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The abrupt about-face followed mounting public opposition, protests calling for her resignation and growing pressure from her own allies.
Not only the Protestant British enthusiasts for Italy but their Waldensian friends and allies were drawn into the maelstrom.
On other occasions the president adopted moderately accommodationist policies at least compared to his French and British wartime allies.
Could it really be the fact or the case that we only value allies who disagree with us?
The very fact of such a decision would in itself restore the balance of perceptions on the part of our allies and our potential aggressors.
Even our closest allies in the US and UK were shocked and mortified, raising the ghost of the White Australia policy.
The Americans have been our allies for almost a century, and are a generous and warm-hearted people.
This was the case when the US, the UK, and a ragtag of minor allies invaded the country in March.
Despite predictable whinges from Spain's intellectual elite, he supported Aznar's crackdown on ETA terrorists and their political allies.
Hopes of cementing the recent rapprochement between Nato allies, Greece and Turkey, have been set back.
Nonetheless some Apaches, notably the Jicarillas, became friends and allies of the Spanish.
The new mood allows for more nationalism, more assertiveness, less patience with allies, a greater readiness to go it alone.
The regional and local warlords who were the key allies of the US against the Taliban are not advocates of women's rights.
In the months since, the allies have been scouring the place and have not come up with a single weapon of mass destruction.
The group is made up of rural rednecks, and their white-shoe allies on the adjacent suncoast.
Recent world events have been the driving influence in a new program to improve interoperability between close allies.
The most dangerous of the insurgents are those affiliated with the previous regime and their allies.
His threat, seen as a ploy to call wayward allies to heel, prompted a rousing statement of support yesterday.
The narratives repeat images of humiliation, brutality, and the sheer randomness of tragedy among people who have few allies and fewer options.
We have allies among the Quakers, the Mennonites, and the members of the United Church of Christ.
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Endless tributes, adulation and back rubs from his closest allies tend to obscure the truth.
For over 50 years our country, with our allies, has sought to avoid war by deterring potential aggressors.
The ACLU and its allies are trying to undermine the holiday with lawsuits and annoying billboards.
America needs a strategy to adapt to the faltering strength of its most important and congenial allies.
He has since edged closer to the center, angering one-time Tea Party allies.
The country's decision to go to war has caused a major dilemma for its allies.
The spokesperson on defence suggested that a National Government would join its allies in war, without reservation, and wheresoever our commitment was called upon.
For years after that, he claimed to have ceded control of his company, even as it hired his deputy mayors and political allies.
In war, for instance, we certainly mean to confine our aspirations for life to ourselves and our allies.
He won, too, and the WFP was able to count on allies in every citywide post but the top job.
And, unlike their allies in the struggle for black equality, their story has not been fully told in a book or documentary.
Newsom will likely be out if Harris runs since the two are considered allies, California political insiders said.
But they still could have done more to defuse the calls for violence from their allies.
In the worst of a series of friendly fire incidents, 18 American special forces and their Kurdish allies were killed when they were bombed by a US warplane.
America's 18 Nato allies stated last night that attacks could be considered an attack on the whole alliance if it turned out they were directed from abroad.
And even as he plots defenses against American and allied air raids, he is taunting Vladimir Putin and his allies in Grozny.
With other emerging allies the calculus is trickier and leaves less margin for error.
In 224 Antigonus marched south, organized his allies into a Hellenic League under Macedonian presidency, restored Achaean influence in Arcadia and in 222 invaded Laconia.
Making allies of the enemies of democracy because they share putative interests with us is, in other words, not realism but foolish self-deception.
The US must ensure its honor abroad by abiding by its commitments and standing with its allies.
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Then Mubarak and his family and their allies would see benefits in return, presumably some kickback or a share of the profits.
Along the way, Munoz alienated some of her biggest allies in the reform movement.
Holding a trial in Anhui may therefore ensure a smooth outcome for Hu and his allies.
Its allies have fared little better, and even with them accounted for, a Congress-led alliance barely limps to 60 seats.
The ag and his allies have claimed that voter ID laws suppress black votes.
This left Barras and his Republican allies in control again but dependent on Bonaparte, who proceeded to peace negotiations with Austria.
