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In Wikipedia:
Mago landed in Sicily with a large army, and after numerous petty combats, a pitched battle at length took place, in which, after a severe contest, the Carthaginians were defeated, and Mago himself slain.
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In Wikipedia:
On July 29 another major battle took place at the Pass of Beilan through the Nur Mountains, where the Egyptians defeated an Ottoman force of 45,000 equipped with 160 guns, under Hussein Pasha and captured 25 guns along with considerable war booty.
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In Wikipedia:
Battles take place in a player selected “dungeon” where a player starts off in a starting area “room,” destroying monsters and collecting dropped items spoils.
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(. .)))
In Wikipedia:
Soon after Ender’s destruction of the “simulated” Formic fleet, Rackham tells him that all the simulations were real battles taking place in Formic space.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
* Massive air, sea, and undersea battlefields: Every battle takes place simultaneously in the air, on and under the sea.
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(. .)))
In Wikipedia:
The Ethiopians were able to encircle ELA in the area of Omal where another fierce battle took place and resulted in martyrdom of the first Eritrean freedom fighter, Abdu Mohammed Faid.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Andrew’s toys spread all over the livingroom floor as he has some battle taking place and taking over the house.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Tonight is just another dream, another battle, this time taking place in his own room… or, he thought it was just another dream – up until his mind realizes the pain from the burning wheel clipping his shoulder should wake him up, but doesn’t.
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(. .)))
In Wikipedia:
Another battle then took place where the MacLarens were now joined by the Stuarts against the MacDonalds.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
* Massive air, sea, and undersea battlefields: Every battle takes place simultaneously in the air, on and under the sea.
(Parse)
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(. .)))
In Wikipedia:
A third battle between NDP challenger Olivia Chow and longtime Liberal incumbent Tony Ianno took place in the 2006 election.
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In the British National Corpus:
From the 520’s onwards, however, the Merovingians were regularly at each other’s throats; Theuderic I attempted to murder his half-brother Chlothar I; Chlothar and Childebert I did kill the sons of Chlodomer; Childebert and Theuderic’s son Theudebert I almost fought against Chlothar, but a storm miraculously prevented a battle taking place.
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In Wikipedia:
A separate battle took place between the Clan Fraser (with help from the Clan MacRae) and the Clan Logan at Kessock, where Gilligorm, the Chief of the Clan Logan, was killed.
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(. .)))
In Wikipedia:
Battles take place against AI in a story – driven campaign, with the option of playing against other players in a skirmish mode.
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(. .)))
In Wikipedia:
Strong battles took place near the city during the arrival of Turkish forces.
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(. .)))
In Wikipedia:
A big battle took place at Bibiganj (about 5km, west of Ara).
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(. .)))
In Wikipedia:
All the Chola – Chalukya battles took place in Southern (early battles) and Central (later battles) Chalukyan country and a few in Vengi which the Cholas dominated till the rise of Ganapati of Kakatiya dynasty.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
The other part of me, the “Arabian’ ’ part, believes that a decisive battle is taking place, on many fronts and on many levels, some of which I cannot full comprehend.
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(. .)))
In Wikipedia:
Intense political battles over contentious redistricting typically take place within state legislatures responsible for creating the electoral maps.
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(. .)))
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