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After siding with Pescennius Niger against the victorious Septimius Severus, the city was besieged by Roman forces and suffered extensive damage in 196 AD.
Excepting a few ineffective attempts to revive scythed chariots, and continuing far eastern use, the use of chariots in battle was obsolete in civilized nations by the time of the Persian defeat at the hands of Alexander the Great, but chariots remained in use for ceremonial purposes such as carrying the victorious general in a Roman triumph, or for racing.
Perhaps in response to Hamilcar's raids, Rome did build another fleet paid for with donations from wealthy citizens and it was that fleet which rendered the Carthaginian success in Sicily futile, as the stalemate Hamilcar produced in Sicily became irrelevant following the Roman naval victory at the Battle of the Aegates Islands in 241 BC, where the new Roman fleet under consul Gaius Lutatius Catulus was victorious over an undermanned and hastily built Carthaginian fleet.
Capua was eventually starved into submission in the Roman retaking of 211 BC, and the Romans were victorious in the overall wars.
* Battle of Singara: The Roman army under Emperor Constantius II is barely victorious at the strongly fortified city of Singara ( Mesopotamia ).
He suggests that the prohibition was a display of the Senate's supreme power to the Italian allies as well as competitors within the Roman political system, such as individual victorious generals whose popularity made them a threat to the Senate's collective authority.
With no Persian army left to oppose him, Heraclius ' victorious army plundered Dastagird, Khosrau's palace, and gained tremendous riches while recovering 300 captured Byzantine / Roman standards accumulated over years of warfare.
In the resulting Battle of Callicinus the Macedonians, led by their king, Perseus, are victorious over a Roman force led by consul Publius Licinius Crassus.
Carthaginian Leadership requested terms to the victorious Roman commander, Gaius Lutatius Catulus and authorized Hamilcar Barca to open negotiations, probably to avoid the responsibility of the defeat.
Arretium sided with Marius in the Roman Civil War, and the victorious Sulla planted a colony of his veterans in the half-demolished city, as Arretium Fidens (" Faithful Arretium ").
In 157 BC, the city was a de facto Roman centre and was given the name of Vicetia or Vincentia, meaning " victorious ".
The line of celebration and honour of his victorious life began with the great column of victory surmounted by his statue and detailing his triumphs, and the next point on the great axis, planted with trees in the position of troops, was the epic Roman style bridge.
This time, they boxed in the Los Angeles suburb of Inglewood, California, and Roman came out victorious by a 12 round decision.
Masinissa joined the Roman forces and participated in the victorious Battle of the Great Plains ( 203 ), after which Syphax was captured.
* Roman triumph, a celebration for a victorious military commander in ancient Rome
The Roman triumph was at its core a religious procession in which the victorious general displayed his piety and his willingness to serve the public good by dedicating a portion of his spoils to the gods, especially Jupiter, who embodied just rule.
The Roman triumph was at its core a religious procession in which the victorious general displayed his piety and his willingness to serve the public good by dedicating a portion of his spoils to the gods, especially Jupiter, who embodied just rule.
The title imperator dates back to the Roman Republic, when a victorious commander could be hailed as imperator in the field by his troops.
Insofar as the hilly topography of the site would allow, the city was built on a Roman grid plan and settled with veterans who fought in the victorious legions and other foreign colonists.
It was a resounding Roman defeat with heavy losses, and yet some 10, 000 and more Romans, over 2. 5 legions, were victorious on their part of battlefield and retreated with honor to Placentia ( Piacenza ).
Regillensis was also a cognomen of the Postumia gens, presumably because Aulus Postumius Albus led the victorious Roman army at the Battle of Lake Regillus in 498 BC.
After recording the vice or folly of so many Roman princes, it is pleasing to repose, for a moment, on a character conspicuous by the qualities of humanity, justice, temperance, and fortitude ; to contemplate a sovereign affable in his palace, pious in the church, impartial on the seat of judgment, and victorious, at least by his generals, in the Persian war.
Just outside the city walls is another appalling sight: King Syphax in chains taunted by the victorious King Massinissa, who is by now decked out in Roman military regalia.

victorious and general
In the Late Renaissance and Baroque the painting of actual history tended to degenerate into panoramic battle-scenes with the victorious monarch or general perched on a horse accompanied with his retinue, or formal scenes of ceremonies, although some artists managed to make a masterpiece from such unpromising material, as Velázquez did with his The Surrender of Breda.
