Sentence examples for disastrous battle from inspiring English sources

Some 6,000 Italians were killed in the disastrous battle of Adowa in Abyssinia in 1896.

After the disastrous Battle of Agincourt in 1415, she retired to a convent.

In 378 he arrived too late to take part in the disastrous battle with the Goths at Adrianople.

According to Livy, Scipio served as a young military tribune at the disastrous Battle of Cannae in 216.

The night that SWAT pulled out after a disastrous battle in Intisar, Dumbuk emerged with head and leg wounds.

Prior to his defeat by Macbeth, he led a disastrous battle against the English at Durham, where 3,000 Scots died.

In 1948, he was seriously wounded at the disastrous battle for Latrun, a key strategic fortress near the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem road that was in Jordanian hands.

He was in Cologne at the time of the great Mongol invasion of eastern Europe and of the disastrous Battle of Liegnitz (April 9, 1241).

The Monument House has an important collection of Connecticut memorabilia, including relics from the disastrous battle of 1781 -- the time when Benedict Arnold turned traitor.

The French right wing, commanded by Mac-Mahon and accompanied by Napoleon himself, attempted to relieve Bazaine but was itself surrounded and trapped by the Germans in a disastrous Battle at Sedan on August 31.

The battle had lasted only an hour, and the Spanish named the locale as the Coast of the Disastrous Battle.