When invaders reached the outskirts of Rome, they were repelled by an improvised army assembled by the Senate.

A Viking longship is burnt during Edinburgh's annual Hogmanay celebrations ( though Edinburgh has no historical connection with the Norse invaders ). When Ne ' erday falls on a Sunday, 3 January becomes an additional public holiday in Scotland ; when Ne ' erday falls on a Saturday, both 3 and 4 January will be public holidays in Scotland ; when Ne ' erday falls on a Friday, 4 January becomes an additional public holiday in Scotland.

When her husband was captured in 1509 and held hostage in Venice, she took control of Mantua's military forces and held off their invaders until his release in 1512.

When the Taiping Rebellion broke out in 1850s, the Qing court found out belatedly that the Banner and Green Standards troops could neither put down internal rebellions nor keep foreign invaders at bay.

When the invaders seize one of these " blocks ", they effectively control all communications within it and can isolate its inhabitants from the outside world, deny the central government any access to them and consolidate control at their leisure.

When the U. S. military see the Martians as invaders, the team takes on the guise of Earthlings, and acquire human clothes, money, maps and transportation.

When the invaders are forced off Mars and land on Earth, they begin to build their tripods.

When the Narrator meets the artilleryman the second time, the artilleryman imagines a future where humanity, hiding underground in sewers and tunnels, conducts a guerrilla war, fighting against the Martians for generations to come, and eventually, after learning how to duplicate Martian weapon technology, destroys the invaders and takes back the Earth.

When the enemy besieged Rome, Camillus slew most invaders at the Marcian heights, setting fire to their palisades during the windy hours of dawn.

When Germany attacked the Soviet Union in 1941, Joseph Stalin ordered both soldiers and civilians to initiate a scorched earth policy to deny the invaders basic supplies as they moved eastward.

When the invaders entered the town, a messenger was sent to Athens to alert the Athenians to what was happening.

When the British took over Cephallenia in 1809, they proclaimed, " We present ourselves to you, Inhabitants of Cephalonia, not as invaders, with views of conquest, but as allies who hold forth to you the advantages of British protection.

When Toscanini gave the American premiere of Shostakovich's Seventh (" Leningrad ") Symphony in 1942 in which the maestro heard the " suffering of the Russian people " at the hands of the German invaders, Haggin, his greatest and most perceptive admirer, dissented, declaring it " an inflated monstrosity of straining, portentous banality.

When the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II launched a retaliatory attack on Moldavia, Stephen defeated the invaders at the Battle of Vaslui in 1475, a victory which temporarily halted the Turkish advance.

When Hitler invaded the Soviet Union, Stalin was worried that the Volga Germans might collaborate with the invaders.

When Goguryeo and Baekje attacked Silla in 655, Silla joined forces with Tang Dynasty China to battle the invaders.

When the Doctor and his companions arrive on the moon by rocket – after a rather bumpy ride-they discover the situation and make contact with Phipps, who has evaded the invaders and is hiding in the moonbase.

When Dutch troops surprised the Spanish fortress of Wesel, which acted as the principal Spanish supply base, this forced the invaders to retreat to the IJssel.

When the ship unexpectedly encounters invaders from another part of the galaxy ( codenamed " Nephilim "), the Midway single-handedly beats them back, mostly led by player character Lieutenant Lance Casey.

When the chief of police saw the mercenary invaders, he armed the local longshoremen and assigned them defensive positions.

When Norse invaders arrived in the then-province of Neustria and settled the land that became known as Normandy, they gradually adopted the Gallo-Romance speech of the existing populations – much as Norman rulers in England later adopted the speech of the administered people.

When the HoloNet is suddenly scrambled, General Wedge Antilles's forces are forced to fight tooth-and-nail against the Vong while Jaina Solo is forced to deal with a group of cowardly criminals aboard a space station that would have meant quite a deal against the galactic invaders.

When they hear the alarm being raised by the sacristan, who is calling for help on the part of Don Abbondio who raised the alarm of invaders in his home, they assume they have been betrayed and flee in confusion.

When the Turkish invaders chasing her arrived, they didn't look for her in the cave because they thought the girl could not be hiding there because the web was intact.

When the invaders landed, they formed ranks and at low tide marched to the mainland, where they were promptly defeated at the ancient settlement of Knocknagin, north of Balbriggan.

When the Heruli overran Greece and captured Athens ( 269 ), Dexippus showed great personal courage and revived the spirit of patriotism among his fellow-countrymen.

When the North Vietnamese Army overran South Vietnam in 1975, Air America helicopters participated in Operation Frequent Wind evacuating both US civilians and South Vietnamese people associated with the regime from Saigon.

When Morgoth's armies attacked and overran the city, Maeglin fought with Tuor on the walls, and Tuor threw him to his death.

When civil war broke out in Central America, he fought in various battles, but was killed when a Nicaraguan army overran the city of Tegucigalpa.

When Union troops under Sherman overran much of Georgia in 1864, Brown called for an end to the war.

When the Japanese invasion of China in 1937 overran all of China's maritime access, its Chinese Air Company was merged with China Airways into the China National Aviation Company ( CNAC ), with Pan Am owning 45 % of the operation and the government the remaining 55 %.

:" When the German and Scythian nations overran the western provinces of the Roman empire, the confusions which followed so great a revolution lasted for several centuries.

When in 1798 the French overran Switzerland and instituted the Helvetic Republic, both municipalities came to the short-lived canton of Baden.

When the Romans overran the country, they sought to breed with them, believing they would achieve military might if they could father powerful sons who would grow to manhood within hours.

When Pichegru in 1795 overran Holland, De Winter returned with the French army to his native country.

When the Khmer Rouge overran Cambodia, he was forced to return to Switzerland where he continued his work at the Zurich Children's Hospital.

According to Josephus: " When he had seized upon two villages, which were in the very midst of Idumea, Betaris, and Caphartobas, he slew above ten thousand of the people, and carried into captivity above a thousand, and drove away the rest of the multitude, and placed no small part of his own forces in them, who overran and laid waste the whole mountainous country.

When forces of the Golden Horde overran the Chobanid realm and captured Tabriz in 1357, few lamented the loss of power by the Chupanids.

When the Seljuk Turks overran Persia, they adopted for official and literary use the Persian language — which meanwhile had borrowed many Arabic words.

When Arabs and Turks overran the eastern Roman Empire, they adopted and developed this feature in their baths or hammams.

When the Byzantines under John I Tzimisces overran much of northern Mesopotamia in 971, he did not even return to Baghdad.