Achilles, the greatest warrior of the age, withdrew from battle in revenge and nearly cost the Greek armies the war.

Paul's visit on leave to his home highlights the cost of the war on his psyche.

Behaving " in a way that cost nothing ," Kantorek is a strong supporter of the war and encourages Bäumer and other students in his class to join the war effort.

Ιn 1463 came the Turco-Venetian war, which was destined to cost the Venetians Negroponte, most of the Cyclades and their colonies in the Morea.

In 1693 Morosini resumed command, but his only acts were to refortify the castle of Aegina, which he had demolished during the Cretan war in 1655, the cost of upkeep being paid as long as the war lasted, by the Athenians, and to place it and Salamis under Malipiero as Governor.

Uncertain whether he should choose it as a seat of war, as he looked round on his scanty force of soldiers, and remembered with what a serious warning the rashness of Petilius had been punished, he resolved to save the province at the cost of a single town.

The war had cost Britain about a quarter of its national wealth.

The civil war of 1860 cost the Christians some ten thousand lives in Damascus, Zahlé, Deir al-Qamar, Hasbaya, and other towns of Lebanon.

The conflicts with Spain and in Ireland dragged on, the tax burden grew heavier, and the economy was hit by poor harvests and the cost of war.

The amount of monetary aid ( which was in the form of loans ) received by Germany through the Marshall Plan ( about $ 1. 65 billion in total ) was far overshadowed by the amount the Germans had to pay back as war reparations and by the charges the Allies made on the Germans for the ongoing cost of occupation ( about $ 2. 4 billion per year ).

The war, which cost between 300, 000 to 1, 000, 000 lives, ended with the destruction of the Republic and the accession of Francisco Franco as dictator of Spain.

The war came at a great cost in lives and economic damage — half a million Iraqi and Iranian soldiers as well as civilians are believed to have died in the war with many more injured — but it brought neither reparations nor change in borders.

This came at a terrible cost: by the end of the war, Italy had lost 700, 000 soldiers and had a budget deficit of billions of lira.

The war cost both sides in lives and economic damage: half a million Iraqi and Iranian soldiers, as well as civilians, are believed to have died in the war, with many more injured ; however, it brought neither reparations nor changes in borders.

The cost per vehicle trended upwards as the war continued from the price under the first contract from Willys at US $ 648. 74 ( Ford's was $ 782. 59 per unit ).

Many Whigs feared that opposition would cost them politically by casting themselves as unpatriotic for not supporting the war effort.

The cost of the war still weighed heavily on the Soviet economy.

First, the failure of the previous status quo seemed self-evident to a generation that had seen millions die fighting over scraps of earth — prior to the war, it had been argued that no one would fight such a war, since the cost was too high.

This sparked a violent reaction in 1878 as High Chief Atal of La Foa managed to unite many of the central tribes and launched a guerrilla war which cost 200 Frenchmen and 1, 000 Kanaks their lives.

The stock parasite in this play, Gelasimus, has a patron-client relationship with this family and offers to do any job in order to make ends meet ; Owens puts forward that Plautus is portraying the economic hardship many Roman citizens were experiencing due to the cost of war.

As our planes land the war materiel that kills pro-Western Katangans, we stand supinely bleating while Nehru's troops smash into a five-hundred-year-old district of our NATO ally, Portugal.

Angola's war for independence did not end in a military victory for either side, but was suspended as a result of a coup in Portugal that replaced the Caetano regime.

Civil war between King Pedro of Castile and his half-brother Henry of Trastámara led to the exile of many Castilian nobles to Portugal.

The Spanish Civil War ( 1936 – 1939 ) was exceptional because both sides of the war received support from intervening great powers: Germany, Italy, and Portugal supported opposition leader Francisco Franco, while France and Russia supported the government ( see proxy war ).

The war in the colonies was increasingly unpopular in Portugal itself as the people got weary of war and balked at its ever-rising expense.

In 1640, with the war in central Europe having no clear winner except the French, both Portugal and Catalonia rebelled.

The war in the Iberian Peninsula fluctuated repeatedly, with Wellington spending several years behind his fortresses in Portugal while launching occasional campaigns into Spain.

Only two countries remained neutral in the war: Sweden and Portugal, and Napoleon then looked toward the latter.

Similarly, in 1975, war broke out in Angola after the country gained independence from Portugal, Nigeria, a member of the English Commonwealth of Nations, mobilized its diplomatic influence in Africa in support of the MPLA.

* 1383 – The 1383-1385 Crisis in Portugal: King Fernando dies without a male heir to the Portuguese throne, sparking a period of civil war and disorder.

These Rifle Regiments were deployed as skirmishers during the Peninsular war in Spain and Portugal, and were more effective than skirmishers armed with muskets due to their accuracy and long range.

In 1452, Pope Nicholas V issued the papal bull Dum Diversas, granting the kings of Spain and Portugal the right to reduce any " Saracens, pagans and any other unbelievers " to perpetual slavery, legitimizing the slave trade as a result of war.

Thus, the United States entered into a ten-year war in Vietnam, taking over from French colonialists, and supported Portugal in its attempts to hold on to Angola.

This study published in an academic journal detailed the demographic impact of the war on France, the UK, Italy, Belgium, Portugal, Serbia, Romania and Greece.

Portugal: Included in total are 6, 000 killed or missing in action and died of wounds Total war dead reported by British War Office were 7, 022 including the following: killed and died of other causes up until January 1, 1920 ; 1, 689 in France and 5, 333 in Africa.

The war was fought primarily by forces supporting the unification – the Spanish loyal to Philip V, France, and the Electorate of Bavaria, together known as the Two Crowns – against those opposing unification – the so-called Grand Alliance among the Spanish loyal to Archduke Charles, the Holy Roman Empire, Great Britain, the Dutch Republic, Portugal and the Duchy of Savoy.

It was a decisive ideological struggle and armed conflict of the cold war in African ( Portuguese Africa and surrounding nations ) and European ( mainland Portugal ) scenarios.

These events result in the beginning of the colonial war with Portugal.

** Angola becomes independent from Portugal ; civil war soon erupts.

* December 12 – Upon the death of Henry IV of Castile, a civil war ensues between his designated successor Isabella I of Castile and her sister Juana, who is supported by her husband, Alfonso V of Portugal.

* March 24 – The Treaty of Santarém is signed between D. Fernando of Portugal and Henrique II of Castile, ending the second war between the two countries.

A period of civil war and anarchy, known as the 1383-1385 Crisis, begins in Portugal due to Beatrice being married to the King John I of Castile and Leon.

In addition, as Portugal had been united with the Spanish crown, with which the Dutch Republic was at war in 1580, the Portuguese Empire became an appropriate target for Dutch military incursions.