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He repeatedly comes back and turns defeats into victories. { bidder: 'triplelift', params: { inventoryCode: 'Cambridge_MidArticle' }}, { bidder: 'criteo', params: { networkId: 7100, publisherSubId: 'cdo_topslot' }}, He showed extraordinary energy, resource and military talent in stemming the advance of the royalists, who now followed up their victories by advancing into the association; he defeated them at Gainsborough on the 28th of July, and managed a masterly retreat before overwhelming numbers to Lincoln, while the victory on the 11th of October at Winceby finally secured the association, and maintained the wedge which prevented the junction of the royalists in the north with the king in the south. { bidder: 'criteo', params: { networkId: 7100, publisherSubId: 'cdo_mpuslot' }}, { bidder: 'sovrn', params: { tagid: '446384' }}, const customGranularity = { After the victory of Nicopolis the siege of Constantinople was resumed, and the tower of Anatoli Hissar, on the Asiatic side of the Bosporus, was now built. I do not think our victories were entirely fortuitous. iasLog("criterion : sfr = cdo_dict_english"); He was a member of the victorious soccer team that won the Gold Cup in 1999. A sudden storm gave abundance of rain, while hail and thunder confounded their enemies, and enabled the Romans to gain an easy and complete victory. Napoleon enters Moscow after the brilliant victory de la Moskowa; there can be no doubt about the victory for the battlefield remains in the hands of the French. the psychic moment had come, and Napoleon launched his guards and the cavalry to complete the victory and initiate the pursuit. In both cases, the unions quickly achieved some important victories, which were written into agreements with the mining companies. In 1676 the naval successes of France in the Mediterranean enabled the corps under Marshal Vivonne in Sicily to make considerable progress, and he won an important victory at Messina on the 25th of March. It is evident that Surrey was confident of victory, for he placed his own army, not less than the enemy, in a position where defeat would involve utter ruin. As the final victory of Athens over Aegina was in 458 B.C., the thirty years of the oracle would carry us back to the year 488 B.C. On the 23rd of August 1268 he encountered the troops of Charles at Tagliacozzo, but the eagerness of his soldiers to obtain plunder gave the victory to the French. In 294 B.C. Albuera is celebrated on account of the victory gained there on the 16th of May 1811 by the British, Portuguese and Spaniards, under Marshal Beresford, over the French army commanded by Marshal Soult. ), was marked by great architectural activity in the lower city as well as on the citadel. We thought the victory ours. { bidder: 'ix', params: { siteId: '195454', size: [336, 280] }}, bids: [{ bidder: 'rubicon', params: { accountId: '17282', siteId: '162036', zoneId: '776146', position: 'btf' }}, iasLog("criterion : cdo_l = en"); { bidder: 'sovrn', params: { tagid: '448837' }}, { bidder: 'sovrn', params: { tagid: '448840' }}, This great victory restored to the Swedes their self-confidence and prestige. The capture of Veszprem and of Raab (1594) and the failure of the archduke Matthias to take Gran seemed to promise another rapid victory of the Ottoman arms; but Sinan was ill-supported from Constantinople, the situation was complicated by the revolt of Walachia and Moldavia, and the war was destined to last, with varying fortunes, for fourteen years. Securing election victories cost money, and the scale of such spending was often striking. One result of the victory of Heiligerlee was the determination of Alva that Egmont and Hoorn Orange outlawed. } In 278 the Gauls broke into Asia Minor, and a victory which Antiochus won over these hordes is said to have been the origin of his title of Soter (Gr. But the fruits of the victory were less than they would have been if it had been properly followed up. .The victory in the conflict practically falls to the hitherto unenfranchised plebeians. The Guayaquil author, Olmedo, who wrote the famous ode on the victory of Junin, and the Limenians Felipe Pardo and Manuel Segura are names well known wherever the Spanish language is spoken. { bidder: 'criteo', params: { networkId: 7100, publisherSubId: 'cdo_mpuslot' }}, The so-called " Stele of the Vultures," now in the Louvre, was erected as a monument of the victory. 21), rallied together and a decisive victory is obtained. } iasLog("criterion : cdo_ei = victory"); I wondered more and more, while Burke's masterly speech rolled on in mighty surges of eloquence, how it was that King George and his ministers could have turned a deaf ear to his warning prophecy of our victory and their humiliation. 21), which we may identify with the memorable victory of David over the Philistines recorded in 2 Sam. { bidder: 'criteo', params: { networkId: 7100, publisherSubId: 'cdo_rightslot' }}, The remnant of Jacob springs up in fresh vigour, inspiring terror among the surrounding peoples, and there is no lack of chosen captains to lead them to victory against the Assyrian foe. "sign-out": "https://dictionary.cambridge.org/auth/signout?rid=READER_ID" "sign-up": "https://dictionary.cambridge.org/auth/signup?rid=READER_ID", It is true that Alexander was subject to dreams and visited shrines in order to assure himself or his followers of victory. pbjs.setConfig(pbjsCfg); Ney, who had joined Oudinot after Grossbeeren, had been defeated at Dennewitz (6th Sept.), the victory, won by Prussian troops solely, giving the greatest encouragement to the enemy. Despite his victory at Sluys, Edward was so exhausted by his land campaign that he was forced before the end of 1340 to make a truce and return to England. { bidder: 'ix', params: { siteId: '195464', size: [120, 600] }}, { bidder: 'triplelift', params: { inventoryCode: 'Cambridge_MidArticle' }}, { bidder: 'openx', params: { unit: '539971079', delDomain: 'idm-d.openx.net' }}, {code: 'ad_contentslot_3', pubstack: { adUnitName: 'cdo_mpuslot', adUnitPath: '/2863368/mpuslot' }, mediaTypes: { banner: { sizes: [[300, 250], [320, 100], [320, 50], [300, 50]] } }, After the conclusion of the peace of Nicias (421 B.C.) { bidder: 'appnexus', params: { placementId: '11654151' }}, These examples are from the Cambridge English Corpus and from sources on the web. In 1742 Anand Rao received Dhar as a fief from Bail Rao, the peshwa, the victory of the Mahrattas thus restoring the sovereign power to the family which seven centuries before had been expelled from this very city and country. Then comes the story of the struggle between the gods of light and the powers of darkness, and the final victory of Merodach, who clove Tiamat asunder, forming the heaven out of one half of her body and the earth out of the other. The England keeper revealed some fancy footwork in the, 17. Rather, at least in the case of civil rights, a series of victories at the state level paved the way for a national realignment.