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While he was in the hospital, many of his comrades were killed in the Battle of Sari Bair.
While many Goths were subdued and joined the ranks of the Huns, a group of Goths led by Fritigern fled across the Danube and revolted against the Roman Empire, winning a decisive victory at the Battle of Adrianople.
While at sea the French had some success at Boulogne but Nelson's Royal Navy destroyed an anchored Danish and Norwegian fleet at the Battle of Copenhagen ( 1801 ) because the Scandinavian kingdoms were against the British blockade of France.
While it is hard to assess the significance of military archery in pre-Norman Conquest Anglo-Saxon warfare, it is clear that archery played a prominent role under the Normans, as the story of the Battle of Hastings shows.
While on tour together following the release, both bands would join between sets to play " Battle Scar ".
While in the service of the Duke Maximilian of Bavaria, Descartes was present at the Battle of the White Mountain outside Prague, in November 1620.
While commanding the Carl Vinson Battle Group, he deployed to the Persian Gulf and later served as the Deputy Commander, Joint Task Force Southwest Asia.
While the film portrayed the events of the " Hundred Days " quite faithfully, including some allusions to and scenes from the Battle of Ligny and of Quatre Bras, there were a few mistakes, presumably made for artistic purposes, and some characters act as ciphers for others.
While Henry himself did not take part in the Battle on the Marchfeld, he had sent reinforcements to King Ottokar II, whose death was a serious blow to the Wrocław duke.
While the French army under General MacMahon engaged the German 3rd Army at the Battle of Wörth, the German 1st Army under Steinmetz finished their advance west from Saarbrücken.
While traveling to Chattanooga, Sherman departed Memphis on a train that arrived at the Battle of Collierville, Tenn., while the Union garrison there was under attack on October 11, 1863.
While she was attempting to raise further support for the Lancastrian cause in Scotland, her principal commander, Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset, gained a major victory for her at the Battle of Wakefield on 30 December 1460 by defeating the combined armies of the Duke of York and the Earl of Salisbury.
While the Umayyads and the Hashimites may have had bitterness between the two clans before Muhammad, the rivalry turned into a severe case of tribal animosity after the Battle of Badr.
While most of his published works were novels, he also wrote the non-fiction historical account, Killing Custer: The Battle of Little Bighorn and the Fate of the Plains Indians.
While under German occupation, the city was devastated in 1944 during the Battle of Normandy in World War II ; 5, 000 people were killed and 12, 000 homes destroyed, mainly by Allied air attacks.
While this fleet was inferior to the Spartans, the Athenians employed new and unorthodox tactics, which allowed them to secure a dramatic and unexpected victory in the Battle of Arginusae, near Lesbos.
While attempting to relieve this allied city, the Romans under the command of Lucius Caecilius Metellus Denter suffer a costly defeat in the Battle of Arretium.
While he is absent, Guinevere is seduced by Mordred and marries him, upon which Mordred declares himself king and takes Arthur's throne ; consequently, Arthur returns to Britain and fights Mordred at the fatal Battle of Camlann.
While the city was under Confederate control, plans for the Battle of Shiloh were mapped out within the Burleson-Hinds-McEntire House.
While he was defeated in the Battle of Tafalla, he still was able to gain territory, including Sanguesa, and established a state of semi-autonomy.
While living in Harrisburg, Lewis also published the popular poem, " St. Clair's Defeat ," which described the defeat of Arthur St. Clair by the tribes of the Western Confederacy during the Battle of the Wabash.
While fighting the Dutch navy at the Battle of Solebay off the Suffolk coast in June, valorous conduct aboard the Duke of York's flagship, the Prince, earned Churchill promotion ( above the resentful heads of more senior officers ) to a captaincy in the Admiralty Regiment.
While 15 September is considered by many to be the climax of the Battle of Britain, 18 August is often cited as the costliest or hardest day — the British lost 68 aircraft and the Germans lost 69.
While visiting relatives in Brooklyn, New York City, he spent a month in the studio of John Quincy Adams Ward, then began to work on commissions, and at the age of 23 received from the town of Concord an order for his well-known statue The Minute Man, which was unveiled April 19, 1875, on the centenary of the Battle of Lexington and Concord.
