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It was on a sick bed at Naples that Innocent IV heard of Manfred's victory at Foggia against the Papal forces: the tidings are said to have precipitated his death on 7 December 1254 in Naples.
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.
The battle was precipitated by a Spartan victory which led to the Athenian fleet under Conon being blockaded at Mytilene ; to relieve Conon, the Athenians assembled a scratch force composed largely of newly constructed ships manned by inexperienced crews.
Their victory precipitated the Second Partition of Poland and set the stage for the Third Partition and the final dissolution of the Commonwealth in 1795.

victory and full
O ' Higgins and Freire listened to it with respect and full of emotion, for they had marched to victory to its tune more than once.
The battle resulted in a complete royal victory ; Montfort was killed, and King Henry III was restored to full power.
After a heated discussion, Odin swore that he would grant victory to the first tribe he saw the next morning upon awakening — knowing full well that the bed was arranged so that the Vandals were on his side.
* 1940 – World War II: The Battle of Dunkirk ends with a German victory and with Allied forces in full retreat.
His debut for the full senior side came on 2 October 1954, scoring a goal in a 2-0 England victory over Northern Ireland at Windsor Park, Belfast.
Otherwise, we may expect future years to be as full of trouble with the redskins as those have been in the past .</ br >< p > An eastern contemporary, with a grain of wisdom in its wit, says that " when the whites win a fight, it is a victory, and when the Indians win it, it is a massacre.
His close friend George Stigler explained, " As is customary in science, he did not win a full victory, in part because research was directed along different lines by the theory of rational expectations, a newer approach developed by Robert Lucas, also at the University of Chicago.
* 1547 – The Battle of Pinkie Cleugh, the last full scale military confrontation between England and Scotland, resulting in a decisive victory for the forces of Edward VI.
Riggins running with a full head of steam, hit him high, and slid down his body as The Diesel pulled away towards the end zone and the Redskins 1st Super Bowl victory.
This famous victory gave the Union full control of the Mississippi River, split off the western Confederacy, and opened the way for more Union triumphs.
Within the Roman Catholic Church, Ultramontanism achieved victory over conciliarism at the First Vatican Council with the pronouncement of papal infallibility ( the ability of the pope to define dogmas free from error ex cathedra ) and of papal supremacy, i. e., supreme, full, immediate, and universal ordinary jurisdiction of the Pope.
The Aeneid is full of prophecies about the future of Rome, the deeds of Augustus, his ancestors, and famous Romans, and the Carthaginian Wars ; the shield of Aeneas even depicts Augustus ' victory at Actium in 31 BC.
In 1825, after the decisive victory of the republicans at Ayacucho over the Spanish army in the course of the Spanish American wars of independence, the city's full name was changed to La Paz de Ayacucho ( meaning The Peace of Ayacucho ).
The Scottish victory was complete and, although full English recognition of Scottish independence was not achieved until more than ten years later, Robert Bruce's position as king was greatly strengthened by the outcome.
Shearer's only goal in six full Champions League games was a penalty in a 4 – 1 victory against Rosenborg in the final fixture and Blackburn finished third in their group, failing to progress to the next stage.
"< ref > There are multiple translations of the full name, including " the all-powerful warrior who, because of his endurance and inflexible will to win, will go from conquest to conquest leaving fire in his wake ", " the earthy, the peppery, all-powerful warrior who, by his endurance and will to win, goes from contest to contest leaving fire in his wake " and " the man who flies from victory to victory and leaves nothing behind him "< http :// www. plexoft. com / SBF / N04. html # Sese > and " the all-powerful warrior who goes from conquest to conquest, leaving fire in his wake " ( Wrong, p. 4 )</ ref >), Mobutu Sese Seko for short.
As mentioned above, both Cicero and Quintilian are sources for the story that Scopas, the Thassalian nobleman, refused to pay Simonides in full for a victory ode that featured too many decorative references to the mythical twins, Castor and Pollux.
With the match all square at the 17th hole, Leonard needed to earn at least a half-point by either winning one of the last two holes ( therefore earning a full point ), or finishing the match at all square ( therefore earning a half-point ) to seal an American victory.
This night I was invited by Mr. Rog: L ' Estrange to the incomperable Lubicer on the Violin, his variety upon a few notes & plaine ground with that dexterity, as was admirable, & though a very young man, yet so perfect & skillful as there was nothing so crosse & perplext, which being by our Artists, brought to him, which he did not at first sight, with ravishing sweetenesse & improvements, play off, to the astonishment of our best Masters: In Summ, he plaid on that single Instrument a full Consort, so as the rest, flung-downe their Instruments, as acknowledging a victory.
Also, while Morgoth had achieved a crushing and decisive victory over his enemies, his own forces had suffered heavy losses to achieve it, and it would be some time before his forces recovered to their full strength.
In a postwar analysis of the unpreparedness of U. S. Army forces deployed to Korea during the summer and fall of 1950, Army Major General Floyd L. Parks stated that " Many who never lived to tell the tale had to fight the full range of ground warfare from offensive to delaying action, unit by unit, man by man ... hat we were able to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat ... does not relieve us from the blame of having placed our own flesh and blood in such a predicament.
Under these circumstances, Horatio Nelson's victory of Aboukir ( 1 August 1798 ), which gave the British full command of the Mediterranean and isolated < span lang =" fr "> Bonaparte </ span > in Egypt, was the signal for a second coalition.
In one instance, the family network enabled Nathan to receive in London the news of Wellington's victory at the Battle of Waterloo a full day ahead of the government's official messengers.