His basic objective was to destroy the isolated Austrian armies in Southern Germany before their Russian allies could arrive.
The treaty confirmed the Austrian loss of lands to France in Italy and Bavaria, and lands in Germany to Napoleon's German allies.
Nelson spent the first half of the year conducting operations to frustrate French advances and bolster Britain's Italian allies.
In addition, other governments in the Treaty of San Francisco did not recognize the Provisional Government as the member of the allies.
In the wars that lasted beyond 800, he rewarded allies with war booty and command over parcels of land.
In a bid to gain Newcastle and the Tyne, Cromwell's allies, the Scots, captured the town of Newburn.
The US plans to set up a reprogramming facility that will develop JSF software and distribute it to allies.
Hannibal, son of Hamilcar Barca, rapidly marched through Hispania to the Italian Alps, causing panic among Rome's Italian allies.
The First Punic War required that Rome build large fleets, and it did so largely with the assistance of and financing from allies.
Many MPs openly criticised Churchill over Yalta and voiced strong loyalty to the UK's Polish allies.
Even the local barons started to melt away, and soon Adrian's Byzantine allies were left hopelessly outnumbered.
Medieval romances such as Amadis de Gaula feature giants as antagonists, or, rarely, as allies.
Ubi and his allies repeated the festival in 1973 with at least 1,400 in attendance.
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Keats's ability and talent was acknowledged by several influential contemporary allies such as Shelley and Hunt.
In 1984 the Soviet Union and 13 Soviet allies reciprocated by boycotting the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
Francis I of France sought allies from all quarters, including with German Protestant princes and Muslims.
In exchange for his homage and fealty, Rollo legally gained the territory which he and his Viking allies had previously conquered.
Many of the overseas territories are used as military bases by the UK and its allies.
When they refused he deprived them of their titles and lands, granting them to his allies.
In 1418, with France on the brink of surrendering to the forces of Henry V, the Dauphin, Charles VII, called on his Scottish allies for help.
When the need arose for soldiers it hired mercenaries or financed allies who fielded armies.
American militiamen and their Native American allies marched to relieve the siege but were ambushed and scattered at the Battle of Oriskany.
Creek and Seminole allies of Britain fought against Americans in Georgia and South Carolina.
Nonetheless, the Coalition allies launched a determined drive to invade France during the Flanders Campaign.
He then won a victory at the Second Battle of Dego, driving the Austrians northeast, away from their Piedmontese allies.
The Persian Campaign was to last until 1918 and end in failure for the Ottomans and their allies.
The war along the Western Front led the German government and its allies to sue for peace in spite of German success elsewhere.
France and the Ottoman Empire, united by mutual opposition to Habsburg rule, became strong allies.
Following the attack, Russia and its allies, France and Britain, declared war on the Ottomans.
In India, the war against Mysore and its allies concluded in 1784 without any territorial changes.
In June 1944, the Western allies landed in France and the Soviets pushed into Eastern Europe.
By late 1944, the Western allies had entered Germany despite one final German counter offensive in the Ardennes Forest.
The governments of Germany and the United States are close political allies.
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During this conference, the Big Four and their allies signed the United Nations Charter.
The Soviets also imposed large reparations payments on the Axis allies that were in its sphere of influence.
These states are sometimes collectively known as the Anglosphere, and are among Britain's closest allies.
The United Nations Security Council denounced Argentina's aggression, and France and other allies provided diplomatic and military support.
The United States invasion of Afghanistan occurred after the September 11 attacks in late 2001, supported by allies including the United Kingdom.
They felt the French would encourage their tribal allies among the North American natives to attack them.
The allies advanced and on the morning of 20 September came up to the River Alma and the whole Russian army.
Sevastopol remained invested by the allies, while the allied armies were hemmed in by the Russian Army in the interior.
When the allies chose a land attack on Sebastopol any plan for a landing in the east was abandoned.
Additionally, allies conducted raids on less fortified sections of the Finnish coast.
In answer to the Prague Spring, the Soviet Army, together with most of their Warsaw Pact allies, invaded Czechoslovakia.
Even more damage was done to the economies of France and its allies, which lost a useful trading partner.
