Finally, however, Regulus suffered a crushing defeat, and was made prisoner.
He met the Carthaginian fleet under the command of the Admiral Hanno, near the Ægatian islands, and inflicted upon it a crushing defeat.
But at Angora in Galatia, he suffered a crushing defeat, and the Ottoman Empire seemed likely to perish by the sword.
Alexius brought Robert Guiscard to battle in front of Durazzo, and suffered a crushing defeat at his hands.
But the young prince received a crushing defeat in 638, when he attempted to recover North Syria, and next year the Arabs, under Amrou, pressed eastward across the Isthmus of Suez, and threw themselves upon Egypt.
But elated by this victory, he neglected Hideyoshi's caution, and the generals of Ieyasu, closing in on him, inflicted a crushing defeat at a place called Nagakude.
Portugal, however, suffered a crushing defeat in 1578 at al Kasr al Kebir, the Moors being led by Abd el Malek I.
Upon the arrival of Sempronius, both consuls attacked the Carthaginians at the Trebia, only to receive a crushing defeat (December, 218).
In the same year the tribe of the Boii, with Etruscan allies, penetrated as far as the Vadimonian Lake, where the Romans inflicted upon them a crushing defeat.
The rule of Claudius lasted only two years, in which his greatest achievement was the crushing defeat which he inflicted upon the Goths who had again overrun Greece and the adjacent lands (269 A.
This time his forces met with a crushing defeat on land and sea, and the rebellion came to an end.
But he brought his Bretwaldaship to a good end by inflicting a crushing defeat on them at Hingston Down, hard by the Tamar, probably in 836, and died ere the year was out, leaving the ever-growing problem to his son AEthelwulf.
At Lewes, on the 14th of May, he inflicted a crushing defeat on the king's army.
Mitsuhide sustained a crushing defeat at Yamazaki in Settsu.
The main force meanwhile pushed on, crossed the Delta frontier, and swept victoriously as far south as Memphis, where Taharka suffered a crushing defeat.
Entemena inflicted upon the rebels a crushing defeat, and following up his success, entered the walled city and captured and slew the patesi.
In 1780 they seized Charleston, administered a crushing defeat to the American forces under Gates at Camden, and overran South Carolina, though meeting reverses at Cowpens and King's Mountain.
None of them could administer a crushing defeat to the Confederate troops and more than once the union soldiers were beaten in a fair battle.
With the Republicans nationalized, the Federalist party, as an organization, disappeared after a crushing defeat in the presidential campaign of 1816.
Admiral Rodney on April 12 met the French fleet in the West Indies, and inflicted a crushing defeat on it off St. Lucia, capturing his opponent, De Grasse.
Here he inflicted on them a crushing defeat, which the English celebrated as a fair revenge for the blow of Bannockburn, for the regent Archibald Douglas, four earls, and many thousand men were left on the field.
He received a crushing defeat, and his army would have been destroyed if Wellesley had been allowed to pursue him.
David Bruce pushed forward to meet them, but at Neville's Cross he met with a crushing defeat.
June 24, Ibrahim Pasha inflicted a crushing defeat on the Turkish army at Nissiv.
Sidenote: End of Dingaan] In South Africa, during January, the Boers inflicted a crushing defeat on the Zulus under Dingaan.
The winning of a seat is always a "brilliant victory," and a "crushing defeat" for the other side.
The second course meant only delay; the first, in the event of a repulse, meant not merely delay, but the possibility of a crushing defeat as well.
He sustained a crushing defeat, and eight of his best vessels were destroyed.
Following the railway northwards Oku came into touch with the retreating Russians on June 15, and inflicted upon them a crushing defeat at the battle of Telissu.
It was an anxious moment for Phormio; he knew the immense importance of maintaining, at any cost, the naval reputation of Athens, and if his men went into battle in their present temper, they were certain to suffer a crushing defeat.
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