They could not imagine that the Germans, whom they had defeated only twenty years previously, could defeat them in a mere six weeks, as happened when France fell in June 1940.

They were overtaken by Alfred's oldest son, Edward, and were defeated in a general engagement at Farnham in Surrey.

They invaded Lycia, but were defeated by Bellerophon, who was sent against them by Iobates, the king of that country, in the hope that he might meet his death at their hands.

They defeated Guy, but were bought off and left in autumn.

They were defeated by the Chauhan Kings Rao Anoop and Rao Anhal, whose descendents the Rawat-Thakurs and Cheeta-Kathat were the dominant group here.

They were easily defeated ( 724 ), but Ragenfrid gave up his sons as hostages in turn for keeping his county.

They then defeated the Bears 29 – 21 in the Divisional playoffs, before falling to the Seahawks in the NFC Championship, losing 34 – 14.

( They were not the only sacrifices ; law-breakers of all classes or defeated political opponents were also acceptable as victims.

They were defeated in five games by the Nashville Predators.

They brought devastation to the heart of the Empire, until Stilicho defeated them in 406 and recruited most of them into his forces.

They defeated the allied army at the Battle of Fleurus, leading to a full Allied withdrawal from the Austrian Netherlands.

They defeated the American League champion Cleveland Indians in the 1997 series, which was notable for shortstop Edgar Renteria driving in second baseman Craig Counsell for the series-clinching run in the eleventh inning of the seventh and deciding game and the " fire sale " which occurred in the off-season following the dramatic win.

They were defeated there by the Carthaginians under Hamilcar ( a popular Carthaginian name, not to be confused with Hannibal Barca's father, with the same name ) in 260 BC.

They were defeated by the Roman navy but managed to escape into the Aegean Sea, where they ravaged the islands of Lemnos and Scyros, broke through Thermopylae and sacked several cities of southern Greece ( province of Achaea ) including Athens, Corinth, Argos, Olympia and Sparta.

They were eventually defeated by the Seleucid king Antiochus I, in a battle where the Seleucid war elephants shocked the Celts.

They landed in Kent, and defeated two armies led by the kings of the Catuvellauni tribe, Caratacus and Togodumnus, in battles at the Medway and the Thames.

They were defeated and de la Pole killed at the difficult Battle of Stoke, where the loyalty of some of the royal troops to Henry was questionable.

They were defeated by Nader Shah, head of the Afsharids, in the October 1729 Battle of Damghan and pushed from what is now Iran to the southern Afghan region.

They raided the Evolutionary's satellite, disabled the mutation field and defeated Sinister, who had been manipulating the Evolutionary.

They defeated the Vandals, who were caught completely off-guard, at Ad Decimum on 14 September 533 and Tricamarum in December ; Belisarius took Carthage.

They were defeated along the way at the Battle of Fariskur, with Louis being taken captive by Turanshah.

They join the Invaders from Infinity ( see List of Captain Marvel ( DC Comics ) enemies ) in their attempt to destroy the Solar System after being defeated, but are beaten and sent back to Mars while the Invaders are imprisoned and destroyed.

They were defeated again by the New York Giants in Super Bowl XLVI.

They defeated New Britain 26 – 0 in front of a crowd of 10, 000.

They defeated the San Francisco 49ers, who were attempting to win the Super Bowl for an unprecedented third straight year, 15 – 13 at San Francisco and then defeated the Buffalo Bills 20 – 19 in Super Bowl XXV.

They were tethered, army style, on stable lines.

They lived in 100 cantons ( 4. 1 ) from which 1000 young men per year were chosen for military service, a citizen-army by our standards and by comparison with the Roman professional army.

They were viewed by Republicans as an army of occupation because of these duties.

They attacked the British army barricade with stones.

They also were the supreme commanders in the Roman army, with each being granted two legions during their consular year.

They were organized around the year 1729 to fill out the army and make it look larger in battle, armed only with banners. Dahomey female soldiers The women reportedly behaved so courageously they became a permanent corps.

They also used the Ethiopians as a proxy army against the Sudanese Mahdists.

" They won't have me in the army, at any rate at present, because of my lungs ", Orwell told Geoffrey Gorer.

They are engaged near Naissus by a Roman army led by Claudius advancing from the north.

They were totally loyal to Stalin, and realized their regime would collapse if it lost the backing of the Soviet army — as indeed happened in 1989.

They inflicted a few resounding defeats to the French army ; the Battle of Blenheim in 1704 was the first major land battle lost by France since its victory at Rocroi in 1643.

They called for the IRA to withdraw from the authority of the Dáil and to entrust the IRA Executive with control over the army.

They were systematized radically by the Zulu king Shaka, who was then only the exiled illegitimate son of king Senzangakona, but already showing much prowess as a general in the army of Mthethwa king Dingiswayo in the Mthethwa-Ndwandwe war in the early 1810s.

They returned with the news that Esau was coming to meet Jacob with an army of 400 men.

They also appeared unwilling to incur the cost of maintaining a large well equipped army.

They increasingly saw their role as to watch the army rather than to raise its effectiveness.

They saw action in their proper role during 1940 – 1941, most notably in the capture of the Belgian army fortress at the Battle of Fort Eben-Emael and the Battle for The Hague in May 1940, and during the Battle of Crete in May 1941.

They also took part in army of Xerxes the great at the battle of Thermopylae.

They met the English army just ten miles from Worcester.

They were the backbone of the professional army and were the career soldiers who ran the day to day life of the soldiers and issued commands in the field.

They incorporated large numbers of the people they conquered into their army, with the result that by the time they reached Sierra Leone, the rank and file of their army consisted mostly of coastal peoples ; the Mane were its commanding group.

They arrived in Cairo to participate in a parade and were then dispatched to various units of the Egyptian army.

They were also used during the various Palestinian Intifadas against modern army personnel and riot police.