The major result was the permanent defeat of the Indian allies the British had counted upon.
Queen Mary and her husband William III were jointly crowned in 1688, and Defoe became one of William's close allies and a secret agent.
Beecham and Sargent were allies from the early days of the London Philharmonic to Beecham's final months when they were planning joint concerts.
In November 2002, the UN Security Council passed UNSCR 1441 and in March 2003 the US and its allies invaded Iraq.
This shift in support by the Soviet Union motivated the Barre government to seek allies elsewhere.
During the Cold War, unaligned countries of the Third World were seen as potential allies by both the First and Second World.
Fearing its ambitions, the Soviet Union's wartime allies, the United Kingdom and the United States, became its enemies.
Rome gave Philip an ultimatum to cease his campaigns against Rome's new Greek allies.
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President Kennedy imposed a naval blockade on Cuba to prevent delivery of the missiles and called on his allies for support.
Bombshelter would ultimately become the first line of cyberdefense for the US military and its NATO allies.
If, when the moment arrives, China is unwilling to side with its allies, the Arabs will rapidly find a declawed Chinese dragon unwelcome.
Despite the defeat of its European allies in the first year of the war, the United Kingdom continued the fight alone against Germany.
In exchange for his homage and fealty, Rollo legally gained the territory he and his Viking allies had previously conquered.
It became useful for international communication between the member states of the Holy Roman Empire and its allies.
A Saxon king named Eadwacer conquered Angers in 463 only to be dislodged by Childeric I and the Salian Franks, allies of the Roman Empire.
In 589, the Saxons wore their hair in the Breton fashion at the orders of Fredegund and fought with them as allies against Guntram.
They pulled out of Greece entirely, maintaining minimal contacts with their Greek allies.
Now not only Rome's allies against Philip, but even Philip himself, sought a Roman alliance against the Seleucids.
With her Greek allies facing a major new threat, Rome declared war on Macedonia again, starting the Third Macedonian War.
Gaius then proposed a law which would grant citizenship rights to Rome's Italian allies.
In addition, the shortage of available manpower led to a greater burden being placed upon Rome's allies for the provision of allied troops.
After it fell, Constantius attacked Carausius's other Gallic holdings and Frankish allies and Carausius was usurped by his treasurer, Allectus.
Two cities were sacked, eighty thousand of the Romans and of their allies perished, and the island was lost to Rome.
While some kingdoms were defeated militarily and occupied, others remained nominally independent as allies of the Roman empire.
The plan failed when John's allies were defeated at the Battle of Bouvines.
Henry II attacked from the north while other of his allies, namely the Trencavels and Ramon Berenguer opened a different front.
Philip and his allies were now in control of all the ports of Flanders, Boulogne, and eastern Normandy.
The aim was for the Earl of Salisbury and John's German allies to attack Philip from the north, whilst John attacked from the south.
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On 27 July, John's German allies lost the Battle of Bouvines, with many prisoners taken, including the Earl of Salisbury.
Back in England, early in 1262, Edward fell out with some of his former Lusignan allies over financial matters.
It was not until August 1297 that he was finally able to sail for Flanders, at which time his allies there had already suffered defeat.
Edward responded with severe brutality against Bruce's allies and supporters.
Command of the sea was secured by driving the Genoese allies of the French out of the English Channel.
Following the defeat of his allies at the Battle of Bouvines, John had to sue for peace and pay compensation.
Many of Llywelyn's Welsh allies had abandoned him during England's invasion of Gwynedd, preferring an overlord far away rather than one nearby.
Francis supported the conversion of the German princes to Protestantism, as it increased his potential allies against the emperor.
He persecuted Protestants in his kingdom, while Protestants abroad were his allies.
Philip appealed to his Scottish allies to help with a diversionary attack on England.
A resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare in 1917 raised the prospect of Britain and its allies being starved into submission.
The assistance they sought did not materialise, their communication with allies at Court was poor.
Spain and France were allies because of the Bourbon Pacte de Famille carried out by both countries against Britain.
Pym and his allies immediately launched a bill of attainder, which simply declared Strafford guilty and pronounced the sentence of death.
The New Model Army vanquished the English Royalists as well as their Scottish Engager allies.
