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    The Battle of the Defile or Battle of the Pass (Arabic: وقعة الشعب, romanized: Waqʿat al-Shʿib) was fought in the Takhtakaracha Pass (in modern Uzbekistan)...
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  • mountains Defile (military), to march off in a line The Defile, a pass between Suess Glacier and Nussbaum Riegel in Victoria Land, Antarctica Battle of the Defile...
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    Pella 1    The Battle of Uxian Defile was fought by Alexander the Great against the Uxian tribe of the Persian Empire. The battle raged on the mountain...
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    rivers. At the Battle of Agincourt, a defile formed by the woods of Agincourt and Forecourt caused a choke point for the French army and aided the English...
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    1    The Battle of Waterloo (Dutch: [ˈʋaːtərloː] ) was fought on Sunday 18 June 1815, near Waterloo (at that time in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands...
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    The Battle of Köse Dağ was fought between the Sultanate of Rum ruled by the Seljuq dynasty and the Mongol Empire on June 26, 1243, at the defile of Kösedağ...
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    tax revenues. Discontent among the Khorasani Arabs rose sharply after the losses suffered in the Battle of the Defile in 731. In 734, al-Harith ibn Surayj...
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    from the Turkic Türgesh nomads from the north, and revolts of the native princes of Transoxiana. After a major defeat in the Battle of the Defile in 731...
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  • Gurak (category History of Samarkand)
    alliance between the Muslims and the Turgesh, to remain on his throne. Some time after the Muslim Pyrrhic victory Battle of the Defile in 731, he managed...
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    two defiles. The Romans entered by one; but when they reached the second defile they found it barricaded. They returned at once to the first defile only...
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    ambush the Japanese army. The pass of Pingxingguan was a narrow defile worn through the loess, with no exit for several kilometres except the road itself...
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  • possession of the treasure beneath the Lonely Mountain as various factions clash over it, while the orc Azog the Defiler and his forces make their move. The film...
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    of the defile. The army was divided into three groups, with the right wing led by Edward, Duke of York, the centre led by the king himself, and the left...
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    ikhshid of Farghana aided the Turgesh during the Siege of Kamarja, and two years later the Turgesh was aided by Ferghana during the Battle of the Defile. In...
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  • Battle of the Defile – 731 – Umayyad–Turgesh Wars Battle of Delium – 424 BC – Peloponnesian War Battle of Debaltseve – 2015 – War in Donbass Battle of...
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    The Third Battle of Ypres (‹See Tfd›German: Dritte Flandernschlacht; French: Troisième Bataille des Flandres; Dutch: Derde Slag om Ieper), also known...
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    the region was broken after the Battle of the Defile two years later. It was only following the collapse of the Türgesh Khaganate after 738 that the Arabs...
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  • Asad ibn Abdallah al-Qasri (category Generals of the Umayyad Caliphate)
    against the Türgesh in the Battle of the Defile was followed by the almost complete collapse of the Arab position in Trasoxiana and the outbreak of a major...
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    prepared for battle, and they pushed their way out of the defile against little opposition. Realising that they could not affect the battle behind them...
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    The Battles of Saratoga (September 19 and October 7, 1777) marked the climax of the Saratoga campaign, giving a decisive victory to the Americans over...
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  • casualties at the Battle of the Defile against the Turgesh. 20,000 Iraqi troops are sent to Khurasan to replenish losses. 732: The Battle of Tours in France...
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    16th February, (1586), during a disorderly march, the Afghans attacked in a Swat defile. Panic seized the disunited Imperial army and 8000 men lost their...
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    The Battle of Uhud (Arabic: غزوة أحد, romanized: Ghazwat ʾUḥud) was fought between the early Muslims and the Quraysh during the Muslim–Quraysh wars in...
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    731 (category Articles incorporating a citation from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia with Wikisource reference)
    date). Battle of the Defile: An Umayyad relief army (28,000 men) is sent to Samarkand (modern Uzbekistan), which is besieged by the Turgesh. The Muslims...
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  • Suluk (Türgesh khagan) (category Year of birth unknown)
    Day of Thirst in 724 and the Battle of the Defile in 731. He was known by Arabs as Abū Muzāhim ("Father of the Competition"). Suluk had a conflict with...
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    The Battle of Baykand was fought in 729 between the Turkic Türgesh khaganate and its Soghdian allies and the Arabs of the Umayyad Caliphate at Baykand...
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    August] 1704, was a major battle of the War of the Spanish Succession. The overwhelming Allied victory ensured the safety of Vienna from the Franco-Bavarian army...
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  • claim (App. BCiv. 2.7) of twenty thousand as "grossly inflated". Sall. Cat., 53.20. "In this narrow defile the superior numbers of the enemy cannot surround...
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    Türgesh (category Turkic peoples of Asia)
    took Bukhara. In 731 the Turgesh were defeated at the Battle of the Defile by the Arabs, who suffered enormous casualties. In 735 the Turgesh attacked Ting...
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    The Battle of Ewloe (also known as the Battle of Coleshill, or Counsylth, or Coleshille, or Cennadlog) was fought in July 1157 between the army of Henry...
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