Battle of Muye

(noun)

The battle that resulted with the Zhou, a subject people living in the western part of the kingdom, overthrew the Shang Dynasty.

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  • The Mandate of Heaven

    • In 1046 BCE, the Zhou, a subject people living in the western part of the kingdom, overthrew the Shang Dynasty at the Battle of Muye.
    • This was a battle between Shang and Zhou clans, over the Shang's expansion.
    • Under the Zhou Dynasty, China moved away from worship of Shangdi ("Celestial Lord") in favor of worship of Tian ("heaven"), and they created the Mandate of Heaven.
    • According to this idea, there could be only one legitimate ruler of China at a time, and this ruler reigned as the "Son of Heaven" with the approval of the gods.
    • The Mandate of Heaven did not require a ruler to be of noble birth, and had no time limitations.

  • The Battle of Midway

  • The Battle of Stalingrad

  • The Double Disasters

    • In 1071, the Byzantine Empire suffered two important defeats, against the Turks in the Battle of Manzikert and against the Normans in Bari, sometimes called the Double Disasters.
    • He crossed over into Greece, pillaged the countryside, and defeated the Byzantine army at the Battle of Dyrrhachium in 1081 CE.
    • At the Battle of Manzikert in 1071 CE, the Byzantine army was totally wiped out by the Turks.
    • The brunt of the battle was borne by the professional soldiers from the eastern and western tagmata, as large numbers of mercenaries and Anatolian levies fled early and survived the battle.
    • In this 15th-century French miniature depicting the Battle of Manzikert, the combatants are clad in contemporary Western European armour.

  • The Norman Invasion of 1066 CE

    • The Norman Invasion of England was led by William II of Normandy, who defeated Harold II of England in the Battle of Hastings in 1066.
    • Learning of the Norwegian invasion, he rushed north, gathering forces as he went, and took the Norwegians by surprise, defeating them at the Battle of Stamford Bridge on September 25.
    • Harold's army confronted William's invaders on October 14 at the Battle of Hastings.
    • Here, a figure some think to be Harold Godwinson is shown falling at the Battle of Hastings.
    • Evaluate the extent to which Harold's loss at the Battle of Hastings was due to the fact that he was ill-prepared for battle and whether it might have been possible to mitigate the circumstances that led to that fact

  • The Battle of Britain

    • The Battle of Britain, when the British Royal Air Force defended the UK against the German Air Force attacks, was the first major Nazi defeat and a turning point of World War II.
    • The Battle of Britain was a combat of the Second World War, when the Royal Air Force (RAF) defended the United Kingdom against the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) attacks from the end of June 1940.
    • What General Weygand has called The Battle of France is over.
    • The battle of Britain is about to begin.
    • Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilisation.

  • Islam Ascendant

    • The Muslims set an ambush for the caravan at Badr, but a Meccan force intervened and the Battle of Badr commenced.
    • Although outnumbered more than three to one, the Muslims won the battle, killing at least forty-five Meccans.
    • Muhammad led his Muslim force to the Meccans to fight the Battle of Uhud on March 23, 625 CE.
    • For the Muslims, the battle was a significant setback.
    • Muhammad defeated the Hawazin and Thaqif tribes in the Battle of Hunayn.

  • Swedish-French Intervention

    • Bernhard's victory in the Battle of Compiègne pushed the Habsburg armies back towards the borders of France.
    • The two Swedish armies combined and confronted the imperialists at the Battle of Wittstock.
    • After the battle of Wittstock, the Swedish army regained the initiative in the German campaign.
    • In the Second Battle of Breitenfeld in 1642, outside Leipzig, the Swedish Field Marshal Lennart Torstenson defeated an army of the Holy Roman Empire led by Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria and his deputy, Prince-General Ottavio Piccolomini, Duke of Amalfi.
    • The Battle of Prague in 1648 became the last action of the Thirty Years' War.

  • The Persian Wars

    • Athens and other Greek cities sent aid, but were quickly forced to back down after defeat in 494 BCE at the Battle of Lade.
    • After being delayed by Leonidas I, the Spartan king of the Agiad Dynasty, at the Battle of Thermopylae (a battle made famous due to the sheer imbalance of forces, with 300 Spartans facing the entire Persian Army), Xerxes advanced into Attica, where he captured and burned Athens.
    • But the Athenians had evacuated the city by sea, and under the command of Themistocles defeated the Persian fleet at the Battle of Salamis.
    • Following the Battle of Plataea and the Battle of Mycale, the Persians began withdrawing from Greece and never attempted an invasion again.
    • The Battle of Mycale was in many ways a turning point, after which the Greeks went on the offensive against the Persian fleet.

  • Conflict in the Atlantic

    • The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest continuous military campaign in World War II, running from 1939 to the defeat of Germany in 1945.
    • The Battle of the Atlantic was the dominating factor all through the war.
    • The name "Battle of the Atlantic" was coined by Winston Churchill in February 1941.
    • It involved thousands of ships in more than 100 convoy battles and perhaps 1,000 single-ship encounters, in a theatre covering thousands of square miles of ocean.
    • Officers on the bridge of a destroyer, escorting a large convoy of ships keep a sharp look out for attacking enemy submarines during the Battle of the Atlantic, October 1941.