Armilus, in Jewish legends, an enemy who will conquer Jerusalem and persecute Jews until his final defeat at the hands of God or the true Messiah.
His terms satisfied neither the Confederate leaders nor the Radical Republicans, and so no peace was possible until the final defeat of the Confederacy.
And then there is Montségur, the spiritual centre of the Cathar Church in the Languedoc from 1204 until its final defeat at the hands of the French Crusaders.
After Owen Roe's death in 1649, Phelim sought unsuccessfully to regain his former position, and he continued to fight bravely until the final defeat of the rebel cause in 1652.
Until the final defeat of the Kemalist establishment in the late-2000s, Atatürk was everywhere: his handsome features on the TV screens, his aphorisms emblazoned in bus stations, his name intoned in every speech.
After a victorious campaign by Ivan in 1480, Ahmed withdrew his forces from Ivan's dominions, and although Ahmed's sons continued to worry Moscow and Crimea until their final defeat in 1502, Ivan from 1480 no longer considered himself a vassal of the Khan and entered the field of European diplomacy as an independent sovereign.
However, Churchill subsequently informed the Australian Government that due to a shortage of shipping it would not be permitted to take its heavy equipment, and on 3 December Roosevelt again wrote to Curtin to suggest that the division remain in the Middle East until the final defeat of the Axis forces in North Africa.
Don Quixote and Sancho are victims, but both are extraordinarily resilient, until the knight's final defeat and dying into the identity of Quixano the Good, whom Sancho vainly implores to take to the road again.
Eventually, after Napoleon's final defeat, Hortense retired to a beautiful chateau where she lived happily until her death in 1837.
"NEVER confuse a single defeat with a final defeat," wrote Scott Fitzgerald, the novelist.