The presence of a large French army in the heart of the Republic caused a general panic, and the people turned against De Witt and his allies.
Despite the final victory of Britain and its allies, the damage to British prestige helped to accelerate the decline of the empire.
The politics of the period inevitably drove France towards war with Austria and its allies.
Moreover, many of Pitt's former supporters, including the allies of Addington, joined the Opposition.
The United States and France were soon joined by Spain and the Dutch Republic, while Britain had no major allies of its own.
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Although the King actually favoured greater control over the Company, the proposed commissioners were all political allies of Fox.
Numerous scholars have argued that Napoleon's aggressive posture made him enemies and cost him potential allies.
Britain gathered together allies to form the Third Coalition against France.
He immediately went on the offensive, hoping to defeat the forces of Piedmont before their Austrian allies could intervene.
At least 7 million Red Army troops died facing the Germans and their allies in the Eastern Front.
Britain's Belgian, Dutch, Canadian, and French allies provided vessels as well.
Syrian claims of aerial victories were met with skepticism even from their Soviet allies.
Rome could use Sicilian markets, Carthage could buy and sell goods at Rome, and slaves taken by Carthage from allies of Rome were to be set free.
After Kadiri was defeated, Wijaya turned on his Mongol allies, ambushed their invasion fleet and forced them to immediately leave Java.
In a list similar to that for the Greeks, the poet describes the Trojans and their allies.
After many other attacks with an army reinforced with Guatemalan Indian allies, the Spanish were able to conquer Cuzcatlan.
Look again at how the US and its allies behaved then, and the pattern is unmistakable.
As laborers, if not as soldiers, they will be allies of the rebels, or of the Union.
The allies failed to capture the city, but bombardment by Shovell's forces panicked the French into scuttling their own fleet.
He also restructured the Senatorial and Equestrian orders, removing his enemies and adding his allies.
Despite several British attempts to persuade them, the Dutch Republic refused to join their former allies in the war and remained neutral.
The veteran Dupleix had been in India a long time, and had established a key rapport with France's Indian allies.
In November with problems with their lines of supply and communication the Bourbon allies withdrew and sued for peace.
As a result of the war, almost all remaining European territories of the Ottoman Empire were captured and partitioned among the allies.
After his expulsion the leadership of the Marcomanni was contested by their Suebic neighbours and allies, the Hermunduri and Quadi.
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At least 20,000 Saxon warriors, old allies of the Lombards, joined them with their families in their new migration.
Defeated, the Cimbri returned to Gaul, where they joined their allies, the Teutons.
The choice before the Senate was to put either Marius or Sulla in command of an army which would aid Rome's Greek allies and defeat Mithridates.
Sulla and his supporters in the Senate passed a death sentence on Marius, Sulpicius and a few other allies of Marius.
The Bastarnae provided the casus belli by crossing the Haemus and attacking the Dentheletae, a Thracian tribe who were Roman allies.
In the battle, the united army of Gepids, Rugii, Sarmatians and Suebi routed the Huns and their allies, including the Ostrogoths.
Emperor Marcian confirmed their status as the allies of the empire and granted them an annual subsidy of 100 pounds of gold.
Khmelnytsky, deserted by his Tatar allies, suffered a crushing defeat at Berestechko in 1651, and turned to the Russian tsar for help.
The Alans' allies, the Hasdingi Vandals, also established a kingdom in another part of Gallaecia.
Italy was now open to invasion, yet for some reason, the Cimbri and their allies moved west over the Alps and into Gaul.
Instead of immediately gathering their allies and marching on Rome, the Cimbri proceeded to Hispania.
That move left the Sequani between him and the Jura mountains, not a tolerable situation for either if they were not going to be allies.
Caesar says that he took a detour to stay in open country, most likely west of the Doubs, through the lands of his Celtic allies.
In 105 BC, the allies defeated another Roman army near Arausio, and went on to harry Spain, Gaul, Noricum, and northern Italy.
The Dacians and their allies were repulsed after two battles in Moesia, at Nicopolis ad Istrum and Adamclisi.
A peace treaty was signed with the Quadi and the Iazyges, while the tribes of the Hasdingi Vandals and the Lacringi became Roman allies.