After being acclaimed imperator, the victorious general had a right to use the title after his name until the time of his triumph, where he would relinquish the title as well as his imperium.
* 538 – Vitiges, king of the Ostrogoths ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city in the hands of the victorious Byzantine general, Belisarius.
* January 22 – Seven Years ' War – At the Battle of Wandiwash in India, British general Sir Eyre Coote is victorious over the French under the Marquis de Bussy-Castelnau.
* The Fatimid general Gawhar al-Siqilli launches a new victorious campaign in the West of the Magrib.
* Aung San Suu Kyi led the opposition National League for Democracy which was victorious in 1990 general election.
The status vir consularis was, as we have seen, conferred upon Odaenathus ; the title rex, or king, is simply a Latin translation of mlk, or king ; imperator in this context simply means " victorious general "; and dux Romanorum looks like yet another version of corrector totius orientis " ( Potter, 263 ).
An ovation was a military parade in honour of a victorious general, so the person who " returned from Britain with an ovation " is clearly Plautius, not Pomponia.
* 476-462 Cimon elected general each year, he was victorious over Persia and then enforced military power on Delian League
Its survivors linked up with the victorious Southern Army commanded by a talented general Eärnil, and they destroyed the Wainriders in the Battle of the Camp once and for all.
For a year the realm was ruled by Pelendur, Steward to King Ondoher, and then the crown was given to the victorious general Eärnil, who came from the House of Anárion and had gained popularity during the war.
The victorious general had been accepted as the actual commander of the army and maintained his strong connections to the aristocracy.
This time the victorious general, Epaminondas, entered the Peloponnesus with an international army of Boeotians, Argives and Messenians living abroad.
In the internal power struggle that followed Torrijos emerged victorioushe exiled Martínez in 1969 and promoted himself to brigadier general.
The Crown Army was judged too weak to oppose the four columns of enemy armies advancing into Polish Ukraine and began a fighting withdrawal to the western side of the Southern Bug River, where it regrouped and countered the Russian advance in a pitched battle, when Prince Poniatowski was victorious in the Battle of Zieleńce ( June 18, 1792 ), while Kościuszko's division took part in only some artillery exchange at the end of the battle, the general was among the first to receive the newly created Virtuti Militari medal, Poland's highest military decoration even today.
Gen. Nathaniel Lyon was killed, the first Union general to die in combat, and the Confederates were victorious.
A young, victorious general, Napoleon Bonaparte negotiated the release of the state prisoners at Olomouc, as a prelude to the Treaty of Campo Formio.
* Aristeides: A national hero, he founded the confederacy that became the Athenian empire and he is mentioned with Miltiades, the victorious general at the Battle of Marathon, as examples of Demos ' glorious past ( line 1325 ).
While Janus sometimes is named belliger and sometimes pacificus in accord with his general function of beginner, he is mentioned as Janus Quirinus in relation to the closing of the rites of March at the end of the month together with Pax, Salus and Concordia: This feature is a reflection of the aspect of Janus Quirinus which stresses the quirinal function of bringing peace back and the hope of soldiers for a victorious return.
When Marcus Antonius Primus, the general of Vespasian, was marching upon Rome ( 69 AD ), he joined the ambassadors that were sent by Vitellius to the victorious general, and going among the soldiers of the latter, preached about the blessings of peace and the dangers of war, but was soon made to stop.
In 1657, and again in 1706, the town and castle were captured by the Swedes during their invasions of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ; on January 13, 1660 the invading Muscovite Russian army under Ivan Andreyevich Khovansky took the Brest castle in a surprise early morning attack, the town having been captured earlier, and massacred the 1700 defenders and their families ( according to captain Rosestein, Austrian observer ); on July 23, 1792 a battle was fought between the regiments of Duchy of Lithuania ( part of Polish Army ) defending the town and the invading Russian Imperial Army ; on September 19, 1794 the area between Brest and Terespol was the scene of a victorious battle won by the invading Russian Imperial army under Suvorov over the Kościuszko Uprising army division under general Karol Sierakowski known in Russian sources as ( Battle of Brest ).
The contemporary source was penned by the victorious commanding-officer from the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands, general lieutenant Godard van Reede, in letters written to his family-members on mainland Europe.

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