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Pitched battle; Pocket: see "salient". Pyrrhic victory: a victory paid for so dearly that it potentially could lead to a later defeat ("a battle won, a war lost"). Raid; Rank: a single line of soldiers. Reconnaissance; Reconnoitre: to go to an area (reconnoitering) to find out information of the exact location of an enemy force.
The battle was a part of Afghan-Sikh Wars in which 8,000 Sikhs were attacked by a gigantic Afghan force of 150,000. Despite this, over 6,000 Afghans were killed and the Sikhs won the battle. Sikh Victory Dade Battle: 1835 Seminole, Florida United States: The battle was the opening conflict of the Second Seminole War, which lasted from 1835 to 1842.
During the Battle of Thermopylae, the vastly outnumbered Greeks held off the Persians for seven days (including three of battle) before the rear-guard was annihilated in one of history's most famous last stands. During two full days of battle, the small force led by Leonidas blocked the only road by which the massive Persian army could pass.
The word Armageddon appears only once in the Greek New Testament, in Revelation 16:16. The word is a Greek transliteration of the Hebrew har məgīddō (הר מגידו). Har means "a mountain" or "a range of hills". This is a shortened form of harar meaning "to loom up; a mountain".
Battle of Actium – 31 BCE – Final War of the Roman Republic; Battle of Ad Decimum – 533 – Vandalic War; Battle of Adwa – 1896 – First Italo-Ethiopian War; Battle of Adwalton Moor – 1643 – English Civil War; Battle of Aegina – 458 BCE – First Peloponnesian War; Battle of Aegospotami – 405 BCE – Peloponnesian War
Death of King Gustav II Adolf of Sweden at the Battle of Lützen by Carl Wahlbom. "I have enough, brother; try to save your own life." [11]: 71–72 [note 83] — Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (16 November 1632), mortally wounded at the Battle of Lützen (1632) "I am now ready to die.
The final boss, last boss or end boss, [39] is typically present at or near the end of a game, with completion of the game's storyline usually following victory in the battle. [40] [41] The final boss is usually the main antagonist of the game; however, there are exceptions, such as in Conker's Bad Fur Day, in which the final boss, Heinrich, is ...
'The Greatest Battle'), is an apocalyptic war set to occur in the end times according to Islamic eschatology. The Malhama Al-Kubra is prophesied to be the most brutal battle in human history. It generally corresponds to the battle of Armageddon in Christian eschatology, and occurs soon before the emergence of the Dajjal. [1]