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defeat Law an annulment Defeat Appomattox Courthouse scene of Lee’s surrender to Grant (1865). [Am. Hist.: Jameson, 22] defeat by English fleet marked Spain’s decline and England’s rise as a world power (1588). [Eur. Hist.: EB, 1: 521–522] defeat of Austro-Russian coalition by Napoleon (1805). [Fr. Hist.: Harbottle Battles, 23–24] Philippine peninsula where U.S. troops surrendered to Japanese (1942). [Am. Hist.: NCE, 245] sealed Ireland’s fate as England’s vassal state (1690). [Br. Hist.: Harbottle Battles, 39] final, futile German WWII offensive (1944–1945). [Eur. Hist.: Hitler, 1148–1153, 1154–1155] mountain pass where Romans were humiliatingly defeated by the Samnites. [Rom. Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 186] consolidated English supremacy; broke clan system (1746). [Br. Hist.: Harbottle Battles, 70] Vietminh rout of French paved way for partition of Vietnam (1954). [Fr. Hist.: Van Doren, 541] poorly conceived and conducted battle ending in British disaster (1915). [Br. Hist.: Fuller, III, 240–261] scene of General Ouster’s “last stand” (1876). [Am. Hist.: Van Doren, 274]
Japan’s surprise attack destroys U.S. fleet (1941). [Am. Hist.: NCE, 2089] a too costly victory; “Another such victory and we are lost.” [Rom. Hist.: “Asculum I” in Eggenburger, 30–31] up which losing political parties travel to oblivion. [Am. Slang: LLEI, I: 312] decisive German defeat of French (1870). [Fr. Hist.: Harbottle Battles, 225] German army succumbs to massive Soviet pincer movement (1942-1943). [Ger. Hist.: Fuller, III, 531–538] British victory in Belgium signals end of Napoleon’s domination (1815). [Fr. Hist.: Harbottle Battles, 266] a sign of surrender. [Western Folklore: Misc.] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Perhaps the most significant feature of religious reason, and perhaps the feature from which all the other differences between religious reason and secular reason derive, is the oft-touted claim by believers that religious reasons carry an infallible supreme authority that guarantees the truth of such claims against all potential epistemic defeaters. The greatest defeater of the Sekk is Istar, a warrior woman and daughter of one of the original Company of Glass. |
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