This defeat at last roused the Emperor Alfonso, who came in person with a powerful army to punish the count, or as he now termed himself, the Infante of Portugal.
Nechao, alarmed at the danger, advanced to the Euphrates, at the head of a powerful army, in order to check their progress.
Necho, king of Egypt, was so alarmed at their power, that to stop their progress he marched towards the Euphrates at the head of a powerful army, and made several considerable conquests.
In Italy, the French arms did not triumph with equal success, though the mareschal de Belleisle saw himself at the head of a powerful armyin Provence.
He dreaded the ambition and known perfidy of the French king, who still retained a powerful army.
Nevertheless, France assembled a powerful army in the neighbourhood of Franckfort, in order to influence the election.
This small force became the nucleus of a powerful army, which was destined to crush the Republic of Venezuela for the second time.
As a Peruvian historian says:--“He overcame a powerful army by the simple force of public opinion and by skilful tactics.
In 1031, therefore, Canute found occasion to approach the Scottish frontier with a powerful army.
He, on his part, promised to reform whatever was amiss; and the eagerness of the English to throw off a foreign yoke, made them flock to the king with such zeal and haste that he soon found himself at the head of a powerful army.
Medici in Florence, as well as the punishment of other Italian tyrants and the thorough reformation of the church by a foreign king crossing the Alps with a powerful army.
His son Louis was sent into Italy with a powerful army, and obliged the pope and the Romans to take the oaths of fealty to his father with the promise not again to consecrate a pope before they had the emperor’s consent.
Alexander, after having repeatedly suffered the heaviest losses, saw himself again at the head of a powerful army, with which he resolved to march against the rebellious capital.
But there still remained an individual belonging to the family of Aristobulus, who, having found refuge among the Parthians, led a powerful army of that people into Syria, and finally invested Jerusalem.
Saxony with a powerful army, and marches through Poland in a victorious manner.
Charles, however, was absolutely determined not to depart, still flattering himself with the vain hope, that he should once more re-enter Poland and Russia with a powerful army of Turks.
Epaminondas and Pelopidas were sent with a powerful army to their assistance.
At the expiration of the truce, which was made for one year only, the Latins took the field with a powerful army.
For if they had sent a powerful army at first, they might have saved Saguntum, or at least confined the war to Spain, and prevented it from penetrating into their own bowels.
When the city was invested, Octa was doubtful whether he should give him any opposition, and stand a siege against such a powerful army.
By a rapid movement he might surround them with a powerful army, cut off all aid from their countrymen, and entrap them in the fortress they had taken.
He was within but a few leagues of Alhama when scouts came hurrying into the place with intelligence that the Moorish king was at hand with a powerful army.
The approach of mypowerful army he saw, and Thebes he abandoned, and fled to Kipkip.
At the call of the caliph, a great number of faithful Mussulmans flocked to the standard of Noureddin, and Chirkou, by the order of the sultan, prepared to return into Egypt, at the head of a powerful army.
The emperor of Germany, who had left Europe at the head of a powerful army, had just reached Jerusalem in the character of a simple pilgrim.
Nicephorus Phocas took the field at the head of a powerful army, and recaptured Antioch from the Mussulmans.
Magnitude lends a certain grandeur to crime; and Zubehr in the height of his power, at the head of the slave merchants' confederacy, might boast the retinue of a king and exercise authority over wide regions and a powerful army.
The bombardment of the fleet was followed by the invasion of a powerful army.
The provincial towns dwindled; thousands and tens of thousands perished; but Omdurman continually grew, and its ruler still directed the energies of a powerful army.
The rejoicings for the marriage of Count Fernan Gonzalez with the beautiful Princess Sancha were scarcely finished when King Garcia the Trembler came with a powerful army to revenge his various affronts.
Ordoño took the field with a powerful army, but his own death defeated all his plans.
Scarcely had Abderahman returned from this expedition, when a powerful army, sent by the caliph, landed from Africa on the coast of the Algarves.
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