Sentence examples for severely defeating from inspiring English sources

Assuming supreme command the following year, Howe transferred his forces southward and captured the strategic port city of New York, severely defeating the Americans at the Battle of Long Island.

The next year he captured Mantineia and severely defeated the Achaeans at Hecatombaeum, near Dyme.

On July 1 , 1690 William severely defeated the Jacobites in the Battle of the Boyne.

In 426 he unsuccessfully besieged the Corinthian colony of Leukas and was severely defeated in an attempted invasion of Aetolia.

He enacted some tough reforms and austerity measures but was severely defeated in a general election in February.

Constantius rallied and, on Sept. 28, 351, severely defeated Magnentius at the Battle of Mursa (modern Osijek, Croatia).

They severely defeated a Carthaginian relief force and could not be permanently dislodged even by Hannibal himself.

Determined to take revenge, Mahmud sent his army against the Egyptians in Syria but was severely defeated at Nizip on June 24 , 1839 a few days before his death.

When, as a result, war broke out and Polish troops were severely defeated by the order near Konitz (Sept . 18 , 1454 it was mainly Casimir's perseverance and stubbornness that led eventually to success after a bloody victory at Puck (Sept . 17 , 1462

During the War of the Austrian Succession (1740 48), he became commander of the allied forces (1745) and was severely defeated by France's Marshal Maurice de Saxe at the Battle of Fontenoy (May 11 , 1745.

The encounter between the two rulers finally took place in 939, when, at the so-called ditch of Simancas (Shānt Mānkus), Ramiro severely defeated the Muslims, and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān narrowly escaped with his life.