The Flemings, however, inflicted a disastrous defeat on this army at the Battle of the Golden Spurs (July 11 , 1302.
The Georgian army's disastrous incursion into Tskhinvali itself had been crushed; what was left of president Mikhail Saakashvili's forces was in disarray and retreat.
Colonel Najibullah, the training commander, said he had seen factions try to control a new national army with disastrous results in the past.
He hoped to succeed the Mughals in Delhi, but, after a disastrous defeat of his army at Panipat (1761), he became the head of a confederacy comprising himself and four northern chiefs.
It was just outside this fraying and thoroughly Soviet city, residents note with some pride, that guerrilla forces handed the French dictator Napoleon his final defeat in 1812, during his army's disastrous winter retreat from Russia.
One of the most disastrous for the Union army was the Battle of the Crater during which explosives were detonated in a large mine tunneled beneath the Confederate entrenchments, temporarily creating a gap in their lines.
General Raheel Sharif clearly sought to assert his preeminence at home and abroad, painting both Nawaz Sharif and Ghani as weak leaders, and divert attention from the Pakistan army's disastrous jihadist policies and monumental failures to contain the monsters it has created.
Following the disastrous defeat of Pope's army at the Second Battle of Bull Run, the Army of the Potomac, with McClellan still in command, was quickly reorganized outside of Washington during the first week of September 1862.
In 390 Rome suffered a disastrous check when a Gallic army laid siege to the city.
Decline began with the disastrous defeat of the Syrian army by the Byzantine emperor Leo III (the Isaurian; 717).
