract recruits because of his victories early in the war and give Johnston a competent subordinate.
He gained some victories during the war 1821 war between the Ottoman Empire and Persia, resulting in a peace treaty signed in 1823 after the Battle of Erzurum.
The army reforms were not yet completed by the war of 1809, in which Charles acted as commander in chief, yet even so it proved a far more formidable opponent than the old and was only defeated after a desperate struggle involving Austrian victories and large loss of life on both sides.
The Italians ' decisive military victories over the Ottoman Empire greatly influenced the Balkan states to prepare for war against Turkey.
By the summer of 1944, victories in the Southwest and Central Pacific had brought the war closer to Japan, with American bombers able to strike at the Japanese main islands from air bases secured during the Mariana Islands campaign ( June — August 1944 ).
Following Napoleon Bonaparte's victories over the Austrian Empire in Northern Italy – helping to secure France victory in the War of the First Coalition in 1797 – Great Britain remained the only major European power still at war with the French Republic.
Milward argued the German Reich could not fight a long war, so it deliberately refrained from arming in depth, to arming in breadth, to enable it to win a series of quick victories.
Eugene enhanced his standing during the War of the Spanish Succession where his partnership with the Duke of Marlborough secured victories against the French on the fields of Blenheim ( 1704 ), Oudenarde ( 1708 ), and Malplaquet ( 1709 ); he gained further success in the war as Imperial commander in northern Italy, most notably at the Battle of Turin ( 1706 ).
In the mid-1580s, war with Spain could no longer be avoided, and when Spain finally decided to attempt to conquer England in 1588, the failure of the Spanish Armada associated her with one of the greatest victories in English history.
Despite the Roman victories at sea, the Roman Republic lost countless ships and crews during the war, due to both storms and battles.
However, these victories were not decisive in the sense that they ended the war.
Yet, the extremely bloody battles of Ramillies ( 1706 ) and Malplaquet ( 1709 ) proved to be Pyrrhic victories for the allies, as they had lost too many men to continue the war.
After one of his reelection victories, he said that he must " bring about a day prophesied when slavery and war shall be banished from the face of the earth.
In the 1848 election, however, the Whigs nominated General Zachary Taylor, a war hero, and celebrated his victories.
When war with France broke out again in 1202, John achieved early victories, but shortages of military resources and his treatment of Norman, Breton and Anjou nobles resulted in the collapse of his empire in northern France in 1204.
The civil war continued until royalist victories at the battles of Lincoln and Dover in 1217.
Romans scored other victories with proconsul Decimus Junius Brutus Callaicus and Gaius Marius ( elected in 113 BC ), but still the Lusitani resisted with a long guerilla war ; they later joined Sertorius ' ( a renegade Roman General ) troops ( around 80 BC ) and were finally defeated by Augustus ( around 28-24 BC ).
Apart from some Paraguayan victories on the northern front, the war was a disaster for Solano López.
The war continued until 1175 without significant victories.
Commenting upon the effect of a number of Allied victories against Axis forces, and moreover the United States ’ decision to enter the war, Churchill opined that ; “ Hope has returned to the hearts of scores of millions of men and women, and with that hope there burns the flame of anger against the brutal, corrupt invader.
The weapon that made these victories possible were the German Big Berthas and the Skoda 305 mm Model 1911 siege mortars, one of the best siege mortars of the war, on loan from Austria-Hungary.
It was one of the few great victories obtained by either side during the war ; 110, 000 Austro-Hungarian prisoners were marched back to Russia.
For most of the war, the Somali army scored continuous victories on the Ethiopian army, following it as far as Sidamo.

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