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An account of the war by the Byzantine Theophylact Simocatta sentimentalises the reasons behind the conflict, claiming it originated with Alboin's vain courting and subsequent kidnapping of Cunimund's daughter Rosamund, that Alboin proceeded then to marry.
Secure on the throne, Afonso III then proceeded to make war with the Muslim communities that still thrived in the south.
The Jurchen-founded Jin Dynasty was defeated by the Mongols, who then proceeded to defeat the Southern Song in a long and bloody war, the first war in which firearms played an important role.
In March 1939, Ribbentrop assigned the largely ethnic Ukrainian Sub-Carpathian Ruthenia region of Czecho-Slovakia, which had just proclaimed its independence as the Republic of Carpatho-Ukraine, to Hungary, which then proceeded to annex it after a short war.
After their success in the first month of the war, mass production was ordered and the development of other models proceeded.
In 1918 the Allies named Gustav a war criminal, but the trials never proceeded.
This war also proceeded disastrously for the Stadtholder's forces, and in the severe winter of 1794 / 95 a French army under general Charles Pichegru, with a Dutch contingent under general Herman Willem Daendels, crossed the great frozen rivers that traditionally protected the Netherlands from invasion.
Looking back, Nat Turner remains an " enigmatic and controversial figure ", according to former University of Massachusetts Amherst history professor Stephen B. Oates, given that Turner fought for the just anti-slavery cause but he proceeded in acts of violence against women and children that would today be considered as war crimes or terrorism.
Having arrived in Rome, Nicholas II then proceeded to wage war against Benedict X and his supporters, with Norman assistance.
Having arrived in Rome, Nicholas II then proceeded to wage war against Benedict X and his supporters with Norman assistance.
His strategic gains in 1711 made it virtually certain that the Allies would march on Paris the following year, but Harley had no intention of letting the war progress that far and risk jeopardising the favourable terms secured from the secret Anglo-French talks ( based on the idea that Philip V would remain on the Spanish throne ) that had proceeded throughout the year.
When Nandi died of dysentery on October 10, 1827, Shaka put on his war regalia and proceeded to scream his anguish.
The replacement programme proceeded swiftly until 1940, when the last of the pre-war series of conversions occurred, leaving only the South London trams and the subway routes 31, 33 and 35, the only North London tram routes to survive the war.
This work proceeded against a background of economic boom and bust, tyrannical dictatorship, and cataclysmic war clouds collecting on the horizon.
He was sent to Africa in a subordinate capacity and proceeded to initiate his war of flying columns.
" In them he strongly emphasized the Germanic era and the time of the early German emperors before the rule of the Habsburgs and proceeded to pinpoint the German national awakening up until the Franco-Prussian war.
As the war proceeded, it was clear that Essex and Manchester were at best half-hearted in pursuing the fight against the royalists, an attitude that became ever more apparent as the struggle became more radical.
The Japanese fleet, largely constructed in British shipyards, then proceeded to utterly destroy the Russian navy in the war of 1904-6, and removed the Russians as a credible maritime opponent.
) The surviving Pipil forces retreated into the mountains, where they sustained a guerrilla war against the Spanish who had proceeded to occupy the city of Cuscatlán.
Ignoring the demand to surrender, Anthony had raised, and then pointed towards, the U. S. flag, informed the Georgette that an attack on the Catalpa would be considered an act of war against the USA, and proceeded westward.
Work on the bridge proceeded steadily after the end of the war.
However, Israel knew that UN positions are not legitimate targets and fact that the attack proceeded indicated a callous disregard for civilian lives and a breach of the laws of war on directly or indiscriminately targeting civilians.
By the end of these battles, Early's force was effectively out of the war, and Sheridan proceeded with his secondary orders to destroy the ability of the Shenandoah Valley to produce foodstuffs for the Confederacy, torching farms and more than 2, 000 mills.

war and poorly
They quickly gained air superiority over the Allies, who at this stage of the war were often disorganized, under-trained and poorly equipped, and Japanese air power contributed significantly to their successes in the Philippines, Malaysia and Singapore, the Dutch East Indies and Burma.
Because of severe shortages in weapons and equipment and lack of training, members of the Volkssturm were poorly prepared for combat, and about 175, 000 of them lost their lives in the final months of the war.
While in peacetime the deficit is financed by selling bonds, during a war it is typically difficult and expensive to borrow, especially if the war is going poorly for the government in question.
The military connotation in Bauer's definition stems from the fact that ancient Greek armies in the time of total war mobilized all male citizens ( to the age of 50 ) to fight, and many of these citizens tended to fight poorly and ignorantly.
By the time the war began, Madison's military force consisted mostly of poorly trained militia members.
The Ottoman Empire often treated prisoners of war poorly.
But when Gustav made war on Russia and did poorly he was assassinated by a conspiracy of nobles angry that he tried to restrict their privileges for the benefit of the peasant farmers.
However, by its very nature the guerrilla war was sporadic, poorly planned and with little overall objective in mind except to harass the British.
A-wings are described as the fastest starfighters in the war between the Rebel Alliance and the Galactic Empire ; however, Star Wars: Rogue Squadron states that they are poorly shielded against attack.
The Spanish convoys proved almost unstoppable and so, during the Austrian phase of the war, the British attacked poorly protected French merchantmen instead.
Though poorly equipped compared to the better armed Japanese, Song led the 29th army to resist the aggression in a war known as the Defense of the Great Wall ( 熱河長城之戰 ).
The ode plays upon the fact that those who are listening to Bacchylides have also read the epics of Homer, and understand the whole story behind this scene that would speak poorly of Achilles if people did not know the role he played in the Trojan war.
The Chinese army was poorly equipped, but contained many veterans of the civil war and the conflict with Japan.
In 1915 Britain and France launched the well-intentioned but poorly conceived and ultimately fruitless Dardanelles Campaign, combining naval power and an amphibious landing, in an effort to aid their Russian ally and knock the Ottoman Empire out of the war.
They expected the Continental Army to give little resistance, believing that they were tired of the war and were poorly fed and paid.
Peckinpah and Coburn were greatly disappointed and turned next to Cross of Iron, a critically acclaimed war epic that performed poorly in the U. S. but was a huge hit in Europe.
This provoked a war in the Northwest Territory in which the U. S. forces performed poorly ; the Battle of the Wabash in 1791 was the most severe defeat ever suffered by the United States at the hands of American Indians.
The preliminary Winograd report released earlier this year laid most of the blame on Olmert for poorly planning, executing, and reviewing war strategies in the 2006 conflict against Hezbollah.
While the ground war did not fare as poorly for the Russians, the Japanese forces were significantly more aggressive than their Russian counterparts and gained a political advantage that culminated with the Treaty of Portsmouth, negotiated in the United States by the American president Theodore Roosevelt.
After reviewing information and meeting with military leaders in February 2002, he decided the war would be a " distraction " that would end poorly.
Until the 1980s, histories of the First Māori War tend to ignore the poorly documented Battle of Te Ahuahu yet it was in some ways the most desperate fight of the entire war.
But when the war turned out poorly in 1667, parliament decided to lay the blame on Charles II's chief minister Edward Hyde ( Earl of Clarendon ) and the king's brother and lord admiral, James, Duke of York.
During World War I, the still poorly developed peninsula suddenly found itself in a strategic position, as the communication between Russia and the Allies was cut and the ice-free harbors of the Murman Coast remained the only means of sending the war supplies to the Eastern Front.

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