Lewis defeated the famous chief Comstock in the bloody battle of Point Pleasant, but Dunmore, ignoring the chance to deliver a crushing blow, made a treaty of peace with the Indians.
All realized that it was a crushing blow, since it cut off the English from the Great Lakes, made a deep impression on the Indians, and opened New York to invasion.
Against foes who had thrust their columns far from their base, Napoleon now, as in 1800, determined to deal a crushing blow.
But the fault was committed of so far dividing the Austrians that nowhere could they deal a crushing blow.
Though foiled for a time, he never lost sight of the hoped-for alliance, which, with a deft commixture of force and persuasion, he gained seven years later after the crushing blow of Friedland.
Never before had a Union commander had such an opportunity to deliver a crushing blow.
Tempest received the sad intelligence that his own son had been killed in the engagement, which was a crushing blow to the patriotic father.
Therefore this branch is indispensable, as they are rightly termed "the eyes and ears of an army," ever watchful and on the alert for impending danger, or for an opportunity to strike a crushing blow.
This was a crushing blow to the hopes of the rank and file of the Irish Republican Army, and there were many who were inclined to defy the Federal authorities and fight their way over the border.
The battle had been designed as a crushing blow to the Russians, and would have proved such had Kuroki's turning movement been completely successful.
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