Although few details are known, the Romans achieved success, subjugating the Marcomanni and their allies, the Varistae or Naristi and the Cotini.
The Saracens crossed the mountains to claim Ardo's Septimania, only to encounter the Basque dynasty of Aquitaine, always the allies of the Goths.
A navy of 10,000 vessels, including Pecheneg allies, landed on the Bithynian coast and devastated the Asiatic shore of the Bosphorus.
In 1968, the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact allies invaded Czechoslovakia to halt the Prague Spring reforms.
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Austria, and most of its allies, were excluded from the North German Confederation.
Alvarado had sixty of his men as well as many of his Tlaxcalan allies into positions around the patio.
On 26 May 1644, Beijing fell to a rebel army led by Li Zicheng when the city gates were opened by rebel allies from within.
The Idrissids were ousted in 927 by the Fatimid Caliphate and their Miknasa allies.
Morocco was facing aggression from Spain and the Ottoman Empire allies pressing westward.
The proposal was encouraged by Moroccan allies such as the United States, France and Spain.
Europe at the time was threatened by the invading armies of the Ottoman Turks and was desperate for allies.
Timur likewise saw the European states as allies to help him destroy his Ottoman enemies.
This controversy spread to his generals and other associates, and some Mongols who had previously been allies with him broke their allegiance.
The Portuguese returned to the Persian Gulf in the following year as allies of Afrasiyab, the Pasha of Basra, against the Persians.
They fought as allies against the Latin establishments, but also fought among themselves for the Byzantine throne.
In World War I German forces occupied Bruges but the city suffered virtually no damage and was liberated on 19 October 1918 by the allies.
The Almoravids, with the help of Toucouleur allies, used military force for conversion.
They did not maintain relationships even with longtime allies, such as Bai Bureh, chief of Kasseh, a community on the Small Scarcies River.
Wadih's allies killed him, and the Cordoba garrison surrendered with the expectation of amnesty.
After being installed as caliph with Berber support, Sulayman was pressured into distributing southern provinces to his Berber allies.
The Mi'kmaq, as allies of the French, were amenable to limited French settlement in their midst and fought alongside them against the English.
The slaves, along with free gens de couleur and allies, continued their fight for independence.
A general election took place on 7 August 1967, and the Labour Party and its two allies obtained the majority of seats.
In less than a day, they took Goa from Ismail Adil Shah and his Ottoman allies, who surrendered on 10 December.
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For many decades after its becoming independent, even many of the closest allies of the Dutch Republic refused to grant it full recognition.
Indigenous allies were crucial to conquest, as well as to creating and maintaining empire.
Marcos and his allies fled to Hawaii and Aquino's widow, Corazon Aquino was recognized as president.
Magellan's allies, Humabon and Zula, were said not to have taken part in the battle due to Magellan's bidding, and they watched from a distance.
Spanish forces, sometimes accompanied by native allies, led expeditions to conquer territory or quell rebellions through the colonial era.
Shortly afterwards, the Spanish were invited as allies into Iximche, the capital city of the Kaqchikel Maya.
Outside was the palace of Moctezuma with 100 rooms, each with its own bath, for the lords and ambassadors of allies and conquered people.
As the Spaniards and their native allies reached the causeway, hundreds of canoes appeared in the waters alongside to harry them.
Further battles awaited the Spaniards and their allies as they fought their way around the north end of Lake Zumpango.
It is often debated why the Aztecs took little action against the Spanish and their allies after they fled the city.
The Spaniards gradually advanced along the causeways, though without allies.
After twelve days of this, the Spanish allies realized the prophesy by the Aztec idols, that the Spaniards would be dead in ten days was false.
Guatemoc then enlisted his allies in Matlazingo, Malinalco, and Tulapa, in attacking the Spaniards from the rear.
Though the tributaries often went back and forth in their loyalties at any sign of change, the Spanish tried hard not to lose any allies.
In August 1536, rebel Inca troops led by Manco Inca Yupanqui besieged the city but were defeated by the Spaniards and their native allies.
During the siege of this strategic fortress city the imperialist and Spanish allies launched a diversionary attack from Germany's IJssel line.
