Otto invaded southern Italy and was decisively defeated there by a Muslim army in 982.
Markey narrowly won the primary but decisively defeated his Republican opponent in the general election.
When the Turks decisively defeated Hungary at the Battle of Mohács (1526), Transylvania effectively became independent.
In Afghanistan, the Taliban have neither been decisively defeated nor forced to the negotiating table.
The bank issue dominated the campaign of 1832, in which Jackson decisively defeated Clay.
Another attack came in 653, whereupon Ashurbanipal sent a large army that decisively defeated the Elamites.
On July 12 of that year, Ginkel decisively defeated the Jacobites in the Battle of Aughrim.
He met the Mongol troops at Ngasaunggyan, where he was decisively defeated.
As a result of his tactical blunders, Gelimer was decisively defeated (mid-December 533).
After a titanic and bloody struggle, they were decisively defeated, and fell back in disarray.
In 194 he marched east and decisively defeated another rival, Gaius Pescennius Niger, governor of Syria.
