At the very time when Constantinople was besieged in vain by a host of Persians and Avars, he conducted his forces into the heart of the Persian Empire; and in a great battle near Nineveh in 627, he won a decisive victory.
Three months after landing he gained a decisive victory, and took possession of Africa, Sardinia, and the Balearic Isles (534).
The success of the Republicans was at first doubtful; but the conservative interests became alarmed, and finally the Republicans gained a decisive victory.
Encouraged by this success, Curius no longer hesitated to meet the king in the open plain, and gained a decisive victory.
Metellus, accepted battle under the walls of Panormus, and gained a decisive victory.
Scipio gained possession of nearly the whole of Spain, by a decisive victory near a place variously called Silpia or Elinga, but the position of which is quite uncertain.
The problem for us was to move forward to a decisive victory, or our cause was lost.
Up to the battle of Shiloh I, as well as thousands of other citizens, believed that the rebellion against the Government would collapse suddenly and soon, if a decisive victory could be gained over any of its armies.
The one thing lacking in the Valley campaign was a decisive victory over a considerable detachment of the Federal army, the annihilation of one of the converging forces, and large capture of guns and prisoners.
At both Eylau and Bautzen Napoleon was deprived of decisive victory by his failure to ensure the co-operation of his widely separated columns.
It would be thus impossible to meet Fremont with superior or even equal numbers, and an army weaker on the battlefield could not make certain of decisive victory.
Italians did, and that there could be no peace until we had a decisive victory.
I said that our men were determined to fight to the bitter end, for we could have no true peace until we had a decisive victory.
In July, 1799, the Austro-Russian army captured Mantua and Alessandria; and in the following month Suvoroff gained the decisive victory of Novi and drove the remains of the French forces towards Genoa.
She outmatched the Allies on land, but in such a small degree that her most brilliant effort could not win a decisive victory.
The Turkish forces made good their retreat, and so General Townshend, who had accomplished some remarkable successes at the beginning of the battle, was deprived of a decisive victory.
January 8, a large body of English veterans were landed in Louisiana, and attacked New Orleans; in this battle, which took place before the news of the treaty of peace reached the combatants, Jackson won a decisive victory.
It was not until April, 1915, that she actually undertook an attack upon Russia, and then the prospect of a decisive victory, on the Napoleonic order, had practically disappeared.
Accordingly Germany decided to go south, having gone west and east without finding peace or decisive victory.
His enemy had reckoned on the traditional eagerness of the French to attack, and had expected to obtain a decisive victory, through superior numbers, in the first days of the war.
As the Russians for lack of transport were not able to follow up their success at Lublin, the succeeding weeks showed it to be far from a decisive victory.
Up to this time, Grant had believed that the rebellion would suddenly collapse if a decisive victory could be gained.
This will mean a fight in France and Belgium till a decisive victory is won and the present exultant German will is broken.
The only way to save them is to win a decisive victory.
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