victory and Allied
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.
He saw action in the First World War, where he was seriously wounded, and during the Second World War he commanded the Eighth Army from August 1942 in the Western Desert until the final Allied victory in Tunisia.
The overwhelming Allied victory ensured the safety of Vienna from the Franco-Bavarian army, thus preventing the collapse of the Grand Alliance.
" Instead of continuing the momentum of victory, however, cracks in Allied unity would enable Louis XIV to reverse some of the major setbacks suffered at Turin and Ramillies.
Ogden's Basic, and the concept of a simplified English, gained its greatest publicity just after the Allied victory in the Second World War as a means for world peace.
Eisenhower worked tirelessly to address the demands of the rival commanders to optimize Allied forces, often by giving them tactical, though sometimes ineffective, latitude ; many historians conclude this delayed the Allied victory in Europe.
* 1598 – Seven Year War: Battle of Noryang Point – The final battle of the Seven Year War is fought between the China and the Korean Allied Forces and Japanese navies, resulting in a decisive Allied Forces victory.
The extent of Allied quantitative and qualitative superiority by this point in the war was demonstrated during Battle of the Philippine Sea, a lopsided Allied victory where Japanese fliers were downed in such numbers and with such ease that American fighter pilots likened it to a great turkey shoot.
The Polish government in exile kept functioning and through the many Polish military formations on the western and eastern fronts the Poles contributed to the Allied victory.
Venizelos on the other hand was an ardent anglophile, and believed in an Allied victory.
Britain sent a short-lived ground support force to Portugal, and French forces evacuated Portugal as defined in the Convention of Sintra following the Allied victory at Vimeiro ( 21 August 1808 ).
Alexander presided over Montgomery's victory at the Second Battle of El Alamein and the advance of the Eighth Army to Tripoli, for which Alexander was elevated to a knight grand cross of the Order of the Bath, and, after the Anglo-American forces from Operation Torch and the Eighth Army converged in Tunisia in February 1943, they were brought under the unified command of a newly-formed 18th Army Group headquarters, commanded by Alexander and reporting to Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Supreme Allied Commander in the Mediterranean at the Allied Forces Headquarters.
Having played a decisive role in the Allied victory against Germany, the USSR emerged as a recognized superpower after the war.
While the Germans pressed forward, Stalin was confident of an eventual Allied victory over Germany.
* 1693 – War of the Grand Alliance: Battle of Landen – France wins a Pyrrhic victory over Allied forces in the Netherlands.
* 1916 – World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli concludes with an Ottoman Empire victory when the last Allied forces are evacuated from the peninsula.
However, the nationalists were disappointed in their belief that the Allied victory in Morocco would pave the way for independence.
Their point is to say that though the implications of an Axis victory, in particular a German victory, would be horrible, that this did not justify Allied atrocities.
* 1942 – World War II: The Battle of Guadalcanal ends in a decisive Allied victory.

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