inflict a defeat

Yet the losses were quickly made good, and in the following year Manuel's forces inflicted a defeat upon a force of "picked Turks".

Although his troops were undisciplined and mutinied at one point, he managed to inflict a defeat on them early on.

It is the second time in three weeks that the Black Country side have inflicted a defeat upon a team whose manager has then been sacked.

Indeed, the papacy was the only institution to inflict a defeat, if a qualified one, on Bismarck's Germany.

Scapula died in 52, the same year that the resurgent Silures inflicted a defeat on one of the Roman legions.

French losses were quickly made good, and by the following year Tourville was able to inflict a defeat on the Allies at Lagos.

England then inflicted a defeat over the then-dominant West Indies before beating Pakistan in a "dress rehearsal" of the final.

Matabeleland was sent into the playoff final after they were earlier inflicted a defeat by eventual champions Mountaineers at the 1st Semi.

The trops of Ahilyabai after initial loses inflicted a defeat near Ratlam.

The French were elated, for they had inflicted a defeat as decisive in its way as the Japanese at Tsushima.

When the northern Italian cities inflicted a defeat on Frederick at Alessandria in 1175, the European world was shocked that such a thing could happen.

They called upon the Nayaks to fight for the Dharma and inflicted a defeat on Mustafa Khan.

The next blow they deal us will be intended to be infallibly mortal, for we've done far worse than merely inflict a defeat upon the government and the Fleet.

In 734 Cathal inflicted a defeat on the Leinstermen at Bealach Ele.

In the late 1918 - early 1919, Denikin managed to inflict a defeat on the 11th Soviet Army and capture the North Caucasus region.

Indeed, Gligorić was the first person to inflict a defeat on Petrosian after he won the world title from Mikhail Botvinnik in 1963.

Dávila pursued the retreating force and inflicted a defeat upon Villers near the small town of Dahlen (today known as Rheindahlen).

In the Caucasus he inflicted a defeat on an army led by a Persian-allied Arab chief and then won a victory over the Persians under Shahrbaraz.

The Nayaka inflicted a defeat on the Moslem forces through a surprise sally when the Sultan was expecting a defensive reaction from the fort of Penukonda.

In 985 the alliance with Kievan Rus inflicted a defeat on the Volga Bulgaria, which increased the political power of the Oguz State.

Ma Qi launched a genocidal war against the Tibetan Ngoloks, in 1928, inflicting a defeat upon them and seizing the Labrang Buddhist monastery.

This allowed Gouverneur K. Warren, commanding II Corps, to seize a favorable position and inflict a defeat on Hill's corps.

The joint forces of López and Rosas caught up with Lavalle at the Márquez Bridge inflicting a defeat on him.

Boer commandos mobilised under Piet Retief and inflicted a defeat on the Xhosa in the Winterberg Mountains in the north.

However, the English navy inflicted a defeat on the Armada in the Battle of Gravelines before this could be accomplished, and forced the Armada to sail northward.