The combined forces of khan Muhamed Giray and his Crimean allies then attacked Muscovy and captured more than 150,000 slaves.
Later, Astrakhan was involved in conflicts against its erstwhile Tatar allies.
In 1966 Mao and his allies launched the Cultural Revolution, which continued until Mao's death a decade later.
In 1521, the combined forces of Crimean Khan Mehmed Giray and his Kazan allies attacked the city and captured thousands of slaves.
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Ignorance produced a series of blunders that ruined their efforts to find allies.
Peoples with similar languages did not always share the same material culture, nor were they always allies.
The Burgrecht cities now had no external allies to help deal with internal Confederation religious conflicts.
At the peace conference following the war, the British ceded lands which they did not really control, and did not consult their Indian allies.
As allies of the British, the Iroquois were forced out of New York, although they had not been part of treaty negotiations.
The Mewar dynasty under Maharana Hammir defeated and captured Muhammad Tughlaq with the Bargujars as his main allies.
Cawnpore became a war cry for the British and their allies for the rest of the conflict.
An agreement was reached, and the allies tacitly recognised that the wall was going to remain in place.
Evans had influential backers and political allies, but lacked social graces and was disliked by many of his peers.
Much of the war occurred on Belgian soil, with the allies there being led upon the field by John Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough.
The British saw the Native American nations as valuable allies and a buffer to its Canadian colonies and provided arms.
In practice, numerous classification schemes have been proposed for ferns and fern allies, and there has been little consensus among them.
Under the terms of this freshly negotiated truce, the Romans marched out with full honours into the territory of their allies, the Cenomani.
This was one of the reasons he wanted to have allies into whose territory he could march.
They had a number of allies in this country, and he could not allow the Romans a place to land in his base unopposed.
The city was occupied by a parliamentary garrison, and subsequently by their Scots allies.
By now, you probably think your opinion of Goldman Sachs and its swarm of Wall Street allies has rock-bottomed at raw loathing.
Rome began to settle displaced or disenfranchised citizens, veterans, and allies in colonies beyond Italy.
Because some government officials apparently talked out of turn, the Russians can now engage in ballistics blackmail with our allies.
But she respects grit and determination, in allies and opponents alike.
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The German war machine was more powerful than that of the allies at the start of the war.
With the costs of Desert Shield likely to double, Congress fumes at those allies who seem to be weaseling out of their pledges to help.
Throughout the 1970s Carter badgered the NATO allies to rearm.
This has put Ukrainian gay activists and their allies in a bind.
Thus did the Chickasaw and other natives embrace chattel slavery and become allies of the white slavers and enemies of enslaved Africans.
There have been a series of attacks carried out by the Taliban and their allies as votes are rechecked in the disputed election.
Instead, we must mobilize allies and partners to take collective action.
Attempting to return home, X-COM allies join with the Ascidians to defeat the alien threat.
The Dauphin despairingly sought allies, and found them amongst the Scots and the Castilians.
Abandoned by their French allies and almost completely surrounded, the Scots made a ferocious last stand, but were overwhelmed.
In seeking allies Margaret turned more and more to the powerful House of Douglas.
The Americans skirted their allies, recognizing that more favorable terms would be found in London.
Throughout the negotiations, Britain never consulted her American Indian allies, forcing them to reluctantly accept the treaty.
C that ones of the United States closest allies could separate and weaken the relation between the United States and the United Kingdom.
The granting of citizenship to allies and the conquered was a vital step in the process of Romanization.
In gratitude to his British allies, Macsen rewards them with a portion of Gaul that becomes known as Brittany.
Between 1255 and 1258 Llywelyn orchestrated a campaign against England across all of Wales gaining allies in Deheubarth and Powys.
Llywelyn's allies in south Wales were given back lands taken from them by the Marshalls and Llywelyn himself gave up his conquests in Shropshire.
The Welsh Marcher Lords were friends and allies of Prince Edward, and when he escaped in May 1265, they rallied around his opposition.
Prince Edward attacked his cousin, his godfather's son Simon's forces at Kenilworth, capturing more of Montfort's allies.
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Throughout the 1930s, tensions built between Germany and the United Kingdom as well as its allies.
