On the day Alexander the Great‚ son of King Phillip II and Olympias‚ was born Phillip II captured the city of Potidaea‚ Phillip II’s general Parmenion won another important battle‚ and Phillip II’s horse won a race at Olympia. It was said that a son whose birth coincided with three victories would himself prove to be invincible. It was also said that Alexander descended from the Greek heroes and demi-gods Heracles and Achilles. During his kingship Alexander did very little to disprove these statements
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toward the city. Using soldiers trained in themes in Asia Minor‚ Heraclius defeated the Avars and drove away the Sassanids. He then used war payments by the Sassanids to refill the Byzantine treasury Arab armies swept across Persia and Byzantine territories in North Africa and East Asia. They then turned their attention toward capturing Constantinople. The Arabs attacked the city twice‚ in 674 CE and in 717 CE‚ and were defeated both times. The Byzantines were greatly aided by a weapon called Greek Fire
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credited with developing the story that this legion was destroyed and then ignominiously forgotten‚ likely sometime during either the reign of Trajan or Hadrian.” Whether defeated‚ disappeared‚ or complete annihilation of Rome’s Ninth Legion stationed in Britain the military would not leave it to ruin. A station that has been defeated would gather up their skirts and retaliate; they would not let a legion’s destruction go unpunished‚ Romans were not known to back down from a fight. They were most commonly
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back to haunt them. This concept that evil in humans are defeated are recognized in the novel Oliver Twist. The antagonists wanted Oliver to become a thief for their own selfish purposes. They hide Oliver’s past to preserve their own source of income. Fagin and Sikes‚ the antagonists exploit children for their own good. In all these situations‚ the antagonists are defeated by good‚ and kindness. The forces of greed and self-interest are defeated by the forces of kindness and generosity in the novel
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Origin In 480‚ the Persian king Xerxes invaded Greece‚ defeated his enemies at Artemisium and Thermopylae‚ and sacked Athens. Although his navy was severely damaged in the naval battle ofSalamis‚ it was obvious that the Persians were the strongest. So‚ the great king recalled many troops. This gave the Greeks the breathing space they needed‚ and they defeated Xerxes’ right-hand man Mardonius at Plataea. More or less at the same time‚ a Greek expeditionary force attacked the remains of the Persian
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They refused and Napoleon attacked and defeated Austria swiftly‚ until Austria accepted the Treaty of Luneville in 1801‚ which recognized France’s right to the lands Julius Caesar gave them. Great Britain eventually surrendered to the Treaty of Amiens in 1802 and lost land holdings‚ but declared
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people around them help hide their weakness‚ but sometimes those people are weak on the inside‚ and can be easily made insecure. Groups usually try to back each other up to make the target feel smaller and weaker‚ but sometimes they can be easily defeated. In the book “To Kill a Mocking Bird” on example of a group of people is when Calpurnia took Jem and Scout to the First Purchase church.(The one for the black population.) When Jem and Scout got there‚ someone who was Lula told Calpurnia that she
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Key Events & Battles‚ French & Indian War The Death of Wolfe by Benjamin West‚1770 (National Gallery of Canada at Ottawa) Location Notes/Significance Western Pennsylvania Gen. Braddock’s force of 1450 men British defeated at Ft. 1755 (present-day surrounded and defeated by Indian Duquesne Pittsburgh) and French-Canadian forces New British commander (Lord Loudoun) closely managed the war American colonists refuse to effort‚ demanding exact numbers of serve under British 1757 American colonies
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Japan invaded China in 1937‚ starting the second Sino-Japanese war. he Japanese methodically moved south‚ seizing control of most of eastern China and all of the major ports by the time war broke out in Europe. The Japanese moved up rivers and railroad lines into the interior of China. Resistance to the Japanese fell primarily on the Kuomintang because the Communists were in the remote areas of northwestern China. Also neither Chiang or Mao wanted to weaken their forced by fighting pitched battles
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tend to blame the rise of Nazis for World War II. Because some of provisions in the Treaty of Versailles are too harsh for defeated nations‚ they believed that the Treaty of Versailles was not a fair treaty; the result was Hitler used German nationalism. On the other hand‚ the other observers‚ politicians and historians considered that the Treaty of Versailles was fair for defeated nations‚ because they waged war‚ resulting in the loss of a large number of lives‚ capital‚ shelter and food supplies and
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