Sentence examples for war defeat from inspiring English sources

It misjudged Moscow's visceral response to cold war defeat.

Following Saddam's Persian Gulf war defeat, Arafat switched his allegiance to Iran.

It's a subtle, historically accurate but not unsympathetic look at ordinary people suddenly tested by war, defeat and enemy invasion.

In these years of economic boom, young workers, without the scars of civil war defeat and postwar repression, poured from the countryside into the new factories.

"It was Nathan Rothschild as much as the Duke of Wellington who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo" by selling bonds for the British Army, and Continental bankers' unwillingness to invest in Confederate cotton that assured the South's Civil War defeat.

It is true, however, that unlike most other European countries, Britain (with the exception of the Channel Islands) did not have on its own territory the formative 20th-century experiences of war, defeat, occupation and fascist or communist dictatorship.

Mr. McGovern, also a highly decorated pilot in the war, defeated him.

On Sept. 1, 1880, he scored the decisive victory of the Second Afghan War, defeating Ayub Khan's Afghan Army near Qandahār.

That carefully orchestrated war defeated Iraq's armies in a matter of days.

Fearing the Spartans would take increasing control of the region, the Romans drew on help from allies to prosecute the Roman-Spartan War, defeating a Spartan army at the Battle of Gythium in 195 BC.

The Polish-Muscovite War had no sooner been ended by the treaty of Deulino than Chodkiewicz was hastily dispatched southwards to defend the southern frontier against the Turks, who, in the opening phase of the Polish Ottoman War, defeated Polish forces at Cecora, killing Hetman Zółkiewski.