Hitler followed an autarky economic policy, creating a network of client states and economic allies in central Europe and Latin America.
Cadwaladr apparently abandoned or escaped from his allies and made peace with his brother, who obliged the Dubliners to leave.
Waders are members of the order Charadriiformes, which includes gulls, auks and their allies.
Syracuse gained Sparta and Corinth as allies and, as a result, the Athenian expedition was defeated.
The three continental allies advanced on the Netherlands while the landing of English troops along the coast was only barely prevented.
In the late 18th century, Britain's naval supremacy faced a new challenge from Napoleonic France and her continental allies.
Like in the first war, the allies soon controlled the seas, especially due to air superiority and cut Germany off from supplies coming overseas.
The Ottoman Empire also had its own allies in Azerbaijan and the Northern Caucasus.
The allies successfully deployed shore parties and fireships that burnt all twelve French ships of the line which had sought shelter there.
Some of Rome's Gallic allies had been defeated by their rivals at the Battle of Magetobriga, with the help of a contingent of Germanic tribes.
John's attempt to defeat Philip in 1214 failed due to the French victory over John's allies at the battle of Bouvines.
William de Roches and other of John's regional allies in Anjou and Brittany deserted him in favour of Philip, and Brittany rose in fresh revolt.
Further desertions of John's local allies at the beginning of 1203 steadily reduced John's freedom to manoeuvre in the region.
With the Balkans secure, Germany and her allies attacked the Soviet Union in the largest land operation in history.
After a brief battle between the Romans and a depleted Votadini host, Martos, the leader of the Votadini, allies himself with the Romans for vengeance against the Selgovae.
The Bruces sided with King Edward against King John and his Comyn allies.
Several of Richard's key allies, such as the Earl of Northumberland and William and Thomas Stanley, crucially switched sides or left the battlefield.
Edward stood by his political allies and strongly opposed the Provisions.
Swedes were certainly among the allies in the English conquest.
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The victories proved instrumental in convincing the French and Spanish that the Americans were worthwhile allies, as well as recovering morale in the army.
A US Navy plan existed which proposed to dam the harbour and set up a seaplane base, but it was abandoned as the war turned in favour of the allies.
Lactantius states that Galerius manipulated the weakened Diocletian into resigning, and forced him to accept Galerius' allies in the imperial succession.
Without any major allies, the manpower shortage became critical when France and Spain entered the war, forcing a major diversion of military resources from the Americas.
Early in July 1776, a major action occurred in the fledgling conflict when the Cherokee allies of Britain attacked the western frontier areas of North Carolina.
The Thuringians frequently appeared as allies of the Saxons.
He was famed for his nondesertion of allies, even in intense combat.
Salian Franks appear in Roman texts as both allies and enemies.
The Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies required exit visas both for emigration and for those who wanted to leave the USSR for a shorter period.
The Roman proconsul and general Julius Caesar pushed his army into Gaul in 58 BC, on the pretext of assisting Rome's Gaullish allies against the migrating Helvetii.
Throughout the 1790s, the British repeatedly defeated the navies of France and its allies, but were unable to perform any significant land operations.
While John led a campaign against de Braose and his allies in Ireland, an army led by Earl Ranulph of Chester, and Peter des Roches, Bishop of Winchester, invaded Gwynedd.
On 7 December 1941 Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor drew the United States into the conflict as allies of the British Empire and other allied forces.
Although they lost militarily, the allies achieved their objectives with legal proclamations which granted citizenship to more than 500,000 Italians.
The Limba are close political allies of the neighbouring Temne.
With Wadih, he fled back to Cordoba while his Catalan allies went home.
Once Talleyrand was able to use this committee to make himself a part of the inner negotiations, he then left it, once again abandoning his allies.
Edward and his allies amongst the Welsh princes soon began to quarrel, and in early 1282 rebellion broke out, led by Llwelyn's brother, Dafydd ap Gruffydd.
Had Bridgend been bombed it would have likely been a massive blow to munitions supplies to the allies and could have changed the course of the war in the Axis' favour.
On 5 November 1854, the Russians attempted to raise the siege at Sevastopol with an attack against the allies which resulted in another allied victory.

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