While the Battle of Günzburg was being fought, Ney sent General Loison's 2nd Division to capture the Danube bridges at Elchingen, which were lightly defended by the Austrians.

While and stopped
While in the first five years following World War II, massive emigration from these states to the West occurred, restrictions implemented thereafter stopped most East-West migration, except that under limited bilateral and other agreements.
While the expedition was stopped in the Chontal Maya capital of Itzamkanac, known as Acalan in Nahuatl, Cortés had Cuauhtémoc executed for allegedly conspiring to kill him and the other Spaniards.
While they were still deliberating, Midas arrived with his father and mother, and stopped near the assembly, wagon and all.
While some claim that Hồ Chí Minh Thought is used as a veil for the Party leadership since they, according to this version, have stopped believing in communism, contrary to this version, Hồ Chí Minh was an avid supporter of Vladimir Lenin and the dictatorship of the proletariat.
While the French settlers were established in modern Quebec and Nova Scotia, new arrivals stopped coming from France.
While escaping, they find what they assume to be Bander's immature child, Fallom, in a state of panic because its robotic nursemaid, like all other robots on the estate, has stopped functioning.
While Sega would later rival Nintendo's success with the Mega Drive / Genesis, Atari never truly recovered and could not match the success of its competitors or its own 2600 console ; it finally stopped producing game systems in after the failure of the Atari Jaguar.
While he was preparing to plunge into battle, he told Glaucus that together they would go on to glory: if they were successful, the glory would be their own ; if not, the glory of whoever stopped them would be the greater.
While the notion of needing to remove alien influences to reconstruct Latvian traditions was preserved into later times, the attempts to create an Olympus-like pantheon of pseudo-gods eventually stopped as national romanticism was replaced by realism and came to be criticized in the first half of 20th century.
While driving across the country, they stopped in a small town called Calabash, whose name she had loved.
While this method may increase congestion on the highway itself, it has the benefit of keeping city arterials free of stopped traffic waiting in queue.
While NBC has since stopped it's youth-based comedies, both Nick and Disney continue the practice.
While Mary was pregnant, they stopped in Florence, Italy because of a cholera epidemic.
While telling Dave a story about travelling the country, Craig said he had stopped in " Ozark, which is a town in Arkansas ," and discovered catfish.
While the allied troops attacked the French's right flank, Kutuzov's IV Corp stopped at Pratzen height and stayed still.
On that day, during a prayer session with a group of Advent believers, Hiram Edson became convicted that “ light would be given ” and their “ disappointment explained .” Some years later, Edson reported on his experiences following that meeting: " While passing through a large field I was stopped about midway of the field.
That stopped in November 1974, when Martin recorded his final Reprise album-Once In A While, released in 1978.
While his train was stopped at what was then known as Barclay Tank to re-water, he noticed clover growing and decided to found an experimental farm the following year.
While teaching at Vassar, she stopped a rather stridently overacted scene performance and directed the students ' attention to a large tree growing outside the window of the performance space, advising the students on the art of naturalistic acting: " I wish people knew how to be people as well as that tree knows how to be a tree.
While they matched their 2004 record and made the playoffs, the Storm's title defense was stopped in the first round by the Houston Comets, 2 games to 1.
While visiting London, Columbo remarks at the Scotland Yard officers ' gentlemans club that his " father was an Elk until my mother stopped him.
While Luger had Flair in the " Torture Rack " and Flair was about to submit, the match was abruptly stopped by the referee who cited ( kayfabe ) " Maryland State Athletic Commission " rules about a cut that had opened up on Luger's forehead " bleeding excessively ".
While Pittsburgh goaltender Roy Worters stopped 26 of 27 shots to record the first NHL win in franchise and city history.
While Jeanene was on the phone with Susanna Clark, their son Will noticed that Townes had stopped breathing and " looked dead.
While a snow mobile is heavy, it also distributes its weight at a larger area than a standing person, so a driver who has stopped his vehicle out on the ice of a frozen lake can go through the ice just by stepping off the snowmobile.

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